Wasn’t this called something like “The Great American Fourth of July Disaster?” I’m pretty sure it wasn’t “It runs in the family”
~Ferry
PS the book kicked ass
How about the “WKRP in Cincinnati: the Next Generation” series from the early 1990’s? It depicted the same radio station with a handful of the original characters, but with an adult-contemporary format and a bunch of yuppies on staff. it was mercifully short-lived and forgotten quickly.
As for books, let us mention, then forget about “H” the ‘sequel’ to “Wuthering Heights” that tells the story of what Heathcliff did during his decades long abscence from the gothic manor. And then there’s “Scarlett”; the continuing stoooo-ry of the “Gone with the Wind” shrew/heroine. Like the t.v. series, both books were bad ideas to begin with, and quickly forgotten.
Unknown sequels? Hell, there’s some movies out there which I never heard of until I noticed a sequel! The Shark Attack series comes to mind.l
Zulu Dawn was made after Zulu. However, ZD concerns the battle of Islawhanda, wheras Zulu conerns the defense of Roarke’s Drift, which took place just after the battle of Islawhanda. Zulu Dawn was made 15 years after Zulu (made in 1964). Rumor has it that Satnley Baker planned a whole bunch of military movies based on the exploits of Welsh soldiers, but he died in 1976 having only producing Zulu. Whether ZD (which also has Welsh troops) was part of his scheme is unknown.
The book I always loved for its massive continuity error. “Say Logan, how’d you get your DS gun back? Last we saw it you threw it into an autocar to throw off the signal…”
And there’s the analogous delay between National Velvet (1944) and International Velvet (1978).
There’s also a prequel, Butch and Sundance - The Early Days, directed by Richard Lester in 1979.
I have this movie on VHS- had to special order it. I THINK it is called “my Summer story” or something like that- however, the video box notates it was renamed. Mostly about the same character, and his quest for a killer top to beat the bully. Not bad at all, but it doesn’t have that spark of seasonal magic that makes “A Christmas story” a classic.
Those books are great, incidentally. Read them, dudes!
Did they ever make the sequel to “Doc Savage, man of Bronze” that the film mentions? Kinda campy, true, but enjoyable.
They also mentioned a sequel to Buckaroo banzai, but it never happened. Any idea why?
It must have been re-named, 'cause I always thought it was “My Summer Story” (or something simular). The IMDB lists it as “It Runs in the Family”. I wonder why they changed it.
A friend of mine recently had a garage sale. He was selling his hardback copy of the book (still un-adapted to film) Shaft Among The Jews.
According to the IMDb, it became Big Trouble in Little China but this site says otherwise.
Begelman committed suicide in '95.
Exactly. So is the sequel the movie made most recently, or is it the one showing events later chronologially?
The Hidden has a sequel called The Hidden 2. I can’t really describe the plot without giving away the ending to the first one, which is a great movie starring the top 3/4 of Claudia Christian’s ass.
There’s a second sequel, too, IIRC. Both sequels were made by and for the Sci-Fi Channel, and what I’ve seen of them is awful. The original Hidden, I agree, is great, even if it does rip off Hal Clement’s “Needle” shamelessly and without attribution.
Nope, they’re right, It Runs in The Family is the sequel, see? http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110168 I swear I heard a different title at one point too, though. hmmm.
Oh wait, it’s also called " My Summer Story" so there we go. (AFAIR it was called " my…" in the video store, and “it…” on cable this summer.)
There was a sequel to American Graffiti called, surprisingly enough, More American Graffiti.
Keith Berry, I will eat my hat it you’re not talking about some Rowan Atkinsons film. I think even it was a part of Black Adder. Were there really obese orphans, demanding food from Scrooge?
Hmmm… I was going to mention this movie, with this cast, but at the video store at which I worked, it was titled “My Summer Story.” Did an IMDB search, and it doesn’t say which title came first. Not that it matters.
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Oops. Should’ve read the whole thread before butting my nose in…
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While neither is a prequel nor sequel to the other, Vonnegut’s MOTHER NIGHT and SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 share characters and have both been made into better-than-you’d-expect movies. Howard Campbell, an American writer in Berlin who works as a Nazi sympathizer-broadcaster during WW2 but is secretly an American intelligence agent is a minor character in S5 and the main character of MN.
(Vonnegut himself was a character in S5 and in BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS [an unwatchable film] but was cut from the movie versions of each.)
The MST3K movie Alien from L.A. had a sequel, Journey to the Center of the Earth as bad as the original movie
In between A Christmas Story (1983) and It Runs in the Family (1994), was the made-for-PBS Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss (1988), starring James Sikking and Dorothy Lyman, with Jerry O’Connell as Ralph.
http://us.imdb.com/Details?0098023