The Predator attacks a samurai in the animated film Predator: Killer of Killers. Hulu/Twentieth Century Studios

PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS Trailer Shows the Alien Hunter Stalking Humans Across History

Originally posted on Nerdist | By Eric Diaz | Last updated May 19, 2025 4:20 PM ET

Director Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey breathed new life into the Predator franchise when it hit Hulu a few years back. Now it seems Trachtenberg has become the unofficial shepherd of the long-running sci-fi series from Twentieth Century Studios. Not only is he directing Predator: Badlands, which arrives this summer, but he’s also the co-director, along with Joshua Wassung, for the animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers. This new film, also arriving this summer, will feature several stories of the vicious alien hunter coming to Earth and fighting formidable foes across history. And judging from the new trailer, which you can see below, it pulls no punches regarding the gore and violence.

Here’s the official synopsis from Hulu for Predator: Killer of Killers:

The anthology story follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause. But while all these warriors are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new opponent – the ultimate killer of killers.

Prey showed us that the alien hunter species has had Earth in its sights for a very long time. Long before the events of the original 1987 movie. Now, we know they’ve been fighting our fiercest warriors for sport for over a thousand years. Given that the Predator species only fights formidable foes, we suppose that speaks highly of us. It speaks highly of us as purveyors of violence, anyway. Not so sure that’s a good thing. Fun fact; Killer of Killers features a prominent voice role for Michael Biehn, of Terminator and Aliens fame. Now he’s part of all three of the “Holy Trinity” of R-rated ’80s sci-fi properties. How cool is that?

Predator: Killer of Killers premieres exclusively on Hulu on June 6, and will hopefully launch a new animated spin-off for the iconic franchise.

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