Here's Just About Every Original Movie Coming to Netflix This Year

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Netflix’s serialized shows may be what made it a brand name in original programming, but the ubiquitous streamer’s movies have included some genuine modern classics, along with more than a few intriguing misfires. The original movies coming to Netflix in 2024 range from “based on a true story” prestige projects, directorial debuts, and high-octane action films.

Netflix’s film division had a mixed 2023—Bradley Cooper’s Maestro racked up seven Academy Award nods, but their other big Oscar swing, Todd Haynes’ critically acclaimed May December, only earned recognition for Best Original Screenplay. David Fincher’s The Killer and Pablo Larrain’s El Conde were also critical successes, but nothing from this year felt as undeniable as The Irishman or Roma.

The 2024 release slate will feature several major names making their feature film directorial debut, including Daniel Kaluuya and Anna Kendrick, as well as the first film from Sex Education director Ben Taylor. Big time properties both originating at Netflix (Zach Snyder’s Rebel Moon) and predating it (the new Beverly Hills Cop) will get sequels, and we’ll also get a healthy mix of original sci-fi (Spaceman starring Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan) and horror (the werewolf flick Family Pack).

You can watch the sizzle reel below, and after the jump, we're running down what stuck out to GQ from an eclectic rundown of Netflix’s 2024 cinematic plans.

All release dates are TBD 2024 unless otherwise noted, and subject to change.

The sequel slate is robust, headlined by Zack Snyder and Eddie Murphy.

The two parts of Snyder’s ambitious reworked Star Wars entry Rebel Moon were shot at the same time, so the sequel, Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver is coming in short order on April 19. The continuation of the underdog sci-fi story returns Sofia Boutella, Anthony Hopkins, and Djimon Hounsou as part of a talented cast. Splitting an original IP into two separate films is a bold move, but Snyder’s Army of the Dead did have a strong prequel, albeit not directed by Zack himself.

On July 3, Eddie Murphy makes his long-awaited return to the role of Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, a multi-generational police comedy which sees him team with his daughter, played by Taylour Paige, to discover who is behind mysterious threats to her. Murphy’s last resurrection of an iconic character, 2021’s Coming 2 America, didn’t live up to the hype of its beloved predecessor, and working with an unproven director in Mark Molloy raises questions about the film despite its talented cast.

The dystopian sci-fi film The Platform, a sleeper hit for Netflix in the vein of socially conscious movies like Snowpiercer and High-Rise, is getting a follow-up from original director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, and Jeff Chan will direct a sequel to his superpowered heist film Code 8 further exploring the crowdfunded original’s near-future world (Feb. 28.)

Netflix’s awards hopefuls include directorial debuts from Anna Kendrick and Daniel Kaluuya.

In 2024, Netflix is betting big on several A-list stars making their first foray in the director’s seat. They’ve already released Dan Levy’s Good Grief, a well-received dramatic comedy about loss and love, and Daniel Kaluuya’s The Kitchen, a timely, socially conscious sci-fi flick, and will be putting out a project from Anna Kendrick. Her directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, is a ‘70s period piece about a real-life serial killer who appeared on The Dating Game, starring Kendrick in the lead role alongside Tony Hale and Nicolette Robinson.

Jerry Seinfeld will make his feature-film-directing debut with Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story (May 3); Seinfeld will direct himself, Melissa McCarthy and Jim Gaffigan in a still-mysterious movie based on a perennial Seinfeld stand-up bit about the creation of the iconic toaster pastry. It’s apparently been finished since 2022, but in the wake of Flamin’ Hot, Air, Tetris and BlackBerry, the time for a film that makes a mockery of the consumer-product-origin-story genre might finally have arrived.

Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) is directing Shirley, a Shirley Chisholm biopic starring Regina King, due out March 22. Ben Taylor’s Joy, starring Thomasin McKenzie in a film about the quest to birth the first test tube baby, doesn’t have a release date yet. Korean director Kim Sang-man’s period piece Uprising, from a script by legendary filmmaker Park Chan-wook, focuses on two childhood friends affected by enduring war. The Piano Lesson will bring August Wilson’s play to the screen, with a cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, and Danielle Deadwyler.

There isn’t a household name like Martin Scorsese or Alfonso Cuarón on the docket, but projects to watch from veterans include Richard LaGravenese’s A Family Affair, the story of a complicated Hollywood romantic entanglement starring Nicole Kidman, Joey King, and Zac Efron, as well as Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance, an intriguing foray into horror from the acclaimed dramatic filmmaker. Even more “inspired by true events” films come from Richard Linklater, who collaborated with Glen Powell on the 2023 film-fest favorite Hit Man, which hits the platform on June 7 after a limited theatrical release, and Tyler Perry’s Six Triple Eight, about women soldiers in World War II.

Some of Netflix’s biggest hits have been in the nonfiction space; the streamer won Best Documentary at the 2021 Oscars for My Octopus Teacher. The doc lineup for 2024 features a few entries that seem like surefire award nominees, including Anthony Philipson’s archival-heavy Einstein and the Bomb (February 16) and Bao Nguyen’s just-released The Greatest Night in Pop, about the writing and recording of “We Are the World.”

The grand tradition of big, ridiculous Netflix genre flicks is intact.

From Extraction to Project Power to 6 Underground, Netflix has practically cornered the market on over-the-top, incendiary streaming movies. We’ve got a bunch more to look forward to (or dread, depending on your taste) including Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz in Seth Gordon’s CIA comedy Back in Action, Mark Wahlberg as a construction worker caught up in espionage thanks to his old girlfriend Halle Berry in The Union, Jaume Collet-Serra’s TSA-agent-versus-bomber thriller Carry-On, F. Gary Gray’s midair heist film Lift, McG’s dystopian Uglies, and the throwback-style vigilante flick Trigger Warning, starring Jesica Alba and directed by Mouly Surya.

In Atlas, Jennifer Lopez will match wits with a rogue AI. On the horror side, we have Time Cut, a Y2K time travel movie from talented director Hannah Macpherson that unfortunately feels too close to last year’s Totally Killer, as well as Greg Jardin’s It’s What’s Inside—which mines the tension behind old friends at a wedding to unnerving results—and Lupin writer François Uzan’s creature feature Family Pack.

One of the toughest Netflix movies to predict is Johan Renck’s Spaceman, an intergalactic drama starring Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan (March 1.) Sandler has turned in some of his career-best performances in recent years, including in Netflix’s Hustle, and Mulligan is always excellent, but Renck hasn’t directed a feature film in more than 15 years (though he did do HBO’s Chernobyl). The trailer plays everything straight, and these sorts of moody space dramas range widely in their outcomes, from the good (Duncan Jones’ Moon) to the tedious.

Originally Appeared on GQ