8 Upcoming Movies That Will Be Nothing Like You're Expecting

From the initial announcement to the opening weekend, it can be pretty easy to find information about every step of a movie's production somewhere in the online space.

News articles, message boards, spy-cam set images, insider tweets - we live in a culture that likes to stay informed and likes to know what's going on, regardless of how much that will impact our enjoyment of the movies we've spent months and months reading about when we finally get around to watching them.

However, sometimes we don't know everything. Sometimes, the bulk of information we have at our fingertips can give the wrong impression, purposely mislead the audience, or create an expectation that the film does not meet at all.

Remember the Mandarin in Iron Man 3? The ending of Split? Bill Murray's appearance in Zombieland? Granted, we won't always be surprised to this degree, but until we actually sit down in that dark cinema on opening night, we can't fully be sure how a movie will present itself.

So, while it is quite hard to walk into a cinema and leave feeling genuinely surprised, there are a few upcoming movies that, at some point, might give your initial expectations a run for their money.

The Expectation: A re-tread of the 2016 Disney movie and yet another version of the same old story.

Why That's Not The Case: Now that The Jungle Book is in the public domain, literally anyone is allowed to produce a film based on the property, which is why we're being treated to an Andy Serkis-directed version - from Warner Bros. - next year, which is completely separate from the Jon Favreau effort that Disney distributed last year.

On the surface, the Serkis version seems entirely pointless, given how great and popular Favreau's movie was. Do we need two versions of the same story?

Serkis and Warner Bros. also appear to have asked themselves that same question, because the movie that they're producing will be a lot, lot different from the movie produced by their competitor.

In an interview with Variety, Warner Bros. Pictures chief Toby Emmerich discussed the studio's Jungle Book movie, and how it compares to the Disney version:

"It is based on the same source material that the Disney movie is based on, but man, is it a different interpretation. If Rudyard Kipling saw this movie, he would more readily recognize it as an adaptation of his book.”

One big way that Serkis' version is distancing itself from Favreau's is that the former will include more human characters than the latter - Mowgli will obviously feature, but he'll be joined by John Lockwood, and Messua, a woman who adopts Mowgli.

The two will share some similarities, sure, but will be different enough to warrant each of them existing.