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We got to watch the first 15 minutes of the upcoming film Predator: Badlands at San Diego Comic-Con. Here's what we saw.

Badlands," Dan Trachtenberg, said audiences will emotionally "connect" with the iconic hunter in the show out this fall.

Badlands panel in Hall H Friday, fans were treated to the first 15 minutes of director Dan Trachtenberg's latest franchise installment. The film features the first alien protagonist in the series, as a young outcast Predator forms an unlikely alliance with an android on a hostile alien planet.

In Predator: Badlands, Elle Fanning’s Thia strikes up an alliance with Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi’s young Predator, Dek. We see Thia rebooted after what looks like a fight with some sort of monster. Thia is a Weyland-Yutani synth from the nefarious megacorp from the Alien franchise.

Friday at San Diego Comic-Con offered fans a rare opportunity to hear from two of the people primarily responsible for major franchises, in the same place, on the same day. And that’s exactly what happened in both the Alien: Earth and Predator: Badlands panels, which both took place in Hall H.