2023’s most original movies are still on their way

polygon.com:

Even with Dune: Part Two postponed to 2024, fall 2023 is full of major movie releases, from franchise projects like the Marvel Cinematic Universe installment The Marvels to a new Hunger Games movie, a new Godzilla movie, and the long-awaited Chicken Run sequel Dawn of the Nugget. But as usual, the biggest films of fall are largely tied to existing IP or familiar stories, whether it’s series installments (Saw X, The Nun II, new Equalizer and Expendables movies), biopics and other based-on-real-life movies (Priscilla, Ferrari, Napoleon), or book adaptations (The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Poor Things, the film adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple). Film buffs frequently look at this kind of lineup and grouse, “Where are the original stories?”

Fortunately, there are quite a few of those coming to theaters or streaming this fall as well! Here’s a quick roundup of the movies we’re most looking forward to over the next several months that aren’t remakes, reboots, sequels, spinoffs, adaptations, franchise films, or any other form of brand extension. If you’re looking for unusual or standout stories this fall, here’s our best guess on where you’re going to find them.

In select theaters Sept. 15

Genre: Spoof comedy
Director: Michael Jai White
Cast: Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Anika Noni Rose

If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting for another movie in the vein of Black Dynamite for nearly 15 years now. Michael Jai White is here to help.

The star and co-writer of that excellent Blaxploitation spoof returns to spoof comedies with this Western sendup, where he plays an outlaw on the run who pretends to be a preacher in a small town under the heel of a vicious capitalist. Oh, and he’s also