# Revisit: sequels with very long gaps and roles played by same actors
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 4, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324 "2011-01-04T06:11:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/21 "2011-01-05T02:39:41Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> The BBC just had a new season of [Upstairs Downstairs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstairs,_Downstairs), starring Jean Marsh in the same role. Even though it was set only 15 years later, it was actually 35 years since the original series ended.
Wow! đ I am so watching that the first chance I get.
Along the same lines **To the Manor Born** got a Christmas special a few years ago; 25 years after the show ended. Nothing to do with Christmas; Richard and Audrey were about to celebrate their Silver Anniversery. The actors who played them, as well as Majory & the Rector showed up (the latter for 1 scene). Brabinger, Mrs Poo., and Bertie appeared in photograph form, their actors all having died.
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### Author:  [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/22 "2011-01-05T03:20:25Z")
**Clerks and Clerks II** were 12 years apart.
Kevin Smith saved up enough money over 12 years to film the second one in color.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/23 "2011-01-05T03:24:53Z")
> [@kunilou](#):
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> James Garner played Bret Marverick for the final time in 1982, 25 years after he first appeared.
> .
Wasnât Zane Cooper in the movie Maverick(1994) really Bret Maverick, since it is revealed he is Mel Gibsonâs Dad?
Something like that anyway?
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/24 "2011-01-05T07:03:42Z")
Well, there wasnât a very big gap between sequels, but **Desmond Llewelyn** played âQâ in the James Bond movies for 37 years.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/25 "2011-01-05T07:13:47Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> To add another spin to this thread, I have to ask if any filmmaker has, rather than make more than one film years apart with the same actors, instead intentionally halted production on a single film for many years and waited for the actors to age naturally before resuming production?
Quentin Tarantino has supposedly done this. While he was filming scenes for _Kill Bill_, he allegedly filmed some extra scenes with Uma Thurman, Vivica Fox, and Ambrosia Kelley with the idea that he might incorporate them into a possible sequel in approximately fifteen years where Nikki seeks revenge for her motherâs murder.
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/26 "2011-01-05T10:09:08Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Quentin Tarantino has supposedly done this. While he was filming scenes for _Kill Bill_, he allegedly filmed some extra scenes with Uma Thurman, Vivica Fox, and Ambrosia Kelley with the idea that he might incorporate them into a possible sequel in approximately fifteen years where Nikki seeks revenge for her motherâs murder.
I remember that! Wonât it be cool if he uses the same actress that played the little girl? What will he call it though? âKill Beatrixâ just doesnât have the same ring to itâŚ
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/27 "2011-01-05T11:13:39Z")
Richard Lesterâs musketeer movies:
_The Three Musketeers_, 1973, and _The Four Musketeers_ 1974.
_The Return of the Musketeers_ 1989.
16 year gap. Sadly, several of the actors have died, so we probably wonât get to see them do _The Man in the Iron Mask_.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/28 "2011-01-05T16:26:20Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> I remember that! Wonât it be cool if he uses the same actress that played the little girl?
Ambrosia Kelley is fifteen years old now and sheâs still working as an actress so itâs a possibility.
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/29 "2011-01-05T16:35:00Z")
_Decline of the American Empire_ was released in 1986. Itâs sequel, the Oscar winning _The Barbarian Invasions_ came out in 2003 with most of the cast reprising their roles.
ETA: Thatâs 17 years for anyone who doesnât want to do the math.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/30 "2012-05-27T00:10:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> Thatâs Michael Aptedâs still-ongoing âUpâ series: **Seven Up, Seven Plus 7, 21 Up, 28 Up, 35 Up, 42 Up** and **49 Up**.
[zombie]
And now 56 Up is running on British TV! Unfortunately I havenât found a way to watch it here in the US yetâŚ
[/zombie]
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/31 "2012-05-27T00:17:07Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> [zombie]
> And now 56 Up is running on British TV! Unfortunately I havenât found a way to watch it here in the US yetâŚ
> [/zombie]
Outside bittorrenting it, I donât think it is viewable in the US yet. âš
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### Author:  [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/32 "2012-05-27T00:37:33Z")
Itâs a remake rather than a sequel, but Peter Cullen reprised his role of Optimus Prime in the new **Transformers** films - 20 years after doing the role in the cartoon/animated movie.
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/33 "2012-05-27T00:49:52Z")
Kurt Russel was Snake in Escape From New York and Escape from LA 15 years apart
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/34 "2012-05-27T05:41:09Z")
Tom Savini planed a biker gang member Blades in 1978âs **Dawn of the Dead** , 27 yrs later he made a cameo appeance as the characterâs zombie in 2005âs **Land of the Dead**. Thatâs a 27 year gap (though in the highly vauge timeline of the Living Dead films itâs only 3 yrs in-universe).
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisit-sequels-with-very-long-gaps-and-roles-played-by-same-actors/566324/35 "2012-05-27T09:01:30Z")
The 2000 sequel/remake of _Shaft_ had Richard Roundtree reprise the role of John Shaft, 29 years after the original.
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