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2. It's A Secret Alien vs Predator Movie - Predator: Badlands
Predator: Badlands is the latest Predator movie from Prey director Dan Trachtenberg, but once the first teaser trailer dropped, die-hard fans began murmuring about some of the references to the Alien franchise.
First and foremost, android protagonist Thia (Elle Fanning) is actually a creation of Weyland-Yutani - the malevolent, ever-present corporation in the Alien franchise - and so it's certainly interesting to see her teaming up with Predator outcast Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi).
While you probably shouldn't expect to see Predators directly battling any Xenomorphs in this movie, it does nevertheless feel like a clear attempt by Trachtenberg to reunite the disparate worlds of Alien and Predator, likely in service of a future AvP movie.
Considering that we haven't seen Xenos and Predators doing battle in big-screen, live-action form since 2007's wretched Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, we're long overdue a revisit of this idea, and with a filmmaker as talented as Dan Trachtenberg leading the charge, he may well actually do it justice.