Dan Trachtenberg ser ud til at have Predator-serien i sikre hænder, hvis man skal tro hans tre film om rumjægerne. Det er dog tydeligt, at han ikke kun er interesseret i Yautja alene, da Predator: Badlands giver et nik til Alien med fremkomsten af Weyland-Yutani-synths.
I en samtale med GamesRadar afslørede Trachtenberg, at ideen om crossoveren kom, da han tænkte på Alien vs. Predator-filmene.
"It was really just thinking of the VS movies; the Alien vs. Predators that came out very quickly around the same time, Freddy vs. Jason and whatever," sagde han. "It just felt, to me, like there was a way to include things in cinematic universes that are already spiritually connected, and involve them in one story, in one movie. That's cooler than it being like, 'It's the big thing versus the big thing from the franchise!'"
"We just took Weyland-Yutani, we just took the synths, and we thought there was just something a little bit more elegant about that," fortsatte han. "Maybe further down the line, it can grow into a bigger thing. But it's cooler, to me, that it's just these little different touch points that make it all feel like a connected universe. And if all of it is new to you, you don't need to have done any homework. It could just be a rad movie that makes sense on its own."
Det bliver spændende at se, hvor denne forbindelse kan føre hen, men indtil videre er det nok bedst at holde Aliens og Predators adskilt, da de begge beviser, hvor seje de kan være på egen hånd.