Hello again! You weren’t expecting this were you? I know I haven’t done this for a couple of years, but thought instead of just looking back, it could be fun to anticipate what I hope will be a very good year for films. There are many films to look forward to in the year 2025 (well, in my opinion there are), lots of Action films, some interesting black comedies, hopefully a few great Comic Book films, as well as a couple of surprising sequels. Along with I’m guessing a lot of films that we will love that we aren’t even aware of yet. I have listed the films in alphabetical order here (I’m feeling too lazy to work out an order of preference or any other such nonsense). I have linked to the IMBD pages for the films and added links to trailers if they are available. Also please be aware that the release dates may not be completely accurate, I have taken a best guess using IMDB.
28 Years
Later [imdb] [trailer]
Release Date: June 19th
Release Date: June 19th
The
second sequel to Danny Boyles excellent 2002 horror film, set 28 years after
the events of the first film, where the Rage virus was released and infected a huge
number of the British population. We now get to see the effects of the virus a
generation on, with people who have had to live with it most of their lives.
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton,
Elle Fanning & Monica Barbaro
Release Date: January 23rd
Though I am not usually a fan of musical
biopics, I have become somewhat of a fan of Timothée Chalamet’s work recently
and have been a fan of Bob Dylan’s work for many years now, so I’m looking
forward to seeing Chalamet play Dylan in his early years.
Ballerina [imdb]
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Ian
McShane & Lance Reddick
Release Date: June 6th
A return to the world
of John Wick, in this prequel we will follow Ana de Armas, playing the
eponymous Ballerina, an assassin trained by the Ruska Roma, same as John Wick
himself, as she seeks revenge for her father’s death. Can’t wait to jump back
into this world.
Director: Julius Onah
Starring: Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Liv
Tyler & Tim Blake Nelson
Release Date: February 13th
The MCU hasn’t been at
its best recently, but last year found some success with Deadpool and Wolverine
in the cinema and Agatha All Along (on television), so I am tentatively
optimistic about this film, especially as the trailer gives off major 1970’s
political thriller vibes.
Director: Alex Scharfman
Starring: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Richard E.
Grant & Téa Leoni
Release Date: July 14th
This looks like a fun
Dark Horror Comedy, with a great cast. After hitting a unicorn on the way to a
business meeting with his boss, Paul Rudd’s character has to first deal with
his boss’s family taking over the unicorn’s remains to exploit their restorative
powers, and then the unicorn’s mate turning up to extract bloody vengeance.
Frankenstein
[imdb]
Director: Guillermo del
Toro
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth, Christoph
Waltz & Ralph Ineson
Release Date: TBC
I have to be honest,
if it wasn’t for the fact that it was being made by Guillermo del Toro, I would
probably not be interested in this film at all (especially as there is another
take on the Frankenstein story also coming out this year). However, I am very
interested in seeing Del Toro’s vision for this familiar story.
Director: Kyle Newacheck
Starring: Adam Sandler,
Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen & Margaret Qualley
Release Date: TBC
This is purely a
nostalgia pick for me. Nothing else to it.
Havoc [imdb]
Director: Gareth Evans
Starring: Tom Hardy, Timothy Olyphant, Forest
Whitaker & Luis Guzmán
Release Date: TBC
Gareth Evans the
writer and director of the brilliant Raid films really knows how to make great
action films, and the cast assembled for this film also looks great too.
Director: Jonathan Entwistle
Starring: Ralph Macchio, Jackie Chan, Ming-Na
Wen & Joshua Jackson
Release Date: May 29th
Again, this is another
nostalgia pick for me. I grew up with the original Karate Kid trilogy and the
TV series Cobra Kai has reignited my interest in these characters. Also, I am really
looking forward to seeing Jackie Chan on the big screen again.
Director: Jonathan Eusebio
Starring: Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose, Sean
Astin & Rhys Darby
Release Date: February 6th
This looks like a fun
action comedy and I’m glad to see Ke Huy Quan getting a chance to showcase his
talents in a lead role, after not being on the screen for such a long time.
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Toni Collette,
Steven Yeun & Mark Ruffalo
Release Date: March 6th
This looks like a fun
black comedy, and an interesting choice for Bong Joon Ho’s follow up to his award-winning
film Parasite. The cast he has assembled is great, and I’m interested in seeing
Robert Pattinson play what seems like a lighter tone (for him anyway).
Director: Timo Tjahjanto
Starring: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen,
Christopher Lloyd & Colin Hanks
Release Date: August 14th
It’s a sequel to the
excellent and unexpected Nobody from 2021, Bob Odenkirk returning as Hutch
Mansell, the former government assassin living a quiet life in suburbia, who
keeps being dragged back into violent conflicts (and somewhat relishing them). This
time Hutch and his family will have to deal with someone from his own past.
Director: Dan Berk & Robert Olsen
Starring: Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Matt
Walsh & Betty Gabriel
Release Date: March 13th
Another fun action
comedy in what seems to be a year full of them, sees Jack Quaid’s Nathan, a mild-mannered
man who suffers from a condition that causes him not to feel pain, going after
the people who have kidnapped his girlfriend during a robbery at the bank they work
at.
Now You See Me 3 [imdb]
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson,
Isla Fisher & Dave Franco
Release Date: November 13th
OK, I know that the
Now You See Me films, about a group of stage magicians committing crimes to right
wrongs aren’t seen as great films. Actually, the first one is pretty great, the
second one is just fine, however I find them to be a lot of fun and
entertaining and am looking forward to this one, with most of the principle casts
from the first two films returning.
Predator: Badlands [imdb]
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Starring: Elle Fanning
Release Date: November 6th
It’s a Predator film
set in the Future! But hopefully not in a bad way like Alien vs. Predator. Dan Trachtenberg
returns to the franchise after reviving it somewhat with 2022’s Prey.
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Omari Hardwick, Sam
Richardson & Kacey Rohl
Release Date: February 25th
Originally planned to
be a miniseries, this film sees Michelle Yeoh return as former Emperor Philippa
Georgiou of the Terran Empire, rejoining the Federations clandestine intelligence
organization Section 31, after the events of season 3 of Star Trek Discovery. I’m
a huge Star Trek fan, so can’t wait to see what they bring to the series with
this film.
Director: James Gunn
Starring: David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan,
Nicholas Hoult & Nathan Fillion
Release Date: July 10th
Now we all know that
Warner Bros really screwed up with their previous attempts to create a shared DC
universe. They screwed up so bad in fact that they had to bin it all (well most
of it) and restart from scratch (sort of). Luckily this time they have put
James Gunn in charge, someone who actually seems to like and understand the comics.
The first cinematic release of his DCU will be Superman, the first Superhero,
and will hopefully get this universe off to a good start.
The Accountant 2 [imdb]
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Starring: Ben Affleck, Cynthia Addai-Robinson,
J.K. Simmons & Jon Bernthal
Release Date: April 24th
The first film from
2016 is a very underrated action thriller, so I was surprised that after so many
years we were getting a sequel to it. I really enjoyed the first one and am
looking forward to seeing how the story continues, with Ben Affleck’s Autistic Accountant/One
Man Army Christian Wolff. Anna Kendrick’s Dana doesn’t seem to be returning
from the first film, which is a shame as her and Wolff’s unlikely friendship
was one of the highlights of the last film.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps [imdb]
Director: Matt Shakman
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon
Moss-Bachrach & Joseph Quinn
Release Date: July 24th
I’m hoping that now the
Fantastic Four’s rights have reverted to the MCU, we will finally get a really good
Fantastic Four film. I enjoyed the ones from the mid 2000’s well enough (not
least because they led to a most excellent cameo in Deadpool and Wolverine last
year), however the one from 2015 was just plain awful. Not completely sure how
I feel about Robert Downey Jr returning to the MCU as Dr Victor von Doom, but I
will reserve judgement and see what they do with him.
The Phoenician Scheme [imdb]
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Tom Hanks, Benedict Cumberbatch,
Scarlett Johansson & Willem Dafoe
Release Date: February 13th
If you have read my previous
Film of the Year blogs, you will know I’m a huge fan of Wes Anderson’s work and
you will therefore not be surprised to see that this is on the list. Anderson
brings another star-studded cast to what is supposedly an espionage comedy
drama film. Not much else is known so far though.
The Thursday Murder Club [imdb]
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Pierce
Brosnan & Celia Imrie
Release Date: April 22nd
I am a huge fan of the
book series that this film is based on and am looking forward to seeing the
characters bought to life by a wonderful cast. Set in a luxurious retirement village
in Kent, the story will follow a group of retirees attempting to solve a murder,
using their past experiences and doggedness.
Director: Jake Schreier
Starring: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David
Harbour & Hannah John-Kamen
Release Date: May 1st
The final comic book
film on this list, bringing together some of the lesser known and more dubious characters
from previous MCU films (Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost,
Taskmaster and US Agent) to team up as a covert operations team, this should be
a fun romp at the very least. It should also introduce one of the most powerful
characters in Marvel Comics for his MCU debut, so I am looking forward to that.
Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Daniel Craig, Glenn Close, Josh
Brolin & Jeremy Renner
Release Date: TBC
Daniel Craig returns for
his third outing as Benoit Blanc, in this star filled sequel to Knives Out and
Glass Onion. That is all I have to say about that!
Director: Kyle Mooney
Starring: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler,
Julian Dennison & Alicia Silverstone
Release Date: January 14th
This looks like a fun
comedy about what would have happened, if all our worst fears about what would
happen with the Y2K bug had not only happened but been worse and led to an
uprising by all technology. A great premise, and the film should be filled with
a lot of 90’s nostalgia for me.
Anyway that’s my list,
I hope to see all of these this year, will let you know how many make my Top 21
at the end of the year.
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