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Upcoming Sci-Fi Movies in 2013 (Part 1 of 3)

                                               Science fiction, fantasy & horror movies  we get to see in 2013 . . . after the Earth has narrowly escaped the  Mayan apocalypse!
 (Read part 2 of this article next week.)
 
 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

 PLOT: 15 years after their traumatic  gingerbread-house incident, siblings Hansel and Gretel have become a  formidable team of bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over  the world.
 Director: Tommy Wirkola
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Thomas Mann, Peter Stormare, Zoe Bell
 Release date: 11 January
 WE SAY:  A so-called "European co-production" filmed in Germany – usually not a good sign. But it stars rising star Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker and Hawkeye in The Avengers) so there's some hope.
 
 Warm Bodies

 PLOT: After a zombie becomes involved with the  girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a  sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
 Director: Jonathan Levine
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Dave Franco
 Release date: 1 February
 WE SAY: New movie by the director of All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. If vampires can fall in love, then why not zombies?
 
 Beautiful Creatures

 PLOT: A supernatural drama centered on a local  teenager and the mysterious new girl in town who uncover dark secrets  about their respective families.
 Director: Richard LaGravenese
Stars: Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum
 Release date: 15 February
 WE SAY: Southern gothic. Warner is obviously hoping  to replicate some of the old Harry Potter magic with this adaptation of  the first book in the series of popular "young adult" novels with  magical overtones, but the books aren't all that well-known though.  (Opens on the same weekend as the fifth Die Hard movie, A Good Day to Die Hard.)
 
 Escape from Planet Earth

 PLOT: Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself  caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous  alien planet: Earth!
 Director: Callan Brunker
Stars: Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, James Gandolfini, Jessica Alba
 Release date: 15 February
 WE SAY: A computer-animated movie by the studio that brought us . . . Hoodwinked.
 
 I, Frankenstein

 PLOT: Frankenstein's creature finds himself caught in an all-out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.
 Director: Stuart Beattie
Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Yvonne Strahovski, Bill Nighy, Jai Courtney
 Release date: 22 February
 WE SAY: If the story sounds a bit familiar then it  is probably because this movie is based on a graphic novel by  actor-screenwriter Kevin Grevioux, who co-wrote the first Underworld movie.
 
 Elysium

 PLOT: Set in the year 2159, where the very wealthy  lives on a man-made space station while the rest of population reside on  a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to  the polarized worlds.
 Director: Neill Blomkamp
Stars: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga
 Release date: 1 March
 WE SAY: Highly-anticipated sophomore directing effort by South African-Canadian Neill Blomkamp of District 9 fame. Expect some allegorical sci-fi and loads of Prometheus-style hype as the movie's details have been kept under tight wraps.
 
 Oz: The Great and Powerful

 PLOT: How the Wizard arrived in Oz and became the ruler. A prequel to The Wizard of Oz.
 Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis
 Release date: 8 March
 WE SAY: Yet another "dark" retelling of a fairy tale, this time by Evil Dead and Spider-man director Sam Raimi.
 Predictably one of two Hollywood Oz projects for 2013, the other being the computer-animated Dorothy of Oz  "sequel" which features the voice talents of Patrick Stewart, Dan  Aykroyd and  Kelsy Grammer amongst others. Unsurprisingly an adaptation  of Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (it was also the basis for a successful stage musical) is scheduled for 2014.
 
 Carrie

 PLOT: A sheltered high school girl unleashes her newly developed telekinetic powers after she is pushed too far by her peers.
 Director: Kimberly Peirce
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Judy Greer, Gabriella Wilde
 Release date: 15 March
 WE SAY: Another adaptation of Stephen King's first  published novel or a remake of the 1978 movie starring Sissy Spacek? You  decide. (Weirdly enough there had already been a made-for-TV remake in  2002 no-one knows about and a belated, failed sequel in 1999 titled The Rage: Carrie 2.)
 
 Jack the Giant Killer

 PLOT: A modern day fairy tale in which the  long-standing peace between men and giants is threatened, as a young  farmer leads an expedition into the giants' kingdom in hopes of rescuing  a kidnapped princess.
 Director: Bryan Singer
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Stanley Tucci, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy
 Release date: 22 March
 WE SAY: Another revisionist fairy tale, this time directed by Bryan Singer of X-Men and Superman Returns fame. The movie was supposed to have been released in 2012 but was moved to 2013.)
 
 G.I. Joe: Retaliation

 PLOT: The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their  mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within  the government that jeopardize their very existence.
 Director: Jon M. Chu
Stars: Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Ray Park, Bruce Willis
 Release date: 29 March
 WE SAY: Moved from 2012 to 2013 at the last moment  supposedly to convert to 3-D, this movie is both a reboot and sequel at  the same time as it introduces The Rock and Bruce Willis to the 2009  franchise.
 
 The Host

 PLOT: A parasitic alien soul is injected into the  body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of  taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond  with her host and sets out to aid other free humans.
 Director: Andrew Niccol
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, William Hurt, Jake Abel
 Release date: 29 March
 WE SAY: Film based on author Stephanie Meyer's only non-Twilight novel, which is basically Invasion of the Body Snatchers  as told by one of the pod people.  Needless to say, it is obviously a  romance. (We called it "what would happen if Ned Flanders decided to  write science fiction" in a review.)
 Will it make the same sort of megabucks at the box office? Hollywood  is certainly hoping so: the bookshelves are groaning under the weight of  a gazillion Young Adult paranormal books out there begging to be  filmed! Krrr-ching!


Upcoming Sci-Fi Movies in 2013 (Part 2 of 3)

                                               More science fiction, fantasy & horror movies we get to see in 2013!
 (Read part 1 of this article here; read part three here.)
 
 The Evil Dead

 PLOT: Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety,  heads to a remote cabin with her brother and a group of friends, where  the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads to danger and horror.
 Director: Fede Alvarez
Stars: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas, Lou Taylor Pucci
 Release date: 12 April
 WE SAY: A Hollywood remake designed to irk long-time fans of Sam Raimi's 1981 cult horror movie. That it is scripted by Diablo Cody of Jennifer's Body fame and doesn't feature the legendary Bruce Campbell isn't helping either.
 
 Oblivion

 PLOT: A court martial sends a veteran soldier to a  distant planet, where he has to destroy the remains of an alien race.  The arrival of an unexpected traveler causes him to question what he  knows about the planet, his mission, and himself.
 Director: Joseph Kosinski
Stars: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko
 Release date: 26 April
 WE SAY: The sophomore directing effort of TRON: Legacy  director Joseph Kosinski. The project is based in a graphic novel by  Kosinski and the project has been in development for the past five  years.
 
 Iron Man 3

 PLOT: Rumor has it that Tony Stark / Iron Man will head to China to face his toughest opponent, the Mandarin.
 Director: Shane Black
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle
 Release date: 3 May
 WE SAY: This franchise just might get a much-needed  shot in the arm by new director Shane Black, who takes over from Jon  Favreau. Black worked on the Lethal Weapon movies amongst others and collaborated with Robert Downey Jr. on the underappreciated Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Speaking of which, Downey Jr. will probably be richer than his fictional movie counterpart after this movie!
 
 Star Trek 2

 PLOT: Who knows?
 Director: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch
 Release date: 17 May
 WE SAY: Is Cumberbatch Khan? Will Leonard Nimoy  appear again as Spock Prime? The Internet is awash with endless fan  speculation, but will this sequel to 2009's reboot live up to all the  typical J.J. Abrams hype?
 
 Epic

 PLOT: A teenager finds herself transported to a deep  forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces  of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group  characters in order to save their world – and ours.
 Director: Chris Wedge
 Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé Knowles, Colin Farrell
 Release date: 24 May
 WE SAY: New flick by the director of Ice Age and Robots isn't quite what you'd expect. Check the trailer here: http://youtu.be/Nd3vfEU_cI8
 
 After Earth

 PLOT: After a crash landing, a father and son explore a planet that was evacuated by humans 1000 years earlier.
 Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, Sophie Okonedo
 Release date: 7 June
 WE SAY: After a string of flops Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan can still find gainful employment?!
 
 Man of Steel

 PLOT: A child sent to Earth from a dying planet is  adopted by a couple in rural Kansas. Posing as a journalist, he uses his  extraordinary powers to protect his new home from an insidious evil.
 Director: Zack Snyder
Stars: Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon
 Release date: 14 June
 WE SAY: This Superman reboot by 300 and Watchmen director Zack Snyder promises to stray from the path trod by Richard Donner's influential 1978 Superman: The Movie which Bryan Singer followed in 2006 with Superman Returns. A new Superman and no Lex Luthor as Supes battles it out with super villains from his native planet of Krypton!
 
 The End of the World

 PLOT: While attending a party at James Franco's  house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced  with the apocalypse.
 Directors: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
Stars: Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Paul Rudd
 Release date: 14 June
 WE SAY: Meta-textual comedy by the Knocked Up crowd.
 
 World War Z

 PLOT: A U.N. employee is racing against time and  fate, as he travels the world trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly  Zombie pandemic.
 Director: Marc Forster
Stars: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, David Morse, James Badge Dale
 Release date: 21 June
 WE SAY:  As you might see from the above plot description the movie is going to be somewhat different from Max Brooks' fan favorite World War Z  novel set in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. Apparently the  movie ran into all kinds of problems as its budget also skyrocketed.
 
 Pacific Rim

 PLOT: When an alien attack threatens the Earth's existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace.
 Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, Charlie Hunnam
 Release date: 12 July
 WE SAY:  The director of Hellboy's latest flick has giant robots in it and that's about all fans need to know to go watch it!


Upcoming Sci-Fi Movies in 2013 (Part 3 of 3)

                                               Our final installment in our series of science fiction, fantasy & horror movies we will get to see in 2013 . . .
 (Read part 1 and part 2 of this article.)
 
 R.I.P.D.

 PLOT: Action comedy in which a recently slain cop  joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace  Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.
 Director: Robert Schwentke
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon
 WE SAY:  Zombie cops? It sounds more like a TV pilot than an actual movie and the fact that the screenwriters worked on Aeon Flux and the Clash of the Titans remake doesn't help either.
 
 The Wolverine

 PLOT: Wolverine travels to Japan to train with a samurai warrior.
 Director: James Mangold
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada
 Release date: 26 July 2013
 WE SAY: Second movie featuring the X-Men character played by Hugh Jackman.
 
 RoboCop

 PLOT: In a crime-ridden city, a fatally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.
 Director: José Padilha
Stars: Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, Samuel L. Jackson
 Release date: 9 August
 WE SAY:  Remake of the 1987 Paul Verhoeven classic by the Brazilian director of the Elite Squad movies.
 
 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

 PLOT: The son of Poseidon and his friends head into the Sea of Monsters to find the mythical Golden Fleece.
 Director: Thor Freudenthal
Stars: Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson
 Release date: 16 August
 WE SAY: Adaptation of second book in Rick Riordan's series of books.
 
 The Seventh Son

 PLOT: An 18th century adventure story centered on  young Thomas, who is apprenticed to the local Spook to learn to fight  evil spirits. His first great challenge comes when the powerful Mother  Malkin escapes her confinement while the Spook is away.
 Director: Sergey Bodrov
Stars: Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges, Alicia Vikander
 Release date: 18 October
 WE SAY: Warner is looking for the next Harry Potter  movie franchise, but they can't have too much faith in this series'  established readership seeing as they have changed its title.
 This movie is based on the first book in the so-called Wardstone Chronicles series of fantasy novels by Joseph Delaney (10 books have been published thus far). Confusingly the books were published as The Last Apprentice in the U.S. however and the first book is known as The Spook's Apprentice.
 Incidentally, a search for "Wardstone Chronicles" on Amazon.com will also bring up a series of unrelated fantasy books by M.R. Mathias called the Wardstone Trilogy. Sigh.
 The studio was probably hoping not to confuse audiences with The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the 2010 Disney flop starring Nicolas Cage.
 
 Ender's Game

 PLOT: 70 years after a horrific alien war, an  unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space  to prepare for a future invasion.
 Director: Gavin Hood
Stars: Harrison Ford, Abigail Breslin, Ben Kingsley
 Release date: 1 November
 WE SAY: After a gazillion years in development hell  Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic 1985 is finally being made  into a movie by South African Gavin Hood of Tsotsi and Wolverine fame.
 
 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

 PLOT: The continuing adventures of Katniss Everdeen,  which take place in a futuristic dystopian world, as she prepares for  the Quarter Quell.
 Director: Francis Lawrence
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Jena Malone,  Liam Hemsworth,  Elizabeth Banks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Woody  Harrelson, Stanley Tucci
 Release date: 22 November
 WE SAY: The second novel in Suzanne Collins' popular  Young Adult series. Trying to milk it for all its worth, Hollywood is  going to adapt the last novel in the series (Mockingjay) as two movies in the same way that they did with Twilight and Hobbit.
 
 The Hobbit: There and Back Again

 PLOT: Thorin and Company have reached Lake-town and  it is time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill his contract with the  dwarves . . .
 Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elijah Wood, Luke Evans
 Release date: 13 December
 WE SAY:  Second part of the Lord of the Rings "prequel."
 
 Riddick

 PLOT: Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a  desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators  and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before.
 Director: David Twohy
Stars: Karl Urban, Vin Diesel, Katee Sackhoff
 Release date: TBA 2013
 WE SAY: Third movie to feature Vin Diesel as Riddick following Pitch Black (2000) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004).
 
 Gravity

 PLOT: Astronauts attempt to return to earth after debris crashes into their space shuttle, leaving them drifting alone in space.
 Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Basher Savage
 Release date: TBA 2013
 WE SAY: New movie by the acclaimed director of Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban and Children of Men.
 
 Movies that (probably) won't make it in time for 2013: Steven Spielberg's Robopocalypse (moved to 2014); We Mortals Are (aka All You Need is Kill, starring Tom Cruise); Neuromancer (William Gibson adap); Snow Crash; Stephen King's The Stand (to be directed by Ben Affleck); Darkchylde (based on the Dark Horse comic, to be directed by John Carpenter).


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