While the world slowly gets back into the groove of things in a late pandemic era, one thing that feels like it’s taking extra long to come back is the movie-going experience. As we all know, a ton of films — especially major studio productions — scheduled to come out last year were postponed. But as time moves on, studios are also realizing they can’t hold everything forever. Theaters are gradually re-opening, drive-ins have made a surprise comeback and streaming is more popular than ever. So let’s take a quick look at some movies that were originally predicted to be hits in 2020, and are supposed to finally come to viewers in 2021.
While some movies were obviously shelved for financial reasons related to coronavirus, some longtime expected releases of this year are also because of alleged lack of potential. Such as Doug Liman’s Chaos Walking, which had quite a crazy production history and wrapped all the way back in 2018, but is supposedly getting released on March 5th. Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick has also been ready to go since 2019, yet went through multiple release dates before landing on 4th of July weekend this summer. Cary Fukunaga’s 007 effort No Time to Die was also set for November 2019, but is now coming October 8th. The epic crossover cinematic event of Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong, and the follow-up to both Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019), is now scheduled for a March 26th release after flip-flopping a handful of dates back in 2020.
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Cate Shortland’s Black Widow was supposed to be the first big Marvel release of 2020 with a May 1st release, and is now planned to be available a whole year later on May 7th, 2021. Similarly, Jon M. Chu’s screen adaptation of Quiara Alegria Hudes & Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit 2007 Broadway musical, In the Heights, was originally planned to come out last June; but is now allegedly going public this June. Liesl Tommy’s Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect, went through some release date changes in the past year, but is now currently set for August 13th. John Krasinki’s A Quiet Place Part II was one of the very first movies to be postponed the week the pandemic broke through back on March 8th, 2020, and is now holding September 17th for when fans will be able to finally see the anticipated sequel. Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of John Herbert’s epic 1965 sci-fi novel Dune was going to have a Thanksgiving weekend release last holiday season, but is now headed to start off October later in 2021.
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These are a few of the films that haven’t been dumped on a streaming service just yet with the studios hoping for a wider theatrical option again. Now we wait to see how many of these new dates truly stick this time around.
Do you have any movies you’ve been waiting nearly a year to see? Were they mentioned in this article? Tell us in the comments!
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