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Thankfully I had, I think, three very cool ideas.
But then there was this other thing that was like, “Yeah, Prey was really cool.
We got to put the Predator in this different time period and tell that story.”
I think the thing that madePreyspecial, though, wasn’t just Predator in a different time period.
Wouldn’t it be cool to see that in a different medium?
Did you watch samurai movies?
I mean, I grew up watching all that stuff.
There wasn’t any one specific movie that was the reference point for it.
The animation looks a lot like Arcane on Netflix.
Is it the same studio or just a similar art style?
Some people that worked on Arcane worked on it.
There’s a whole host of studios that worked on the movie.
Directing live action is so different from directing animation.
At a certain point you have to lock because they have to become final.
It’s like, “I thought we could just keep on making cool things?!”
The process is a little bit different and then it’s so front-loaded.
Visual effects in movies, sometimes it’s like it gets worse before it gets better.
Animation is sort of the opposite, so there is a freedom to it.
What did I just see?
I can’t believe a movie could be like that."
And also just the visceral nature of it.
But also in it is all the same stuff that fueled me making Prey.
All the chapters are different genre-wise.
Some are more fun than the others.
The Viking one has some fun to it, I guess, but it’s also pretty intense.
Why on Earth did you decide to make two films at the same time?
It was just too tantalising.
You’ve got to make it as though it’s the only one [green lit].
I was able to be remote and doing that stuff.
This was like a game of hopscotch.
So I was here for a huge portion of the early stages of Killer of Killers.
Then in New Zealand we would wake up early on the way to the location to shoot.
Do you have more animated things in mind?
That doesn’t turn off for me, so tons of cool things.
We’ll see if we get to make them.
I guess people have to like it!
You don’t want to feel like you’re short changed by the experience and it was incomplete.
These are very much for me.
The movie is very much about the connection between the characters as much as the stories themselves.
This was always a feature, and never a series?
So there’s a throughline in the narrative?
That was the big “Aha!”
that my co-director Josh came to me [with].
I was like, “I wanna do it with them.”
And then he was like, “What about an anthology movie?”
Predator: Badlands is currently set for a 7 November theatrical release date worldwide.
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