Grab the Popcorn, There Are Tons of Movie Sequels Heading Your Way

Feb 9, 2018 3:51 pm·

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Pacific Rim: Uprising (March 23, 2018)

Jake Pentecost (John Boyega, Finn from the Star Wars films) realizes he must stop wasting his life and fight for the future of humanity to lead the next generation of Jaegers (giant robot bodies that humans climb within and guide) to battle huge monsters known as Kaiju.

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Avengers: Infinity War (May 4, 2018)

Promising to be the most amazing superhero film ever produced, this one brings together the entire Marvel movie universe, including the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, the Wasp, and Doctor Strange. Their enemy is the seemingly unstoppable Thanos (Josh Brolin), and whatever happens, the filmmakers are promising things will never be the same.

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Deadpool 2 (May 18, 2018)

Because Josh Brolin wasn't busy enough as Thanos, in this one he's playing future warrior Cable, who comes to the present and mixes it up with Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool. The first film was a subversive hit, and this one promises to one-up it.

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Ocean's 8 (June 8, 2018)

A great expression of female empowerment, bringing together some of the biggest stars in the world, among them Rihanna, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, and Anne Hathaway. Serving as both a sequel to and spin-off of George Clooney's Ocean's trilogy — which grew from 11 to 12 to 13 — it casts Sandra as Debbie Ocean (sister to George's Danny), and sees her bringing together a gang to pull off a heist at the Met Gala in New York.

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Incredibles 2 (June 15, 2018)

It's a classic Pixar adventure, and first sequel to 2004's The Incredibles (wow, has it really been 14 years?). While Helen Parr's Elastigirl (voiced by Holly Hunter) is out fighting crime, Craig T. Nelson's Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible is staying home with the kids: Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dash (Huck Milner), and little Jack-Jack, whose power is starting to show itself. At the same time, all of them, along with Samuel L. Jackson's Frozone, are going to have to go into action against The Underminer (voiced by John Ratzenberger, Ham in the Toy Story films).

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (June 22, 2018)

The Jurassic Park movies, now in their 25th anniversary, will have surpassed every expectation anyone could have had. The release of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will represent the fifth movie in the series, with Chris Pratt returning as dinosaur trainer Owen Grady and Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing. Also returning to the franchise is Jeff Goldblum as mathematician and chaos theorist Ian Malcolm.

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Ant-Man and the Wasp (July 6, 2018)

Yet a couple of more Marvel superheroes in what has become a seemingly endless line of adventures that are thrilling audiences around the world. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly star in the title roles. He's former petty criminal Scott Lang and she's Hope van Dyne, the scientist daughter of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer). The duo are sent on a mission by Pym to shrink into the "quantum realm" to rescue Hope, who is trapped there. It sounds pretty trippy, but the first film was so much fun.

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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (July 13, 2018)

Drac (Adam Sandler) and his monster crew head out on a luxury cruise to get a break from working that hotel life. All is fine and dandy until Drac's daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) takes note that her dad is all heart-eyes over Ericka, the ship's captain who seems to have a secret of her own and is well, pure evil. Sounds…uh, scary!

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (July 20, 2018)

In the original Mamma Mia!, Sophie Sheridan (Amanda Seyfried) has invited, unbeknownst to her mother, Donna (Meryl Streep), three men — Bill Anderson, Harry Bright and Sam Carmichael — to her upcoming wedding, having learned from her mom’s diary that one of then could be her father. In the end, Sam’s the man and, having been Donna’s true love, ends up marrying her. Sophie has her answer, everyone’s happy, they go off singing, and the story is finished. But what happened before? That is what’s explored in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, which, while starting off in the present, ends up going to the past to see how Donna, Sam, and Harry met and got to know each other. Playing the younger versions of the characters are Lily James as Donna, Hugh Skinner as Harry, and Jeremy Irvine as Sam. Plus we get Cher as Sophie's grandmother, Ruby. And, of course, more music from ABBA.

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Mission Impossible: Fallout (July 27, 2018)

No mission is more impossible than trying to find out what any film in the franchise is about ahead of its release. What we do know is that Tom Cruise is back as agent Ethan Hunt and that the actor will be performing some more death-defying stunts. He's rejoined by Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Michelle Monaghan as Julia Meade-Hunt, and Simon Pegg as Benjamin "Benji" Dunn. The villain of the piece is Superman…er, Henry Cavill.

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The Equalizer 2 (August 3, 2018)

Another film whose plot is unknown. Denzel Washington returns in the role of Robert McCall (played by Edward Woodward in the '80s TV series that inspired the films), who tries to help the helpless. Antoine Fuqua is back as director too.

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Johnny English 3 (September 20, 2018)

Prep school teacher Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) returns to the world of spying when a baddie has revealed the identities of all active undercover agents located in Britain. Sounds serious, but this is a Bond spoof through and through.

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix (Nov. 2, 2018)

Continuing the timeline of the past three movies in the series, the focus is on Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, the mutant with telekinetic abilities. We saw her struggling to control her powers in X-Men: Apocalypse, and things get worse here. Growing even more powerful, she finds herself being corrupted and growing darker. More stars coming back from the other films are Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, James McAvoy as Professor X and Michael Fassbender as Magneto.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Griswald (Nov. 16, 2018)

Self-proclaimed magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is back, recruited by Jude Law's Albus Dumbledore to try and stop dark wizard Gellert Grindlewald (Johnny Depp), who is threatening the muggle world. David Yates (who directed four Harry Potter films and the first Fantastic Beasts) is back in the director's chair, with J.K. Rowling writing the screenplay. So glad she's finding work to make ends meet.

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Creed 2 (Nov. 21, 2018)

Do you think there is anyone more surprised than Sylvester Stallone that Rocky Balboa — the underdog boxer he created just over 40 years ago — is still alive? And not just as a pop culture icon of the past, but a living, breathing creation that has defied the odds to star in six films, co-star in a seventh and preparing for an eighth. The latter is the sequel to Creed, for which he will co-star and likely co-write. Creed focused on Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), son of Rocky’s opponent turned close friend Apollo, with Rocky coming out of retirement to serve as Adonis’ trainer. This allowed Stallone to play a more textured version of the character, who had to battle cancer at the same time. Rumored plot for the sequel will have Adonis going up against the son of Ivan Drago, the man who killed his father in the ring in Rocky IV.

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Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (Nov. 22, 2018)

In this CG animated sequel to 2012's Wreck-It-Ralph, Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) must team up with Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) to venture into the dangerous world of the Internet to obtain parts needed for a damaged video game. Not sure this one needed a sequel, but hopes are high considering how enjoyable the first was.

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Mary Poppins Returns (Dec. 25, 2018)

It's the time of the Great Depression in England in 1935. The focus is now on the grown-up Jane and Michael Banks, who, along with Michael's three children, find their hope restored (Michael learning to enjoy life again after the death of his wife) when nanny Mary Poppins returns to their lives. Apparently, she hasn't aged a day, must be nice. Co-starring is Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (March 22, 2019)

Not much out there plot wise, but fingers are crossed that we'll actually see more of Godzilla than we did in the original from 2014, where Big G appears in only about 14 minutes of the film. This, by the way, is only the appetizer for 2020's Godzilla vs Kong, which will serve as a sequel to both this and Kong: Skull Island.

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Avengers 4 (May 3, 2019)

Uh, we dunno. We're assuming that the film, which sets the stage for the next wave of Marvel movies, will be picking up the pieces from Infinity War. It's also supposed to introduce Brie Larson as Captain Marvel.

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John Wick: Chapter 3 (May 17, 2019)

They haven't announced what the premise of the third film will be, but what we do know is that we can expect off-the-wall action with Keanu Reeves cooler than ever as he strikes back against those who would do him (and have done his dog) wrong. A great high-energy film series.

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Toy Story 4 (June 21, 2019)

Here's how the Pixar Wiki describes the next film in this beloved series: "Sometime after being given to their new owner Bonnie Anderson, Woody and his friends go on an adventure to find Bo Peep and bring her to Bonnie's House." Perhaps it's time we get some sort of Woody/Bo Peep love story we've always needed?

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Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 (July 5, 2019)

Spidey in the form of actor Tom Holland proved himself to be awesome, first as part of Captain America: Civil War and then in his own film. Considering that this sequel will be released following the next two Avengers films, our hero will no doubt be dealing with the ramifications of what takes place.

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Top Gun: Maverick (July 12, 2019)

Now this is a sequel a long time in coming. The original was released more than 30 years ago, and was one of the early movies to turn Tom Cruise into a superstar. We're going to take a leap and assume that the actor's character of Maverick will be teaching young pilots and find himself, through circumstances, back in the pilot's seat himself.

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It: Chapter Two (Sept. 6, 2019)

The only thing surprising about the news that a sequel to Stephen King’s It is on the way, is that it won’t reach theaters until 2019. Based on the 1986 novel by King, It tells the story of a group of friends as kids who are terrorized by a force of evil that takes the form of Pennywise The Clown, played to perfection by Bill Skarsgard. Whereas King decided to have the story jump back and forth between the past and the present (where the friends are now grown and forced to come back together to battle the resurrected evil), the filmmakers wisely decided to separate the story into two distinct parts so that what we’ll get in the sequel is the segment focusing on the adults.

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Wonder Woman 2 (Nov. 1, 2019)

What we do know is that Gal Gadot is returning as the title character, having previously played her in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, her own film, and Justice League. Also, that Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins will be back calling the shots, and the story is rumored to take place prior to Batman v Superman.

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Bond 25 (Nov. 8, 2019)

Daniel Craig is returning for the fifth and final time as James Bond, in a film scheduled to be released toward the end of next year that has no official title, no director attached, and no word of when production is starting. For anyone who grew up with the early 007 films, time was we'd get a new movie every two years. Now we're lucky if we get them every four years. C'mon, guys, the old time fans only have so many Bond films left in them!

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Frozen 2 (Nov. 27, 2019)

The further adventures of Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and, of course, Olaf, six years after the original film was released.

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Star Wars Episode IX (Dec. 20, 2019)

Every time we turn around, Lucasfilm is announcing a new Star Wars trilogy that has nothing to do with the Skywalker saga that has been a part of all of the previous "episodes". This one is promising to wrap up the stories of Kylo Ren, Finn, Poe Dameron and Rey. Returning to direct is The Force Awakens' J.J. Abrams.

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