Trailers of the week: Star Trek, Severance, and Gundam

It’s the first week of December, and the extremity of the twelvemonth is coming successful accelerated and pinch a batch to look guardant to astatine theaters this month. That very cool-looking Lord of the Rings anime hits US theaters connected the 13th; Sonic the Hedgehog 3 follows connected the 20th; and I’m profoundly excited to spot Nosferatu connected December 25th. (If you’re not pinch maine connected that past one, springiness Matt Zoller Seitz’s RogerEbert.com review of it a publication and get backmost to me.)

While I’m waiting to spell beryllium unnerved by Robert Eggers’ caller spooky vampire movie, let’s return a look astatine immoderate bully trailers from the past week.

I’ll admit that the biggest entreaty for maine astir this straight-to-streaming spy movie spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery is Michelle Yeoh arsenic Emperor Philippa Georgiou. She’s conscionable having truthful overmuch fun successful this trailer. The trailers haven’t revealed yet what threat she’ll beryllium facing, different than being forced to do teamwork, but it seems for illustration it’ll beryllium beautiful dense connected the rag-tag squad of antiheroes action thing.

The Olatunde Osunsanmi-directed movie besides stars Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl, Sven Ruygrok, Humberly Gonzalez, Rob Kazinsky, and Sam Richardson. It premieres connected Paramount Plus starting January 24th.

I was precocious to the Severance party, having yet vanished it a fewer months ago, truthful I tin only ideate really eager group who saw its cliffhanger ending person been to spot the communicative continue. Well, the 2nd play of creator Dan Erickson’s bizarro sci-fi play is almost here, and it looks for illustration it’s astir apt going to bring answers, pinch moreover much enigma heaped connected apical of it.

All of the first season’s main characters, including Mark (Adam Scott), Dylan (Zach Cherry), Helly (Britt Lower), and Irving (John Turturro) are returning, and they’ll beryllium joined by characters played by the likes of Alia Shawkat, Gwendoline Christie, and Bob Balaban. Season 2 of Severance premieres January 17th connected Apple TV Plus.

The 3rd play of Invincible will spot a stronger, older Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) show disconnected GDA head Cecil Stedman (Walton Goggins) and episodes that show creator Robert Kirkman hopes will each consciousness for illustration a finale. And there’s nary play break this clip around.

The show debuts pinch 3 episodes February 6th connected Amazon Prime, pinch caller episodes releasing each Thursday aft until March 13th.

The Wheel of Time continues its retelling of the Robert Jordan imagination epic connected March 13th adjacent year. In its 3rd season, the show follows Joshua Stradowski’s Rand al’Thor — the “Dragon Reborn” — and Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike) arsenic they spell into the Aiel Waste. It’s been much than 2 decades since I publication the book series, truthful I couldn’t spoil what happens location for you if I wanted to, but I look to callback this was a reasonably acheronian clip successful the series.

Who knows what evil is successful The Gorge’s, uh, gorge, but it’s apparently contained good capable that humanity only needs 2 snipers — who aren’t allowed to interact pinch each different — stationed connected either broadside of it to make judge it stays there. The snipers, Levi (Miles Teller) and Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy), do interact and autumn for eachother, past extremity up successful the gorge. Oops!

Scott Derrickson directs the movie, which besides stars Sigourney Weaver, Sope Dirisu, and William Houston. It premieres February 14th connected Apple TV Plus.

Giant robot anime fans rejoice: there’s a caller Mobile Suit Gundam coming adjacent year. It’s called Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, and it’s produced by Khara, the workplace down the Rebuild of Evangelion films.

The weird sanction references a Gundam called the gMS-Ω GQuuuuuuX. The show will travel a highschooler — named Yuzuriha “Machu” Amate (Tomoyo Kurosawa) — who learns to co-pilot the building-sized, sword-wielding robot pinch aviator Shuji Ito (Shimba Tsuchiya). Some of its episodes will caput to Japanese theaters connected January 17th.