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Trailer for The Asylum’s Sci-Fi ‘Predator: Wastelands’ B-Movie Spoof

by Alex Billington
October 30, 2025
Source: YouTube

“The creature dies today!” The Asylum has unveiled their official trailer for the B-movie called Predator: Wastelands, available to watch on VOD next week just before the real movie opens. It is an obvious ripoff of the actual Predator: Badlands movie, but now they’re affectionately called “mockbusters”. The Asylum has been making these mockbuster spoofs for decades, and we usually don’t post these trailers, but this is a fun one because the FX & design that went into this is so funny you just have to see it. When an alien hunter arrives on Earth, it takes down a gang of warlords and unexpectedly becomes a folk hero to the oppressed locals. With their support, the alien sets its sights on defeating the warlords’ ruthless leader. Starring David Chokachi, Johnny Ramey, Amulya Ananth, Vanessa Zanardi, L.A. Williams, and West Wayne. This looks so ridiculous bad and cheesy and awful, but that’s all part of the charm. Why not have some fun?

Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Ryan Ebert’s B-movie Predator: Wastelands, from YouTube:

When an alien hunter arrives on Earth, it takes down a gang of warlords and unexpectedly becomes a folk hero to the oppressed locals. Now with their local support, the alien sets its sights on the warlords’ ruthless leader. The Asylum’s new movie Predator: Wastelands is written and directed by B-movie filmmaker Ryan Ebert (no relation to Roger), director of this year’s other B-movie The Jolly Monkey, and also development coordinator on many other The Asylum movies over the years. Produced by David Michael Latt. Made by The Asylum & Atomic Blonde Entertainment. The Asylum debuts Ebert’s Predator: Wastelands mockbuster movie direct-to-VOD starting on November 4th, 2025 this fall. Does anyone actually want to watch this?

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The release date for the new Alan Partridge series, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge), has been confirmed.

The show will see Steve Coogan return as the iconic comedy character as he hosts six episodes that will explore the subject of mental health. After a year living in Saudi Arabia, Partridge has returned to Britain and the show will see him “ask some important questions”.

The series will premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 9:30pm on Friday 3 October, and all six episodes will be available to watch online from that day.

It was originally announced in 2024 under the title And Did Those Feet… With Alan Partridge, and a synopsis explains: “We follow the beloved and, to be fair, revered broadcaster Alan Partridge as he reintegrates into life in Britain after a year working in Saudi Arabia.”

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— Neil Gibbons (@neilgibbons) September 20, 2025

“But what begins as a documentary about homecoming soon morphs into something more personal as Alan realises that the happiness he thought he’d feel at being back in Norwich just hasn’t materialised. Something’s missing.”

“It’s a journey through the mental health of himself and the country he loves (the UK including Northern Ireland) to ask: are we mentally unwell, mentally challenged, sad, cross, disturbed or just plain fed up?”

Partridge himself has given fans an insight into how the show came about: “The kingdom of Saudi Arabia enjoys extensive oil and natural gas reserves, but has also seen economic growth in other areas such as agricultural production, retail trade, construction, and transport,” he said. “It directs some $69 billion to military expenditure each year. And yet despite all that, I somehow felt incomplete.”

Ahead of the show’s launch, the BBC have also shared a spoof crowdfunder appeal from Partridge, in which he offers a range of services for fans, including a birthday voicemail for £50 and a dinner at a restaurant of your choosing for £400 (or at one of Alan’s choosing for £200). Watch above.

The inept, awkward broadcaster first appeared in 1991 on the radio show On The Hour, before transitioning to television when he hosted the fictional chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You from 1994-95, followed by the sitcom I’m Alan Partridge from 1997 to 2002. The character has been revived on various platforms including YouTube, podcasts, books, and the 2013 feature film Alpha Papa.

Last year, Coogan said he would like to do more live shows as the character, saying “I’d like to do some other stuff first and I’ll go back to him”. One of those other projects will be a film about footballer Roy Keane, titled Saipan.