The big movies to watch out for in 2020
Daniel Craig’s last outing as 007, the return of Harley Quinn and a Stephen Spielberg musical are among the most anticipated movies of 2020. See what’s coming to the big screen this year.
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NO TIME TO DIE
APRIL 9
He really means it this time — best Bond ever Daniel Craig is hanging up the Walther PPK as 007.
And if the trailer that dropped last week is anything to go by, with a reluctant Bond being dragged out of retirement to face a new threat, he’ll be leaving in epic style.
There are plenty of reasons to think No Time To Die will deliver the goods, not least newly minted Oscar-winner Rami Malek as the villain, and Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridges adding her own personal touches to the script.
TENET
JULY 16
Speaking of Bond, master director and 007 enthusiast Christopher Nolan is slipping into the shadowy world of international espionage.
Details are sketchy — we know it stars John David Washington, Aussie Elizabeth Debicki and Michael Caine and is said to involve time travel — but after Dunkirk, Interstellar and the Dark Knight trilogy, every Nolan movie is an event and this looks no different.
BIRDS OF PREY
FEBRUARY 6
Margot Robbie’s bonkers Harley Quinn was the best thing about the otherwise dour and dire Suicide Squad and she’s using that baseball bat to swing for the fences in this girl power spin-off.
It’s the year of the female superhero too, with Scar-Jo reviving Black Widow in April, Gal Gadot bringing back the bangles in Wonder Woman 1984 in June, and the star-studded (Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Gemma Chan) Eternals in November.
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WEST SIDE STORY
DECEMBER 2020
It’s a big ask to take one of the moved loved musicals of all time, especially when the first film version won 10 Oscars in 1961, so you’d better have someone half decent to do it.
So, how does Steven Spielberg sound?
Yes, he’s turning the clock back to 1950s New York as rival gangs the Jets and the Sharks face off with knives, bottles, zip guns and a whole lot of finger snapping.
Baby Driver’s Ansel Elgort stars.
DUNE
DECEMBER 2020
It’s still a year away, but director Denis Villeneuve’s (Arrival, Blade Runner: 2049) take on Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel can’t come quick enough.
With a knockout cast headed by man of the moment Timothée Chalamet, as well as Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem, fingers crossed it can succeed where David Lynch failed in the 1980s.
Originally published as The big movies to watch out for in 2020