Now, every year is a big year for science fiction these days, but 2025 looks like it’s going to be a particularly exciting year. Whether you’re watching in theaters or at home on your personal viewscreen (sorry, TV), space is set to be a major theme in Hollywood this year.
Starring most of the major series, the second season of ‘Andor’ takes us back to a harsher corner of the galaxy far, far away, season three of ‘Strange New Worlds’ and the TV movie ‘Section 31’. Now, I will represent “Star”. Trek’s final frontier.
In the world of superheroes, Superman will take to the skies under the guidance of Guardians of the Galaxy star James Gunn, and the Fantastic Four will finally land in the MCU. And maybe it’s time to get very scared when you fear a xenomorph is invading your living room, courtesy of the new TV show Alien: Earth.
Add in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, A New Look at Predator, and James Cameron’s latest trip to Pandora, and 2025 looks like a sci-fi fan’s dream come true. Now, pay attention to the sky. Because all these treats are on their way to you.
Sci-fi movies scheduled for release in 2025
“Star Trek: Section 31”
Release date: January 24, 2025 Viewing location: Paramount+
Michelle Yeoh’s role as reformed Mirror Universe dictator Philippa Giorgio was her best role in Star Trek: Discovery, but she lost her Oscar-winning role in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Then she returned to star in her own TV movie. “Section 31” appears to be “Trek’s” answer to James Bond, as Georgiou returns to the 23rd century courtesy of the Guardians of Forever and is recruited into the Federation’s most famous secret organization.
“Mickey 17”
Release date: April 18, 2025 Viewing location: Movie theater
South Korean director Bong Joon-ho followed up his award-winning “Parasite” with a dark space comedy. “The Batman” star Robert Pattinson plays Mickey, an ordinary man who registers as “expendable.” Basically, he would be reborn in a new body every time he died. But things go awry when Mickey 17 comes face to face with his successor. From the trailer, this looks like a lot of fun. Think “Moon” with more laughs.
“Superman”
Release date: July 11, 2025 Viewing location: Movie theater
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ writer and director James Gunn has been headhunted to run the nascent DC Studios, and the first big screen release of the new era will be The Most Famous Sons of Krypton. He played Superman. The first trailer stars super-dog Krypto and is a nod to Zack Snyder’s 2013 Man of Steel, in which Supes attempts to combine his alien heritage with his Kansas upbringing. Expect a fairly light movie. David Corenswet dons the famous mantle alongside Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor.
“Fantastic Four: First Steps”
Release date: July 25, 2025 Viewing location: Movie theater
Marvel’s first family made their MCU debut belatedly, with the exception of Reed Richards, who appeared in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and this marks a major departure from their previous film appearances. Expectations are high that this will be a step up. In Fantastic Four: First Steps, an alternate version of New York in the 1960s is under threat from the planet-devouring villain Galactus. Earth’s only hope is a quartet of newcomers played by Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon. Moss Backlack. “WandaVision” director Matt Shakman will be at the helm.
“Predator: Badlands”
Release date: November 7, 2025 Viewing location: Movie theater
The galaxy’s mightiest hunter received a welcome shot in the arm in 2022, courtesy of the back-to-basics prequel “Prey.” Now, that film’s director, Dan Trachtenberg, is eyeing the series again and is planning a major change in direction for the story. The Predator will be the main character in Badlands, with The Great’s Elle Fanning playing multiple human characters. . In other words, now is the perfect time to be a Predator fan. Especially now that a new “secret” movie is coming out.
“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
Release date: December 19, 2025 Viewing location: Movie theater
Director James Cameron continues his long-standing obsession with the distant moon of Pandora in the third “Avatar” movie. After the ocean-based action of “The Way of Water,” “Fire and Ash” introduces a new Mangwan clan, showing a different and potentially less friendly side to the Na’vi. Director Cameron said, “Up until now, we’ve only shown the good side of the Na’vi, so I wanted to show them from a different angle.”
Both of its predecessors, Avatar, are well within the top three highest-grossing movies of all time, so don’t be surprised if this one becomes the biggest movie of 2025.
Sci-fi TV shows coming in 2025
“Star Wars: Andor” Season 2
Release date: April 22, 2025 Viewing location: Disney+
“Andor,” perhaps one of the best “Star Wars” shows, is returning for its second and final season on Disney+. Creator and showrunner Tony Gilroy (screenwriter of The Bourne movies) will tell the story of Rebel Alliance operative Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) in 12 episodes leading up to Rogue One. He admitted that it lasted for years and revealed how he acted. It became part of the film’s fateful mission. Ben Mendelsohn reprises his Rogue One role as bureaucratic Death Star supervisor Krennic, while Alan Tudyk returns as the dastardly droid K-2SO.
Doctor Who Season 2
Release date: Early 2025 Where to watch: Disney+ (worldwide) / BBC (UK)
Whether you call this Season 2, Series 15, or Season 41 (which are all correct, depending on your point of view), the Time Lords of Ncuti Gatwa are set to return in 2025. He will also be joined by a new Doctor Who companion. The TARDIS will embark on a series of adventures across time and space as Varada Setu, who played another role in Boom earlier this year, Mandy Flynn. Belinda Chandra. Snowpiercer’s Archie Panjabi has been confirmed to play the Doctor Who villain, while former EastEnders and Strictly Come Dancing star Rose Ayling-Ellis will play the lead role in the first episode. Showrunner Russell T Davies says:
“Alien: Earth”
Release date: Summer 2025 Where to watch: FX (US) / Disney+ (UK)
Aside from the final act of Alien: Resurrection and the most forgotten movie, Alien vs. Predator, the Xenomorphs tend to give Earth a pretty big territory. The acid-blooded beasts’ first TV appearance takes a turn for the worse, as Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley strives to make sure everyone can hear you scream, even if you’re sitting in your living room. changes completely. “Alien: Earth” is set two years before Ridley Scott’s original “Alien,” in which a group of soldiers search for survivors among the remains of a spaceship that crashed for an unknown reason. As we all know, it’s unlikely to work…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3
Release date: TBA 2025 Viewing location: Paramount+
The adventures of Pike, Spock, and friends on the final frontier continue in the third season as they search for, well, strange new worlds. Little is revealed about the characters’ stories, but early footage shows the return of the reptilian villain Gorn and the transformation of Pike, Uhura, Rahn, and Chapel into Vulcans. Attractive.
Season 4 of Strange New Worlds has already been confirmed by Paramount+, and Discovery spinoff Starfleet Academy, set in the 32nd century, is also in the works.
“Black Mirror” Season 7
Release date: 2025 TBA Where to watch: Netflix
Charlie Brooker’s techno movie “The Twilight Zone” returns for Season 7 with its first sequel, a sequel to the classic Season 4 episode “USS Callister.” It’s a perfectly pitched “Star Trek” pastiche, in which an exasperated engineering boss (played by Jesse Plemons) cheats on his co-workers (including “Penguin” star Cristin Milioti) in a fully immersive spaceship simulation. The idea was to change her into her true avatar. Please expect much darker content than “Galaxy Quest”.
“Foundation” Season 3
Release date: 2025 TBA Viewing location: Apple TV+
Apple TV+ has yet to announce a return date for the blockbuster film adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, but it has been confirmed that this third installment will be backdated to December 2023. The first two seasons sometimes felt like a 20-episode exercise, but the scene-setting is such that by the end of The Foundation Season 2, this epic interstellar movie Game of Thrones (the megalomaniac Clones added) are ready to explode to life. This is the kind of TV show that makes you want a bigger TV.
Apple’s other big-budget space drama, “For All Mankind,” is also getting a new season, along with a spin-off show, “Star City.”
