With the Release of Predator: Killer of Killers, Michael Biehn Joins Perhaps the Most Exclusive Hollywood Club Ever — and Forces Film Buffs the World Over to Update Their Trivia

Warning! Spoilers for Predator: Killer of Killers follow.

With the release of Predator: Killer of Killers, the animated film from Prey and Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg, Michael Biehn has joined an exclusive Hollywood club.

First, some background. Film buffs who enjoy their Hollywood trivia will know that up to this point there were just two actors who had appeared in an Alien, Predator, and Terminator movie: Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen.

The late Paxton played the iconic role of Private William Hudson in 1986’s Aliens, Detective Jerry Lambert in 1990s Predator 2, and a punk in 1984’s The Terminator. Henriksen, meanwhile, played Bishop in the Alien franchise, Charles Bishop Weyland, the man upon whom Bishop was based, in 2004’s Alien vs. Predator, and Detective Hal Vukovich in The Terminator. As an aside, both actors also died at the hands of a Xenomorph, a Yautja, and a Terminator across the movies.

For movie fans, this has long been one of their favourite go-to trivia questions: which characters have faced off against a Terminator, Alien, and Predator? Now it’s time to add a third to the list.

That’s because Michael Biehn stars in Predator: Killer Of Killers in a supporting role. Biehn, of course, famously played Sgt. Kyle Reese in The Terminator and Cpl. Dwayne Hicks in Aliens.

It turns out, his casting was a deliberate attempt on Trachtenberg’s part to get Biehn on the list. He told Cinema Blend:

A hundred percent. It was intentional when we had a character that needed an actor, and even though Biehn is not the most age appropriate for that role, it was like, 'But let's just kind of not care about that too much because it's just too damn cool.'

Three great actors that we grew up watching and loved, and yeah, Michael Biehn being in this movie was absolutely delightful and allows us to now claim that Biehn has squared off with a Terminator, a Xenomorph, and a Predator. So yeah, it's pretty great.

So there you have it: Biehn is finally part of the club.

IGN’s Predator: Killer of Killers review returned an 8/10. We said: “Predator: Killer of Killers is another exciting installment of the Predator franchise from director Dan Trachtenberg that takes advantage of its animated anthology format to show just how cool a Predator fighting Vikings or ninja can be.”

There’s a lot going on in the worlds of both Predator and Alien, and it looks like both are set for a crossover. Predator: Badlands comes out November 7, 2025, FX TV show Alien: Earth hits Hulu on August 12, and a sequel to Alien: Romulus is in the works.

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