An outcast faces a deadly alien world in Predator: Badlands trailer

“The ways of your kind are ones of violence. Either you are hunted or you become the hunter.”

We’ve got a new international trailer for Predator: Badlands, the latest installment in a popular franchise that’s been around since 1987. It’s directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who is very familiar with the franchise, having also directed 2022’s highly acclaimed standalone Predator movie Prey.

In April, Twentieth Century Studios released the first teaser, which involved multiple predators fighting or threatening one another, Elle Fanning looking very strange and cool as an android, and glimpses of new monsters and the alien world the movie focuses on. And the film was featured prominently at San Diego Comic Con this summer. But it hasn’t quite wormed its way into the cultural zeitgeist for fall releases. Perhaps this latest trailer will boost its profile.

This is a standalone film in the franchise, with a particular focus on the culture of the Predator species; in fact, the same conlanger who created the Na’Vi language for James Cameron’s Avatar franchise also created a written and verbal language for the Predators. (We hear a bit of the dialogue in the new trailer.) And this time around, the primary Predator is actually the film’s protagonist rather than an adversary. Per the official premise: “Set in the future on a deadly remote planet, Predator: Badlands follows a young Predator outcast (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) who finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Elle Fanning) as he embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.”

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Porsche does U-turn on electric vehicles, will focus on gas engines

China weakness, US tariffs, and disappointing uptake of battery vehicles lurk in background.

Porsche’s new boss was a sceptic of battery motors for luxury vehicles long before he was picked to lead the revival of the petrol engine at the German sports car group.

“The technology isn’t ready,” Michael Leiters told the Financial Times late last year while still in his old job as chief executive of British supercar manufacturer McLaren. Electric vehicles lacked the emotional thrill of noisy engines and were quicker to lose their value, he said.

Leiters will take over at Porsche in January at a critical juncture for the Stuttgart-based company, as it tempers its electric ambitions and ploughs new investment into petrol engine models in an attempt to turn its fortunes around.

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The Outer Worlds 2 im Test: Das beste Nerd-Rollenspiel seit Jahren

Zwischen Star Trek und Fallout: The Outer Worlds 2 ist ein cleveres Sci-Fi-Rollenspiel voller Entscheidungen und wunderbar schräger Figuren. Ein Test von Peter Steinlechner (The Outer Worlds, Spieletest)

Zwischen Star Trek und Fallout: The Outer Worlds 2 ist ein cleveres Sci-Fi-Rollenspiel voller Entscheidungen und wunderbar schräger Figuren. Ein Test von Peter Steinlechner (The Outer Worlds, Spieletest)