Trailers of the week: Captain America, F1, and Gladiator II

There’s a little bit of a theme of payoff on this week’s trailers. Anthony Mackie lastly takes the lead on the large display screen after 10 years within the MCU; Ridley Scott’s two-decade-plus plan for a Gladiator sequel is coming to fruition; and we lastly get to seek out out what occurs subsequent to the macrodata refinement crew in Severance.

There’s quite a bit to undergo this week, from big-budget tentpole motion pictures to whimsical TV, so let’s get all the way down to it, beginning, naturally, with the MCU.

Within the trailer for Captain America: Courageous New World, Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford) needs to make Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) a part of the US navy as soon as extra. He’s clearly delay by the concept, however is compelled to leap into the fray after tremendous soldier Isaiah Bradley assaults the President.

Mackie’s first MCU movie because the lead character (and, it appears, the primary look of Crimson Hulk!) hits theaters on January 14th, 2025, so you’ve gotten time to make amends for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier earlier than its debut.

Apple and Warner Bros’ costly new F1 isn’t due in US theaters till June twenty seventh, 2025, however it’s already obtained a teaser trailer with loads of racing footage. Brad Pitt stars as Sonny Hayes, a veteran driver who’s been out of the sport since a nasty crash within the Nineteen Nineties however is satisfied to return to the circuit as a mentor for Joshua Pearse (Damson Idris).

The film sounds prefer it’s each bit as bombastic as director Joseph Kosinski’s High Gun: Maverick. Not solely did Pitt and Idris truly drive vehicles for the film, however a lot of the filming happened at precise Method 1 races.

Ridley Scott’s long-awaited Gladiator sequel sees Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal), the nephew of Emperor Commodus from the primary movie, grown up and with no reminiscence of his mom, Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) — although he does keep in mind the riot of Russell Crowe’s Maximus. Now enslaved himself and impressed by Maximus, Lucius takes up with Macrinus (Denzel Washington) to hold out his personal rebellion, his purpose nothing wanting the autumn of Rome.

Gladiator II additionally stars Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, and opens on November twenty second.

Taika Waititi’s tackle Time Bandits seems prefer it’ll have the fantastical pseudo-realism of the Terry Gilliam film it’s primarily based on, however with some modifications to the system — the most important one being that the Time Bandits themselves are not performed by little individuals.

In any other case, the premise is mainly the identical: a younger boy finds himself flitting throughout time on an journey with a band of time-hopping thieves. Lisa Kudrow, Rune Temte, Kal-El Tuck, Tadhg Murphey, Kiera Thompson, and extra star within the Apple TV Plus sequence, which premiers on July twenty fourth.

In WandaVision spinoff Agatha All Alongside, Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza) helps Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) emerge from an phantasm that had her believing she was a detective attempting to resolve a mysterious homicide. But she finds that the witchy powers she had in WandaVision are gone, and he or she wants to tug collectively a coven to regain them. Agatha All Alongside begins streaming September 18th on Disney Plus.

Severance season two is lastly coming. It’s been over two years for the reason that cliffhanger ending of the bizarro sci-fi workplace thriller’s first season. Now, the brand new season is about for a January seventeenth premiere on Apple TV Plus. When you haven’t seen the present, don’t fear: the teaser that Apple launched earlier this week reveals characters Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Decrease), Dylan (Zach Cherry), and Irving (John Turturro), however doesn’t spoil something about it.