10 Upcoming Movies That Are Already Doomed
6. The Beekeeper
Even though the trend of Hollywood using January and February as "dump months" to offload their most lackluster projects has become less fashionable in recent years, it certainly still happens. And if nothing else, David Ayer's (Suicide Squad) upcoming action-thriller The Beekeeper has intense "this is being dumped in January" energy in every fiber of its being.
Looking less like a real action flick than a parody of one you'd expect to find in another movie, everything about The Beekeeper just screams "this is getting sent out to die." Even if you can move on from the daft title, the dialogue and slithers of a plot suggest an aggressively generic romp that'll come and go without making a dent critically or commercially when it releases in the death slot of January 12, 2024.
Though the Statham-led The Meg 2 turned out to be a surprisingly sturdy box office performer this past summer, it's fair to say that it had more to do with the film's overall bombastic spectacle than Statham's presence - especially as he did nothing to save The Expendables 4 from box office ruin mere weeks later.