# Hey! They Promised me a Sequel! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260 "2007-07-02T18:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/1 "2007-07-02T18:32:34Z")
At the end of **The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai** they promised to return in **Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League**. It never happened. BB was a cult movie, but at first it was a pretty poorly followed one, and I don’t think it ever achieved the status of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (which didn’t promise a sequel, but did deliver one). At the end of **The Sword and the Sorcerer** they promised to bring back the hero, Talon, in **Tales of the Ancient Empire** (Which empire? Don’t ask) It never happened. Supposedly the film made more money than any other independent film for 1983 (there are no gods), so the producers just took the money and ran. **Hawk the Slayer** evidently promised a sequel at the end (I still haven’t seen it). The James Bond movie **The Spy Who Loved Me** promised that the next Bond feature would be **For Your Eyes Only**. Apparently the folks at Eon, eyeing the profits being raked in by Star Wars, decided they wanted to jump on that bandwagon, so they pushed in **Moonraker** as the next entry. (Like TSwLM, written by the puerile Christopher Wood, who would go on to give us **Remo William: The Adventure Begins**. Probably just as well they didn’t do FYEO next. It turned out to be was the best Bond film in many years. Can you imagine what it would’ve been like if Wood had written it?) Any others? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/2 "2007-07-02T18:37:36Z")
I’m still waiting for _History of the World: Part 2_. ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/3 "2007-07-02T18:38:21Z")
Doctor Detroit 2 - The Wrath of Mom ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/4 "2007-07-02T18:39:06Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m still waiting for History of the World: Part 2. Well, yeah, but to be honest, I don’t think Mel ever had any intention of doing any more than the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/5 "2007-07-02T18:42:06Z")
I’m still waiting thirty years later for “Doc Savage: The Arch-Enemy of Evil.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/6 "2007-07-02T18:42:55Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Well, yeah, but to be honest, I don’t think Mel ever had any intention of doing any more than the first one. [/QUOTE] The same thing could probably be said about _Spaceballs II: The Quest for More Money_. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/7 "2007-07-02T18:44:42Z")
When I saw the title of this thread, I immediately thought of _Buckaroo Banzai_. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/8 "2007-07-02T18:45:36Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m still waiting for History of the World: Part 2. [QUOTE=CalMeacham] Well, yeah, but to be honest, I don’t think Mel ever had any intention of doing any more than the first one. [/QUOTE] Besides, I think it’s arguable that the “Jews in Space” “preview” at the end probably evolved into Brooks’ **Spaceballs** (no “Hitler on Ice” though). ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/9 "2007-07-02T18:46:11Z")
We probably won’t see sequels for either **League of Extraordinary Gentlemen** or **Ven Helsing** , even though the endings of both films seemed to point in that direction. Yeah I know the reason why (they sucked)… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/10 "2007-07-02T18:52:55Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] The same thing could probably be said about _Spaceballs II: The Quest for More Money_. [/QUOTE] Didn’t they also promise a _Spaceballs III: The Search for II_? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/11 "2007-07-02T18:55:00Z")
[Free Enterprise](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141105/) promises the sequel “William Shatner vs. The World Crime League” (spoofing BB of course). Wikipedia says there’s a sequel in pre-production but there’s no source for it and IMDB has nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/12 "2007-07-02T18:58:59Z")
_Clerks_: “Jay and Silent Bob will return in _Dogma_” _Mallrats_: “Jay and Silent Bob will return in _Chasing Amy_” _Chasing Amy_: “Jay and Silent Bob will return in _Dogma_ (we promise)” _Dogma_: “Jay and Silent Bob will return in _Clerks 2: Hardly Clerkin’_” _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_: “Jay and Silent Bob have left the building.” _Clerks II_: “Jay and Silent Bob may return. As for now, they’re taking it easy.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/13 "2007-07-02T19:06:21Z")
Leonard, Part 7. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/14 "2007-07-02T19:08:03Z")
Yet another who waited in vain for **Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League**. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/15 "2007-07-02T19:14:34Z")
Oh, I know History of the World will never have a sequel. But it was the first thing to pop into my mind. That was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/16 "2007-07-02T19:14:44Z")
**The Boondock Saints II** has been in pre-production since forever. But apparently it’s right around the corner now! (crickets chirping) I don’t know if **Serenity** was promised a sequel or not but it deserves one. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/17 "2007-07-02T19:18:30Z")
The main actors in **Sky High** were contracted to do a sequel, but none is forthcoming so far. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/18 "2007-07-02T19:19:51Z")
[QUOTE=DWMarch] I don’t know if **Serenity** was promised a sequel or not but it deserves one. [/QUOTE] IIRC the actors were all signed for a trilogy, but since _Serenity_ made all of a buck and a quarter, fat chance we’ll ever see the other two movies. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/19 "2007-07-02T19:22:09Z")
How about, “We’re making a sequel and you’re not in it”, which happened to Robert Wuhl, who played the reporter Knox in the 1989 _Batman_ movie. Shortly afterward I saw Wuhl on some talk show and he was asked about the sequel and he said, “You mean ‘Batman 2: The Annuity’ ?” I think that wisecrack may have did him in. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260/20 "2007-07-02T19:23:05Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Besides, I think it’s arguable that the “Jews in Space” “preview” at the end probably evolved into Brooks’ **Spaceballs** (no “Hitler on Ice” though). [/QUOTE] The song “Jews in Space” became the song “Men in Tights.” Although not promised as such- The sequel to Masters of the Universe (the Heman/Skeletor toy franchise movie) became Cyborg with Jean Claude Van Damme. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-they-promised-me-a-sequel/410260.md?page=2)