# Longest time between (direct) sequels? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820 "2008-03-18T19:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/1 "2008-03-18T19:43:17Z")
What’s the longest time that’s run between the release of a film that’s a direct sequel? I’m specifically disqualifying franchise films like the James Bond series where for instance “Goldeneye” is separated by many years from “Dr. No” but there are intervening additional sequels. An example would be “The Color of Money,” a direct sequel to “The Hustler,” including featuring an original actor. “The Hustler” was released in 1961 and TCOM was released in 1986, for a separation of 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/2 "2008-03-18T19:54:18Z")
“Gone With The Wind” (1939) “Scarlett” (1994) 55 years. “Scarlett” was a miniseries as opposed to a theatrical release but it’s an honest-to-goodness sequel so I think it’d count. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/3 "2008-03-18T19:56:37Z")
How about **The Odd Couple**? 1968 - 1998. 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/4 "2008-03-18T20:01:26Z")
\*\*The Wizard of Oz \*\* 1939 **Return to Oz** 1985 Honest-to-goodness theatrical movie release. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/5 "2008-03-18T20:02:06Z")
Not the longest, but respectable: **Pyscho** 1960 **Psycho II** 1983 23 years ---
**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:** [March 18, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/6 "2008-03-18T20:04:07Z")
**A Man and a Woman** (1966) **A Man and a Woman, 20 Years Later** (1986) 20 years (duh!) ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/7 "2008-03-18T20:04:38Z")
**DrFidelius** took mine, but I’ll mention _Day Of The Dead_(1985) and _Land Of The Dead_ (2005) - 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/8 "2008-03-18T20:06:31Z")
For actual movies: The Wizard of Oz – 1939 Return to Oz – 1985 (46 years) Could be debated, since it had none of the original actors and was based more on the book than the movie. The Maltese Falcon – 1941 The Black Bird – 1975 (34 years) Probably the most concrete example. The remake had a couple of actors for the original (Lee Patrick and Elisha Cook, Jr.) and shows the adventures of Sam Spade’s son. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/9 "2008-03-18T20:08:05Z")
The first one I thought of was **2001** and **2010** , but that’s only 16 years. ( **2001** in 1968, **2010** in 1984.) Not even close. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/10 "2008-03-18T20:11:31Z")
How do you count the negative 28 years between **Star Wars (episode IV: A New Hope)** 1977 and **Star Wars (episode III: Revenge of the Sith)** 2005 ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/11 "2008-03-18T21:16:42Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Not the longest, but respectable: **Pyscho** 1960 **Psycho II** 1983 23 years [/QUOTE] 23 years between **Carrie** (1976) and **The Rage: Carrie 2** (1999) as well. Of course The Rage is quite possibly the lamest Carrie update possible as the “new Carrie” has parents who love her, a devoted boyfriend and is drop dead gorgeous. And yet, she’s still some kind of outcast that goes on a murder spree, sure… ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-direct-sequels/441820/12 "2008-03-18T21:29:11Z")
Is a cartoon released for a theater audience a “film”? If so one contender could be Bambi II (2006) which was put out 64 years after the original Bambi (1942) by the same Company (Walt Disney) in the the same cartoon “world” with the same characters and as a continuation of the same story… IMDB also says: \*The film will use never implemented ideas meant for Bambi (1942). The background-paintings were painted with “Corel Photo Paint”, but some of the original oil-painting backgrounds from the 1942 original movie were scanned with a computer, and parts of these scans were reused in the new backgrounds. \* I just want to say Two Jakes is 16 years after Chinatown doesn’t come close to the better tries here - but that was what I first thought of