In the period after the epidemic, the struggle between traditional theaters and online streaming media has intensified. And science fiction films are bound to become a place where the two sides must fight for a period of time in the future.
This side of the box "Creed" rescued the market, for the theater to revitalize the vitality, "Dune" and "Avatar" release is also just around the corner.
Over there, Netflix and Apple TV have entered the game to shoot science fiction dramas, "Base" dramas were launched in September, not to mention, Netflix is even more arrogant to decide to shoot "Three-Body".
But in any case, it is the audience who is blessed, and these works will inevitably re-ignite the boom of cinema viewing.
If there are no surprises, the next decade is likely to be a decade of sci-fi movie fairy fights.
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1. The sequel to Avatar
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Kate Vincelet, Yang Ziqiong
Release date: Avatar 2: December 16, 2022
Avatar 3: December 20, 2024
Avatar 4: December 18, 2026
Avatar 5: December 22, 2028
Ten years and ten years later, almost 20 years, boss!
The reason why the timeline of this sci-fi inventory has been pulled to ten years is because kashen's "Avatar" series will be released until the end of 2028, and you should never question how slow Cameron can make a movie.
Underwater action scenes, 48 frames, naked-eye 3D...
With no idea of the plot at all, with these technical aspects of the trailer alone, Avatar 2 is already in the spotlight.
How mysterious the planet Pandora is, how mysterious the Avatar sequel is.
I have to say that in the matter of hanging people's appetites, no one can compete with Cameron.
In the more than ten years after "Avatar" detonated the global market, in order to shoot his favorite underwater action scenes, Ka Shen has always been cultivating and polishing the follow-up works of "Avatar" like a closed door alchemy.
It is roughly speculated that the villain Colonel Miles in the first part will return, and Jack and Netini will need to take the children to the bottom of the pandora planet to fight.
But for so long, interest in the Avatar series has continued unabated. This year's domestic re-screening of "Avatar" has made many Chinese audiences dream of returning to Pandora's star.
Kashin and his series of Avatars have almost become synonymous with the benchmark of the film industry for so many years.
Eleven years ago, the first work of "Avatar" was released, which led to a boom in 3D movie viewing around the world, and this time, it seems that it is the era that needs Ka Shen to lead the change of the film industry.
2. "Dune"
Director: Dennis Villeneuve
Starring: Timothy Challemet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zandaya, Jason Momma, Javier Baden
Showtime: Almost here
"Dune", only the gods can describe.
In order to revive the status of the Ertridi family, Paul Ertridi, a young boy with extraordinary powers, embarks on a wandering and adventure on the spice-rich planet Erracos.
The story of Dune roughly sounds similar to the interstellar version of Lawrence of Arabia, combining space opera and classical court-style soft science fiction.
Since 1974, when Zodlowski intended to begin to change Frank Herbert's imperial tome, "Dune" has always been like a deep pit in film history, so that generations of directors have returned home, and the hot-eyed pictures of David Lynch's version of "Dunes" are believed to be vividly remembered by many viewers.
Warner and Legendary Pictures have also taken out their family to invest in this sci-fi masterpiece this time, and they should not be on the street.
In addition to Villeneuve, he is also the top match in the cast, Sweet Tea, Zandaya, "King of the Seahorse" Jason Momma, Josh Brolin, Javier Baden... and guest actor Zhang Zhen.
In the trailer, Warner Howe does not hesitate to show the audiovisual grandeur of the new version of "Dune":
The Emperor's army, Sadoka, assembles on the dark and oppressive planet:
Huge sandworms appear in the desert;
The fleet of the Astronautical Guild lands on the dune planet Erlakos...
In the trailer, the young Paul seems to have learned of his father's death, and the plot may go towards the legendary epic style of the teenager who is in danger and tries to turn the tide, which is still very exciting.
Still, Dune's greatest appeal lies in its allegorical nature of real-world crises.
All science fiction, in fact, is also with the help of the future, imagining the present.
Putting aside those outer space settings, the reality crisis we are facing today is actually more and more similar to the story in "Dune", and I hope that Villeneuve can treat "Dune" with the state of filming "Scorched Earth" and let it once again become a good medicine to wake up the world.
3. The Matrix 4
Director: Lana Wachowski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Kerry Anne Moss, Jessica Henwick
Release Date: December 22, 2021 (North America)
This time, the Matrix is resurrected!
As long as we live long enough, we can see that a movie history like "The Matrix" will actually usher in the day of making a sequel. But hearing this news, the audience's heart is definitely entangled.
There are only two paths left for "The Matrix 4", whether it is a re-sealing god or a dog-tailed sable, it is difficult to say.
Then guess the plot of "The Matrix 4" without a ticket.
Some passers-by photographed Keanu Reeves shaving his head and eyebrows on the set. In the first part, when Neo just woke up from the matrix, he also had no eyebrows and hair.
The title of the fourth film is The Matrix Resurrections. Resurrection means the resurrection of Jesus, perhaps implying that Neo will be resurrected from the Matrix again.
But given that the "Resurrections" this time are in plural form, we are not sure if the awakened Neo will be the only Neo, or whether it will be just the code of the maternal world.
In addition, this time the martial arts instructor is no longer the Eight Master Yuan Heping, but by the director of the "Rapid Pursuit" series, and the new action style may bring a lot of unexpected chemical reactions.
How should we expect The Matrix 4? Newly joined actress Jessica Henwick claimed That Lana Wachowski would "change the industry again" this time.
After more than 20 years of rapid development of network technology, what "The Matrix 4" will look like that will once again change the entire industry is full of imagination and expectation.
4. The Three-Body Problem
Producer: Youzu Pictures & Netflix
Creative Team: A team of game of thrones writers
Progress: It was determined that the first episode would be directed by Zeng Guoxiang, setting the tone of the whole series
True Schrödinger's "Three-Body Problem"!
Yes, we're going to talk about the Three-Body Problem again. As long as it is not released for one day, "The Three-Body Problem" will always be the god of the future of Chinese science fiction films. But if it's released..., then it may be its own wall-breaker.
This time, it was Netflix that broke the ice for the "Three-Body" adaptation plan. Youzu Pictures, which announced in 2016 that it was going to shoot a film version of "The Three-Body Problem," later shelved the project indefinitely.
But last September, Netflix announced an agreement with Youzu to participate in a joint remake of "Three-Body Problem" into an English-language TV series. Although there is no way to completely shoot "Three-Body" by Chinese, at least we can see a more sophisticated "Three-Body" at the industrial level earlier.
And once it is finally filmed, it may not be impossible to promote Netflix to break the ice in the Chinese mainland market.
However, there is also a heart-wrenching news, this time the shooting team of Netflix is the shooting team of "Game of Thrones". It's really unconscious, but don't let the power game tail come again!
On the issue of dealing with this precious IP, the most taboo thing is that capital is too eager to make quick gains.
Even with Netflix, it is difficult to say that the setting of the three-body world can be perfectly presented - water drop attack, particle dimensionality reduction, doomsday battle, curvature drive... Visual reproduction of every setting is not easy to achieve.
We look forward to the early release of "Avatar", but we expect "Three-Body" to be slower, slower, polished and polished, and strive for excellence.
5. Neuromancer
Directed by: Tim Miller, Vincenzo Natali
Starring: TSE
Progress: Announcement of shooting
Neuromancer is either a god or a street fighter.
There are many people who know "Blade Runner" and few people who know "Neuromancer". This is really the biggest regret of cyberpunk movies.
Tim Miller, who quit directing Deadpool 2 due to creative disagreements, has previously confirmed that he will participate in the "Neuromancer" film pitched by Fox.
However, regarding this film, the filmmakers did not give more information, we can only guess its possibilities.
"Neuromancer" can be described as the progenitor of cyberpunk novels, telling the story of Keith, the male protagonist who can connect his nervous system to the Internet and communicate consciousness with the virtual world, who is fired and severely punished for stealing his employer's things, and the central nervous system is destroyed by toxins, and can no longer connect to the global Internet into the cyberspace.
What stands in the way of the "Neuromancer" adaptation is not how difficult it is to shoot, but how to shoot well.
From "Akira" and "Blade Runner" to "Ghost in the Shell", "Blade Runner 2049", and then to last year's game "Cyberpunk 2077", cyberpunk-style science fiction movies are emerging in an endless stream.
If "Neuromancer" is to be filmed well, it must be changed and innovated in aesthetic style.
After all, the original story itself is not new, nothing more than a black story about beautiful women and killers that takes place in the future.
What really makes the novel stand out is its fantastic imagination of cyberpunk aesthetics that is almost at its peak.
Cyberpunk is now increasingly commercialized, and it would be a good idea to make the audience aware of the reflective nature that this aesthetic originally hoped to convey.
6. Tomorrow's War Chronicles
Director: Wu Xuanhui
Starring: Gu Tianle, Liu Qingyun, Liu Jialing, Zhang Jiahui, Xie Junhao
Showtimes: Not sure
It was my brother who came with me to play the real mech.
After talking about "The Three-Body Problem", let's talk about another more reliable Chinese science fiction movie, that is, the Hong Kong science fiction film "Tomorrow's War" starring Gu Tianle, Zhang Jiahui, Liu Qingyun and Liu Jialing.
"Tomorrow's War" is set in the 2055 Earth, meteorite hit the Earth, bringing a fast-growing tentacle alien creature, which purifies the Earth's environment while also killing all life forms, so the fate of saving the Earth falls to an elite army.
Director Wu Xuanhui said that this will be the most technically difficult film produced in Hong Kong so far.
The trailer shows two very cool mechs, as well as the shape of the soldier wearing a human exoskeleton, and you can faintly see the flashing biological tentacles in the picture, which should be a doomsday theme of the organic armor element.
Now what we have to do is to give this domestic science fiction film a little more confidence, in case, maybe the door of Chinese science fiction movies will reopen this time!
In addition, in the trailer, a group of characters speaking standard Cantonese are talking about the uncertain fate of mankind, and the Hong Kong-style science fiction film is also worth looking forward to, considering its mecha theme and Hong Kong background, is it certain that this is not a "Pacific Rim" story?
7. Base
Directed by: Alex Graves, Jennifer Peng,
Roxanne Dawson, Rupert Sanders
Starring: Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lulo Bell, Leah Harvey, Terrence Mann
Air Date: September 24, 2021 (USA)
The Galactic Empire is finally here!
Last month, the American drama "Base", based on Asimov's science fiction novel "Galactic Empire", released a second trailer to create momentum for the launch in September.
"Al Qaeda" tells the story of how Harry Sheldon, a psychohistory of the Galactic Empire, predicted that the Empire would eventually decline and relied on his life's learning to turn the tide.
The grandeur of the worldview and the openness of the pattern of the whole story are almost unprecedented, and there is no one to come after.
The difficulty of adaptation of Asimov's world-famous work is the same as that of "Dune".
In terms of calculation, these two works can be said to be the ancestors of the space opera genre, but after "Star Wars" inspired by both was filmed first and became popular all over the world, old novels such as "Base" must come up with more new tricks to meet the audience's super high expectations for it.
After this big IP was tossed and turned like a hot potato in the hands of New Line, Warner, Sony, and HBO, It was finally taken by Apple to start filming. Apple, which has just entered the streaming media, should be riveted to complete this galactic epic.
The two trailers released so far show the show's huge ambitions, both magnificent interstellar war scenes and classical court-style literary dramas, plus the "elf king" Lee Pace starring as the Emperor of the Empire, which seems to have a bit of interstellar hobbit meaning.
8. District 10
Director: Neil Bromkamp
Progress: The director said it was fast
After "District 9", the director was afraid that he forgot that he still had a sequel that had not been filmed.
In fact, "District 10" took longer to skip the ticket than "Avatar 2", and when "District 9" was released in 2009, the male protagonist shouted to the audience at the end that I would definitely come back in three years.
Then it went straight to 2017, when director Neil Bromkamp said a sequel was coming.
Then it went straight to 2021, and the director said that the sequel was really coming.
Shoot fast, or the aliens will arrive first!
In the past twelve years, Bromkamp has calmly made movies such as "Elysium Space" and "Super Chapai", but he has not taken action against "District 10", which is really a rush to death.
However, during this period, the director made a high-energy short film "Rakka", which continued the style of "District 9" and told the tragic fate of human beings who were ruled like slaves and ants after the aliens occupied the earth.
Rats, ants, and humans are no different from aliens, who destroyed all human civilizations and adorned the Eiffel Tower with dead bodies. It can be seen that the director's ideas are still there, and the ideas are still there.
Right, this is the extended trailer for District 10.
9. Guardians of the Galaxy 3
Director: James Gunn
Starring: Chris Pratt, Van Diesel, Dave Battista, Zoe Soldana
Release Date: May 5, 2023 (North America)
After talking about these hardcore sci-fi films, let's talk about Marvel's new trends.
On Marvel's side, the most anticipated sci-fi work is "Guardians of the Galaxy 3".
Since it is a space opera, then there can not only be the nobles in the galaxy who are fighting with each other, but also the interstellar teasers who drive the spaceship and put the golden songs of the era everywhere.
The news now known is that Thor will travel interstellar with the members of the Guardians of the Galaxy and face the new villain together.
Previously, it was rumored that Christian Bale appeared on the set of "Guardians of the Galaxy", and perhaps Bell would play the villain Adam the Magician.
Of course, if you want, you can also imagine Star-Lord vs Batman, Double Kitchen Ecstasy.
In addition, although Kamora on the main timeline was sacrificed by Thanos in exchange for the Soul Gem, Kamora on the 2014 timeline has been recalled to the main timeline by the Infinity Stones in Avengers 4.
Therefore, the new Guardians of the Galaxy will also be very exciting in terms of emotional drama, and Star-Lord needs to rediscover Kamora in the vast universe.
Of course, considering that the theme of the fourth phase of the MCU is multiverse, it may be that there may be more than one Kamora character in Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
10. The New Ultraman
Director: Makoto Higuchi
Starring: Kushi Saito, Masami Nagasawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Daiki Aroka
Release Date: 2021 (TO BE CONFIRMED)
What a cry! Grandpa Qinghui ah! The first generation! Masami Nagasawa! Hideaki Anno!
Never underestimate the surprises that Hideaki Anno can bring you!
On January 29 this year, Hideaki Anno served as the planner and screenwriter, Makoto Higuchi as the general director, and "New Ultraman" starring Masami Nagasawa and Koshi Saito released a pilot trailer, and it is estimated that many friends who grew up watching Ultraman will not be able to sit still.
According to the reason, an IP as good as Ultraman should also be the time to return to the public's vision. Many of its highlights have been overlooked because of the label of its sub-supply.
At least in terms of reflecting on the big theme of science fiction on the pollution of the earth's environment, Ultraman's depth is much better than many works of the same theme.
Ultraman's plot must not need to be introduced to everyone, which is already a household name level of big IP.
The moment the first Ultraman slowly stood up in the trailer, the whole person was going to get goosebumps.
What's more, this time, the first generation did not have an energy lamp, returning to the original setting of the original generation without energy lamps in the original special film in 1966.
At least you can safely look forward to a big battle between the first generation and Neronda and Gabra.
According to Hideaki Anno's tone, there should also be a lot of scenes about the Cote team and other human members this time, and it may be more realistic in style.
As long as there are more fight scenes, play the circle of fame, unlike "True Godzilla", the whole meeting is believed, I believe that fans and passers-by will flock to the theater to see this "New Ultraman".
The above is our inventory of science fiction movies and TV series that we hope to meet with audiences for some time to come. Some of these works will soon be available, while others may still have an uncertain future.
After all, this is a kind of work that is too expensive and needs to be carefully crafted.
There are also works that are in preparation that have not yet been discussed.
For example, "Moon Landing Project" directed by Doug Reeman and starring Atang Ge;
Seven Eves directed by Ron Howard;
Syfy's theatrical version of Hyperion;
Projects such as Villeneuve's "Dune Dune" spin-off "Dune: Sorority" of which Villeneuve is a producer are in the process of being prepared.
The core of science fiction is to make everyone dare to believe and be willing to imagine. Let's look forward to one day in the future to witness the appearance of these sci-fi masterpieces!
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