The following article has been condensed and edited for clarity.
The film is an anthology movie set across three periods in human history.
I’m very driven by characters who are trying to break a cycle.
All of our characters are really dealing with generational stuff.
All the chapters are different genres.
Some are more fun than others.
[Shield Maiden] has some fun to it, but it’s also pretty intense."
He’s not wrong, either.
Trachtenberg confirmed thatArcanewas “definitely an inspiration” for the film.
“Some people who worked on Arcane worked on this.
There’s a whole host of studios that worked on the movie.
Part of the inspiration for making it was my relationship with Third Floor.
Custom image by Yailin Chacon
Their collaboration steadily developed intoKiller of Killers.
I was so struck by how in animation, on the one hand, you could do anything.
However, by the end of the process, “you get to see shots get cooler and cooler.
Visual effects in live-action movies sometimes get worse before they get better.
Animation is sort of the opposite.”
We would be remote with everyone back here and seeing shots of the movie.
Thanks to Starlink, we can be in very remote locations and still have internet.
But we needed to embrace the medium and do things that it’s possible for you to’t do otherwise.
Even though it’s for everyone…
I can’t believe a movie can be like that!”
Just that visceral nature of it.
One of the ideas becamePredator: Badlands.
One of the others, which eventually evolved intoKillers of Killers, proved more challenging.
TV is a different thing.
Nothing against [the TV production teams] but I want to do it with them."
The segment shown to the press was thrilling, grisly, and surprisingly emotional.
The animation is top-notch and as brutal as fans of thePredatorseries would want.
