Top Films For 2019 – Part One By West Wales Chronicle’s Adam Roberts

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Top Films For 2019: Part One.
Written by Adam Roberts.

Hellboy Reboot.
This upcoming reboot was originally meant to follow Hellboy II: The Golden Army, but as that turned out to be a flop in the box-office, they decided to ditch the whole thing all together. In this film, Hellboy comes against a medieval sorceress known as Nimue the Blood Queen, who seeks out to destroy all of mankind. Superseding the cast for this upcoming reboot will be David Harbour as Hellboy, alongside Ian McShane as Trevor Bruttenholm, Hellboy’s adoptive father, Sasha Lane as Alice Monaghan who displays magical abilities, Brian Gleeson as Merlin the Wizard and Milla Jovovich as Nimue the Blood Queen.
Hellboy is set to be released on January the 11th, 2019.

Glass.
First, M. Night Shyamalan gave us Unbreakable. Then he gave us Slit. Now he wraps things up with Glass, the third instalment of this epic trilogy. Don’t ask me how but it all leads up to all three of them ending up together in a psychiatric ward and if I’m right, this should truly end up being one hell of a finale. Here they come back to reprise the roles of David Dunn (Bruce Willis), Kevin Wendell Crumb/The Horde (James McAvoy) and Elijah Price/Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson).

As Elijah stated in Unbreakable, the worst kind of villain is the one with the brains, the one who uses his mind. I wonder what plan Mr. Glass has installed this time!
Glass is set to be released on January the 18th, 2019.

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.
After the reign of Lord Business’ attack on Taco Tuesday, everything has become a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Emmet pretends everything is still awesome, as everyone else bares a grip on the reality as they prepare for more battles ahead, an alien invader called Sweet Mayhem comes from outer space to abduct all his friends Wyldstyle, Batman, Metalbeard and so on. Emmet must hone his master building skills as they are put to the ultimate challenge. For this time, he must use them to take the battle to Sweet Mayhem and rescue his friends and restore harmony to his city and the rest of his world. Reprising the roles will be Chris Pratt as Emmet, Elizabeth Banks as Lucy/Wyldstyle, Will Arnett as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Nick Offerman as Metalbeard.

Lego Movie 2 is set to be released on February the 8th, 2019.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
Following the events of X-Men Apocalypse, this next instalment of the X-Men series dates back to 1992 bringing them nearly a decade later. Here the X-Men are national heroes, battling missions of great dander. During a rescue mission in space, without warning their ship is struck by a solar flare, resulting Jean Grey to lose control of her abilities, unleashing the phoenix that’s buried deep inside her. Coming back to reprise the roles will be Charles Xavier/Professor-X (Janes McAvoy, Raven Darkholme/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) Hank McCoy/Beast (Nicholas Hoult) Jean Grey/Phoenix (Sophie Turner) Scott Summers/Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) Storm (Alexandra Shipp) Peter Maximoff/Quicksilver (Evan Peters) Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Michael Fassbender).
Dark Phoenix is set to be released on February the 14th, 2019.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
As Hiccup is now Chief of Berk and has created a paradise for all dragons without fear of being hunted, his dragon Toothless comes across another dragon who is very much like him. Being a possible mate, she lures him away to a hidden world only thought to be a myth. Meanwhile danger is coming to threaten the village and now man and dragon must fight to save everything most precious to them. Now Hiccup must prove his worth as the villages new leader. Reprising the roles once again are Jay Baruchel as Hiccup, Craig Ferguson as Gobber the Belch, America Ferrers as Astrid and Cate Blanchett as Valka along with Kit Harrington as Eret, T. J. Miller and Kristen Wiig as Tuffnut and Ruffnut Thornston.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 is set to release March 1st, 2019.

Captain Marvel.
Starting all the way back in the 90s, Carol Danvers a former pilot for the U. S. Airforce is being followed by Captain Marvel. As now a member of an elite Kree military unit known as Starforce she ends up in an accident and her DNA becomes fused with Kree blood which gives her superhuman abilities. Now with this gift that she’s been given she becomes one of the world’s, mightiest heroes. Taking on the role for the first time as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel is Brie Larson and joining her will be Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, Djimon Hounson as Korath and reappearing will be Lee Pace, as the one and only Ronan the Accuser.
Captain Marvel is set to release March 8, 2019.

Please come back for ‘Part Two’ and thanks for reading!

West Wales film columnist Adam Roberts

 

 


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