# Movies that ended with an obvious sequel setup that never panned out **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647 "2009-05-26T03:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/21 "2009-05-26T06:11:49Z")
Pokémon; The First Movie ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/22 "2009-05-26T06:12:49Z")
Flash Gordon (1980) is another one that ends with “The End?” and the strong suggestion thatMing will return. With this and some of the previous examples, the line between actually setting up for an expected sequel and parodying/paying homage to the movie serials of the past is kind of blurry. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/23 "2009-05-26T06:18:37Z")
are some of these really setups for a sequel? there was a time when last shots of the supposedly dead villian reviving at the end of the movie is common. come to think of it, i don’t really know what they mean beyond ‘hey, it’s not _really_ safe yet folks!’ ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/24 "2009-05-26T07:40:26Z")
_Doc Savage, Man of Bronze._ It has been rumoured that parts of the sequel had already been shot. > **[Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) - Trivia - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072886/trivia/)** > > Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) - Trivia on IMDb: Cameos, Mistakes, Spoilers and more... ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/25 "2009-05-26T08:14:45Z")
How about unrealized _prequels_? I’m still waiting for _Leonard_ Parts 1 through 5. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/26 "2009-05-26T08:20:52Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > The mediocre American _Godzilla_ movie with Matthew Broderick ended with the promise of a sequel (an egg that the protagonists failed to destroy hatches ominously), but nothing ever came of it. They _did_ do an animated series spinoff, working from this angle…oddly enough, by most accounts, the cartoon itself was actually pretty decent. Good animation quality, too. _Dungeons and Dragons_ had a sequel (or two? I forget), but I don’t think they used the last-minute “hook” used in the end of the original. In fact, at least on airing of the original that I saw cut the last scene _out_, completely, and just faded to black (and the credits) after the last battle. The really damning thing was that it worked a lot better. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/27 "2009-05-26T08:27:35Z")
The ending of _The Incredibles_ looked like the family would soon be fighting crimes together. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/28 "2009-05-26T10:46:42Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension_. I seem to remember that the end of the movie sort of promised a second installment. No “sort of” about it. Closing credits told us that \*Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League \*was coming soon. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/29 "2009-05-26T10:53:03Z")
**The Sword & The Sorcerer** had a note in the end credits to see Talon in his next adventure. It has been about 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![CyclopticXander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@CyclopticXander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyclopticXander)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/30 "2009-05-26T11:01:34Z")
The Super Mario Bros movie had exactly such an ending. Many many sci-fi/monster movies ended with a closing shot that reveals an egg/hatching/ baby monster, implying that the whatever species of monster had terrorized the world will return. Many of these panned out into sequels, and many didn’t. Little Shop of Horrors ends with the reveal of baby man-eating plants, a parody of this setup. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/31 "2009-05-26T11:04:28Z")
> [@Blue\_Mood](#): > > The ending of _The Incredibles_ looked like the family would soon be fighting crimes together. Ain’t gonna happen. All the actors are way too old now. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/32 "2009-05-26T12:05:43Z")
_True Lies_ seemed to me like they were planning a sequel. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/33 "2009-05-26T12:07:56Z")
Casablanca was going to have a sequel called Brazzaville, about Rick and Louie fighting in Africa. It’s probably just as well that never came to pass. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/34 "2009-05-26T12:19:38Z")
Mac & Me. As they are driving off, the little alien is chewing gum, blows a bubble that says, “we’ll be back.” Fortunately, they didn’t follow through on that threat. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/35 "2009-05-26T12:29:04Z")
The Tom Hanks/Dan Akroyd version of “Dragnet” already was signed for a sequel, but the first movie tanked. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/36 "2009-05-26T12:42:46Z")
The original film of **The Blob** , which may have been the first to have the end title: “The End?” There was a sequel about 15 years later, but it seemed to have played everything for laughs, not horror. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/37 "2009-05-26T12:50:46Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > _True Lies_ seemed to me like they were planning a sequel. They were. But the star got some sort of job in politics. _Galaxy Quest_ looked set up for a sequel. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/38 "2009-05-26T12:58:01Z")
The ‘Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy’ movie, I think. They were off to look for the Restaurant at the end of the Universe, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/39 "2009-05-26T13:06:43Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > The mediocre American _Godzilla_ movie with Matthew Broderick ended with the promise of a sequel (an egg that the protagonists failed to destroy hatches ominously), but nothing ever came of it. It did, [Godzilla: The Series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_the_series) was a continuation of the movie. The single egg that hatched in the movie was the Godzilla in the cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647/40 "2009-05-26T13:16:32Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > They were. But the star got some sort of job in politics. _True Lies_ was released in 1994. Schwarzenegger didn’t become governor until 2003. Were they really planning on waiting nine years between movies? It seemed to me that _Serenity_ had an opening for a sequel, but it didn’t do very well at the box office. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-ended-with-an-obvious-sequel-setup-that-never-panned-out/497647.md?page=3)