Since so many movies have sequels (and many of the sequels sucking) I thought it would be interesting to talk about movies that did not have a sequel but should have.
If Julies friends gave her grief the first time she dated Randy, can you imagine the shitstorm they cause now that she’s hooked up with him again? Especially since she helped ruin their prom to do it.
And I’d love to hear the conversation between her and Randy about how cold around the heart she was when she dumped him to go back with Tommy.
And speaking of Tommy; what was with that reservation at the Hollywood Sheraton? Did Tommy Boy think he was going to score? And seeing it was Julie and Randy that went instead, did Randy score?
Witness II: Revenge of the Amish Walking Off That Creme Brûlée with Andre
On a more serious note, I would suggest that a sequel to When Harry Met Sally might have been good. We know the characters and their funny quirks, now let’s see how that plays out within the commitment of marriage. Might be interesting to hunorously yet intelligently explore themes of expectation, disappointment, and aging as a couple.
I would like to see a sequel to Blade Runner that isn’t about any of the major characters from that movie. I know that Soldier with Kurt Russell is supposed to be set in the same universe, but it wasn’t really what I was looking for.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit — they apparently wanted to do this, but it’s hard to get the various squabbling parties to agree. There was a follow-up comic, not to mention the three Roger Rabbit theatrical shorts (anything that gives us more Roger, and especially more Jessica, is welcome), but another movie coulda been good.
I’d like to see them do a sequel to John Carter, but it ain’t gonna happen. Too bad.
I loved Nicholas Meyer’s TV movie Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders, which introduced me to Robert H. van Gulik’s series of mysteries basede upon the very real Djien-djieh Dee. He was trying to get it made as a series, but the networks balked, possibly at the cost of recreating T’ang dynasty China every week, or maybe because they didn’t think Americans would go for a series with only Chinese characters*. They compromised and cast the lead in a detective series set in modern-day San Francisco, called Chang!. That’s like making a TV series out of Gone With The Wind and setting it in present-day Georgia.
I heard that Paul Veerhoeven was going to adapt Dee for the big screen, but I was either mistaken, or he changed his mind.
There was a Chinese Dee movie about a year or two ago, but it was a martial arts wirework epic. That’;s like really wanting to see Spielberg’s Lincoln, but your spouse rents Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter instead.
I want more Dee, dammit! The real thing.
*Although, ironically, the only cast member not of Asian ancestry was the guy playing Dee himself, Khigh Dhiegh (Real name: Kennetrh Dickerson, whose initials were phonetically spelled). The British had a six-episode Dee series in the 1960s, so it lasted longer there, but most, if not all, roles were played by non-Asians like Timothy Dalton.
I’m on board with The Warriors too. I always wondered if Swan really did just take off, or if stuck around Coney and led the boys in more bops.
Of course, I like to image the actors in other roles are playing out the sequel. So in my world, Swan went on to be a roller-skating pussy who fell in love with Olivia Newton-John, and after Ajax (real name: Ganz) got out of juvi, he moved to San Francisco to fuck with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte.