1. Nope《不》

 

A politically-charged sci-fi horror mystery with a very short title? Yes, Nope is the third film from Jordan Peele, the brilliant writer-director of Get Out and Us. For his alien-abduction movie, Peele reunites with the star of Get Out, Daniel Kaluuya, who plays a horse rancher in the US West. After a strange object falls from the sky and kills their father, he and his sister (Keke Palmer) suspect that there is a flying saucer hovering² in the clouds above their ranch¹. The jaw-dropping revelations that follow, insists Peele, are best experienced in a crowded cinema.

片名极短的《不》是一部富有政治意味的科幻恐怖悬疑片，也是乔丹·皮尔的第三部电影作品。皮尔是一名才华横溢的编剧兼导演，代表作有《逃出绝命镇》和《我们》。在这部讲述外星人绑架案的新片中，皮尔再次起用了《逃出绝命镇》的主演丹尼尔·卡卢亚，这次他饰演的是美国西部的一名马场经营者。在一个奇怪物体从天而降杀死父亲后，这位马场经营者和他的妹妹（柯柯·帕尔莫饰演）怀疑有一个飞碟盘旋于他们马场上空的云层里。导演皮尔表示，随之发生的让人目瞪口呆的真相最好在人群聚集的电影院里观看。

 

Released on 22 July in the US, Canada, Ireland and Spain and on 12 August in the UK and Sweden

该片将于7月22日在美国、加拿大、爱尔兰和西班牙上映，8月12日在英国和瑞典上映。

 

2. Where the Crawdads Sing《沼泽深处的女孩》

 

Where the Crawdads Sing is a phenomenon. Delia Owens's debut³ novel, a mystery-drama set in 50s and 60s North Carolina, topped the New York Times list of fiction best-sellers in both 2019 and 2020, and has now sold 12 million copies worldwide. One of its biggest fans, Reese Witherspoon, has produced the inevitable⁴ film. "The way that Delia Owens wrote this book with such authenticity⁵, you could just tell she really grew up in this place," Witherspoon told Caitlin Brody at Vanity Fair. "She really appreciated the nature around her. The book is a love letter to growing up in the South." Daisy Edgar-Jones from Normal People puts on her best deep Southern accent to play Kya, a girl who lives alone in the marshlands. As a young woman, Kya has relationships with two local men (Harris Dickinson and Taylor John Smith), and considers moving back to civilisation⁶. But when one of the men is found dead, she is put on trial for murder.

迪莉娅·欧文斯的处女作《沼泽深处的女孩》是一部现象级作品。这部故事背景设定在上世纪五六十年代美国北卡罗来纳州的悬疑小说接连在2019年和2020年登顶《纽约时报》畅销小说排行榜，目前该书在全球已售出1200万册。这本书被改编成电影是必然的，而制片人正是这本书的狂热粉丝之一瑞茜·威瑟斯彭。威瑟斯彭告诉《名利场》杂志的凯特琳·布洛迪：“迪莉娅·欧文斯把书里的故事写得特别真实，可以看出她真的是在这个地方长大的。她非常热爱周围的大自然。这本书是一封写给南部成长经历的情书。”黛西·埃德加-琼斯（曾主演电视剧《正常人》）尽己所能操着深沉的南部口音饰演独自生活在沼泽地区的女孩基亚。年轻的基亚和当地的两名男子（分别由哈里斯·迪金森和泰勒·约翰·史密斯饰演）谈起了恋爱，并考虑回归到文明社会中。但是当其中一名男子被发现死亡后，她成为谋杀嫌疑人并受到了审判。

 

Released on 15 July in the US and Canada and on 22 July in the UK and Ireland

该片将于7月15日在美国和加拿大上映，7月22日在英国和爱尔兰上映。

 

3. Minions⁷: The Rise of Gru《小黄人大眼萌：神偷奶爸前传》

 

Depending on how you look at it, this is either a sequel to the first Minions film or a prequel to the first Despicable Me film. Either way, it's set in 1970s San Francisco when Gru (Steve Carell) was a 12-year-old boy with a full head of hair. Having set his black heart on becoming a supervillain, he must prove himself worthy⁸ of joining a gang called the Vicious Six. The bumbling Minions, meanwhile, must prove themselves worthy of being his assistants. "Six months into 2022," writes Peter Debruge at Variety, "it's the funniest film Hollywood has produced thus far. "

这部新片可以被看作是第一部《小黄人》电影的续集，也可以看作是第一部《神偷奶爸》的前传。该片的故事背景设定在上世纪70年代的旧金山，当时格鲁（史蒂夫·卡瑞尔配音）是一个头发浓密的12岁男孩。下定决心要当超级坏蛋的格鲁必须证明自己有资格加入一个名叫“邪恶六天王”的团伙。与此同时，嗡嗡嗡的小黄人必须证明他们有资格当格鲁的助手。皮特·德布鲁格在《综艺》杂志上写道：“过去这半年来，这是好莱坞到目前为止制作的最搞笑的电影。”

 

Released internationally on 1 July

该片于7月1日在全球上映。

 

4. Thor: Love and Thunder《雷神4：爱与雷霆》

 

Thor: Ragnarok was probably the most fun of all of Marvel's superhero blockbusters, but its writer-director, Taika Waititi, has upped the ante for its follow-up, Thor: Love & Thunder. Chris Hemsworth returns as the mighty⁹ Thor. He has given up being a superhero, but when the evil Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) starts living up to his memorable¹⁰ name, Thor has to come out of retirement¹¹, along with his sidekicks Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) and Korg (Waititi). The twist is that while he's been on sabbatical, his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) has usurped¹² his role as the hammer-wielding god of thunder.

《雷神3：诸神黄昏》很可能是所有漫威超级英雄大片中最搞笑的，但是该片编剧兼导演塔伊加·维迪提却在续集《雷神4：爱与雷霆》中让喜感进一步升级。克里斯·海姆斯沃斯回归本片饰演威猛的雷神。他已经放弃当一名超级英雄了，但是当邪恶的屠神者格尔（克里斯蒂安·贝尔饰演）开始屠戮诸神时，雷神被迫重操旧业，和他并肩战斗的是女武神（泰莎·汤普森饰演）和石头人（维迪提饰演）。令人意外的是，在雷神休假期间，他的前女友简·福斯特（娜塔莉·波特曼饰演）取代了他的位置，成了女雷神。

 

Released internationally on 8 July

该片将于7月8日在全球上映。

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