Regular visitors here will know Rebecca from her regular Big Worlds On Small Screens column and shared my pleasure that she returned from her sabbatical (focusing on her studies) to share her Top 5 shows of 2016.

You can read that post on:

Rebecca Fisher’s Top 5 Shows of 2016

Today Rebecca’s back to share the 5 films she is really looking forward to watching in 2017.

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Rebecca Fisher’s Five Most-Anticipated Films of 2017

Moana

Coming of Age / Fantasy-Adventure

Okay, I’m cheating a little considering Moana came out at the end of 2016 – but the film was released in other countries a month before New Zealand, and most of us probably won’t get the chance to see it until well after Christmas, so it’s going on this list.

Moana is Disney’s first Polynesian princess, and the film itself is filled with the music and culture of the South Pacific – to say I’m excited is an understatement.

Wonder Woman

Superhero Fantasy

We have endless big-screen adaptations of Superman and Batman – now FINALLY the world’s first superheroine is getting her turn. Gal Gadot briefly appeared as the Amazonian Princess in Zack Synder’s Superman vs Batman, now she takes centre stage with her lasso and gauntlets in order to intervene in the First World War.

The Lego Batman Movie

Comic / Superhero

2014’s The Lego Movie turned out to be unexpectedly good, and its highlight was their hilarious take on Batman: a showboating narcissist who wrote a heavy metal song about his dead parents. It was only a matter of time before he was given his own spin-off film, but if the trailers are anything to go by, it’s going to be just as funny as the last.

Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets

Space Opera

I spent most of my fourteenth year obsessed with Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, so I was pretty happy to learn he was returning to the space opera subgenre. I’ll admit I don’t know much about the plot (beyond the fact it’s based on a French comic book) but the first trailer looks incredible.

Trailer: Valerian & The City of A Thousand Planets

Star Wars Episode VIII

Space Opera

We don’t even have a proper title for it yet; but the countdown is already on for the second instalment in the new Star Wars trilogy. Having laid the groundwork in The Force Awakens, I’m hoping new director Rian Johnson will take the story in more unexpected directions, with plenty of development for Luke and Leia as well as Rey and Finn. So far the whole thing has been shrouded in secrecy, which is probably just as well. The less we know, the more enjoyable the surprises will be…

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About Rebecca Fisher

Rebecca Fisher is a graduate of the University of Canterbury with a Masters degree in English Literature, mainly, she claims, because she was able to get away with writing her thesis on C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman. She is a reviewer for FantasyLiterature.com, a large website that specializes in fantasy and science-fiction novels, as well as posting reviews to Amazon.com and her They’re All Fictional blog.

Rebecca won the 2015 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Fan Writer.

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To read the previous  instalments in this Top 5 series, click on the “5 Most-Anticipated Books” posts below:

Paul Weimer

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