23 Hollywood insiders reveal the movies they can’t wait to see this summer
Top actors, directors, and writers tell us they’re excited for Nope, Bullet Train, Chip ’n Dale (really) and lots more
Film News Chuck Hank
Aaron Paul (Getty Images), Elvis (Warner Bros. Pictures), Melanie Lynskey (Getty Images), Nope (Universal Pictures), Jon M. Chu (Getty Images), Top Gun: Maverick (Courtesy Paramount Pictures). Graphic: Libby McGuire Graphic: Libby McGuire
Maybe the best thing about the people who make movies—you know, the actors, writers, directors, and producers who create films themselves—is that they also happen to be huge film fans in their own right. So, when we were planning out The A.V. Club’s summer movie coverage, we decided to go straight to the pros to find out which titles have hearts racing around Hollywood this season. If you want to discover what Aaron Paul, Melanie Lynskey, Jon M. Chu, and Ti West, along with nearly 20 more filmmakers, are excited about for summer 2022, just keep reading.
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what Cowboys & Aliens should have been.
Huge slam on Jon Favreau outta nowhere!
This is what you moved from Chicago to LA for, right?No need to look “forward” to Dual, as it was released in April.
Seriously. Thanks, AV Club, for finally offering celebrities a chance to weigh in in on which corporate sister properties they’d like to cross-promote. Who knows how they’d get the word out otherwise?
So Eskil Vogt’s The Innocents is not a remake of Jack Clayton’s 1961 The Innocents. Good, I guess. But why give it the same name? Now dorks like me will have to try to explain this needless complication when recommending Clayton’s film as the masterpiece it is. “It’s not the same story. Vogt’s film may be great, but The Innocents you need to see is based on Henry James’ ‘Turn of the Screw’ in which a crazy governess thinks kids are in league with the supernatural. The kids in Vogt’s film are actually supernatural. Don’t roll your eyes.”
Was anyone else surprised to see three people namecheck Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers in this list? It does look like it’ll be fun, but I assumed people actually within the industry would have a laundry list of big-screen, big-idea films they were anticipating.
Not really, as much as it seems easy to write it off as yet another meta wank job, more that anything it feels like the most adult and subversive thing Disney has put the Disney name on in a very long time.I watched the trailers a couple times, this movie is very clearly not aimed at kids, and more than anything they’ve put out since Disney+ was announced, or even before that, this one feels like evidence that they’re willing to let people try some genuinely weird stuff again.
Now I am disappointed that I will watch Nope, but will not in all likelihood get to watch it with Melanie Lynskey