- It is the start of a
new year, like literally,
this video is going live
on January 1st, 2020,
but a new year means a new
batch of comic book movies
to go see in the theaters,
and that also means
that I get to do a video
going over all of them.
Now I've done videos like
this the past few years,
and I like doing them.
For one thing, they're
pretty quick and easy to do,
but also, I think they're a good resource
to have on hand.
They're sort of a good,
quick guide highlighting
what to expect from super hero cinema
in the coming 12 months,
and also maybe you can figure
out what you wanna go see
and what maybe you should avoid,
even though my opinions are
always apparently wrong.
But something feels different
about this year in particular.
Honestly to me, the lineup
feels kind of light.
By my count, we're only
getting about 11 films,
and that is if you stretch the definition
of comic book movie, and even then,
we're not getting any
tangentially-related films
like "Glass" or "The Incredibles."
These are all films
that are actually based
on comic book properties.
Also on the previous
list, a lot of those films
would often get delayed
until the next year,
so it's very possible that the
same thing could happen again
in this year and that this list
could wind up being much smaller,
but despite running the risk of being
grossly out of date real soon,
I'm gonna push forward and
do this video anyway, why?
Well like I said, it's
quick and easy to do.
This is a list of all
the comic book movies
you can expect from 2020.
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So to be clear, we're
only talking about movies
that are getting a theatrical release.
We're not talking about
the direct-to-video
DC animated movies that
come out this year,
nor are we counting any
of the Marvel TV shows
coming to Disney Plus.
You actually have to go
to the movie theaters
to see the movies I'm going
to be talking about today.
Regardless, things don't
officially kick off until February
with the release of "Birds
of Prey" on February 7th.
Sorry, "Birds of Prey and
the Fantabulous Emancipation
"of one Harley Quinn."
That title is seriously a mouthful.
This is a really unique film,
especially amongst this lineup.
It serves as both a
follow-up to "Suicide Squad"
showing Margot Robbie's
Harley Quinn as she tries
to distance herself from the Joker
while also serving as its own thing,
having Harley team up with
a rag-tag group of women
to try and save a young
girl from Black Mask
played by Ewan McGregor.
Now I have my misgivings
about this particular project.
I was all on board with
it in the beginning,
but between sticking
with a really unappealing
visual aesthetic that looks
a lot like "Suicide Squad"
and because the heroes and
the comic book characters
don't seem to be wearing any sort of
recognizable, iconic costumes,
I just kinda started
to lose interest in it.
It just doesn't seem like a
movie for me, and that's okay.
Not every movie needs to be
made specifically for me.
I just thought it would've been cool
if it did go in that direction.
I'm still willing to give
"Birds of Prey" a shot.
It does look fun and unique,
but if Ewan McGregor doesn't
wear a black mask in this movie
even though he's playing Black Mask,
then I'm gonna be mad about it for years.
Next we have "Blood Shot" on March 13th.
This will be the first film in the
much-hyped Valiant Cinematic Universe.
Vin Diesel plays Blood
Shot, a former Marine
brought back from the dead
thanks to nanotechnology.
He performs black-ops
missions despite having
no memory of his past life,
but when his memories start to come back,
he begins to get caught
up in a vast conspiracy
that goes deeper than
he originally thought.
"Blood Shot" looks more
like a sci-fi action movie
than it does a standard super
hero film, but that's okay.
After years of Marvel setting
the standard for the genre
and DC trying to carve out
their own little niche,
it'll be nice to see
what another publisher
can do in this space.
Like I mentioned earlier,
"Blood Shot" is being
positioned as the first entry
in the Valiant Cinematic Universe.
Much like Marvel did with "Iron Man,"
Valiant is starting small before expanding
and getting bigger until
they can eventually
do their own big-ass crossover events.
Only time will tell however
is this is going to be
the next "Iron Man" or the
next "Tom Cruise: The Mummy."
After "Blood Shot," the next
comic book movie is gonna be
on April 3rd, and it will
be "The New Mutants,"
for real this time.
No seriously, no probably not,
let's be honest. (exhaling)
Okay, so for those of you
who don't already know,
"The New Mutants" was going
to be the next chapter
in the Fox X-Men series of movies.
It was going to be about
five kids who discovered
that they have mutant
powers and coming to terms
with these new powers
while being locked up
in an asylum against their will.
It looked to be more of a
horror-focused take on the series,
really leaning in to the
haunted asylum trope.
Every year I've done this list,
"New Mutants" has been
on it, and every year,
it's gotten delayed into the next year.
It's honestly a miracle that
it hasn't been canceled yet.
It'd be a miracle if it went
straight to Hulu or something,
let alone get a theatrical release.
Now, rumor has it that director Josh Boone
has finally gotten creative
control back of this movie,
and not only that, but his
new corporate overlords
at Disney and Marvel have
officially signed off
on his particular vision, so allegedly,
this movie will come out in April,
and we might actually
get a brand new trailer
for it this month.
That's exciting, but I don't know.
I'll believe it when I see it, I guess.
I mean, fool me once, right?
Next on May 1st however
is a movie that I know
will be coming out, "Black Widow,"
the long-awaited solo outing
for Scarlett Johansson's avenger.
This movie is set to explore
Black Widow's mysterious past
from her time in the red room
to whatever the hell happened in Budapest.
Florence Pugh stars as Yelena Belova,
the blonde Black Widow from the comics.
David Harbor is Red Guardian,
and Rachel Weisz is Melina
Vostokoff, another Black Widow,
although in the comics, she's
known as the Iron Maiden.
It's a shame that this
movie is coming out now
after the character's death
in "Avengers: Endgame,"
but it's still nice to see.
The movie gives off a Jason Bourne
with super heroes vibe to it,
and that sounds like a winning
combination in my book.
Just remember that this movie takes place
after "Captain America: Civil War,"
but before "Avengers: Infinity War."
That's why Black Widow I still alive.
You're probably gonna
have to explain this a lot
before the movie comes
out, so I recommend making
business cards or something
that say that on it
to hand out to people when they ask,
and then on July 5th, we
get "Wonder Woman 1984."
Now I already did a whole
video explaining why
I'm super excited for this movie,
so you can click the eye over here
if you haven't seen that already.
If you have seen it already,
then you pretty much know
what I'm about to say next.
(dramatic music)
Rides the lightning.
Now after "Wonder Woman,"
we sort of enter into this
uncharted territory, so to speak.
All these films that I'm about to mention
are in various stages of
either just wrapping production
or somewhere in the weird
post-production limbo,
and aside from one of them,
none of these movies have trailers,
so who knows what they're
gonna turn out to be like,
and here we start with
"Morbius," the next entry
into the Sony Spiderverse of films,
scheduled for release on July 31st.
Morbius the Living Vampire started life
as a Spider-Man villain
before spinning off
into his own thing, becoming
a grim, dark, anti-hero,
kinda like Venom, and also like Venom,
because Morbius is technically
a Spider-Man character,
that means Sony's allowed
to make movies out of him,
so they're gonna use that
license to the fullest
and make a movie about Morbius,
and it's going to star
Jared Leto, of all people.
I don't know anybody
who's even remotely excited
for a Morbius movie.
Okay, that's not entirely
true, I know one guy,
this guy specifically.
It's just that Morbius
isn't really a character
that has anywhere near the same kind of
cultural cache as Venom does.
Nobody gets excited to
see Morbius on his own.
If he shows up in someone else's title,
then you're like oh cool, Morbius is here,
but on his own, it just
doesn't really drum up
the same sort of enthusiasm,
kinda like Gambit in a way.
I hope I'm wrong, mostly
for my friend's sake,
but also because I think the
idea of a Morbius solo movie
makes a lot more sense
than a Venom solo movie.
Morbius isn't as closely
connected to Spider-Man
as Venom is, so the idea
of making a Morbius film
that is separate from Spider-Man
in every conceivable way
just makes more sense
to me on a basic level,
but on the other hand, Jared
Leto is playing Morbius.
Hopefully we get more Academy
Award-winner Jared Leto
and a lot less "Suicide Squad,"
method actor Jaren Leto.
That's twice I put down
"Suicide Squad" in one video.
And then on August 7th,
we get "The Empty Man."
I know I have to explain this one.
"The Empty Man" is a six-issue mini-series
written by Cullen Bunn with
art by Vanessa R. Del Rey.
It was released by Boom! Studios in 2014
and is about the FBI and CDC teaming up
to investigate the empty man disease.
It's been spreading across
the country like wildfire,
causing its victims to
be violent, suicidal,
and eventually catatonic,
and along the way,
cults start forming in reverence
to this particular disease.
Now that does sound awesome,
but the movie doesn't really
sound anything like that.
According to "The Hollywood Reporter,"
the movie's gonna be about
an ex-cop still haunted
by the violent deaths of his wife and son,
trying to find a missing
girl while dealing with
this sinister presence that's around him,
but that said, it is still
nice to see a non-Marvel
or DC Comic book property become a movie,
regardless of the changes that are made
to the source material.
I'll be keeping my eye on this one
because it does sound very interesting,
and I'll be sure to talk about it,
if not on this channel, then
definitely on my Twitter page
because this is the type
of movie that will get lost
in the bigger picture.
This is the type of film
that will definitely
slip through the cracks,
and more people should
really know about it.
Hell, I didn't even know
about this until I started
writing the script for this episode.
A movie I did know about
however was "The King's Man"
coming out on September 18th.
This was originally supposed
to come out last year
sometime in December.
I have thought that because we
hadn't really heard anything
that it might get delayed, and guess what.
Exactly, anyway, "The
King's Man" is a prequel
to the Kingsman series
of films which itself
is based on the comic book
series "The Secret Service"
by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
Taking place during World War I,
this movie is all about the origins
of the secret organization, the Kingsmen.
Ralph Fiennes and Harris Dickinson star
as the spy protege duo who
must try and stop Rasputin
from killing millions of
people around the world.
Series mastermind Matthew Vaughn is back
to write and direct this one,
so we can expect some level of consistency
with the previous two films,
and this new time period may add
a nice little twist to the franchise,
and maybe this will actually get me
to give a damn about the series.
I was never really all
that into The Kingsman
as a whole, but this could be something.
The World War I setting alone makes it
a little bit more unique.
I mean, it worked well for Wonder Woman.
It should work well for "The
King's Man," and who knows.
Maybe in the next Kingsman movie,
they'll ride the lightning, too.
I doubt it, but then again,
every movie should feature
somebody who ride the
lightning at this point.
Next up is "Venom 2" on October 2nd.
I think this movie is still filming.
I don't think they've moved
to post-production yet,
so it might not make this year,
but it's tentatively
scheduled for October 2nd.
Now, the first Venom was a
movie, but by all accounts,
the second Venom looks to
be a very different movie.
It's being directed by
Andy Serkis this time,
and it looks like there's
gonna be a real effort
to try and make a
darker, more R-rated film
as opposed to the previous movie we got.
Now despite not knowing
anything about "Venom 2,"
I feel like it is going to be
a better film than the first one.
The first one really felt
like it was trying to appease
a boardroom rather than fans
of the comic book character,
but since the movie had
come out and became a hit,
and now that we have a
new director on board,
I feel like everybody, the
people at Sony and the fans,
know what a Venom movie
should and shouldn't be,
so hopefully, it will
learn from the first movie,
take all that was right
and fix all that was wrong
and actually make a good Venom experience.
I'm sure we're still gonna get a weird-ass
Tom Hardy performance,
but we're all used to it
by this point, so just go with it, man.
Still don't know how this is gonna work
without Tom Holland's
Spider-Man, but what do I know.
I'm a dumb-ass on Long Island.
And real quick, on October 16th,
Paramount Pictures is scheduled
to release "Snake Eyes,"
a sort-of sequel slash
spin-off slash reboot
of the G.I. Joe series.
Now yes, G.I. Joe is based
on an action figure line,
but in addition to being a
very popular action figure line
and Saturday morning
cartoon, G.I. Joe had one of
the best, most popular comic
book series of the 1980s.
In fact, G.I. Joe 21,
The Silent Interlude,
is considered by many
to be one of the most
influential mainstream
comic books of all time.
There's no dialogue in it.
It's all told with artwork,
and series creator Larry Hama
is still writing G.I. Joe to
this day, only now at IDW,
so I think it's important
to include G.I. Joe
on a list of comic book movies,
even though it started life
as an action figure line.
Whether or not this movie will be any good
of course remains to be seen.
The other two G.I. Joe
live-action films have been
fine I guess.
I own the first one on DVD.
It's gotta count for something.
And finally, we end the year
with "The Eternals" on November 6th.
"The Eternals" is the
start of a brand new era
for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Now yes, "Black Widow" is
the first film of phase four,
but that's a character
from a previous generation,
a known character from a
previous generation at that.
"The Eternals" is something completely new
and completely different.
It's going to lean heavily
into the cosmic side of things,
a lot of big, weird-ass
ideas and Jack Kirby oddness.
It already has an epic
cast with people like
Salma Hayek, Kit
Harington, Angelina Jolie,
Kumail Nanjiani and his hot new body,
and that is about the
extent of my knowledge
with regards to "The Eternals."
Seriously, I have no idea what this is
gonna even remotely be about.
I didn't grow up reading
"The Eternals" at all.
They didn't appear in any of
the cartoons I used to watch.
They don't even really
have comic books put out
with any sort of regularity.
I think the last series of
Eternals comics was in 2009.
Now that doesn't mean I'm
not interested in the movie.
I am, it's just that for the
first time in a very long time,
I have no idea what to
expect from a Marvel movie.
By all accounts, this is
gonna be a true cosmic odyssey
spanning thousands of
years and involve things
like the origin of life and what-not.
It feels like a lot, but
that's okay because I got
this little book for Christmas,
"The Eternals" by Neil
Gaiman and John Romita, Jr.,
and allegedly, the movie's
gonna take a lot of inspiration
from this book, so I'll
have plenty of time
to read this before
November and get caught up
with what the hell the
Eternals could possibly be,
and then, I can share my
thoughts with all of you,
and there you have it friends.
All of the comic book movies coming to
your local theater in 2020.
Again though, some of
these might get delayed
until 2021 and beyond.
I mean, Venom will probably get delayed.
"Eternals" probably won't get delayed.
Marvel's pretty good at
sticking to their release date.
"Snake Eyes" will definitely
get delayed, I guarantee it,
and maybe they'll delay New Mutants again
just for old time's sake,
but which of these films
are you most excited for?
Are there any of these movies
that you're going to
avoid like the plague?
Did I leave any out?
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all the comic book movies
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Date nights don't come cheap,
so you gotta pick the
best movies to go to,
or at least, the most interesting ones.
Thank you all for watching.
I will see you next time.
("New Year's Day")
