What sequel would you most like to see?

[Locutus of Bored]

Are you insane? KARL URBAN??????

What's your boggle, citizen? Urban looks a lot like Gary Lockwood, I think he's a decent if unremarkable actor (Lockwood wasn't Sir Lawrence Olivier or anything, either), he can pull off the accent well, and he's fairly popular but not so big he commands huge salaries and makes lots of demands.

And as far as insanity goes, I'm not the one giving myself an aneurysm over a hypothetical casting choice for a movie that doesn't even exist.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Tom Hanks wanted to make a 3001 film. IIRC, he'd direct it and star as Frank Poole. I think it's been in development hell for like 10 years now.

 

[suarezguy]

I liked the Tintin film a lot and would really like to see another from some of the better stories.

 

[Greg Cox]

So I guess it's too late for a sequel to JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS?

My favorite Harryhausen movie, which, alas, ends with the promise of a sequel that never happened.

Also planned but never produced: THE BRIDES OF DOCTOR PHIBES.

Still feel cheated that we didn't get a full PHIBES trilogy, with a third film to complete the saga.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Tom Hanks wanted to make a 3001 film. IIRC, he'd direct it and star as Frank Poole. I think it's been in development hell for like 10 years now.

Yeah, don't know if I'd want to see 3001, to be honest. The first two books made for better movies, but by the 3rd and 4th books, I felt the series had distanced itself from what made it interesting. On the other had, 3001 did have some interesting ideas, but I found it unsatisfying as a whole.

 

[Gaith]

The Golden Compass

I think at this point even screenwriter/director Chris Weitz would say it's a good thing that team stopped where they did... bring on the BBC multi-hour reboot!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Yeah, don't know if I'd want to see 3001, to be honest. The first two books made for better movies, but by the 3rd and 4th books, I felt the series had distanced itself from what made it interesting. On the other had, 3001 did have some interesting ideas, but I found it unsatisfying as a whole.

2001 is my favorite movie of all time, though I also like 2010 very much and I think it's a worthy sequel. I have read 2061 and 3001 although I think any movies made from them would be too weird for my liking.

And there are parts of 3001 that genuinely frighten me, such as the BrainCap.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

And there are parts of 3001 that genuinely frighten me, such as the BrainCap.

My guess that is coming well in advance of the next millennium. Perhaps not in my lifetime but humans might well be deep diving the sea of information within only a few decades.

http://www.simonlaub.net/FutureMinds/NeuroSky/Braincap/Braincap.htm

The question is whether its fitting will be made compulsory and its mode of operation -- for total mind control, for monitoring of extremal thoughts, or for liberating human potentiality aka eudaimonia. Once consciousness leaks beyond the confines of the skull and minds become linked, a new species has been born. Time to start demolishing the Earth and other planets to create a computronium matrix? Questions such as which sequel should be made next become irrelevant.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The question is whether its fitting will be made compulsory and its mode of operation -- for total mind control, for monitoring of extremal thoughts, or for liberating human potentiality aka eudaimonia.

It would inevitably lead to the first two. Don't even try to tell me technology like that couldn't, and wouldn't, be horribly abused.

Once consciousness leaks beyond the confines of the skull and minds become linked, a new species has been born.

Resistance is futile, eh?

 

[Owain Taggart]

2001 is my favorite movie of all time, though I also like 2010 very much and I think it's a worthy sequel. I have read 2061 and 3001 although I think any movies made from them would be too weird for my liking.

And there are parts of 3001 that genuinely frighten me, such as the BrainCap.

Oh geez, I forgot about the Braincap until you mentioned it...

Yeah, the thing about 2061 was that I liked the story and I even felt I had a connection to it being that it dealt with Halley's Comet (My Dad had the first viewing of the comet in Canada using his 22-Inch telescope), but I dunno, I didn't feel like Clarke's heart was in it. He'd also had a tendency to repeat and reuse chapters. And then 3001 was tonally different so much so that I felt like it wasn't really part of the odyssey, even though he tried to tie it back to where it all started. The bit about the SW set out in the Tunisian desert was funny though.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Kind of an unpopular one here, as I was only one of about three people on the planet that enjoyed it, but I'd love to see a sequel to Terminator: Genisys

 

[RJDiogenes]

Isn't The Cage essentially that?

Essentially, yeah. Trek owes a lot to FP and this story was in the same vein-- an isolated planet that is not only dangerous, but presents a danger to humanity as a whole in some way. It certainly gives an idea of the type of movie I'd like to see, only set in the FP universe.

They should remake OUTLAND with bulletproof glass and smarter hitmen.

As long as Opus survives.

Yeah, the thing about 2061 was that I liked the story and I even felt I had a connection to it being that it dealt with Halley's Comet (My Dad had the first viewing of the comet in Canada using his 22-Inch telescope), but I dunno, I didn't feel like Clarke's heart was in it. He'd also had a tendency to repeat and reuse chapters.

Actually, 2061 was my favorite of the books, and not just because it was set on my hundredth birthday. I loved some of the ideas he set up, such as the damaged Monolith and the Trinity. But then he dropped everything I liked in 3001, which disappointed me-- plus the fact that it was pretty much the opposite of the "final" Odyssey. It would have been nice if Clindar showed up and met with Bowman, HAL, and Floyd. Ah, well....

 

[RandyS]

It's long past time for Howard the Duck 2.

 

[Relayer1]

Some good ideas here. From them I'd pick

Forbidden Planet 2 (or maybe a remake as a period Trek movie).

Dredd 2
Tron 3
Tintin 2
3001 (coming as a TV miniseries ?)
Predator 1715 (or an Arnie Predator)
Zombieworld

And :

Terminator 6 (a good follow up for once)
Aliens sequel (Alien 5 ?)

23 Jump Street in Black movie that apparently isn't happening now.

Thank God for that !

 

[Gaith]

Kind of an unpopular one here, as I was only one of about three people on the planet that enjoyed it, but I'd love to see a sequel to Terminator: Genisys

Only if it begins with Nick Stahl starting awake next to Claire Danes, running to the head, puking, and muttering something about an awful food poisoning-induced nightmare.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The only reason I'd want to see another Terminator movie is to settle, for all time, the question of where the actual hell ALEX comes from.

 

[sojourner]

Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Gonna need more than a cop-out like that.

 

[sojourner]

Fish fingers and custard sauce?

 

[Mudd]

Another Galaxy Quest, another Firefly movie.

Another Forbidden Planet.