So some friends and I saw Sherlock Holmes tonight. I liked it. It was well done, and it obviously left on a cliffhanger and will have a sequel which I'll happily go and watch when it's out in theaters.
However! There is a chance that the sequel could end up in production hell, and it may never see the light of day. This thread is all about that.
I argued on the subway ride home that I
know there are some movies, made in the last decade, that received big box office numbers, left on a cliffhanger to sell a sequel, and for whatever reason died a slow and agonizing death.
Problem is, I can't come up with any such movies right off the top of my head. But they're out there! They must be!
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Found a better example: Jurassic Park 4
For awhile there was either the best or worst Jurassic Park 4 sequel script floating around, where they made a crack team of intelligent dinosaur commandos who had to be trained to save kidnapping victims and so on by a mercenary with a heart of gold. Just about the most batshit insane thing I've read in years and I would have paid good money to see that on screen.
But where you at Cloverfield 2?
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Oh, The Golden Compass totally hasn't had any plans for a sequel put in place, and that came out two years ago. Shit, they cut out the original ending of the book from the movie to save it for what I presume would be the beginning of The Subtle Knife.
Up in the air still with talks between Paramount and the director/producer/writer ongoing. Apparently Paramount really wants it, director and writer kind of seems on board and have written up a few ideas, but Abrams isn't too in to it.
Edit: Handheld camera is almost definitely not part of it if it does happen.
Not sure if I want it to actually.
Don't expect to see too much from them ever again.
Was that a movie really begging for one, really?
The last Blade movie, which was pretty bad but I think still did well for moneys, tried to set up a sequel or spin-off series which never happened.
Hellboy 2 left things open for another movie, and it did well in the theatres even if the movie itself wasn't as good as the first one. I'd like to see another, but I've never heard more than rumours about it.
And of course Serenity, which made nice cash. Never got the sequel, probably never will, but there have been rumours galore.
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Ron Perelman has said he really doesn't want to do another because of all the make up he had to endure.
Combine that with GDT being booked solid for the next decade or so, and I'd say the odds of this one are slim.
Hellboy 2 was a better movie in almost all respects than the first, though. So it's got that.
Serenity didn't make nice cash at all. If I remember right, it took until DVD before it recouped budget.
Flash Gordon is the first example that pops into my head: The film ended on a goddamn QUESTION MARK, but it also didn't make the Star Wars money DeLaurentiis was hoping for, so no sequel.
Masters of the Universe is the same story. Post-credits Skeletor stinger making you think there's gonna be a sequel and then....rewrite the script into something Van Damme can do for Cannon films on a budget of 5 mil.
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Their schedule is pretty well set for the next five years or so, and the only sequel on the docket is Cars 2.
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I think it's only set up until 2012. Toy Story 3 this year, Cars 2 and The Bear and the Bow in 2011. and Newt in 2012.
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There actually was. A really shitty Spike TV Blade miniseries or aborted series. I think it lasted about a month and had none of the original cast.
And I think JW said that direct to DVD Serenity sequels (as in just extra really long Firefly episodes) are a possibility at one time. Unsure now though.
Apparently the book series it was based on has 21 books too, so it's not like they'd need to come up with new material.
As far as movies that blatantly set up a sequel, where is History of the World, Part II?
That's just it though. Nobody wanted a dragonball movie in the first place. Nobody did. It happened anyway. Why?
Because there are actually hundreds of thousand of people who did want it. Millions of people who loved DB so much they wanted anything, anything at all, even if every single one of them absolutely despised the end product. They went and saw it anyway.
And you know that every single one of them would totally go see a sequel.
The original was a brilliant concept with mostly lousy execution (although some bits were golden - "this boy's an Eskimo") but damned if I wouldn't be there on the first night for Buckaroo Banzai vs. the World Crime League.
Yeah, it's more of a money issue than needing material. The first was expensive to make and didn't make the high returns needed for a franchise. Still, there are rumors.
I'd pay $8 to see Hitler on Ice.
Speaking of Brooks, where's Space Balls 2: The Search for More Money?
Where's Super Mario bros. 2?
I HATE movies that end in cliffhangers/stingers and there is never any followup. Jesus, at least put a book sequel or even just a paragraph on a website somewhere.
it actually got made; it was a bollywood flick
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A year ago I would've mentioned Boondock Saints, but that movie finally came out. Still haven't seen it, but I guess I'll just wait for DVD.
District 9 is a movie I hope gets a sequel, or prequel, or just another story in the "universe".
They got chased back to their boat by a horde of undead. They died on that boat.
I'm drawing a lot of blanks here on movies, and I don't want to drag games into this since we get a thread like that in G&T every few months.
I was expecting at least one comic. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to see Rex in another comic.