# Sequels you have decided don't exist. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111 "2004-07-27T15:58:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/101 "2004-07-30T17:08:17Z")
Speaking of Dr Who– I’m kinbd of glad that they decided to do a Calvin and Hobbes and close down the series gracefully as well. I really can’t imagine what might have happeend otherwise. Somebody might otherwise have tried to make a movie out of it, but you _know_ they’d do something stupid like leave out the Daleks. Could be worse. They could have tried a live-action remake of some of Gerry Anderson’s Supermarionation stuff… ---
**Author:** ![sishoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@sishoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sishoch)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/102 "2004-07-30T18:46:48Z")
Speaking of sequels, I sure enjoyed the sequel to Blade Runner. I’m glad I didn’t have to wait twenty years for it. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/103 "2004-07-30T20:35:22Z")
I’m glad that Michael Crawford realized he could never equal or top his Broadway success of “Phantom of the Opera” and has refused every show to come along and ask him since. And when V.C. Andrews died after writing the great “Flowers in the Attic” series, it’s good they let her rest in her grave and didn’t try to capitalize on her name. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/104 "2004-07-30T21:03:05Z")
> [@Roadfood](#): > > And wasn’t it nice that Roger Moore decided to gracefully bow out of the James Bond movies on a high note, after “Octopussy”? You misspelled “The Man With The Golden Gun”. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/105 "2004-07-30T21:08:03Z")
“Chinatown” - the greatest stand-alone movie ever made. There was a rumor that Jack Nicholson was going to attempt directing a sequel, but everyone on the goddamn planet said “Oh for god’s sake NO, **NO** , don’t let him get _behind_ the freakin’ camera!” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/106 "2004-07-30T22:09:06Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Speaking of Dr Who– > > I’m kinbd of glad that they decided to do a Calvin and Hobbes and close down the series gracefully as well. I really can’t imagine what might have happeend otherwise. Somebody might otherwise have tried to make a movie out of it, but you _know_ they’d do something stupid like leave out the Daleks. Don’t mean to be rude here, but you do know there’s a new Who TV series coming out next year? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/107 "2004-07-30T22:45:07Z")
I heard they were so hard up for new ways to milk the Batman film franchise that the considered making a completely unrelated _Catwoman_ picture – not only that, but they were going to depart from the comic-book canon by making Catwoman an actual superpowered superheroine. They even offered the role to Halle Berry! Fortunately she decided not to dishonor her first-ever-black-Best-Actress-winner status with a piece of crap like that. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/108 "2004-07-30T23:39:42Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > You misspelled “The Man With The Golden Gun”. Roger Moore as Bond? Pull the other one, it’s got bells on it. Sure you didn’t dream that? ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/109 "2004-07-31T00:13:39Z")
After _Once Upon a China 2_, Jet Li went on to have a great movie career in both Hollywood and China, declining roles in what turned out to be eggbert movies such as _Once Upon a China 3_, _The One_, and _Black Mask_, and getting successfully involved in epics such as _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_ and the blockbuster _Rush Hour_ and _Lethal Weapon_ series. Man, that Jet Li is so lucky. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/110 "2004-07-31T00:16:00Z")
that would be _Once Upon a Time in China 2 and 3_. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/111 "2004-07-31T03:34:39Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > You misspelled “The Man With The Golden Gun”. Actually, you both misspelled “Casino Royale.” I’m glad the producers realized that 007 and the entire British Secret Service being vaporized in a giant mushroom cloud pretty much made any further Bond escapades a logical impossibility. And I’m doubly glad that Ian Fleming realized the childishness of stretching out a series of fantasy-fulfillment superspy tales, and decided to devote the remainder of his writing career to the continuing adventures of the delightful Practicus Potts and his magnificent machine, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/112 "2004-07-31T14:57:27Z")
I’m glad James Gardner realized that it would be a foolish thing to leave _Maverick_, and that no one has made that into a movie. Roger Moore? _The Saint_? When did he do a Bond movie? Remember how they decided to end M_A_S\*H in 1979? Harry Morgan, William Christopher, Jamie Farr, Gary Burghoff, and Pernell Roberts all tried to get spin-offs done. Fortunately, they were all laughed-off. Finally, it’s a good thing that Tom Clancy resisted the urge to make Jack Ryan President, or something along those lines. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/113 "2004-07-31T15:59:22Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > _Godfather Part 3_ > > All _Rocky_ 's after II I respectfully disagree with you about Rocky. I’m glad they ended it with Rocky III, because Mr. T/Clubber Lang was a great villian and I loved the way that they ended the series with Rocky and Apollo boxing each other for all the marbles alone in the gym. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/114 "2004-07-31T20:31:24Z")
Robert Jordan wrote a terrific pair of books called “The Eye of the World” and “The Great Hunt”. I often wish he’d go back and write the last book of the trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/115 "2004-07-31T22:07:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I heard they were so hard up for new ways to milk the Batman film franchise that the considered making a completely unrelated _Catwoman_ picture – not only that, but they were going to depart from the comic-book canon by making Catwoman an actual superpowered superheroine. They even offered the role to Halle Berry! Fortunately she decided not to dishonor her first-ever-black-Best-Actress-winner status with a piece of crap like that. Halle Berry never won an Oscar. They nommed her a couple of years ago, but when they realised that she was so much inferior to the other four nominees that it would be obvious the Academy was giving the award not on the basis of Best Actress but of Whitest Female Nigger - their thoughts, not mine - they called off the plan. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/116 "2004-07-31T23:33:15Z")
I was really excited to hear that Will Smith was going to make a movie version of _The Wild, Wild West_. It was perfect casting, but like so great ideas, they just couldn’t get a script worth doing. And Will wouldn’t make anything cheesy. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111/117 "2004-08-27T22:05:36Z")
Bill Cosby had a dream in which he explained why _Fat Albert_ is subtitled “Leonard Part 7”. So he scrapped the project. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-have-decided-dont-exist/257111.md?page=5)