BBC推薦：2021年佳片前瞻（上）

2020年沒能看到的大片，2021年將會統統補給你。《007：無暇赴死》、《沙丘》、《寂靜之地2》……這注定是電影精彩不斷的一年。

The Many Saints of Newark《紐瓦克衆聖》

Fourteen years after The Sopranos ended, its creator and writer, David Chase, delivers a prequel to one of the best television series ever made. No one could replace James Gandolfini, who died in 2013, and who made the middle-aged Tony, family man and mob boss, a classic character. But Chase and director Alan Taylor enlisted Gandolfini's lookalike son, Michael Gandolfini, to play Tony as a young man. Set in the 1960s and 70s, against the backdrop of racial unrest and riots in Newark, New Jersey, with antagonism between black people and Italian Americans, the film could give us a clue about where all that Sopranos crime came from. Among the cast: Vera Farmiga as Tony's lethal mother, Livia.

《黑道家族》劇終14年後，該劇的導演和編劇大衛·切斯又爲這部有史以來最出色的電視劇獻上了前傳電影。沒有人可以取代2013年去世的詹姆斯·甘多菲尼，他飾演的中年託尼一角非常經典，既是顧家好男人，也是黑幫老大。但是大衛·切斯和導演阿蘭·泰勒請來了甘多菲尼的兒子——和他長得很像的邁克爾·甘多菲尼飾演年輕的託尼。新片的故事背景設定在20世紀六七十年代，當時新澤西州紐瓦克市充斥着種族動亂，黑人和意大利裔美國人互相敵視，這部電影能讓我們對《黑道家族》中的犯罪源頭有所瞭解。維拉·法梅加飾演託尼極具殺傷力的母親麗維亞。

Released internationally on 11 March

該片將於3月11日在全球上映。

No Time to Die《007：無暇赴死》

First there were injuries, accidents and the resignation of the original director, Danny Boyle. Then there was the pandemic, which pushed the release date back by exactly a year. But in April, more than five years after the premiere of Spectre, we will finally see the 25th official Bond film. The director, Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation, True Detective), is a master of action sequences and exotic locations. And the villains are played by two Oscar winners, Christoph Waltz and Rami Malek. It looks as if Daniel Craig's last Bond movie could be his best.

先是有人受傷，然後是發生事故，接着原導演丹尼·博伊爾又退出了。之後疫情又迫使該片的上映日期推遲了整整一年。但是今年四月，在《007：幽靈黨》首映五年多後，我們終於要看到第25部邦德電影了。導演凱瑞·福永（曾執導《無境之獸》和《真探》）是拍攝動作片和異域風情片的高手。反派擔當是兩位奧斯卡獲獎者——克里斯托弗·瓦爾茲和拉米·馬雷克。看起來丹尼爾·克雷格的最後一部邦德電影會是他最好的一部。

Released internationally on 2 April

該片將於4月2日在全球上映。

A Quiet Place Part II《寂靜之地2》

We learned in 2020 that not every film needs to be seen in a theatre. One exception is John Krasinski's sequel to his hit A Quiet Place, about a family who will be attacked by noise-sensitive monsters if they make a peep. When the original was shown in theatres, there was not a popcorn crunch to be heard, just the rare sound of an entire audience holding its breath. Emily Blunt returns as the mother of the family, with Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe as her children in this follow-up. Krasinski once again writes and directs. Viewers of the original will remember with a chill why he is not on screen.

2020年讓我們知道不是每一部電影都需要在影院裏觀看。但是約翰·卡拉辛斯基的熱門電影《寂靜之地》的續集是一個例外。《寂靜之地》講述了一個家庭一旦發出響動就會受到對聲音很敏感的怪獸的攻擊。原片在影院上映時，全場聽不到吃爆米花的任何聲響，只能聽到全體屏息的聲音。艾米莉·布朗特迴歸新片，繼續飾演母親一角，米利森特·西蒙茲和諾亞·尤佩在續集中飾演孩子們。卡拉辛斯基再次擔任編劇和導演。至於他爲什麼不會出現在片中，看過第一部的觀衆想到原因可能會倒吸一口涼氣。

Released internationally on 22 April

該片將於4月22日在全球上映。

Luca 《夏日友情天》

Having taken memorable trips to France (Ratatouille), Scotland (Brave) and Mexico (Coco), Pixar heads to Italy for its next cartoon, a sunny coming-of-age comedy directed by Enrico Casarosa and written by Jesse Andrews and Mike Jones (the co-writer of Soul). In 2011, Casarosa made a beloved Pixar short, La Luna, but Luca is his debut feature. "This is a deeply personal story for me," he has said, "not only because it's set on the Italian Riviera where I grew up, but because at the core of this film is a celebration of friendship." Its hero is a boy named Luca who has a wonderfully carefree summer by the seaside with his new best friend – the only snag being that his friend is actually a sea monster in disguise.

在法國（《美食總動員》）、蘇格蘭（《勇敢傳說》）和墨西哥（《尋夢環遊記》）經歷了難忘的旅行後，皮克斯又出發去了意大利拍攝它的下一部動畫。這部陽光燦爛的成長喜劇片由埃裏康·卡薩羅薩導演，傑西·安德魯斯和麥克·瓊斯（《心靈奇旅》的編劇之一）擔任編劇。2011年，卡薩羅薩曾製作過一個受人喜愛的皮克斯短片《月神》，但是《夏日友情天》是他執導的第一部長片。他表示：“這對我而言是一個非常個人化的故事，不只是因爲故事背景設定在我從小長大的裏維埃拉，但也因爲這部電影的核心是頌揚友誼。”主人公是一個名爲盧卡的小男孩，他和他新結交的好朋友在海邊度過了一個無憂無慮的夏天，唯一的障礙是他的朋友其實是一個僞裝的海怪。

Released internationally on 18 June

該片將於6月18日在全球上映。

Top Gun: Maverick《壯志凌雲2：獨行俠》

Top Gun flew into cinemas in 1986. Fortunately, Tom Cruise hasn't aged a day since then, so he can still get away with wearing Aviator shades and declaring, "I feel the need, the need for speed". In the long-awaited sequel, Cruise's cocky US Navy pilot, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, is a captain, and his old rival "Iceman" (Val Kilmer) is a four-star general. But there is no sign of Kelly McGillis as Charlie: Jennifer Connolly has replaced her as Cruise's love interest. The other new recruits are Jon Hamm, Ed Harris, and Miles Teller as the son of Maverick's buddy "Goose".

《壯志凌雲》第一部是在1986年上映的。幸運的是，湯姆·克魯斯一點也沒老，所以他依然可以戴着飛行員墨鏡宣稱：“我感到渴望，對速度的渴望。”在這部等待了多年的續集中，克魯斯飾演的自大的美國海軍飛行員“獨行俠”彼得·米契爾當了上校，他的老對手“冰人”（方·基默飾演）成了四星上將。但是你應該看不到凱莉·麥吉利斯飾演的查莉，珍妮佛·康諾利將取代她成爲克魯斯的愛人。新加盟的其他演員有喬恩·哈姆、艾德·哈里斯，還有邁爾斯·特勒，他飾演“獨行俠”的好哥們“笨鵝”的兒子。

Released internationally from 2 July

該片將於7月2日在全球上映。