The recent hits of Bridgerton, Night Stalker, and Outside the Wire prove that Netflix can more than compete with Apple TV Plus, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney Plus when it comes to original content. Clearly, Netflix's 200 million subscribers around the world seem to agree. And there are many more where these are coming from over the next 12 months. From raucous comedies to reimagined fairy tales, here's a look at 10 of our most anticipated new shows and movies confirmed to hit the streaming giant in 2021, including movies and TV shows.
Tribes of Europe
(Image credit: Gordon Timpen) Release date: February 19 Two of the best European Netflix Originals, Dark and The Rain, were firmly rooted in dystopia, so hopes are high for this German sci-fi series. set in a post-apocalyptic 2074. Sharing a production company with Dark, Tribes of Europa sees three peace-loving brothers plunge into a deadly war after discovering a mysterious and highly coveted cube. From stark snow-covered landscapes to villains sporting Mad Max chic, the six-episode series certainly looks the part, while a bilingual story and familiar faces, including Game of Thrones' James Faulkner, may well win over a larger audience. wide to get closer. board.
Shadow and bone
(Image Credit: DAVID APPLEBY / NETFLIX) Release Date: April 23 It's hard enough to compact a series of young adult novels into one TV series, let alone two. But that's the task ambitious showrunner Eric Heisserer must face with this epic tale of a newfound superhero's quest to save his permanently dark world. In a move that will no doubt rattle some purists, Shadow and Bone transports the sharpshooters, spies, and soldiers of Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows duology to the timeline of her equally successful Grisha trilogy. No stranger to the fantastic, Westworld's Ben Barnes stars as the mysterious Commander The Darkling, while the relatively unknown Jessie Mei Li takes the lead as an orphaned teen with the power to summon light.
Clickbait
Release date: TBD Clickbait is an ever-relevant warning about how our social media personalities can affect our real lives. Filmed and based in Melbourne, the eight-part thriller revolves around a family torn apart by a mysterious disappearance that seems to have originated in the online world. The Big Sick's Zoe Kazan leads the impressive cast as the sister is determined to uncover the truth, with Entourage's Adrian Grenier, Get Out's Betty Gabriel and Australian-born Phoenix Raei all caught up in the intriguing web of lies. You won't believe what happens next!
Jupiter's legacy
(Image credit: Frank Quitely / Mark Millar) Release date: TBC Four years after buying the rights, Netflix is expected to finally enter Millar's world in 2021 with this adaptation of the famous comic by Frank Quitely and Mark thousand. Jupiter's Legacy stars Josh Duhamel and Leslie Bibb as two powerful superhero parents whose children are more interested in riding their fame than changing the world. And his problems continue to mount when old friend turned nemesis George returns with a vengeance on his aging gang. Netflix is no doubt hoping to win back some of the Marvel crowd with this big-budget series, the first two episodes of which, according to Millar, made him cry with joy.
Look no
(Image credit: Netflix) Release date: TBD Netflix has certainly brought out the big guns on this intriguing tale of two astronomers embarking on the most depressing media tour of all time: telling the world it's about to being destroyed by a giant comet. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play the bearers of bad news, while Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill and Chris Evans are just a few of the A-listers lending their support. Of course, Ryan Murphy's The Prom proves that star power doesn't necessarily equate to greatness. Here's hoping director Adam McKay (The Big Short) makes better use of his ridiculously stacked cast, though.
Pinocchio
Release date: TBD Stuck in development hell for nearly a decade, Guillermo del Toro's attempt to bring Pinocchio back to life finally began after the Oscar-winning success of The Shape of Water. Unsurprisingly, the master monster version of the famous fiber is bound to be far more macabre than Walt Disney's. Co-directed by Mark Gustafson, the stop-motion animated musical is set in 1930s Fascist Italy and is inspired by both Frankenstein and Carlo Collodi's classic fairy tale. Not one for the kids, then. However, this labor of love, in which Ewan McGregor voices The Talking Cricket and Tilda Swinton The Fairy with Turquoise Hair, will no doubt still charm.
Bad trip
(Image credit: Netflix) Release date: TBD Originally due to blockbuster theaters and then Amazon Prime, Bad Trip will finally make its screen debut on Netflix later this year. Like the mockumentaries Bad Grandpa and Sacha Baron Cohen, this long-overdue comedy interweaves a loose narrative—in this case, two friends from Florida travel to the Big Apple to meet up with an old crush—around various jokes from the real life. unsuspecting general. Public. Who knows if anything can top this Rudy Giuliani moment in the latest Borat? But with the lawless and brilliant host of The Eric Andre Show in tow, it's sure to provide the absurd escape we all need.
Army of the dead
(Image credit: Clay Enos / NETFLIX) Release date: TBD After four years away from the spotlight, Zack Snyder seems to be making up for lost time in 2021. First, there's that totally unnecessary four-hour director's cut. of the Justice League. But more promisingly, there's also a genre overhaul where he first showcased his polarizing visual style. Unrelated to his 2004 debut Dawn of the Dead, this heist horror sees Dave Bautista take on a gang of mercenaries who decide that a zombie pandemic is the perfect time to rob a Las Vegas casino. The fact that Netflix has already turned on a prequel suggests that Snyder may have rediscovered his earlier ways of eating meat.
Spiderhead exhaust
(Image credit: Netflix / Trailer) Release date: TBD Chris Hemsworth's first Netflix vehicle, Extraction, remains one of the streaming giant's most watched originals. And the second of its kind, the near-future sci-fi Escape from Spiderhead, has the potential to rack up equally impressive viewing numbers. In this adaptation of a mind-bending tale by Man Booker Prize winner George Saunders, midfielder Hemsworth and Miles Teller play prisoners who agree to be clinical trial guinea pigs in exchange for shorter terms. But as their emotions change and their minds are controlled, the convicts soon end up wishing they had played their lines.
Apollo 10 ½
Release date: TBD Following the relatively conventional Where D'You Go, Bernadette?, Richard Linklater returns to more familiar idiosyncratic territory with an animated coming-of-age film based on his childhood in Houston. Starring the voices of Jack Black, Glen Powell and Zachary Levi, Apollo 10½ sees the visionary director embrace the same rotoscoping techniques he helped pioneer Waking Life and the adult-friendly A Scanner Darkly. However, the story - a suburban youth dreams of training as an astronaut during the excitement of the moon landing in 1969 - suggests it will be a much sweeter, if still very, singular sci-fi story. This one isn't confirmed for a 2021 release yet, but the live-action portion finished filming last year.