Netflix news: Release updates for The Old Guard 2, Frankenstein, Knives Out 3 and more
Netflix is king when it comes to beaming cinema-style spectacles right into your living room, bedroom or on the move via the tube.
With 2025 up and running, the streaming giant unveiled its upcoming slate of series and feature films.
Film News Blitz’s David Bason dives into the updated release schedule for some of Netflix’s exciting upcoming projects from Frankenstein to the third Knives Out mystery.
Tom Hardy will wreak Havoc in Spring
Writer/Director Gareth Evans’ Havoc is springing into action this Spring, and superstar Tom Hardy is leading this thriller.
The synopsis reads: "After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective [Hardy’s Walker] must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician's estranged son, while unravelling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city."
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Evans is best known for his work on The Raid (Writer/Director) and Gangs of London (Creator).
He said Havoc is a "love letter to the heroic bloodshed genre, the films that came out of Hong Kong in the '80s and '90s."
Hardy stars alongside Timothy Olyphant and Forest Whitaker.
The Old Guard return
July 2 will see the return of Charlize Theron as Andy in The Old Guard 2 five years after the original instalment, leading her group of “immortal warriors against a powerful enemy threatening their group.
“They grapple with the resurfacing of a long-lost immortal, complicating their mission to safeguard humanity.”
RIP this Autumn with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
Famous friends and collaborators Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will be sharing the screen together once again in crime thriller RIP from Writer/Director Joe Carnahan.
Speaking at a Netflix event in London, Affleck described the film as "Heat meets Narc meets Training Day" and a "compelling, complicated human drama".
Affleck and Damon star as Miami cops who discover “a stash of millions in cash, leading to distrust as outsiders learn about the huge seizure, making them question who to rely on”.
The cast is filled out by Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Sasha Calle, Scott Adkins, Kyle Chandler, Nestor Carbonell and Lina Esco.
The film is due out this Autumn and Netflix revealed a first look at the central duo.
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A new Knives Out mystery
First, we had Knives Out, then we had Glass Onion and this Autumn Daniel Craig’s enchanting sleuth Benoit Blanc is back in a new mystery: Wake Up Dead Man.
Writer/Director Rian Johnson has taken the whodunnit template and gloriously brought it into the modern age with sharp wit and even sharper mysteries that hold up a mirror to our complex and fractious society.
As ever, the new Knives Out mystery brings an ensemble cast to join Craig’s Blanc and the likes of Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church and Josh O’Connor are along for the ride.
Image Courtesy of Netflix
To celebrate giving audiences some knowledge regarding Wake Up Dead Man’s release, Netflix released a new image of Craig and O’Connor, who is hotly tipped to succeed his co-star as James Bond.
Film News Blitz cannot wait to see Craig’s Blanc back in action.
One of modern cinema’s greats brings Frankenstein to life
Guillermo del Toro, an Oscar-winning filmmaker who is a master of the macabre and entwining horror with stunning beauty is bringing his vision of the iconic Frankenstein to life.
"Over the decades, the character has fused with my soul in a way that it has become autobiography, said del Toro.
“It doesn't get more personal than this.”
The film lands on Netflix this November and a first-look has been offered of Oscar Isaac's Victor Frankenstein.
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Isaac will star alongside Jacob Elordi as the world-famous monster with a cast of incredible actors helping bring del Toro’s vision to life: Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, and Ralph Ineson.
Frankenstein is the creation of the incredible author Mary Shelley and del Toro paid tribute to her upon winning Best Director at the 2018 BAFTAs for his work on The Shape of Water.
“She gave voice to the voiceless, and presence to the invisible, and showed me that sometimes to talk about monsters, we need to fabricate monsters of our own.”
Expect del Toro’s Frankenstein to be an extraordinary ode to his idol.
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