Elle Fanning is set to star in Predator: Badlands, a new standalone film in the Predator universe from Prey director Dan Trachtenberg. Fanning will play the dual role of hot twin sisters in a story interlocked with that of a kinder, gentler Predator worthy of empathy and support.

Fanning first fanned interest among genre fans in 2011 with J.J. Abrams’ fam-friendly sci-fi thriller Super 8 and Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt. Other notable performances include roles as Sleeping Beauty in Maleficent and its sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and as an aspiring fashion model among cannibalistic catwalkers in Neon Demon, Clatto’s top pick in its esteemed list of The 10 Sexiest Horror Films of 2016.

Badlands will be the eighth entry in the long-running franchise that includes the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger original, the 1990 followup Predator 2 with Danny Glover, producer Robert Rodriguez’s underrated 2010 reboot Predators, Shane Black’s unnecessarily maligned 2018 entry The Predator, Trachtenberg’s Hulu blockbuster Prey, and guilty pleasure crossovers Alien vs. Predator and Alien vs. Predator: Requiem.

Predators: Badlands is slated for theatrical release Nov.7, 2025 from 20th Century Studios.