After months of cancellations and delays in filming and premieres, 2021 arrives full of new movies with all the ballots to sweep the ticket, if circumstances allow, or in the audience via streaming platforms.
The long-awaited adaptation of “Pinocchio” by Guillermo del Toro will finally hit Netflix and Steven Spielberg will premiere his first musical.
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will resume their role as Neo and Trinity in the fourth installment of The Matrix.
Ana de Armas will play Marilyn Monroe in the biopic “Blonde”, which will be broadcast on a platform.
With much of the premieres scheduled for 2020 postponed due to restrictions to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 will be a year full of new stories, “remakes” and sequels to some of the biggest movie saga revenues from recent times, which will reach both cinemas and digital platforms.
While streaming companies have already revolutionized the film market by producing and releasing some of the most remarkable films of recent seasons, the uncertainty with which 2021 begins in recent months has pushed production company Warner Bros. to simultaneously release the 17 titles planned for 2021. in theaters and on HBO Max, a platform where movies will be available for a month.
Disney paved the way in September last year with the premiere of “Mulán” on Disney +, in their case, regardless of the cinemas, a strategy they decided to repeat with “Soul”, the first Pixar feature film not to be seen on the big screen .
Although scheduled for November 2020, the Disney factory will release “Stripe and the Last Dragon”, its next animated feature film, on March 12, a film directed by Paul Briggs and Dean Wellins, whose story revolves around a lone warrior in search of the last dragon to save the kingdom of Kumandra.
Actress Emma Stone takes over from Glenn Close to witness one of Disney’s most famous villains in “Cruella”, a film that tells the origins of Cruella de Vil, years before the events that take place in the Disney classic “101 Dalmatians” and which will be released on May 28, while in July will be released “Luca”, the latest Pixar production.
In 2021, the long-awaited adaptation of “Pinocchio” by Guillermo del Toro, a stop motion animated film based on illustrations by Gris Grimly and the soundtrack of Nick Cave, whose story is set in Italy, will arrive finally on Netflix. fascist of the 1930s.
“He’s not a Pinocchio for the whole family,” Del Toro said of the film in which Gregory Mann will play Pinocchio, Ewan McGregor as Pepito Grillo and David Bradley as Gepetto; and starring actresses Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett, among others.
The Looney Tunes, legendary Warner Bros. animated characters, will share the spotlight as LeBron James in “Space Jam: A New Legacy”, a live and animated action comedy, a sequel to the one with Michael Jordan in 1996.
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Next year will bring a new film from the “Kingsman” saga, Daniel Craig said goodbye to James Bond in “No Time to Die”, the twenty-fifth film of Agent 007, and Tom Cruse will play one again one of the most famous characters of his career in “Top Gun Maverick”, a sequel to the 1986 film, and also returns with a new installment – the seventh – of “Mission Impossible”.
We’ll have to wait twelve months to see Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law again as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in “Sherlock Holmes 3” and the fourth installment of “The Matrix,” more than two decades later. after the original film, again with Keanu Reeves (Neo) and Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity).
Directed by Lana Wachowski, this time alone, Jada Pinkett-Smitt, Daniel Bernhardt and Lambert Wilson will reprise in the cast, although Lawrence Fishburne will not do as Morpheus or Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith and will join the cast of Priyanka. Chopra, Neil Patrick Harris, Jonathan Groff and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife”, a direct sequel to the second installment of the saga, released in 1989, directed by Jason Reitman, the son of the director of the first two films and starring Finn Wolfhard, Carrie Coon, will finally arrive in cinemas. Mckenna Grace, Sigourney Weaver and Paul Rudd.
Jamie Lee Curtis will once again face Michael Mayers in the twelfth film in the franchise, “Halloween Kills,” which had to be delayed a year and also forced the possible end of the saga, “Halloween Ends”, to be postponed until 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.
The third installment of JK Rowling’s saga “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” will hit theaters, marked by the forced departure of Johnny Depp from the cast, who will be replaced by Mads Mikkelsen as Grindelwald, with the beginnings a magical war as part of the action and World War II as a background.
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 mythical movie monsters from “Godzilla vs. Kong ‘will also be full of rewards with the heroes and villains of Marvel and DC.
Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man in the sequel to “Far from home”; Jared; Leto will play Morbius, a villain from the Spider-Man universe, in the film of the same name directed by Daniel Espinosa; Tom Hardy repeats the character in “Venom: Be Slaughter”; and Scarlett Johansson returns to Black Widow from “Black Widow”, with whom she said goodbye to her character.
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” brings Marvel’s first Asian superhero to theaters, while DC antiheroes return with “The Suicide Squad,” starring Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Margot Robbie and Jai Avocat , and with additions such as Juan Diego Botto.
In turn, in “Eternals” will play 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 such as “Mortal Kombat”, “Tom Raider 2” – starring Alicia Vikander again as Lara Croft – or “Uncharted”, such as Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas .
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“The Many Saints of Newark” takes the story of the famous series “The Sopranos” to the cinema, with a prequel in the 60s and 70s with 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 that includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will face off in “The Last Duel,” directed by Ridley Scott; Tom Hanks will play the role of Elvis Presley’s agent in “Untitled Elvis Presley Project”, which shows the growing fame of the rock king, played by Austin Butler; and Ana de Armas will play Marilyn Monroe in the biopic “Blonde”, which will be broadcast by Netflix.
Wes Anderson promises a love letter to journalism in “The French Dispatch”, with a cast that includes Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet or Bill Murray.
“West Side Story” will be the first musical by director Steven Spielberg, which will face an adaptation of the Broadway classic and a new version of the film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins in 1961 winner of ten Oscars, which he will play Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler. Originally scheduled for December 2020, its premiere has been postponed until December 10, 2021.