Well, every year is a big year for sci-fi right now, but 2025 looks especially exciting. Outer space is going to be a major theme in Hollywood this year, whether you’re watching it in a movie theater or at home on your personal screen (sorry, TV).
Most of the major franchises are set to appear, with Andor Season 2 taking us back to a grittier corner of that galaxy far, far away, while Strange New Worlds Season 3 and the TV movie Area 31 represent “Star Wars” and “Trek” The Final Frontier.
In the world of superheroes, “Superman” takes to the sky under the leadership of James Gunn of “Guardians of the Galaxy”, and the Fantastic Four finally landed in the MCU. Maybe it’s time to get scared – really scared – as aliens burst into your living room in the new TV show Alien: Earth .
Throw in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey Mouse 17 , a fresh take on the Predator , and James Cameron’s latest trip to Pandora , and 2025 looks like a sci-fi fan’s dream come true. So, keep an eye on the skies because all these treats are coming your way!
Upcoming Sci-Fi Movies in 2025
“Star Wars: Episode 31”
- release date: January 24, 2025
- Where to watch: Paramount+
Michelle Yeoh’s performance as reformed Mirror Universe dictator Philippa Georgiou was the best part of Star Trek: Discovery , and now, after the actor’s turn in Star Trek: Discovery After winning the Oscar,everything happens at the same time“She’s back to star in her own TV movie.”Article 31“Looks like Star Wars’ answer to James Bond as Georgiou – now back in the 23rd century Provided by Forever Guardian — Recruited to work for the Federation’s most famous secret organization.
“Mickey No. 17”
- release date: April 18, 2025
- Where to watch: in cinema
Following up on the award-winning Parasite, Korean director Bong Joon-ho delivers another dark outer space comedy. “Batman” star Rob Pattinson plays the eponymous Mickey, an ordinary man who signs up to be a “sacrifice” – essentially, being reborn in a new body every time he dies. However, things went wrong when Mickey 17 Face to face with his successor. The trailer makes this look like fun – think “moon” and more laughter.
‘Superman’
- release date: July 11, 2025
- Where to watch: in cinema
“Guardians of the Galaxy” writer and director James Gunn was hired to run the new DC Studios, and the first big-screen work of the new era is his interpretation of Krypton’s most famous son. Superman. Super dog Krypto plays the leading role in the film first trailerwe’re expecting a much lighter film than Zack Snyder’s 2013 Man of Steel, as the superhero attempts to connect his alien heritage to his upbringing in Kansas. David Corenswet dons the famous cape, Rachel Brosnahan plays Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult plays Riker Lex Luthor.
“Fantastic Four: The First Step”
- release date: July 25, 2025
- Where to watch: in cinema
Marvel’s First Family makes their belated debut in the MCU — except other Reed Richards in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness“–people had high hopes that this would be a significant improvement over the release of their previous films.”Fantastic Four: The First Step“Another version of 1960s New York is threatened by planet-eating bad guys Galactoseand Earth’s only hope is an all-new quartet played by Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. “WandaVision” director Matt Shakman calls the shots.
Predator: Wasteland
- release date: November 7, 2025
- Where to watch: in cinema
The Galaxy’s Greatest Hunter is welcomed back in 2022 with a back-to-basics prequel”preyNow, the film’s director Dan Trachtenberg has the franchise in his sights again, and he’s planning a huge narrative shift: in “wasteland“The Predator will be the main character, and The Great’s Elle Fanning will play multiple human characters. In other words, it’s a great time to be ‘The Great'”predator“Fans – especially with another fan movie “The Secret” Heading in our direction.
“Avatar: Fire and Ashes”
- release date: December 19, 2025
- Where to watch: in cinema
James Cameron continues his long-standing obsession with the distant moon Pandora in the third Avatar film. After “Operation Ocean”water way,” “fire and ashes“Introducing the new Mangkwan clan, they will show a different, possibly less friendly, side to the Na’vi. According to Cameron, “I wanted to show the Na’vi from another angle because so far, I’ve only shown their good sides.
The first two Avatar films are firmly in the top three highest-grossing movies of all time, so don’t be surprised if this is the highest-grossing movie of 2025.
Upcoming Sci-Fi TV Shows in 2025
Star Wars: Andor Season 2
- release date: April 22, 2025
- Where to watch: Disney+
It can be said to be one of them Best “Star Wars” Show,”AndorThe second and final season of “Acceptance” returns on Disney+. The story of Rebel Alliance agent Cassian Andor (played by Diego Luna) will continue across four films.Rogue One,” reveals how he became part of the film’s fateful mission. Ben Mendelsohn reprises his role from “Rogue One” as bureaucratic Death Star overseer Krennic Krennic, while Alan Tudyk returns as the snarky droid K-2SO.
Doctor Who Season 2
- release date: Early 2025
- Where to watch: Disney+ (Global)/BBC (UK)
Whether you want to call it Season 2, Season 15 or Season 41 (all correct, depending on your point of view), Ncuti Gatwa’s Time Lord will return in 2025. There will be a new role Doctor Who Companion In the TARDIS, as Varada Sethu, he played a different character Mundy Flynn in “The Movie”ProsperityEarlier this year, she began a series of adventures in time and space as Belinda Chandra. doctor who villainswhile former EastEnders and Strictly Come Dancing star Rose Ayling-Ellis will “protagonist of an episode“, said showrunner Russell T. Davies.
“Alien: Earth”
- release date: Summer 2025
- Where to watch: FX (US)/Disney+ (UK)
Except for the final scene of “Alien: Resurrection” and the most forgettable “Alien vs. Predator” In movies, aliens often stay away from the earth. That all changes with the first TV outing of the acid-blooded monster, and as Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley sets out to make sure, even when you’re sitting in your living room, everyone Hear you scream. “Alien: Earth“The story is set two years before Ridley Scott’s original film”alien”, as a group of soldiers search for survivors in the wreckage of a crashed spaceship of unknown origin. As we all know, this is unlikely to end well…
Star Wars: Strange New Worlds Season 3
- release date: To be determined 2025
- Where to watch: Paramount+
The adventures of Pike, Spock and the gang on the final frontier continue in season three as they search for strange new worlds. Character arcs are being kept largely under wraps, but early footage has revealed The return of reptilian villain Ghosnand Pike, Uhura, Ra’an, and Chapel are turned into Vulcans. charming.
Strange New Worlds Season 4 has been confirmed by Paramount+, and “starfleet academyA “Discovery” spin-off set in the 32nd century is also about to be released.
“Black Mirror” Season 7
- release date: To be determined 2025
- Where to watch: Netflix
Charlie Brooker’s tech drama The Twilight Saga returns for its seventh season with its first sequel, the follow-up to the classic Season 4 series Callister. It’s a perfect Star Wars parody, in which an angry tech boss (played by Jesse Plemons) turns his co-workers (including The Penguin’s Cristin Milioti ) becomes his unwilling avatar in a fully immersive spaceship simulation. Expecting something more than “significantly darker”galaxy exploration”.
“Foundation” Season 3
- release date: To be determined 2025
- Where to watch: Apple TV+
Apple TV+ has yet to confirm epic drama adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s novelBase,” but a third run was confirmed as early as December 2023. While the first two seasons sometimes felt like a 20-episode scene-setting exercise, by the end of 2023, Foundation Season 2 This spectacular intergalactic “Game of Thrones” (complete with swaggering clones) is ready to explode. This is a TV show that will make you long for a bigger TV.
Another big-budget space drama from Apple, “For All Mankind” has also been confirmed for a new seasonand the spin-off series Star City.