Most anticipated releases of 2022
View(s):From a psychological thriller starring Harry Styles and Florence Pugh, to Avatar and Knives Out, here are some of the most anticipated releases for 2022.
Don’t Worry Darling
This psychological thriller has been garnering tabloid and internet headlines for months, thanks to the relationship between director Oliva Wilde, and one of its stars, popstar Harry Styles. What’s on screen is likely to be much more fascinating, though. The ever-surprising Florence Pugh – of Little Women, Midsommar and Black Widow – transforms herself yet again, into a 1950s housewife in a utopian community who begins to suspect that her world and her husband (Styles) are concealing dark secrets. Wilde, who sharply directed the very different coming-of-age comedy Booksmart, has told Vogue that films like Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal were among her inspirations.
She Said
Journalists are the heroines here, with Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan playing the New York Times investigative reporters who unearthed the news about Harvey Weinstein, the one-time movie mogul now serving time in prison for rape and sexual assault. The woman behind the camera is as impressive as the stars, if less famous: Maria Schrader, recognisable as an actress (Deutschland 83) is also the Emmy-winning director of the Netflix series Unorthodox and the director of the Oscar-shortlisted comedy I’m Your Man. She should bring a sharp-eyed style and astute social awareness to the story that helped launch #MeToo.
Babylon
Damien Chazelle’s love of Hollywood’s golden age shone through his Oscar-nominated musical comedy, La La Land. Now the writer-director is sharing that love again in Babylon, a glamorous period drama that takes place in the roaring 20s. Specifically, the film is set at the end of the silent era, much like Singin’ In The Rain and The Artist, and it mixes fictional characters with historical figures, much like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It also shares two of its stars with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Brad Pitt plays a fictional director who has trouble adjusting to the new sound technology, and Margot Robbie plays Clara Bow, the real-life so-called “It Girl” who was a colossal box-office draw in both the silents and the talkies. (NB)
Avatar 2
There are two things we know about James Cameron: he can’t be rushed, and he loves the ocean. Those qualities come together in Avatar 2, the first of a whopping four planned sequels to his 2009 spectacle, the highest-grossing movie of all time. The new film returns to the planet of Pandora, where blue-skinned Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and her human husband Jake (Sam Worthington) are now parents, and Earthlings still haven’t solved the climate crisis. Most of the action takes place underwater and was shot in a 900,000-gallon tank. The Avatar sequels have been in the works for a decade, but Cameron’s water-logged hits, Titanic and The Abyss, also arrived behind schedule, and it all turned out just fine.
Blonde
It’s Ana de Armas’s turn to put on the platinum wig as Marilyn Monroe, whose allure for novelists and filmmakers seems inexhaustible. Blonde is based on Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 novel that takes us inside the mind of Monroe, now known to the world as the neediest, sexiest and most tragically-exploited movie star of the 1950s and ‘60s. Writer-director Andrew Dominick, who made the underrated Brad Pitt Western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, follows Oates’ lead in coyly nicknaming Marilyn’s husbands.
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