Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Upcoming Promising Movies in 2020

Not much promising movies have been announced so far for this year, but still, for now, there's a handful:

-No Time to Die-

Daniel Craig's final depiction of his performance of James Bond has a classic sounding synopsis where Rami Malek will play the main villain, composing will be done by Hans Zimmer, and the title song is done by Billie Eilish.

It's been quite a while since Spectre(2015), and as a lifelong fan of the franchise, I am pretty optimistic about this overall package. Naturally, I also wonder who Craig's successor shall be, and some rumors in the past have spoken of Idris Elba.

-The Conjuring 3-

The horror universe created by James Wan since 2013 has had several spin-offs focusing on singular horror figures, a sequel, and now a third entry is upcoming, while more spin-offs are in the works such as The Crooked Man.

These films do not bring anything new to the tables, but the main entries are proven to be well directed with creative scares and intimidating atmosphere, and Wan certainly knows how to spin around and keep things fresh, which is so hard to do for the horror genre.

-Godzilla vs. Kong-

Surely this will be nothing more than a long, entertaining popcorn flick, considering that a running time of around 3 hours was confirmed for it. But it has been 57 years since these kings of Western and Eastern creature features have fought for the last time, and there is potential to be found.

Filming technology has vastly improved since the 60's, and I wonder if the team will be able to sustain or overcome the hype surrounding this battle. As long as the main battle between them is great, everything else is secondary, including plot, human characters and eventually guest monsters appearing.

-Tenet-

An espionage sci-fi thriller with a time traveling feature involved, directed by Christopher Nolan. As I have said in the past, he is like Midas, turning pictures into gold screenings instead of silver, as his movies have always impressed me since Memento(2000) came out.

Not much else to say other than his reputation is carrying Tenet, alongside the eye opening trailer.

Honorable mentions for the rest of this year(so far known) are Interreflections, Wonder Woman 1984 and Ghostbusters: Afterlife.




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