Eight blockbuster movie sequels coming out in 2022
New motion pictures are again, however they’re all previous
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Massive blockbuster productions have been endangered by the rise of streaming and the pandemic, so Hollywood isn’t taking possibilities on something new. From Disney hits to interval dramas, film studios in 2022 may have sequels to each sort of film, and virtually nothing else.
Downton Abbey: A New Period (March 18)
The TV sequence Downton Abbey, in regards to the residents of a fancy English dwelling within the early twentieth century, was such successful that the solid and author reunited for a 2019 movie, which took the present’s aristocrats and servants into the late Nineteen Twenties. Now they’re again for a second film, which, because the title implies, will deliver them nearer to the period when the whole lot fell aside for England and the world.
Legally Blonde 3 (Could 20)
In 2001, Reese Witherspoon performed Elle Woods, a wealthy lady from California who enrolls in Harvard Regulation College, and this premise managed to maintain a 2003 sequel, a direct-to-video spinoff and a Broadway musical. Now Witherspoon is returning to the franchise, enjoying Elle as an skilled lawyer in her 40s who one way or the other nonetheless will get underestimated simply because she has blond hair.
John Wick: Chapter 4 (Could 27)
Canadian star Keanu Reeves recovers from the pandemic-fuelled underperformance of his final sequel, Invoice & Ted Face the Music, by releasing a fourth go-round as knowledgeable killer who kills plenty of different, worse killers.
Prime Gun: Maverick (Could 27) and Mission Inconceivable 7 (Sept. 30)
Tom Cruise has been a king of sequels ever since he made the sequel to The Hustler. So it’s becoming that he has two motion pictures on this checklist. First, his early movie Prime Gun will get its much-delayed follow-up, which asks the query: what does a cocky army pilot from the Eighties do now that the whole lot is finished with drones? Then, shortly after his sixtieth birthday, he’ll be again to the Mission Inconceivable franchise, which he’s been starring in since 1996.
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Jurassic World: Dominion (June 10)
Director Colin Trevorrow’s first movie since getting fired from a Star Wars sequel is a sequel to his 2015 sequel Jurassic World. One of many producers has already introduced that the movie is meant to arrange future sequels the place people and dinosaurs study to coexist.
Thor: Love and Thunder (July 8)
In what is called “Sequel Escalation,” Marvel’s fourth Thor film will characteristic two Thors: Chris Hemsworth is again as Thor, god of thunder, however Natalie Portman is returning as Thor’s girlfriend, who one way or the other additionally turns into Thor when she picks up his enchanted hammer.
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Creed 3 (Nov. 23)
Michael B. Jordan turned a famous person in 2015 within the spinoff of the Rocky franchise; the primary two movies had Adonis Creed (Jordan) coaching for boxing matches below the watchful eye of Sylvester Stallone as Rocky. Stallone gained’t be returning for this third installment, making it the primary Rocky film with out him, whereas Jordan is making his directorial debut, which implies he’ll get to direct himself in an inspirational coaching montage and an enormous closing boxing match.
Avatar 2 (Dec. 16)
It’s taken Canadian director James Cameron over a decade to make this movie, due to his infamous perfectionism about particular results. However he’s lastly giving the world—and Disney, which purchased the franchise whereas he was engaged on it—a sequel to his environmentalist science fiction epic a couple of future the place people have rendered Earth almost uninhabitable. We’ll see how audiences reply now that that future is already right here.
