STAR WARS: EPISODE VII - Prepare to go to warp… uh, I mean hyperspace. Star Trek’s J.J. Abrams will reboot George Lucas’s Jedi franchise, with a plot set decades after that business with the Ewoks. Originals Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill are said to be on board, along with a cast of newbies. JURASSIC WORLD - Odd choices all around for this sequel set 22 years after Isla Nubar. A career indie director (Safety Not Guaranteed’s Colin Trevorrow), and TV actors (Parks And Recreation’s Chris Pratt, New Girl’s Jake Johnson) to go with leading lady Dallas Bryce Howard. But really we’ll be watching to see how 14 years of FX advances will juice the dino experience. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON– Send out for more shawarmas. Thor, Hulk, Cap, Iron Man, Hawkeye and the Black Widow will be back (with new members Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, played by Aaron Taylor Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen respectively) to battle the sentient robot known as Ultron, as well as Captain American and S.H.I.E.L.D foe, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. JAMES BOND 24– Sam Mendes (Skyfall) returns as director, with Daniel Craig putting retirement talk to rest with a reprise of his haunted, misanthropic Bond. Best rumour we’ve heard: the villain will be one Ernst Stavro Blofeld. TERMINATOR: GENESIS– Arnie’s back, in a post-gubernatorial reboot of the franchise that is being billed as a stand-alone trilogy (which may mean a 75-year-old Ah-nold still terminating by the time it’s done). THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY– The end of the series, four films later, as Katniss Everdeen turns into pure energy and becomes the queen of Panem. I’m assuming Jennifer Lawrence will have two or three more Oscar nominations by then and will happily let go of her bow and arrow with both hands ANT-MAN– Marvel waited a long time for Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz) to put together the most problematic of the Avengers (he’s tiny, and he can call ants to his aid – kind of ineffectual-looking alongside the Hulk). With Michael Douglas as scientist Hank Pym (the original Ant-Man) and Paul Rudd as the guy who inherits his pheromones. Expect some funny spin. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY– Skedding this movie for February means the studio doesn’t consider it Oscar material (big surprise). But will a soft-core S&M series that sold almost 100 million copies drag all its readers into the theatres, or will it be past its pop cultural best-before date? By 2015, 50SoG may be as passé as Gangnam Style. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD– Original Road Warrior director George Miller is back at the helm, with Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises’ Bane) as Max Rockatansky, the post-Armageddon cop. At $100 mil, it leaves all the other Road Warrior movies behind, budget-wise. We’ll see if that means better. With Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hault (Jack The Giant Slayer), but no cameo appearance by Mel Gibson. ASSASSINS CREED –Michael Fassbender is starring and producing (along with Spielberg producer Frank Marshall) Also on tap for 2015: Mission: Impossible 5 (a.k.a, the only thing anybody wants to see Tom Cruise in), Fast & Furious 7….. Heart Of The Sea (Ron Howard’s tale of the whale attack that inspired Moby Dick)…. The Fantastic Four (a reboot of the Marvel series, with Michael B. Jordan said to be the new Johnny Storm), Ted 2, Kung Fu Panda 3 and Disney-Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:58:04 +0000
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