Some movies hve seques, but almost nobody knows about them:
1.) In the Heat of the Night – Rod Steiger got the Oscar for Best ctor, but Sidney Poitier got to star in the two sequels: They Call me Mister Tibbs! (1970) and The Organization (1971).
2.) The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Some of the actors returned, but nobody reprised their original roles in Shock Treatment (1981). Unknowns played Brad and Janet. Richard O’Brien wrote the songs and co-wrote the screenplay. Petty awful.
3.) Forbidde Planet – Yes! Forbidden Planet had a sequel! Low budget and awful, in stunning black and white. Richard Eyer (later to play the Genie in seventh Voyage of Sinbad put Robby the Robot back together with a screwdriver, and Robby helps make him The Invisible Boy (1957). In Black and White.
And there’s one not-well-known prequel – Billy Jack spawned The Trial of Billy Jack and Billy Jack goes to Washington, but was itself a sequel to The Born Losers (1967)
Any others?
Oh, yeah, another one. In this case, I’ll wager most people didn’t even know the original film existed
The Magnetic Monster – really low budget (but not all that bad, as I recall) 1953 SF movie hat was arguably followed by 1954’s Gog. Both are set at the lbs of the OSI (Office for Scientific Investigation), and were written by th sam guys. Some of the sae actors appar in both, but in different roles.
Just to chime in with CalMeacham about Invisible Boy, since I actually own a VHS copy of the movie. Originally saw it in a Saturday matinee back in the early 60s and was so taken with it that I ordered a copy as soon as I found a source.
Some great scenes in it, as the kid figures out how to make the robot work again, but nobody believes him because they are too preoccupied about problems with a huge, room-sized “computer.” So kid has the robot do fun things like make a kite big enough for the kid to ride on, turn the kid invisible, etc.
Some movies have literary sequels that are little known. All of the following sequels are books, not movies.
The sequel to the novel/film DANCES WITH WOLVES is THE HOLY ROAD (2001).
The sequel to the novel/film LITTLE BIG MAN is RETURN OF LITTLE BIG MAN (1999).
The sequel to the play/film THE LION IN WINTER is the novel MYSELF AS WITNESS. (The main character is John, now King of England.)
The (absolutely dreadful and nearly unreadable) sequel to ROSEMARY’S BABY is SON OF ROSEMARY (1998).
There are numerous sequels to MASH, including MASH GOES TO ______ (fill in the blank with Montreal, Vegas, Hollywood, Miami, Morocco, San Francisco, Maine, New Orleans, Paris, and others).
Many people don’t realize that ROBINSON CRUSOE was the first in a trilogy. The sequels were “THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE” (Friday gets whacked almost immediately in this book) and THE SERIOUS REFLECTIONS OF ROBINSON CRUSOE.
French Connection II gets overlooked quite often. Gene Hackman evens plays Popeye Doyle again.
Breakthrough starring Richard Burton is supposed to be a sequel to the Sam Peckinpah fiasco Cross Of Iron. James Coburn played the lead, Sgt. Steiner, in the first film.
There’s a Wild Geese II starring Scott Glenn but I think it has no actual relation to the first one.
Lee Majors played the Gary Cooper role in a made for TV sequel to High Noon. Pretty dreadful.
Would Oliver’s Story the sequel to Love Story count? Would anybody care?
Futureworld is a sequel to Westworld, that has a cheesy dream sequence featuring Yul Brynner’s Cowboy Robot character to make people think it has more to do with the first film than it does.
There was a TV movie sequel in the 70s to Rosemary’s Baby called Look What’s Happened To Rosemary’s Baby. It’s as bad as the title.
Sampiro, I’ve read MASH Goes To Texas. Do all of the sequels have that kind of tone (which got old very fast, and the book was only 189 pages) or are any of them closer to the original novel (which I loved)?
Just tonight while flipping through our numerous movie channels, I came upon American Psycho II. I didn’t watch it for more than a few minutes as it was more than half over, but it did have good ol’ Bill Shatner!
The first sequel, MASH goes to Maine was pretty good; IIRC it was the only one written solely by Richard D. Hooker, and it pretty much follows the tone of the original book. After that, they started going downhill, and I suspect that they were mostly written by the co-author (William E. Butterworth) with Hooker’s name being more of a courtesy/copyright matter.
Huckleberry Finn was a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Huck himself tells you this in the first paragraph. But what most people don’t know is that Twain wrote three more sequels, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, and Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians. All were forgettable, failed attempts to cash in on the success of the first two.
The Road Back (1937) was the sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). The Black Bird (1975) was a long-delayed sequel to The Maltese Falcoln (1941). Son of Kong (1933) followed quickly in the footsteps of King Kong (1933).
There were not one but two TV-movie sequels to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) showing the further adventures of Etta Place.
It wasn’t long ago, but how many of us remember the TV miniseries Scarlett (1996), the long anticipated sequel to Gone With the Wind (1939)?. I turned it off after the first half.
Anyone ever catch the made-for-TV sequel to “A Christmas Carol”?
I can’t remember when it came out or who played in it, but it basically has Scrooge being visited again by the Christmas Ghosts…this time, not because he’s being too mean to people, but because he’s being too nice!
For instance, the Ghost Of X-mas Future shows how his open-handed generosity to Tiny Tim winds up making Tim into a egotisical rich prick who evicts his own family on Christmas Eve!
So Scrooge has to learn how to treat people nicely without spoiling them or corrupting them with money. On Christmas Day, instead of telling the street urchin to buy the fattest goose at the market, he tells him to buy the “second-fattest goose”.
I swear to God this exists. I remember watching it.
Another related type of flick : The Movie Based on More Material from the Same Book the Famous Original Was Based On, But Which Didn’t Get Used in the Famous Original Movie. Not exactly a sequel. I can think of two examples.
1.) The Hawaiians – based on the stuff in James Michener’s novel Hawaii that wasn’t used in the Julie Andrews-Max von Sydow-Richard Harris film.
2.) Ari – based on the stuff in Leon Uris’ book that didn’t make it into the Paul Newman film Exodus.
Whoo Hoo! Can’t wait for the pseudo sequel to “Battlefield Earth”, where we get the rest of the book, and get to meet Roof Arsebogger, Slither Pliss, et al.
More seriously, everyone knows that “The Man in the Iron Mask” is something of a sequel to “The Three Musketeers”. But there are two other less well known sequels: “Twenty Years After” and “The Viscount of Bragelonne”.
I really intended this to be Movie sequels, but didn’t explicitly state that. Since others have moved onto literary sequels, I may as well note that Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon had the famous sequel Around the Moon and the less well-known The Purchase of the North Pole.
Furthermore, although people may know that The Mysterious Island is linked to, if not a sequel of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, I’ll bet they don’t know that there is a third linked book, The Children of Captain Grant. Disney filmed this under one of its alternate titles, In Search of the Castaways.
Actually, the movie The Lion in Winter was played as a sequel of Beckett. Peter O’Toole played King Henry II both times, and he performed the role as an extension of the same character.
The films Zulu and Zulu Dawn are interrelated, but it’s hard to say which is the sequel.
A Christmas Story was followed by 1994’s It Runs in the Family, about the Parker’s summer (following the winter of the previous movie I assume). It has Charles Grodin as the father, Mary Steenbergen as the mother, Kieren Culkin as Ralph, and Christian Culkin as Randy. It’s part of the example CalMecham stated, as it’s material from the Jean Shepard novel In God We Trust; All Others Pay Cash. He also narrates this movie, too.