2023: IT’S GONNA BE A BEAST. HERE’S THE REST OF WHAT’S REVVING US UP
Kicking off with a big one: Steven Spielberg’s semi- (read: hugely) autobiographical comingof-age drama THE FABELMANS (27 JANUARY), which might break your heart (spoiler: we’ve seen it, it will)... Darren Aronofsky brings us a psychologically fragile Brendan Fraser in THE
WHALE (3 FEBRUARY)... Elizabeth Banks’ COCAINE brings us, well, a bear on BEAR (24 FEBRUARY) cocaine... James Gunn reassembles his ragtag band of maniacs for GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
VOL. 3 (5 MAY)... Halle Bailey stars, sings and swims in Rob Marshall’s live-action take on THE LITTLE
MERMAID (26 MAY)... Greta Gerwig co-writes (with Noah Baumbach) and directs the Dayglo BARBIE
(21 JULY), starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling — the mind boggles... Christopher Nolan knows the codes for atomic-bomb biopic
OPPENHEIMER (21 JULY)... Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel, Iman Vellani’s Ms. Marvel and Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau team up for Nia Dacosta’s THE MARVELS (28 JULY)... Ben Wheatley — yes, really — directs Jason Statham in shark sequel THE MEG 2: THE TRENCH (4 AUGUST)...
Aaron Taylor-johnson and his muscles — and moustache — star in J.C. Chandor’s Spider-manadjacent KRAVEN THE HUNTER (6 OCTOBER)... Denis Villeneuve returns with, no doubt, more epic world-building beauty in DUNE: PART TWO
(3 NOVEMBER)... Just in time for Christmas, we’ll all get golden tickets for Paul King’s WONKA
(15 DECEMBER), which introduces us to the chocolatier as a younger man (namely, Timothée Chalamet)... And just in time for New Year’s Eve, the biggest, or at least most watery, party of all: James Wan’s AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM (26 DECEMBER). If they don’t bring back the octopus drummer, we riot.
But wait! There’s more. Currently without release dates, a plethora of films so tantalising they transcend the mere notion of ‘dates’. Yorgos Lanthimos’ POOR THINGS, in which his The Favourite star Emma Stone plays a woman who swaps her brain with that of her unborn child, as you do... David Fincher’s noir thriller THE KILLER Above: Margot Robbie as living doll Barbie. Below: New Little Mermaid Halle Bailey, down where it’s wetter; Cillian Murphy drops a bomb as Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. reunites him with Seven writer Andrew Kevin Walker, and stars Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton... Tom Hardy plays a detective in Gareth Evans’ presumably bone-crunching HAVOC... Emerald Fennell follows up her scorching Promising Young Woman with SALTBURN, led by Rosamund Pike... Eddie Murphy’s pottymouthed cop returns in BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL
FOLEY... Martin Scorsese gets his two muses together, as Robert De Niro and Leonardo Dicaprio face off in KILLERS OF THE FLOWER
MOON... Joaquin Phoenix rules in Ridley Scott’s
NAPOLEON, as well as heading up Ari Aster’s Midsommar follow-up DISAPPOINTMENT BLVD...
Kirsten Dunst takes the lead in Alex Garland’s sci-fi action drama CIVIL WAR... And Kristen Stewart stars in bodybuilding drama LOVE LIES
BLEEDING, from Saint Maud director Rose Glass. As we said: a hell of a year. Bring it! ALEX GODFREY