I read the excuse was hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans since that’s the series location. I wish I’d known that the 3rd book was much delayed before I read the first two this summer 
As for the X-Files they say it’s really, truely, actually going to happen next year, but I won’t hold my breath until I see the trailer.
Reaction to the Hulk movie must have been way worse than they were expecting, considering the first Fantastic Four movie was widely panned but they made a sequel!
It was pretty obvious to me the makers of the Lost in Space movie from a few years back intended to make sequels but I guess it didn’t make as much money as they expected.
I for one would like to see a sequel to the Master and Commander movie but it seems less likely as time goes on.
Like the videogame Duke Nukem Forever, Red Dwarf: The Movie has been stuck in development limbo.
Wasn’t Stargate originally intended to be a trilogy? I think Roland Emmerich turned his outlines for the sequels into novels.
I still await Clive Barker’s Third Book of The Art, the conclusion to The Great and Secret Show/Everville/… trilogy
Who Framed Roger Rabbit was supposed to have a sequel, but then Michael Eisner had to go and piss off Spielberg (as well as repeatedly refer to Katzenberg as a midget) and the sequel got killed.
Sahara was supposed to be the first in a series based on Clive Cussler novels but the last I heard, the makers were sueing him for misrepresenting his book sales figures…
After Batman and Robin had a big opening weekend, Warner Brothers threatened us with Batman 5 featuring King Tut as the villain. After bad word of mouth triggered a 63% drop in the second weekend box office, those plans were quietly abandoned.
Speaking of books, Roger Zelazny never wrote the third book of the Changeling/Wadwand series, leaving any number of cliffhangers.
They shelved the idea for a sequel to the computer game: Clive Barker’s Undying. 
I had heard that instead, Clive Barker was going to write another book, giving the plot of the sequel to Undying, but I don’t know if he did or not. ETA: Fansite for Clive Barker’s Undying game.
Ok, I thought Undying was based on one of Cilve Barker’s books, guess not. But, I do remember reading on Clive Barker’s site page which talked about Undying, he said he was considering putting what was to be the plot for the sequel into book form for the Undying fans. Does anyone know if he did so? If so, what’s the name of the book? 
That’s exactly the example I was going to use for my question: Just how much real motion in the direction of a sequel is required to call it “planned” (as opposed to “blue-sky speculated about”)?
I could see an extremely old, half-senile Lucas “collaborating” with someone who would basically write, direct and produce a Star Wars sequel, with Lucas’s name tagged on it.
Over 50 posts and nobody’s mentioned Brazzaville?
But it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of an impatient audience don’t mean a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Avram Davidson wrote Peregrine: Primus in 1969, leaving the story unresolved; Peregrine: Secundus in 1981, unresolved plus a bit of mysterious foreshadowing; and died in 1993.
What’s this you say? New Hornblower stories? Gimmegimmegimme!!!
The unwritten story in the Companion was “The Point and the Edgie”, n’est ce-pas?
Unless you mean the shorts included in Crisis. But please tell! I love Hornblower.
Regards,
Shodan
I found out about one other Hornblower story that was printed in Collier
s magazine back in the 1940s, and went to the library to dig up a copy. It was “Hornblower and the King”, and it apparently wasn’t included in the Canon because it didn’t fit the vhronology or the way Forester later decided he wanted things to go. I later found out there were two others that I still haven;t read. All three have been reprinted in recent years in collections of sea stories.
Forester left notes on the completion of “Hornblower and the Crisus”, as I said, but they don’t amount to much, and Parkinson’s commentary in his Hornblower bio are worth reading, especially for the completing (Parkinson’s own sea stories, written in imitation of Hornblower, are the closest thing to Forester’s stuff. So if you;'ve exhausted Forester’s other sea stories – read “The Captain from Connecticut”, if you haven’t yet, and his other stuff – this is the best Hornblower-withdrawal fix you can get) He also, as you say, outlined “The Point and the Edge”.
Toy Story 3 was scrapped
The Superman Returns Sequel was canceled but that might be so Brandon Routh could be in Justice League (or not).
I heard Sean Connery hint strongly in an Interview that he did League of Extraordinary Gentlemen because he had turned down LOTR and that had been a financial mistake so - he hoped that a League series would make up for it. I see hints from 2004 that there might have been one tenatively scheduled for pre-production - but I never see a “planned”/cancel notice like the two above
Thank you, kind sir. I know what I want for Christmas now.
Regards,
Shodan
And promtly revived.
“Not” apparently. Neither he nor Bale are supposed to be in the film, even though Batman and Superman are.