Movie sequels that have no title similarities with the movie's predecessor(s).

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Some movies you can’t really tell are sequels of others just based on the title alone. Not unless you knew somehow that it was a sequel to another movie.

For example… The recently premered movie The Devil’s Rejects is the sequel to House of 1,000 Corpses.
Others that I can think of off the top of my head are The Two Jakes, which is the sequel to Chinatown, The Evening Star, which is a sequel to Terms of Endearment…and The Chronicles of Riddick, which is the sequel to The Glimmer Man.

Making this topic because, my friend recently saw The Chronicles of Riddick and didn’t know it was a sequel. I had to tell her. Now she’s on a mission to see the first one.

These are just 4 examples. I’m sure there are many, many more.
Won’t you share with us some others you know of or can think of?

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Going My Way / The Bells of St. Mary

*The Fugitive * / U.S. Marshalls

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:confused:

Isn’t the The Chronicles of Riddick a sequel to Pitch Black, to the extent that the working title was Pitch Black 2: Chronicles of Riddick ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296572/ ), and Pitch Black has an alternative title of The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134847/ )

Anyhoo, in response the OP, none of the Jack Ryan movies have been obvious sequels in title or substance.

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Interview with a Vampire and Queen of the Damned.

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The Bond movies would count as well, I think.
The Jewel of the Nile was the sequel to Romancing the Stone

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Burt Reynolds’ Gator was a sequel to White Lightning.

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[QUOTE=Blake]
:confused:

Isn’t the The Chronicles of Riddick a sequel to Pitch Black, to the extent that the working title was Pitch Black 2: Chronicles of Riddick ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296572/ ), and Pitch Black has an alternative title of The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134847/ )

That’s what I meant. Sorry, I always get those two movies confused.

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Do the Kevin Smith movies count? If so then Clerks, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

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*The Pink Panther * (1963) was followed by the next in the series A Shot in the Dark (1964).

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Stayin’ Alive & Saturday Night Fever.

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Red Dragon and / or Manhunter -> Silence of the Lambs -> Hannibal.

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A Family Affair, You’re Only Young Once, and Judge Hardy’s Children, which was followed by all the other Andy Hardy installments.

The Egg and I was followed by Ma and Pa Kettle (which might count as a spin-off more than a sequel; YMMV)

The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali, The World of Apu and Aparajito

The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators

The Pagnol Trilogy: Marius, Fanny and Cesar

Internes Can’t Take Money followed by Young Dr. Kildare and the Kildare series, which transitioned to Calling Dr. Gillespie and the Gillespie series.

Half of the Basil Rathbone/Sherlock Holmes films don’t mention Holmes by name, including the first installment, The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Treasure Island and Long John Silver

The Freshman and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

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The “Dirty Harry” films.

Slight hijack: As always this invites the debate of what is a sequel and what is simply another entry in a series of films. “The Two Jakes” is a sequel because it follows up on some events, plotlines, and characters from “Chinatown.”

“The Dead Pool” was the last entry in the series about Harry Callahan, but it was not directly connected to “Dirty Harry” other than by the lead character.

Sir Rhosis

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Rocky Horror Picture Show and it’s sequel Shock Treatment

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A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi :slight_smile:

I think the James Bond series is probably the best group of sequels, especially as there is definately a quality to James Bond titles that links them without it being obvious that the titles are linked.

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Perhaps not totally unrelated titles:

“The Hustler” and 25 years later “The Color of Money”

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“The Last Picture Show” and its long-delayed sequel “Texasville.”

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Jean De Florette and Manon of the Spring (Though it’s all one story).

The Black Bird is set up as a sequel to The Maltest Falcon, the connection is not as obvious if you haven’t seen the earlier film.

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A movie titled Let’s Do It Again is obviously going to be a sequel to something, but the title still has no actual link to Uptown Saturday Night.

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The Evil Dead, followed by Evil Dead II, followed inexplicably by Army of Darkness