It is still too early for the effects of the double Hollywood strike to begin to show in the calendar of imminent releases. As they boasted (or threatened, if we ask the strikers) during the outbreak of the crisis, Netflix and other big platforms have refrigerator enough for a few months. There have been slight movements: for example, the fifth installment of ‘Fargo’, starring Jon Hamm, which was expected for September, will finally be seen in November. But just that, slight twists… script. There still being lots of interesting titles to explore, partly because audiovisual production does not begin and end in the United States either; here you will find titles national or French or of course Korean.
1. ‘One Piece’ (Netflix, August 31)
Here comes the live-action adaptation of the hyper-popular manga and anime, a comic adventure of pirates under the joyous influence of ‘Dragon Ball’. Inaki Godoy (Bruno from ‘Who Killed Sara?’) will play Monkey D. Luffy, the rubber boy set out on a quest for the titular treasure alongside a motley crew.
2. ‘Justified: Wild City’ (Disney+, September 6)
Timothy Olyphant puts on the hat of judicial police officer Raylan Givens again in this ‘spin-off’ of ‘Justified’, that great adaptation of stories from Elmore Leonard. This time, the inspiration is a novel (‘Wild City’, from 1980) that did not originally contain Givens and that Tarantino thought of making a movie.
3. ‘The body on fire’ (Netflix, September 8)
The creative nucleus of ‘Intimacy’ has set itself a tough challenge: to overcome from fiction the double episode of ‘Crims’ on the ‘Crime of the Urban Police’. Ursula Corberó, Quim Gutierrez and Jose Manuel Poga They are the three vertices of that disturbing triangle.
4. ‘The changeling’ (Apple TV+, September 8)
In this adaptation of a Victor LaValle novel, LaKeith Stanfield (Darius from ‘Atlanta’) tries to find his wife, who disappeared after giving birth to their first child, in a world that seems to border between reality and dreams. Dark and stylized tale for adults.
5. ‘Sex education (season 4)’ (Netflix, September 21)
The final season of the exemplary ‘teen’ series is full of changes: Maeve (Emma MacKey) is now studying in the United States, and after the closure of Moordale, the rest of the band faces their first day at a progressive institute to the point of delirium.
6. ‘The Continental’ (Prime Video, September 22)
The ‘John Wick’ universe extends to the series with this prequel starring a young Winston Scott (Colin Woodell), future director of the famous hotel for assassins where no one can be killed. The time changes (it takes place in the seventies), but the comiquero breath is still there.
7. ‘Generation V’ (Prime Video, September 29)
And speaking of ‘spinoffs’, only a week later will arrive this series from the universe ‘The Boys’ about the imaginary Goldokin University, the only one in the United States exclusively for superheroes. Among the new protagonists, Patrick Schwarzenegger like the fire expert Golden Boy.
8. ‘Poker face’ (SkyShowtime, September)
rian johnsondirector of ‘The Last Jedi’ and the ‘Punches in the Back’ saga, pays tribute to the ‘Colombo’-style series (that is, we will go at the rate of one case per week) with the adventures of Charlie Cale (natasha lyonne), hustler with an almost supernatural gift for detecting lies.
9. ‘Lupin (part 3)’ (Netflix, October 5)
One of Netflix’s biggest non-English language hits returns. In these new episodes, Assane (omar sy) proposes to his wife and son to start a new life far from Paris, but an unexpected return puts a stop to the plan.
10. ‘Loki (season 2)’ (Disney+, October 6)
There hasn’t been a better Marvel series than ‘Scarlet Witch and Vision’, but ‘Loki’ comes dangerously close to it. And according to what was seen in the trailer, he will continue to dazzle in his continuation. Also from the UCM we will be able to see, from November 29, ‘Echo’, with Alaqua Cox as the deaf superheroine introduced in ‘Hawkeye’.
11. ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ (Netflix, October 12)
If it’s October, play the director’s horror series Mike ‘Hill House’ Flanagan on Netflix, but let’s not get used to it: this will be the last, in principle. Together with actors from his usual troupe (Carla Gugino, Rahul Kohli, Zach Gilford) and some newcomer to the clan (Mark Hamill), a modern revision of Edgar Allan Poe’s story is marked here.
12. ‘Cooking with chemistry’ (Apple TV+, October 13)
In this adaptation of the bestselling debut novel by Bonnie Garmus, Brie Larson embodies a chemistry that becomes, somewhat in spite of herself, the star of the most followed cooking show in the United States. She will use that platform to launch lessons on social progress.
13. ‘Doona!’ (Netflix, October 20)
South Korean romcom lovers unite! Based on a popular ‘webtoon’, ‘Doona!’ explains a run-of-the-mill college boy’s fascination with a new housemate with a K-pop past (Suzy, doing a bit of herself). Of Lee Jung-hyodirector of ‘Crash landing on you’.
14. ’30 Coins (Season 2)’ (HBO Max, October)
Alex de la Iglesia continues to display his wild humor and fantastical erudition in a season of ’30 coins’ with extra ‘star power’: they join the cast Najwa Nimri and the very Paul Giamatti. The inhabitants of Pedraza apparently face an enemy feared even by the devil.
15. ‘The Light You Can’t See’ (Netflix, November 2)
Shawn Levi (‘Stranger things’) directs and Steven Knight (‘Peaky Blinders’) writes this adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning novel. In the Second World War, the paths of two opposite characters cross: a young blind French woman (Aria Mia Loberti), daughter of a dedicated father (Mark Ruffalo), and a young German man serving the Third Reich (Louis Hofmann).
16. ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes the Leap’ (Netflix, November 17)
graphic novel series Bryan Lee O’Malley It already had adaptations to the video game or, thanks to Edgar Wright, to the cinema; Now comes the animated series from Netflix, developed in an anime code by the Barcelonan abel gongora. Wright is an executive producer.
17. ‘Fargo (season 5)’ (Movistar Plus+, November 29)
Three years after that fourth season about a dense conflict between black and Italian-American gangsters in 1950s Kansas City, ‘Fargo’ will change gears with a kidnapping plot and marital complications in (almost) the present day. Juno Temple and Jon Hamm lead the cast.
18. ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ (Prime Video, November)
‘Reboot’ of ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine, this relief from a Phoebe Waller-Bridge who did not quite have creative chemistry with Glover. The incredible cast also includes parker posey, Wagner Moura, michaela coel, john turturro and Paul Dano.
19. ‘The Monster of Old Seoul’ (Netflix, December 22)
Great things are expected from this epic and fantastic South Korean production, among other reasons because it has been renewed even before its premiere. In the spring of 1945, in the days before Korean liberation, a wealthy young man (Park Seo Joon) and a specialist in locating missing persons (Han So-hee) face a monster born of greed.
20. ‘Balenciaga’ (Disney+, date to be determined)
alberto san john gives life to the emblematic couturier, a symbol of elegance and innovation, in a biographical series signed by the trio (Aitor Arregi, Jon Garano, Jose Mari Goenaga) behind ‘Loreak’, ‘Handia’ and ‘The infinite trench’.
21. ‘The Crown (S6)’ (Netflix, date to be determined)
The final season of the royal saga will address the development of the relationship between Diana and Dodi; the death of the same and their driver when they were persecuted by the paparazzi, or the romance between Guillermo (Ed McVey) and Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy). Came back Imelda Staunton as Elizabeth II, but cameos are expected from Claire Foy and Olivia Colman.
22. ‘Frasier’ (SkyShowtime, date TBD)
The psychiatrist and, later, radio psychotherapist Frasier Crane (kelsey grammer) will once again shine angrily on our screens. Unfortunately, his brother Niles (David Hyde Pierce), his father Martin (actor John Mahoney passed away in 2018) and the latter’s caretaker, Daphne (Jane Leeves), do not return. Can this be called ‘Frasier’ without all of them?
23. ‘The Messiah’ (Movistar Plus+, date to be determined)
In this new crossover of genres of The Javis (‘La llamada’, ‘Veneno’), a viral Christian pop video impacts the life of Enric, whose childhood was marked by religious fanaticism. free and Hydrogenesse They are in charge of the musical section. The same Javis produce ‘Vestidas de azul’ (ATRESplayer Premium, date to be determined), an adaptation of Valeria Vegas’ book on the social and cinematographic treatment of transsexuality in the Transition years.
24. ‘Romancero’ (Prime Video, date to be determined)
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25. ‘True Detective: Night Country’ (HBO Max, date TBD)
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