Set in the 2010s.
3 works chose this decade. They did not choose it from the same distance, so applying each gap from 2026 scatters them across 11 years — 2052 to 2063.
Back to the Future Part II
The sequel's future was 26 years out: a 2015 of hoverboards, self-drying jackets and a Cubs pennant. That date has been and gone, and the film is now marked against a scoreboard it never asked for — which is what happens to any future set close enough to check.
Akira
Akira opens by destroying Tokyo on 16 July 1988 — the day the film itself opened in Japanese cinemas. The story then jumps 31 years forward, to a Neo-Tokyo rebuilt on the crater and plagued by corruption. Made in 2026, that same jump would set the city in 2057.
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott's 1982 film built a 2019 out of rain, sodium light and advertising, then lost money explaining it. The year it named is now 7 years behind us, and the film has outlasted its own deadline by becoming the way everyone else draws the future.