2022 In the News: Peele’s New Movie Date Announced; Depp Out/Mikkelsen In?
There weren’t many movie releases in 2020, at least not new ones, with Covid shutdowns of both movie production and theaters keeping most potential blockbusters from seeing the light of day. Those shelved big-budget flicks will soon be crowding the 2021 cinematic landscape.
Now studios are fleshing out the schedule for 2022, and several developments for works in production were announced today.
The third installment of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series will be released July 15th, 2022. Warner Bros. asked Johnny Depp to step down from the role of Gerrelt Gridelwald after he lost his libel case against The Sun tabloid over an article they wrote in 2018 calling the actor a “wife beater.”
Depp’s role has yet to be recast, though Deadline reports that producers are in talks with Mads Mikkelsen about taking the part. The third installment in the series set in the Harry Potter universe has yet to receive a title.
Just one week after Fantastic Beasts 3 hits screens, the “Jordan Peele Horror Event” will appear nationwide, though it should have a title by then. No plot details were released for the movie slated to open July 22, 2022.
Peele has been pegged as the director of the remake of The People Under the Stairs, a Wes Craven classic horror, but it’s not apparent if these two projects are the same. Peele was originally intending to remake the 1991 satire as a television show for the Syfy network, but that fell through.
Peele has been extraordinarily busy as of late – he is producing the Lovecraft Country series which just wrapped its first season (it streams on HBO) and he wrote the 2021 release Candyman, a “spiritual sequel” to the original.
Finally, a third movie in the Quiet Place franchise was announced, with director Jeff Nichols helming a new entry that expands the universe of the first two movies.
John Krasinski will produce the as-yet-unnamed horror-thriller, which was based on his original idea. Nichols directed such films as Midnight Special and Loving. The spinoff will also have a 2022 premiere.