The Nostalgia Critic Movie

The Nostalgia Critic Movie is an upcoming 2021 musical action comedy film based on the web series / HBO TV series The Nostalgia Critic. The film, directed by Jonathan Krisel, will be released to theaters on January 15th 2021.

Plot
The film focuses on The Nostalgia Critic (Doug Walker) finally reviewing the film he got the most requests on: Mac & Me. However, there's another Nostalgia Critic (Anne Hathaway) who's planning on reviewing the film first before NC does, leading to a battle between male critic and female critic. But when an evil businessman threatens to shut down the online world of critics, they, along with new and old friends, have to work together to bring this chaos to an end, even if they remember it so you don't have to.

Cast
Additionally, Kevin Costner, Andre Meadows, Jon Bailey, Greg Sestero, Mara Wilson, Rick Edwards, and Kate Flannery appear in unspecified roles.
 * Doug Walker as The Nostalgia Critic, Chester A Bum, Devil Boner, various
 * Anne Hathaway as Sally Hawthorne, a female Nostalgia Critic who feuds with The Nostalgia Critic over Mac & Me, but later allies with him due to the evil businessman's plan of shutting down the online world of critics.
 * TBA as the evil businessman who plans to shut down the online world of critics and replace it with a product placement dedication thread, complete with McDonald's and Coca-Cola.
 * Malcolm Ray as Himself, Carrotjuice, The Devil, various
 * Tamara Chambers as Herself, Hyper Fan Girl, various
 * Zach Galifianakis as Tom, Sally's camera man and best friend who allies with the heroes.
 * Walter Banasiak as Himself, various
 * Rob Walker as Himself, various
 * Jim Jarosz as Himself, various
 * Heather Reusz as Herself, various
 * Aiyanna Wade as Herself, various
 * Barney Walker as various
 * Brad Jones as Cinema Snob
 * Rachel Tietz as Herself, Evilina
 * James Rolfe as Angry Video Game Nerd
 * Mitch Young as ROBGuy-88

Production
In October 2015, it was announced that a film based on The Nostalgia Critic was in the works to be produced by HBO, Channel Awesome, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Shawn Levy was announced to direct and produce the film alongside Doug Walker, Rob Walker, Michael Anguilar, Mark Gordon, and Guymon Casady. The announcement came after the surprise success of The ROBGuy-88 Movie, and that the film would be about The Nostalgia Critic going on an adventure while reviewing a film he got the most requests on.

One year later, Levy signed on to direct a remake of Starman, leaving The Nostalgia Critic Movie without a director. In November 2016, Levy, promoting the release of Arrival, said he was still developing a Nostalgia Critic movie at Warner Bros., and on November 15, David Guion and Michael Hanelman will write the film alongside Doug & Rob Walker, with Jesse Ehrman joining the producing team.

In September 2018, Jonathan Krisel, director and co-creator of Portlandia, was attached to direct with Levy still producing. The article also mentioned that the film will be a musical action comedy.

In December 2018, Anne Hathaway was being considered for the role of Sally Hawthorne, a female Nostalgia Critic who would go head to head with Doug Walker's Nostalgia Critic. In February 2019, Hathaway's involvement was confirmed by Krisel and Doug Walker (via his Facebook account). Filming is expecte to begin in late Summer 2019.

In March 2019, the film's release date of January 15, 2021 was revealed, and that MGM would be co-financing the film.

In June 2019, Bo Burnham joined the film to write songs for the film, while Justin Hurwitz was announced to compose the score for the film. It was also revealed that the film Nostalgia Critic will review in the movie will be Mac & Me.

It was also announced that filming would begin in November 2019, setting it back four months from its original production start which was to have been July 2019. This is due to a change in Hathaway's schedule on a remake of The Witches as the reason for the delay.