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Thanks to Prey director Dan Tratchenberg, it’s a great time to be a fan of the Predator movies. After reinvigorating the franchise with his 2022 direct-to-Hulu feature, Tratchenberg has two new projects in the works: This fall’s Predator: Badlands, a future-set story of a Predator teaming up with Elle Fanning on an alien planet, and the newly-confirmed Predator: Killer of Killers, an animated anthology film arriving on Hulu this June.
The existence of Killer of Killers was a poorly-kept secret until now (it’s hard to say something is a well-kept secret if a company executive mentions it in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter). But that doesn’t make the movie any less exciting. Here’s the official description, courtesy of 20th Century Studios:
The anthology story follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause. But while all these warriors are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new opponent – the ultimate killer of killers.
The concept continues what was so compelling about Tratchenberg’s Prey, which starred Amber Midthunder as a young Comanche warrior in the year 1719, facing off against the famed alien hunter race first introduced in 1987’s Predator. In his review, Consequence’s Clint Worthington called it “one of the most exciting sci-fi thrillers of recent vintage,” in part because it’s “the kind of tonal and environmental experimentation this kind of franchise should be attempting: popping the Predator in self-contained, varied contexts, testing it against all kinds of self-contained scenarios instead of bogging the creature down in lore.”
Killer of Killers promises to continue that trend. Directed by Tratchenberg and co-directed by The Third Floor’s Josh Wassung, the movie will premiere June 6th, exclusively on Hulu. Check out the first-look trailer and poster below, as well as our ranking of every Predator film to date.
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