Im talking about the length of time between one episode and its sequel.
Psycho(1960), Psycho II (1983), 23 years.
The Godfather, part II (1974), The Godfather, part III (1990) ,16 years.
Know any older ones?
“The Hustler” (1961) and “The Color of Money” (1986)
25 years. Excelent.
The Old Testament & The New Testament, 1000 years
The Illiad and the Aneid and pretty close to that as well.
Though the Aneid could also be considered fan fiction.
And if Dido were a transexual transvestite, it would be slash. What’s your point?
Just kidding, I thought it would have good meter that way.
Sullivan’s Travels - 1941
O Brother Where Art Thou - 2000
Homage is not synonymous with Sequel
Do they have to have theatrical releases? Disney’s going hog wild with that lately.
Bambi (1942) - Bambi II (2006) 64 years
Aren’t they making a sequel to Snow White now?
Well granted that “sequel” is not quite* le mot juste*, but neither is homage. It’s a sequel in that it’s a followup. But it’s not a continuation of the storyline. As you know, O Brother is the bringing into being of a *fictional *movie referred to in Sullivan’s Travels. Which renders Sullivan’s Travels into what, science fiction? that it refers, in the present, to a movie from the future? My brain hurts.
O Brother’s relationship to Sullivan’s Travels is pretty unique; neither “sequel” nor “homage” covers all the bases.
Although, it just occurred to me, not that unique, and here’s another layer of homage: *O Brother Where Art Thou *has roughly the same relationship to Sullivan’s Travels, that Miracle of Morgan’s Creek has to The Great McGinty. Or is there a vice versa in there somewhere? It’s a hyper-tangent, or something.
The Black Bird (1975) is a long-delayed and totally crappy sequel to The Maltese Falcon (1941) with two actors (Elisha Cook jr. and Lee Patrick) reprising their roles, after a gap of 34 years. Among theatrical films which are inarguably sequels, I bet this wins.
The Odd Couple (1968) to The Odd Couple 2 (1998), 30 years. The best qualifier is they both star Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, making it a direct sequel with the same principals.
That doesn’t make The Odd Couple 2 a good movie though!
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade came out in 1989. If the next installment does indeed come out in 2007, that’d be 18 years.
Stallone has talked about making new entries to the Rocky and Rambo franchises next year. Rocky V was released in 1990; Rambo III in 1988. So 16 and 18 years.
Screw the episode numbers… Return of the Jedi (1983) and Phantom Menace (1999) were 16 years apart.
I’m not sure if this counts, since they were both made for TV movies (though both were released as theatrical movies in the USA), but Ingmar Bergman’s “Saraband” (2003) was a sequel to his dreary 1973 “Scenes From a Marriage.” That’s a 30 year gap.
Maybe he thought it would take 30 years for audiences to forget how hard the original sucked!
Wasn’t The Two Jakes, 1990 a sequel to Chinatown, 1974 ?
If so , 16 years
Actually, no, it really isn’t. The Coen Bros. appropriated the title and some of the structural elements and setpieces (hence, “homage”), but the film they made was certainly not the film Sullivan was talking about making:
This certainly doesn’t resemble what the Coen Bros. made (though the Coens probably had this playful contradiction in mind). The closest resemblence Sullivan’s vision has with the Coens’ creation is that it has some artistic pretension toward an intellectual pedigree (with O Brother “based on” Homer).
In addition, O Brother takes place around 8-10 years before Sullivan (using Baby Face Nelson & the Marx Bros. as references). Sullivan was interested in making a contemporary treatise on social conditions, not a period film. Much of the world was at war by 1941 (and so were we by the time ST was released), so the issues and conditions he’s talking about are markedly different than the ones that take place in the early 30s setting of O Brother
Again, bad example. Donlevy & Tamiroff play the same characters in both films and actually appear in both. You can say the action in McGinty explicitly bookends the action in Miracle.
There are no recurring characters (or even ones we’re encouraged to draw explicit comparisons to, except perhaps the pre-teen roadster) and certainly no actors reprising their roles between O Brother and Sullivan.
Homage.
Of course, this doesn’t mean I wouldn’t love someone to make Ants in Your Plants of 1939