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skill fictionmovieshave always had the slippery task of limn the future , and 2024 has already had its share of representation . Any time a science fable narrative envisions a drastically different future , whether it ’s a technologically - advanced Sion or a bleak , devolve post - apocalyptical wasteland , it ’s always difficult to gauge exactly how far into the future tense the calendar should be . While it ’s easy to laugh from the vantage point of the nowadays at the overly - ambitious dreams of sci - fi writers , it ’s super difficult to predict the menses of technological progress and societal change .
Now that 2024 has arrive , the genre has been around long enough for the twelvemonth to feel like a skill fiction logline to even those survive in the present tense . Movies set during 2023already had their fair share of near - future prognostication , but 2024 has hit a new bench mark for bizarre sci - fi vision for the future that never came to pass . It ’s fascinating to look back on what old filmmakers thought the year could bring in term of technical innovation and sweeping political variety , landing on 2024 as a twelvemonth far enough ahead to warrant their ideas .
9A Boy And His Dog
1975
Not prognosticate well for the year to come , A Boy and His Dogtakes plaza in a post - apocalyptical American Southwest lined with bloodthirsty raiders , ripe military robots and mutant brute . An outre sinister drollery , A Boy and His Dogmakes no serious assertions about what the future could realistically hold , considering the flick revolves around the sexual conquests of a sociopathic orphan scavenger and a telepathic talking dog . inspire the TV game serial , Fallout , presently to be adapted to TV , the motion-picture show ’s wasteland also features hidden enclaves of survivors within trap , emulate strange pastiches of industrial club .
8Beyond The Time Barrier
1960
A pulpy , low - budget science fiction escapade from a simpler time , Beyond the Time Barrierhas an cockeyed premise for the futurity that live on up to its deliciously goofy title . Eight geezerhood beforethePlanet of the Apesseriesdid the same , Beyond the Time Barrier ’s agonist accidentally travels into the future after a failed distance flight , finding himself on an globe scoured by cosmic shaft of light , lay waste to the major planet ’s surface . The only survivor are a bizarre undercover society that has largely gone deaf , dumb , and infertile , save for a few fellow time - displaced traveler from the old long time .
7Highlander II: The Quickening
1991
After the success of the originalHighlander , theseries go downhill fastwith the release ofHighlander II : The Quickening , a universally reviled continuation to an already religious cult skill fiction classic . Beyond sinking the nascent Highlander franchise , The Quickeningalso offer a visual sense of 2024 , feature an sure-enough Connor MacLeod . The series ' interpretation of the future is desolate , limn a mega - corporation that controls the planet via a shield that block solar radiation therapy , as the ozone layer had long been wipe out .
6Illang: The Wolf Brigade
2018
Illang : The Wolf Brigadeis ananime live - action adaptation from South Koreabased on the critically acclaimed animated moving-picture show , Jin - Roh : The Wolf Brigade . However , Illang : The Wolf Brigadewasn’t afraid to take some liberty with its portrayal of the fib , changing the context from a post - war diesel motor punk Japan to a futurist Korea . In the film ’s 2024 , North and South Korea have re - unified fearing a re - militarised Japan and an encroaching United States and Russia . The cinema re - imagines the original anime ’s advanced exosuits for the future rather than the past .
5Narcopolis
2015
A weary flavor into the future , Narcopolisis a British science fiction thriller that postulates a future United Kingdom in which all drugs have been legalized , leading to pharmaceutical troupe experiment with dizzying chemicals in the name of profit . A moody , cyberpunk noir film , Narcopolis’dystopian 2024 is overabundant with forward-looking technology , from hyper - spec holographic computers to handheld devices capable of scanning DNA within minutes . But the rampant putrescence of the drug giant , Ambro , makesNarcopolis ' future tense no easy position to live , even if it is home to chemical cocktails able of producing world - warping effect .
4Songbird
2020
One of the most recent films to defy to use 2024 as a futurist setting , 2020’sSongbirdwas a film quickly produced to represent the care of the COVID-19 pandemic . InSongbird ’s estimation , the rampant mutation of the virus has morph the United States government into a totalitarian fascist state , forcing infected individual into quarantine inner circle with terrible condition . Perhaps too on - the - nose , the hazmat courtship and compulsory temperature checks ofSongbird ’s 2024 have n’t aged terribly well , much to the relief of everyone who has live through the pandemic .
3The Thirteenth Floor
1999
The same year thatThe Matrixcame out , The Thirteenth Flooroffered another look into a future tense characterized by modern simulation , depicting the metropolis of Los Angeles across three years : 1999 , 1937 , and 2024 . Though much of the film is spent being a period art object thanks to the varied setting of the artifical earth within , the convoluted plot ofThe Thirteenth Flooreventually does emerge in 2024 . While not much is shown of the picture show ’s concept for the year , it ’s at least advanced enough to be capable to raise startlingly real copy of the past via computer generation .
2Thunder Force
2021
Even more recent thanSongbird , Thunder Forceapplies a generous lense of superhero fantasy wish fulfillment into its characterization of 2024 . The genre mashup comedy , star Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer , reveals a cheeseparing - future in which a freak cosmic upshot has somehow bestowed world power on only the Earth ’s most psychotic individuals , creating a horde of supervillains . Spencer ’s character , Emily , in turn develops a drug capable of granting the same exponent to anyone who have it . Not much is dissimilar aboutThunder Force ’s 2024 beyond the super powered caper , despite the villains ' activities date back to the eighty in - population .
1The Last Days Of American Crime
Another alternating story that extends less than five years into the future tense from the movie ’s cinematography , The Last Days of American Crimeadapts the vivid novel of the same name , imagine a United States governing that is break an advanced broadcast signal for use against its citizen , preventing them from committing crimes . Beyond the implication of this premise , the film is a rather aboveboard heistmovie , not taking reward of its stage setting compared to others who defy to offend the year 2024 .
