Badlands’ Is a Enormous Hulu Hit

Right here’s some excellent news for Predator followers, particularly those that’d like to see director Dan Trachtenberg keep making new movies within the franchise. Predator: Badlands raked in 9 million views in its first five days on Hulu—making it the highest movie premiere on the streamer since… properly, Trachtenberg’s 2022 Predator movie, Prey.

Prey was launched straight to Hulu, whereas Badlands had a theatrical run beginning in November 2025. It turned the highest-grossing Predator movie earlier than making its streaming debut final week.

In keeping with a Disney press launch, “Audiences have streamed greater than 300 [million] hours of the Predator franchise on Disney+ and Hulu globally.” That features one other Trachtenberg creation, 2025’s straight-to-Hulu animated saga Predator: Killer of Killers, in addition to the remainder of the sequence to this point.

Not unhealthy for a franchise that kicked off in 1987 as an Arnold Schwarzenegger motion automobile—then expanded its lore about alien killers who delight themselves on being the last word hunters with a number of sequels and crossovers with the Alien universe.

Badlands’ recognition in each the movie show and in house launch—to not point out the jolt of vitality the franchise received from Prey—solely strengthens the hope that Trachtenberg, who simply signed a brand new cope with Paramount, will come again to Disney ultimately to make one other Predator movie.

Speaking to io9 in an interview tied to Badlands’ Hulu launch, Trachtenberg emphasised that his Paramount alliance doesn’t imply he received’t reunite with the Yautja in some unspecified time in the future. In truth, it’s on his thoughts, and he’s wanting ahead to it, each time it occurs.

“I’m on this second that I used to be in when Prey got here out, the place I used to be like, ‘What do I do subsequent?’ and received very excited a couple of Predator protagonist and received very enthusiastic about an animated film with a number of time intervals, after which they simply occurred to go on the similar time,” he stated. “And in order that’s the place I’m at with Predator now, is, ‘Oh my God, there are such a lot of thrilling issues we are able to do.’”

Clearly, the viewers is there—and can fortunately comply with Trachtenberg again into the fray.

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