Elle Fanning and director Dan Trachtenberg brought Predator: Badlands, the seventh film in the franchise, to the BFI IMAX for its UK special screening.
Elle Fanning, Emmy-nominated for The Great, joined Dan Trachtenberg for the Predator: Badlands UK special screening at the BFI IMAX on the South Bank on Monday 27 October 2025. Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi joined them on the carpet.
Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, in 1998 and made her screen debut at three in I Am Sam, playing the younger version of her sister Dakota’s character. Babel and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button came while she was still a child.
Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, J. J. Abrams’ Super 8 and Maleficent took her into leading parts. As an adult she has moved between independent films such as The Beguiled and larger pictures such as A Complete Unknown.
Badlands is the seventh film in the Predator series and the second Trachtenberg has directed, after Prey in 2022. It follows Dek, a young outcast of the Yautja stranded on a hostile planet, and Thia, the android Fanning plays, who becomes his ally.
The producers Ben Rosenblatt and Brent O’Connor joined the cast at Waterloo, and a Predator modelled on Dek’s father walked the carpet beside them. The film reached British cinemas on 7 November.