Sunday 31 December 2023

A Year in Shadows: Vol 39

 

It was another full set of 52 covers in 2023, featuring the following films in order: A Man Called Otto, M3gan, The Son, The Fabelmans, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Magic Mike's Last Dance, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Creed III, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, John Wick: Chapter 4, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, Air, Renfield, Chevalier, Big George Foreman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Book Club: The Next Chapter, Fast X, The Little Mermaid, Reality, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, The Flash, No Hard Feelings, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Elemental, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Gran Turismo, Blue Beetle, Scrapper, Passages, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, A Haunting in Venice, Expend4bles, The Creator, The ExorcistL Believer, May December, Trolls Band Together, Typist Artist Pirate King, Priscilla, The Marvels, Saltburn, Napoleon, Candy Cane Lane, Wonka, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Maestro and The Color Purple, plus the Bafta and Oscar covers.

Note that full-size versions of these covers can be found in posts that were made here each week throughout the year.

Trivia alert!

Most crowded: There are more than 25 chickens for Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, and 11 people for A Haunting in Venice.

On multiple covers: Only Michelle Rodriguez and Jonathan Majors appear on two covers, always alongside costars. Three others appear twice, but the second time is as an animated character they voice: Bradley Cooper (raccoon), Salma Hayek (cat) and Michelle Yeoh (bird). 

Getting one cover all to themselves: Halle Bailey, Fantasia Barrino, Timothee Chalamet, Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Khris Davis, Amie Donald, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Kelvin Harrison, Barry Keoghan, Jimmy Kimmel, Gabriel LaBelle, Zachary Levi, Emma Mackey, Xolo Mariduena, Cillian Murphy, Eddie Murphy, Joaquin Phoenix, Keanu Reeves and Sydney Sweeney.

Sharing a cover with their costars: Micah Abbey, Candice Bergen, Orlando Bloom, Kenneth Branagh, Jordana Brewster, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Shamon Brown Jr, Ellen Burstyn, Nicolas Cage, Sasha Calle, Lola Campbell, Nicolas Cantu, George Cobell, John Corbett, Camille Cottin, Harris Dickinson, Vin Diesel, Monica Dolan, Jamie Dornan, Jacob Elordi, Nathalie Emmanuel, Adele Exarchopoulos, Andrew Barth Feldman, Tina Fey, Dominique Fishback, Jane Fonda, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, Ryan Gosling, Hugh Grant, David Harbour, Jude Hill, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Jackman, Michael B Jordan, Elias Kacavas, Elena Kampouris, Sung Kang, Diane Keaton, Michael Keaton, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lawrence, Sophia Lillis, Evangeline Lily, Kelly Macdonald, Archie Madekwe, Louis Mandylor, Andrea Martin, Ezra Miller, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Brady Noon, Leslie Odom Jr, Rege-Jean Page, Teyonah Parris, Chris Pine, Natalie Portman, Anthony Ramos, Kelly Reilly, Margot Robbie, Franz Rogowski, Paul Rudd, Riccardo Scamarcio, Justice Smith, Cailee Spaeny, Mary Steenburgen, Channing Tatum, Levy Tran, Nia Vardalos, Iman Vellani, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, John David Washington and Ben Whishaw.

Appearing once as an animated character they voice: Mamoudou Athie (water), Antonio Banderas (cat), Camila Cabello (troll), Peter Cullen (robot), Pete Davidson (car), Anna Kendrick (troll), Liza Koshy (robot), Leah Lewis (fire), Thandiwe Newton (chicken), Ron Perlman (gorilla), Bella Ramsey (chicken) and, David Sobolov (rhino). Meanwhile, the cat alongside Tom Hanks on the very first cover seems to be the only actual animal.

And here are four drafts that weren't used: The first is an alternate version for Creed III. Across the Spider-Verse and Asteroid City were anticipated in June but usurped by other films due to late screenings. And The Bikeriders was pulled from its release date and moved into 2024, so this cover may turn up next year.  



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