#4
Snowpiercer
TBA
Joon-ho Bong (The Host, Mother, Memories of Murder) has become quite the diverse and reliable director and his new film, Snowpiercer will serve as his English-language debut and he’s brought together quite the cast to carry out his vision.
The film is an adaptation of the French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige” and centers on a story that takes place aboard a train known as the Snowpiercer. The train is carrying the only survivors of a disastrous attempt to prevent global warming that has created an ice age in which the survivors struggle to adapt to existence in the only safe climate.
The cast includes Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Kang-ho Song, John Hurt, Alison Pill, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner and Ed Harris and along with the concept art above you can listen to a sample of Marco Beltrami‘s score.
#3
Gravity
October 4
UPDATE: Gravity has finally landed a release date, learn more about it here.
It’s hard not to anticipate Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, but at this point it’s becoming a question of “Should we?” The film was one of my most anticipated of last year and was then shuffled around the release schedule until it ended where it is now, without a release date, without a trailer and without even a lone official image.
All we have is the synopsis and high expectations. Is there any chance it lives up to what we want it to be?
Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone–tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
#2
Only God Forgives
TBA
Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling teamed for Drive and they are back together again for Only God Forgives. The film finds Gosling playing Julian, a former kickboxer and gangster living in Bangkok. When his brother is murdered by a ruthless Thai police lieutenant, Julian is urged by his mother (Kristen Scott Thomas) to seek vengeance or risk his own death.
Expectation is Only God Forgives will follow in the footsteps of Drive and play this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Only recently were we given the following first look at the film. Give it a peek and see what you think.
#1
Before Midnight
TBA
Before it was made, I didn’t want them to make it, but now that they have I have got to see it. Before Midnight is the sequel to Before Sunset, which was the sequel to Before Sunrise and it reunites us with Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and as much as I loved the way the second film ended and truly wish they had not made a third I am praying they have tapped into the same pot of gold that makes the first two films so great.
Delpy and Hawke co-wrote the script with director Richard Linklater and the story picks up almost two decades Jesse and Celine’s first encounter on a train bound for Vienna. We now find them in their early forties in Greece. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story.
Before Midnight will play on January 20 at the Sundance Film Festival and I’m almost afraid of what the reaction will be, but I’m hoping for the absolute best.
And there you have it, fifty films I’m most looking forward to in 2013. If you haven’t yet checked out numbers 11-50 you can use the navigation below to find your way. I would also love to read what your most anticipated films of the year are in the comments below. Have at it!
Most Anticipated 2013 Navigation #1-10 | #41-50
