Am I the only person on the planet that liked Van Helsing?
I liked it (and the Mummy films from the same director) as wonderfully cheesy examples of over-the-top filmmaking. Proof that you can turn out a B movie with A movie funding. I can watch them over and over, but there’s no denying these are Good Badfilms.
Van Helsing had a released animated companion on DVD at the same time the film was out in theaters. Not exactly a sequel, but definitely a tie-in.
As for The League and Van Helsing setting you up for sequels – they they certainly leave open the possibility of sequels, although I thought eague wasn’t really pointing that way (the fact that the graphic novel had a sequel notwithstanding). I’m sure the guys at Van Helsing were hedging their bets – asfter all, they got a sequel and a related film out of The Mummy, despite killing off the title character. But they didn’t promise a sequel for either League or Van Helsing.
The cliffhanger ending to the original The Italian Job was supposed to lead into a sequel. It never came.
Boondock II: All Saint’s Day (I swear I’m not making that title up) really has been “in production” for several years now. Money has changed hands, scripts have been written, rewritten and discarded and contracts were signed. These are the things the IMDB editors look for when they add or subtract titles from the database. At the time it was up there, it really was happening.
Of course, today, all of those contracts have expired and new deals have to be worked out before Boondock II can happen. And if it does, the title will reappear in the database.
Freddy vs Jason was constantly being removed and readded to the database during it’s long production phase as it went through the same thing. One of the first webpages I ever made was an “Oh my god! Look what they’re making!” fan page about FvJ that linked to the IMDB entry and this was in 1998.
M Night talked about the Unbreakable trilogy all the time after the first one was released. The first one was supposed to be the origin story of this new hero. I still hold out hope Bruce Willis’ clout could get another one made if M Night wants to do it.
The Italian Job should have been called " Oooh, Look at the mini’s!"
I thought that that was a dream. Everytime I’ve seen Airplane II since, it seems that scene has been cut out.
For what it’s worth, when Bruce did a reading/signing here in town back in like August, I think, this was one of the projects he confirmed he was working on. He would not, however, confirm that an Evil Dead sequel would ever be forthcoming.
I don’t recall seeing the announcement at the end of the credits – and I’m a confirmed credits watcher. (Did they add it later, to the DVD?)
And I’ve seen announcements of this elsewhere, not just on IMDB. (And the iMDB page on this sequel is filled with a lot of specifics – actors and their roles, etc. I haven’t seen any spurious films reported on iMDB in detail like that.)
I remember seeing “Elvis will return in Bubba Nosferatu” during the end credits when I saw it in the theater.
Me too. I actually like that movie.
Every fiber of my being: "Jay and Silent Bob are hideously unfunny and never should have returned at all" (Or existed in the first place anywhere outside of the fevered pre-adolescent “mind” of a knuckle-dragger)
Of course, nothing Kevin Smith has ever touched has shown any glimmer of cleverness or wit*, so it’s not just Jay and Silent Bob who are the Unfunniest.
*unless you are among those who consider shit/piss/fart/jerk-off/shit/piss to be humor suitable for those beyond middle-school.
Because, of course, you are the sole arbiter of what is in Good Taste and Funny. I must have missed that memo. I usually get all the “raving loon” memos, too.
Wit is one way to be funny - although it’s my favorite - but it’s not the only way. Smith’s not witty when he’s making dick jokes, and I think he overuses them, but he can be witty other times.
Lost in Space 2? Heck, I cant see why this wasnt made, even as DTV clag. Considering the DTV sequals that do show up (Cruel Intentions, Universal Soldier), another LIS movie doesnt seem too much to ask.
Fans of Samuel Delany will know ‘Stars in my pocket like grains of sand’ - (what a title!) a breathtaking book, for which a sequel was promised almost immediately I think. I’m pretty sure my paperback copy mentions it. That was 1984, and we’re still waiting. Given the direction Delany has gone now though, that may be a good thing.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention the “promised sequel that never was” I always try to mention when these threads come around.
The third (and final) Christopher Snow book by Dean Koontz. It’s got a title (Ride the Storm) and he’s started and stopped it at least three times since book 2 was published. But it’s still not out.
However…
I just read this on his official site:
I can only dream.
Then there is always the remainder of the “Starship Troupers” series that Christopher Stasheff promised us. He just abandoned the series after Book 3.
There is word that Jerry Pournelle is finally producing the next installment of the “Janissaries” series. I’ll believe it when I see it.
What about the ultimate promise? I seem to remember Star Wars having the three originals, three prequels, and then three sequels as well.
I’m still waiting on Harold and Kumar go to Amsterdam, which has been “in production” for a few years now, and was hinted at the end of the original movie.
Come to that, what happened to the conclusion of the 1970’s cartoon version?