The VOD release date for Predator: Badlands has been revealed.
The film will be available to buy or rent in digital HD on platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, Vudu, and Google Play Movies starting January 6, 2026.
Predator: Badlands arrives on 4K UHD Blu-ray in standard and Steelbook editions on February 17, packed with special features, deleted scenes, and an audio commentary from Dan Trachtenberg.
Bonus Features:
Deleted & Pre-Visualization Scenes with Optional Audio Commentary:
- Sand Trap – An early animatic version of Dek’s very different first encounter with Thia.
- Squirt Canyon – The full version of Dek and Thia traversing the water-filled trench while trying to survive Genna—and each other.
- Tessa vs. Abe – Tessa faces off against a superior synth in this deleted scene and storyline.
- Razor Grass – The original previsualization of Dek, Thia, and Bud’s first hunt together… sort of.
- The Outpost – Thia takes Dek to a small Weyland-Yutani field facility, where they experience a few things that ended up being used elsewhere in the final film.
- Super Power Loader Extended – Special additional moments during Dek’s climactic final battle with the Super Power Loader and the Kalisk.
Featurettes:
- Embodying the Predator – Meet the talented team of designers, performers, and effects artists responsible for bringing one of cinema’s most terrifying creatures to life on screen in ways we’ve never seen before.
- Authentic Synthetics – Get up close and personal with synths Thia and Tessa as star Elle Fanning walks us through the process of crafting two characters who may look the same but have evolved in surprisingly unique ways.
- Building the Badlands – With razor-sharp grass, killer trees, and terrifying animals, never has a planet been more deadly than Genna. Discover how a team of artisans built this threatening landscape, transforming real locations into the dangerous environments seen on screen.
- Dek of the Yautja – For the first time ever, director Dan Trachtenberg gives audiences an extended look at Predator culture. Follow the evolution as filmmakers reveal the process behind developing the Yautja’s home world, spacecraft, and family dynamics.
Audio Commentary:
- Watch the film with audio commentary by director Dan Trachtenberg, producer Ben Rosenblatt, director of photography Jeff Cutter, and stunt coordinator Jacob Tomuri.
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison from a story by Trachtenberg and Aison, the newest entry in the Predator franchise is set in the future on a remote planet, where a young Predator—outcast from his clan—finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Elle Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
The film has earned an 85% critic score and a 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the third highest-rated entry in the franchise, behind Prey and Killer of Killers. It also debuted with an A– on CinemaScore, the highest CinemaScore in the series’ history.
Predator: Badlands Cast Details:
- Elle Fanning as
- Thia, a damaged Weyland-Yutani Corporation synthetic who partners with Dek.
- Tessa, a Weyland-Yutani synthetic and Thia’s sister, who opposes her and Dek.
- Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as
- Dek, a young Predator outcast for being a runt.
- The voice of Njohrr / Apex Predator / Father.
- Reuben de Jong as Njohrr / Apex Predator / Father, Dek and Kwei’s father and leader of the Clan, who seeks Dek’s death.
- Mike Homik as Kwei, Dek’s older brother who helps him prepare for his first hunt.
- Stefan Grube as the voice of Kwei.
- Rohinal Narayan as Bud, a creature native to the planet Genna.
- Cameron Brown as Smyth, a Weyland-Yutani drone synthetic.
20th Century Studios released Predator: Badlands theatrically in the United States on November 7, 2025.
