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Sequels That Never Happened
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This thread is for all the sequels of movies that was originally penned or rumoured but never happened, for whatever reason
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Blue Streak 2 - I enjoyed the first one so much that I was excited when they was talking about it bringing out a sequel. Unfortunately it never happened.
I'll start
Blue Streak 2 - I enjoyed the first one so much that I was excited when they was talking about it bringing out a sequel. Unfortunately it never happened.
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Home Alone 3 (with original cast): The third film was pitched at the same time as Home Alone 2 and were planned to be filmed back to back but plans fell through. In the mid 90s the idea for the movie was revived with early dafts called for Macaulay Culkin to return as a teenage version of his character but he had retired from acting by then, so they changed it into what we have now.
Mrs Doubtfire 2: Robin Williams death sealed it's fate.
More surprising because it was such a massive hit, and that in itself is normally enough to greenlight a sequel.
It's not that I even wanted a sequel or think they should have made one, but actually part of me admires Spielberg for not bowing to pressure and just making a sequel for the hell of it.
I guess also back then Hollywood was not as franchise-crazy as it is now.
A spin-off for the character of Jinx from Die Another Day was planned even before that movie came out... and ditched the minute the reviews for Catwoman came in.
There was also apparently some other Star Trek prequel that they were planning in the mid-2000s, which would have been set a decade or so after Enterprise and may even have had some of the cast from that series, but from what I've heard it was never actually a legitimate project, just something that Paramount gave Rick Berman so that he could see out his contract and they could kick him out in favour of JJ Abrams.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Are two that come to mind straight away.
Twins 2 - the plan was that it turns out they also had a sister which would have been played by Roseanne Barr.
Ivan Reitman, Dan Ackroyd and the studio seem to be keeping the plot of the version that looks like its finally going to make the light of day under wraps
I'm sure I read somewhere Twins 2 was still being made..?
Roseanne Barr? Yeesh...sounds like a lucky escape that one never saw the light of day.
Never understood the love for Twins...quite bizarre to be honest.
I chuckled mildly when the film was first announced...Arnie and Danny are...Twins. Heh. And yet a year down the line after the trailers had been doing the rounds for ages, posters everywhere clearly showing the 'hilarious' main concept/joke of the movie...sitting in a cinema people were still laughing uproariously whenever the title characters said 'We're Twins'. Baffling. And the rest of the movie was only mildly amusing at best.
It was hoped this would be a Bond-style franchise (they even got Guy Hamilton to direct). But although it was a decent little movie, it just never caught on.
I don't think Fred Ward was a big enough name to carry a franchise, and it also had a somewhat controversial white-man-playing-Asian issue with Joel Grey as Chuin.
In the end they sold it as a kind of grown-up Karate Kid, which it did resemble especially during the early training scenes. But the public stayed away.
Shame, because it's actually not bad. It has a brilliant, standout action sequence atop the Statue of Liberty. Just recently been released on blu ray as well.
I think pretty much every horror/sci fi movies of the 80's and 90's was left open ended for a possible sequel.
Monster movies particularly...there was always a last little shot featuring either an egg hatching or a baby monster etc.
Sahara was intended to be the first in a series of adaptations of Clive Cusslers Dirk Pitt novels but tanked so badly that idea was scrapped.
The Pitt novels were attempted before with Raise the Titanic but led to Lew Grades famous quote 'it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic'
Raise The Titanic is actually a pretty decent movie, despite it's reputation. OK, it's historically inaccurate give what we know now about the fate of the ship, but this was made in 1980.
The scene where the Titanic is raised with John Barry's magnificent score is definitely a highlight...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwyrddvDvTw
I believe it is to be called 'Triplets' and will also star Eddie Murphy.
I once heard back in the day that they was looking at a 'Total Recall 2', and I too was looking forward to True Lies 2. That would have been a good franchise