Pokémon; The First Movie
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.
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!’
Doc Savage, Man of Bronze. It has been rumoured that parts of the sequel had already been shot.
How about unrealized prequels?
I’m still waiting for Leonard Parts 1 through 5.
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.
The ending of The Incredibles looked like the family would soon be fighting crimes together.
No “sort of” about it. Closing credits told us that *Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League *was coming soon.
The Sword & The Sorcerer had a note in the end credits to see Talon in his next adventure. It has been about 25 years.
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.
Ain’t gonna happen. All the actors are way too old now.
True Lies seemed to me like they were planning a sequel.
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.
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.
The Tom Hanks/Dan Akroyd version of “Dragnet” already was signed for a sequel, but the first movie tanked.
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.
They were. But the star got some sort of job in politics.
Galaxy Quest looked set up for a sequel.
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.
It did, Godzilla: The Series was a continuation of the movie. The single egg that hatched in the movie was the Godzilla in the cartoon.
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.