In TV a spinoff is a character in one show spawns an entirelyy separate show. How often does that happen in movies? I am not talking about sequels, really, but taking some non-lead character and making a movie featuring them.
The only example I have off the top of my head is Get Him to the Greek which was a spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
I just read a day or two ago that Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann will be reprising their roles from Knocked Up in a spinoff movie. Story here.
The Scorpion King was a spin-off of the Mummy movies. But I guess it’s sort of a pre-quel too.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (from the X-Men series), Elektra (from Daredevil), Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (from Clerks/Mallrats/Chasing Amy/Dogma).
U.S. Marshals (with Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes) was a spin-off of The Fugitive
I saw that too - and thought that Apatow is definitely out of ideas.
There was a movie called “The Egg and I” which is little remembered - but the 9movies about “Ma and Pa Kettle” that were spun off from “The Egg and I” were a huge success
I was delighted when I went to see Silence of the Lambs and heard the name “Hannibal Lector” – Lecktor (they changed the spelling for SotL) was easily the most interesting character in Michael Mann’s movie Manhunter, and they had clearly made this film to give him a bigger part. Both films were based on novels by Thomas Harris that already existed, so this might not really qualify for the thread, but it certainly felt that way. Lector was definitely a minor character in Manhunter, and, even though Will Graham (the main character in Manhunter) was in Harris’ book, he’s not in the film SotL at all.
By the way, I much prefer Manhunter to Red Dragon, the other film based on Harris’ novel.
Just yesterday I was watching TV with my sister and saw a commercial for another High School Musical movie. I asked her if it was up to HSM 4 now and she said that it was a spin off, Sharpay’s Big Adventure.
There was a straight-to-DVD spin-off to the recent Get Smart movie; it starred Masi Oka and Nate Torrence’s characters. I haven’t seen it.
This sort of thing predate movies. Falststaff (or Sir John Oldcastle in some printings), Prince Hal’s comic drinking buddy in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays, was so popular that he got the leading role in * The Merry Wives of Windsor*.
Oh yeah, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a spinoff from Hamlet.
Actually, it was always spelled 'Lecter" but the credits for Manhunter changed it. For some reason, the character was also changed from a super-genius cannibal psychiatrist to a genius psych professor who killed co-eds.
Huh. I was told as a kid (via trivia games, probably Trivial Pursuit) that The Egg and I was the first in the series of Ma and Pa Kettle movie, but you’re right. Never had seen the film (nor read the book now seen the TV series), and didn’t realize Ma and Pa weren’t the focus.
Once again, Trivial Pursuit trivia turns out to be bogus.
Electra is a spinoff of Daredevil, same with Catwoman as a spinoff of the Batman movies.
btw I want a Kick Ass spinoff featuring Hit Girl!
S. Darko (2009) is more of a spin-off than a sequel to the well regarded Donnie Darko (2001).
That wasn’t a spinoff. IIRC it took place during the same time frame as Hamlet it was just from their POV.
Of course, if that’s the point you were making, then nevermind.
In the sense that none of the first four Askewniverse movies have anything to do with each other beyond a few minor overlapping characters, they all could be considered spinoffs of each other. But I think Kevin Smith considers them all part of a connected series.
My recollection is that Lecter wasn’t a cannibal in Harris’ first novel, but was in the second. he certainly wasn’t in the movie.
I think the rhyming with “Hannibal” suggested “Cannibal”
Isn’t there a cottage industry in doing this with Disney films (e.g. “Peter Pan” –> “Tinkerbell’s Sassy Adventure”)?