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Constantinos Psillides on the movies and series we can’t wait to watch in 2022

 

With 2022 already here, the streaming world is gearing up for another year of amazing, high budget content! Today we are having a look at series and movies we anticipate watching this year but it should be noted that our selection only comes from platforms available in Cyprus. As such, noticeably absent are all the HBO series, such as the videogame adaptation of Last of Us and all Disney+ series such as She Hulk.

The Sandman – Netflix

Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Good Omens) returns to the impossible-to-translate-for-TV series with The Sandman, an iconic graphic novel about Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams. The series stars Tom Sturridge as the titular Sandman, who finds himself summoned and imprisoned by a group of cultists. Dream, as he is most commonly known, now waits for his inevitable escape so he can exact his revenge on those who imprisoned him, and venture back to the Dreamworld to rebuild what was destroyed due to his long absence. The series also co-stars GoT alumni Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer Morningstar, the Lord of Hell.

The Gray Man – Netflix

Following the impossibly massive success of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame (a combined 5 billion at the box office), the world wanted to know what was next for the Russo brothers. In their first film since the 2019 release of Endgame, the Russos are back in the director’s chair for The Gray Man, Netflix’s most expensive original production to date. Clocking at over 250 million, The Gray Man stars Ryan Gosling as Court Gently, a freelance assassin who is hunted all over the globe by former CIA agent Lloyd, played by MCU darling Chris Evans. The movie is expected to debut in summer 2022.

Killers of the Flower Moon – Apple TV+

Killers of the Flower Moon is what happens when I wish upon a star. Well, actually, two stars. And massive ones at that. Leonardo Di Caprio and Robert DeNiro team up for the first time in a Martin Scorsese film that is budgeted at over 200 million! And because this is my wish, Scorsese’s newest venture leaves the dirty, smelly streets of underground New York for the open fields and vast landscapes of Oklahoma, to deal with a serial killer.

DeNiro stars as the infamous William Hale, a businessman/rancher/kingpin/murderer, known for orchestrating the murders of a number of Osage Indians from 1921 to 1926. Hale, along with nephews Ernest and Bryan were behind the murders of several members of a family of Osage Indians so they could inherit their land that was rich in oil. DiCaprio co-stars as Ernest, while the always welcome Jesse Plemons plays Tom White, the agent from the Bureau of Investigations that was sent to look into the murders. The case of the Osage murders is considered to be the case that led to the creation of the FBI.

The movie is set to be released in May.

Lord of the Rings series – Prime Video

This must be the most expensive and the most anticipated series of all time. Scheduled to be released in September 2022, this is Amazon’s first attempt at creating a LotR universe with several spin-offs. After coughing up 250 million for the rights alone and 470 million for just the first season, this will be the most expensive TV project ever made. It will take place thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and LotR trilogy, most possibly chronicling the fall of Numenor, the island where Aragorn’s ancestors came from.

Amazon’s mega project will see the story spread over five seasons, which hopefully will lead to establishing a LotR cinematic universe.

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