Netflix gave us a lot of great genre in 2022, including Wednesday, The Sandman, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Troll and The Adam Project, and now they’ve announced the dates and first looks at some upcoming horror, sci-fi and fantasy for 2023!
Get out those diaries folks and note down the following…
DAMSEL
Released: On Netflix October 13, 2023
Synopsis: A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt. Thrown into a cave with a fire-breathing dragon, she must rely on her wits and will to survive.
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Writer: Dan Mazeau
Cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Angela Bassett, Robin Wright, Ray Winstone, Nick Robinson, Brooke Carter, and Shohreh Aghdashloo
SPACEMAN
Based on the novel Spaceman Of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar.
Released: Autumn 2023
Synopsis: As an astronaut sent to the edge of the galaxy to collect mysterious ancient dust finds his earthly life falling to pieces, he turns to the only voice who can help him try to put it back together. It just so happens to belong to a creature from the beginning of time lurking in the shadows of his ship.
Director: Johan Renck
Writer: Colby Day
Cast: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, Kunal Nayyar
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
Based on the novel Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Released: On Netflix December 8
Synopsis: A family vacation on Long Island is interrupted by two strangers bearing news of a mysterious blackout. As the threat grows more imminent, both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis, all while grappling with their own place in this collapsing world.
Director and writer: Sam Esmail
Cast: Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha’la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon
WE HAVE A GHOST
Based on the short story Ernest by Geoff Manaugh.
Released: On Netflix February 24, 2023
Synopsis: Finding a ghost named Ernest haunting their new home turns Kevin’s family into overnight social media sensations. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of Ernest’s past, they become a target of the CIA.
Director and writer: Christopher Landon
Cast: David Harbour, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Tig Notaro, Erica Ash, Jennifer Coolidge, and Anthony Mackie, Faith Ford, Niles Fitch, Isabella Russo, Steve Coulter
THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT
Based on Kate DiCamillo’s classic novel.
Released: 17 March on Netflix
Synopsis: When Peter (voiced by Noah Jupe), who is searching for his long-lost sister named Adele (voiced by Pixie Davies), crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square, there is only one question on his mind: is his sister still alive? The answer, that he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician (voiced by Benedict Wong) who will conjure it, sets Peter off on a harrowing journey to complete three seemingly impossible tasks that will change the face of his town forever and take him on the adventure of a lifetime. The
Director: Wendy Rogers
Writer: Martin Hynes
Cast: Sian Clifford, Pixie Davies, Natasia Demetriou, Dawn French, Brian Tyree Henry, Noah Jupe, Aasif Mandvi, Mandy Patinkin, Miranda Richardson, Cree Summer, Lorraine Toussaint, Benedict Wong
THE KITCHEN
Released: On Netflix in 2023
Synopsis: The Kitchen is set in London, 2044, a future where the gap between rich and poor has been stretched to its limits. All forms of social housing have been eradicated and London’s working classes have been forced to live in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city, The Kitchen is the first and the largest of its kind, it’s London’s last village harbouring residents that refuse to move on and move out of the place they call home. It’s here we meet Izi, a resident of the kitchen who is desperately trying to find a way out and 12-year-old, Benji, who has lost his mother and is searching for a family. We follow our unlikely pair as they battle to survive in a system that is stacked against them.
Director: Kibwe Tavares
Writers: Daniel Kaluuya, Joe Murtagh
Cast: Kane Robinson and Jedaiah Bannerman
NIMONA
Released: On Netflix 2023
Synopsis: A knight is framed for a crime he didn’t commit and the only person who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona, a shape-shifting teen who might also be a monster he’s sworn to kill. Set in a techno-medieval world unlike anything animation has tackled before, this is a story about the labels we assign to people and the shapeshifter who refuses to be defined by anyone.
Directors: Nick Bruno and Troy Quane
Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed, Eugene Lee Yang
JUNG_E
Released: On Netflix January 20
Synopsis: In 2194, a civil war among those who survived the Earth’s catastrophe breaks out. A war heroine Major Jung-e goes into a coma after a serious injury, and her family is forced to donate her brain data to ‘Next Generation Lab’. Next Generation Lab uses Jung-e’s data to make an AI robot, and using that robot, the lab continues to conduct war simulation. During the simulation, Seo-hyun, daughter of Jung-e, participating as the robot research team leader, learns her mother’s secret through repeated experiments.
Director and writer: Yeon Sang-ho
Cast: Kim Hyun-joo
REBEL MOON
Released: On Netflix December 22, 2023
Synopsis: When a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, they dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past named Kora to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them take a stand.
Director: Zack Snyder
Writers: Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad, Shay Hatten
Key cast: Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Bae Doona, Ray Fisher, with Charlie Hunnam and Anthony Hopkins as the voice of “Jimmy”. Also starring Cary Elwes, Corey Stoll, Jena Malone, Fra Fee, Cleopatra Coleman, Alfonso Herrera, Stuart Martin, Staz Nair, Sky Yang,
THEY CLONED TYRONE
Released: On Netflix July 21, 2023
Synopsis A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.
Director: Juel Taylor
Writers: Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier
Cast: John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris
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