Sometimes a film is so good that you can’t win to see where it goes Next. All the potential is there to explore a wider cinematic landscape. But a sequel isn’t always in the cards, eather due to a lack of box office, problems with Production, or just a Lack of Creative talent.
That’s though the passage of TIME Makes it unlikly a sequel Will Ever Happy, iTi’s fun to spec on what could ben. Here are ten films that has had the potential to be sequels and deserted one more story to be told.
True Lies
True Lies is one of the Most Eccentric and Violently Clever Arnold Schwarzenegger Vehicles of the 1990s. The film finds arnold playing a man try to keep his second agent hydden from his family. But he can Only KEEP HIS WORK FOR SO LONG HIS WIFE, PLAYED BY A Reactive Jamie Lee Curtis, gets thrown into the mix and learns that HUSBAND’S DAY JOB INVOLVES LOTS OF BAD GUYS.
While iTi’s been a long time SINCE True LiesDirector James Cameron Habitally Lets His Films Linger Long before Returning to Tell. It took Him Mary Years to Finally Produce Alita: Battle Angeland we waited Over a decade for his Avatar sequel. While Arnold and Curtis Might Be Older, Havinging Return for Another Action Romp As Grandparents Could Make for An EntherAining Action/Comedy reprisal.
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT
IT’S miraculous that WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT Eve came to be. Based on the novel by Gary K. Wolf, the movie blurred the line between live-action and Animation Cleverly. Set in 1940s Los Angeles, Bob Hoskins Play the Bitter Detective Eddie Valient, Trying to Clear the Cartoon Roger Rabbit From a Murder he didn’t commmit. Eddie Discover a conspiracy to wipe out cardo -characters led by the villainous Judge doom (Christopher Lloyd).
Part of the fun with Roger Rabbit was how it fued various cartoon characters into a full realized World, Where Daffy Duck and Donald Duck Duel on Pianos. With the rise of films like Ready Player One and Space am legacyIP-Merging Films Are More Common Than Ever. We have the tech and the synergy, but we need a Strong detective premise like WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT to make cartoon cameos more compiling.
Alien: Covenant
AFTER DECADES OF Other Directors Taching a Whats at the Xenomorphs, Ridley Scott was onto something when he returned to the Alien franchise. He posed New Questions with the prequel Prometheus and challenged the Alien Saga Further with Alien: Covenant. Carrying on with the Strange Origins of the Deadly Aliens, the Film Explores the Philosophical and Scientific Establishment of the Xenomorphs while the Horror of Aliens Being Set Loose on a Starship. All of this is brilliantly built from the experience of the Android Walter, who is fascinated by humanites and dissect and tinker with the species.
Break Alien Franchise Wold Continue AFTER Covenantbut with the bringing a conflict to what Ridley Had Built. 2024’s Alien: Romulus Felt like a standard prequel that explores some new aspects, but doesn’t build on Scott’s Greater Questioning of the Sci-Fi Horror Saga. Since Ridley Scott is Still Directing, it’d be a real Treat to see what other unique ideas he’d have for conflicting his praquel saga to a close.
Chronicle
When the Superhero Genre Firmly Attained Mega-Blockbuster Status, Director Josh Trank was Moving Toward Something More Compelling With Chronicle. Told in a found -Footage format, the movie Follows the exploits of three teenagers wen they Endowed with superpowers. The Power Becomes Too Much as these youngsters Turn Towards More Violent Ambitions with Corruption Abilities.
RETURNING TO THIS FOUND-FIOTAGE FORMS DOCUMENTING SUPERPOWERS WOULD BE A REPRISHING REPRISE OF THIS SURPRISE BLOCKBUSTER. Transk’s movie Probed Deep ino The Psyche of these Characters and How their Powers Affecuted Their Morality. Catching up with these characters and seeing how they have adjusted culd be an interesting angle to explore amid a post-Avengers Era of Superhero Films.
22 Jump Street
A Hilarious Theatrical Adaptation of the Cop Drama 21 Jump Street was a surprise, but more Surpring was how one funse the sequel was. 22 Jump StreetOnce More Directed by the COMEDIC DUO of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Maved the Undercover Cops of Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) from High School to College. While trying to solve a case, they finds the changing amid the Social Pressure of a New Academic Setting.
A fun draw for another Jump Street Movie is The Potential for Its Future. The sequel ended by teens all the positibilities in the absurd continuations, featuring andrying from Medical School to Mariachi School. IT’S HARD NOT TO WANT ONE OF THOSE SEQUELS TO COME TRUE OR SENDING MORE MORE UNEXPECTEDLY THAN THAT.
Galaxy Quest
Galaxy Quest was the right parody for the right moment. Playing off the obsessive and dated Nature of Trekthe film finds the cast of an Old sci-fi show being thrust into an adventure where the space threats are real. An all-star cast adds great chemistry to a film that challenges the perceptions of media while delight in the Old Clices of Trek with asthet jabs.
With Trek HAVING Experienced a New Wave of Resurgency with the Picard seriesreturning to Galaxy Quest To address the reboot, legacy sequels, and cameos would be a lot of fun. Gathering the crew back together for one last mission and passing Things onto the Next Generation Wauld for an Engrossing Meta-Narrative on the 21st-Century Shift in Franchise Reprisals. IT MIGHT NOT FEE SAME WITH THE LOSS OF ALAN RICMAN, but HAVING Some Extra Payoff With Justin Long Rising to the Ranks of a Galaxy Quest Crew Member is a prospect to tantalizing to the shells.
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski is Such a surreal ride that it can’t be so easily defined as a dude trying to get back his peed-on rug. The film finds Jeff Bridges Playing the Easy-Going Dude, Accidentally Thrown Into a Twisty Conspiracy. With his quirky bowling Friends by His Side, he gets involved with a wild scheme involving nihilistic gangsters and pompous rich folks.
Okay, Technically, there is a contingation in the form of the spin-off film, Jesus Savesbut that not the Same Thing. Jeff Bridges, Cantanankerously Playing off the loudmouth water played by John Goodman, had an incredible chemistry for dudes who basically hung out Bowling and Having arguments. Watching That Dynamic Continue Into Twilight Years Wauld Be One Adventure Most Elderly Dudes Could Abide.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Although not the first to be based on the Dungeons & Dragons Tableop Game, Honor Among Thieves is easily the best adaptation. Set in a realm of magic and thieves, the bard edgin (chris pine) is forced to work with a band of Misfits to have ancient legend and save his daughter. But This Quest Will Be Dangerous, filled with Massive Dragons, Mystical Relics, and the Deadly Magic of Red Wizards.
The fun of Honor Among Thieves was that it weaved in charm with the getting bogged down and explaining in the world, where recognning the cameos of the Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon of the 1980s was a bonus, not a requirement. The Creative USAGE OF EVERYATING From Portals to Time-Slowing Spells Creates a World of Unlimited Potential. If this World COULD PULL OFF SUCH A Charismatic and Fantastical Height, there’s No Limit to Where a sequel Could Go.
The Adventures of Tintin
Based on the Legendary Comic Books by Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin Made an Astonishing and Astuta Transition from 2D Drawings to Motion-Capture CGI. Directed by Steven Spielberg (in His First Animated Film), the Movie Follows the Adventures of the Plucky Detective Tintin and his Dog Snowy. Teaming up with the Drunkard Captain Haddock, They Uncover a Caper About Seeking Out the Treasure of a Lost Ship.
For Being Based on a Series of Comic Books, there are planty more stories to be tapped for a sequel. Places were in place to adapt the arcs of the Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun with Producer Peter Jackson as Director. Sadly, Those plans haven’t fully materialized yet, and all we can do now is Speculate on how Jackson Could Top Spielberg’s Impressive Flint Film, Given that Eye-Popping Chase sequence.
Dredd
Pete Travis’s gritty adaptation of the Dystopian Cop Judge Dredd was so intense and excitation that it puts the 1995 film to shame. The film finds dredd (Karl Urban) Training A Rookie Judge (Olivia Thirlby) in the dystopic streets of mega-city one. The two finds themselves trapped in a slum bloc and must survive the many minions of the ruthless Drug, Ma-Ma (Lena Headey).
Dredd Was Such a robustly brutal adaptation of the comic by john wagner and carlos ezquerra that one wonders where it is could go Next. There are the plenty of comic books of the character to draw from, and so Much more to explore with an exaggerated and satirical future police state. Unfortunately, The Box Office Earnings Were LackingWHICH STALLED THIS STELLAR DEPITITION OF JUDGE DREDD FROM GOING ANY FURTERTHER THAN THE 2012 FILM, Leaving a Audience with an endless thirst for another film.
Watching these films with so Much potential is bittersweet, with all the signs that a sequel would make for a stellar follow-up picture. With this aspect in mind, it”s essential to recognism a great film wen it along and shower support to enure a sequel. HOPELLY, with this list, you’ll be able to champion better the movies that desert at least one more continuation.
