Elle Fanning and the Predator Take Up the HUNT on 10th Anniversary Cover of Den of Geek Magazine

Elle Fanning and the Predator Take Up the HUNT on 10th Anniversary Cover of Den of Geek Magazine

Oct. 9, 2025 - New York, New York - Den of Geek, the premier destination for fandom and pop culture enthusiasts, is thrilled to announce its return to New York Comic Con in 2025, complete with the 10th anniversary issue of Den of Geek magazine.

A decade after debuting as an NYCC special edition, the magazine is back in its hometown with the latest issue. In an exclusive PREDATOR: BADLANDS cover story, director DAN TRACHTENBERG and stars ELLE FANNING and DIMITRIUS SCHUSTER-KOLOAMATANGI invite fans into the homeworld of the Yautja aliens and beyond, teasing a radical departure for the popular franchise where the Predator has now become prey. It has also become one-half of a two-hander between Schuster-Koloamatangi’s heroic hunter and Elle Fanning’s new riff on the Weyland-Yutani synth robot line from ALIEN.

“I just loved the silhouette of it,” Trachtenberg says of the core dynamic on the cover. “That’s something I’m drawn to. It’s a really great, dynamic silhouette. I love the silhouette of Mad Max and his dog in Road Warrior, which is why Naru had a dog in Prey. I love the iconography of that. I love Monster Squad; the silhouette of the kids with Frankenstein in the sunset. What is the iconography of the movie? Everything starts with that.”

Still, don’t expect you know where either of these characters are going. While Fanning’s synthetic Thia might be badly damaged—to the point where the silhouette of her over a Predator’s shoulder earned the film the working title of BACKPACK—the Emmy-nominated star teases, “These synths are highly, highly developed. Much more than we’ve seen before.”

In addition to the cover story, the issue ushers in a new era of Stephen King dystopia with EDGAR WRIGHT and GLEN POWELL ahead of next month’s THE RUNNING MAN. Adapting a King novel originally set in 2025, there is an eerie irony to this more faithful version of the story reaching the screen now. Although for Powell, an actor who’s yearned to work with Wright since moving to Los Angeles in 2008, it’s been nothing but a dream.

“I got down to the wire and sent him a really nice text just telling him why, if he hired me, there’d be no other actor that would ever work as hard and put his body on the line more than I would,” Powell says. “I meant it. So he took a shot on me and hired me for this movie.”

The issue also includes more Stephen King via an extensive preview of IT: WELCOME TO DERRY where we speak with ANDY and BARBARA MUSCHIETTI and the cast and crew of the new series, as well as how it in some ways returns to more sinister horrors of the novel’s original 1950s setting. Says Andy, “Among all the complexities of social and political stuff in the ‘50s, it was a simpler life… for some people. But it’s not toned down. It’s actually more gruesome than any of the movies.”

The issue also includes interviews with SCOTT DERRICKSON for BLACK PHONE 2, TONY HALE, and our on-the-ground visit to the headquarters of the company which brought the Dire Wolf back earlier this year and is aiming to do the same for the woolly mammoth by 2028.

Beyond the magazine, Den of Geek will be on the ground and all over NYCC for a full-court press, which includes our annual studio interview space, as well as surprises and events like our live charity auction benefiting BINC.

So keep an eye out for our team, magazine, and events on the ground, and on our website for coverage, including from the new issue!

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