# So what's the next super-big, multi-part movie saga gonna be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320 "2004-08-30T23:39:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/21 "2004-08-31T14:22:11Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > To save time, they could make “The Horse and Prince Caspian” followed by “The Last Voyage of the Silver Chair.” You are SUCH the Tashlan\*! \*Narnian for “AntiChrist” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/22 "2004-08-31T14:45:10Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/) > > But there’s no indication it’s going to be a multi-part saga. Well, last time I talked to Joss (!)\*, he said while Serenity was a stand-alone, it also would serve as the first of a trilogy, so I think it counts. 😃 \*Comic-Con2004, San Diego. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seeker\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@The\_Seeker\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seeker_1)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/23 "2004-08-31T15:02:48Z")
_Robert Jordan’s_ **The Wheel of Time** series. Twelve movies in all, one released every year, starting in 2006. Total running time = 38 hours! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/24 "2004-08-31T15:32:14Z")
[HGTTG](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/25 "2004-08-31T19:32:53Z")
Oh, that would make me very happy indeed. 🙂 _Spider-Man_ has one more movie in it, I think. Not because it’s not good or not iconic, but because I think that’s what the principals have said. I think the movies will stand the test of time, though who knows how they end up looking next to _Star Wars_ and _Indy_ and that breed. _X-Men_ could go for a few movies more, though I have no idea how they’ll keep paying all the stars. _Batman_ could be poised for a comeback. He’s already an icon, and it sounds like the movie they’re working on now has some real potential. Who knows, maybe the same could happen for _Superman_. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/26 "2004-08-31T20:31:13Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > There’s one more Indiana Jones movie in the works. > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/) Please do not take at face value any IMDb entries for a work in production. The IMDb is built on user submissions that are (barely) vetted by an overworked staff, and their entries for upcoming movies are extremely unreliable. \ ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/27 "2004-08-31T20:35:08Z")
Are there any plans to do any more with Patrick O’Brien’s characters (_Master and Commander_)? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/28 "2004-08-31T20:42:14Z")
> [@MidnightRadio](#): > > It’ll probably never happen or, if it does, it’ll be done on TV because Stephen King seems to love to see his stuff on TV, but I’d love to see a multi-film adaptation of _The Dark Tower_. I absolutely love the Dark Tower books, but a movie/tv adaption of them would royally suck ass. ---
**Author:** ![JustPlainBryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@JustPlainBryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustPlainBryan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/29 "2004-08-31T20:44:57Z")
According to [this](http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&id=1808475636&cf=prev), Preliminaries are underway to bring the “His Dark Materials” trilogy to life. If done right, it could be as big as the Harry Potter Movies. ::crosses his fingers:: ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/30 "2004-08-31T21:00:47Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > I’d love to see some maddened director start a series of action/adventure movies, set in an alternate dimension, that teams up Jeff Bridges’ The Dude and Johnny Depp’s Hunter S. Thompson. They’d be crazy interdimensional warriors seeking to topple an evil alien empire. You SOB! Why did you have to unleash something so delightful and unattainable on my imagination? WHY?!? Hell, a HST and Dude movie could be as cool, if not cooler, than a Freedy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash movie. Just thinking about it is like looking at a strikingly beautiful woman that you knowm you can’t have. Now you’ve gone and pissed me off :mad: . _punches you_ > [@ftg](#): > > [HGTTG](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/) I’m thinking the same thing. If the first movie is as good as we all hope it’ll be, I think everyone would look forward to it’s sequals. Who knows, maybe if they make it to Mostly Harmless they can give it a quality happy ending. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/31 "2004-08-31T21:35:10Z")
I can’t help but hope that Futurama goes the Star Trek route and becomes a movie franchise, since its chances in TV seem dead. (Yes, Family Guy is making a comeback, but so far, tere’s been no industry buzz that Futurama might. I therefore have no hope.) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/32 "2004-08-31T21:36:53Z")
**John Varley** ’s \*Titan / Wizard / Demon \* trilogy would be cool to see on the big screen, if it was done right. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/33 "2004-08-31T21:38:52Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Please do not take at face value any IMDb entries for a work in production. The IMDb is built on user submissions that are (barely) vetted by an overworked staff, and their entries for upcoming movies are extremely unreliable. > > \ True enough, but this movie has been bandied about for a while and there is some critical mass, including a provisional OK by HF. Will it happen? I give it a 50% chance at this point. Besides, a good friend of mine is one of the founders of IMDB… ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/34 "2004-08-31T22:37:05Z")
[Farscape](http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/farscape/) ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/35 "2004-08-31T23:32:52Z")
> [@MidnightRadio](#): > > It’ll probably never happen or, if it does, it’ll be done on TV because Stephen King seems to love to see his stuff on TV, but I’d love to see a multi-film adaptation of _The Dark Tower_. I’ll second this. I doubt it would be considered “epic”, considering how **The Stand** turned out, but it would make me happy. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/36 "2004-09-01T00:31:18Z")
> [@](#): > > You SOB! Why did you have to unleash something so delightful and unattainable on my imagination? WHY?!? Hell, a HST and Dude movie could be as cool, if not cooler, than a Freedy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash movie. Just thinking about it is like looking at a strikingly beautiful woman that you knowm you can’t have. Now you’ve gone and pissed me off . I’m sorry, I’m _ow_ sorry! Look, if it makes you feel better, I’ll make it my life’s ambition to write, produce, and otherwise somehow get this project completed! I swears it! I swears on the Precious, you fiend! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/37 "2004-09-01T00:45:38Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Oh God, yes! But only if they try to make the _books_, ala Harry Potter, not movies with the same titles as the books(Starship Troopers, gag) What gives me hope is that the director of this is the guy that’s doing _Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow_, note that his **first** film isn’t even out yet, and they’ve already signed him to do another flick. Which means that either _Sky Captain_ is the kind of rip-roarin’ good movie that Hollywood _desperately_ needs to be turning out, or it’s such a commercial piece of trash that it’ll suck so bad as to turn all of Hollywood into a blackhole, and thus prevent _A Princess of Mars_ and anything else from being made. It’s a win-win, either way. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/38 "2004-09-01T00:52:02Z")
I’ve said it before: I wanna see _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ done up as a nice trilogy. And I’d like to see Philip K. Dick’s _VALIS_ trilogy made. (_VALIS, The Divine Invasion,_ and _The Transmigration of Timothy Archer_.) Done _properly_. mind. Maybe by Darren Aronofsky. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/39 "2004-09-01T22:34:46Z")
While I only found [The Bourne Identity](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258463/) to be an okay movie, I liked [The Bourne Supremacy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372183/) a lot more. I think they could be built into a credible spy thriller/action series. A James Bond for the new generation, but with a main character who’s less polished/debonair - more nitty gritty fights, pursuits and martial arts . I don’t think a series of Bourne movies would become anywhere near as popular as the Bond movies, but it could still do pretty well. Although I’m not sure if the box office gross from Identity/Supremacy is large enough support developing more movies, but they definitely wrote the ending to the last one in a way that would be easy to develop through further movies. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320/40 "2004-09-01T23:01:36Z")
Very interesting ideas, all. It’s fun to have big illusions to look forward to! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-next-super-big-multi-part-movie-saga-gonna-be/262320.md?page=1)