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Alasdair Stuart provides one more titbit about Predator: Badlands, as a treat.

Dan Trachtenberg, whose Predator trilogy of Prey, Killer of Killers and Badlands is two thirds of the way to being the best thing to ever happen to the series, has given a definitive answer about where the movie fits in Alien/Predator continuity.

The end.

Namely, Trachtenberg has clarified that Badlands is set ‘well into the future’. He got specific as to why too, in an interview with IGN, which has been posted to Facebook Watch…

“There was a lot going on while we were making this movie. Romulus was not yet out, and I hadn’t seen it yet. And Alien Earth, I was aware of happening, but not sure where that was [going to] end up. So we decided to set ourselves well into the future.”

There’s more, with Trachtenberg talking about how he didn’t want to set homework for his audience, but that’s the crux of it and honestly? Great! The only thing more tiresome than the multiverse right now is the endless, multi-faceted debate about what fits where, what’s canon and what isn’t. By putting Badlands at the end of the current timeline, Trachtenberg not only saves his audience that but delivers an absolute gift to himself and other filmmakers in the series still to come. Who’s to say we won’t see Elle Fanning’s Thia model in a future movie? Or Weyland-Yutani’s search for aliens continue to expand? This is the best possible path, enduring everyone’s workload is light and no one’s got too much to do. It also demands the movie stand on its own merits which, based on his previous work, it absolutely will.

Predator: Badlands opens 7th November