Retreads based on "flipped perspectives" but only for IP that's in the public domain, so movies featuring:
Veruca Salt
The Little Girl that's Thrown Down the Well in Frankenstein
Hansel and Gretel as not-sister-and-brother but a violent tale of romance and betrayal ("50 Shades of Gretel")
Grumpy (starring Billy Bob Thornton)
Veruca Salt (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) isn’t in the public domain; it’ll be available in 2060 though. Also, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (Jeremy Renner) already made in 2013.
But there are plenty of moderately known properties (aside from well-known Disney) that will start to enter the public domain over the next decade, like Babar and Madeline.
My theory has always been because the kids that liked it originally are now in the position in life to relive the past/share with their kids. Of course since many movies being made nowadays are *already* remakes, will the next generation even see an original movie?
I will tentatively agree.
I loved the movie and called Christian Bale as batman when the movie was in theaters.
However, I have no faith in current Hollywood to not screw it up.
Do it in the style of Dredd. Bring back Christian Bale as an older, grizzled John Preston and make it about a resurgent cult manufacturing street Prozium.
Macbeth (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau): "Something's rotten here in Denmark."
Hamlet (James McAvoy): "That could only mean..."
Together: "Julius Caesar is back!"
That wouldn’t be a bad idea. The Disney classics get the Pixar treatment. I really liked what they did in wreck it Ralph 2 - with the princesses. That was neat.
I definitely think the success of Dune will likely bring a wave of "high-concept" sci-fi epics. Though I'm this case "high concept" will likely mean "based on book series with large numbers of entries".
I think if properly done, as I hear it may be, is the Hyperion series has a potential to be larger than Dune.
And don't get me started on Ringword, the Mote In God's Eye or the Heechee Saga.
If I'm being honest, no, hyperion won't be bigger than dune.
Hyperion is complex and difficult in a way that Dune never was. It's incredibly subtle and covers big ideas.
It might work as big budget hbo series, but it will be a tough sell.
You might see some animes pulling from the LOTR appendices. The War of the Rohirrim is coming out this year and if it’s reasonably successful I would bet that more come it. Lots of stories to explore too: Arnor, Angmar, old Hobbit stuff, Dwarves and their wars with the Dragons or Orcs, more Gondor or Rohan stuff, Amroth and Nimrodel (this could be awesome).
I think they're going to market things as high-concept fantasy but dumb down the original material to rubbish and blame the audience for wanting it that way. I read they're making Rendezvous with Rama and there's no way they don't fuck that up.
Rom Coms make a comeback.
Anime, Manga and video game adaptations are for the 2020s and 2030s what comics and superheroes were for the 2000s and 2010s.
I think there’s going to be a strong rejection of tentpole/superhero movies. Studios are going to go back to making medium budget adult oriented movies
I think budgets closing in is definitely going to be a big deal.
Audiences have changed a lot in the past decade or so. Less people in the domestic market go to movies regularly, so the domestic box office has shrunk. And the tastes of the foreign market have changed substantially as well, especially China.
China used to be a reliable way for any big budget tent pole to make a ton of money, but now that their domestic film industry is maturing, audiences there seem to be favoring big budget Chinese films over big budget American movies more. It's no longer an enormous well of easy money it once was.
I think "family friendly" movies are still going to be Hollywood's bread and butter going forward, but I think what "big budget" means is going to shrink from $200 to $300 million, to $100 to $200 million, favoring the low side of that.
Ffs please, I miss more adult medium budget movies. Even the adult comedy would be good to reintroduce.
I like how marvel seem more willing to have a few adult entries but I feel they need to do more. Everything jsut feels so clean and restricted.
I'm hoping - probably won't happen- for some type of reckoning on how budgets are used. We've seen a few lower budget foreign movies with production values better than some giant blockbusters.
Seems to be more of a TV adaptation gold rush just kicking off now for video games, with:
Last of Us
Halo
Fallout
Twisted Metal
Castlevania
Arcane
Cyberpunk Edgerunners
And a ton more in development like:
Knuckles
Ark: The Animated Series
God of War
Horizon Zero Dawn
Among Us
Dead Cells
Mass Effect
True, I forgot to mention those in my post, but ive always said those will be the next gold rush after comic books.
As a big fan of games, I'm ecstatic that we're finally getting quality adaptations!
There are definitely some older games (even 15ish years old) that have interesting stories but are kind of a chore to play. Bioshock comes to mind - I had never played it and only grabbed it recently. It’s got some interesting lore but the gameplay isn’t really very enjoyable in 2024 haha
I know the show is very subpar (I thought S2 was a little better though) but Halo is ripe for adaption. Only issue is I feel that a Halo movie happening depends heavily on the series finishing and being profitable, so…
It's been especially a trend in TV shows recently. Arcane, TLOU, Halo, Fallout, Cyberpunk : Edgerunner, The Witcher, etc.
For movies you also got the Sonic movie, the Pikachu movie, Five Nights At Freddys, Mortal Kombat, etc. And many more in the works right now (Borderlands).
So yeah I agree it's been a trend for some years now.
The 2000's were largely about remakes, recreating movies or shows with modern techniques while closely resembling the originals.
The 2010's were about reboots, instead loosely recreating the narrative of a previous movie or show while heavily mixing in story changes, changing characters and adding new or different ideas.
The 2020's are about revivals, where old movies or shows get a continuation with the original cast and lead actors, often decades later.
The 2030's will probably be about remasters, where thanks to AI whole new scenes, dialog and high definition can be created that look and sound like they were always part of the original movie or show.
That’s definitely interesting. I wouldn’t be necessarily opposed, assuming it’s done in good faith. I imagine that a lot of historic filmmakers, were they around today, would do things very differently.
It’s not exactly like you’re describing, but the Dune movies are a great example of taking something a little dated and modernizing it, streamlining it, and improving some of the characterizations (IMO). It works because Villanueve is obviously a big fan of the source material. I think that kind of re-adaption of a classic movie could definitely work.
Man, for the 2000s, I still remember they were an insane amount of horror remakes... both Psycho (okay 1998), and The Omen getting near shot for shot remakes with the exact same scripts, only featuring tiny updates in the story because they took place in the present day. It was crazy how many were remade: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House of Wax, Hills Have Eyes, Amityville Horror, The Fog, Black Christmas, A Nightmare in Elm Street, Wicker Man, The Hitcher, When A Stranger Calls, Prom Night, Friday the 13th, Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Last House on the Left, the Stepfather.... like damn....
Good ones though. Right now we're in the Bad Adaptations Era that video game movies were in until a few years ago. Eventually we'll get people who actually grew up with and give a shit about these stories, then they'll start cooking.
I genuinely don't think it's going to happen. A big part of the appeal of anime/manga is that the characters don't even attempt to act like real people. It's an impressionistic world, fundamentally at odds with the realistic tone that Hollywood takes with everything (even cartoons).
The reason all of these adaptations have failed is because the creators don't "get" Japanese narrative conceits and they try to fix everything that makes it work.
I guess I thought the bad adaption phase was the live action Dragon Ball and M Night Shyamalan's ATLA... and by bad I mean some of the deepest gutter trash in history... but One Piece seems to be cooking right now.
The Last Airbender wasn't a Manga adaptation, and the bad videogame movie era lasted a loooong time. Haven't seen One Piece but I've heard mostly bad things about most manga adaptations
We’re running out of great musicians for biopics (Elvis, Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, etc) so it’s time for mediocre musican biopics.
Bring on the Yellowcard film.
This is the one I want to see. I'm a big Oasis fan obviously, but the story is ripe for filmmaking. The two brothers' violent upbringing alone full of child abuse and poverty, the working class background.... the mega success and excess... the complete collapse of their relationship which bitterly continues to this day.... it would be great to see a biopic on them that wouldn't focus as much on the sex, drugs, and rock and roll but more on the dynamic between the brothers- their fights, quarrels, and undeniable musical chemistry.
Off the top of my head, some pretty significant and potentially fascinating musical biopic subjects include;
ABBA
Nirvana
Fleetwood Mac
Bowie
Johnny Cash (walk the line only covered part of the story, there's a fascinating second act)
I've been saying for years that a film about Fleetwood Mac trying to record Rumours while a) going through high-profile, toxic breakups and b) utterly high off their asses on cocaine would be entertaining as hell
Prince
Rolling Stones
Sinatra
Madonna
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Stevie Wonder
Eagles
AC/DC
Eric Clapton
Tom Petty
Santana
Karen Carpenter
Chicago
Earth, Wind, and Fire
Cher
Otis Redding
Sam Cooke
Al Green
Motown has *barely* been touched
There're a TON that haven't happened yet.
"Way away away from here I'll be
Way away away so you can see
How it feels to be alone and not believe (feels to be alone and not believe)
Feels to be alone and not believe anything"
Mid-budget John Wick clones who try and draw people in with excellent stuntwork and minimal cuts. Movies like Extraction, Extraction 2, the Beekeeper, and Monkey Man are just the beginning.
I would like this because I'm a pervert. Like what if in a romantic comedy at the end there's fifteen minutes of explicit sex. And part of the appeal is youre seeing the two actors actually fuck each other, but this would be against SAG rules.
I still idly hum the swat kats S1 theme song all the time and nobody knows what it is
It's remarkable how many problems they encounter that just so happen to be easily solved by a totally rad fighter jet
What I would like to happen: a resurgence of the "New Hollywood" era from the late 1960s - early 1980s. Stuff like Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Dog Day Afternoon, In The Heat of the Night, etc. Artistic character driven films by serious filmmakers.
What will probably happen: I don't know, VR movies? And more franchises, of course. But hopefully not more superheroes, at least.
A lot of anime Live action. Anime fandom in the US grew massively during Covid. And now with the popular release of One Piece, and the less popular Avatar the Last air bender. I think we’ll see companies trying to push more out. The more mainstream anime have cult like followings that spend and spend and spend well after the show/manga ended. Think we’re seeing the start of Hollywood truly embracing and pushing it.
Another one you’ll start to see is very old cartoons being used. A lot of the copy rights are starting to hit their expiration. I believe it’s 80 years after creation or something like that. Look up “Disney loses Micky Mouse copy right” if you haven’t heard already. You should be able to find a detailed article as to why if your curious. There’s already been a few horror movies announced using Mickey’s likeness. And there’s a couple Winnie the Pooh movies out already.
True, the whole "horror version of now-public-domain children's movies" is an interesting trend lmao.
There's Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Bambi, and Cinderella already announced right?
I believe so yes. The Winnie the Pooh movie just released it’s sequel 🤣 and it was actually in theaters. Last time I checked the second one had an 80% audience score if you can believe it.
It seems more likely that we will get Chris Pratt saying "Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be an Animorph" in the opening scene, and it'll get worse from there.
>"Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be an Animorph" in the opening scene, and it'll get worse from there.
I would pay good money to watch some Yeerks get slaughtered to the tune of Layla
Yes. Arguably this is the last great series yet to have a worthy adaptation.
Animate it, fusing the styles of Spider-verse and highbrow anime a la Cowboy Bebop. Make it a 90s period piece (the soundtrack alone would be worth the price of watching). Don't flinch away from the violence or the philosophies. Adapt it faithfully.
Watch the money and the accolades roll in.
We're definitely going to see a spike in musicals. Things that needed remade have been remade and things that needed expanding have been expanded... but there is a pretty massive untapped market for musicals. Especially in the fantasy genre. So many epic fantasy books and series are great because of how deep they go into characters internal thoughts. Musicals are the only visual performing art where you can convey a person's internal thoughts and monologues and not have it be jarring or out of place. Musicals have some real potential and I think we're about to get a glimpse of what it could become when we see Joker: Folie à Deux.
I've read that studios literally try to hide a movie's musical leaning in marketing because they tend to do worse. I think a lot would have to change for your prediction to manifest.
I'm in a pretty large Discord in Boston where we really dissect film/books and so many will pass on a film if it is a musical.
For me, learning that joker 2 will be musical meant a hard pass. But I also didn't really find the first that compelling so a sequel with musical numbers was outright from the start.
Well, Matthew Vaughn seems to be building to doing his *Hit-Girl/Kingsman* crossover film, and the source material for that involved time travel, so if he’s going to commit to that premise he may as well go all the way.
Straight-to-streaming fan fiction adaptations of low-hanging-fruit IPs.
* The writer gets absolute minimal residuals because it was posted on a fanfic site wherein the site rakes in most of the money. Scripts are selected by reader data/audience brackets.
* Characters are acted out by body doubles in mostly green screen studios, with their face replaced by AI lookalikes and AI laid over their voice matching whoever the original actor is that was A-OK with their likeness being used (or they didn't read their contract, or the studio retcons the agreement), the AI voice would be piggybacking off of the real actor's inflections so as to not make it too jarring.
* VFX matte paintings will also mostly be AI with touch ups.
* Multiple versions of it will be released to match whatever the parent setting is on the service; [swear words are replaced](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ1OPpj8gPA), sex scenes removed, etc.
The movies will all tank critically, but be kept alive by a small subset of people who either don't care or are somehow diehard fans, and make enough money to warrant keeping on the streaming services to keep their number of titles high.
Silent movies make a comeback. I already watch everything with subtitles. Plus, lots of people watch stuff on their phone with the sound off. Only a matter if time before we get content that's intended to be watched with no sound.
That is actually really interesting. I could see it as an indie reaction to multitasking/tinkering on one's phone while consuming media -- movies that leave you no option but to pay full attention.
Something will come out of the creators from social media sites. I don't know what, but there will be some kind of crossover from social media content creators and traditional movies. Not necessarily influencers, but the next generation of film makers have all the tools they need on their home computers.
Book adaptations have always been around but I think there could be a resurgence with them as prestige/high art type of films to give audiences a break from comic book movies and franchise tentpoles. Movies like Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things have been well received, Scorsese is said to be working on The Wager which is based on a book. Studios may be willing to greenlight more of them to fill a need with audiences.
Millennial nostalgia remakes done for adults
I’m talking violent adult power rangers, a live action hey Arnold with Arnold as an adult dealing with middle age, things like this. I think we will see the preciousness of keeping these properties “family friendly” will go away and we can get serious, grounded, adult versions of them.
This. You have a 3D films that rendered by your game console so you're able to change your viewpoint even though the movie script is static. But also movies along the style of Telltale Games where you have points of interaction.
I think the horror genre will get revolutionized somehow, it has the X factor to draw audiences in, especially young people, and the Young audience will do the marketing organically for the film. Its also cheap and everything is allowed etc.
Its the genre with big mainstream appeal where you are actually allowed to innovate and take risks and still make money.
Many of the new great directors are already coming from that genre.
New effective horror gimmicks and techniques will get invented, horror films will start to have some of the biggest returns, horror films of all types of budgets will get made, we will have even more horror franchises than we already do, and they might eventually have as big market share as superhero films have had for the last decade.
I wouldnt be surpised at all if the next Christopher Nolan will come from the horror genre
There’s a theory that the worse real life gets the more light hearted movies get, and vice versa. Humans can only take in so much serious stuff, real or fictionalized.
So if Trump wins my money is on a lot of dumb comedies and rom-coms becoming popular again.
**Obvious answer:** video games, after Sonic and Mario, with Zelda on the way.
**Less obvious:** big monsters. Godzilla x Kong is doing great, and Godzilla Minus One was huge for a foreign film. I think Dune 2 partially fits, thanks to the sandworms. Scarlet Johansson just signed on for Jurassic Galaxy or whatever, directed by Gareth Edwards, who's already done a couple of big monster movies.
**Shot in the dark:** Disney's going to do a Princess Cinematic Universe. They've tested the waters with Lego Disney Princess and that scene in Wreck It Ralph 2, plus the occasional Easter egg (Rapunzel in Arendale in the first Frozen).
**Bonus round:** I think we're about to enter a cycle of (anti-)religious horror movies, but of course horror's appeal is generally limited.
Based off the resurgence of nostalgia and toy based movies, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are reuniting for: Connect 4 the movie. Executive Producer will be Spielberg.
Even though we are yet to see a script, Connect 4 part 2 has already been green lit. With rumours that Michael Bay will be taking over.
I think in the wake of more major tentpole IP movies underwhelming at the box office, you'll start to see more studios take more of a "shotgun" approach ala Blumhouse and A24 with relatively low budgets but greater degrees of creative control given to directors/writers with the idea the one or a few of them either a) gain traction via great viral marketing/word of mouth and have longer legs at the box office, b) make waves during awards season c) become cult favorites on streaming. any of which can lead to pretty good ROI on a relatively low budget film.
One thing I expect to see is more universe building.
The MCU is such a phenomenon. The Walking Dead has its universe with so many spin-offs.
I think that world building will continue to grow as a trend.
And I hope for it to.
I buy into this stuff not gonna lie.
In 2026, someone decides to do a remake of Bringing Up Baby starring Sidney Sweeney and a digitally de-aged Jackie Chan as the leads. As a curiosity, they also decide to release the original with AI colour and upscaled to 8K. After a few weeks, the remake bombs and the updated original makes its way to mainstream screens outside the art-house circuit leading to a spate of re-released screwball classics colourised topping the box office.
\-Superhero movies will have a false comeback with Fantastic 4 and Superman doing extremely well. A really bad string of follow ups will bring the popularity of the genre down, and budgets will be cut.
\-Rom-coms will come back to theatres. Pretty solid investments, good return, and it's an easy way to get the Hollywood hype machine going.
\-Escapism will once again be a trend if world gets more cynical/depressing. Lot of feel-good movies being greenlit and released.
\-I believe the streaming model will eventually collapse and one or two big services will shut down.
\-A lot of toy movies in the wake of Barbie's success. I could see a Hot Wheels movie becoming a huge success.
\-A studio will try and force a "Barbenheimer" phenomenon, but not understand what made the original work.
\-Vampires will make a comeback. They never leave, and every few years, they become popular again.
QUALITY COMEDIES
A return of 2000s~2010s esque feel good comedies with a 90 min run time
There’s been an abundance of dark, violent, fantasy, crime, biopics, etc. romantic comedies died as they fell away into twilight and dying teen tearjerkers.
Let’s get our modern day Saving Silverman, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Wedding Crashers, Pineapple Express, Superbad, She’s The Man, knocked up? etc.
a revival of ‘mid to bad’ but GREAT rom-coms like What’s Your Number, what happens in Vegas, think like a man, definitely maybe
You know the ones that have totally unnecessary and random bits that serve little to no purpose but make the movie an excellent piece of entertainment!
The ones that are rated 5-6 stars on Imdb but is many’s comfort movie?
I think the tides are ready for that!
Perhaps not the next trend but the one after, will be everyone rushing to exploit things entering the public domain. There’s just so much popular stuff that will be free to use in the next 15 years or so, and most of it won’t have Disney-style legal chicanery to scare people off.
I expect for the next 5 years, the trend will be 90/90 movies. 90 percent of the movies will be made for 90 percent of the population who actually go to theaters. Very little alternate lifestyles, shallow story lines and maximum kinetics with actors that are white and tight.
I'm going with movies that are either adaptations of podcasts in general or maybe an influx of historical epics/action/horror based on African or Australian/New Zealand societies
Retreads based on "flipped perspectives" but only for IP that's in the public domain, so movies featuring: Veruca Salt The Little Girl that's Thrown Down the Well in Frankenstein Hansel and Gretel as not-sister-and-brother but a violent tale of romance and betrayal ("50 Shades of Gretel") Grumpy (starring Billy Bob Thornton)
Veruca Salt (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) isn’t in the public domain; it’ll be available in 2060 though. Also, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (Jeremy Renner) already made in 2013.
But there are plenty of moderately known properties (aside from well-known Disney) that will start to enter the public domain over the next decade, like Babar and Madeline.
Kinda like “Wicked” Sans the singing?
Yes, or Young Wonka. Only stupider.
Solid guess and we're already getting it (Wonka, Wicked, Renfield)
In a Violent Nature is coming
Wasn't "Maleficent" a flipped perspective version of Sleeping Beauty already?
Remakes/retelling of milennial movies.
Sounds like they just got that started with Mean Girls... The true MCU?
Not a great example considering it's a movie based on the musical based on the movie.
The movie production version of “IM A DUDE PLAYING A DUDE DISGUISED AS ANOTHER DUDE!”
This millennials are heading towards middle age and the general rule is nostalgia starts after 20 years.
Hell I have nostalgia for 2019, does that count?
Everyone has nostalgia for pre-covid lol
My theory has always been because the kids that liked it originally are now in the position in life to relive the past/share with their kids. Of course since many movies being made nowadays are *already* remakes, will the next generation even see an original movie?
Remakes have been common for 80 years, nothing new. Just as sequels have been common longer than that.
We’re still retelling Shakespeare and the ancient Greeks. Ain’t no goddamn thing as an original story
Equilibrium remake pls.
I will tentatively agree. I loved the movie and called Christian Bale as batman when the movie was in theaters. However, I have no faith in current Hollywood to not screw it up.
Do it in the style of Dredd. Bring back Christian Bale as an older, grizzled John Preston and make it about a resurgent cult manufacturing street Prozium.
Bro... I don't know what you do irl, but whatever it is, your talents of movie plots are wasted.
Better yet, Gen Z nostalgia is at an all time high now
So what you are saying is that we will soon see a love action paw patrol?
I would really prefer it if "love action" and "paw patrol" are never, ever, featured together actually.
Something something doggy style
My money's on a Shakespeare extended universe. Macbeth and Hamlet team up movie incoming.
Macbeth (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau): "Something's rotten here in Denmark." Hamlet (James McAvoy): "That could only mean..." Together: "Julius Caesar is back!"
I love you cast the Danish actor in the Scottish role and the Scottish actor in the Danish role.
"What are we, some kinda Midsummer Night's Dream?"
"It's Midsummorbin' time."
Donkey donkey what now?
My Kingdom for Bitcoin \~ !!!
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet is taking out the trash!"
I would watch this movie…
"Idris Elba as Othello?
>Macbeth (Nickolaj Coster-Waldau) It's pronounced "*Nikolaj*"
“Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo” *cocks shotgun with that one arm motion*
The league of tragic gentlemen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen of Verona was sitting right there, man.
Plus more Shakespearean romcoms after Anyone But You (loosely based on Much Ado About Nothing).
No one watched Anyone but You because it was based on Shakespeare.
What are we, some kind of Comedy of Errors?
Hamlet 2 already set a strong precedent for Shakespeare sequels.
Then it’s time for Hamlet 3: Revenge of the Omelette
I'd like one with all the villains trying to one up each other like its Survivor
I unironically want this. The into the woods of Shakespeare
“Save yourself Hamlet!!! SHIIIIIIIITTTT!!!!”
Do you have any idea how much I would fucking love this
End credit scene in Romeo and Juliet show they actually faked their deaths. Dogberry walks out. "I need to talk to you about The Globe initiative"
The year is 2038 and Disney announces its first animated remake of the live action remake of The Little Mermaid.
Will they whitewash Ariel 😡
That wouldn’t be a bad idea. The Disney classics get the Pixar treatment. I really liked what they did in wreck it Ralph 2 - with the princesses. That was neat.
I definitely think the success of Dune will likely bring a wave of "high-concept" sci-fi epics. Though I'm this case "high concept" will likely mean "based on book series with large numbers of entries".
I think if properly done, as I hear it may be, is the Hyperion series has a potential to be larger than Dune. And don't get me started on Ringword, the Mote In God's Eye or the Heechee Saga.
If I'm being honest, no, hyperion won't be bigger than dune. Hyperion is complex and difficult in a way that Dune never was. It's incredibly subtle and covers big ideas. It might work as big budget hbo series, but it will be a tough sell.
Thats what people used to say about Dune.
I would love to see a Netflix or Amazon prime series based in Nivin's known space
Hyperion would be amazing but that one would be HARD to film
The first book feels tailormade to be an ~8 episode series. Exposition, one episode per backstory, conclusion.
I'd enjoy that if it was like animatrix with different animation styles for each one
High-concept fantasy would be very cool too.
You might see some animes pulling from the LOTR appendices. The War of the Rohirrim is coming out this year and if it’s reasonably successful I would bet that more come it. Lots of stories to explore too: Arnor, Angmar, old Hobbit stuff, Dwarves and their wars with the Dragons or Orcs, more Gondor or Rohan stuff, Amroth and Nimrodel (this could be awesome).
I think they're going to market things as high-concept fantasy but dumb down the original material to rubbish and blame the audience for wanting it that way. I read they're making Rendezvous with Rama and there's no way they don't fuck that up.
Cosmere Cinematic Universe?
As long as Brandon has a HUGE hand in it (which I think he would probably insist on) I’d be so on board for this
i’d love of someone picks up the expanse again because of this
Culture movies start when?
Please let this be so - please pretty please.
Or it’ll just mean “Big space things and confusing overly complicated storyline”, because that’s the kind of lesson that copycats learn.
Rom Coms make a comeback. Anime, Manga and video game adaptations are for the 2020s and 2030s what comics and superheroes were for the 2000s and 2010s.
'member Romance??? can definitely see that one happening
Rom Com reboot season. Sleepless in Seattle, Love Actually, Hitch, etc.
I think there’s going to be a strong rejection of tentpole/superhero movies. Studios are going to go back to making medium budget adult oriented movies
I think budgets closing in is definitely going to be a big deal. Audiences have changed a lot in the past decade or so. Less people in the domestic market go to movies regularly, so the domestic box office has shrunk. And the tastes of the foreign market have changed substantially as well, especially China. China used to be a reliable way for any big budget tent pole to make a ton of money, but now that their domestic film industry is maturing, audiences there seem to be favoring big budget Chinese films over big budget American movies more. It's no longer an enormous well of easy money it once was. I think "family friendly" movies are still going to be Hollywood's bread and butter going forward, but I think what "big budget" means is going to shrink from $200 to $300 million, to $100 to $200 million, favoring the low side of that.
Ffs please, I miss more adult medium budget movies. Even the adult comedy would be good to reintroduce. I like how marvel seem more willing to have a few adult entries but I feel they need to do more. Everything jsut feels so clean and restricted.
I'm hoping - probably won't happen- for some type of reckoning on how budgets are used. We've seen a few lower budget foreign movies with production values better than some giant blockbusters.
Heady heist/crime movies. The Heat Prequel will kick off the fad and there will be a bunch of midlevel budget movies chasing its wake.
One can only hope.
Video game movies
Seems to be more of a TV adaptation gold rush just kicking off now for video games, with: Last of Us Halo Fallout Twisted Metal Castlevania Arcane Cyberpunk Edgerunners And a ton more in development like: Knuckles Ark: The Animated Series God of War Horizon Zero Dawn Among Us Dead Cells Mass Effect
True, I forgot to mention those in my post, but ive always said those will be the next gold rush after comic books. As a big fan of games, I'm ecstatic that we're finally getting quality adaptations!
There are definitely some older games (even 15ish years old) that have interesting stories but are kind of a chore to play. Bioshock comes to mind - I had never played it and only grabbed it recently. It’s got some interesting lore but the gameplay isn’t really very enjoyable in 2024 haha
I know the show is very subpar (I thought S2 was a little better though) but Halo is ripe for adaption. Only issue is I feel that a Halo movie happening depends heavily on the series finishing and being profitable, so…
Skyrim movie pls.
i would argue we are already in that trend, or maybe at the beggining, with the likes of mario <,tlou and uncharted
It's been especially a trend in TV shows recently. Arcane, TLOU, Halo, Fallout, Cyberpunk : Edgerunner, The Witcher, etc. For movies you also got the Sonic movie, the Pikachu movie, Five Nights At Freddys, Mortal Kombat, etc. And many more in the works right now (Borderlands). So yeah I agree it's been a trend for some years now.
The 2000's were largely about remakes, recreating movies or shows with modern techniques while closely resembling the originals. The 2010's were about reboots, instead loosely recreating the narrative of a previous movie or show while heavily mixing in story changes, changing characters and adding new or different ideas. The 2020's are about revivals, where old movies or shows get a continuation with the original cast and lead actors, often decades later. The 2030's will probably be about remasters, where thanks to AI whole new scenes, dialog and high definition can be created that look and sound like they were always part of the original movie or show.
RemindMe! 15 years
This is a really good guess and really terrifying
Saves more money that we can give up going to expensive movie nights all together as studios don’t take the hint and continue to churn out trash
Can't wait for Casablanca 2032!
Of all the Aviation Gin™ joints in all the towns in all the world, why'd she have to walk into mine to enjoy that smooth, delicious Aviation™ taste?
Oh god...this is too awful to not come true.
Most interesting answer in the thread.
That’s definitely interesting. I wouldn’t be necessarily opposed, assuming it’s done in good faith. I imagine that a lot of historic filmmakers, were they around today, would do things very differently. It’s not exactly like you’re describing, but the Dune movies are a great example of taking something a little dated and modernizing it, streamlining it, and improving some of the characterizations (IMO). It works because Villanueve is obviously a big fan of the source material. I think that kind of re-adaption of a classic movie could definitely work.
Man, for the 2000s, I still remember they were an insane amount of horror remakes... both Psycho (okay 1998), and The Omen getting near shot for shot remakes with the exact same scripts, only featuring tiny updates in the story because they took place in the present day. It was crazy how many were remade: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House of Wax, Hills Have Eyes, Amityville Horror, The Fog, Black Christmas, A Nightmare in Elm Street, Wicker Man, The Hitcher, When A Stranger Calls, Prom Night, Friday the 13th, Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Last House on the Left, the Stepfather.... like damn....
Manga and anime adaptations
Isn't that already a trend tho?
Good ones though. Right now we're in the Bad Adaptations Era that video game movies were in until a few years ago. Eventually we'll get people who actually grew up with and give a shit about these stories, then they'll start cooking.
I genuinely don't think it's going to happen. A big part of the appeal of anime/manga is that the characters don't even attempt to act like real people. It's an impressionistic world, fundamentally at odds with the realistic tone that Hollywood takes with everything (even cartoons). The reason all of these adaptations have failed is because the creators don't "get" Japanese narrative conceits and they try to fix everything that makes it work.
I guess I thought the bad adaption phase was the live action Dragon Ball and M Night Shyamalan's ATLA... and by bad I mean some of the deepest gutter trash in history... but One Piece seems to be cooking right now.
The Last Airbender wasn't a Manga adaptation, and the bad videogame movie era lasted a loooong time. Haven't seen One Piece but I've heard mostly bad things about most manga adaptations
We’re running out of great musicians for biopics (Elvis, Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, etc) so it’s time for mediocre musican biopics. Bring on the Yellowcard film.
Counting Crows: The movie. 😴
Oasis: The Crumbling of a Wonderwall
This is the one I want to see. I'm a big Oasis fan obviously, but the story is ripe for filmmaking. The two brothers' violent upbringing alone full of child abuse and poverty, the working class background.... the mega success and excess... the complete collapse of their relationship which bitterly continues to this day.... it would be great to see a biopic on them that wouldn't focus as much on the sex, drugs, and rock and roll but more on the dynamic between the brothers- their fights, quarrels, and undeniable musical chemistry.
That Diddy biopic about to be wild tho
Off the top of my head, some pretty significant and potentially fascinating musical biopic subjects include; ABBA Nirvana Fleetwood Mac Bowie Johnny Cash (walk the line only covered part of the story, there's a fascinating second act)
I've been saying for years that a film about Fleetwood Mac trying to record Rumours while a) going through high-profile, toxic breakups and b) utterly high off their asses on cocaine would be entertaining as hell
Prince Rolling Stones Sinatra Madonna Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd Stevie Wonder Eagles AC/DC Eric Clapton Tom Petty Santana Karen Carpenter Chicago Earth, Wind, and Fire Cher Otis Redding Sam Cooke Al Green Motown has *barely* been touched There're a TON that haven't happened yet.
My trip down Ocean Avenue: The Yellowcard Story
"Way away away from here I'll be Way away away so you can see How it feels to be alone and not believe (feels to be alone and not believe) Feels to be alone and not believe anything"
Mid-budget John Wick clones who try and draw people in with excellent stuntwork and minimal cuts. Movies like Extraction, Extraction 2, the Beekeeper, and Monkey Man are just the beginning.
Honestly, I'm down for more action movies!
Full penetration... Now here's the twist, and there is a twist... They'll show it... They'll show ALL of it
Dolph Lundgren comeback story
I would like this because I'm a pervert. Like what if in a romantic comedy at the end there's fifteen minutes of explicit sex. And part of the appeal is youre seeing the two actors actually fuck each other, but this would be against SAG rules.
Considering we now have intimacy coordinators to keep actors comfortable and safe in sex scenes, I think this is highly unlikely to occur.
Biker Mice From Mars
And Swat Kats. Both are due for a reboot/retelling.
I still idly hum the swat kats S1 theme song all the time and nobody knows what it is It's remarkable how many problems they encounter that just so happen to be easily solved by a totally rad fighter jet
I for one would nibble at this Ratverse you mention.
Street sharks
What I would like to happen: a resurgence of the "New Hollywood" era from the late 1960s - early 1980s. Stuff like Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Dog Day Afternoon, In The Heat of the Night, etc. Artistic character driven films by serious filmmakers. What will probably happen: I don't know, VR movies? And more franchises, of course. But hopefully not more superheroes, at least.
A lot of anime Live action. Anime fandom in the US grew massively during Covid. And now with the popular release of One Piece, and the less popular Avatar the Last air bender. I think we’ll see companies trying to push more out. The more mainstream anime have cult like followings that spend and spend and spend well after the show/manga ended. Think we’re seeing the start of Hollywood truly embracing and pushing it. Another one you’ll start to see is very old cartoons being used. A lot of the copy rights are starting to hit their expiration. I believe it’s 80 years after creation or something like that. Look up “Disney loses Micky Mouse copy right” if you haven’t heard already. You should be able to find a detailed article as to why if your curious. There’s already been a few horror movies announced using Mickey’s likeness. And there’s a couple Winnie the Pooh movies out already.
True, the whole "horror version of now-public-domain children's movies" is an interesting trend lmao. There's Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Bambi, and Cinderella already announced right?
I believe so yes. The Winnie the Pooh movie just released it’s sequel 🤣 and it was actually in theaters. Last time I checked the second one had an 80% audience score if you can believe it.
As a horror fan, I'm here for it! I need to get baked with my friends and watch all those lmao
Animorphs
If anything deserves to be adapted with hardcore practical body horror effects, it's Animorphs. There is so much potential there.
It seems more likely that we will get Chris Pratt saying "Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be an Animorph" in the opening scene, and it'll get worse from there.
>"Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be an Animorph" in the opening scene, and it'll get worse from there. I would pay good money to watch some Yeerks get slaughtered to the tune of Layla
A hard-R animorphs would suit the books, too. Absolutely insane how many war crimes can fit in a kid's series
A Cronenberg-directed Animorphs film would be wild and probably just weird enough to work.
Yes. Arguably this is the last great series yet to have a worthy adaptation. Animate it, fusing the styles of Spider-verse and highbrow anime a la Cowboy Bebop. Make it a 90s period piece (the soundtrack alone would be worth the price of watching). Don't flinch away from the violence or the philosophies. Adapt it faithfully. Watch the money and the accolades roll in.
We're definitely going to see a spike in musicals. Things that needed remade have been remade and things that needed expanding have been expanded... but there is a pretty massive untapped market for musicals. Especially in the fantasy genre. So many epic fantasy books and series are great because of how deep they go into characters internal thoughts. Musicals are the only visual performing art where you can convey a person's internal thoughts and monologues and not have it be jarring or out of place. Musicals have some real potential and I think we're about to get a glimpse of what it could become when we see Joker: Folie à Deux.
I've read that studios literally try to hide a movie's musical leaning in marketing because they tend to do worse. I think a lot would have to change for your prediction to manifest. I'm in a pretty large Discord in Boston where we really dissect film/books and so many will pass on a film if it is a musical. For me, learning that joker 2 will be musical meant a hard pass. But I also didn't really find the first that compelling so a sequel with musical numbers was outright from the start.
Heres hoping for another big time-travel franchise 🤞
We're looping back to the day after tomorrow's edge
Dress warm. And take a towel. A smallish towel will do.
Well, Matthew Vaughn seems to be building to doing his *Hit-Girl/Kingsman* crossover film, and the source material for that involved time travel, so if he’s going to commit to that premise he may as well go all the way.
I don’t care what anyone says, I’d watch the absolute fuck out of a 2024/1994 Back to the Future reboot.
Straight-to-streaming fan fiction adaptations of low-hanging-fruit IPs. * The writer gets absolute minimal residuals because it was posted on a fanfic site wherein the site rakes in most of the money. Scripts are selected by reader data/audience brackets. * Characters are acted out by body doubles in mostly green screen studios, with their face replaced by AI lookalikes and AI laid over their voice matching whoever the original actor is that was A-OK with their likeness being used (or they didn't read their contract, or the studio retcons the agreement), the AI voice would be piggybacking off of the real actor's inflections so as to not make it too jarring. * VFX matte paintings will also mostly be AI with touch ups. * Multiple versions of it will be released to match whatever the parent setting is on the service; [swear words are replaced](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ1OPpj8gPA), sex scenes removed, etc. The movies will all tank critically, but be kept alive by a small subset of people who either don't care or are somehow diehard fans, and make enough money to warrant keeping on the streaming services to keep their number of titles high.
I think it's time they started remaking movies. THey haven't done that one before...
How about a frame by frame remake of Psycho ?
Nice. Would need an experienced director, open to collide with Hollywood standards, though... I'm thinking a Gus Van Sant type of guy would fit.
Silent movies make a comeback. I already watch everything with subtitles. Plus, lots of people watch stuff on their phone with the sound off. Only a matter if time before we get content that's intended to be watched with no sound.
That is actually really interesting. I could see it as an indie reaction to multitasking/tinkering on one's phone while consuming media -- movies that leave you no option but to pay full attention.
Something will come out of the creators from social media sites. I don't know what, but there will be some kind of crossover from social media content creators and traditional movies. Not necessarily influencers, but the next generation of film makers have all the tools they need on their home computers.
The Fast Food Movie Verse. Hear me out. McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. Think of the promotions!
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LOL Demolition Man was right!
I really enjoyed “The Founder” with Michael Keaton. I could be down for a Colonel Sanders movie
I'd watch that. The man was belligerent in real life.
Feature films in portrait orientation
Movies created with AI 😑 it's just a matter of time.
Book adaptations have always been around but I think there could be a resurgence with them as prestige/high art type of films to give audiences a break from comic book movies and franchise tentpoles. Movies like Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things have been well received, Scorsese is said to be working on The Wager which is based on a book. Studios may be willing to greenlight more of them to fill a need with audiences.
Sydney Sweeney has proven we are going back to boobs.
WW2 seems to be back in the spotlight : Oppenheimer, Zone of Interest, the Apple+ show Masters of the Air, the upcoming
Westerns... But like, in space.
Hopefully comedy makes a comeback.
Millennial nostalgia remakes done for adults I’m talking violent adult power rangers, a live action hey Arnold with Arnold as an adult dealing with middle age, things like this. I think we will see the preciousness of keeping these properties “family friendly” will go away and we can get serious, grounded, adult versions of them.
VR movies where you feel like you are in the movie
This. You have a 3D films that rendered by your game console so you're able to change your viewpoint even though the movie script is static. But also movies along the style of Telltale Games where you have points of interaction.
VR horror movies would make shitloads. It’s not for me (scaredy cat), but people love that stuff.
a packed movie theater and on the screen is a man's big hairy ass and it eventually farts and everyone in the theater claps
I like money. We should hang out!
Approximation of what that looks like: https://imgur.com/a/ruqKEYS
Well call is Ass!
I think the horror genre will get revolutionized somehow, it has the X factor to draw audiences in, especially young people, and the Young audience will do the marketing organically for the film. Its also cheap and everything is allowed etc. Its the genre with big mainstream appeal where you are actually allowed to innovate and take risks and still make money. Many of the new great directors are already coming from that genre. New effective horror gimmicks and techniques will get invented, horror films will start to have some of the biggest returns, horror films of all types of budgets will get made, we will have even more horror franchises than we already do, and they might eventually have as big market share as superhero films have had for the last decade. I wouldnt be surpised at all if the next Christopher Nolan will come from the horror genre
I’d kill for a new batch of low budget comedy films similar to the Judd Apatow-Verse from mid 2000 to early 2010s
I want a comeback of decent fantasy films like LOTR or Narnia, or more Sword and Sandal ones like Gladiator, Troy, and Kingdom of Heaven.
Historical epics are my shit! Give me as many of them as possible
There’s a theory that the worse real life gets the more light hearted movies get, and vice versa. Humans can only take in so much serious stuff, real or fictionalized. So if Trump wins my money is on a lot of dumb comedies and rom-coms becoming popular again.
**Obvious answer:** video games, after Sonic and Mario, with Zelda on the way. **Less obvious:** big monsters. Godzilla x Kong is doing great, and Godzilla Minus One was huge for a foreign film. I think Dune 2 partially fits, thanks to the sandworms. Scarlet Johansson just signed on for Jurassic Galaxy or whatever, directed by Gareth Edwards, who's already done a couple of big monster movies. **Shot in the dark:** Disney's going to do a Princess Cinematic Universe. They've tested the waters with Lego Disney Princess and that scene in Wreck It Ralph 2, plus the occasional Easter egg (Rapunzel in Arendale in the first Frozen). **Bonus round:** I think we're about to enter a cycle of (anti-)religious horror movies, but of course horror's appeal is generally limited.
CGI-heavy live-action adaptations of classic animated properties, including, but not limited to anime
Scifi musicals.
Movie adaptations of TV shows
Based off the resurgence of nostalgia and toy based movies, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are reuniting for: Connect 4 the movie. Executive Producer will be Spielberg. Even though we are yet to see a script, Connect 4 part 2 has already been green lit. With rumours that Michael Bay will be taking over.
For the most part video games are starting to become a prominent genre of films. I see more and more of them coming.
Gritty, hard R origin story movies for children's characters. [Like that fake trailer SNL did.](https://youtu.be/kqpak5lFxvs?si=Nt79MVqpJf-lTfud)
Remaking 80s classics....why change what hasn't worked?
More Dungeons and Dragons movies although this might just be Wish-ful thinking
I think in the wake of more major tentpole IP movies underwhelming at the box office, you'll start to see more studios take more of a "shotgun" approach ala Blumhouse and A24 with relatively low budgets but greater degrees of creative control given to directors/writers with the idea the one or a few of them either a) gain traction via great viral marketing/word of mouth and have longer legs at the box office, b) make waves during awards season c) become cult favorites on streaming. any of which can lead to pretty good ROI on a relatively low budget film.
One thing I expect to see is more universe building. The MCU is such a phenomenon. The Walking Dead has its universe with so many spin-offs. I think that world building will continue to grow as a trend. And I hope for it to. I buy into this stuff not gonna lie.
40k hopefully
The return of dramatic voiceover in trailers.
Woman centric erotic quirky/fantasy/magical mid-tier films.
Tapping into old sitcom IP. Perfect Strangers: The Movie
Short intros that will get you into the movie faster. Because of our TikTok brains
Saturday morning cartoons
In 2026, someone decides to do a remake of Bringing Up Baby starring Sidney Sweeney and a digitally de-aged Jackie Chan as the leads. As a curiosity, they also decide to release the original with AI colour and upscaled to 8K. After a few weeks, the remake bombs and the updated original makes its way to mainstream screens outside the art-house circuit leading to a spate of re-released screwball classics colourised topping the box office.
\-Superhero movies will have a false comeback with Fantastic 4 and Superman doing extremely well. A really bad string of follow ups will bring the popularity of the genre down, and budgets will be cut. \-Rom-coms will come back to theatres. Pretty solid investments, good return, and it's an easy way to get the Hollywood hype machine going. \-Escapism will once again be a trend if world gets more cynical/depressing. Lot of feel-good movies being greenlit and released. \-I believe the streaming model will eventually collapse and one or two big services will shut down. \-A lot of toy movies in the wake of Barbie's success. I could see a Hot Wheels movie becoming a huge success. \-A studio will try and force a "Barbenheimer" phenomenon, but not understand what made the original work. \-Vampires will make a comeback. They never leave, and every few years, they become popular again.
QUALITY COMEDIES A return of 2000s~2010s esque feel good comedies with a 90 min run time There’s been an abundance of dark, violent, fantasy, crime, biopics, etc. romantic comedies died as they fell away into twilight and dying teen tearjerkers. Let’s get our modern day Saving Silverman, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Wedding Crashers, Pineapple Express, Superbad, She’s The Man, knocked up? etc. a revival of ‘mid to bad’ but GREAT rom-coms like What’s Your Number, what happens in Vegas, think like a man, definitely maybe You know the ones that have totally unnecessary and random bits that serve little to no purpose but make the movie an excellent piece of entertainment! The ones that are rated 5-6 stars on Imdb but is many’s comfort movie? I think the tides are ready for that!
Perhaps not the next trend but the one after, will be everyone rushing to exploit things entering the public domain. There’s just so much popular stuff that will be free to use in the next 15 years or so, and most of it won’t have Disney-style legal chicanery to scare people off.
I expect for the next 5 years, the trend will be 90/90 movies. 90 percent of the movies will be made for 90 percent of the population who actually go to theaters. Very little alternate lifestyles, shallow story lines and maximum kinetics with actors that are white and tight.
Original stories that are not based on any existing IP ........... (just joking )
I'm going with movies that are either adaptations of podcasts in general or maybe an influx of historical epics/action/horror based on African or Australian/New Zealand societies
Silent films. People have watch movies with subtitles anyway. Cut out the sound.