- Updated on December 20, 2024
Fantasy movies take us to a world where our imagination can reach and sometimes beyond that. This is the reason we love fantasy movies, don’t you think so?
Hollywood is the biggest source of fantasy movies, and like every year, we have got some top fantasy movies in 2024 also.
Here, we have curated a list of top fantasy movies released in this year so far.
7 must-watch fantasy movies of 2024:
Civil War
- Release Date: Apr. 26, 2024
- Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny, and Nick Offerman
- Director: Alex Garland
This movie is a fantasy thriller, written and directed by Alex Garland. The plot follows a team of journalists who travel across the U.S. during a quickly expanding civil war in the country. This movie has a big starcast that includes Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny, and Nick Offerman.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Release Date: May 10, 2024
- Actors: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Peter Macon, William H. Macy
- Director: Wes Ball
Around three centuries after the events of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), ape civilizations have emerged from the oasis, while humans have regressed into a primitive state. When the ape king Proximus Caesar, perverts Caesar’s teachings to enslave other clans, the chimpanzee hunter Noa embarks on a harrowing journey alongside Mae to determine the future for apes and human being alike.
Atlas
- Release Date: May 24
- Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Mark Strong, Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown
- Director: Brad Peyton
It is a sci-fi thriller movie. In this movie, Atlas Shepherd, a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of the AI, goes on a mission to capture a renegade robot. However, due to turn of events, she has to trust the AI with the hope to save humanity.
This movie has been released on Netflix.
Furiosa
- Release Date: May 24
- Actors: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke
- Director: George Miller
In ‘Furiosa’, Anya Taylor-Joy taking the key role of Imperator Furiosa – a younger version of the character played by Charlize Theron in ‘Fury Road’, who finds herself in the hands of Biker Horde led by Dementus.
As for the plot, the official synopsis states – “As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.”
Borderlands
- Release Date: Aug. 09
- Stars: Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bobby Lee, Kevin Hart
- Director: Eli Roth
This movie is a sci-fi fantasy movie based on the video game of the same name.
According to Lionsgate, the story of the movie is “Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas. Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland, a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis, the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other”.
Wicked
- Release Date: Nov. 22
- Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, Jonathan Bailey, Keala Settle
- Director: Jon M. Chu
Wicked is a musical fantasy movie written by Winnie Holzman. It is the first of a two-part movie based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel of the same name.
Set in the Land of Oz, it revolves around Elphaba Thropp (played by Cynthia Erivo), a green-skinned woman.
Werewolves
- Release Date: Dec. 06
- Stars: Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera, Lou Diamond Phillips, James Kyson, James Michael Cummings
- Director: Steven C. Miller
A supermoon event triggered a latent gene in every human on the planet, causing anyone exposed to the moonlight to mutate into werewolves killing millions overnight. A year later, the world attempts to prepare for another supermoon.
