SAN DIEGO, July 25 (Reuters) - The latest movie in the

"Predator" series flips the script to focus on the bad guys who

always lose to the humans in the end, director Dan Trachtenberg

said on Friday.

"The predator never wins," Trachtenberg told an audience at

San Diego Comic-Con after footage of "Predator: Badlands"

debuted at the convention's Disney ( DIS ) panel.

This, the "Prey" director said, inspired him to tell the

story from the predator species perspective in "Badlands," the

seventh in the main movie series, dating back to the 1987 hit

starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the ninth across the

franchise.

It was key, Trachtenberg said, for him to explore a

different aspect of the "Predator" world for this science

fiction movie, developed by 20th Century Studios and landing in

theaters on November 7.

"There are no humans in this film," said cast member Elle

Fanning, discussing the challenges of learning the logistics of

a completely fictional realm.

The biggest challenge was mastering the fictional Yautja

language, said Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, who stars as

Dek, a young predator on a solo mission in a treacherous land of

even bigger predators. He bonds with an android named Thia,

played by Fanning.

Dek is "ferocious and badass, very much an anti-hero,"

Trachtenberg said.

Before the panel discussion with the director and several

cast members, the audience got a glimpse of a Yautja-speaking

predator prowling the stage with the signature glowing weaponry

as stirring music played.