After months of cancellations and delays in filming and premieres, 2021 arrives full of new movies with all the numbers to sweep at the box office, if circumstances allow, or in audience through streaming platforms.
The long-awaited adaptation of ‘Pinocchio’, performed by Guillem de el Toro, will finally arrive on Netflix, and Steven Spielberg will premiere his first musical.
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will reprise Neo and Trinity in the fourth installment of Matrix.
Ana d’Armes will put herself in the shoes of Marilyn Monroe in the biopic ‘Blonde’, which will also be broadcast on a platform.
With much of the releases scheduled for 2020 postponed as a result of restrictions to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 will be a year full of new stories, “remakes” and sequels to some of the sagas the highest-grossing cinemas of recent times, which will reach both cinemas and digital platforms.
If streaming companies had already revolutionized the film market by producing and releasing some of the most prominent films in recent seasons, the uncertainty with which 2021 begins after what has happened in recent months has pushed the producer Warner Bros. to release the 17 titles scheduled for 2021 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max, a platform where the films will be available for a month.
The Disney company paved the way last September with the release of ‘Mulán’ at Disney +, if necessary, without the cinemas, a strategy they have decided to repeat with ‘Soul’, Pixar’s first feature film that will not be seen on the big screen.
Although scheduled for November 2020, Disney Factory will release ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’, its next animated feature film, on March 12, a film directed by Paul Briggs and Dean Wellins, the story revolves around around a lone warrior in search of the last dragon in order to save the kingdom of Kumandra.
Actress Emma Stone collects the testimony of Glenn Close to bring to life one of Disney’s most famous villains in ‘Cruella’, a film in which he narrates the origins of Cruella de Vil, years before the events that take place in the classic of Disney ‘101 Dalmatians’, and will be released on May 28, while in July will be released ‘Luca’, Pixar’s latest production.
In 2021 will finally arrive on Netflix the long-awaited adaptation of ‘Pinocchio’ by William of the Bull, an animated film in “stop motion”, based on illustrations by Grimly Gray and Nick Cave soundtrack, the story is set in fascist Italy of the 1930s.
‘It’s not a Pinocchio for the whole family,’ said De el Toro about the film in which Gregory Mann will play Pinocchio, Ewan McGregor in Pepito Grillo and David Bradley in Gepetto; and starring actresses Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett, among others.
The Looney Tunes, legendary characters from Warner Bros., will share the lead role as Lebron James in ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’, a real-life and animated comedy, a sequel to the one starring Michael Jordan in 1996.
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Next year will also bring a new film from the ‘Kingsman’ saga, Daniel Craig says goodbye to James Bond in ‘No Time to Die’, twenty-first film of Agent 007, and Tom Cruise returns to play one of the most famous characters of his career in ‘Top Gun Maverick’, sequel to the 1986 film, and also returns with a new installment – the seventh – of ‘Mission Impossible’.
It will take twelve months to see Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law again as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in ‘Sherlock Holmes 3’, and for the fourth installment of ‘Matrix’, more than two decades after the film. original film, again starring Keanu Reeves (Neo) and Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity).
Directed by Llana Wachowski, this time solo, will also reprise in the cast Jada Pinkett-Smitt, Daniel Bernhardt and Lambert Wilson, but will not Lawrence Fishburne as Morpheus, or Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith, and join the cast Priyanka Chopra, Neil Patrick Harris, Jonathan Groff and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
It will finally hit theaters ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’, a direct sequel to the second installment of the saga, released in 1989, directed by Jason Reitman, son of the director of the first two films and starring Finn Wolfhard, Carrie Coon, Mckenna Grace, Sigourney Weaver and Paul Rudd.
Jamie Lee Curtis will face Michael Mayers again in ‘Halloween Kills’, the twelfth film in the franchise, which has had to delay a year and has also forced to postpone the possible end of the series, ‘Halloween Ends’ , in 2022.
Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Max Minghella and Marisol Nichols star in the ninth film in the ‘Saw’ franchise, ‘Spiral: From the book of Saw’, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.
Also coming to theaters is the third installment of JK Rowling’s saga ‘Fantastic Beasts and where to find them’, marked by the forced departure of Johnny Depp from the cast, who will be replaced by Mads Mikkelsen in the role of Grindelwald, with the beginnings of a magical war as part of the action and World War II as a backdrop.
In 2021 there will be a new installment of ‘Fast & Furious’ – the ninth – and in addition to being the year of the confrontation between two legendary movie monsters in’ Godzilla vs. Kong ‘, will also be full of premieres starring the heroes and villains of Marvel and DC.
Tom Holland repeats as Spiderman in the sequel to ‘Far from Home’; Jared; Leto will play Morbius, the villain of the Spider-Man universe, in the film of the same name directed by Daniel Espinosa; Tom Hardy repeats character in ‘Venom: let there be carnage’; and Scarlett Johansson is again the Black Widow in ‘Black Widow’, with whom she bids farewell to the character.
‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ brings Marvel’s first Asian superhero to the cinema, while DC’s antiheroes return with ‘The Suicide Squad’, in which they reprise Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Margot Robbie or Jai Counrney, and with additions like Juan Diego Botto.
For their part, ‘Eternals’ will bring to life the heroes of Marvel, Richard Madden, Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Lia McHugh, Don Lee, Barry Keoghan, Angelina Jolie and Kit Harington.
There will also be adaptations of famous video games like ‘Mortal Kombat’, ‘Tomb Raider 2’ – again starring Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft – or ‘Uncharted’, such as Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas.
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‘The Many Saints of Newark’ brings the story of the famous series ‘The Sopranos’ to the cinema, with a prequel set in the 60s and 70s starring Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini , Billy Magnussen, John Magaro, Michela De Rossi, Ray Liotta and Vera Farmiga.
Among the most anticipated films are the thriller ‘Way Down’, by Jaume Balagueró and the science fiction film ‘Dune’, with a cast featuring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will face ‘The Last Duel’, directed by Ridley Scott; Tom Hanks will play Elvis Presley’s agent in ‘Untitled Elvis Presley Project’, which has the rise to fame of the king of rock, played by Austin Butler; and Ana d’Armes will put herself in the shoes of Marilyn Monroe in the biopic ‘Blonde’, which will air on Netflix.
Wes Anderson promises a love letter to journalism in ‘The French Dispatch’, with a cast featuring Benicio de el Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet and Bill Murray.
‘West Side Story’ will be the first musical by director Steven Spielberg, in front of an adaptation of the Broadway classic and new version of the film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins in 1961 winner of ten Oscars, which will star Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler. Originally scheduled for December 2020, its release has been delayed to December 10, 2021.