My 30 most anticipated movies of 2021 are listed below in release date order.
About 18 of these movies were also in my 2020 list before their release dates got changed.
Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix 4 is my most anticipated film of 2021, followed by Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad.
About 17 movies in my list are not based on existing big franchises and they are marked with an asterisk. They are either from an original screenplay or based on a book.
You can click on the release dates to view the trailers.
1. Russo Brothers’ Cherry (February 26) *
2. Chaos Walking (March 5) *
3. BenDavid Grabinski’s Happily (March 19) *
4. Godzilla vs. Kong (March 31)
5. Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead (May 21) *
6. A Quiet Place Part II (May 28)
7. Pixar’s Luca (June 18) *
8. The Tomorrow War (July 2) *
9. Black Widow (July 9)
10. M. Night Shyamalan’s Old (July 23) *
11. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (July 23)
12. James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad (August 6)
13. BIOS (August 20) *
14. Lisa Joy’s Reminiscence (August 27) *
15. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (September 3)
16. James Wan’s Malignant (September 10) *
17. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (October 1)
18. No Time To Die (October 8)
19. Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho (October 22) *
20. Eternals (November 5)
21. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch (TBA) *
22. Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge (TBA) *
23. Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (TBA) *
24. Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up (TBA) *
25. Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley (December 3) *
26. Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (December 10)
27. Spider-Man: No Way Home (December 17)
28. Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix 4 (December 22)
29. Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man (December 22)
30. Paul Thomas Anderson’s Soggy Bottom (December 25) *
