2025 in cinema had many ups, but also its fair share of downs, from Anthony Mackie’s stuttered start to leading life in the MCU in **Captain America: Brave New World **and director James L. Brooks’ disastrous latest effort, Ella McCay, to Netflix’s expensive flop ***The Electric State ***and Prime Video’s utterly terrible War of the Worlds. However, no movie was more controversial than the live-action Snow White remake, which dominated social media discourse often for valid reasons and sometimes for frustratingly bigoted claims.
One of the common criticisms thrown at the film was against director Marc Webb, although others were quick to come to his defense. Whichever way you look at it, the remake has done nothing to better his pedigree. Looking to brush off the controversy, Webb has set his sights on a new directorial project, which only marks his seventh feature film in almost two decades. The film in question is Day Drinker, an action thriller that not only looks to help mend one man’s reputation, but also the reputation of one of Hollywood’s most famous actors.
In one of his first mainstream Hollywood roles since the legal battle with his ex,** Amber Heard**, that dominated headlines, Johnny Depp will star in Day Drinker, alongside the likes of Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), Penélope Cruz (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), Manu Ríos (Elite), and more. In the biggest update since the movie was first announced, Lionsgate has officially confirmed the release date for Day Drinker, which is set for release on March 26, 2027. The movie is taking the place of** Mel Gibson**‘s*** The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One***, which has now been postponed to May 6, 2027.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
On top of Day Drinker and Paramount’s upcoming Christmas effort Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, Depp also looks set to return to his most iconic role as Captain Jack Sparrow. The sixth film in Disney’s blockbuster franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean, has been confirmed, and franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer has hinted that a role for Sparrow might already be in the script. Fans can expect a blend of new and returning faces in what is being considered a soft reboot for the franchise.
Day Drinker will be released on March 26, 2027. Stay tuned to Collider for all the latest movie news.
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