15 Sci-Fi Films To Look Forward To This Year
EDGE OF TOMORROW
Directed by: Doug Liman
Release date: June 6, 2014
Doug Liman’s upcoming sci-fi Edge of Tomorrow is based on Hiroshi Sakurazakawill’s acclaimed novel All You Need Is Kill and centers on a soldier fighting in a war with aliens who finds himself caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle. Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt & Bill Paxton star.
SNOWPIERCER
Directed by: Bong Joon-ho
Release date: TBA 2014
The film is set in a future where, “after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews.” Ed Harris, Chris Evans, Song Kangho, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner, Alison Pill, & John Hurt star.
SELFLESS
Directed by: Tarsem Singh
Release date: September 26, 2014
Tarsem Singh’s (The Cell, Immortals) Selfless centers on an extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer who undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man. However, everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets. Ryan Reynolds stars.
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
Release date: November 21, 2014
In “Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2,” we follow heroine Katniss Everdeen’s journey as she leads the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical and corrupt Capitol. As the war that will determine the fate of Panem escalates, Katniss must decipher for herself who she can trust and what needs to be done, with everything she cares for in the balance. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Natalie Dormer and Robert Knepper star.
TOMORROWLAND
Directed by: Brad Bird
Release date: December 12, 2014
Helmed by Brad Bird, the film centers on “a high school girl (Britt Robertson) with an unconventional understanding of technology who is launched on a journey to reclaim her future.” Sorry about those spoilers! George Clooney plays a grizzled inventor named as Frank Walker while Hugh Laurie plays the lead antagonist. Tomorrowland was written by Bird, Damon Lindelof and Jeff Jensen.
I ORIGINS
Directed by: Mike Cahill
Release date: 2014
Brit Marling & Mike Cahill (Another Earth) re-team for an indie sci-fi film that centers on a molecular biologist and his lab partner who uncover evidence that may fundamentally change society as we know it. Marling, Michael Pitt, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Steven Yeun, and Archie Panjabi star.
YOUNG ONES
Directed by: Jake Paltrow
Release date: 2014
When Ernest (Michael Shannon) and his son Jerome (Kodi Smit McPhee) use the last of their family’s savings to purchase a robotic mule to deliver food rations to a work crew drilling water wells in the mountains above their home, they never thought it would alter the course of their futures so completely. Enter Flem (Nicholas Hoult) and his designs on Ernest’s daughter Mary (Elle Fanning) and his hope to take back their land, which his father had once owned in the heyday of early 21st Century industrial farming. When Flem’s desires are actualized through his brilliantly managed lies and careful manipulations, a series of events are set into action that will alter their young lives forever and Jerome will be forced to make choices that no child should ever have to make.
CHAPPIE
Directed by: Neill Blomkamp
Release date: 2014
Chappie, written by Neill Blomkamp and his District 9 writing partner Terri Tatchell, is a sci-fi comedy that centers on a “ridiculous” robot. Blomkamp remarked that the film is “a fundamentally more simple story, a comedy, a heartfelt story, in a science fiction setting. And it’s fucking hilarious, it’s a really cool film. I can say that with confidence… It’s a smaller film, a more esoteric one.” Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, and Brandon Auret star. Here’s the short film Tetra Vaal that inspired it: