According to the Internet Movie Database, the 1980 Frank Sinatra movie, “The First Deadly Sin,” was based on a novel by Roderick Thorp called “The Detective.” The sequel to this book, “Nothing Lasts Forever,” was also made into a movie…1988’s “Die Hard.” (Also, Bruce Willis apparently has a walk-on part in the Sinatra flick). Huh.
Then the IMDB is full of it, because The First Deadly Sin was based on the Lawrence Sanders novel of the same name.
Well, as far as literary sequels go, I’m sure there’s tons of novelizations out there from Star Trek to Quantum Leap.
But Gary K. Wolf, the author of Who Censored Roger Rabbit? followed it with Who P-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit? Only, “Plugged” was a sequel to the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and not to “Censored.” On the back cover of “Plugged,” it states that Wolf was working on the third Roger Rabbit novel. Um… it seems he’s still working on that. (Oh and there was also a graphic novel sequel called The Return of Doom which I s’pose was about the return of Judge Doom.)
As far as movies go, The Talented Mr. Ripley is a remake of 1960’s Plein Soleil aka Purple Noon. It’s a prequel to 1977’s The American Friend which stars Dennis Hopper in the Matt Damon role. And it’s going to have two sequels; Ripley’s Game starring John Makovich and White on White. There’s also the books Ripley Under Ground and The Boy Who Followed Ripley.
Since we’re allowed doing literary stuff, I was shocked, shocked to discover that in my edition of Paradise Lost there was the little known sequel, Paradise Regained. Not nearly as amusing (to me), few people realize that The Mists of Avalon is one book in a series of… 5?
The book “101 Dalmations” was followed by “A Starlight Barking”
I am 46 years old and still remember this.
I remember the ads.
William Goldman wrote the novel ‘Brothers’ - a sequel to his previous novel ‘Marathon Man’ - which begins with the surprising revival of the brother we see/read exsanguinate and die in the previous film/book. Good book though.
The Thorp novel was The Detective, which (like The First Deadly Sin) was turned into a Sinatra movie (same name), in 1968.
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**The move Cruel Intentions was, of course, a modern teen sex romp based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses. I am a big fan of de Laclos’ book, and so watched both Cruel Intentions and the direct-to-video Cruel Intentions II. The latter was in fact a prequel to the former, and even had an extremely interesting premise–what would the affair between Valmont and Mertueil * have been like (if, of course, they were modern teens).
It was, naturally, executed poorly, in part because the filmakers insisted on making Valmont, the protagonist, sympathetic.
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This has to be the WORST movie I have EVER seen. The acting/storyline/everything was just TERRIBLE (and there was no Ryan Phillipe). I was very disappointed because Cruel Intentions was really good. This sequel even had the tacky sub-title: Manchester Prep. Eerrgghh! Where’s my bucket?
Mary Poppins, by P.L. Travers was only the first of a series. I’m not sure how many there were in the series in total, but I remember reading 5 or 6 of them as a kid.
I’ve been looking for these for years with no luck.
Tips?
Lori Petty?
BUT even better, it starred Harold (w/o Maude) - BUD CORT!!!
I don’t really consider literary sequels all that remarkable as novels are so much cheaper to make than movies that a sequel is all but guaranteed if the original produces any kind of money whatsoever. But I do know of a very obscure sequel: Steve Vance’s novel “The Abyss” is a sequel of sorts to a little-known cult horror novel “Let’s Go Play At The Adams” by Mendel Johnson. It’s “of sorts” because it involves people who read the Adams novel and copycat the original crime, with the widow of the author of the Adams novel as a character.
There’s also an actual sequel, “The End of The Game” by Barry Schneebeli, but as the Adams novel is in some kind of copyright hell, it’s not likely to be published.
For the record: I wrote a “bug patch” for the novel in which I altered the ending to make it into some decent softcore bondage porn. Nobody liked it but me.
I just saw Timecop 2 advertised on PPV. Haven’t seen it yet though.
It was cheesy as all hell, but I must say that I rather enjoyed the original Timecop. Although I am a sucker for time travel movies.
It’s actually a little better than #2 (not difficult)
James Cameron’s first movie was a sequel: Pirhanna II: the spawning
There were two sequels to The Howling ending in Attack of the Were-Wombats slightly paraphrased title
Scanners has three sequels ending with Scanner Cop II
From Dusk Til Dawn has two sequels ending with From Dusk Til Dawn III: The Hangman’s Daughter
And aren’t a platoon of Universal Soldier movies?
Joshua Jackson was in a crappy little flick called The Skulls. You can rent The Skulls II and The Skulls III. The sequels were both direct to video and don’t have Pacey.
In 1985 there was Return to Oz, a sequel to The Wizard of Oz and much darker in tone. The screenplay is based on the second and third Oz books.
Oh, Troll II has the distinction of being best placed sequel (#5) in IMBDs worst films of all time
and Soup, just FTR, I was one of the first people in the world to see [url=“http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0089908/”]Rteturn to Oz - I was at the crew screening. Didn’t stop it sucking pretty badly, though.
Everyone knows about The Neverending Story. Well, I guess in an attempt to make it truely neverending, a sequel was made, The Neverending Story 2. Many people know about that, but did you know there was a Neverending Story 3?
There was also a short lived TV series, Tales from the Neverending Story.
Chester Anderson’s novel The Butterfly Kid has two sequels: The Unicorn Girl by Michael Kurland and The Probability Pad by T.A. Waters. They’re fun, in a '60s-hippies-in-Greenwich-Village kind of way.