It’s all wishful thinking, so go crazy.
I can’t believe they didn’t make a second Superbad. The plot line wrote itself. Seth goes to visit Evan and Fogel one weekend at Dartmouth. The cops have been fired and are now working as lowly campus security officers. Hi-jinks ensue. Call it Superbadder. Boom done.
Feckin eh!
Constantine
Good thing it didn’t also get a shitty tv show though
I liked Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine in Sandman.
None. Stop with the fucking sequels and prequels and spinoffs already.
Your nostalgia will never be placated.
Stop having fun!
Just one more Ghostbusters movie and I can die happy…
How did nobody mention “Master and Commander”? It’s so good!
Wasn’t this a book series?
Primer
Except it would probably end up being a sequel and prequel at the same time…
Valerian and the city of a thousand planets. It’s an amazing setting and if you put some leads with actual chemistry in a sequel it could do well.
I read the graphic novels instead of watching the movie and they were beautiful
flow.
I would love to see a sequel to the Warcraft movie.
Stand by Me. The movie came out in 1986 but it is set in 1959…so 40 years later, the sequel is set in 1999. If anyone could write an awesome sequel, it’d be Stephen King.
I would love to see a sequel to Chappie, I don’t think no one talks about it enough, the plt has a couple of holes, but the movie as a whole was perfect in my opinion.
Megamind. That SLOP they tried to sell as a TV series was just a cashgrab. Talentless cashgrab.
Wait, there was a TV series?
Most sequels suck. There’s very few exceptions
Predator 2, Aliens, Terminator 2. Fox was on a roll with those films. Too bad they lost their charm right after.
Besides that we have The Dark Knight, Toy Story 2, The Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, Evil Dead 2 (if you consider a reboot is okay), Army of Darkness (if you consider Evil Dead 2 to be its own start), Godfather 2, Paddington 2, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze.
Reads along…yep, yep, yep…wait - Temple of Doom???
I guess chronologically speaking it’s more of a prequel. Maybe The Last Crusade fits the bill a little better. Both are excellent films nonetheless.
Of your 3 first examples, 2 are terrible and the other is forgetful, while all of them are good movies, they’re terrible sequels. I have seen Predator 2, but all I remember is that it’s set in a city; Aliens is clearly a cash grab that undermines the first movie, it switched from Terror to Action, and it’s essentially the same reason that Colonial Marines is worse than Isolation; Terminator 2 is my personal pet peeve, because it completely destroys the first movie plot. How does time work in Terminator? Easy, it’s cyclical, meaning you can’t change the past. But Terminator 2 introduces the concept that the past can be changed, but if the past can be changed then there is an original timeline without any time travel, and if that’s the case John doesn’t exist there, and if he doesn’t exist the terminator doesn’t go back and Reese doesn’t go after him and John is never born. The only way Terminator makes sense is if Reese always went back, which means the past can’t be changed.
Check out Sarah Connor Chronicles for a tidy wrapped-up Terminator timeline.
Does it address the “first loop” problem created by the second movie allowing to change the past?
The finale ties it all together (the series at least) in a closed loop.
The correct answer is District 9.
However, I find I’m often disappointed by sequels to great movies. I feel like there are far more mediocre movies that failed to fully explore the depths of a good concept, where a sequel (perhaps in a different genre) would retroactivel make the first movie better.
For that, I also choose Johnny Mnemonic.
Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie.
I also think now would be a great time for a Galaxy Quest sequel. There’s a lot of fertile sci-fi tropes that could make for another hilarious movie. Like, after the end of the revival of the original show, there’s a Next Generation spin-off that overshadows the original, plus a bunch of expanded universe content. The Thermians and other aliens keep replicating the nonsense as real technology. What remains of the OG crew has to convince the new cast and writers/showrunners to stop being so lazy in their hand-wavy rushed bullshit, because there are very real consequences to poorly executed cash grabs full of plot holes and dangling threads. Maybe there’s a prequel series that creates a schism in the Thermian society, with the older generation following the Never Give Up, Never Surrender idealism, and the younger generation believing in a grittier, cynical imperialistic ideology.
The correct answer is District 9.
I dunno. I love that movie but I also think that Neill Blomkamp hasn’t made a truly great movie after that. Elysium was fun, but the last act was trash. The short stories on YouTube were great. But I think that he’s already given us the best of what he can deliver and be probably should concentrate on VFX and leave the field to better directors.
Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie.
I even have the perfect movie title: Out of Time
Or maybe Just In Time. Time Out. Time Bandits, no that’s taken. Taken Out, no that was my spec script for the finale to the Taken franchise. Time and Again.
Johnny Mnemonic is based of a short story of the same name by William Gibson. It’s set in the same world as Neuromancer and his other cyberpunk. If you want to see it explored more, I recommend reading those.
Huh, I read Neuromancer a long time ago, but I forget almost everything about it. Would that make a good film?
It would take one hell of a director but maybe. The descriptions of a lot of things in the book are abstract and weird. Things and ideas are sometimes described as if you are already familiar with them and the world. It would take someone with vision. I’m also worried that if it were done well, it may not have a wide enough appeal to please the execs at the box office.
Apple is making it into a TV show right now, and I’m expecting to be disappointed. Most media has been too Netflixified.
I hadn’t hear about that, but I think of all the streaming content producers, Apple has the best track record for producing quality content. But yeah, the fact that I barely remember reading Neuromancer, and what I do remember was confusion, I bet that’s a tough needle to thread.
It was one of the main inspirations for the Matrix so it sort of has been made.
But yeah I could see a Neuromancer movie being good too! I can’t remember exactly how similar Neuro was to the Matrix because it has been so long but it did have the concept of “plugging in” to the network at least
edit Neuromancer TV series is coming soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer_(TV_series)
I think it is funny that Keanu is the lead in both movies, one where a bunch of data is shoved in his head and another where he is shoved into a bunch of data.
https://thedirect.com/article/district-10-movie-sequel
A District 9 sequel is in the works.
“In the works” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. They’ve been saying that for a decade. I’ll believe it when they actually start filming.
Being ‘in the works’ for over 10 years is development hell.
You kinda lost me by starting your post with “the correct answer is…” 🤢
Noted, thanks for your feedback.
The Fifth Element. So much untapped potential in that dystopia. It could be a direct sequel following up on Korben and Leeloo, or a spin-off following Ruby Rod, or a prequel around the previous time the Evil threatened the world, or a thousand other possibilities.
There was originally plans for a sequel but I think there where some issues with
castingit under performing in the box office. Also, it would need to be with someone else leading as Bruce Willis is too sick to act any more.Yeah, I know it couldn’t happen now, not with the original actors reprising the same roles at least. Still would have loved to see more of that universe though.
Bruce Willis is too sick to act any more.
So is Chris Tucker but in a completely different way
Constantine.
I know it may not have checked all the boxes for comic fans but it was a great movie with great characters and atmosphere.
I’ve thought about this several times since its release. Apparently I’m not the only one. Keanu was asked a similar question last year but about his own catalogue and he said the same thing, he wishes there had been a sequel.
A few months after that, I think I read a sequel might be coming.
Keanu said he’d jump at the opportunity to make a sequel as well and he’s been pushing for it for a while
I never saw the movie, but the 2014 TV show was awesome and I wish it had gotten another season. Having the same actor make a few lame crossovers with the Arrowverse did not suffice.
To this day I’m not sure how to feel about their trolling attempt on how to pronounce the name Constantine. Which in the comics is “Constantine, like clementine”, but in the show and the movie it’s the other way.
“Constantine, like clementine”
But…that can be pronounced two ways? Isn’t that the point?
Wait, what? Damn, today I learned…
Do yourself a favour and give the movie a whirl. I’m in the minority but as a long time fan of Hellblazer (original run of 300! comics) I was happy with the movie, thought it was adequately close to the material (for a movie, how can you fit the scope of the source material into 1.5 hours…) and a good old romp overall.
The TV show was excellent, quite close in look and feel and Matt Ryan nailed it (also his characterization in Legends but the writing there was lesser for the character, even though I enjoy Legends for their goofy, campy fun, Constantine wasn’t a good fit), totally want some more.
They’re working on a script, last I looked up.
The worst part about Constantine was the main cast.
Keanu playing an emotionally arrested dude was pretty spot on.
And although not a main character, but Peter Stomaire’s Lucifer was pretty haunting.
Tilda Swinton was great too. I was t familiar with the character from the comics, but I still remember her role from when I saw it at first release.
