Every Summer Movie COVID Kept Us From Seeing
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A lot of movies originally scheduled for Summer 2020 were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s every one of them, and when they’re coming out now.
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From Black Widow to Fast & Furious 9, a lot of movies were originally scheduled for Summer 2020, but have since been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Films like No Time to Die and Mulan were among the first to be affected when the ongoing health crisis took a turn for the worse in March. In the end, the pandemic forced Hollywood studios to abandon the remainder of that month all the way through to mid-August, as the majority of movie theaters shuttered their doors over health and sanitation concerns.
A handful of films previously scheduled for those months simply went directly to VOD or a specific streaming service instead, including the likes of Trolls World Tour and The King of Staten Island. Meanwhile, others either vacated 2020 altogether or shuffled back to the final four months of the year, in then hopes that things would be better by then. But with both movie theaters in Los Angeles and New York unlikely to reopen anytime soon and COVID-19 numbers still on the rise in the U.S., there’s a strong chance those in the latter category will move back again in the weeks ahead.
In the meantime, here’s a breakdown of all the movies the COVID-19 pandemic prevented audiences from seeing in Summer 2020 (which, for our purposes, will include May), and when they’re scheduled to come out now.
Wonder Woman 1984
Up first is Wonder Woman 1984, the ’80s-set sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman. Gal Gadot and Chris Pine are reprising their roles as Diana Prince and Steve Trevor in the movie, with Pedro Pascal and Kristen Wiig costarring as the antagonist Maxwell Lord and Barbara Ann Minerva (who transforms into the super-villain Cheetah), respectively. Director Patty Jenkins’ DCEU film was supposed to come out on June 5, 2020 (after being delayed from November 1, 2019), but is now tentatively slated to release on October 2 this year.
Candyman
Another film currently scheduled for this upcoming October is Candyman, director Nia DaCosta’s spiritual sequel to the 1992 horror classic of the same name. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars in the movie as a visual artist who becomes dangerously entrenched in the Candyman legend after he and his girlfriend (Teyonah Parris) move into Chicago’s now-gentrified Cabrini Green neighborhood. Originally slated to arrive on June 12, 2020, Candyman later shuffled back to September 25, and has since moved back again to October 16.
Black Widow
Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff’s long-awaited solo movie, will be the first film to release as part of Phase 4 of the MCU. Scarlett Johansson is reprising her role as Natasha in the movie, which takes place prior to the events of Avengers: Infinity War and costars Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, and David Harbor as the members of Nat’s Russian found-family. Director Cate Shortland’s superhero tentpole was initially set to kick off Summer 2020 on May 1, but has since been pushed back to November 6 in the U.S.
Soul
Disney and Pixar’s second animated feature of 2020 after Onward, Soul features Jamie Foxx as the voice of a middle-school music teacher who finally gets his big shot at becoming a professional jazz musician, only for an untimely accident to separate his soul from his body. Newly-appointed Pixar CCO and Inside Out helmer Peter Docter co-directed the film with Kemp Powers, who also worked on the script. Soul is tentatively due to arrive on November 20 this year, having previously been scheduled to open back on June 19.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Director Jason Reitman helmed this direct sequel to his father Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II, with Mckenna Grace and Finn Wolfhard starring as a pair of kids who discover they have a connection to the original Ghostbusters through their grandfather. Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd costar in the paranormal action-comedy, with the main cast of the original Ghostbusters movie all reprising their roles in some capacity. Previous scheduled to arrive on July 10, Ghostbusters: Afterlife has since been postponed to March 5, 2021.
Morbius
The second film in the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters, Morbius stars Jared Leto as Michael Morbius, a scientist who inadvertently transforms himself into a vampire while trying to curse his rare blood disorder. Director Daniel Espinosa’s superhero-horror movie is confirmed to feature an appearance by Michael Keaton as the Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming, and may include cameos from other Spider-Man villains or antiheroes. It was previously scheduled to open on July 31 (after being delayed from July 10), but is now set to open on March 19, 2021.
Fast & Furious 9
Fast & Furious 9 (aka. F9) was one of the first would-be Summer 2020 movies to move back an entire year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Director Justin Lin’s sequel pits Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and his extended family against Jakob (John Cena), Dom’s estranged brother and a deadly assassin who’s working with their old enemy Cipher (Charlize Theron). Previously scheduled to open on May 22, the film is now due to arrive on April 2, 2021 (and promises to bring #JusticeForHan with it).
Monster Hunter
Resident Evil director-star and husband-wife duo Paul W.S. Anderson and Miller Jovovich reunite in Monster Hunter, a movie adaptation of the popular fantasy-action video game series by Capcom. Jovovich stars in the film as the member of a U.N. military team that’s inadvertently sent through a portal to an alternate world where highly-skilled hunters battle giant monsters. Monster Hunter was once scheduled to open this year on September 4, but has since vacated 2020 and will now release on April 23, 2021 instead.
Infinite
An adaptation of D. Eric Maikranz’s book The Reincartionist Papers, Infinite stars Mark Wahlberg as a man who discovers what he believed were hallucinations are really memories from his past lives, and joins a secret organization who teaches him how to use this knowledge to protect humanity. Director Antoine Fuqua’s sci-fi action film was scheduled to open on August 7 prior to the pandemic, but has since been pushed out of 2020 and is now slated to arrive next spring on March 28, 2021.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
The third mainline installment in The Conjuring universe, The Devil Made Me Do It follows demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) as they investigate a case and subsequent trial involving a man who claims he committed murder while possessed by a demon. This is the first Conjuring sequel that James Wan didn’t direct, with The Curse of La Llorona’s Michael Chaves taking his place at the helm. Initially scheduled for September 11, The Devil Made Me Do It now hopes to terrorize theaters on June 4, 2021.
In the Heights
Though the filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s stage musical Hamilton premiered on Disney+ in July, audiences will have to wait until next year to see the movie adaptation of his other Broadway hit, In The Heights. The film stars Hamilton veteran Anthony Ramos as Usnavi de la Vega, the owner of a bodega in Washington Heights who works hard and dreams of saving enough money to lead a better life. Director Jon M. Chu’s big screen musical was originally scheduled to open on June 26, 2020, but has since been delayed a whole year to June 18, 2021.
Top Gun: Maverick
Tom Cruise finally has a need for speed again in the longtime-developing sequel to his 1986 hit, Top Gun: Maverick. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the movie finds an older Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Cruise) still serving as a test pilot when he’s brought in to instruct a class of Top Gun graduates that includes Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), the son of Maverick’s latest radar intercept officer, Nick “Goose” Bradshaw. The film was initially delayed from its previous date on June 26 to December, but has since moved again and is now scheduled to open on July 2, 2021.
Minions: The Rise of Gru
A sequel to Illumination’s prequel-spinoff Minions, The Rise of Gru follows a 12-year old Felonius Gru (once again voiced by Steve Carell) and the minions as they attempt to join a famous super-villain team, the Vicious 6, in the 1970s. The studio had originally planned to release The Rise of Gru in theaters on July 3, 2020, but have since postponed it all the way back to July 2, 2021, in order to give director Kyle Balda and his animators the time they need to complete the film’s computer-generated visuals.
The Forever Purge
Blumhouse’s fifth and potentially final Purge movie, The Forever Purge is being directed by Everardo Gout and was once again written by franchise creator James DeMonaco. Following the COVID-19 lockdowns, it was speculated the low-budget action-horror movie could end up going directly to streaming on its previous date on July 10. Blumhouse and Universal have since re-scheduled it for a theatrical release next summer, where it will open on July 9, 2021.
Jungle Cruise
Disney’s movie adaptation of its popular theme park attraction, Jungle Cruise stars Dwayne Johnson as an early 20th century riverboat captain who escorts a scientist (Emily Blunt) to locate a mystical tree with healing powers believed to exist somewhere deep in the Amazon jungle. Director Jaume Collet-Serra’s action-adventure was previously scheduled to open on July 24 (after being delayed from October 11, 2019), but will now arrive twelve months and six days later than that on July 30, 2021.
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