Netflix has unveiled a slate of 42 Hollywood and international movies — fiction and non-fiction — for the rest of 2021, that star the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds, Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba, Olivia Colman, Jonathan Majors, Regina King, Zazie Beetz, LaKeith Stanfield, Dakota Johnson, Tessa Thompson, Andrew Garfield, Michael Keaton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Viola Davis, Julie Bowen, and Sandra Bullock. That’s more than what every Hollywood studio has put together. But with Netflix, the bigger question always is, will most of them be any good? Or will they be forgettable?
The highlights include Adam McKay’s sci-fi black comedy Don’t Look Up that cost Netflix $55 million (roughly Rs. 409 crores) just to get DiCaprio and Lawrence in the same movie. Oscar-winner Jane Campion brings together Cumberbatch, Dunst, and Plemons for The Power of the Dog. Fellow Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God is a semi-autobiographical film set in Naples and has nothing to do with Diego Maradona. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel The Lost Daughter features Colman, Dakota, and Jessie Buckley — all four movies are out in a packed December for Netflix.
Elsewhere, Army of Thieves — the heist prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead — is coming late October to Netflix. It will be followed by The Rock, Wonder Woman and Deadpool actors in the action film Red Notice in November. And Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature-length directorial debut with tick, tick…BOOM! in November too, with Garfield in the lead role.
Mind you, Netflix’s list of original films for the rest of 2021 doesn’t mention a single title from India. That will inevitably change, as Netflix has a few original Indian movies that it hasn’t released from the 13 it unveiled back in March — Sonakshi Sinha-led Bulbul Tarang, Jitendra Kumar-led Jaadugar, Abbas–Mustan’s Penthous with Bobby Deol and Arjun Rampal, Kartik Aaryan-led Dhamaka, Meenakshi Sundereshwar with Sanya Malhotra and Abhimanyu Dassani. Expect Netflix India to add more to that list during the rest of 2021. For now, here’s the new list of original films Netflix has unveiled:
List of Netflix original movies in 2021
List of Netflix original movies in September 2021
Afterlife of the Party — September 2
Worth — September 3
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali — September 9
Kate — September 10
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau in Kate
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Nightbooks — September 15
Schumacher — September 15
Intrusion — September 22
The Starling — September 24
My Little Pony: A New Generation — September 24
Sounds Like Love — September 24
No One Gets Out Alive — September 29
List of Netflix original movies in October 2021
The Guilty — October 1
Diana: The Musical — October 1
There’s Someone Inside Your House — October 6
Found — October 20
Night Teeth — October 20
Stuck Together — October 20
Army of Thieves — October 29
Hypnotic — October TBD
Fever Dream — October TBD
List of Netflix original movies in November 2021
The Harder They Fall — November 3
Love Hard — November 5
Passing — November 10
Red Notice — November 12
tick, tick…BOOM! — November 19
Andrew Garfield in tick, tick…BOOM!
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Bruised — November 24
Robin Robin — November 24
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible — November 29
7 Prisoners — November TBD
A Boy Called Christmas — November TBD
A Castle for Christmas — November TBD
The Princess Switch 3 — November TBD
List of Netflix original movies in December 2021
The Power of the Dog — December 1
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas — December 3
The Unforgivable — December 10
The Hand of God — December 15
Don’t Look Up — December 24
The Lost Daughter — December 31
Back to the Outback — December TBD
Mixtape — December TBD
Single All the Way — December TBD