List of science fiction films of the 2020s
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This is a list of science fiction films released in the 2020s. These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics.
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
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| 2067 | Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ryan Kwanten | Australia | ||||
| Archive | Gavin Rothery | Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra, Peter Ferdinando, Toby Jones | United Kingdom | |||
| Artemis Fowl | Kenneth Branagh | Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Josh Gad | United States | |||
| Bill & Ted Face the Music | Dean Parisot | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler | United States | |||
| Bloodshot | David S. F. Wilson | Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Guy Pearce | United States | |||
| Breach | John Suits | Bruce Willis, Rachel Nichols, Thomas Jane | United States | |||
| Color Out of Space | Richard Stanley | Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson | United States | |||
| Cosmoball | Dzhanik Fayziev | Yevgeny Romantsov, Viktoriya Agalakova, Maria Lisovaya | Russia | |||
| Freaks: You're One of Us | , Thelma Buabeng, Gisa Flake | Germany | Superhero Film | |||
| Friend of the World | Brian Patrick Butler | Nick Young, Alexandra Slade, Michael C. Burgess | United States | Thriller | ||
| Invasion | Fyodor Bondarchuk | Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal Mukhametov, Alexander Petrov | Russia | |||
| The Invisible Man | Leigh Whannell | Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen | United States | |||
| Jiu Jitsu | Dimitri Logothetis | Alain Moussi, Frank Grillo, JuJu Chan, Nicolas Cage | United States | |||
| Love and Monsters | Michael Matthews | Dylan O'Brien, Jessica Henwick, Dan Ewing,Ariana Greenblatt, Michael Rooker, | United States | Monster Adventure | ||
| The Midnight Sky | George Clooney | George Clooney, Felicity Jones | United States | |||
| Minor Premise | Eric Schultz | Sathya Sridharan, Paton Ashbrook, Dana Ashbrook | United States | Thriller | ||
| The New Mutants | Josh Boone | Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Charlie Heaton, Henry Zaga, Blu Hunt | United States | |||
| PG: Psycho Goreman | Steven Kostanski | Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Matthew Ninaber | Canada | |||
| Possessor | Brandon Cronenberg | Christopher Abbott, Andrea Riseborough, Sean Bean | Canada United Kingdom United States |
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| Project Power | Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost | Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback | United States | |||
| Skylines | Liam O'Donnell | Lindsey Morgan, Rhona Mitra, Alexander Siddig | United States | |||
| Sonic the Hedgehog | Jeff Fowler | Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, James Marsden | United States | |||
| Sputnik | Egor Abramenko | Oksana Akinshina, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov | Russia | |||
| Tenet | Christopher Nolan | John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki | United Kingdom United States |
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| Tiong Bahru Social Club | Tan Bee Thiam | Thomas Pang, Guat Kian Goh, Jalyn Han | Singapore | |||
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| Chaos Walking | Doug Liman | Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley | United States | |||
| Cosmic Sin | Edward John Drake | Bruce Willis, Frank Grillo | United States | |||
| Cube | Yasuhiko Shimizu | Masaki Suda, Masaki Okada | Japan | |||
| Dune | Denis Villeneuve | Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgård | United States | |||
| Encounter | Michael Pearce | Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer | United Kingdom | |||
| Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time | Hideaki Anno | Japan | ||||
| Finch | Miguel Sapochnik | Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones | United States | |||
| The Forever Purge | Everardo Gout | Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta | United States | |||
| Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Jason Reitman | Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Rudd, , Celeste O'Connor, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts,Sigourney Weaver | United States | Supernatural Comedy | ||
| Glasshouse | Kelsey Egan | Jessica Alexander, Anja Taljaard, , Adrienne Pearce, Kitty Harris, Brent Vermeulen | South Africa | |||
| Godzilla vs. Kong | Adam Wingard | Kyle Chandler, Zhang Ziyi, Millie Bobby Brown | United States | |||
| Little Fish | Chad Hartigan | Olivia Cooke, Jack O'Connell, Raúl Castillo, Soko | United States | |||
| The Matrix Resurrections | Lana Wachowski | Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss | United States | |||
| Mother/Android | Mattson Tomlin | Chloë Grace Moretz, Algee Smith, Raúl Castillo | United States | |||
| Needle in a Timestack | John Ridley | Leslie Odom Jr., Freida Pinto | United States | |||
| Night Raiders | Danis Goulet | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, , Alex Tarrant, Amanda Plummer, Violet Nelson | Canada New Zealand |
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| Outside the Wire | Mikael Håfström | Anthony Mackie, Damson Idris, Emily Beecham | United States | |||
| Oxygen | Alexandre Aja | Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi | France | |||
| Reminiscence | Lisa Joy | Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson | United States | |||
| Settlers | Wyatt Rockefeller | Sofia Boutella, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Jonny Lee Miller | United Kingdom | |||
| Stowaway | Joe Penna | Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson, Toni Collette | United States Germany |
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| Space Sweepers | Jo Sung-hee | Song Joong-ki, Kim Tae-ri | South Korea | |||
| Spider-Man: No Way Home | Jon Watts | Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch | United States | Superhero | ||
| Strawberry Mansion | Albert Birney, Kentucker Audley | Penny Fuller, Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki, Reed Birney, Linas Phillips, Constance Shulman | United States | Surrealist | ||
| The Suicide Squad | James Gunn | Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena | United States | |||
| Tides | Tim Fehlbaum | Nora Arnezeder, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Iain Glen | Switzerland Germany |
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| The Tomorrow War | Chris McKay | Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J. K. Simmons | United States | |||
| Venom: Let There Be Carnage | Andy Serkis | Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson | United States | |||
| Voyagers | Neil Burger | Colin Farrell, Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp | United States | |||
| Warning | Agata Alexander | Alex Pettyfer, Alice Eve, Annabelle Wallis, Benedict Samuel, Charlotte Le Bon, Thomas Jane, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rupert Everett, Tomasz Kot, Kylie Bunbury, Garance Marillier | United States Poland |
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| Zack Snyder's Justice League | Zack Snyder | Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons,Diane Lane,Connie Nielsen, J. K. Simmons | United States | Superhero | ||
| Zone 414 | Andrew Baird | Guy Pearce, Matilda Lutz, Travis Fimmel | United States | |||
Forthcoming[]
| Years |
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| 2022 2023 |
| 2022 | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Release | ||
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| 65 | Scott Beck, Bryan Woods | Adam Driver | United States | May 13, 2022 | ||
| Avatar 2 | James Cameron | Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang | United States | December 16, 2022 | ||
| Bigbug | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Elsa Zylberstein | France | February 11, 2022 | ||
| Distant | Will Speck and Josh Gordon | Anthony Ramos, Naomi Scott, Zachary Quinto | United States | September 16, 2022 | ||
| The Flash | Andy Muschietti | Ezra Miller, Ben Affleck, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle | United States | November 4, 2022 | ||
| Jurassic World: Dominion | Colin Trevorrow | Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard | United States | June 10, 2022 | ||
| Lightyear | Angus MacLane | Chris Evans | United States | June 17, 2022 | ||
| The Marvels | Nia DaCosta | Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani | United States | November 11, 2022 | ||
| Moonfall | Roland Emmerich | Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson | United States | February 4, 2022 | ||
| Prey | Dan Trachtenberg | Amber Midthunder | United States | 2022 | ||
| Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Jeff Fowler | Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, James Marsden | United States | April 8, 2022 | ||
| Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | Steven Caple Jr. | Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Peter Cullen | United States | June 24, 2022 | ||
| 2023 or later or unknown | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Release | ||
| The Adam Project | Shawn Levy | Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo | United States | |||
| After Yang | Kogonada | Colin Farrell | United States | |||
| Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Peyton Reed | Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer | United States | February 17, 2023 | ||
| Avatar 3 | James Cameron | Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana | United States | December 20, 2024[1] | ||
| Avatar 4 | James Cameron | Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana | United States | December 18, 2026[1] | ||
| Avatar 5 | James Cameron | Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana | United States | December 22, 2028[1] | ||
| Borderlands | Eli Roth | Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black | United States | |||
| Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg | Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart | United States Canada |
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| Dune: Part Two | Denis Villeneuve | Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson | United States | October 20, 2023 | ||
| Escape from Spiderhead | Joseph Kosinski | Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett | United States | |||
| Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | James Gunn | United States | May 5, 2023 | |||
| RoboCop Returns | Abe Forsythe | United States | [2] | |||
| They Cloned Tyrone | Juel Taylor | John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris | United States | |||
| The Three-Body Problem | Panpan Zhang | Zhang Jingchu | China | [3][4][5] | ||
| Warning | Agata Alexander | Annabelle Wallis, Alice Eve, Rupert Everett, Thomas Jane | United States Poland |
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| Warriors of Future | Ng Yuen-fai | Louis Koo, Sean Lau | Hong Kong | |||
See also[]
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ a b c McNary, Dave (April 22, 2017). "'Avatar' Sequel Release Dates Set, Starting in December 2020". Variety. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
- ^ Kit, Borys (November 20, 2019). "'Robocop Returns' Lands 'Little Monsters' Director Abe Forsythe (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ "三体 (2017)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
- ^ "三体 (2017)". movie.mtime.com (in Chinese). Mtime.com Inc. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
- ^ CaixinOnline (June 23, 2016). "Premiere of Film based on Acclaimed Sci-fi Novel 'The Three-Body Problem' Pushed Back until 2017". english.entgroup.cn. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
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