In an interview for the LA Times back in January 12, 2015 Ana Lily Amirpour gave the following details about The Bad Batch when she was asked where she was in the process:
Right now, I am scouting. We will be shooting in April. It will mostly be shot in a lot of desert: lots of dilapidated desert ruins, deserted gas stations and empty, small towns. Everyone in the big cities, they think that is what reality is. That you have your kale salad and your iPhone. But drive an hour in any direction and you come across small strange towns with people who look different and talk different. That’s America. Those places feel somehow more real to me.
The movie is a dystopian kind of almost post-apocalyptic love story — but a very twisted and violent love story. It’s about people who have been outcasts of society and they’re trying to survive in this desert in Texas and some of them have become cannibals. So you’re going to fall in love with people who eat people. [Laughs.]