# The Stars are Still Alive, Let's Make a Sequel! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [September 10, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975 "2019-09-10T11:31:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [September 10, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/1 "2019-09-10T11:31:43Z")
Pepper Mill was watching _A Very Brady Renovation_ last night on HGTV, featuring a bunch of the actors who played the Brady kids, now grown up. Earlier in the evening, I had been watching John Huston’s _The Man Who Would be King_. The thought struck me that the three leads, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, and Christopher Plummer, were still around. (Saeed Jaffrey, who played “Billy Fish”, died four years ago. But Michael’s wife, Shakira, who had an almost invisible role as Roxanne, is still around). You could do a sequel for the movie (unlike _Young Frankenstein_, which came out around the same time, and most of whose stars have passed away). They’ve done this before – look at Neil Simon’s sequel to \*The Odd Couple[/i[, featuring the stars of the original movie, Jack Lemmmon and Walter Matthau, made decades after the original. He basically stole the story idea (their kids get married) from the TV movie sequel to the TV series, starring the original stars, Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, decades later. So there’s definitely precedent. Of course, two of the characters were dead, but Hollywood has never found that an insuperable obstacle. Look at how Ygor magically returned to life for _Ghost of Frankenstein_. Or how, despite being unmistakably killed over and over again, Dracula keeps coming back. **The Man Who Would be KIng II** Kipling (Plummer) at his desk in Sussex: Who is it? Who’s there? Peachy Carnahan (Caine): Give us a drink. Kipling (Squinting to see better): Carnahan! But you’re dead! They told me they found you in a gutter in India! Peachy: Oh, no, me and Danny were always hard to kill. Isn’t that true, Danny? Danny Dravot (Connery): That’s right, brother! I could use something to wet my throat, too! Kipling: But…but Peachy was carrying your head. With a crown. I kept in on my mantle for years! Peachy: Ah, no. That was Ootah the Terrible’s head. I rescued it after the polo match. Needed a place to keep the crown. Danny: We’re lookin’ for new worlds to conquer. All we ask is that you grant us the use of your study, and that you witness the signing of a contrack betwixt myself, Danny, and Roxanne. Roxanne (Shakira0: Hello. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/2 "2019-09-10T12:10:49Z")
\*Taxi Driver 2: Graveyard Shift. \*Travis Bickle has another mental breakdown after the last porno theater in New York closes down and shoots up the Times Square Disney store. Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd and a CGI Peter Boyle. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/3 "2019-09-10T13:25:06Z")
**Three Mules for Sister Sara** – Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine return as Hogan and Sara, now retiring from running their casino-cum-bordello in San Francisco just in time for the 1906 earthquake. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/4 "2019-09-10T13:30:48Z")
**Lyndon – The Return of Barry Lyndon** – Despite what the narrator said at the end of the first film, Lyndon (Ryan O’Neal) finally finds success as a Con Man and procures another fortune, at which point the peg-legged rogue returns to re-woo the Countess (Marisa Berenson), despite the disapprobation of Lord Bullingdon (Leon Vitale) and his former tutor, Reverend Runt (Murray Melvin). Captain Potsdorf (Hardy Krueger) shows up to testify to Barry’s character, or lack thereof. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/5 "2019-09-10T13:48:49Z")
**Rocky II – The Bride of Rocky Horror** C’mon, you can fill this one in by yourself. The whole cast’s still around except for Charles Gray and Jon Adams. You gather them all together for The Bride of Rocky Horror. It’s gotta be better than **Shock Treatment**. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/6 "2019-09-10T14:23:22Z")
_ **Zorro: The Gayer Blade** _ - all the main principals are still alive. Tagline: Action! Adventure! Romance! None of the above! Tagline2: Already boycotted by the LGBTQ community! ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/7 "2019-09-10T17:21:13Z")
“Barefoot in the Park…with Walkers” Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, now great-grandparents, move into a retirement community into a one-bedroom unit identical to their first apartment in New York. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/8 "2019-09-10T17:36:04Z")
Magnum PI…the buddies solve crime at their assisted living facility. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/9 "2019-09-10T18:58:32Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Magnum PI…the buddies solve crime at their assisted living facility. But John Hillerman’s dead. That’s a pretty big gap. Plus there would be the confusion with the reboot. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/10 "2019-09-10T19:03:02Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > But John Hillerman’s dead. That’s a pretty big gap. Plus there would be the confusion with the reboot. Thats true. The reboot and the original might share the same name but in style and tone they are quite different. The original Magnum was character driven and about friendship and male bonding. I dont think the reboot has the same dynamic. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/11 "2019-09-11T00:22:47Z")
Hulk Hogan and “Tiny” Lister are still alive!!! Hollywood should making _ **No Holds Barred II** _ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/12 "2019-09-11T00:49:20Z")
Felt really, really old when I found out it is The Jerk’s 40th anniversary this year. Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, M Emmet Walsh, Jackie Mason, Bill Macy, Caitlin Adams and Carl Gottlieb are still alive. Surely that’s enough for a sequel. Navin’s parents, sadly, are both gone. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/13 "2019-09-11T05:24:55Z")
While most of the cast of\*\* Annie Hall\*\* are still alive… do we really want Woody Allen making more movies? ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/14 "2019-09-11T12:28:23Z")
I’d suggest **Dirty and Smelling of Urine Harry,** with Clint reprising his presidential interview with the chair, and injecting great honesty to the ‘did I fire six shots or only five; to tell you the truth I lost count’. Of major series co-stars who lived to be sequelled - Tyne Daly and Hal Holbrook are about all that’re left. Sadly Albert Popwell isn’t around to make it six Clint Eastwood movies. PS - A [very prescient observation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxnlx7JoAP4) from the future. Worth sitting through the first 1:15. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/15 "2019-09-11T16:54:10Z")
**Xanadu II – Olympus** Gene Kelly’s gone, but most of the cast is still alive and performing. ELO’s still there, and so are The Tubes. Of course, I’m not sure anyone would _want_ a sequel to the badly-panned film, but it apparently has a cult following, and the record did really well, as did a Broadway version (which poked fun at the film), so it might pay off. > **[Xanadu (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(film))** > > Xanadu is a 1980 American musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel, and directed by Robert Greenwald. The film stars Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck and Gene Kelly in his final film role. It features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff Richard, and the Tubes. The title is a reference to the nightclub in the film, which takes its name from Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China. This city appears in Kubla Khan by Sa... ---
**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:** [September 11, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/16 "2019-09-11T16:56:33Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > “Barefoot in the Park…with Walkers” > Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, now great-grandparents, move into a retirement community into a one-bedroom unit identical to their first apartment in New York. The Way We Are Now…With Walkers Ditto Streisand and Redford ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/17 "2019-09-11T17:25:48Z")
A real life example was _Texasville_ (1990). It was a sequel to _The Last Picture Show_ (1971), made nineteen years after the original. It had most of the original cast (Clu Gallagher and Ben Johnson were both still alive but didn’t appear in the sequel). The surprising thing is that Bogdanovich could now make a third movie in the series with the same actors. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/18 "2019-09-11T17:46:59Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > While most of the cast of\*\* Annie Hall\*\* are still alive… do we really want Woody Allen making more movies? I was just mentioning _Play It Again, Sam_ in another thread and checked. Most of the key people are still alive except for Susan Anspach who died just last year. Pretty good for a 1972 movie. It would be really great fodder for a sequel … except for one little thing. Jerry Lacy is still active. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/19 "2019-09-11T22:47:16Z")
Just for comparison, Micheal Apted is still at it with his original group of 7 year olds, 56 years later! [63 Up](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8929142/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/20 "2019-09-11T23:59:13Z")
Seems every actor in any movie that made even a small profit, no matter their labors over the ensuing years, will eventually come back to make an appearance, or star in, a ‘remake’. I believe Keanu Reeves is going to do another Matrix movie. It’s called the ‘Make a Big Fat Paycheck at the end of your career’ syndrome. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975.md?page=2)