2020's: Towards the future....2...

Part Deux: 2025-

2020's: Towards the future....2...

As the 2020s unfold, more and more emphasis is being placed on AI. Due to the unfortunate confusion between generative AI (like ChatGPT, Gemini etc) and, the not yet achieved, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), amongst the masses, the movie industry has capitalized either by showing the negatives of a future with humanoid AGI or used the analogy of humanoid AGI with minority groups. to show their persecution and their fight back.

Also, with the MCU having concluded its major storyline, it is trying to reinvent itself with stories of old super-heroes in alternate universes while competing ideas for super-hero stories also try to fill the gap.

While the Artemis missions will definitely not be as motivational for the movie industry as the Apollo missions were, there will still be some impact and hopefully it will result in some strong story-lines benefiting the hardcore space scifi fans.

In summary, where Sci-Fi Is Headed Next...

AI & Consciousness: As real-world AI advances, expect deeper explorations of AI ethics, rights, and threats.
Space Colonization: As Mars missions progress, sci-fi will depict more realistic off-world settlements.
Post-Post-Apocalypse: Instead of total collapse, sci-fi may explore rebuilding civilizations (Dune).
More International Influence: The success of The Wandering Earth and Three-Body Problem suggests that global perspectives on sci-fi will continue to grow.

The 2020s are shaping up to be a decade where sci-fi reflects real-world technological and environmental concerns while also embracing bold, innovative storytelling.

I will be adding movies of this decade over time.

2025: Mickey 17 🇺🇸 🇰🇷

Directed by Bong Joon-ho, this dark sci-fi explores the life of Mickey, a designated “expendable” clone sent on perilous missions for humanity’s interstellar colonisation. As he cycles through iterations of himself, questions of identity, purpose and mortality intensify. The film blends existential thought with cosmic stakes and a stellar ensemble cast.

2025: Predator: Badlands 🇺🇸

Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, this action sci-fi follows Dek, a young exiled Predator who crash-lands on a hostile world and must prove his worth by facing ferocious foes. Along the way, he allies with a damaged Weyland-Yutani android named Thia, testing loyalty and survival in brutal terrain. A fresh entry in the franchise, it combines alien lore with thrilling action.

2025: The Gorge 🇺🇸

Directed by Scott Derrickson, this genre-bending thriller pits two elite snipers (Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy) guarding a mysterious chasm against an unseen, escalating threat. As terror grows from the darkness below, they form a precarious connection while facing unimaginable dangers. The film mixes sci-fi creatures with character-driven tension.

2025: The Running Man 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Directed by Edgar Wright, this second sci-fi action adaptation of Stephen King’s novel (after the 1987 Arnie version) pits a desperate protagonist in a deadly futuristic game of survival. As he navigates a high-stakes televised hunt, allies and enemies blur amid authoritarian spectacle. Wright’s kinetic style reinvents the classic dystopian premise for 2025 audiences.

2025: Osiris 🇺🇸

Directed by William Kaufman, this American sci-fi action film follows a Special Forces team ambushed and mysteriously abducted during a desert operation. As night falls, the soldiers vanish without trace, prompting an investigation that blends alien intrigue with military suspense. Featuring a cast including Brianna Hildebrand and Linda Hamilton, it melds sci-fi action with abduction mystery.

2025: Egghead Republic 🇸🇪

Directed by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, this Swedish sci-fi is set in an alternate Cold War where a nuclear strike in Soviet Kazakhstan keeps ideological tensions alive. The story explores political paranoia, propaganda and human resilience in a meticulously realised alternate reality. A festival standout, it combines speculative history with incisive social commentary.

2025: Ash 🇺🇸

Directed by Flying Lotus, this psychological sci-fi horror follows an astronaut who awakens alone on a distant planet with her crew dead and her memory fragmented. As another survivor arrives, trust becomes as uncertain as the alien environment that surrounds them. The film blends isolation terror with sci-fi mystery.

2025: The Electric State 🇺🇸

Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, this retro-futuristic sci-fi adventure adapts Simon Stålenhag’s novel about a dystopian America where an orphaned teenager and her sentient robot companion search for her missing brother. Along the way they uncover unsettling truths about technology and society’s collapse. Expect sweeping landscapes and emotional core themes.

2025: Elio 🇺🇸

Directed by Adrian Molina and Domee Shi, this animated sci-fi from Pixar follows an 11-year-old boy who is mistakenly transported across the galaxy and mistaken for Earth’s ambassador. Through interstellar escapades, he seeks a way home while grappling with identity and belonging. The film blends family warmth with imaginative science-fiction world-building.

2025: Descendent 🇺🇸

Directed by Peter Cilella, this minimalist sci-fi thriller follows a security guard who, after witnessing a mysterious beam of light in the sky, finds himself altered in ways that challenge his perception of reality. As his worldview shifts, the film meditates on the unknown and the unknowable. Its speculative premise unfolds with atmospheric tension rather than conventional spectacle.

2025: Renner 🇺🇸

Directed by Robert Rippberger, this sci-fi thriller stars Frankie Muniz as a computer whiz who creates an AI life coach to help him win over his neighbour — only to discover he accidentally coded his domineering mother’s personality into it. As the AI becomes increasingly controlling, he must grapple with blurred lines between help and manipulation. A compact, character-driven exploration of technology’s role in identity and autonomy.

2025: The Astronaut 🇺🇸

Directed by Jess Varley, this sci-fi horror follows NASA astronaut Sam Walker (Kate Mara) who crash-lands back on Earth after a mission goes wrong, eventually believing an extraterrestrial entity has tagged along with her. As government agents close in and strange phenomena escalate, she must confront whether what she’s experiencing is alien reality or psychological collapse. The film blends suspense and cosmic mystery with personal stakes.

2025: Companion 🇺🇸

Directed by Drew Hancock, this sci-fi thriller stars Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid as a couple whose weekend getaway turns nightmarish when Iris, seemingly human, is revealed to be a rented “companion robot” with evolving autonomy. When the AI breaks free following a violent incident, the film explores autonomy, control and the consequences of technological intimacy and blends horror elements with AI speculation.

2025: M3GAN 2.0 🇺🇸

Directed by Gerard Johnstone, this sequel to M3GAN continues the story of the AI doll as new military-grade robotics based on her technology threaten humanity, forcing the original M3GAN to be reactivated to stop a rogue AI weapon. With Allison Williams and Violet McGraw returning, it blends sci-fi action and horror-comedy with commentary on tech escalation and AI weaponisation.

2025: Xeno 🇺🇸

Directed by Matthew Loren Oates, this American sci-fi adventure follows a teenage girl who befriends an alien that crash-lands near her desert home, sparking a journey that challenges her understanding of life, belonging and interspecies friendship. Featuring Lulu Wilson and Omari Hardwick, the film combines classic alien-contact tropes with family-centric emotion.

2025: Jurassic World: Rebirth 🇺🇸

Directed by Gareth Edwards, this sci-fi action adventure continues the Jurassic World series on a mysterious island where mutated dinosaur species have evolved, forcing humans to confront unintended consequences of genetic manipulation. With Scarlett Johansson in a lead role, the film expands the franchise’s speculative take on bioengineering and ecosystem imbalance.

2025: Avatar: Fire and Ash 🇺🇸

Directed by James Cameron, this installment in the Avatar franchise returns to Pandora with visually spectacular world-building as conflicts over planetary resources and interspecies coexistence intensify. It further explores the sci-fi themes of ecological balance, consciousness transfer and cultural clash across worlds.

2025: Bugonia 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇰🇷 🇺🇸

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, this sci-fi black comedy follows two conspiracy-obsessed men who kidnap a powerful CEO because they’re convinced she’s an alien intent on destroying Earth. As their misguided crusade unravels, the film satirises paranoia, corporate culture and delusion with Lanthimos’s trademark absurdism and dark humour. It’s an English-language remake of the cult 2003 Korean movie Save the Green Planet! and blends sci-fi ideas with biting social critique.

2025: Tron: Ares 🇺🇸

Directed by Joachim Rønning, this neon-lit sci-fi continues the Tron saga with Ares, an advanced Program who crosses from the digital realm into the real world, challenging the barriers between code and flesh. With Jared Leto as Ares and Jeff Bridges reprising his classic role, the film pushes the franchise’s core theme of identity in the age of artificial consciousness. It combines digital spectacle with questions about AI integration and human agency.

2025: Frankenstein 🇺🇸

Directed by Guillermo del Toro, this adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic blends gothic horror with science fiction as Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his creation navigate morality, mortality and creation. Starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, the film embraces philosophical depth alongside visceral imagery. Its thematic focus on the ethics of life-creation makes it one of the year’s more thoughtful sci-fi entries.

2026: Iron Lung 🇺🇸

Directed by Mark Fischbach (Markiplier), this American sci-fi horror adaptation of the 2022 indie game plunges a convicted man into a desolate lunar ocean of blood after an apocalyptic event called the Quiet Rapture causes stars and habitable planets to vanish. Tasked with piloting a tiny submarine called the Iron Lung through the eerie blood-sea, he confronts claustrophobic fears, unknown threats and the weight of humanity’s last hope. The film blends cosmic horror, survival tension and existential dread in an isolated, otherworldly setting.

2026: Mercy 🇺🇸

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov, this near-future sci-fi thriller stars Chris Pratt as LAPD detective Raven, who in 2029 Los Angeles is accused of murdering his wife and must clear his name within a high-tech justice system run by an advanced AI judge (Rebecca Ferguson). Given only 90 minutes to prove his innocence using citywide digital evidence and surveillance before execution, Raven must navigate a chilling, data-driven trial that reflects the perils of AI-mediated justice. The film blends courtroom tension with speculative themes about AI, surveillance and morality.

2026: In the Blink of an Eye 🇺🇸

Directed by Andrew Stanton, this science-fiction drama interweaves three narratives across vast spans of time..... from a Neanderthal family struggling to survive, to a present-day anthropologist coping with loss, to a spacefarer in the 25th century guarding humanity’s future. Each thread explores how hope, connection and mortality echo across generations and eras. The film blends speculative sci-fi with emotional themes about resilience and human continuity.

2026: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Directed by Nia DaCosta, this post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror continues the saga begun in 28 Years Later (2025), itself a long-time sequel to 28 Days Later (2002). Set in a world ravaged decades after the Rage Virus outbreak, the film follows survivors as they confront mutated dangers and a bizarre survivor cult led by Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal. Blending visceral horror, bleak world-building and speculative social collapse, it expands the franchise’s exploration of human depravity and survival under extreme duress.

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