Trailers of the week: Captain America, F1, and Gladiator II

Jul 14, 2024 03:21 AM - 4 months ago 90654

There’s a spot of a taxable of payoff successful this week’s trailers. Anthony Mackie yet takes nan lead connected nan large surface aft 10 years successful nan MCU; Ridley Scott’s two-decade-plus plan for a Gladiator sequel is coming to fruition; and we yet get to find retired what happens adjacent to nan macrodata refinement squad successful Severance.

There’s a batch to spell done this week, from big-budget tentpole movies to whimsical TV, truthful let’s get down to it, starting, naturally, pinch nan MCU.

Captain America: Brave New World

In nan trailer for Captain America: Brave New World, Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford) wants to make Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) portion of nan US subject erstwhile more. He’s intelligibly put disconnected by nan idea, but is forced to jump into nan fray aft ace worker Isaiah Bradley attacks nan President.

Mackie’s first MCU movie arsenic nan lead characteristic (and, it seems, nan first quality of Red Hulk!) hits theaters connected January 14th, 2025, truthful you person clip to drawback up connected The Falcon and nan Winter Soldier earlier its debut.

F1

Apple and Warner Bros’ expensive caller F1 isn’t owed successful US theaters until June 27th, 2025, but it’s already sewage a teaser trailer pinch plentifulness of racing footage. Brad Pitt stars arsenic Sonny Hayes, a seasoned driver who’s been retired of nan crippled since a bad clang successful nan 1990s but is convinced to return to nan circuit arsenic a mentor for Joshua Pearse (Damson Idris).

The movie sounds for illustration it’s each spot arsenic bombastic arsenic head Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick. Not only did Pitt and Idris actually thrust cars for nan movie, but overmuch of nan filming took spot astatine existent Formula 1 races.

Gladiator II

Ridley Scott’s long-awaited Gladiator sequel sees Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal), nan nephew of Emperor Commodus from nan first film, grown up and pinch nary representation of his mother, Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) — though he does retrieve nan rebellion of Russell Crowe’s Maximus. Now enslaved himself and inspired by Maximus, Lucius takes up pinch Macrinus (Denzel Washington) to transportation retired his ain uprising, his extremity thing short of nan autumn of Rome.

Gladiator II also stars Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, and opens connected November 22nd.

Time Bandits

Taika Waititi’s return connected Time Bandits looks for illustration it’ll person nan fantastical pseudo-realism of nan Terry Gilliam movie it’s based on, but pinch immoderate changes to nan look — nan biggest 1 being that nan Time Bandits themselves are nary longer played by small people.

Otherwise, nan premise is fundamentally nan same: a young boy finds himself flitting crossed clip connected an escapade pinch a set of time-hopping thieves. Lisa Kudrow, Rune Temte, Kal-El Tuck, Tadhg Murphey, Kiera Thompson, and much prima successful nan Apple TV Plus series, which premiers connected July 24th.

Agatha All Along

In WandaVision spinoff Agatha All Along, Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza) helps Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) look from an illusion that had her believing she was a detective trying to lick a mysterious murder. Yet she finds that nan witchy powers she had successful WandaVision are gone, and she needs to propulsion together a coven to regain them. Agatha All Along starts streaming September 18th connected Disney Plus.

Severance

Severance season 2 is yet coming. It’s been complete 2 years since nan cliffhanger ending of nan bizarro sci-fi agency thriller’s first season. Now, nan caller play is group for a January 17th premiere connected Apple TV Plus. If you haven’t seen nan show, don’t worry: nan teaser that Apple released earlier this week shows characters Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Dylan (Zach Cherry), and Irving (John Turturro), but doesn’t spoil thing astir it.

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