What does 2023 hold for us? To find out, just look at what Hollywood has imagined, and it’s not very encouraging. fromAvengers Endgame a american nightmare 2the cinema has predicted a particularly apocalyptic year, marked by the legalization of crime, killer robots and a devastated humanity.
“Avengers Endgame”
Released in 2019, the epic conclusion to the MCU’s first cycle begins in 2023, when Thanos wiped out half of humanity. The survivors, shocked by the events reported in infinity war (2018), they hide. Even superheroes suffer the devastating psychological consequences of Thanos’s act.
Thor drowns his depression in junk food. Bruce Banner let the Hulk get the best of him. Hawkeye has become a vigilante. The providential arrival of Ant-Man will push the Avengers to take control and restore the world as it should be, by going back to the past.
“X-Men: Days of Future Past”
Fifth film of the X-Men saga in the cinema, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) tells a similar story. The story begins in 2023, when almost all mutants have been exterminated during a war against the Sentinels, robots designed to hunt them down and eliminate them.
To change the course of history, Professor Xavier and Magneto return Wolverine’s spirit to his own body in 1973 through the talent of Kitty Pryde. The bubbly superhero will try to find the mutants to prepare them for the future that awaits them.
“American Nightmare 2”
Whether it’s X-Men: Days of Future Past Y Avengers Endgame offer redemption to the human species by allowing them to return to the past to correct their mistakes, this is not the case with the second installment of the franchise american nightmarewhose action begins on March 21, 2023.
The film takes place at the dawn of the sixth Purge annual, where all criminal activity is allowed. A group of resistant anti-purges takes advantage of this night to denounce the activities of the “New Founding Fathers”, a political organization whose objective is to eliminate the poorest. The confrontation will be bloody.
“Thumper”
Years before revolutionizing Japanese animation with Neon Genesis EvangelionHideaki Anno directed in 1988 gunslinger, a six-episode series where a teenager joins a robot pilot school to fly into space and find her father, killed by aliens. Like in X Men Y avengersis a robotic future that 2023 gunslinger.
“The Fair of the Immortals”
It is not a movie, but a cult comic. In 1980, Enki Bilal envisioned in The fair of the immortals the Paris of 2023. Here there are no robots, but a mysterious pyramid where the Egyptian gods coexist. In March 2023, when the story begins, new elections are looming in the Parisian capital, described as a “politically autonomous and hopelessly fascist agglomeration.”
In this vision of the future according to Enki Bilal, Paris is divided into two districts. “The first, which forms the center, is the home of a favored society,” writes the designer. “The second, which surrounds the first and extends as far as the eye can see, has become […] the crossroads of adventurers and aliens of all kinds. The government military provides control and […] security from this universe of degeneracy, misery and filth”.
It is in this decrepit world where one of the most significant science fiction adventures in the history of French comics will take place: that of the human Nikopol, returning to Earth after thirty years of hibernation in space, who will become the toy of the God Horus in his fight against Anubis to gain political power in Paris.
Source: BFM TV
