The best science fiction movies everyone should watch in 2019
As 2018 comes to an end we bid adieu to legendary movies such as Mortal Engines (a time when cities move on giant wheels around a desolate Earth, attacking and devouring smaller towns to replenish the necessary resources) and Aquaman (with a clearly popular choice for lead with Jason Momoa's and his brilliant role as the king of Atlantis).
From action superhero movies to fantasy and science fiction dramas, here is our pick of the most emblematic launches that will compete for our attention this year.
We begin our list with Ad Astra, in which actor Brad Pitt will embody an army engineer who decides to embark on an ambitious space mission to discover what happened to his father; an astronaut who never returned from his one-way mission to Neptune, in search of signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Once Brad Pitt heard about the role he was keen on becoming a part of what promises to be one of the most monumental sci fi movies of 2019.
Ad Astra, is directed by James Gray whose last project was “The Lost City of Z” and the cast will include other prominent characters like Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland and Jamie Kennedy. 20th Century Fox has planned the premiere of Ad Astra for May 24, 2019 but the director is not sure he can finish it by this date.
The Indian director M. Night Shyamalan (producer of The Protected, The Sixth Sense, Multiple ...) returns with Glass, a peculiar sequel to his previous works The Protected and Multiple.
Glass focuses on security guard David Dunn (Bruce Willis) who uses his supernatural abilities to track down Kevin (James McAvoy), a disturbed man who has 24 personalities.To top things off, Samuel L. Jackson will also resume his role as Mr. Glass.
Premiere: January 2019
Five years after the launch of the first Lego Movie, it returns with a bang. The Lego Movie 2 returned with an even more impressive cast than the last one, starring: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Channing Tatum, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish Bricksburg. The latest movie will be directed by Mike Mitchell and Trisha Gum. Best hold onto your seats as everything is about to take a turn when space invaders arrive in the city...
Premiere: February 2019
Alita: Battle Angel iis an adaptation of the Gynnm manga by Yukito Kishoro. Starring Rosa Salazar as Alita, an amnesiac cyborg, and Christoph Waltz as Dr. Dyson, the scientist and cyber physician who discovers Alita and rebuilds her. Alita: Battle Angel will follow the heroine as she travels through the treacherous streets of Iron City and "tries to relearn her past with the help of the clever and cunning Hugo of Keean Johnson, and overcome the" deadly and corrupt "rulers of Iron City after she remembers her experience in Panzer Kunst martial art.
Premiere: February 2019
Netflix continues its line of television comic adaptations with The Umbrella Academy, based on the Dark Horse Comics series, created by former My Chemical Romance leader Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá. Set in an alternative 1977 in which John F. Kennedy was not killed, The Umbrella Academy focuses on the Hargreeves dysfunctional family, in which they all have supernatural abilities, such as levitation, super strength or telekinesis.
Although The Umbrella Academy may not be a name that most people are familiar with (it's not a collection of Marvel or DC comics), the actors that will bring the characters to life are: Ellen Page like Vanya Hargreeves, Tom Hopper as Luther Hargreeves (Spaceboy), Robert Sheehan as Klaus Hargreeves (The Séance), Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison Hargreeves (The Rumor), David Castañeda as Diego Hargreeves (The Kraken), Aidan Gallagher as Number Five (The Boy) ,and Colm Feore leading the pack as the late Sir Reginald.
Premiere of the series on Netflix: February 2019
The movie Chaos Walking takes place in a dystopian world in which all living creatures can hear the thoughts of others in a flow of images and sounds called Noise. The movie will be starring Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen and Nick Jonas and will be directed by Doug Liman.
Premiere: March 2019
Captive state is a science fiction movie set in Chicago that shows a world 10 years after an alien invasion. The film explored the lives of both sides of the conflict. Captive State will be starring John Goodman, Vera Farmiga, Machine Gun Kelly and Madeline Brewer and will be directed by Rupert Wyatt.
Premiere: March 2019
Set in the 1990s, the film serves as a prequel to the entire Marvel Comics universe. Brie Larson plays Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, who becomes one of the most powerful heroes in the universe when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. There will be some familiar faces, with the almost mandatory appearance of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, as the youngest agent of SHIELD who has not yet lost one of his eyes.
Premiere: March 2019
Shazam!, another DC Comics movie hits theatres in 2019. Zachary Levi plays the adult superhero that teenager Billy Batson (Asher Angel) is able to convert to when he says the magic word: Shazam.With strong humorous aspects, it’s just a little more fun than its counterparts. We are particularly excited for this one!
Premiere: April 2019
David Harbor will present his new version of Hellboy in 2019, and the Stranger Things star will join director Neil Marshall for what is described as a risky version of Mike Mignola's classic comics. The film uses a darker tone "to differentiate itself from Guillermo del Toro's adaptations and will be" a character piece "about Hellboy's" fight. "
While Harbor's version of Hellboy seems right, the rest of the cast also has great potential, including Milla Jovovich as the villain Queen of Blood, Ian McShane as the adoptive father of Hellboy and Sasha Lane as Alice Monaghan.
Premiere: April 2019
The Avengers, officially titled Avengers: Endgame, will mark the end of Marvel Phase 3. With the new set of movies coming to an end and with many of the reputable contracts expiring, we predicts that Endgame will probably lead to a good number of character deaths, with Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and many more biting the dust. This movie will surely be epic, and will end with dozens of stories created in previous movies and at the same time setting the frame for what will come in the future. It will be one of the movies you won't want to miss.
Premiere: April 25, 2019
Can superheroes save the universe? The end of the Avengers, "Avengers: Endgame," will be premiering on April 25, 2019. If you have not seen how the saga ends we encourage you with this trailer.
Ad Astra, co-written, and directed by James Gray. Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland, follows an astronaut who goes into space in search of his lost father, whose experiment threatens the Solar System.
Premiere: May 2019
Finally the sequel to the 2014 Godzilla movie has arrived! We expect nothing less than our favourite American monster along with other monsters like Mothra, Rodan and the three-headed King Ghidorah, who will accompany Godzilla with Millie Bobby Brown, Zhang Ziyi, Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga and Aisha Hinds.
Premiere: May 2019
Men in Black's spin-off expands to the world of MiB in the same way that Jurassic World did with that franchise. We will not see either Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones repeating their leading roles but in this film Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson they will be leading the way as agents H and M,
Premiere: June 2019
The title of the latest installment of X-Men tells us a lot about what to expect. Jean Gray, played by Sophie Turner, will once again fulfill her destiny as Phoenix, as she did in X-Men: The Last Stand when Famke Janssen took over the role. The story will be based on the X-Men comics, although it could differ slightly from the comics in a key way. In addition to Turner, Dark Phoenix will star Jennifer Lawrence as Mystic and Jessica Chastain will play a villain.
Premiere: June 2019
Tom Holland's Spider-Man will continue his adventures in a second independent film, which will tell us another year of Peter's high school experience. The first film had a great success of both criticism and followers, and the second is recovering many of the elements that contributed to its greatness, including director Jon Watts. The sequel takes our friendly Spidey all over the world, following Peter Parker and his friends as they travel to Europe during their summer vacations. All this takes place after the Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4, according to the president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige
Premiere: July 2019
2019 is going to be a strange year: the third season of Netflix's hit science fiction series, Stranger Things, will take a little longer than usual. It will cover eight episodes, less than usual, and introduce the Hawkins gang dealing with new "forces of evil." The series is also set to offer another time jump and will be set in the summer.
Premiere: July 2019
Gemini Man sounds incredibly promising. Will Smith will not only be the protagonist, but will play the role of an older hitman who must face a younger clone of himself and thanks to the VFX we can also see him in the role of his younger self.
Premiere: October 2019
Tim Miller (Deadpool), will be the director of the next reboot of Terminator that will see the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, as well as James Cameron. Without a doubt, we should expect this to be a step forward to a new generation. However, it will be a great budget science fiction movie for the summer of 2019.
Premiere: November 2019
Finally we can see the epic conclusion of the new Star Wars trilogy. The argument could focus several months after the events of Episode VIII. This episode will be starring Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac and will be directed by JJ Abrams.
Premiere: December 2019
We can’t forget series like Good Omens, The Twilight Zone, Doom Patrol or Watchmen but we’re excited to step into 2019 with so many exciting premieres.
If you're wondering about Avatar 2, you'll have to wait for 2020 for its premiere. In fact, in a sneak peak to 2020 we will also find Jurassic World 3, the Obi-Wan Kenobi movie, Artemis, The Invisible Man, I Robot 2, The Blob, Tron 3 or The Black Hole.
