Hulu secretly made an animated miniseries of Predator period pieces

Say “Predator period piece” three times fast — or say it slow, because that’s what Predator: Killer of Killers is. A three-episode animated miniseries from the director of Prey, featuring Predator attacks in three different periods of humanity’s past. A newly released trailer for the show has all the gore, ominous de-cloaking, and weird clicking sounds you could want from the franchise.

The series — which takes place in historical Japan, in Scandinavia, and during aerial combat of World War II — was written and co-directed by Dan Trachtenberg while he was concurrently in production on his Prey sequel, Predator: Badlands. Trachtenberg teased that he was working on a non-live-action Predator project in October of 2024, but at the time it was assumed to be a movie — not an anthology.

But while Badlands takes the franchise into the future, set on a remote planet and following a young woman (Elle Fanning) finding an unlikely ally in an outcast Predator alien, Killer of Killers has Trachtenberg exercising the same compelling hook that he delivered on so skillfully in Prey: the universe’s ultimate alien hunters going blade to blade with historic human warriors.

Predator: Killer of Killers will premiere on Hulu on June 6. Predator: Badlands will hit theaters on Nov. 7.