距离巴兹·鲁赫曼执导的《了不起的盖茨比》上映已经过去近十年了，这位曾拍过《舞国英雄》、《罗密欧与朱丽叶》和《红磨坊》的澳大利亚编剧兼导演终于带着新作品回来了。鲁赫曼从来不惧怕有风险的大项目，因此他选择拍一部猫王传记电影来记录这位摇滚天王人生中的20年。长相酷似猫王的奥斯汀·巴特勒饰演猫王本人，奥利维亚·德容格饰演猫王的妻子普莉希拉，汤姆·汉克斯饰演猫王的经纪人“上校”汤姆·帕克，这位“上校”曾是荷兰嘉年华的员工，后来摇身一变成了全美通吃的经纪人。

OK, so this belated Top Gun sequel was on our list of films to watch in 2021, and before that it was scheduled to come out in 2020, but we're still optimistic that lovers of supersonic aerobatics will finally get what they've been waiting for this year, shortly before Tom Cruise's 60th birthday. It was back in 1986 that Cruise last played Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a trainee fighter pilot in the US Navy. Can anyone really believe that, all these years later, Maverick would only be a captain while his old frenemy "Iceman" (Val Kilmer) would be a four-star general? Maybe not, but it should be fun to see Cruise in his Aviator shades and bomber jacket once again, alongside such new recruits to the series as Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris and Miles Teller.

Top Gun: Maverick 《壮志凌云2：独行侠》

Released internationally on 16 December

Buzz Lightyear has been central to four Toy Story feature films, his own TV series, and various animated shorts. This year, the square-jawed Space Ranger is getting a film of his own – sort of. The idea is that the Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story was a plastic action figure, whereas the new animation – a homage to the sci-fi films of the 1970s and 1980s – is the big-budget adventure movie which that action figure was based on. It's a slightly confusing concept, but it lets director Angus MacLane (co-director of Finding Dory) and screenwriter Pete Docter (Soul, Up, Inside Out) bring back a beloved character while giving his interstellar scrapes a new look, a more serious tone, and a fresh voice: Chris Evans rather than Tim Allen is the actor who'll be shouting, "To infinity – and beyond!"

Released internationally on 27 May

关于詹姆斯·卡梅隆，有两件事我们是知道的：一，他只能慢慢来；二，他热爱海洋。这两者结合在一起就诞生了《阿凡达》四部续集的第一部——《阿凡达2：水之道》。2009年的那部《阿凡达》是有史以来票房最高的电影。新片将回到潘多拉星球，蓝皮肤的妮特丽（佐伊·索尔达娜饰演）和她的人类丈夫杰克（萨姆·沃辛顿饰演）现在已生儿育女，与此同时地球人尚未解决气候危机。该片的大多数动作都是在水下进行，在一个装了90万加仑水的水池中拍摄的。《阿凡达》的续集已经制作了十年，但是卡梅隆的另外两部在水中拍的热门大片《泰坦尼克号》和《深渊》也都姗姗来迟，但是结果都挺不错。

Released internationally on 17 June

There are two things we know about James Cameron: he can't be rushed, and he loves the ocean. Those qualities come together in Avatar 2, the first of a whopping four planned sequels to his 2009 spectacle, the highest-grossing movie of all time. The new film returns to the planet of Pandora, where blue-skinned Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and her human husband Jake (Sam Worthington) are now parents, and Earthlings still haven't solved the climate crisis. Most of the action takes place underwater and was shot in a 900,000-gallon tank. The Avatar sequels have been in the works for a decade, but Cameron's water-logged hits, Titanic and The Abyss, also arrived behind schedule, and it all turned out just fine.

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