10 Upcoming Movies We're Super Excited About In 2024!

As we approach the end of award season celebrating the best of film from 2023, we begin to look ahead to 2024, and all of the could-be would-be triumphs of the next award season. Let’s go through some that we’re most excited about:

Dune: Part Two

Starting with a sure contender for next year’s various golden statues and one that’s right around the corner! Denis Villeneuve’s second chapter in adapting Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic to the big screen. The star-studded ensemble which includes Timothee Chalamet, Zendeya, Josh Brolin, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgard and Charlotte Rampling are back and this time around are being joined by Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux and Austin Butler!

Love Lies Bleeding

Rose Glass saw her feature film debut in 2019 with psychological horror Saint Maud, which was a critical success, securing BAFTA nominations for Outstanding Debut by British Writer, Producer or Director and earned a record seventeen nominations at the British Independent Film Awards 2020, winning two. Now for her second feature, glass is venturing away from horror and into romantic thriller territory. Having its initial release at Sundance back in January, Love Lies Bleeding is already a hit, with the Rotten Tomatoes consensus reading “Lust and violence collide to powerfully pulpy effect.” A co-production between A24 and Film4 and led by Kristen Stewart, it follows a reclusive gym manager Lou (Stewart) who falls Jackie (Katy O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder. Their relationship spirals them into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

The Fall Guy

Remember the TV series of the 80s with Lee Majors as Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who is also a bounty hunter? In a big screen adaptation by John Wick, Deadpool 2 and Bullet Train director David Leitch, Ryan Gosling step into the harness, driver’s seat and war paint as he looks for the missing Tom Ryder, the star of the film he is working on. Turns out that Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) has got himself involved with some shady people and Seavers has no choice but to punch, kick, car-chase and Jason Bourne his way to find the missing A-lister. Emily Blunt is the director who Gosling has heart-eyes for, and Winston Duke, Stephanie Hsu, Hannah Waddingham, and Teresa Palmer also star. Plus, the original Colt Seavers himself Lee Majors will also appear!

Deadpool & Wolverine

Ryan Reynolds’ “merc with a mouth” returns for his third outing on the big screen and this time, he joins the character he’s been teasing from the beginning. Hugh Jackman’s time as the adamantium-clawed mutant initially ended in 2017 with superhero-western Logan. A perfect way to bid farewell to the iconic pairing of Wolverine and Jackman, Deadpool has ways of altering timelines and it has been confirmed that the events of Logan won’t be undone. Also, what’s even more of a head-scratcher is Jennifer Garner apparently reprising her role as Elektra from 2003’s Daredevil. It’ll be interesting to see how the pair fit into all this, as Deadpool is integrated into the MCU and we set up Avengers: Secret Wars.

Borderlands

The Borderlands video game series consists of four main installments, a spin-off and various other media, becoming much beloved amongst the gaming community. Its outrageous characters, otherworldly monsters, flashy weapons, humour and vibrant colours are responsible for endless hours of quirky fun and the big-screen adaptation, going by the trailer which was released this week, will retain the same energy. Garnering some criticism for some altercations to the characters and casting choices, but the ensemble that includes Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis and the voice of Jack Black surely can’t be all bad!

Civil War

No, not the one between Captain America and Iron Man. Civil War is by Alex Garland who has written and directed various highly acclaimed films through his career. His credits include Ex Machina, 28 Days Later and the novel The Beach, which was adapted to the big screen with Leonardo DiCaprio. Keeping with what he does best in sci-fi, disaster and apocalyptica, Garland’s Civil War stars Kirsten Dunst who herself is no stranger to apocalyptic situations, previously leading Lars Von Tirer’s Melancholia. Here, she is joined by Jesse Plemons, Nick Offerman, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Cailee Spaeny as a team of journalists traveling across the United States during a rapidly escalating Second American Civil War.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Anya Taylor-Joy’s ascent up the Hollywood ladder has been rapid since her debut as Puritan girl Thomasin in Robert Eggers’  2015 folk horror The Witch. She has since worked with Eggers again in 2022’s The Northman and has bounced from high profile work to higher-profile work from Split to Peaky Blinders, the upcoming Dune: Part Two and now has the titular character in Furiosa. A spin off and prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy, the role of Furiosa in that film was taken up by Charlize Theron, who received high praise as did the film as a whole, being nominated for several awards at the Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes. Now, we get to find out just how she became the one-armed badass in George Miller’s post-apocalyptic franchise.

Nosferatu

Speaking of Robert Eggers, his fourth film is slated for release on Christmas Day this year. The pairing of Eggers and the 1922 German Expressionist Dracula adaptation seems like a perfect one, and Eggers has cited the original Nosferatu as one of his inspirations to become a filmmaker. In fact, he has previously directed a stage adaptation of it. That historical gothic style is certainly prevalent in his three films The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman, praised for their atmospheric chills and historical authenticity, it’ll be interesting to see how Eggers takes on an existing property. His remake of the 1922 silent horror stars Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok and Lily-Rose Depp as the subject of his affections. Also with Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson and Willem Dafoe, in his third collaboration with the filmmaker.

Joker: Folie à Deux

 Todd Phillips’ 2019 film Joker redefined what a comic movie could be. Unrestricted by shared universe continuity allowing Phillips to realise his true artistic vision. The result was a film about mental illness, the public response to it, and how it can ultimately culminate into something far more sinister than one could imagine. The interesting thing about Joker is that you could strip away all the Batman-related names, places and lore and the film would remain the same. With its sequel, it’ll lean a lot more into said lore and introduce Harley Quinn, the Joker’s lover and partner-in-crime. Being (at least right now) completely separate from the DCEU however, the eccentric cartoon-like version of the character portrayed by Margot Robbie is unlikely to be featured here. Much like its predecessor opting for a far darker, more harrowing tone, we can only assume that Lady Gaga’s iteration of the psychologist-turned-criminal will follow clown suit. It’s also going to be a musical, which will certainly be interesting.

Mickey 17

Although the earliest incarnation of Mickey Mouse is in the public domain now, allowing for anybody and everybody to be able to create whatever they please with the iconic character, this has nothing to do with that. What it does have to do with is Bong Joon-ho, who made history in 2019 when his film Parasite became the first film not in the English language to be awarded the Oscar for Best Picture. His latest film, the upcoming Mickey 17, is adapted from the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. It follows the story of a space explorer who is sent to colonise an icy planet. When he dies, however, another iteration takes his place with most of his memories intact. Mickey 17 stars Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Ackie, and is sure to be as deep, psychological, and whacky as ever.

What are you most looking forward to?