The Killer (November 10)
In the last decade, David Fincher has only directed three films:Gone Girl, Netflix’sMank, and the upcoming action thrillerThe Killer. This film is based on a French graphic novel series by Alexis Nolent and artist Luc Jacamon, but it isn’t widely known in America. That may soon change, because Michael Fassbender is headlining the film as Christian, the titular assassin for hire.
Story details are currently sparse, but the cast includes Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Sophie Charlotte, Sala Baker, Kerry O’Malley, Emiliano Pernía, and Gabriel Polanco. This may be Netflix’s biggest action flick sinceExtraction 2andHeart of Stone. And with Fincher at the helm, we expect great things.
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Leave the World Behind (December 8)
Compared to some of Netflix’s other upcoming films,Leave the World Behindmay be flying under the radar. But there’s no ignoring a cast that includes Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha’la Herrold, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans, and Kevin Bacon. The movie is based on Rumaan Alam’s novel of the same name and follows a couple, Amanda (Roberts) and Clay (Hawke), who are on vacation in an Airbnb with their kids, Archie (Charlie Evans) and Rosie (Farrah Mackenzie).
The family is surprised when the Airbnb’s owners, George (Ali) and Ruth Washington (Herrold), arrive and tell them that a blackout has apparently taken out all power and communication devices. Much to their horror, the two families come to realize that this is not an isolated incident, and the modern world that they knew may not ever be coming back.
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (December 15)
In 2000,Chicken Runwas an unexpected animated hit. Because of the film’s perennial popularity, Netflix has moved forward with a sequel,Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. Like the original film,Dawn of the Nuggetis a stop-motion animated flick, and it takes place shortly after the first movie. Rocky Rhodes (Zachary Levi) and his wife, Ginger (Thandiwe Newton), led their fellow chickens and roosters to freedom, and now they have a daughter of their own named Molly (voiced byThe Last of Usstar Bella Ramsey).
In the new film, the flock thinks that they’ve found the perfect place to live out their lives without the threat of being captured and eaten by humans. Unfortunately, there’s a looming threat on the horizon that imperils everything they’ve built. And if Ginger and Rocky want to safeguard their loved ones, they may have to stage a break-in to a human compound to neutralize the threat.
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Maestro (December 20)
Netflix is throwing its hat into the 2023 Oscar race withMaestro, a new biopic directed and co-written by Bradley Cooper, in which he plays the famous composer Leonard Bernstein. The film will explore Leonard’s relationship with his wife, Felicia Montealegre, as played by Carey Mulligan. Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg are executive producing the film with Cooper, and a very impressive cast has been lined up, including Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, Sarah Silverman, Michael Urie, Gideon Glick, Sam Nivola, Miriam Shor, and Alexa Swinton.
Maestrowill get a limited theatrical release on November 22, if you want to see it on the big screen. That’s largely to shore up the film’s Oscar eligibility. If you’re able to wait a month, it will be on Netflix itself just in time for Christmas.
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Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire (December 22)
Can Zack Snyder make an epic movie under four hours? That’s a rhetorical question related toZack Snyder’s Justice League.Rebel Moonhas been coming for a long time, and it’s best to think of it as Zack Snyder’sStar Wars. It’s got its own evil space empire and everything. The first of two planned films,Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire, will introduce Kora (Sofia Boutella), a woman who will do anything to stop the Imperium from overrunning her adoptive world. That’s why she’s assembled a group of warriors to confront the Imperium army.
Snyder has assembled a cast that includes Djimon Hounsou, Charlie Hunnam, Michiel Huisman, Staz Nair, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Cleopatra Coleman, E. Duffy, Anthony Hopkins, Jena Malone, Ed Skrein, and Fra Fee. This is going to be Netflix’s big blockbuster movie of December, but keep in mind that the conclusion,Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver, won’t arrive until August 16, 2025.
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