Predator: Badlands (2025) on Netflix
Dek, a Yautja runt cast out by his clan, crash-lands on the death planet Genna. He means to hunt the Kalisk, an apex predator, and a damaged android, Thia, joins him.
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- Rotten Tomatoes86%
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Plot summary
Dek is a Yautja runt on the planet Yautja Prime. His father, the clan leader Njohrr, considers him too weak for the clan. Dek hopes to prove himself by hunting the Kalisk, an apex predator on the death planet Genna that even Njohrr fears. Njohrr orders Dek's brother Kwei to kill him, but Kwei defies the order and sends Dek to Genna aboard his ship. Dek crash-lands on Genna, where the planet's flora and fauna strip him of nearly all his gear. Thia, a damaged Weyland-Yutani android whose team the Kalisk destroyed, offers to help him track the creature.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Predator: Badlands (2025)
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- Linguist Britton Watkins built a consistent written and spoken language for the Predators, basing their numerical system on the self-destruct timer of the 1987 Predator, their written symbols on Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) and their speech on a brief moment in The Predator (2018).
- The film brought the words "Yautja" and "Yautja Prime" into the Predator film series for the species and its homeworld; they first appeared in the 1994 novel Aliens vs. Predator: Prey by S.D. Perry and Steve Perry, a spinoff of Dark Horse's Aliens vs. Predator comics.
- Predator: Badlands is the first film in the mainline Predator series to receive a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association; every earlier installment was rated R, with 2004's Alien vs. Predator the exception.
- Stuntman Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi learned the Predator language to play Dek. Studio Gillis built a creature suit for Dek's body, while his face was digitally enhanced with motion capture animation so the character could show subtler emotions.
- The film's $40 million domestic opening weekend overtook the previous franchise record, held by Alien vs. Predator, which opened to $38 million in 2004.
