I'd love to see a prequel to...

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Game of Thrones which goes far back enough to cover the age of dragons. I totally geeked out watching GoT’s first season when Dany T. was rattling off the names of dragons and mentioned Vermithrax, better known as the kickass star of Dragonslayer. Of course it would be fun to see the rebellion against the Mad King, but I’d take dragons over that any day.

I’d also like to see a prequel to the horror movie Outpost, exploring the genesis of the weird zombie(?) generating technology seen in that film.

And I’d buy tickets in advance for a prequel to The Princess Bride focusing on the Dread Pirate Roberts and Inigo Montoya.

What prequels would you all like to see?

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*Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope. * Wouldn’t it be nice to finally get to see the first 3 episodes? Especially if they didn’t suck? Or have ethnically offensive comedy relief?

I’ve always wanted to see The Fantastic Four in a storyline before they got their powers. Why is Reed palling around with Ben Grimm? How’d he meet Sue? What does she see in him? And so on.

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The Matrix, specifically a live action, non-animated version of the Renaissance story regarding the war breaking out between the humans and machines. That would be epic.

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There is a series of Egg & Dunk tales that’s a sorta-kinda Game of Thrones prequel. Egg is Aegon Targaryan and the books are set about eighty+ years before the events in GoT; I haven’t read them, but I know that Walder Frey and Maester Aemon both appear as boys.

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“Journey with us now to the world where Skynet managed to kill John Connor…”

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Paradise Lost.

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I have read these and they are fantastic! Egg and Dunk are such great characters. I am eagerly awaiting their 4th adventure.

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Casablanca.

What did Rick do so that he can’t go back to the US?
What adventures did he have when running guns to the good guys in Ethiopia and Spain in the 30’s?
Maybe some background thing that would make him particularly vulnerable to meeting a young European woman with a fetching overbite (“braces on my teeth”? I would sue that dentist)
When and where did he meet Sam, and why did he become friends with a saloon piano player who calls him “Boss” even in Paris?

Then end the film when he meets Ilsa. We pretty much know everything important after that.

Anyway, it’s a story that would bear filling out beyond what we find out in the original film.
Roddy

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We’ll be lucky if GRRM lives long enough to finish the series, let alone go back and do something like this.

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GRRM has already done more than enough. Benioff, Weiss, and others can take it anywhere it needs to go.

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Pitch Black where you see Riddick in prison and get his backstory.

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Firefly.

The colonization, the rebellion, the whole deal…

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Doctor Who

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I’d like to see a prequel to the current series of “Doctor Who” - one taking place after the original series and the FOX TV movie. It’d star Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor and would cover the events leading up to and including the Time War. The series would of course climax with Gallifrey being ‘time locked’, the Daleks (supposedly - from the Doctor’s view) ultimately exterminated, and the Doctor regenerating into his ninth incarnation.

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Dead Like Me

Not necessarily even a prequel needed, but rather just the same show minus George. Frankly George (and her family) was the least interesting, least compelling character(s) on the show. The show really doesn’t get going until they get past those first few “learning how to be a reaper” episodes, and after that the best parts of any given episode are the ones featuring the other reapers.

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The Matrix. I want to see the war between the humans and androids and the founding of Zion.

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Sunset Blvd

Let’s see Norma and Max in their heyday and find out what became of the other husbands.

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As Time Goes By by Michael Walsh. Highly recommended.

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It’s a video game, but I’ll list it:

Okami
The game details a battle between a god and Orochi 100 years before the game and if you analyze the story, Okami itself feels like a sequel. I’d love to pay the initial adventure with Shiranui and Orochi and all that must have happened back then.

The game does allow you to visit the past and play out that battle, but the entire adventure would be fun and would have been better than the “rehash everything” sequel the game got on the DS.

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I chose a film that grabs the screen and shakes it; a film that makes you wonder what you have seen, because never has there been a motion picture like it; a film that makes you contemplate whether life on Earth is coming to an end. It is rare indeed for a motion picture to be so profound that it literally gives one the wim-wams, but this film does just that.

The film’s dazzling deaus ex machina plot, engaging theme, intense characters, brilliant dialog and narrative are nothing short of “Shakespearian.” Witness the closing narration:

*As if a switch had been turned, as if an eye had been blinked, as if some phantom force in the universe had made a move eons beyond our comprehension, suddenly, there was no trail! There was no giant, no monster, no thing called “Douglas” to be followed. There was nothing in the tunnel but the puzzled men of courage, who suddenly found themselves alone with shadows and darkness! With the telegram, one cloud lifts, and another descends. Astronaut Frank Douglas, rescued, alive, well, and of normal size, some eight thousand miles away in a lifeboat, with no memory of where he has been, or how he was separated from his capsule! Then who, or what, has landed here? Is it here yet? Or has the cosmic switch been pulled? Case in point: The line between science fiction and science fact is microscopically thin! You have witnessed the line being shaved even thinner! But is the menace with us? Or is the monster gone? *

Yes, those are magnificent words, indeed. But, serious questions of a historical nature abound. We want…alas, we THIRST to know more about “Astronaut” Frank Douglas. Where did he come from? What motivates him? What torments his sole? How does he cope with the human condition? Did he, or didn’t he? Is he a monster, or isn’t he? Is there not a little Frank Douglas in us all? Is there not a little monster in us all? Go monster, I beseech thee, be gone from me! And the pretty girls, all those intriguing, beguiling, pretty girls! Where did they come from? How and why do they move as they do? One can only wonder…

This classic film brilliantly forges a discombobulated amalgamation of happy, sad, good, bad and rock-em sock-em action and it begs for a prequel.