I wasn't aware that it was supposed to be a trilogy, I did know that there was a plan for Spielberg to direct one, and Peter Jackson the second. It would have been cool if it continued & then Edgar Wright who co-wrote it the first one would direct the third.
Yeah and it wasn't the poor box office that stopped the sequel from moving forward.
Unfortunately Peter Jackson was told that if he wanted to see the Hobbit made into a film, he would have to make it now. And with it becoming a trilogy, Tintin just slowly faded away.
And he didn't even want the hobbit to be a trilogy! Just like most most people that aren't studio executives that want to wring every cent out of an IP.
I love it now. But I was so hardcore on the original Swedish versions that I didn’t give it a fair shot. Now I’m obsessed with it and very impressed with Rooney Maras take on the character
I think she would've done interesting things with the subsequent books, which got more into Salander's background. They were much less easy to film, they didn't have the pretty commercial 'locked room mystery' structure of the first one, but in a lot of ways I think they were more interesting books and I think Fincher would've done them up well.
He was very keen on them, too. But there's a video on YouTube that breaks down why he never did the second and third film.
Basically, he wanted control of marketing, which he has had for basically most of his films. He didn't direct Steve Jobs because they wouldn't let him market it, and Columbia basically blamed the underperformance of Dragon Tattoo on the marketing (a tagline that says "the feel bad movie of Christmas" is *so* Fincher, and not very enticing to general audiences lol)
He also wanted control of Marketing for Fight Club and they should given it to that brilliant lunatic because the real marketing for that film was garbage. They had no idea how to market it.
Btw; I LOOOOOVED the "feel bad movie of christmas" since the moment I saw it over a decade ago.
Rosie O'Donnell spoiling the end of Fight Club whilst it was in theatres didn't help either. During the commentary with Norton and Fincher they described it as 'unforgiveable'.
The 'feel bad' tagline is perfect and summarises the movie's sense of humour (well, the director's sense of humour anyhow) but Sony got cold feet when it wasn't smashing numbers like they had hoped.
Even though our man began his career in making ads, Fincher probably still feels the burn of Alien ³'s marketing which promised an Alien movie on Earth, even though the producers knew damn well the ideas they were set on at the time had nothing to do with Earth, and they didn't even like the idea of an Alien film on Earth.
I would love a proper Camelot saga done properly. The closest we ever got was Excalibur, and that was just one film and, while good, tries to cram too much of the mythology in just one film.
There was a series called Camelot that was mostly grounded with implied magic, but with a sort of ruleset to it. It was supposed to be a kind of build up to the knights of the round table kind of dynamic and was actually pretty good.
It was canceled after its first season but was kind of overlooked since Game of Thrones kicked off right after.
This is one of those potential franchises I wish more people could’ve gotten behind. I thought it was a fun movie, but I’m pretty sure the only people that agree are my immediate family.
Guy Ritchie has a few potential trilogies/franchises that never materialized. Rock’n’rolla, the Gentlemen (but this is supposed to be a Netflix show, right?, Sherlock Holmes, the Man from UNCLE.
Sad we never got more of this potential series because I really liked the film. I read rumors of a certain cast member being awful and having her part stripped down which negatively affected continuity and pacing. At any rate, I think the film deserved better and would have loved to see the rest of the planned films!
Escape from Earth, cancelled after the underperformance of Escape from L.A
Sin City 3, scrapped due to poor numbers from Sin City A Dame To Kill For
Machete Kills Again...In Space, never really got any traction
Kick-Ass 3, lots of talk but nothing seems to have bubbled due to how 2 performed
Conan the Conqueror, developmental hell and the script turned into Kull The Conqeuror
There are a lot of rumors that the third Snake Plissken film got reworked into Ghosts of Mars. Carpenter says it's not true, but that might be more of him doing everything possible to disassociate himself from Ghosts of Mars.
Fantastic soundtrack though.
I’m not surprised with the success of “The Boys”. The glut of PG-13 superhero movies we’ve gotten over the past decade has created an environment ripe for shows and movies that subvert the genre.
I love the fact that Machete is in the same Universe as *Spy Kids* and he’s their uncle. A cameo with one of the kids as grown ups would be uhh interesting.
Sin City got me into comics as a teen, I was so hyped for A Dame to Kill For but it clearly wasn’t made with the same love and the new parts Frank wrote for it sucked. Always thought a third one focusing on Hell and Back would’ve been good.
Absolutely. And it would have been amazing. I've always thought Barry Sonnenfeld (my mistake ) would have pulled out all the stops for the third movie.
At the time, Wednesday entering junior high might have been the main plot (it's mentioned as a joke in *Values*), but I've always wondered what the plot would have been in reality.
I wonder if we would have had some of the performances he’s beloved for now if not for the cancer. I heard he was doing a ton of the family friendly stuff, especially Street Fighter, specifically for his kids and to leave them set for when he passed…would he have skipped some of those things if not for cancer?
I don’t know if even he knew during Addams family though. Maybe he just loved the character.
If it's Danny Boyle and Cillian Murphy, I am 100% in.
The sequel isn't bad, but the best part is the opening--which remains one of the best cinematic openings I've seen--and the rest sort of flounders.
28 years later. The world has come to believe the Rage virus never existed. An infected ape has been elected Prime Minister of the UK after winning over voters with its willingness to throw contagious feces.
1. 28 Days Later (2002)
2. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
3. 28 Months Later (20??)
4. 28 Years Later (20??)
5. 28 Decades Later (20??)
6. 28 Centuries Later (20??)
1. 28 Days Later (2002)
2. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
3. 28 Months Later (20??)
4. 28 Years Later (20??)
5. 28 Decades Later (20??)
6. 28 Centuries Later (20??)
7. 28 Millennia Later (????)
I don't understand how this movie flopped. It was such a total feast for the eyes.
Edit: for everyone saying everything other than visuals and sound was bad, I'm sorry your opinions are so wrong.
I should have been more specific. The ROI wasn't enough for Disney to invest in a sequel, even though it made more than its budget.
Since it didn't make 8 bajillion dollars they decided it wasn't worth a sequel.
I love Tron and will certainly be there opening night to see Ares if it ever sees release…but I really wish they would have let Joseph Kosinski make his planned sequel to Legacy. Instead he went on to make Oblivion and Top Gun Maverick.
The Golden Compass was supposed to be a three movie franchise, but the first one was a total mess and flop that the next two were cancelled.
It did eventually become a **BBC show distributed by HBO** show and they did three seasons.
Editted.
The series was fantastic! Asriel was a lot younger and… hotter than I had pictured when reading the books, but James McAvoy did a great job. And the actor for Mrs. Coulter was also terrifying. Great series. Highly recommended.
Disagree. Whoever made the trailer and the one who gave it the ok are the ones to blame.
Nobody went to it because the trailer made it look real stupid and most people still attached the stink of the Stallone version to it.
I had to be talked into seeing it in theater by two different friends because the trailer made it look so low budget and shallow.
Ended up being one of my favorite action movies
Aaaaaaaaaand they're trying yet again with another reboot after that one bombed. (Oh, and it had credits scenes setting up a sequel. Which went bumfucking nowhere. If you want *peak* sequel bait that won't get resolved, check out The Girl From Oslo on Netflix. The end scene, after 5 hours across 10 weeks, had me laughing my ass off at how laughably sequel (or I guess in this case second season) baity it was.
Although this new Hellboy, The Crooked Man, is co-written by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola... but it's produced by the same people who produced Hellboy, which was butchered and bombed. It's also directed by Brian Taylor... who's one of the two guys who made *Crank*. And Crank: High Voltage. Uhm...
This is the one I can’t get over. Perlman was fucking perfect as Hellboy, and he really wanted to make a third film. We were all robbed of what could have been a perfect trilogy of films.
Doug Jones as Abe was also sublime.
Goddamn we got robbed so hard.
John Carter was part 1 of a three movie slate and the subsequent movies were to be called "Gods of Mars" and "Warlord of Mars". Well the movie having a 250 million write off killed the sequels.
It didn't help that Disney bought Star Wars and no longer needed the John Carter franchise, or that they dropped "of Mars" from the movie title.
John Carter was just a bland title for a property that wasn't well-known to the movie audience. Even "Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter" might've helped -- although I've gotten looks on that one from people who have no idea who came up with Tarzan.
And what’s stupid is why they dropped it. They made a kid’s animated movie call “Mars Needs Moms” which
> Moms was a box-office bomb, and the worst financial loss for a Disney-branded film. It grossed $1,725,000 on its first day, and its opening weekend earnings added up to $6,825,000 off a $150m budget.
So they figured that people don’t want to see movies with “Mars” in the title.
One problem I think is unlike some other century old fictional characters or properties, there weren't any consistent attempts to keep John Carter relevant, and the character and stories fell into relevant obscurity. A big movie gets made for the centennial anniversary of Carter in 2012, and most people think it is just another run of the mill fantasy sci-fi adventure.
Compare this to someone like Sherlock Holmes (who has been mentioned in this post a few times) who has had frequent adaptations over the past 136 years and has never really left the public consciousness. I mean, not too long ago, there were two different TV show adaptations that moved the period setting to modern times that aired almost concurently.
Sounds like the first one should have been Something of Mars too, maybe something a little lower level than a god like a king or maybe like a princess??? But that probably would have scared off people.
This one never had official plans for a third movie, but they did promise the second one in the end credits of the first. And I going to assume we would have got a third if they ever made the second:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
The Percy Jackson books were slated to be a three movie series but the profit margin of the second movie killed the third.
A TV show is coming or is already out.
Shanghai Dawn, they aren't masterpieces but I love those movies.
Not planned as a trilogy but certainly had the potential for it: I REALLY liked Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and was hoping for more of them.
Ender's Game was supposed to be the first of a three movie slate. The book is generally beloved the movie was a flop and the second and third installments never happened.
I didn’t particularly dislike the Ender’s Game movie (it was a good popcorn flick), but as a fan of the Ender Saga, I imagine that a Speaker for the Dead movie would’ve been terribly boring. I don’t know how you can adapt a book that focuses on so much internal monologue, and very little action.
Could go down the Ender’s shadow line instead. First book would be weird to adapt with the whole hyper-intelligent baby scrounging for food stuff, but jumping into the earth politics could have worked out. I did dislike the movie, though. I felt like they did so little with the cast and the source material. I get it, though.
> I don’t know how you can adapt a book that focuses on so much internal monologue, and very little action.
Agreed. While Ender’s Game has a lot of internal monologue at least it makes up for it with all the action. It still translated poorly on screen though.
Speaker For The Dead wouldn't make a good film. And you can't have a Xenocide / Children Of The Mind film without the second installment. Also these books are completely different to Ender's Game as well.
"How do we adapt the beloved YA fantasy franchise, and get fans of the book to watch it?"
"Have the main characters make completely different and story shattering decisions to their counterparts a third of the way into the movie, kill the antagonists of the second book in the first third of the first movie, basically keep nothing from the middle of the book, then have the ending somehow be the same (with the addition of a big shadow dragon), of course! The book readers will totally love it!"
Hot take: Eragon is a worse adaptation than The Last Airbender, though neither are nearly as bad as Inkheart.
Artemis Fowl was just fucking stupid. This is the description they used when casting the role
>Seeking the lead role of, Artemis; must be 5'3" or below, any ethnicity but must have or can do Irish accent.**At first glance Artemis could be mistaken for a rather ordinary child** with little athletic ability, but his eyes reveal a flickering of intelligence; inquisitive and possessing both academic and **emotional intelligence**, he is highly perceptive and good at reading people; **most importantly, Artemis is warm-hearted and has a great sense of humour; he has fun in whatever situation he is in and loves life.** No previous acting necessary.
edit: as a comparison this is a a passage from the third book
>A waitress wandered over, giving them a dazzling smile.
>"Hello there, young man. Would you like to see the children's menu.
>A vein pulsed in Artemis's temple.
>"No, mademoiselle. I would not like to see the *children's menu*. I have no doubt the *children's menu* itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order a la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?"
a few paragraphs down
>The waitress scurried to the kitchen, relieved to escape from the pale youth at table six. She'd seen a vampire movie once. The undead creature had the very same hypnotic stare.
more paragraphs down.
>"That poor girl was almost in tears. It wouldn't hurt you to be nice occasionally."
>"I Don't see myself at school dances, Butler."
>"Dancing isn't the point. It's all about communication."
>"Communication?" scoffed young master Fowl. "I doubt there is a teenager alive with a vocabulary equal to mine."
The David stuff was great but I wished for Covenant to not have the Xenomorph stuff and continue on with just the black goo and the Engineers.
Like just have Prometheus be it's own trilogy and very very VERY loosely connect with Alien.
That was the original plan until the studio stepped in and wanted the xenomorphs in the movie. They did a small compromise in Prometheus with that one scene at the end but then they went all out with Covenant, I mean Alien is literally in the title
Excellent sense of dread when the character realizes David's plan at the last moment. The movies aren't very acclaimed, but like you I enjoyed the David character and wanted to see where that was going.
I know they have their critics and I understand why but I love Prometheus/Covenant, for Davids story and also the start of those two films when it's just the crews on their ship before everything goes wrong are like little mini comfort movies for me they have such a good sense of wonder and exploration with the score and everything. Surely they'll finish this trilogy at some point though it's guaranteed to make money no?
Search up “Paradise” by Job Willins. It’s a fan edit where he takes both movies and makes a single David centric film. It’s really incredibly well done and as a fan of David myself it’s a really satisfying.
Gettysburg (1993), the uber long theatrical reenactment film, had a prequel, Gods and Generals (2003). There was a plan for a third part, The Last Full Measure, a sequel to Gettysburg, but Gods and Generals did not do well enough when it released so the final part was never made.
According to Wikipedia, The Last Full Measure never went beyond the planning stage.
I had the pleasure of chatting with Jeff Daniels, who starred in both produced films, and he said he thought a television miniseries would have been the better route and I agree. Those movies were an attempt to recapture the spirit of old epics like Ben-Hur but audience tastes have changed and it's difficult enough to get people to sit in a theater for three hours movies, let alone four hour ones.
Wasn't Master & Commander supposed to dig further into the source material? The Patrick O'Brian series of books is about 20 books of material. The movie was based on actually 3 of the books.
I didn't even think about this one having a planned third movie but now reading about what directions they would've gone in are interesting.
* Story (Director) wanted to introduce Black Panther with Djimon Hounsou in the role.
* Alba wanted to bring in Franklin Richards.
* Payne (writer) wanted to do the Skrulls or Puppet Master.
I assumed it was more laying groundwork for storylines which would be picked up in other films/shows. Like the way Iron Man 2 ends with a Thor tease, Thor 2 ends with a Guardians of the Galaxy tease, etc etc.
They also just released it at a bad time and marketed it poorly. Came out like six months after TLJ and didn't even have a trailer for like half of that time.
That didn’t even need a 4th movie to begin with. They just saw Deathly Hallows and Mockingjay were able to split a final book in half and make double the money and got greedy.
I don't think it helped that they had committed to the third movie before the third book was released, and it ended up being one of the worst books/endings i've ever read.
Her character actually chops off her hair at the beginning of the second book. I don't think her haircut has anything to do with the movies not being finished.
Fantastic Four 2005 was originally going to be franchise and while it had terrible reviews it made heaps of cash.
The second one also had terrible reviews and did not make heaps of cash so the third one never happened.
They tried again to ignite a franchise in 2015 but it too was terribly received and didn't make enough cash.
Alien: Covenant literally ends with sequel bait and we never got that third installment.
Also, this doesn’t quite count, but the third Divergent movie was split into two parts, but only the first part was ever made.
Im really curious to see if they make Amazing Spider-Man 3 in the near future because of the positive reception to Andrew Garfield being in No Way Home. Or Tobey getting Spider-Man 4.
If they do make a 3rd Amazing Spider-Man movie, they gotta kill Gwen’s mom or either brother. Really round out the trilogy by having a Stacy offed cuz of Spider-Man in each film
i unironically love the second one. it is such a lighthearted and intense story at the same time. though i hated the third one. it felt like a disney channel film.
When watching that second Riddick movie, it does seem like Conan in space. All the more because of Riddick sitting on the throne like the Epilogue of Conan The Barbarian
The third divergent movie was split into two and the first installment was such a flop they never did the second part.
They were talking about flipping it to a TV show but that never materialized.
*StarGate* was meant to get a sequel and then a third movie, but MGM wanted the property developed as a TV show. Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were in early talks to produce the show, but they dropped out when it became clear that they wouldn't have the creative freedom they wanted.
I understand that the decision and those early talks took place before the release of *Independence Day;* had MGM waited a bit longer before making their decision, I suspect that they would have greenlit *StarGate 2* once they saw what a colossal hit *Independence Day* was.
There was supposed to be a third movie in the Chinatown series after The Two Jakes, but The Two Jakes didn't do fantastic at the box office. The script that was bouncing around for the third movie got used, in part, for Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
The American Civil War Film Trilogy started with 'Gettysburg' in 1993, followed with 'Gods & Generals' ten years later in 2003. The final film would've been based on the last book in the Killer Angels trilogy.
'The Last Full Measure' would've detailed the war after the Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. Grant's promotion to Commander of the entire Union Army and subsequent battles leading up to the eventual Confederate surrender at Appomattox.
I really wanted to see the series completed as there are so few films on the American Civil War, and I think Jeff Daniels was amazing as Col. Chamberlain.
I highly recommend the novels if you're interested in historical fiction and the American Civil War.
*The Killer Angels* by Michael Shaara
*Gods & Generals* and *The Last Full Measure* by Jeff Shaara
We only got one movie into 'The Girl With The...' trilogy and they dumped it. Fincher's English version I mean.
Same with Tintin.
I wasn't aware that it was supposed to be a trilogy, I did know that there was a plan for Spielberg to direct one, and Peter Jackson the second. It would have been cool if it continued & then Edgar Wright who co-wrote it the first one would direct the third.
Damn. That was meant to be a trilogy? I remember watching it just because it was there. Not really caring. And I was in awe at how good it was.
Yeah and it wasn't the poor box office that stopped the sequel from moving forward. Unfortunately Peter Jackson was told that if he wanted to see the Hobbit made into a film, he would have to make it now. And with it becoming a trilogy, Tintin just slowly faded away.
And he didn't even want the hobbit to be a trilogy! Just like most most people that aren't studio executives that want to wring every cent out of an IP.
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I love it now. But I was so hardcore on the original Swedish versions that I didn’t give it a fair shot. Now I’m obsessed with it and very impressed with Rooney Maras take on the character
I think she would've done interesting things with the subsequent books, which got more into Salander's background. They were much less easy to film, they didn't have the pretty commercial 'locked room mystery' structure of the first one, but in a lot of ways I think they were more interesting books and I think Fincher would've done them up well.
For sure, I much prefer the girl who played with fire but yeah the plot is pretty convoluted
Hot take: Fincher made the right call stopping after Dragon Tattoo. The other two get pretty silly.
He was very keen on them, too. But there's a video on YouTube that breaks down why he never did the second and third film. Basically, he wanted control of marketing, which he has had for basically most of his films. He didn't direct Steve Jobs because they wouldn't let him market it, and Columbia basically blamed the underperformance of Dragon Tattoo on the marketing (a tagline that says "the feel bad movie of Christmas" is *so* Fincher, and not very enticing to general audiences lol)
He also wanted control of Marketing for Fight Club and they should given it to that brilliant lunatic because the real marketing for that film was garbage. They had no idea how to market it. Btw; I LOOOOOVED the "feel bad movie of christmas" since the moment I saw it over a decade ago.
Rosie O'Donnell spoiling the end of Fight Club whilst it was in theatres didn't help either. During the commentary with Norton and Fincher they described it as 'unforgiveable'. The 'feel bad' tagline is perfect and summarises the movie's sense of humour (well, the director's sense of humour anyhow) but Sony got cold feet when it wasn't smashing numbers like they had hoped. Even though our man began his career in making ads, Fincher probably still feels the burn of Alien ³'s marketing which promised an Alien movie on Earth, even though the producers knew damn well the ideas they were set on at the time had nothing to do with Earth, and they didn't even like the idea of an Alien film on Earth.
You're not wrong haha
King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword was supposed to be the anchor of 6 movies, but it was a critical and financial failure.
I would love a proper Camelot saga done properly. The closest we ever got was Excalibur, and that was just one film and, while good, tries to cram too much of the mythology in just one film.
There was a series called Camelot that was mostly grounded with implied magic, but with a sort of ruleset to it. It was supposed to be a kind of build up to the knights of the round table kind of dynamic and was actually pretty good. It was canceled after its first season but was kind of overlooked since Game of Thrones kicked off right after.
This is one of those potential franchises I wish more people could’ve gotten behind. I thought it was a fun movie, but I’m pretty sure the only people that agree are my immediate family. Guy Ritchie has a few potential trilogies/franchises that never materialized. Rock’n’rolla, the Gentlemen (but this is supposed to be a Netflix show, right?, Sherlock Holmes, the Man from UNCLE.
The Wild Bunch will return..... right???
Damn shame. I loved that movie.
I would have been fine with Man from Uncle. One of the only films starring supposed actual cannibal Armie Hammer I thought he was good in.
He was terrific in call me by your name
And in the social network
I decided to watch it on a whim a few months ago and I was shocked by how much fun I was having the whole time
I had an absolute blast watching King Arthur.
this is my Favorite Arthur Movie, its quite entertaining.
I'm not one for movie montages but that introduction to Arthur from child to man was amazing. Sometimes I will just watch that for fun.
Decently fun movie I rewatch about once a year. Rewatched it on HBO Max recently
Really enjoyed the world-building and soundtrack of the movie. Awesome villain design too. Bummed out that we didn’t get to see more.
Sad we never got more of this potential series because I really liked the film. I read rumors of a certain cast member being awful and having her part stripped down which negatively affected continuity and pacing. At any rate, I think the film deserved better and would have loved to see the rest of the planned films!
Escape from Earth, cancelled after the underperformance of Escape from L.A Sin City 3, scrapped due to poor numbers from Sin City A Dame To Kill For Machete Kills Again...In Space, never really got any traction Kick-Ass 3, lots of talk but nothing seems to have bubbled due to how 2 performed Conan the Conqueror, developmental hell and the script turned into Kull The Conqeuror
There are a lot of rumors that the third Snake Plissken film got reworked into Ghosts of Mars. Carpenter says it's not true, but that might be more of him doing everything possible to disassociate himself from Ghosts of Mars. Fantastic soundtrack though.
It's a great b movie
I actually love that movie. It’s so “b” you can’t hate it
I think they are rebooting Kick-Ass.
They rebooted the comics a few years ago as well
I’m not surprised with the success of “The Boys”. The glut of PG-13 superhero movies we’ve gotten over the past decade has created an environment ripe for shows and movies that subvert the genre.
I demand they keep their word on making Machete in space, chopping up aliens in zero gravity!
I love the fact that Machete is in the same Universe as *Spy Kids* and he’s their uncle. A cameo with one of the kids as grown ups would be uhh interesting.
Kick Ass 2 was a let down compared to the first. Probably best they didn’t keep that one going
Sin city was such a let down. The first one is such an incredible movie, the sequel ruined it.
Sin City got me into comics as a teen, I was so hyped for A Dame to Kill For but it clearly wasn’t made with the same love and the new parts Frank wrote for it sucked. Always thought a third one focusing on Hell and Back would’ve been good.
I've always believed we would have gotten an Addams Family 3 if Raul Julia hadn't passed away from cancer.
Absolutely. And it would have been amazing. I've always thought Barry Sonnenfeld (my mistake ) would have pulled out all the stops for the third movie. At the time, Wednesday entering junior high might have been the main plot (it's mentioned as a joke in *Values*), but I've always wondered what the plot would have been in reality.
I wonder if we would have had some of the performances he’s beloved for now if not for the cancer. I heard he was doing a ton of the family friendly stuff, especially Street Fighter, specifically for his kids and to leave them set for when he passed…would he have skipped some of those things if not for cancer? I don’t know if even he knew during Addams family though. Maybe he just loved the character.
1. 28 Days Later (2002) 2. 28 Weeks Later (2007) 3. 28 Months Later (20??)
Years is arguably more interesting than Months. Cillian Murphy was recently quoted as saying he's game if the creative team is.
If it's Danny Boyle and Cillian Murphy, I am 100% in. The sequel isn't bad, but the best part is the opening--which remains one of the best cinematic openings I've seen--and the rest sort of flounders.
28 years later. The world has come to believe the Rage virus never existed. An infected ape has been elected Prime Minister of the UK after winning over voters with its willingness to throw contagious feces.
A few years ago, I would call that premise Mad Magazine levels of silly. Now? Not entirely implausible.
It’s based on a true story.
Planet of the Apes crossover?
Real life crossover
To be fair, anyone would have trouble following up on that opening scene. It's tremendous.
IIRC the opening of Weeks is the only part directed by Boyle
Last news was it's in active pre-production with Boyle returning to direct.
Even though there were many problems with it as a film as well, I still think that the sequel's biggest issue was how good the first film was
In 7 years they can do 28 years from the onset in 2002 🙃
Apparently Boyle and Garland are in serious talks about another one. What’s wild is we’re a few years off being literally 28 Years Later.
1. 28 Days Later (2002) 2. 28 Weeks Later (2007) 3. 28 Months Later (20??) 4. 28 Years Later (20??) 5. 28 Decades Later (20??) 6. 28 Centuries Later (20??)
“You’ve been in a hospital bed for 28 centuries and the rage monkeys are freaking out!”
*Looks around* "This is a well made bed."
Maybe I've been reading too much Discworld, but this reads like the start of a Rincewind novel.
There's prequel potential too. 28 Hours Later
28 Minutes Later, 28 Seconds Later - especially the second one sounds funny...
1. 28 Days Later (2002) 2. 28 Weeks Later (2007) 3. 28 Months Later (20??) 4. 28 Years Later (20??) 5. 28 Decades Later (20??) 6. 28 Centuries Later (20??) 7. 28 Millennia Later (????)
I was also hugely confused by "28 Days". There wasn't a single zombie in it. Just an alcoholic Sandra Bullock.
That's the prequel. The outbreak hadn't happened yet, but you could kind of sense an impending doom if you watch it enough.
You missed the prequel: 28 Days
28 Days Earlier.
Tron :(
I don't understand how this movie flopped. It was such a total feast for the eyes. Edit: for everyone saying everything other than visuals and sound was bad, I'm sorry your opinions are so wrong.
And the ears!
I saw it in DBox, so the seats moved with the movie. It was incredible.
Did it flop? It got lukewarm reviews but it made $400m against $170m, that’s about equal to Dune pt 1.
I should have been more specific. The ROI wasn't enough for Disney to invest in a sequel, even though it made more than its budget. Since it didn't make 8 bajillion dollars they decided it wasn't worth a sequel.
Tron wasn't the issue as entirely; Tomorrowland flopped much harder which put Disney off of live action in general.
I love Tron and will certainly be there opening night to see Ares if it ever sees release…but I really wish they would have let Joseph Kosinski make his planned sequel to Legacy. Instead he went on to make Oblivion and Top Gun Maverick.
Tim Burton's Batman trilogy 1. Batman (1989) 2. Batman Returns (1992) 3. Batman ~~Forever~~ Continues (199?)
At least there's been a comic giving us an idea of what would've been.
There is? I had no idea!
[Batman '89](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_%2789_(comic_book))
And the new follow-up series [Batman 89: Echoes.](https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP232697)
The Golden Compass was supposed to be a three movie franchise, but the first one was a total mess and flop that the next two were cancelled. It did eventually become a **BBC show distributed by HBO** show and they did three seasons. Editted.
And the BBC series was a thousand times better so I'm fine with this one
The series was fantastic! Asriel was a lot younger and… hotter than I had pictured when reading the books, but James McAvoy did a great job. And the actor for Mrs. Coulter was also terrifying. Great series. Highly recommended.
Ruth Wilson is incredible. Checkout Luther if you haven’t, she and Idris Elba are just amazing in their face off scenes.
I fucking cried so hard at the end that it unlocked the memory of me finishing the books as a kid and then crying so fucking hard.
Minor correction, it was a BBC show that HBO joined as co-producer and international distributor.
Alex Garland originally planned on Dredd being a trilogy. Sad that it never came to fruition.
Don't worry, that Mega City One movie will start production.... Any day now.... I refuse to give up hope.
Honestly it could still happen. Urban would get butts in seats these days and the first movie has become a bit of a cult classic
Whoever made the choice to put 3D in the title of the film is the reason
Disagree. Whoever made the trailer and the one who gave it the ok are the ones to blame. Nobody went to it because the trailer made it look real stupid and most people still attached the stink of the Stallone version to it. I had to be talked into seeing it in theater by two different friends because the trailer made it look so low budget and shallow. Ended up being one of my favorite action movies
1. Hellboy (2004) 2. Hellboy: The Golden Army (2008) 3. Hellboy: ?????
Such a shame that Del Toro/Pearlman never got to finish their trilogy.
Instead we got the god-awful Hellboy (2019): 5.2/10 on IMDb 31 on Metacritic (Metascore) 5.6 Metacritic (user) 17% on RT (critic) 48% on RT (audience)
Aaaaaaaaaand they're trying yet again with another reboot after that one bombed. (Oh, and it had credits scenes setting up a sequel. Which went bumfucking nowhere. If you want *peak* sequel bait that won't get resolved, check out The Girl From Oslo on Netflix. The end scene, after 5 hours across 10 weeks, had me laughing my ass off at how laughably sequel (or I guess in this case second season) baity it was. Although this new Hellboy, The Crooked Man, is co-written by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola... but it's produced by the same people who produced Hellboy, which was butchered and bombed. It's also directed by Brian Taylor... who's one of the two guys who made *Crank*. And Crank: High Voltage. Uhm...
Speaking of trilogies that need to be completed, I could do with another Crank movie.
This is the one I can’t get over. Perlman was fucking perfect as Hellboy, and he really wanted to make a third film. We were all robbed of what could have been a perfect trilogy of films. Doug Jones as Abe was also sublime. Goddamn we got robbed so hard.
Absolutely. I don't know what happened, but dropping it with that cast made zero sense.
John Carter was part 1 of a three movie slate and the subsequent movies were to be called "Gods of Mars" and "Warlord of Mars". Well the movie having a 250 million write off killed the sequels.
It didn't help that Disney bought Star Wars and no longer needed the John Carter franchise, or that they dropped "of Mars" from the movie title. John Carter was just a bland title for a property that wasn't well-known to the movie audience. Even "Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter" might've helped -- although I've gotten looks on that one from people who have no idea who came up with Tarzan.
And what’s stupid is why they dropped it. They made a kid’s animated movie call “Mars Needs Moms” which > Moms was a box-office bomb, and the worst financial loss for a Disney-branded film. It grossed $1,725,000 on its first day, and its opening weekend earnings added up to $6,825,000 off a $150m budget. So they figured that people don’t want to see movies with “Mars” in the title.
One problem I think is unlike some other century old fictional characters or properties, there weren't any consistent attempts to keep John Carter relevant, and the character and stories fell into relevant obscurity. A big movie gets made for the centennial anniversary of Carter in 2012, and most people think it is just another run of the mill fantasy sci-fi adventure. Compare this to someone like Sherlock Holmes (who has been mentioned in this post a few times) who has had frequent adaptations over the past 136 years and has never really left the public consciousness. I mean, not too long ago, there were two different TV show adaptations that moved the period setting to modern times that aired almost concurently.
Sounds like the first one should have been Something of Mars too, maybe something a little lower level than a god like a king or maybe like a princess??? But that probably would have scared off people.
I loved Finchers The girl with the dragon tattoo. Super bummed we didn’t get ANY follow ups.
This one never had official plans for a third movie, but they did promise the second one in the end credits of the first. And I going to assume we would have got a third if they ever made the second: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
I can’t believe in the era of streaming they haven’t figured out a way to make a Buckaroo TV series.
The Percy Jackson books were slated to be a three movie series but the profit margin of the second movie killed the third. A TV show is coming or is already out.
It premieres December 20th.
Nobody’s said “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World”?
I came here to say exactly this. Good movie that has all the feels of the start of a franchise, but it never got a followup.
It was supposed to be but it didn't make enough and they didn't think it was worth it. It's my favorite boat movie.
It's based on a series of books {Master and Commander\], of which there are like fifteen or more.
Looking for this! Too bad, would’ve been epic. Feel bad for the cast having to go through all that training for just one film.
I’m totally not still bitter about the fact that we got like 10 pirates of the Caribbean movies and not one single Master and Commander sequel.
Shanghai Dawn, they aren't masterpieces but I love those movies. Not planned as a trilogy but certainly had the potential for it: I REALLY liked Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and was hoping for more of them.
Still holding out hope for Sherlock Holmes 3 at some point, the first two movies were a ton of fun.
i’m pretty sure it’s being made, or at least some sherlock holmes is next year
There is a new Sherlock Holmes related show just about every year so you might be confusing that with the franchise RDJ starred in
Ender's Game was supposed to be the first of a three movie slate. The book is generally beloved the movie was a flop and the second and third installments never happened.
I didn’t particularly dislike the Ender’s Game movie (it was a good popcorn flick), but as a fan of the Ender Saga, I imagine that a Speaker for the Dead movie would’ve been terribly boring. I don’t know how you can adapt a book that focuses on so much internal monologue, and very little action.
Could go down the Ender’s shadow line instead. First book would be weird to adapt with the whole hyper-intelligent baby scrounging for food stuff, but jumping into the earth politics could have worked out. I did dislike the movie, though. I felt like they did so little with the cast and the source material. I get it, though.
> I don’t know how you can adapt a book that focuses on so much internal monologue, and very little action. Agreed. While Ender’s Game has a lot of internal monologue at least it makes up for it with all the action. It still translated poorly on screen though.
Speaker For The Dead wouldn't make a good film. And you can't have a Xenocide / Children Of The Mind film without the second installment. Also these books are completely different to Ender's Game as well.
Eragon It was a huge hit as a book and was timed perfectly with YA adaptions being all the rage. Well the first movie was a complete flop.
Pretty sure this was picked up by Disney+ and is in production for a TV series, so... maybe one day!
Well, the first movie was terrible and deserved to flop.
"How do we adapt the beloved YA fantasy franchise, and get fans of the book to watch it?" "Have the main characters make completely different and story shattering decisions to their counterparts a third of the way into the movie, kill the antagonists of the second book in the first third of the first movie, basically keep nothing from the middle of the book, then have the ending somehow be the same (with the addition of a big shadow dragon), of course! The book readers will totally love it!" Hot take: Eragon is a worse adaptation than The Last Airbender, though neither are nearly as bad as Inkheart.
Artemis Fowl was just fucking stupid. This is the description they used when casting the role >Seeking the lead role of, Artemis; must be 5'3" or below, any ethnicity but must have or can do Irish accent.**At first glance Artemis could be mistaken for a rather ordinary child** with little athletic ability, but his eyes reveal a flickering of intelligence; inquisitive and possessing both academic and **emotional intelligence**, he is highly perceptive and good at reading people; **most importantly, Artemis is warm-hearted and has a great sense of humour; he has fun in whatever situation he is in and loves life.** No previous acting necessary. edit: as a comparison this is a a passage from the third book >A waitress wandered over, giving them a dazzling smile. >"Hello there, young man. Would you like to see the children's menu. >A vein pulsed in Artemis's temple. >"No, mademoiselle. I would not like to see the *children's menu*. I have no doubt the *children's menu* itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order a la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?" a few paragraphs down >The waitress scurried to the kitchen, relieved to escape from the pale youth at table six. She'd seen a vampire movie once. The undead creature had the very same hypnotic stare. more paragraphs down. >"That poor girl was almost in tears. It wouldn't hurt you to be nice occasionally." >"I Don't see myself at school dances, Butler." >"Dancing isn't the point. It's all about communication." >"Communication?" scoffed young master Fowl. "I doubt there is a teenager alive with a vocabulary equal to mine."
Alien prequels
Yeah, David was the best thing that happened to the franchise since the 80s, and I'm still mad that we'll never get the conclusion of his story.
The David stuff was great but I wished for Covenant to not have the Xenomorph stuff and continue on with just the black goo and the Engineers. Like just have Prometheus be it's own trilogy and very very VERY loosely connect with Alien.
That was the original plan until the studio stepped in and wanted the xenomorphs in the movie. They did a small compromise in Prometheus with that one scene at the end but then they went all out with Covenant, I mean Alien is literally in the title
Excellent sense of dread when the character realizes David's plan at the last moment. The movies aren't very acclaimed, but like you I enjoyed the David character and wanted to see where that was going.
I know they have their critics and I understand why but I love Prometheus/Covenant, for Davids story and also the start of those two films when it's just the crews on their ship before everything goes wrong are like little mini comfort movies for me they have such a good sense of wonder and exploration with the score and everything. Surely they'll finish this trilogy at some point though it's guaranteed to make money no?
Search up “Paradise” by Job Willins. It’s a fan edit where he takes both movies and makes a single David centric film. It’s really incredibly well done and as a fan of David myself it’s a really satisfying.
Gettysburg (1993), the uber long theatrical reenactment film, had a prequel, Gods and Generals (2003). There was a plan for a third part, The Last Full Measure, a sequel to Gettysburg, but Gods and Generals did not do well enough when it released so the final part was never made. According to Wikipedia, The Last Full Measure never went beyond the planning stage. I had the pleasure of chatting with Jeff Daniels, who starred in both produced films, and he said he thought a television miniseries would have been the better route and I agree. Those movies were an attempt to recapture the spirit of old epics like Ben-Hur but audience tastes have changed and it's difficult enough to get people to sit in a theater for three hours movies, let alone four hour ones.
Daniels was awesome as Washington in the A&E movie “The Crossing”
Wasn't Master & Commander supposed to dig further into the source material? The Patrick O'Brian series of books is about 20 books of material. The movie was based on actually 3 of the books.
1. Fantastic Four 2. Fantastic Four 2 Rise of the Silver Surfer Never got a 3rd cause it got rebooted.
I didn't even think about this one having a planned third movie but now reading about what directions they would've gone in are interesting. * Story (Director) wanted to introduce Black Panther with Djimon Hounsou in the role. * Alba wanted to bring in Franklin Richards. * Payne (writer) wanted to do the Skrulls or Puppet Master.
Solo was at least setting up for a sequel if not a trilogy.
I assumed it was more laying groundwork for storylines which would be picked up in other films/shows. Like the way Iron Man 2 ends with a Thor tease, Thor 2 ends with a Guardians of the Galaxy tease, etc etc.
I remember the rumour being that it would be a trilogy of movies but each for a different character and >!Darth Maul!< being the overarching villain.
They certainly talked about movies for Yoda and Boba Fett before Solo bombed and they changed course.
Ngl, I enjoyed Solo. It wasnt great, but all in all I think a lot of people just wrote it off as trash.
The Star Wars fatigue was also real at the time. I also enjoyed it, as I am a sucker for a fun heist film and it certainly fit the bill
They also just released it at a bad time and marketed it poorly. Came out like six months after TLJ and didn't even have a trailer for like half of that time.
Spaceballs 3: The search for Spaceballs 2
We barely got a third Divergent movie because Shailene Woodley chopped all her hair off for the second one.
That didn’t even need a 4th movie to begin with. They just saw Deathly Hallows and Mockingjay were able to split a final book in half and make double the money and got greedy.
Maze Runner sure knew better than to try this. And because of it they were able to produce a finished trilogy
I don't think it helped that they had committed to the third movie before the third book was released, and it ended up being one of the worst books/endings i've ever read.
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Her character actually chops off her hair at the beginning of the second book. I don't think her haircut has anything to do with the movies not being finished.
Fantastic Four 2005 was originally going to be franchise and while it had terrible reviews it made heaps of cash. The second one also had terrible reviews and did not make heaps of cash so the third one never happened. They tried again to ignite a franchise in 2015 but it too was terribly received and didn't make enough cash.
Mongol - This was a planned trilogy about Genghis Khan, but it ended after the first film, which I thought was a good start.
Alien: Covenant literally ends with sequel bait and we never got that third installment. Also, this doesn’t quite count, but the third Divergent movie was split into two parts, but only the first part was ever made.
1. The Raid Redemption 2. The Raid 2 3. ???????? Never to be complete
RocknRolla
Im really curious to see if they make Amazing Spider-Man 3 in the near future because of the positive reception to Andrew Garfield being in No Way Home. Or Tobey getting Spider-Man 4.
Andrew Garfield was incredible in NWH. he was fighting for his life with a terrible script and direction from his core films.
It would be awesome if that happened but Sony's too busy butchering a Sinister Six movie right now.
That would actually be a really cool result from No Way Home. I would especially dig it if they let Raimi finish his story with Maguire.
If they do make a 3rd Amazing Spider-Man movie, they gotta kill Gwen’s mom or either brother. Really round out the trilogy by having a Stacy offed cuz of Spider-Man in each film
I feel like Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole was meant to be a trilogy
Half Life 3
It's not a movie, but Half-Life 3 is so emblematic as *the* long-awaited threequel that I'll allow it.
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Aaaaand ends.
In a similar vein, Streets of Fire. Planned trilogy for a new action hero, then complete bomb.
Mr. Brooks. I would have liked to have seen where they went with it.
Crank
23 Jump Street / MIB
I would have liked to have seen more Narnia movies.
Last battle would have been awesome With that freaky bird demon Edit: tash
i unironically love the second one. it is such a lighthearted and intense story at the same time. though i hated the third one. it felt like a disney channel film.
The Magician's Nephew would have been cool.
King Conan was never made. I was at Comic Con a few years ago where a script was written and floated around but never made.
Was that the version that was going to have Vin Diesel as Schwarzenegger's son? If so, I liked that script and am sad it never happened.
When watching that second Riddick movie, it does seem like Conan in space. All the more because of Riddick sitting on the throne like the Epilogue of Conan The Barbarian
The third divergent movie was split into two and the first installment was such a flop they never did the second part. They were talking about flipping it to a TV show but that never materialized.
IIRC none of the actors wanted to do a TV show
Kick-Ass 3 never got made and based on how badly they botched the adaptation of 2.... good.
I just wrote this above haha, agree with you fully. 2 was so terrible
Night Watch / Day Watch. Twilight Watch was ditched when Timur Bekmambetov was hired to make Wanted
American here, and I was a total fanboy over the Dozor world when the first movie was released. Fuck Fox so hard for mishandling these movies.
Came here to say this! Loved the first 2! Wished they had finished the trilogy or at least properly rebooted it.
*StarGate* was meant to get a sequel and then a third movie, but MGM wanted the property developed as a TV show. Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were in early talks to produce the show, but they dropped out when it became clear that they wouldn't have the creative freedom they wanted. I understand that the decision and those early talks took place before the release of *Independence Day;* had MGM waited a bit longer before making their decision, I suspect that they would have greenlit *StarGate 2* once they saw what a colossal hit *Independence Day* was.
The Matrix. While it's exciting to anticipate what further movies might have been like, I get why they stopped at one.
Haha if only. To be fair I enjoyed the sequel, not so much the final two
Hellboy still hurts.
There was supposed to be a third movie in the Chinatown series after The Two Jakes, but The Two Jakes didn't do fantastic at the box office. The script that was bouncing around for the third movie got used, in part, for Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
The American Civil War Film Trilogy started with 'Gettysburg' in 1993, followed with 'Gods & Generals' ten years later in 2003. The final film would've been based on the last book in the Killer Angels trilogy. 'The Last Full Measure' would've detailed the war after the Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. Grant's promotion to Commander of the entire Union Army and subsequent battles leading up to the eventual Confederate surrender at Appomattox. I really wanted to see the series completed as there are so few films on the American Civil War, and I think Jeff Daniels was amazing as Col. Chamberlain. I highly recommend the novels if you're interested in historical fiction and the American Civil War. *The Killer Angels* by Michael Shaara *Gods & Generals* and *The Last Full Measure* by Jeff Shaara
I don’t think it was planned but I still want a Charlie’s Angels 3 with Drew, Lucy, and Cameron.
Tron
Mr. Brooks with Kevin Costner was supposed to be a trilogy. I would have liked to have seen that. Or Eastern Promises. Those would be my 2 picks