The What Do You Wanna Watch? Fantasy Movie Game is back for the fourth year. Ashley and Dylan picked 8 films and two wild card films each from 2025 on the draft episode of What Do You Wanna Watch? with more films to be selected later in the year. Check out their initial selections below and let us who you think will win in the comments or on Bluesky.
The Rules
The scores for each film are based on the Rotten Tomato’s critics average rating. For every 0.1 above 6.0 a film gets, it gets one point. For every 0.1 below 6.0, it loses one point. If a movie doesn’t release in the year, it is treated as getting a 6.0, and therefore 0 points.
There are also special rules to make certain points worth more or less. If a film scores above a 8.0, every 0.1 above 8.0 is worth two points instead of one. Meanwhile, for every 01. below 4.0, the loss of points is only half a point.
Finally, there are bonus points based on worldwide box office ranking from Box Office Mojo. The film ranked 1 for the year earns 20 points. Rank 2 earns 18 points and so on through to rank 10 earning 2 points.
Each Person selected 8 films and 2 wildcards at the start of the year and pick 3 more films and 1 wildcard in the middle of the year.
Any negative critic scores for the wildcard entries don’t count.
This year, each person will also select two wildcard films from each of these four film festivals:
- Sundance Film Festival
- Cannes Film Festival
- Venice Film Festival
- Toronto International Film Festival
To be eligible the films, the film must not have been screened and reviewed before selection.
Whoever’s film picks net the most points wins.
Dylan’s Picks
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Release date: 22 May 2025
Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett, Rolf Saxon
The final adventure of IMF agent Ethan Hunt.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Release date: 24 July 2025
Directed by: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ralph Ineson, Julia Garner, Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, Natasha Lyonne, Sarah Niles
One of Marvel’s most iconic families makes it back to the big screen, the Fantastic Four.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Release date: 18 December 2025
Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, David Thewlis, Oona Chaplin
The next installment in the “Avatar” franchise.
Wicked: For Good
Release date: 20 November 2025
Directed by: Jon M. Chu
Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum
Follows Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
Elio
Release date: 19 June 2025
Directed by: Domee Shi, Madeline Sharafian
Starring: Yonas Kibreab, Jameela Jamil, Brad Garrett, Zoe Saldaña, Remy Edgerly, Shirley Henderson
Elio is a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession. So, when he’s beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide, Elio’s all in for the epic undertaking. Mistakenly identified as Earth’s leader, Elio must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions, and somehow discover who and where he is truly meant to be.
F1
Release date: 26 June 2025
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Javier Bardem, Sarah Niles
A former driver finds himself back in action when he returns to Formula 1 racing to take on the sport’s top competition.
Zootopia 2
Release date: 26 November 2025
Directed by: Jared Bush, Byron Howard
Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, Shakira
Detectives Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde must go undercover in Marsh Market to crack the case when they find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile.
Predator: Badlands
Release date: 06 November 2025
Directed by: Dan Trachtenberg
Starring: Elle Fanning
In the future, a Predator traverses on an alien wasteland, while two sisters discover their horrifying past.
Dylan’s General Wildcards
Jurassic World Rebirth
Release date: 03 July 2025
Directed by: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Ed Skrein
Five years post-Jurassic World Dominion, an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.
The Bride!
Release date: 26 September 2025
Directed by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening
In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest, and radical social change.
Ashley’s Picks
Superman
Release date: 10 July 2025
Directed by: James Gunn
Starring: David Corenswet as Clark Kent / Superman, alongside Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, María Gabriela de Faría, Wendell Pierce, Alan Tudyk, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Neva Howell
Superman embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.
Mickey 17
Release date: 17 April 2025
Directed by: Bong Joon-ho
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo
A disposable employee is sent on a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact.
Thunderbolts*
Release date: 1 May 2025
Directed by: Jake Schreier
Starring: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Edward Pierce, Hannah John-Kamen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
A group of supervillains are recruited to go on missions for the government.
THUNDERBOLTS*. © 2024 MARVEL.
Lilo & Stitch
Release date: 22 May 2025
Directed by: Dean Fleischer Camp
Starring: Chris Sanders, Sydney Agudong, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Courtney B. Vance, Tia Carrere, Amy Hill, Jason Scott Lee
A fugitive alien helps a lonely Hawaiian girl mend her broken family.
Sinners
Release date: 17 April 2025
Directed by: Ryan Coogler
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, Delroy Lindo
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
The Battle of Baktan Cross
Release date: 8 August 2025
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Alana Haim, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris, Benicio del Toro
Plot Unknown.
Ballerina
Release date: 5 June 2025
Directed by: Len Wiseman
Starring: Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Norman Reedus, Ian McShane, Keanu Reeves
An assassin trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma organization sets out to seek revenge after her father’s death.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Release date: TBD
Directed by: Rian Johnson
Starring: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church
Plot unknown. Sequel to ‘Glass Onion (2022)’.
Ashley’s General Wildcards
A Minecraft Movie
Release date: 03 April 2025
Directed by: Jared Hess
Starring: Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, Jennifer Coolidge
Four misfits are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world while embarking on a quest with an unexpected, expert crafter.
M3GAN 2.0
Release date: 26 June 2025
Directed by: Gerard Johnstone
Starring: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ivanna Sakhno, Timm Sharp, Aristotle Athari and Jemaine Clement
Plot under wrap.
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