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Costing $105 million, this is the most expensive Predator film, surpassing The Predator (2018), which cost $88 million. It grossed $184.6 million worldwide.
Predator: Badlands was filmed primarily in New Zealand. Known for its rich forests and vast terrain, Rotorua, located on New Zealand's North Island, served as the film's main filming location. The crew also shot around Te Kuiti, whose dynamic and rugged landscapes brought the film's alien world to vivid life. Filming also took place at South Head, North of Helensville, leveraging its dramatic landscape to create an alien environment.
Drawing influence from the franchise's expanded universe, Badlands is intended to be a self-contained entry in the series, set on the Predators' home-world and focusing on the culture of their species. To this end, a consistent written and verbal language for the Predators was developed for the film by linguist Britton Watkins. In creating the Predator language, Watkins drew influence from previous depictions of the Predators language, but redesigned the language to have consistent rules of grammar: the Predators numerical system was influenced by the self destruct timer in the original 1987 Predator film, the written language from symbols seen in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), and their spoken language from a brief depiction in The Predator (2018). Consideration was also made for the type of sound a Predators mouth design could realistically make, as well as the Predators typical clicking noises.
A major question surrounding the film was its placement within the Alien and Predator lore. Dan Trachtenberg confirmed that Predator: Badlands (2025) takes place further into the future than any other entry in the combined timelines, including Alien: Resurrection (1997), which was set in 2381.
Dek is portrayed by stuntman Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, who also learned the Predator language specifically for the role. To create Dek's physical appearance, Studio Gillis designed a creature suit to portray Dek's body, while Dek's face was digitally enhanced using motion capture computer animation to convey more subtle emotional expression. Wētā Workshop also contributed to the film's practical effects and designs.
This is the first mainline Predator film to be PG-13 in the USA. Producer Ben Rosenblatt explained that the goal is to deliver intense, gruesome action against monsters and androids within the PG-13 constraints, aiming for a rating that feels like an R-rated film.
Dan Trachtenberg asked Matt and Ross Duffer to make an unexpected audio appearance in the film, as the voice of the Yautja-engineered software that powers the ship the central character, Dek, is flying aboard. The Duffer Brothers' voices are heavily distorted to more properly match the condition of the ship itself, but they are also speaking the Yautja language. According to Trachtenberg himself, prior to both of those Predator projects getting greenlit, he was dubious about whether or not they would both get made, and actually signed on to direct an episode of Stranger Things (2016)' final season. However, when both Predator projects were thrust into production for release this year, he ultimately had to renege on his Stranger Things commitment.
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