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English-language action adventure films

  • The Mandalorian and GroguJon Favreau pitched a Star Wars television series featuring Mandalorians to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy in 2017.
  • Justice League (film)Warner Bros. Pictures began developing a live-action Justice League film in February 2007 with husband-and-wife duo Michele and Kieran Mulroney hired to…
  • Avengers: Age of UltronIn October 2011, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced that the studio was beginning to look at their Phase Two films.
  • RoboCopRoboCop arrived in American theaters on the 17th of July 1987, and it was not what anyone expected. The title alone put people off.
  • Transformers: Dark of the MoonTransformers: Dark of the Moon opens with a secret. In 1962, according to the film's premise, a spacecraft called the Ark crash-lands on the far side of the…
  • InceptionInception begins with a question that Christopher Nolan first put to paper around 2001: what if someone could steal your secrets while you slept?
  • Rogue OneIn 2003, visual effects supervisor John Knoll pitched a story called Destroyer of Worlds during the production of Episode III in Sydney.
  • Highlander (film)Highlander, the 1986 fantasy action-adventure film directed by Russell Mulcahy, opens on a parking garage beneath Madison Square Garden where a sword fight…
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesIn May 2013, Warner Bros. Pictures and Sweetpea Entertainment announced a film based on Dungeons & Dragons with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick writing the…
  • Solo: A Star Wars StoryGeorge Lucas began developing a Han Solo prequel in 2012. He commissioned Lawrence Kasdan to write the screenplay for what would become Solo: A Star Wars…
  • The 13th WarriorMichael Crichton published his novel Eaters of the Dead in 1976. This book merged two distinct historical threads into a single narrative.
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyPlans for a fifth Indiana Jones film date back to 1979, when George Lucas and Steven Spielberg made a deal with Paramount Pictures to produce five films.
  • Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)Conan the Barbarian arrived in North American theaters on the 14th of May 1982, opening in 1,400 theaters simultaneously.