Tuesday, January 8, 2008

2008 Movie Madness

Is it possible for events that have not yet occurred to be described in chronological order? If so, below follows a personal list of some of the 2008 movies I'm most looking forward to, in chronological order (?) of release date. If your own choices aren't on here, please share them using the comments options on the blog!

Synecdoche, New York
Release Date: Early 2008 (estimated)
Writer/Director: Charlie Kaufman
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton

Vantage Point
Release Date: February 22nd 2008
Cast: William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver

The Other Boleyn Girl
Release Date: February 29th 2008
Cast: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Kristen Scott Thomas

Iron Man
Release Date: May 2nd 2008
Director: Jon Favreau (Elf, Made)
Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Terrance Howard, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Release Date: May 16th 2008
Director: Andrew Adamson (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Cast: Liam Neeson (voice), Ben Barnes, Warwick Davis, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Peter Dinklage

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Release Date: May 22nd 2008
Director: Steven Spielberg (Raiders, Jaws, Every great movie from your childhood)

Choke
Release Date: Summer 2008 (estimated)
Writer/Director: Clark Gregg
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald

The Happening
Release Date: June 13th 2008
Writer/Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo

The Incredible Hulk
Release Date: June 13th 2008
Director: Louis Leterrier (Transporter, Unleashed)
Writer: Edward Norton
Cast: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson

Valkyrie
Release Date: June 27th 2008
Director: Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns, X2)
Writer: Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, The Way of the Gun)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kevin McNally, Eddie Izzard, Christian Berkel, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Stephen Fry, Tom Wilkinson, David Schofield and Kenneth Branagh

Hancock
Release Date: July 2nd 2008
Director: Peter Berg (The Kingdom, The Rundown, Friday Night Lights)
Cast: Will Smith, Jason Bateman, Charlize Theron, Johnny Galecki

Batman, The Dark Knight
Release Date: July 18th 2008
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: David S. Goyer (Blade, Batman Begins) and Jonathan Nolan (Memento, The Prestige)
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Anthony Michael Hall, Aaron Eckhart

The X-Files 2
Release Date: July 25th, 2008
Director: Chris Carter
Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet

Blindness
Release Date: August 8th, 2008
Director: Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener)
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover, Alice Braga

Where the Wild Things Are
Release Date: October 3rd 2008
Director: Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation)
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Catherine O’Hare

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Release Date: October 3rd 2008
Director: Robert B. Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Cast: Megan Fox, Kristen Dunst, Simon Pegg, Jeff Bridges, Gillian Anderson

The Time Traveler’s Wife
Release Date: November 2008 (estimated)
Director: Robert Schwentke (Flightplan)
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Ron Livingston

James Bond 22
Release Date: November 7th 2008
Director: Marc Forster (Stranger Than Fiction, Finding Neverland, The Kite Runner)
Writer: Robert Wade and Paul Haggis (Casino Royale)
Cast: Daniel Craig, Goran Visnjic, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen

The Changeling
Release Date: November 7th 2008
Director: Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River)
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, World War Z)
Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Riki Lindhome, Amy Ryan

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Release Date: November 21st 2008
Director: David Yates (Order of the Phoenix)
Writer: Steve Kloves (Wonder Boys, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)
Cast: Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Jim Broadbent, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Release Date: November 26th 2008
Director: David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Zodiac)
Writer: Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Munich)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Elle Fanning, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas

The Day the Earth Stood Still
Release Date: December 12th 2008
Director: Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Hellraiser: Inferno)
Writer: David Scarpa (The Last Castle)
Cast: Keanu Reeves (Matrix)

Star Trek XI
Release Date: December 25th 2008
Director: JJ Abrams

The Fighter
Release Date: Fall 2008 (estimated)
Director: Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Pi, The Fountain)
Writer: Paul Attanasio (The Quiz Show, Donnie Brasco)
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Brad Pitt

Righteous Kill
Release Date: Fall 2008
Director: Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes)
Writer: Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man)
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, John Leguizamo, 50 Cent, Brian Dennehy

Frost/Nixon
Release Date: Fall 2008 (estimated)
Director: Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code)
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Matthew Macfadyen, Sam Rockwell

Shantaram
Release Date: Fall 2008 (estimated)
Director: Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake)
Writer: Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Munich)
Cast: Johnny Depp

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ill add:

Cloverfield (to see if the film is worthy of the hype)
Jumper (I love SciFi - even crappy SciFi)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (in search of the next Harry Potter)
10000 BC (because I want to see who plays Adam & Eve)
Wanted (comic book adaptation - if you are gonna see the Hulk sequel why not give this a try? Ditto Hellboy 2)
The Time Travelers Wife (SciFi again)
Australia (because I love Jackman and Kidman and Westerns)

Of course, I will only see some of these years later when they come on TV. Who has time for all these movies? You would need to be single with no children and an introverted nerd type who doesn't even need to eat to survive. Perhaps this fictional person could just enjoy air with pepper on it for meals. :)

RC said...

good call on many of your selections...one you missed that i've begun anticipatinga as well is Wall-E.