# Movie franchise with the highest numbered sequel
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 10, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496 "2015-01-10T19:38:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/1 "2015-01-10T19:38:59Z")
The other day I was reading yet another article that mentioned 2015 as the “future” year that Marty McFly visits in BTTF2, and what we don’t have yet in the actual 2015. One of the things mentioned was that we haven’t made it to “Jaws 19” yet, which got me to wondering: what movie franchise has _ **the highest numbered** _ sequel? (As opposed to the _highest number_ of sequels, which is not what I want.)
“Jaws” actually only had sequels numbered up to 3. (“3-D”, actually, but I’ll allow it.)
The “Nightmare on Elm Street” series made it to 5 before dropping the numbers.
“Friday the 13th” got up to VIII before it stopped numbering the sequels.
“Leonard Part 6” does not count, since it was not a sequel and there were no other films in the series.
Have any sequels had a double-digit number?
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/2 "2015-01-10T19:48:59Z")
> [@Shoeless](#):
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> “Friday the 13th” got up to VIII before it stopped numbering the sequels.
Except the tenth, though that’s _Jason X_.
[A group of animated dinosaurs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_Before_Time_(series)) got up to XIII.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/3 "2015-01-10T20:33:47Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Except the tenth, though that’s _Jason X_.
I think the filmmakers insisted that was “Ex” not “Ten” even though it was the tenth movie.
I think Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is the winner.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/4 "2015-01-10T20:34:30Z")
Naked Gun 33 1/3?
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### Author:  [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/5 "2015-01-10T22:20:19Z")
56 Up?
you never said the numbers had to be sequential.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/6 "2015-01-10T22:28:58Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#):
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> Naked Gun 33 1/3?
This was the first thing I thought of. Since you beat me to it, how about [2010](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_(film))?
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/7 "2015-01-10T23:24:12Z")
Do Superbowls count?
Star Trek got up to “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” before they dropped the numbers from the title.
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### Author:  [@Scruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruff)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/8 "2015-01-11T00:36:29Z")
Airport 79 ??
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/9 "2015-01-11T01:56:41Z")
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/10 "2015-01-11T01:58:44Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Along with a lot of the other suggestions offered, that does not indicate the number of sequels.
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### Author:  [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/11 "2015-01-11T02:00:47Z")
How many 'Girls Gone Wild" have there been?
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/12 "2015-01-11T02:05:51Z")
Oceans 13?
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/13 "2015-01-11T02:07:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Along with a lot of the other suggestions offered, that does not indicate the number of sequels.
The OP specifically said they did not want the number of sequels made.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/14 "2015-01-11T02:14:30Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#):
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> The OP specifically said they did not want the number of sequels made.
Please re-read the OP. He wants the highest title-numbered (one with the sequel number in the title), not the one with the actual highest number of sequels. This would mean that _Land Before Time XII_ would count, while the 23rd James Bond movie _Skyfall_ would not. _Halloween H2O-Twenty Years Later_ indicates years, not sequel numbers.
edited to add: Otherwise, the OP would have just asked for the movie title with the highest number in it, and not have bothered indicating anything about sequels.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/15 "2015-01-11T02:15:09Z")
> [@chacoguy](#):
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> How many 'Girls Gone Wild" have there been?
Heh. If we limited it to movies numbered sequentially, where the number in the title actually had to be the ordinal number of that movie in the franchise, I wouldn’t be surprised if a porn movie franchise was the “winner.”
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/16 "2015-01-11T02:20:21Z")
Strange as it seems #39
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 12
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> The stories take place during the Edo period under the Tokugawa shogunate and the rules of Tokugawa Ienari and his successor Tokugawa Ieyoshi. They center on the title character, a sleepy-eyed rōnin, or outlaw swordsman, who is the son of a Japanese mother (the daughter of a daimyō, who commits jigaki (see "Fema...
Witchcraft XIII: Blood of the Chosen (2006)
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Shake Rattle and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion
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> Shake, Rattle and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion (simply known as Shake, Rattle and Roll XIV or Shake, Rattle and Roll 14) is a 2012 Filipino science fiction horror anthology film directed by Chito S. Roño, and the fourteenth installment of the Shake, Rattle & Roll film series. The film stars an ensemble cast including Dennis Trillo, Lovi Poe, Janice de Belen, Herbert Bautista, Paulo Avelino, Martin Escudero and Vhong Navarro.
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Tsuribaka Nisshi 20: Final
(actually, it was the 22nd entry in the series, but two were unnumbered)
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> Tsuribaka Nisshi (釣りバカ日誌, "Fishing Nut's Diary") is a Japanese fishing-themed manga series written by Jūzō Yamasaki and illustrated by Kenichi Kitami. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original since 1979. It won the 28th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1983. The series has been adapted into a popular and long running movie series and anime television series. By 2020, it had over 26 million copies in circulation.
> The story focuses on salaryman Densuke Hamasaki (a.k...
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### Author:  [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/17 "2015-01-11T02:22:00Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> Heh. _ **If** _ we limited it to movies numbered sequentially, where the number in the title actually had to be the ordinal number of that movie in the franchise, I wouldn’t be surprised if a porn movie franchise was the “winner.”
IF??? I thought that was exactly what OP was limiting it to.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/18 "2015-01-11T02:23:50Z")
> [@Tread](#):
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> IF??? I thought that was exactly what OP was limiting it to.
Quite possibly, but the OP was ambiguous, and many of the answers given have not been adhering to that.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/19 "2015-01-11T02:26:47Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Along with a lot of the other suggestions offered, [H20] does not indicate the number of sequels.
But it is a numbered sequel though. It just counts the years in the franchise rather than the number of movies.
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-franchise-with-the-highest-numbered-sequel/709496/20 "2015-01-11T02:36:27Z")
Furious 7 (of Fast and the Furious) is about to hit the theaters.
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