Ever since Independence Day came out I’ve been hearing about a potential sequel called Memorial Day. No, really.
“Bye Bye Birdie, Bye Bye”
The final days of Conrad Birdie, a la Elvis. Ann-Margret drags her reluctant daughter to “Birdieland” mansion, sneak in. Fat, stoned, washed up Conrad takes a fancy to the daughter (A-M thinks he actually wants her), late night shenanigans, A-M finds Birdie dead in bed with daughter, they drag him into bathroom and set him on his “throne”, etc.
Would have been great circa early '80s.
Remo Williams: The Adventure Continues
What Hollywood, no The World, needs is a sequel to Titanic.
Titanic II: The Erotic Adventures of Rose…This time the boat ain’t the only thing going down!
Starring Kate Winslet? I’d buy my ticket on Fandango right now 
I think that’d be Remo Williams: The Adventure Concludes, where he says: “You’re Janeway??? I quit!”
And I’m still waiting for Doctor Detroit II : The Wrath of Mom 
Seriously, I would have liked to have seen a sequel to Parenthood.
Also, Strange Brew. We need more McKenzie Brothers.
Believe it or not, Roughnecks was not direct to video, but was in fact shown on Saturday morning alongside the other kiddie cartoons.
Starship Troopers doesn’t need a sequel. The end of the movie is the end of the book. The best suggestions I’ve heard were:[ul][]The plot of Terminator 3 is that Arnold Schwarzenegger is sent back in time to prevent Starship Troopers from being made.[](seriously now) Make John Steakley’s Armor into a movie and do it right, the way Starship Troopers should have been done.[*]Hi Opal![/ul]“Bugs Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!”
**Buckaroo Bonzai **
I am still waiting for the explanation of the watermelon in the vice thingy.
**Big Chill ** A prequel. Kevin Costner would appear.
Well, the bigger the hit, the more surprised I am when there’s no sequel.
Some of the bigger surprises?
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I didn’t LOVE “Forrest Gump” (I liked it, but it was nothing special), but it won so many awards and made so much money, I assumed a sequel was inevitable. So, I was pleasantly surprised when I heard Tom Hanks say, “We went as far as we could with that character. What would we do next, have Forrest in the white Bronco with O.J. Simpson? It was a special movie, but enough already.”
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I expected a few more feature length “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” sequels.
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I’m a bit surprised that the Farrelly Brothers never made a “Dumb and Dumber 2,” though I suppose one could argue that ALL their movies are sequels to “Dumb and Dumber.”
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Though most of the cast was already too old to pass for college students, I’m still surprised there was no big-screen follow-up to “Animal House” (the TV sitcom doesn’t count).
Ghost II: Ghost Harder
There is one, sort of. Apparently, they’re coming out with a movie that deals with Otter’s kid at college.
I forgot who said it, but someone once proposed that a sequel to Titanic should consist of the following:
Set in contemporary times, Jack Dawson is found alive in a block of ice, held in suspended animation a la Captain America. After being revived, Jack learns that Rose is dead, and that the Titanic tragedy occurred because of insufficient lifeboats. Pissed, he tracks down the White Flag shipping company (or whatever its name is), arms himself to the teeth, and goes in with guns a’blazin’ for revenge.
Well, how else can James Cameron make up to all the men in the world who got roped into seeing the original movie? 
The picture shows a stereotypical sleazey Hollywood producer sitting at his desk, talking into the phone.
"Baby, it’s a natural. Gandhi II. Turmns out he faked his death so he could go undercover and break up a heroin-smuggling ring in Paris!
It’s not for lack of trying, as this somewhat lengthy article makes clear. Short version: Disney and Speilberg co-own the Roger Rabbit copyright 50-50, and both must agree to any future use of the character. Disney and Speilberg got into a pissing contest over the second Roger Rabbit short subject; Speilberg wanted it attached to “Arachnophobia”, Disney insisted on attaching it to “Dick Tracy”, leading Speilberg to withhold script approval for several years. Once Disney finally started preliminary work on the sequel, test footage showed the budget would skyrocket, and Eisner cancelled the film, shifting its previously allocated budget to “Pearl Harbor”.
Don’t forget Buck Henry’ pitch for The Graduate II in Robert Altman’s The Player
There is a sequel to The Rock. It’s called Rushmore! No, wait, it was Grand Canyon! Or maybe I’m thinking of The Presidio? Or was it Gettysburg?
I’ll tell you this much: there’s an explanation on the Buckaroo Banzai DVD commentary.
Friday the 13th Part 10 left me wanting more. I felt so unfulfilled. I needed more insight into Jason’s character and raison d’être. What really makes him tick?
Weird Al thought of this years ago.
Ghandi II - No More Mr Passive Resistance.
“He’s a one-man wrecking crew, but he also knows how to party.”