1. Man Of Steel: Director Zach Snyder helms the new iteration of Superman, a challenging film to adapt from the comics where your hero is essentially invincible, but I have faith with Christopher Nolan contributing to the script and producing.
2. Oz The Great & Powerful: Director Sam Raimi tackles a prequel to "The Wizard Of Oz". A risky venture and with a budget of $200,000,000 I bet Disney is feeling a little nervous at throwing so much cash at a story that might not be so popular anymore. Remember the John Carter catastrophe?
3. Star Trek Into Darkness: J.J Abrams almost reluctantly returning as director to the 2009 critically acclaimed reboot of Star Trek and forced to post-convert it into 3D due to "economic reasons" cited by Paramount Pictures, lot's of potential for this sequel hope it lives up to the hype.
4. Iron Man 3: Lethal Weapon franchise creator Shane Black serves as director for this seemingly darker toned tale of Tony Stark facing the infamous "Mandarin". Iron Man 2 didn't quite hit the mark and it was time for Jon Favreau to step down and let a more talented director take his place.
5. Elysium: It seems like 2013 will be the year for science fiction, director Neill Blomkamp of District 9 fame directs an action thriller starring Matt Damon in which the Rich reside on a man-made space station whilst the poor reside on a dying earth. Can Neill hit 2/2?
6. Ender's Game: Based on the critically acclaimed science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card, starring Harrison Ford & Asa Butterfield, tells the story of a gifted boy trained in military strategy from the age of 6 and is considered man-kinds last hope against an alien race that nearly wiped us out. Really nervous they'll butcher the amazing source material, one can only hope.
7. Thor The Dark World: Kenneth Branagh not returning to helm the sequel to Thor however I have faith in Alan Taylor, you needn't look further than his Game Of Thrones directing credits to know this story is in capable hands.
8. A Good Day To Die Hard: 59 year old Bruce Willis returns as John McClane and travels to Russia to bring down a Russian terrorist with the aid of his estranged son played by up and coming Aussie actor Jai Courtney. We can take solace knowing its rated R and not PG like unmentionable Die Hard 4.0.
9. RoboCop: The inevitable reboot of a long dead franchise, new cop, new suit, new villain. Aren't we fed up with remakes/reboots/sequels? If Gary Oldman & Samuel L. Jackson are attached it can't be THAT bad....right?
10. Robopocalypse: When Steven Spielberg finally get's the script he wants we'll hopefully see this adaptation from the novel of the same name that was given high praise from the likes of Stephen King, set to star the highly bankable Chris Hemsworth & Anne Hathaway. A bit like terminator in which a super intelligent A.I attempts to eradicate the human race to protect the earth.
11. Anchorman The Legend Continues: Almost 10 years later the entire cast return with hopefully a film that's as funny as the first and arguably Will Ferrell's funniest film to date. I hope for many memorable lines from Brick Tamland.
12. The Wolverine: Possibly Hugh Jackman's last outing at a character he's been playing for 15 years. Wolverine is on his way to Japan to train with the Samurai and with a competent director James Mangold and possibly an R rating we can forget Wolverine Origins ever happened.
13. World War Z: If you're like me and you've already read the novel it's based on, you can immediately see in this Brad Pitt vehicle the film has absolutely no resemblance to the novel whatsoever. Zombies don't run and this story is told DURING the war not after it like in the novel, what a shame.
14. Oblivion: Tom Cruise is now a bankable name again so why not jump into a popular genre. Adapted from the unreleased graphic novel written by Joseph Kosinski and also directed by Joseph Kosinski who's only previous credit was the mediocre Tron: Legacy. This film could go either way.
15. The Tomb: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Sylvester Stallone team up for a futuristic jailbreak movie where the man who created the prison is incarcerated after being framed, he must put his skills to the test and break free.
16. Evil Dead: The remake, I'm enthusiastic about this one with BOTH Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell serving as screenplay writers and producers and already saying "It's more horrifying than the original". However the iconic character of ASH was written out and I'm afraid it might mean "No Ash, No Cash"
17. Pacific Rim: Guillermo Del Toro is back in the directors chair with his right hand man and lucky charm Ron Perlman in this futuristic war for earth between Monsters from the deep and giant robot's. As corny as that sounds it looks like a hell of a ride.
18. White House Down: Now that Channing Tatum is a star, why not make him into an action star? $$$$$$ The White House is somehow taken over by terrorists and the only hope for President Jaime Foxx is Channing Tatum who was ironically applying for a Secret Service job the day the shit hit's the fan.
19. All You Need Is Kill: Adapted from a Japanese novel of the same name a soldier (Tom Cruise) in a future war with aliens finds himself in a time loop of the day he continuously get's killed in action, each time returning better skilled and closer to finding the key to changing his fate.
20. Gravity: Children Of Men director Alfonso Cuaron returns after a 7 year hiatus and helms a very depressing sounding science fiction film starring George Clooney & Sandra Bullock. After a routine space mission goes to shit the two astronauts are tethered to nothing but each other and are floating away into space. With little hope of returning.
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