Here at Wired we're all about the future. Talking about it, living in it, and looking forward to it. So now that 2012 is history, it's time to look at the best of what is yet to come in the world of movies with our most anticipated films of 2013.
Some of these flicks are continuations of franchises we already know we love — the next
Iron Man installment, another
Hunger Games chapter — but others are wholly new endeavors (yes, Hollywood still does those) like Guillermo del Toro's giant-monsters-versus-giant-robots adventure movie
Pacific Rim and Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller
Side Effects.
There are also a few more non-
Hobbit literary adaptations headed to theaters in 2013: the next
Hunger Games movie,
Catching Fire and Baz Lurhmann's (probably) fantastical 3-D interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic
The Great Gatsby.
What else? Read on to see just what Wired can't wait to see in 2013.
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Kaiju Attack! Pacific Rim Ups the Stakes in 'Bot War Game
__Story:__Director Guillermo del Toro has summarized the movie as "
giant fucking monsters against giant fucking robots" and that really should be enough to get butts in the seats. But beyond that, those monsters — kaiju, to be exact — are looking to destroy everything in their path and the only thing that can combat them are 25-story "Jaeger" robots and the top-gun heroes who pilot them. A battle for the future of humanity ensues.
Why it could be cool: There's no way this could not be cool. Del Toro had crowds screaming for the early teaser he showed at both San Diego and New York comic cons, which featured the kind of epic battles that just take your breath away. The flick also promises to be a true heroic the-world-bands-together-against-a-common-enemy action movie steered by performances from the likes of Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, and Ron Perlman. Del Toro has been diligently working on this project for a while now and shows no signs of letting down one single nerd.
__Cautionary note:__You may crap your pants.
Release date: July 12, 2013
Images courtesy of the film's studios, unless otherwise noted.
