People often complain about remakes and sequels, but there are movies that should have had sequels but didn’t. Here are a few, in my judgement, that it would have been nice. I’m presupposing that the sequels would have been made within a few years of the originals. What are yours? Suggestions may be serious or tongue in cheek.
America VS. The Body Snatchers (OK, maybe the title needs work but it would have been nice to see Kevin McCarthy reprise his role.)
After Worlds Collide. Come one, there already was a novel.
The Men from Brazil. Set ten-fifteen years after the original.
And, of course, Buckaroo Banzai VS. The World Crime League.
I’ve always wished that The Fugitive/US Marshalls duo had a third film, where Tommy Lee Jones’ squad went after another fugitive that was actually guilty. And competent. Always chasing wrongly-accused people is boring.
I might have enjoyed a sequel to The Incredible Melting Man. Make it like Alien vs Aliens. If one was good, more is better! I give you, the entire crew of the second Saturn probe, The Incredible Melting MEN! Losing body parts and eating your town, this summer!
Actually you could make another sequel with Victor and Ilsa going back to France to lead Le Resistance. And another where the seemingly amoral Ferrari turns Rick’s Cafe into a center for the underground in north Africa.
Silverado’s ending hinted at a sequel (“We’ll be back!”), but the chances of that happening seem to have ridden off into the sunset along with Kevin Costner.
I will politely disagree, as the best parts of the movie are about humans being human (the good, the bad, and the ugly) in the face of destruction. The sequel movie (assuming based upon the novel) would have been more about the fact that we can only carry forward our conflicts into new worlds - I’d only be happy with it if it ended much like Beneath Planet of the Apes: We destroy ourselves and any semblance of a new hope.
Instead, a sequel a few years after the original would probably have followed the book and made a “We’ll destroy the Soviets in the new world too and they’ll join us in our New World Rah-rah-rah!” sort of thing.
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My suggestion is probably uninspired, but “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” begged for a well made sequel, although I can understand why it never happened.
There is actually a sequel novel, As Time Goes By, which continues the story. It’s a combined prequel/sequel actually; the first half of the novel goes into Rick’s back story, explaining who he is and how he came to find himself in Casablanca. The second half is what happened after the movie. It didn’t get very good reviews from what I hear, though.
There was a comic book sequel to the film, Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom, and author Gary K. Wolf, who wrote Who Censored Roger Rabbit, the VERY different novel that inspired the film, wrote three novels in the same “universe”, but they can’t accurately be called sequels.
No, it was the old Magnum. The guest star played an older detective, on the verge of retirement, who was waiting for an old flame who had just gotten out of prison. The names were changed, but it was very obviously an homage to The Maltese Falcon.
The Last Starfighter – actually, I’d like to see them do a “special edition” re-release of the original, with the ambitious but ultimately substandard (even by 1984 standards) CGI effects replaced by something better*. But I’ve always wondered what happened afterwards in that universe.
*I’d like to see them do this with The Hunt for Red October, too. It’s not as if they haven’t done that before. Even before George Lucas revamped his original Star Wars trilogy, people had done re-releases with fixed up effects.