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Film Franchises Which Stopped After One Sequel
I watched Romancing The Stone last night and am going to watch the sequel Jewel Of The Nile as well. It set me thinking why their was never a third film as both seemed successful. It got me thinking about films that had a sequel but never had any further sequels. sometimes because the sequel may have killed the franchise off because it was so awful and sometimes perhaps they couldnt get the cast back together. So what potential film franchise can you think of that never made it to a third film? I will start with:-
Romancing The Stone
Ghostbusters
Speed
National Treasure
French connection
Under Siege
Romancing The Stone
Ghostbusters
Speed
National Treasure
French connection
Under Siege
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Grease
My Girl
Fright Night
Gremlins
Bill & Ted
Secondly, the sequel didn't quite do the same business as the first and the law of diminishing returns would thus apply. That or it bombed completely (Speed 2, for instance).
The stars because too expensive (Romancing the Stone)
The sequel bombed (Speed)
The rights went all over the place (Conan)
Effectively there was a third Conan film with Arnie, except the character wasn't called Conan (IIRC the character wasn't named at all) in Red Sonya.
Just checked Wiki and it says the Conan character is called Lord Kalidor, don't recall that name being used in the film, maybe it was, idk but it was definately Conan in all but name.
The idea of the franchise existed long before the 70s. The Doctor Crime films, the Hammer horrors, the various Sherlock Holmes movie series, the Carry Ons, James Bond,...
..The Pink Panther, Abott and Costello, The Thin Man, The Road to....
And there's surely more.
The third one is being made right now.
Really?
Yeah the cast has signed on and they are working on the script right now. It is still going ahead as of August 2013.
That scares the shit out of me. Bill and Ted were more meaningful to me than Star Wars and I feel my adolescence being raped.
No it didn't, the idea of sequels or repeats might well have existed but the idea of a Franchise did not.
Yes, there is, a Franchise has ideas going into the future a sequel is "whatever you can get"
* Mission: Impossible is Paramount's franchise, for instance, with each sequel a seperate interpretation of the M:I ethos.
What are you taking about? Star Trek, for example, has never had ideas going into the future. Same with Indiana Jones or Alien. Are those not franchises? You seem to be suggesting that a series of films can't be a franchise unless continuity has been planned out or considered in advance.
Made in 1985 by Bond director Lewis Hamilton, and based on a series of books called The Destroyer, this was expected to spawn a series of movies based on the books.
However, it simply did not perform at the box office, so it never happened.
I actually quite liked the film. Fred Ward stars as a cop who is 'killed' and brought back to life by a covert organisation who enlist the help of Joel Grey's Korean martial arts master Chuin, to teach him unique skills and fighting techniques to fight crime.
There is a strong element of Karate Kid in the movie, with Chuin playing Mr Miyagi to Wards naïve cop.
It had some good set pieces, notably a fight on scaffolding around the statue of liberty, and some witty dialogue between Ward and the excellent Joel Grey. It's probably fair to say the character of Chuin is heavily stereotyped, but then again the movie is tongue in cheek.
In the US the movie was even called Remo Williams : The Adventure Begins, in anticipation of further sequels.
I also wonder if perhaps Ward and Grey may not have been big enough box office draws for the movie to have pulled enough punters in.
So what was the sequel to this film? This thread is about films that only had one sequel. This Remo film didnt have a sequel at all!
OK, technically it does not qualify as per the thread title, but I still thought it was worth mentioning, as it was clearly a film designed to spawn sequels which never materialised.
Support Your Local Sheriff - Support Your Local Gunfighter
Clerks - Clerks II (Could yet be a third one)
Bad Boys
It was eight years before the sequel got made. Im sure it was meant to be made just two or three years after the first one. Really surprised there hasn't been a third film. I suppose Michael Bay has been too engrossed in making Transformers films.
Alien Vs Predator
Tron (so far, though 3rd possibly in the works)
Home Alone
Robocop
The Godfather
The Matrix