Arnold Schwarzenegger has made somewhat of a return to the Predator franchise and Dan Trachtenberg has more planned.
Predator is making a major return this year, and it’s mostly thanks to Dan Trachtenberg. After the director helmed 2022’s Prey, he has pretty much single-handedly been responsible for the killer’s comeback, with two films about the creature either out or on the way in 2025. And there’s now another franchise comeback in the cards.
As reported by Deadline, Trachtenberg took the stage at San Diego Comic-Con to chat all things Predator, especially the upcoming Predator: Badlands. The director said he recently had breakfast with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the star of the original Predator, and was planning to “cook up stuff” for the actor in the franchise.
In fact, he’s already started.
If you’ve already watched Predator: Killer Of Killers, Tractenberg’s animated film on Disney+, you might want to go back and watch it again. Or at least its very last moments.
The original film ended with Ursa, a Scandinavian Viking Warrior, placed in suspended animation and taken into a chamber that housed hundreds of others, including Amber Midthunder’s Naru from Prey.
Now, Trachtenberg has gone back in and added two other familiar faces in there. The new ending now features Scwarzenegger’s Dutch from the original Predator and Danny Glover‘s Lt Mike Harrigan from Predator 2 is also in suspended animation next to Naru. Apparently, Trachtenberg had lunch with Schwarzenegger, they got on famously, and the latter agreed to have his likeness appear in the former’s movies.
It’s not exactly a confirmation of another Predator sequel where Schwarzenegger and Glover would return, but it’s certainly the closest we’ve got to get the pair back in the franchise. Clearly, Trachtenberg has future plans for the franchise and if they’re anything like Prey and Killer Or Killers, we’re in good hands.
We’ll let you know if/when Trachtenberg’s cooking amounts to something.
