I’m Already Hyped For These 8 Movies To Come Out In 2022

“Don’t move to Woodsboro, and don’t be named Sidney Prescott, is what you need to know about the ‘Scream’ franchise.”

On today's episode of BuzzFeed Daily, we broke down the top pop culture headlines AND discussed what movies should be on your radar in 2022. You can listen below or scroll down to read more about the interview!

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So let's dive right into it! Recently we talked to BuzzFeed's Allie Hayes to break down some of next year’s movies. Here's some of our conversation:

BuzzFeed Daily: So, it's basically the end of the year somehow, and as our resident film expert, we wanted to have you on to talk about some of the movies coming out in 2022 that you're looking forward to, since there are probably a couple of dozen on your list. Can you narrow it down to the top five for us?

Allie Hayes: So that's a big ask, like choosing my favorite children. I would definitely say my big five would probably be Scream. We also have Nope coming out from Jordan Peele this summer, which I'm very excited about.

Now we'll dive into the Marvel waters. We've got Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder coming out. 

And then the last one... Let's go with The Northman. Let's throw a maybe-Oscar contender in there.

BuzzFeed Daily: Okay, let's talk about Scream first. What can you tell us about it? Is it a sequel, a remake, or a reboot we're working with?

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AH: I believe it's a direct sequel. From what I'm seeing, by definition, it's kind of a reboot. But that's only because the last time we've seen the gang all together would have been in Scream 4, which was in 2011. So I feel like if a movie series is dormant for 10 years, you get to call it a reboot because it's rebooting the franchise, if nothing else. 

It's the first time we're seeing the big three of the Scream franchise back together again. So we have Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette. The three of them are back, and it's kind of — have you to have ever seen any of the Scream movies? Scream is a very, very meta-commentary on horror, so it'll probably go into the idea of the reboot and the sequel, which the fourth movie did a little bit. But there's just always someone trying to kill Sidney. That's kind of really the story someone's always trying to kill her. Don't move to Woodsboro and don't be named Sidney Prescott, is what you need to know about the Scream franchise, and that's about it.

BuzzFeed Daily: And what about Nope?

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AH: In true Jordan Peele fashion, we don't know anything about it. The real extent of what we know is the poster, which was just straight up a cloud. It's a cloud hovering over a very small town, and it looks like the picture was taken back on a hill. And that's all you know. That's it. And then it has the cast on it. So that's kind of all we know. Besides that, Jordan Peele is involved. So it's starring Daniel Kaluuya again. They're teaming up after Get Out Once Again. And we have Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun. So that's a pretty great cast.

BuzzFeed Daily: Moving on, we already got a sneak peek at Multiverse of Madness, but how much of that teaser do you think we can take at face value, considering it's Marvel?

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AH: I mean, quick answer, probably not a lot. Marvel makes some of my favorite trailers, and you both know just from working with me how high a compliment that is because I love me a movie trailer. Marvel does a really great job of not showing you too much, but showing you just enough. So as far as Doctor Strange goes, we do know that first of all, it's directed by Sam Raimi, who I am obsessed with. I am in love with Sam Raimi. Evil Dead franchise — iconic. He did all of the original Tobey Maguire Spider-Mans, which are going through the big nostalgia re-up right now, with everything going on with No Way Home. So to have him finally come into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and kind of put his campy stamp on something so wonderful as Doctor Strange because...he's a wizard. It's very silly. So it should be very neat to see what he does with it. 

We do also know that Wanda and WandaVision are going to have some effect on it because we did see her in the teaser and it is, of course, called Multiverse of Madness. So we've busted the multiverse wide open in the Marvel Cinematic Universe right now. Everybody's coming through, so we don't know who's going to show up, what's going to happen. So it should be pretty exciting.

BuzzFeed Daily: Then Love and Thunder comes out a couple of months later. What can you tell us about that one? Is there anything you're specifically hoping for from that?

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AH: Something very specific, actually. I want Tessa Thompson to make good on her promise that she is going to find herself a queen. Tessa Thompson plays Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok, and at the end of Avengers: Endgame Thor kind of unofficially officially leaves what's left of Asgard to Valkyrie. So Valkyrie is now essentially the operating king of Asgard. In the comics, Valkyrie's character is bisexual, and Tessa made a comment at Comic-Con that she is now a king looking for her queen, and I would very much like her to make good on that promise.

We also have Taika Waititi back behind the wheel, directing and writing. So you know it's going to be very silly. And then it's very highly anticipated because we have Natalie Portman back as Jane Foster and she's going to be Lady Thor. In the comics, there is a kind of multiverse version of Thor, who is a lady. So we're going to finally get to see what it's like when a lady can lift the hammer — when a lady is worthy and whatnot.

BuzzFeed Daily: OK, so lastly, we're talking about The Northman, which takes place in Iceland, around 900 BC. So apart from Alexander Skarsgård as a Viking prince, which is amazing casting, why are you excited for it? And also...what is this movie?

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AH: The reason that I am so excited for it is because it is directed and written — or co-written — by Robert Eggers. He did The Witch and The Lighthouse, which are two very horror adjacent, weird movies that I love. 

From what I can tell from the trailer and from what I've read up on it, it's going to be your classic revenge story. It's a young man avenging the death of his father. I imagine he just went in and pitched a Viking revenge story and they were like, "Do we have a Skarsgård available?" and that was the end of the conversation.

BuzzFeed Daily: Okay, before we wrap up, we asked you to narrow it down to five movies and you said that was like choosing children, so just super quickly, are there any other children? Some honorable mentions that should be on our listeners' radar?

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AH: Totally, totally. So we have, of course, probably the most anticipated movie that I didn't even mention yet, which is The Batman. People are very excited to see Robert Pattinson as Batman and Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman. It should be very very fun. I love Robert Pattinson. He's very weird. I'm very excited to see a weird, younger Batman because you don't see that a lot. I mean, you see your parents get shot in an alleyway — you're going to be a little bit weird. The man dresses up as a giant bat and fights crime — he's going to be a little weird. So I'm just excited to see that come to fruition. 

And then as far as other children that I can mention, I personally very excited for Everything Everywhere All at Once. It's starring Michelle Yeoh. It looks absolutely incredible. I will watch anything she's in. Jamie Lee Curtis is also in it, and it's just like two very powerful women. And you don't often get to see older women in Hollywood get incredible sci-fi roles like this It's beautiful to look at — the trailer itself looks like a short film. I'll throw money at anything Michelle is in, though, so I'm very excited about that.

And then let's finish it all up with a classic Ali. We have Halloween Ends coming out. We get to see what the hell is going on with Michael Myers, since he apparently is flame retardant and he could get stabbed a million times and it doesn't matter. I'm really excited to see what they end up doing to him.

In the rest of the episode, we talked about how Nicole Kidman revealed that she’s lost out on jobs since turning 40.

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She told Dujour: “There's a consensus in the industry that as a female actor, at about 40, you're done. I never sat in a chair and heard someone say, 'You're past your due date. But I've had times where you’re turned down and the door is shut on you. It's definitely changing and moving."

This sort of ageism is something she shares with Lucille Ball, who she plays in the upcoming biopic Being the Ricardos. On The Today Show, she recently had this to say: "There's a scene in it where they say, 'You're 39, and that's it. It's kind of over for you.' I know that feeling. I sort of had that. And it was like, OK. Where television suddenly opened a door for her, it opened a door for me. Around the same age, I was like, 'Gosh, that's kind of — I know that feeling really deeply.'"

We also discussed what a great liar Andrew Garfield is — to the point where he should be getting Oscar buzz for Tick, Tick... Boom! *and* pretending not to be in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

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In other words, he basically spent the past year lying. He told The Today Show: “Listen, I’m not in the film. I love Spider-Man, I always have. I was so happy to have played the part, and I’m so excited to see what they do with the third one, just like you guys are.”

Then, when Extra asked him to blink if he was in No Way Home, he said “I’m not gonna blink. I’m not gonna do anything. I’m very excited to see what they’ve done with their third installment.”

He told Entertainment Tonight: “I feel like I’m in a game of Werewolf, and I’m just saying ‘I’m not the werewolf.’ Listen, what people are talking about is a really cool idea…and again, I haven’t received a phone call.”

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