Friday 31 December 2021

A Year in Shadows: 2021


Featured on 52 covers
were the Oscars, Bafta rising star Bukky Bakray and 50 films, in order of appearance: Pieces of a Woman, Blithe Spirit, The White Tiger, Dig, Malcolm & Marie, Judas and the Black Messiah, I Care a Lot, The Mauritanian, The US vs Billie Holiday, Cherry, Minari, Zack Snyder's Justice League, Chaos Walking, Godzilla vs Kong, Wild Mountain Thyme, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Oxygen, Sound of Metal, A Quiet Place Part II, After Love, The Father, In the Heights, F9, No Sudden Move, Black Widow, Space Jan" A New Legacy, The World to Come, Jungle Cruise, The Suicide Squad, Free Guy, Snake Eyes, The Nest, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Respect, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, The Green Knight, No Time to Die, The Harder They Fall, The Last Duel, Dune, Last Night in Soho, Spencer, Belfast, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Encanto, Boxing Day, Being the Ricardos, Spider-Man: No Way Out, The King's Man, The Tragedy of Macbeth.

TRIVIA ALERT!

The most covers: Emily Blunt (three shared) and Tom Holland (one solo, one shared, one as Spider-Man).

On two shared covers: Jamie Dornan, Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Kirby, Zendaya (one shared, one as the voice of Lola Bunny).

The most crowded: The Suicide Squad (17), Boxing Day (15), Encanto (13).

Solo on one cover: Adarsh Gourav, Anya Taylor-Joy, Audra MacDonald, Daniel Craig, Dev Patel, Henry Golding, Jennifer Hudson, Joanna Scanlon, Jodie Comer, Kristin Stewart, Max Harwood, Melanie Laurent, Riz Ahmed, Rosamund Pike, Ryan Reynolds, Simu Liu.

Sharing one cover: Aja Naomi King, Alan Kim, Aml Ameen, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Ramos, Ben Affleck, Bukky Bakray, Carey Mulligan, Carrie Coon, Celeste O'Connor, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, Daisy Ridley, Dan Stevens, Daniel Kaluuya, Denzel Washington, Djimon Hounsou, Don Cheadle, Dwayne Johnson, Edgar Ramirez, Ezra Miller, Finn Wolfhard, Florence Pugh, Frances McDormand, Gal Gadot, Gemma Arterton, Henry Cavill, Han Ye-ri, Harris Dickinson, Idris Elba, Isla Fisher, Jack Whitehall, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Jesse Plemons, Joel Kinnaman, John Cena, Jodie Foster, John David Washington, Jordana Brewster, Jude Hill, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Kathrine Waterston, LaKeith Stanfield, LeBron James, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Leslie Mann, Logan Kim, Margot Robbie, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mckenna Grace, Melissa Barrera, Michelle Rodriguez, Millicent Simmons, Nathalie Emmanuel, Nicole Kidman, Noah Jupe, Noel Kate Cho, Olivia Colman, Oscar Isaac, Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Ray Fisher, Rebecca Ferguson, Regina King, Rhys Ifans, Robbie Gee, Scarlett Johansson, Sheyi Cole, Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Steven Yeun, Tahar Rahim, Timothee Chalamet, Tyrese Gibson, Vin Diesel, Youn Yuh-jung, Zazie Beetz.

Appearing as animated characters they provided the voice for: Abbi Jacobson, Angie Cepeda, Bob Bergen, Carolina Gaitan, Danny McBride, Diane Guerrero, Eric Bauza, Gabriel Iglesias, Jeff Bergman, Jessica Darrow, John Leguizamo, Maria Cecilia Botero, Mauro Castillo, Maya Rudolph, Michael Rianda, Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Rhenzy Feliz, Stephanie Beatriz, Sylvester Stallone, Wilmer Valderrama, Zendaya ... mostly as humans, but also as a duck, rabbits and a manshark.

While many cover films were seen in 2020 and had their releases delayed until 2021, only one unused draft from 2020 was reworked: A Quiet Place Part II.

And there were only two drafts that were never used: Without Remorse in May and The Lost Daughter in December. They were discarded when late-arriving press screenings came through for The Mitchells vs the Machines and Spider-Man: No Way Home, respectively.



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