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Movies You Wish Had Gotten Sequels, That Never Did

And originally, I didn't like PotC very much as I was expecting something a bit more serious in nature and less cartoony than it was. I seriously would love to see a serious depiction of pirating rather than the romanticizing that was PotC.

In that case take a look at the show 'Black Sails' from Starz. Season 1 starts off a bit heavy on the sex side, but the story got VERY got as the show moved on.
 
I've always considered Theater of Blood with Vincent Price and Diana Riggs to be an 'unofficial' sequel to the Phibes movies.
I just pretend Phibes had reconstrucive surgery, remarried and had a daughter who was every bit as crazy as he was.
As for sequels we never got, we had 2010: The Year We Make Contact but for years there was talk about Tom Hanks, I think it was, wanting to film 3001; skipping over 2061.
There was talk a while back of Syfy doing a 3001 miniseries, and I think it was mentioned fairly recently so it might still be happening.
 
Solomon Kane: The first movie wasn't bad, but it's basically an extended origin story so you don't actually get the Solomon Kane from the original stories until the very end. The movie ends where the stories begin, which is a bit frustrating. (Kind of like watching a Batman movie in which Bruce Wayne doesn't become Batman until the closing scene.)
Another good one. I watched it a while back when they added it to Netflix and really enjoyed it. I definitely would have been up for more.
 
There was talk a while back of Syfy doing a 3001 miniseries, and I think it was mentioned fairly recently so it might still be happening.
I would rather see 3001 get a grand, big-budget "prestige" cinema treatment, than be relegated to another cheap-o SyFy miniseries.

Kor
 
I would rather see 3001 get a grand, big-budget "prestige" cinema treatment, than be relegated to another cheap-o SyFy miniseries.

Kor
I doubt it would be "cheap-o", they seem to have given their last couple miniseries Ascension, and Childhood's End pretty decent budgets. The fantasy ones they did like Tin Man, Alice, and Neverland also seemed to have pretty big budgets.
I'm pretty sure they'd be willing to fork out the big bucks for something as noteworthy as 3001.
 
More stuff I'd like sequels to:
Disney's Treasure Planet
The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Fantastic Four 2015
Power Rangers 2017
 
I've heard Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World described as "just like Star Trek, but on the ocean!" :eek: :rofl:

Kor

In part because of the friendship between Aubrey and Maturin mirroring the similar friendship with Kirk and McCoy.

There was talk a while back of Syfy doing a 3001 miniseries, and I think it was mentioned fairly recently so it might still be happening.

Honestly, I'm glad it hasn't happened. 3001 was my least favourite of the stories that hinged mostly on retreads and nostalgic nods.
 
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The Rocketeer, criminally underrated and one of my favorite movies of all time.. There was some scuttlebutt a few months back about a sequel with Cliff missing and a new girl taking up the mantle. No news since then on the move but there is a Disney Junior animated series in the works, with a girl as the Rocketeer. Something tells me that's what the movie idea morphed into.
 
Golden Compass
The Rocketeer
Master and Commander
All excellent choices.

Green Lantern
(A guilty pleasure)

Dredd
Salt
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
 
This thread got me thinking. I'd love to see another sequel in the Herbie series. Yes, that one. The last one with Lindsay Lohan was a bit of a misfire, and very likely sunk any further ideas, but I've always loved those movies and I'd like to see them return to it at some point.
 
A third Dr Who movie
A sequel to the Cushing ones? Why?

If any Doctor Who movie sequel should be done, let it be a sequel to the Paul McGann movie (but ditch the American aspects and the "my mother was human" crap; they're what ruined it). He absolutely nailed the part both in 1996 and in 2013 in the "Night of the Doctor" webisode. There's no reason he couldn't be terrific again.

Short circuit 3
That would be fun, but would today's audience be satisfied with a robot that doesn't want to take over the world and kill everyone? There's a childlike innocence to Johnny 5 and Fisher Stevens' character that seems out of place nowadays.
 
Tron Legacy.

I loved the original Tron and I loved the sequel. I really wanted to see where it went, especially after the teaser stuff on the Blu-Ray release implying that Dillinger from the original and his son from a brief scene in the sequel were working together and the MCP might be involved. Plus Tron would've been back.
 
A sequel to the Cushing ones? Why?

If any Doctor Who movie sequel should be done, let it be a sequel to the Paul McGann movie (but ditch the American aspects and the "my mother was human" crap; they're what ruined it). He absolutely nailed the part both in 1996 and in 2013 in the "Night of the Doctor" webisode. There's no reason he couldn't be terrific again.

[ Short circuit 3]
That would be fun, but would today's audience be satisfied with a robot that doesn't want to take over the world and kill everyone? There's a childlike innocence to Johnny 5 and Fisher Stevens' character that seems out of place nowadays.

I was thinking more about sequels that should have been made at the time. A third Cushing movie, Dr Who and the Cybermen, released in the sixties.

Short Circuit 3, early nineties, no idea what that plot might have been, but I’d have been in the queue to see it at the local Canon cinema.

For McGann, he should have got seven or eight series, but it may well have turned out like Charmed. When my lottery numbers do come up though, I’m making a McGann movie just for me. Must remember to buy lottery ticket sometime.
 
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