Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi and Fanning also discuss the challenges of learning Yautja, the alien language created for the film.

Predator: Badlands is one of the most VFX heavy films in the franchise, but Elle Fanning was able to keep some aspects of her character practical.

Dan Trachtenberg’s follow-up to 'Prey' co-stars Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as an outcast member of the extraterrestrial titular species.

Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi break down Predator: Badlands and the surprising secret behind how practical her character is.

Director and co-writer Dan Trachtenberg has merged a young, eager-to-prove-his mettle Predator with Fanning’s hip android for “Predator: Badlands” and it’s basically an unlikely buddy movie with decapitations. Fanning spends the first part in a makeshift backpack, nattering on while the Predator strides along and snarls.

H OLLYWOOD, CA — Following his acclaimed 2022 film “Prey,” Dan Trachtenberg returns to the “Predator” universe with “Badlands,” a bolder, more emotionally resonant vision. This time, the Predator isn’t just hunted; he becomes the unlikely hero, defined by empathy and restraint.

Elle Fanning stars as a Weyland-Yutani synthetic (basically, a really fancy robot) who teams up with a Predator on a hunt for the galaxy's deadliest creature. But on this planet teeming with lethal creatures, they quickly become the hunted.

Fanning also shares how she tapped into two Weyland-Yutani androids, both physically and mentally.

Badlands' brings a fresh feminist twist to the action-sci-fi franchise, proving that brains, strategy, and quiet power can outshine brute force.

Playing the year's most unlikely partners required movie magic, some creative thinking and a lot of fitness: "Dimitrius basically did a whole 'America Ninja Warrior' course to train for the audition and everything else.

Elle Fanning is taking a trip down memory lane — to when studios had “crazy” premieres tailored-made for kids. Fanning caught up with PEOPLE exclusively while attending the premiere for her new action movie, Predator: Badlands, in Los Angeles on Nov. 3.