Tony Stark will continue to be a superhero in Iron Man 3, facing new enemies.
Director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead, Watchmen, 300, Sucker Punch) brings us his vision of the story of the Man of Steel a.k.a. Superman, produced by Christopher Nolan (director of Inception and of the Dark Knight trilogy) and screenplayed by David Goyer (Dark City, Blade 1-3). The trailer looks good and, as most super-hero movies since the Dark Knight, grim and gritty. Hopefully Snyder will be well guided by Nolan and will not let himself go with excessive use of slow motion and special effects.
G. I. Joe: Retaliation is the second episode in the techno-action series inspired by the Mattel toys, this time starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (The Mummy 2, Scorpion King, Journey 2: the Mysterious Island) and Bruce Willis (Die Hard 1-5). The trailers unveal more and more and announce a movie as unabashed as the first one.
J. J. Abrams (Cloverfield, Super 8) has completely and successfully revamped the Star Trek franchise, and will hit us with more lens flares in 2013 with Star Trek: Into Darkness.
In After Earth, Will Smith (Independance Day, Men In Black 1-3) plays a father who crash-landed with his son on a planet Earth that has evolved to eliminate humans. Not a surprising pitch from M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable), in line with The Happening. I don't know where it will lead, but it could be good.
The new Tom Cruise movie (Top Gun, The Firm, Minority Report) also brings him to a futuristic planet Earth supposedly rid of humans. Based on a Graphic Novel, I guess this movie will deliver an interesting twist.
Finally, the one I am most excited about: Pacific Rim by one of my favorite directors Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Blade 2, Mimic, Hellboy 1&2). I don't know why but this promises to be better than Transformers or Battleship. I just love when a reactor fires from the elbow of this giant robot ready to punches a huge monster.
A few more genre and action movie to look forward to in 2013:
Machete Kills by Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn) and with even more colorful characters as in Machete. Vin Diesel (XxX, Pitch Black, Fast & Furious) is back as Riddick after the excellent B-movie Pitch Black, the 10x more expensive but less interesting Chronicles of Riddick and an anime Dark Fury. Sylvester Stallone (John Rambo, The Expendables 1-2) goes on directing and acting with Bullet to the Head. Victor Salva will bring us a third Jeepers Creepers, after two episodes that I really liked.
I had seen right. Only a few weeks after I posted this article, I received my magazine Mad Movies that had that month an article entitled: "2013, the year of SF"!
ReplyDeleteIn this article, they go through the same movies I listed in this post except that they omit the purely Action ones.
A few additionnal movies that I had overlooked:
- Snowpiercer (Transperceneige in French), based on a french comics of the 80's that I read, directed by Bong Joon-Ho the maker of Memories of Murder and The Host, and about the last survivors of the frozen Earth onboard a fortress train.
- Elysium by Neill Blomkamp(District 9) in which he will continue to reflect about the clash of classes in a SF world.
- the sequel of Thor entitled Thor: The Dark World.
- Ender's Game, adapted from a book itself inspired by the same book from Robert Heinlein that inspired Starship Troopers!
The article ends with a look forward (2014 and 2015): RoboCop, Mad Max: Fury Road, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Avatar 2, Prometheus 2, Star Wars VII and Blade Runner 2.