20 Biggest Movies Of 2015: What Do We Already Know?
9. Crimson Peak
Who's involved? Following swiftly on from robots vs. monsters hit Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro returns with this 2015 horror. With TV show The Strain also in production, the hard working del Toro acts as producer, writer and director. His script has been written with regular collaborator Matthew Robbins (Mimic, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, the unfilmed At the Mountains of Madness and The Haunted Mansion) along with playwright and TV writer Lucinda Coxon (The Crimson Petal and the White). The cast, too, involves previous del Toro stars (Pacific Rim's Charlie Hunnam preferring this to Fifty Shades of Grey) and first timers (Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston). What's the story? Del Toro is selling this is a classic gothic chiller in the style of The Haunting and The Innocents. Wasikowska featured in her best film in Stoker, 2013's best slice of dark gothic, and once again takes the lead here. She is a writer in the Victorian period who moves into a crumbling Cumbria mansion with her new husband (Hiddleston), a charming man with a strange and mysterious past. With a mid-October release and del Toro's pedigree of elegant but creepy ghost stories like The Devil's Backbone, this could be the classy choice for Hallowe'en 2015.
8. James Bond 24
Who's involved? Following on from Skyfall (the most successful in the entire 23 film Bond series), studio Eon and MGM have been keen to get a follow up made as smoothly as possible and to make sure that it goes well, they've hired the previous movie's team to return for the next one. Daniel Craig has signed up to play the iconic secret agent for two more films, while Skyfall director Sam Mendes has also agreed to return after originally suggesting that he would not. John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator), one of Skyfall's three writers also working with Mendes on the TV series Penny Dreadful, returns to write the script. New M Ralph Fiennes will also be returning to the office, alongside his Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and Q (Ben Whishaw). What's the story? As yet no story details have been revealed for the film, due out in October 2015. It has not even been given a title and, while two of Craig's three films so far have been given Ian Fleming titles, there are only four of those left. The Hildebrand Rarity, anyone? The finished film is unlikely to follow any Fleming plot or follow Quantum of Solace in being a direct sequel or including shady international organisation Quantum. However, the fact that the rights dispute over the character of Blofeld was finally settled last year means that Mendes is free to use 007's most iconic villain again if he wishes.
