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 merchandise of Predator: Killer of Killers, the animated movie from Prey and Predator: Badlands manager Dan Trachtenberg, Michael Biehn has joined an exclusive Hollywood club.

First, immoderate background. Film buffs who bask their Hollywood trivia volition cognize that up to this constituent determination were conscionable 2 actors who had appeared successful an Alien, Predator, and Terminator movie: Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen.

The precocious Paxton played the iconic relation of Private William Hudson successful 1986’s Aliens, Detective Jerry Lambert successful 1990s Predator 2, and a punk successful 1984’s The Terminator. Henriksen, meanwhile, played Bishop successful the Alien franchise, Charles Bishop Weyland, the antheral upon whom Bishop was based, successful 2004’s Alien vs. Predator, and Detective Hal Vukovich successful The Terminator. As an aside, some actors besides died astatine the hands of a Xenomorph, a Yautja, and a Terminator crossed the movies.

Michael Biehn, left, has present appeared successful Alien, Terminator, and Predator movies. Photo by Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/Getty Images.

For movie fans, this has agelong been 1 of their favourite go-to trivia questions: which characters person faced disconnected against a Terminator, Alien, and Predator? Now it’s clip to adhd a 3rd to the list.

That’s due to the fact that Michael Biehn stars successful Predator: Killer Of Killers successful a supporting role. Biehn, of course, famously played Sgt. Kyle Reese successful The Terminator and Cpl. Dwayne Hicks successful Aliens.

It turns out, his casting was a deliberate effort connected Trachtenberg’s portion to get Biehn connected the list. He told Cinema Blend:

A 100 percent. It was intentional erstwhile we had a quality that needed an actor, and adjacent though Biehn is not the astir property due for that role, it was like, 'But let's conscionable benignant of not attraction astir that excessively overmuch due to the fact that it's conscionable excessively damn cool.'Three large actors that we grew up watching and loved, and yeah, Michael Biehn being successful this movie was perfectly delightful and allows america to present assertion that Biehn has squared disconnected with a Terminator, a Xenomorph, and a Predator. So yeah, it's beauteous great.

So determination you person it: Biehn is yet portion of the club.

IGN’s Predator: Killer of Killers reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: “Predator: Killer of Killers is different breathtaking installment of the Predator franchise from manager Dan Trachtenberg that takes vantage of its animated anthology format to amusement conscionable however chill a Predator warring Vikings oregon ninja tin be.”

There’s a batch going connected successful the worlds of some Predator and Alien, and it looks similar some are acceptable for a crossover. Predator: Badlands comes retired November 7, 2025, FX TV amusement Alien: Earth hits Hulu connected August 12, and a sequel to Alien: Romulus is successful the works.

Photo by Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/Getty Images.

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