If it bleeds, we will publish main spoilers about it. Learn on solely after watching “Predator: Killer of Killers.”
This was imagined to be a 12 months with only one highly-anticipated “Predator” film on the docket however, in a welcome shock, destiny has delivered us two. The primary, “Killer of Killers,” appeared like a small (however interesting) appetizer to the primary course: “Predator: Badlands.” The upcoming live-action blockbuster actually has the novelty issue going for it, marking the primary occasion in franchise historical past the place a fearsome Yautja will really be the protagonist of the movie. However, to not be ignored, the animated anthology movie “Killer of Killers” has come out of the gate sturdy and immediately established itself as the most effective in the complete collection. Now, it is honest to say that followers are trying ahead to much more the place that got here from.
Fortunately, “Killer of Killers” is nicely conscious of that reality, due to an end-credits scene that positive seems to be establishing one heck of a sequel. The animated film is break up into three distinct storylines, every of which follows three utterly totally different protagonists by means of three very totally different durations of human historical past. However, on the finish of every one, a stunning tease hyperlinks every one collectively. As we quickly be taught, our most important trio of Viking warrior Ursa (voiced by Lindsay LaVanchy), Japanese samurai Kenji (Louis Ozawa), and American WWII pilot Torres (Rick Gonzalez) all narrowly survive their respective encounters with the Yautja tasked with looking them … solely to wind up imprisoned and brought off-world as trophies to the alien species.
After the ultimate act of the film brings all of them collectively at some undefined level sooner or later (and on some unnamed Yautja gladiatorial planet), the ultimate tag of “Killer of Killers” units up two potential sequels on the identical time. Torres and Kenji stay at giant because the hunt begins once more, implicitly suggesting one other journey but to be instructed. However as poor Ursa is recaptured and brought to her cryostasis chamber, her Yautja captors march her previous one other acquainted determine simply ready to be woken up: the Comanche warrior Naru portrayed by Amber Midthunder in “Prey.”
Predator: Killer of Killers confirms Naru’s destiny on the finish of Prey
You would be forgiven for considering that “Prey” left issues on a definitive finish be aware, however that wasn’t fairly the case. Whereas the film concluded triumphantly, with the Comanche healer-turned-warrior Naru cleverly defeating the villainous Yautja and saving her tribe, the ending credit montage subtly hinted at a very totally different chain of occasions to return. Though one Yautja was vanquished in grisly trend, the animated sequence that performs over the credit appears to indicate that the Yautja invaders make a return go to to actual revenge in some unspecified time in the future after the movie ends. With one temporary tease on the finish of “Killer of Killers,” we now know that this nightmare state of affairs did, in truth, come to move and Naru is now a prisoner. However, if the occasions of the animated film are something to go by, perhaps we have already been proven precisely how the story might be continued.
Director Dan Trachtenberg has lengthy hinted at potential sequel concepts for “Prey” and, nicely, he simply managed to sneak a type of right into a “Predator” film we by no means would’ve anticipated it to look in. As of the time of publication, the filmmaker hasn’t but formally spoken out about his plans for the way forward for the franchise. As a substitute, we’re left to surprise if we’re now being arrange for a “Prey” sequel that takes place utterly off-world and in an analogous scenario the place a bunch of different hapless people from varied factors in Earth historical past are thrown collectively in a gladiator area. In the meantime, “Killer of Killers” additionally deftly lays the groundwork for a direct follow-up movie of its personal, this time following Torres and Kenji (and probably Ursa) after their brazen escape try. All of this taking place fairly seamlessly within the closing act of the animated film that no one ever actually knew what to anticipate from? Not too shabby!
“Predator: Killer of Killers” is now accessible to stream on Hulu, whereas “Predator: Badlands” is about to hit theaters on November 7, 2025.
