# Shows, books, movies that were concluded in other shows, book, or movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713 "2011-05-30T00:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/21 "2011-07-26T03:38:32Z")
There is a novel, _As Time Goes By_, that relates the further adventures of the characters in _Casablanca_, and gives Richard Blaine some background. I’ve not been able to finish the damn thing. 🙂 ---
**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 26, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/22 "2011-07-26T14:31:02Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > There is a novel, _As Time Goes By_, that relates the further adventures of the characters in _Casablanca_, and gives Richard Blaine some background. > I’ve not been able to finish the damn thing. 🙂 Written by Michael Walsh, theatre critic for Time magazine, who also wrote a damn fine biography of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and later updated it. Gone With The Wind had updates with Scarlett, Rhett Butler’s People and The Wind Done Gone. Don’t bother reading them. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/23 "2011-07-26T20:12:44Z")
Randolph and Mortimer Duke from **Trading Places** were given a huge chunk of money by Prince Akeem in **Coming To America** while living on the streets. “Mortimer! We’re baaaack!” ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/24 "2011-07-26T20:54:52Z")
Indeed, the finest example of an inter-media “\*wrap-up” (\*from print to broadcast), is the tastefully executed _ **Rapture** _ storyline arc which was developed in the **Bible** and successfully concluded in two separate television shows ([one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgdA_V1WBZk&feature=related)and [two](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krOlt6pjg6E)). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/25 "2011-07-26T21:03:26Z")
The story of Prince John from _The Lion Winter_ is continued in the novel _Myself as Witness_ by James Goldman (who wrote the play and screenplay of TLiW). Surprising considering that John is an unlikeable character in TLiW and pretty much condemned historically, Goldman’s portrait of him in the novel is actually very sympathetic. It covers events leading up to the signing of _Magna Charta_ and John’s death the next year. Goldman also wrote the screenplay for _Robin and Marian_, in which Richard the Lionhearted isn’t the main character obviously but is an important character and his death a major event in the first quarter of the movie. Richard had previously been a major character in TLiW. =========== Speaking of English history, the miniseries _Elizabeth R_ is a direct continuation of _The Six Wives of Henry VIII_. Keith Michell doesn’t appear in E-R (it begins soon after his death) but many other characters (Abp. Cranmer, Katherine Parr, the brothers Seymour, etc.) are played by the same actors. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/26 "2011-07-26T21:10:32Z")
There’s a line or two in _Silence of the Lambs_ that Will Graham, the protagonist of _Red Dragon_, is a hopeless alcoholic in Florida now. ---
**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 27, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/27 "2011-07-27T14:31:03Z")
Frederick Forsyth wrote a sequel to Phantom of the Opera called Phantom of Manhattan. DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!!! ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/28 "2011-07-27T15:28:24Z")
The Iliad never goes into what happens at the end of the Trojan War, being the story of Achilles and his own issues. Virgil picks it up again in Book 2 of The Aeneid, with the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy. (I assume there are other stories that cover it, but those are the only ones I remember from Classics - I know the Trojan Horse was known about by Virgil’s time, which is why he added it. No doubt some more knowledgeable Dopers will pop up to fix the glaring errors I’ve just made :)) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/29 "2011-07-27T15:33:12Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > _The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_ is sort of continued toward the end of _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, at least toward the end. And from about the same time, we find out what happened to Captain Nemo from _20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea_ in _The Mysterious Island_. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/30 "2011-07-27T15:38:55Z")
Ooo, I’ve just remembered that _Heimskringla_ concludes the story of Troy - basically, Odin escaped the fall of Troy and rocked up to Scandinavia. That’s more about the craze of tracing ancestors back to Troy, though, rather than a desire to finish the story (which I guess the Aeneid was in part as well). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/31 "2011-07-27T15:40:10Z")
_Henry VI, Part 3_ is all wrapped up in _Richard III._ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/32 "2011-07-27T19:45:21Z")
> [@Double\_Foolscap](#): > > The Iliad never goes into what happens at the end of the Trojan War, being the story of Achilles and his own issues. Virgil picks it up again in Book 2 of The Aeneid, with the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy. > > (I assume there are other stories that cover it, but those are the only ones I remember from Classics - I know the Trojan Horse was known about by Virgil’s time, which is why he added it. No doubt some more knowledgeable Dopers will pop up to fix the glaring errors I’ve just made :)) The Trojan Horse is certainly mentioned in _The Odyssey_. IIRC, it’s talked about in the _Iliad_, as well, but I can’t ecall any citations. In fact, the _Odyssey_ is itself a continuation of _The Iliad_, as were a lot of lost poems, like the _Returns_, the _Little Ilad_, and others. A direct continuation of the events of the TRojan War after the Iliad is Quintus Smyrnaeus’ aptly-named _PostHomerica_. (If Matt Groening is smart, he can use that for his next cartoon after _The Simpsons_ ends.) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/33 "2011-07-27T20:00:45Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The Trojan Horse is certainly mentioned in _The Odyssey_. IIRC, it’s talked about in the _Iliad_, as well, but I can’t ecall any citations. In fact, the _Odyssey_ is itself a continuation of _The Iliad_, as were a lot of lost poems, like the _Returns_, the _Little Ilad_, and others. A direct continuation of the events of the TRojan War after the Iliad is Quintus Smyrnaeus’ aptly-named _PostHomerica_. (If Matt Groening is smart, he can use that for his next cartoon after _The Simpsons_ ends.) Checked a few sources, and I confirmed my recollection that while it is mentioned in The Odyssey, it is not mentioned in The Iliad, which ends before the fall of Troy. Thousands upon millions of kids reading the Iliad for the first time have been disappointed - I know I was. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713/34 "2011-07-27T20:02:30Z")
The **Thursday Next** novels by Jasper fforde have many examples of what happens to characters after their novels end. Miss Havisham, for instance, is a kind of the secret agent, and the Little Prince shows up at parties showing people a drawing of a hat. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-books-movies-that-were-concluded-in-other-shows-book-or-movies/583713.md?page=1)