One of the most talked about elements of the first trailer for “Predator: Badlands” was the inclusion of the Weyland-Yutani corporation logo on the eyes of an android robot (Elle Fanning).
The logo is a key part of the “Alien” franchise, sparking talk that the deliberate Easter Egg had been put there to potentially tease another incarnation of “Alien vs. Predator” was in the works.
The film’s director Dan Trachtenberg has now discussed the inclusion of the logo with Empire, telling the British trade it was an opportunity he couldn’t let slip by:
“I always wanted no humans in this movie. So I thought it might be fun to have the Predator with a robot. Then I thought, ‘I know a company that makes robots.’ [They’re] a fun, mismatched pairing. One talkative, one laconic. As exciting and violent as this movie is, the character stuff really pops, too.”
The comments come as Vanity Fair has done a feature piece on FX’s upcoming “Alien: Earth” TV series and spoken extensively about it with creator Noah Hawley.
Set just before the events of Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” the series begins on the Maginot, a state-of-the-art scientific research vessel, which crashes on Earth – unleashing its cargo, a menagerie of lethal alien species including the familiar Xenomorph.
Click here to read the full story and check out multiple images of the show’s cast.
