10 Ways That Movies Will Change In The 2020s

It may seem, with 2020 offering us a supremely 80s take on Wonder Woman, yet another reboot of Ghostbusters, and a new season of Stranger Things, that Hollywood is still all about mining that same seam of Generation X's 80s memories as it has for most of the twenty-first century.

There are signs, though, that Gen X nostalgia may be on the way out, what with the recent massive commercial failure of new reboots to 70s and 80s properties Terminator and Charlie's Angels (not to mention the fact that the last attempt at twenty-first century Ghostbusters did more for column inches than cash registers).

Get ready instead for Millennial nostalgia. Yes, forget about the 70s and 80s. In the coming decade nostalgia will be all about the turn of the Millennium, throwing back to the pop culture of the late-90s and early 2000s, a more comforting time before the War on Terror, the 2000s economic crash, or today's Trump and Brexit hellhole.

For all those big 80s-themed projects this year, it is likely that the biggest box office hit of 2020 will instead be Mulan, a remake of a movie from 1998. And that's just the first Millennial Disney film to be lined up for the live action treatment with a redo of 2002's Lilo And Stitch also potentially on the horizon.

Turn of the Millennium TV from The X-Files and Charmed to Will And Grace and Frasier have all come back. How long before the inevitable Friends reunion?

With the lacklustre response to the conclusion of Star Wars and Universal's reboot of The Mummy leading to fond recollections of those franchises' 1999 episodes (neither of them critically well received at the time), it seems like the 2020s might finally be the time to party like it's 1999. Just look at how that year's biggest movie phenomenon - The Matrix - is coming back next year!