Sequels of Remakes that aren't Remakes of Sequels

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Is the title clear?
It occurs to me that when some remake has made enough money to be moderately successful, they go the usual route and make a sequel, in the hopes of at least raking in a few more bucks. Probably because they want to express themselves artistically, don’t want to be shackled by previous work, and want to avoid the stigma of making a lame remake of a lame movie (since the original sequel was, after alol, made quick and cheap to cash in on the success of its original film), the sequels of the remakes have nothing to do with the original sequel.
Examples:

The Fly. Original sequel Son of the Fly , followed by the justly forgotten Curse of the Fly. The sequels were black and white, with rotten special effects, unlike the full-color original.

Sequel to the remake: The Fly II. Also about the Son of the Fly from the original film, but the new film had nothing to do with the earlier sequels. It was, at least, in color, and the effects were good.
Father of the Bride – Spencer Tracy is Elizabeth Taylor’s dad in the original. The sequel is Father’s Little Dividend, about the baby.

Sequel to the remake: Father of the Bride II. No resemblance.

King Kong – Classic flick, ground-breaking special effects. Box office success, credited with saving RKO. Re-released many times through the 1950s, after which it became a TV staple for years. Naturally, they gave them everything they needed to make a quality sequel. Guess again. They got months and a fraction of the budget to make Son of Kong, which still ended up being watchable. But it coulda been a contender if they’d given them the budget and time.

The sequel to the 1976 travesty was King Kong Escapes, which picked up where the de Laurentis film ended. Kong gets a heart transplant and a mate. Linda Hamilton stars, and her career miraculously survives.

Thinking about it, I cabn’t really think of any examples of remakes of sequels (by the folks who did the remake of the original) that really does follow the plot of the original sequels, unless both versions are based on a well-known literary source that they wouldn’t dare screw with (like Hound of the Baskervilles) Any examples? For that matter, any other sequels of remakes of any kind that aren’t remakes of sequels?

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*Ringu --> Ringu II

The Ring --> The Ring 2*, not the same movie as Ringu II.

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Although the “remake” bears little resemblance to the original beyond the title, the original Cheaper by the Dozen was followed by Belles on Their Toes. The remake of Cheaper by the Dozen was followed by Cheaper by the Dozen 2 which does not (AFAIK since I refuse to see the newer movies) bear any resemblance to BOTT.

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Oh, and depending on how closely one defines “sequel,” we have the Universal Dracula followed by Daughter of Dracula, vs. the Hammer Dracula and all of its various sequels, none of which that I’ve seen resemble DoD.

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They remade Dune (1984) as a TV movie on Sci-Fi, and then Sci-Fi did the sequel “Children of Dune”.

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You saw it here first: I doubt Steve Martin “The Pink Panther 2,” when made, will have any resemblance to “A Shot in the Dark.”

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What is that travesty you speak of ? There never was a remake of King Kong (blessed be his name) until last year’s Peter Jackson’s remake.

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King Kong Escapes was a live action film based on the Rankin-Bass animated King Kong Show. The sequel to the 1976 Kong was actually King Kong Lives.

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The various Disney Dalmations movies. First, there was the original animated 101 Dalmations. Then, there was the live-action 101 Dalmations. Then there was the live-action 102 Dalmations, and then the animated 101 Dalmations II (I think this one was one of the infamous Disney direct-to-videos). In this case, the sequel to the original actually came after the sequel to the re-make.

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AFAIK, the original rat-pack Ocean’s Eleven didn’t have a sequel, whereas the new one was successful enough to warrant Ocean’s Twelve and even Ocean’s Thirteen.

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No reason it should; Steve Martin’s movie is a prequel to the original.

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I hope this is the only place I see it.

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You folks are getting off the track. There was no Children of Dune sequel to Lynch’s Dune to compare the Sci-Fi Channel version to, nor was there AFAIK a sequel to Sinatra’s Oceans Eleven to compare the Clooney version to.

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The remake of the 1930s The Mummy incorporated elements of its sequel, The Mummy’s Hand.

The Mummy Returns had an entirely new story.

Not exactly the same thing, but close enough:

The movie Psycho II in no way resembles Robert Bloch’s sequel novel, Psycho II. (I wish someone would adapt it, it’s actually not bad. Much better than the movie that they made, anyway.)

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There are all the various Wizard of Ozes, some of which have sequels, many of which don’t resemble each other (does this sentence make sense?).

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Here’s hoping that the sequel to Batman Begins bears no resemblance to Batman Returns.

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Ocean’s Twelve was one of the laziest movies I’ve ever seen. Are they going to just film them napping for Thirteen?

Sorry. Anyway, I came in here to mention The Brazilian Job, the upcoming. sequel to the 2003 remake of The Italian Job. Does that count?

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No it doesn’t, because there was no sequel to the original Italian Job.

The thread premise is that there’s an original movie with a sequel. Then there is a remake of the original movie, and a sequel to the remake. If the original movie has no sequel, then it does not fit the paramenters of the OP.

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Though, purely as an aside, over the weekend I came across a claim that one was intended. UKTV History was doing a pisspoor series on film genres and their episode on heist movies included an interview with one of the makers (whose name I don’t recall) of the original. He claimed that they had an idea ready for the sequel.
Of course, any sequel presumes an answer to their predicament at the end of the first film …

Resume with them dangling over the cliff and Caine declaring that he’s got an idea. Cue the arrival of a helicopter that grapples the coach and winches them back onto the road. It’s the Mafia. Who duly relieve them of the gold.
The second film is then them having to nick it back off the Mafia.

Of course, that just deflates the ending of the “first” film.

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Okay, to the extent that I understand what has to be one of the most confusing concepts ever discussed in this forum, I’m going to offer A Very Brady Sequel. Admittedly, it was a remake of a TV series not a movie; but it was a remake, it was a sequel, and it was based on the original source material.