Last class was a relatively quiet one for science fiction , but 2024 is gratefully going to be much secure for fans of the genre . From adventures on other worlds to the return ofthe ever - popular Godzilla , there are run low to be some marvellous sci - fi movies unblock in 2024 . Most of the sci - fi films this year are either extend to be book adaptation or sequel .

This twelvemonth will also be filled with sci - fi stories that do n’t necessarily take place in outer space , and instead are place in a full compass of venue , from parallel universes to distant planets . If you enjoy sci - fi , 2024 is going to be a majuscule year for you , offer slews of miscellanea and many highly anticipated movies that will belike be Brobdingnagian box berth hits .

Dune: Part 2 (March 1)

ground on the famous 1965 novel and serving as a follow - up to 2021’sDune , Dune : Part Twowill see Paul Atreides ( Timothée Chalamet ) team up with Chani ( Zendaya ) and the Fremen kin group to get retaliation and hopefully keep their humankind from being torn apart . Much like the first moving picture , the continuation is stocked with an all - star form that includes Josh Brolin , Oppenheimer‘s Florence Pugh , Christopher Walken , and Austin Butler , who will be depict the nefarious Feyd - Rautha .

In an interview withEmpire , managing director Denis Villeneuve shared how Butler brought life to his character in the film , say , “ Austin bring something that is a hybridizing between a psychopath slayer , an Olympic sword master , a ophidian , and Mick Jagger . ”Dunefans also have more to attend forth to in 2024 as well since it ’s rumored that theMaxseriesDune : Prophecywill be release on the pennon at the conclusion of the twelvemonth .

Spaceman (March 1)

Adam Sandler plays an astronaut with matrimonial problems inSpaceman . found on the novelSpaceman of Bohemia , the film center on a solitary cosmonaut as he traverses a planet while being play along by a mysterious tool ( The Batman‘s Paul Dano ) . The two discuss living , love , and what it means to be alive . Spacemanwill unquestionably be more drama than legal action , alike to other sci - fi pic likeAnother Earth .

Spacemanis already receiving some praise and accolades as well . It will have its premiere at the esteemed Berlin Film Festival , and the book ’s generator Jaroslav Kalfar toldNetflix ’s Tudumthat he ’s seen the picture show and loves it . “ I was all blown away when I saw the picture . I ’ve seen it twice now , ” he say . “ I think all the multitude out there who love eldritch thing and weird art will hopefully be delighted by it . ”

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (March 22)

serve as a sequel to 2021’sGhostbusters : Afterlife , the upcomingGhostbusters : Frozen Empiresees the Spengler family move from Oklahoma to New York City to work alongside the original Ghostbusters in their iconic Manhattan fire station . But after they arrive , a supernatural force play known as the “ Death Chill ” plump the worldly concern into a deep freeze .

Everyone from the late cinema , include Paul Rudd , Bill Murray , Annie Potts , and Dan Aykroyd , is reprising their role . fledgling to the cast include Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Alyn Lind .

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (March 29)

The Monsterverse grows bombastic in 2024 with the release ofGodzilla x Kong : The New Empire . In the wake of 2021’sGodzilla vs. Kong , the grievous duo must harness a new and dangerous titan that peril them both — and the universe of the entire reality . Director Adam Wingard toldIGNa short of what lover can expect from the new monster .

“ We want to do up with an antagonist that would … be a friction match for [ both ] Kong and Godzilla , and that ’s really hard to do , ” the director suppose . “ There ’s a lot more to this case and how he ’s a terror , and that ’s run to be something that ’s go to be fun to kind of dole out . ” This time around , Godzilla even has atomic number 10 pinkish spinal spike thanks to some new powers . And base on the laggard , there ’s going to be a lot of elephantine apes .

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (May 24)

Yep , Planet of the Apes is induce another sequel . In some fashion , it ’s the enfranchisement that never dies . After the first picture show premiere in 1968 , it was quickly followed by four sequels and a television serial publication . Then came the 2004 reboot , and after that motion-picture show did n’t execute well , it was reboot again in 2011 withRise of the Planet of the Apes . Andthatis where the modern franchise get down .

The new film , Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes , will be the third sequel in the series and shows what happened after the calamitous battles in 2017’sWar for the Planet of the Apes . Now , the apes are safely sequestered by in the Oasis and human beings has devolved into primal creature due to the mutated Simian Flu . Director Wes Ball even toldEntertainment Weeklythat he has plans for even more subsequence , articulate , “ We certainly conceive there is alotmore story to be told , not just in the   Planet of the Apes legacy of it all , but in terms of these characters we ’ve create and the arcs that we ’re thinking about . ”

Twisters (July 19)

There ’s no “ fiction ” behind the science of twister … but in theTwisterfilm series , the scientific discipline is heavily left behind and the resource genuinely takes over . Twenty - eight years after the first film , the sequelTwisterswill hit theaters . Judging by the claim , we can only go for that instead of one nefarious tornado , the motion-picture show is going to have a bunch plop down and cause infrangible bedlam ( which actually does bechance in real life and is know as a tornado clump ) .

Screenwriter Mark L. Smith toldColliderthat clime change   enliven the new movie . “ Because of mood change , what used to be tornado back street going through a certain stretch … It now extends so much further east , ” Smith say . “ And it ’s moving across , and the appointment are wider , and the numbers are higher , and the storms themselves are more tearing . ” Hopefully , Twisterswill also bring us more flying cow like the original did in 1996 .

Alien: Romulus (August 16)

Another monumental franchise returning this year is Alien . The new filmAlien : Romuluswill be set between the first two picture show and centers around a group of inhabitants on a removed planet who get an unwanted visitor … the xenomorph . Ridley Scott is n’t involve in the Modern motion picture , which was written and directed by Fede Alvarez , who is best known for 2013’sEvil Deadremake .

But Alvarez says that Scott has seen his movie and , according toThe Escapist , he loved it . Alvarez revealed that after watching the movie , Scott said , “ Fede , what can I say ? It ’s fucking great . ” Since theAlienfranchise often crown of thorns between horror and sci - fi , Alien : Romuluscould also beone of 2024 ’s good repulsion moviesif it can retake the scary element of the early movies .

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (TBA, summer)

The wildest sci - fi movie of 2024 is going to beThe Day the Earth Blew Up , which will be an quondam - school renovate movie star Daffy Duck and Porky Pig . In the moving picture , the ragtag and bobtail duo learn an foreign programme to control people ’s minds , and it ’s up to them to save Earth . In late 2023,Varietyconfirmed that the movie is set for a theatrical release and will be the first theatrically released Looney Tunes film ever .

In a world that always seems to get more depressing and more enraging , the definitive antics of the Looney Tunes gang could be a welcome abatement for audiences , potentially hand the film a stroke at becoming a huge strike . disregardless , it will be fun to see Porky Pig stutter “ Th - tha - tha - that ’s all folks ! ” at the conclusion of the picture .

The Electric State (TBA, summer)

Yet anotherbook adaptionblated for 2024,The Electric Statewill starStranger Thingsseason 5star Millie Bobby Brown as an orphaned girlfriend who , with the help of a robot , traverses the American West looking for her miss blood brother . The movie is set in 1997 and direct place in an alternate creation where society crumbled during the technical revolution and is now pit in an sempiternal war against a subspecies of bourdon .

The Electric Stateis also gaining a lot of buzz because it ’s being directed by the Russo Brothers . The brother have been want to turn the graphic novel into a pic for years now — they in the beginning buy the right in 2017 . Since they were able-bodied to make hits likeAvengers : Endgame , it ’s promising that the picture can become an heroic sci - fi dangerous undertaking . join Brown in the cast are Chris Pratt and Stanley Tucci , who both have intercourse their mode around a massive sci - fi adventure .

Distant (TBA, 2024)

InDistant , a blue - pinch asteroid miner named Andy ( Anthony Ramos ) smash - lands on an alien major planet and sets out to search for the only other survivor from the crash . His only comrade on the journeying is the AI program that ’s install in his spacesuit , L.E.O.N.A.R.D. ( voiced by Zachary Quinto ) .

tenseness builds throughout the film when Andy unwrap that the other subsister is immobilize inside her escape pod and both of their oxygen tanks are slowly depleting … all without any hope of deliverance in mountain . Amblin , the film ’s production company , has also hinted that L.E.O.N.A.R.D. is n’t much help in Andy ’s fight for survival , bring some humor to the otherwise bare story .