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The Big Picture

‘Predator: Badlands’ and the 'Predator' Movie Rankings

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.35.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Sean is joined by Chris Ryan to avenge their Yautja brethren on planet Genna and cover Dan Trachtenberg’s ‘Predator: Badlands,’ starring Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi. Before diving in though, they briefly cover a handful of movie news headlines, including the reporting that Ryan Reynolds is remaking the 1970s crime film ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’ for Amazon MGM (2:35). Next, they unpack the new 'Predator' legacy sequel and make the case for why it wouldn’t work without Fanning’s performance, explain why Trachtenberg has a clear eye for titillating action set piece filmmaking, and discuss its big box office success and wonder what it represents at large (7:39). Then, they rank every film in the 'Predator' franchise (43:38). Host: Sean Fennessey Guest: Chris Ryan Producers: Jack Sanders and Bex Donnelly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.0

I'm Sean Fennesse, and this is the big picture, a conversation show about Badlands.

0:47.1

You gotta live it every day.

0:54.3

On today's episode, Chris Ryan joins me to Breakdown Predator Badlands, the ninth film in the Predator series, and a major box office hit this weekend. Badlands is the second Predator film of the year, actually, after the

0:58.6

animated feature Predator Killer of Killers, which debuted on Hulu in June. CR and I avowed Predheads,

1:05.3

so this will be a fun conversation. Chris, how are you? I'm doing great, man. I'm in London.

1:10.0

It's great to see you across the ocean, across the nation. And yeah, man, blue wave, just sweeping London. We're all feeling it. Is that true? Very excited for Abigail Spanberger, the original Lioness, my spy mommy. You really did want to just JMO it. You teased it.

1:28.0

I told you. Yeah, I was like, I'm ready. It's five o'clock here. I'm fucking ready to go. I was listening to the watch and you guys were just trading mom dony jokes back and forth like in a spirited fashion. And I was like, I guess maybe that's just what the watch is now. It's just two very gentle men in their 40s thinking about democratic socialism.

1:45.1

We don't even have Apple TV accounts.

1:47.2

We don't even know it's on anymore. I got to say, you know, not to tread on the watch's tail at all, but plurvis, hey, pretty good. You approve. Yeah. Okay, good. Two thumbs up. I watched it on, I watched two episodes on Friday. Enjoyed myself.

2:01.3

Enjoyed your conversation with Vince Gilligan as well.

2:03.0

Nice job.

2:03.9

Thank you for the shoutout.

2:23.4

That's a real, that was a breath of fresh air television show. That was like we can still make things in this country and specifically in Albuquerque. It was interesting because we talked about Frankenstein last week on the show, and I revisited the postmodern Prometheus episode of The X-Files, because that is, of course, very inspired by Frankenstein. And so I had X-Files on the brain, so it was cool to hear you and Vince talking

2:27.1

about that show and his origins there, too. Yeah, he's a really fun guy to go back and sort of

2:32.4

watch his career evolve from that early working under

2:36.5

Chris Carter era and then just like even the way his voice is sharpened over the course of

2:42.0

Breaking Bad and Breaking Bad kind of starts and it's a bit of a almost slapstick black comedy

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