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The best sci-fi/fantasy TV and film coming in 2022
https://newatlas.com ^ | December 28, 2021 | By Rich Haridy

Posted on 12/29/2021 1:01:32 PM PST by Red Badger

Over the last year we have had long-awaited adaptions of classic science fiction and fantasy stories finally reach our screens, from Dune to Foundation to Wheel of Time. And the good times are set to continue with a tidal wave of big sci-fi and fantasy stories set to hit our screens in 2022.

This handpicked list of upcoming highlights doesn’t include a few big adaptations that we touched on in last year’s list but are still yet to reach our screens. So check our 2020 rundown for a look at titles including The Lord of the Rings, Sandman, Halo and The Last of Us.

Avatar 2 (December, cinemas) A recently released logo offering the only official look to date at the branding of the upcoming sequels A recently released logo offering the only official look to date at the branding of the upcoming sequels20th Century Studios/Avatar The success of Avatar feels like a distant memory from a time back in 2010 when 3D films still impressed and Marvel hadn’t taken over the world. As the years passed, James Cameron’s plans for one sequel expanded into four more films, which would be shot back to back.

We now know Cameron has already shot most of episodes two and three, with Avatar 2 rumored to explore ocean worlds of the planet Pandora. Love it or hate it you will be seeing a lot more of the Avatar world over the next few years, and James Cameron is such an obsessive innovator these films will at the very least be technologically impressive.

Kenobi (Disney+) Apart from a torrent of fan made posters we are yet to see any official images from the upcoming Kenobi series

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Exactly so. The Superhero never loses. The Supervillain always does.

We pay to see the same story over and over.................


121 posted on 12/30/2021 7:35:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
I view today’s obsession with Superhero comic movies as just being the modern version of ancient Greek & Roman mythological tales of their gods and demigods.

Some gods, Thor and Saturday Morning Hercules, made it into the comic book universe, and I guess Aquaman is Poseidon.

I saw Voyagers, sort of a Lord of the Flies in space movie. Teenagers sent into space so that their grandchildren could eventually colonize a successor Earth go wild and wreak havoc, as teenagers do. It was an interesting concept and well done, but it felt a little like so many other movies nowadays.

Science fiction could really stand out when it had to sneak into the culture through the back door. Now that it's everywhere it's become more ho-hum and expected. Also, in the Fifties, when science fiction really took off, anything was possible. There could actually be Martians and Venusians and our grandchildren would be going to distant stars.

Maybe some of that is coming back with the new billionaire astronauts and their projects, but for a while, I've gotten used to the idea that space is a very big and very empty place. Contact with advanced alien civilizations would be phenomenal, but one big reason is that it's so unlikely. If or when it happens, it would be more low-key than Star Wars or Star Trek, so those visions come to look as much like fantasy as science fiction.

122 posted on 12/30/2021 7:49:27 AM PST by x
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To: Red Badger
I view today’s obsession with Superhero comic movies as just being the modern version of ancient Greek & Roman mythological tales of their gods and demigods. No practical difference...................

Excellent point. Also the Norse Gods as well, which comic books have borrowed from.

123 posted on 12/30/2021 7:51:27 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: x
Contact with advanced alien civilizations would be phenomenal, but one big reason is that it's so unlikely.

What if WE are the 'advanced civilization'? Somebody has to be first. I have read a few sci-fi stories where our explorers come upon civilizations far more primitive than ours and just like the Indians of teh New world, became enslaved or destroyed.

Also, many of the old time writers, Asimov, Heinlein, et al, wrote their futuristic novels from the perspective that we are the ONLY civilization in the Galaxy and no others exist..............

124 posted on 12/30/2021 8:00:01 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
Also, many of the old time writers, Asimov, Heinlein, et al, wrote their futuristic novels from the perspective that we are the ONLY civilization in the Galaxy and no others exist..............

The undercurrent was that we -- America, Western civilization, mankind -- still believed in ourselves and our mission to explore the universe. You can see that in the original Star Trek. It made being alone in the universe bearable (though of course, we weren't alone in the original Star Trek).

By the time, E.T. and the second Star Trek series came along that confidence was gone and people were looking for aliens to teach us things. It's harder to write the kind of stories of lone men on alien planets that the older generation wrote. It's not impossible. I'm just noting the cultural change.

Also, writers in the earlier era could write about humans alone in the universe against a background of popular science fiction that included Martians and Venusians. We might be alone in the universe in one story, but intelligent aliens, friendly or hostile, would turn up in somebody else's story.

125 posted on 12/30/2021 8:41:55 AM PST by x
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To: Red Badger

LOL! First superhero movie ever shown in color on screen!
Argoman the Fantastic Superman(1967)He lost his powers for a short time after diddling a woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argoman_the_Fantastic_Superman

I believe there was an earlier B&W George Reeves Superman movie about little mole men from the inner earth.


126 posted on 12/30/2021 9:31:19 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Still OUT of Facebook Jail! But I'm pushing it!)
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To: x
Science fiction could really stand out when it had to sneak into the culture through the back door. Now that it's everywhere it's become more ho-hum and expected.

I think that space-based sci fi has been exhausted as a genre, in much the same way as westerns. All the great themes have been explored, many times. One can still get a good genre movie by finding a new and interesting character or a clever plot twist. (I thought Old Henry, released this year, was very good.) Directors are like major league pitchers trying to disguise the pitch. But ultimately they're revisiting timeless themes; fortunately, timeless themes involve stories that are worth retelling, but keeping the story fresh is a challenge. It's been a long time since I've seen a space epic that seems to have anything new to say.

Biomedical sci-fi is reaching the same point. Does the deadly superbug that is going to kill us all come from an alien planet? From a lab, where it originated as a bioweapon or a mistake? From some isolated natural source from which it breaks out into the human population? Or is it a spontaneous mutation? Those give us different narrative arcs, and the choice of the heroic scientists who save humanity give the DEI committees plenty to work with, but the stories are getting repetitive.

Fantasy often gets conflated with sci-fi, but I consider that an entirely different genre.

The open frontier for genuinely new storytelling, it seems to me, lies in the exploration of the big philosophical questions about the nature of mind and consciousness, the mind-body connection, and questions about the status of meaning, purpose and values. Naturalism reigns supreme in contemporary academic and scientific circles, but my sense is that "science," understood as strict materialist reductionism, is increasingly hitting limits that are slowly being recognized as intrinsically beyond the domain of "science." I.e., if science is indeed unable to provide a sufficient theory of everything, then science must again be understood (as it used to be) as a subset of philosophy, not the other way around.

I don't want to plunge into the big arguments here, but some excellent sci-fi at least attempts to explore these questions. Movies about artificial intelligence are a classic approach. The mantra one hears from the atheist pews is that consciousness is an "emergent property" of highly complex calculating systems. This has always struck me as a matter of inventing a label and pretending that the label is an explanation. The explanation also doesn't work very well. AI films still have room to operate inventively in this domain.

127 posted on 12/30/2021 10:08:47 AM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx
Thanks for the response.

Biomedical sci-fi is reaching the same point.

We don't have to dream about that anymore. It's become a reality. And you can see how movies about monster epidemics became more and more real and present day over time.

128 posted on 12/30/2021 10:21:28 AM PST by x
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To: x

It was a quiet evening in Grover’s Mill, until...


129 posted on 12/30/2021 5:34:29 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: airedale

Hyperion was a great book, it has been awhile since I read it. I would like to see Greg Bear Forge Of God made.


130 posted on 12/30/2021 6:06:24 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

If you read Hyperion you need to read the second part Fall of Hyperion. The two really form one book. The other 2 other books Endymion and Rise of Endymion form a second book. The second 2 aren’t as good as the first 2 IMHO.

I like Greg Bear also


131 posted on 12/31/2021 9:48:23 AM PST by airedale ( )
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To: mad_as_he$$

The Expanse started getting good when the portals to the other worlds were opened up and then it went back to the boring politics of the solar system. I haven’t started the newest season yet.


132 posted on 01/01/2022 10:34:15 AM PST by Sawdring
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