Anne Rice’s book The Mummy (subtitled Ramses the Damned) was published in 1989 and ends with a page reading ‘The Adventures of Ramses the Damned shall continue.’ with no sequel to date. With her conversion to catholicism and her statement that she now will ‘write only for the Lord’…I’m not holding out any hope that it’ll ever happen.
From what I understand, the first two were co-written with two other authors (one for each book,) and so was the third, but Koontz was already fed up with the co-writing, and got moreso during the third, and stopped altogether and I think he started over again doing it all himself.
Ang Lee’s Hulk movie was intended to be the first in a continuing series, a la Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four. But reaction to it was bad enough that they (TPTB at Marvel Entertainment) have not only scrapped plans for sequels, they’re already planning a reboot, like Batman Begins!
The Phantom of Manhattan was a planned sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. He wrote one song, Frederick Forsyte wrote a novel, and every musicals fan in the universe did a Happy Dance when the project was cancelled.
I bought the novel at a library book sale for a quarter. I was overcharged.
Plans for a sequel to the disastrous movie version of Clan of the Cave Bear were scrapped when the film flopped.
Slight hijack, I just watched the documentary “Overnight” about the guy that did The Boondock Saints. He did indeed burn many many bridges and this doc shows this happening rather plainly. I recommend it.
Thanks Bouv, that is good to know. I am not normally a Koontz fan but I did enjoy the first two books in the series. Here’s hoping he finishes it.
Yeah, but maybe we enjoyed them because he had some help in writing them!
But if nothing else I need closure!
Ralph Bakshi never made The Lord of the Rings, Part II, the second part of his animated version of the book.
When I rented a DVD of the great 1964 caper movie Topkapi, there was a teaser at the end for a sequel with the same cast, to be set in Moscow. As far as I know it never got off the ground.
I keep hearing talk every year about a new X-Files movie being produced but it never seems to happen.
I thought it was Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money
Doc Savage, Man of Bronze
David Gerrold’s The War Against the Chtorr series is supposed to have a fifth (and sixth) installment… but it’s been something like a decade since he announced it. I’ve become convinced that he’s just never going to finish it. Dammit.
I did a thread on this back in July. Here’s the first entry:
When The Empire Strikes Back came out, Lucas announced he was planning a nine-film Star Wars series. It’s doubtful the third trilogy (set after Return of the Jedi) will ever be made.
If we’re talking books, Robert Anton Wilson died before writing The World Turned Upside Down, the promised fourth volume of his Historical Illuminatus Chronicles. Nor the untitled fifth volume (a pentalogy was planned).
I believe “Dungeons and Dragons” was supposed to be a trilogy … yet another example of a planned series cut short by the extreme crapulence of the original. Would that more sequels were squelched for this reason!
At the end of the 1980 film version of Flash Gordon we saw a hand pick up Ming’s ring, which fell from his hand when he sort of “dissolved”. There was mocking laughter, and on the screen this appeared:
THE END?
There was a direct-to-DVD sequel. Though I think the only character in it from the 1st one was the blue lipped guy.
Brian
That’s not exactly right. The new Hulk movie is a sequel to the first albeit with new actors for every role. But the script was written in such a way that you won’t need to see the first one to understand where the Hulk comes from.
And as I always do in these unproduced sequel threads, I must chime in with Dean Koontz’s Christopher Snow trilogy. He wrote the first two and came up with a title for the third, Ride the Storm, but 8 years later, I’m still waiting.