Friday at San Diego Comic-Con offered fans a rare opportunity to hear from two of the people primarily responsible for major franchises, in the same place, on the same day. And that’s exactly what happened in both the Alien: Earth and Predator: Badlands panels, which both took place in Hall H.

Badlands is mostly revealed in the latest action-packed trailer, but an increasingly popular theory indicates that the movie could actually be a stealth reboot of the Alien vs. Predator franchise cross-over.

The Predator and Alien franchises have seen a bit of a renaissance thanks to a trio of well-received projects on the big and small screen, including Prey, Alien Romulus, and Predator: Killer of Killers.

"Predator: Badlands" director Dan Trachtenberg debuted 15 minutes of footage at Comic-Con, plus hinted at a possible Arnold Schwarzenegger return.

"There is a spine rip in the movie that is one for the books," the filmmaker says in EW's Comic-Con studio on Friday. "I think it rivals any from the other entries in the franchis