Upcoming Sci-Fi Movies (and related)

[javasaurus]

Superman Returns (2006)
Star Trek XI (2007)
Since science fiction movies have come up recently, I decided to see what all's coming up. There must be something original coming. Right? Wrong. I'll see lots of these, but not an original title in the bunch.

Much of the following list is based on information from IMDB and actuacine.net.

The Net 2 (2006)
King Kong (2005)
X-Men 3 (2006)
Fantastic Four (2005)
Spiderman 3 (2007)
Star Wars III (2005)
Hitchhikers Guide (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Batman Begins (2005)
Indian Jones 4 (2005)
Red Dwarf (2005)
XXX 2 (2005)
X-Files 2 (2005)
Doom (2005, based on video game?)
Zathura (2005, a sci-fi version of Jumanji, based on book by same author)
Mission Impossible 3 (2006)
Juraissic Park 4
Aliens 5
Mad Max 5
Underworld 2 (2005)
Many more superhero films (Iron Man, Wolverine, Submariner, Batman vs. Superman, Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider, Luke Cage)

I also saw that a new Herbie the Love Bug is coming out, and a new Bad News Bears, both this year.

Comments

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

Good Sci-fi movies are really tough to do. They are expensive for FX, and don't have a large enough target audience to warrant them. The large franchise types (star wars, star trek, superheroes) have a built in fan base, but original good sci-fi is tough. In recent years we've had only a few: Gattaca, Dark City, Butterfly Effect (which is only marginally sci-fi, more spec-fic), AI, and what else? Oh, Men in Black is another, though more action than real hard-core SF. Not much demand for the real thing, not enough to justify the costs. Which is really, really sad.

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

nearly forgot about Minority Report, 5th Element, and I'm sure others, but they're still few and far between.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

and actually minority report brings up an interesting thing -- even original movies are starting to look "the same". i would be, at first glance at the trailers (as in, not really being able to see detail), hard pressed to tell the difference between minority report and i robot. both follow that same shimmering white, silver, and blue color scheme for most of their effects and "worlds" in the backgrounds.

now, that may be realistic to the direction that human architecture is going, but its striking how similar they are at times.