Predator 6: Badlands (2026) throws the hunt into a scorched no‑man’s‑land. Elle Fanning stars as Riley Carr, a young ecological surveyor mapping abandoned nuclear test sites along the U.S.–Mexico border. When her team vanishes in a storm of distorted radio signals and skinless corpses, the government quietly unleashes its most controversial asset: retired black‑ops legend Major Dutch Schaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), dragged back in after decades off the grid.

What begins as a “routine extraction” spirals into a nightmare when Dutch realizes this isn’t the same breed he faced in the jungle. The new Predator uses repurposed human tech—thermal drones, hacked satellites, and stolen ballistic armor—to turn the Badlands’ ghost towns, rusted wind farms, and canyon mazes into a fully wired killing ground.

Riley’s sharp mind and Dutch’s brutal experience form an uneasy alliance as they move from sun‑blasted salt flats to subterranean missile silos, leaving traps of scrap metal and wildfire in their wake. The trailer hits hard with cloaked shapes in dust storms, sniper scopes catching a single glowing eye, and a final, brutal showdown in a collapsing radio array lit only by lightning and tracer fire.