![]() ![]() Portman stars as Lucy Cola, an accomplished astronaut who has a transcendent experience on her space-walk, a moment that’s so awe-inspiring that her life and her very world seem so much smaller in comparison. But much like Hawley’s mind-bending Marvel series Legion, Lucy in the Sky looks to be more of a psychological exploration of an ever-expanding human consciousness and less of a straight-up sci-fi space-survival story. Natalie Portman’s title character feels that same pull in Lucy in the Sky, Noah Hawley’s decidedly more grounded film, at least in terms of its setting. ![]() ![]() Why We're Excited for It: Ever since Alfonso Cuarón took Sandra Bullock into space in 2013’s stunning sci-fi film Gravity, we’ve wanted to go back. Brown, Elliott DiGuiseppi, Noah Hawley (revisions)Ĭast: Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Zazie Beetz, Nick Offerman, Ellen Burstyn, Tig Notaro, Colman Domingo I welcome the director wading in, actively eschewing the potentially suffocating boundaries that come with making a comic book movie and instead, turning in a focused character study. It's also a big swerve for director and co-screenwriter Todd Phillips to make a movie that is decidedly not a populist R-rated comedy. I'm confident Joaquin Phoenix, who has never come within spitting distance of a role or world like this in his career, will put some bloom back on the rose with his all-in, balls-to-the-wall performance. It's easy to write off the movie that attempts to explain a sociopath's descent into madness by making the movie's starting point an aggrieved white man on the wrong side of 40 who feels he hasn't gotten what he's deserved. Joker has also gotten a reasonable amount of skepticism thanks to early trailers. It attempts to create an origin story for a character so deeply ingrained into the pop culture consciousness that, at this point, it's the definition of hubristic to try and pathologize him. It has no ties to any DC Comics featuring the infamous Batman antagonist and yet it readily lifts key figures from that canon. Why We're Excited for It: Joker is a fascinating project. ![]() Since fall technically begins at the end of September, we’ve narrowed the eligibility window down to October through December of 2019, but as you’ll see below there’s really something for everyone heading to multiplexes (and streaming services) this fall movie season.īehold, Collider’s 35 most anticipated fall movies.Ĭast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Marc Maron, Brett Cullen While blockbusters and superhero movies are now a 12-month-a-year affair, the fall movie season also brings with it the promise of character-driven dramas and movies from some of the most acclaimed filmmakers working today, as Oscar season usually coincides with the four-month period at the end of the calendar year and studios put on their Sunday Best.Īs fall movie season approaches, and with a variety of films upon us, we here at Collider have taken the opportunity to put together a list of the movies we’re most looking forward to seeing. Film festivals are getting underway, kids are going back to school, and pumpkin spice lattes have made their triumphant return to Starbucks, which means one thing: fall movie season is upon us. ![]()
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