Den første trailer fra Predator: Badlands viste Elle Fannings karakter, og der blev det afsløret at hun er en synth fra Weyland-Yutani-organisationen. Og selvom selskabet stammer fra Alien-filmene, vil instruktør Dan Trachtenberg gerne dæmpe forventningerne om en ny Alien vs. Predator-opgør.
I et interview med Empire forklarer Trachtenberg, at der ikke er nogen Xenomorphs i filmen.
"There's no Xenomorph in this movie," siger han. "But to me, that makes it more exciting. We're not involving [the Alien franchise] just to smush the action figures together. There are great, organic story reasons for Weyland-Yutani to be in this film."
Fannings karakter, Thia, vil stadig give os et interessant form for crossover, selvom hun som synth adskiller sig markant fra de andre Weyland-Yutani-modeller (og ikke kun fordi hun er blevet hugget midt over).
"Thia has been on Genna a while, seeing things she wouldn't normally see," fortæller Elle Fanning. "She's absorbing all this new information, and she's broken too, so she's become very different from the other synths."
Predator: Badlands får biografpremiere den 7. november.
