2020 is the year when our patience will finally pay off. Why? Because there are certain films from Hollywood for which we have been waiting with bated breath. No Time to Die is Daniel Craig’s last outing as James Bond. Then there’s Tom Cruise back to the race across the sky in Top Gun: Maverick. Wonder Woman returns in Wonder Woman 1984, and Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow will kick off Marvel’s phase four.
But it’s not all sequels and reboots for there’s much more waiting at the theatres from March to June.
Bloodshot Movie poster
2020 is the year when our patience will finally pay off. Why? Because there are certain films from Hollywood for which we have been waiting with bated breath. No Time to Die is Daniel Craig’s last outing as James Bond. Then there’s Tom Cruise back to the race across the sky in Top Gun: Maverick. Wonder Woman returns in Wonder Woman 1984, and Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow will kick off Marvel’s phase four.
But it’s not all sequels and reboots for there’s much more waiting at the theatres from March to June.
MARCH
Bloodshot
- Directed by: Dave Wilson
- Starring: Vin Diesel, Eiza Gonzalez, Sam Heughan
- Releases on: March 13
A super soldier powered by nanomachines, Bloodshot’s past is a mystery to him, and he’s on a mission to find who he is. With Vin Diesel in the titular role, expect a heavy duty slice of sci-fi.
A Quiet Place Part II
Directed by: John Krasinski
Starring: Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe, Millicent Simmonds, Cillian Murphy, Djimon Hounsou
Releases on: March 20
Krasinski returns to helm the sequel, starring wife Emily Blunt. The film follows up with the Abbott family after the events of Part I. The trailer gives flashbacks to the beginning of the infestation. Krasinski, it seems, has again managed to ratchet up the tension from his last film.
Daniel Craig returns as Bond for the last time in No Time to Die Still from the film
APRIL
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
- Directed by: Will Gluck
- Starring: James Corden, Rose Byrne, David Oyelowo, Elizabeth Debicki
- Releases on: April 3
The story for this sequel to the 2018 surprise hit is based on the works of Beatrix Potter and will involve Corden’s cheeky rabbit causing all sorts of trouble.
No Time To Die
- Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga
- Starring: Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Rami Malek, Naomie Harris, Lea Seydoux
- Releases in: April
Fukunaga takes the reins of the 25th James Bond film with Daniel Craig returning for his fifth and final turn as the famed spy. Oscar winner Rami Malek is the villain. What more could we have wanted?
Florence Pugh (left) and Scarlett Johansson in Black Widow Still from the film
MAY
Black Widow
- Directed by: Cate Shortland
- Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz
- Releases on: May 1
The first Marvel asset to kick off its phase four will be the prequel focusing on Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff. She’ll be joined by David Harbour, Rachel Weisz, and rising star Florence Pugh, among others, and who knows maybe Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye.
The Personal History of David Copperfield
- Directed by: Armando Iannucci
- Starring: Dev Patel, Peter Capaldi, Aneurin Barnard, Ben Whishaw, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Gwendoline Christie, Benedict Wong
- Releases on: May 8
In this re-hash of the Charles Dickens novel, the film could be anolther of Iannucci’s attempts at scathing satires.
Greyhound
- Directed by: Aaron Schneider
- Starring: Tom Hanks, Elisabeth Shue, Stephen Graham, Lee Norris
- Releases on: May 8
Hanks is no stranger to WWII movies (read Saving Private Ryan) and he is returning to the war zone to command the naval ship Greyhound which was pursued by German U-boats across the Atlantic with 36 other Allied ships.
Legally Blonde 3
- Directed by: Jamie Suk
- Starring: Reese Witherspoon
- Releases on: May 8
Seventeen years after we saw Elle Woods (Witherspoon) in Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde, the Oscar winner returns with the third instalment of the franchise.
Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman 1984 Still from the film
JUNE
Wonder Woman 1984
- Directed by: Patty Jenkins
- Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig
- Releases on: June 5
Villain Cheetah, Bridesmaids’ Wiig, climbs aboard the Wonder Woman sequel which sees Gadot returning to her role of the Amazon princess. The action is set during the Cold War in the ’80s and finds Pine reappearing as Wonder Woman’s love interest Steve Trevor despite his death in the first film. We can’t wait.
Soul
- Directed by: Pete Docter
- Starring: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, John Ratzenberger, Daveed Diggs
- Releases on: June 19
The second Pixar offering of the year features Foxx as a jazz-loving middle-school teacher whose soul is separated from his body during an accident and transported to a training centre for newer souls preparing to enter the bodies of newborn babies. There he meets a soul in training who has been trapped for years.
Top Gun: Maverick
- Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
- Starring: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Val Kilmer, Jay Ellis, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro
- Releases on: June 26
For a Top Gun sequel after 31 years, the filmmakers have recruited some of the in-demand actors, including Miles Teller. The trailer promises Cruise riding motorcycles, playing volleyball, and flying jets like he used to do three decades back.