# 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:** 2
**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 12, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/21 "2019-09-12T17:05:12Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > 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. Reeves is also doing another Bill and Ted movie. I’m waiting for the Dean Youngblood/Ted Logan/Jack Traven/Mike Waters/Kevin Lomax/Chevalier Raphael Danceny/Siddhartha/Neo/Klaatu/Kai/Johnny Utah/Johnny Mnemonic/Jonathan Harker/John Constantine/John Wick/Duke Caboom crossover movie where Reeves is the entire cast. ---
**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 12, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/22 "2019-09-12T17:09:59Z")
Hawkeye, Trapper, Radar and Hot Lips meet up again in a veterans hospital. ---
**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 12, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/23 "2019-09-12T19:58:42Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Hawkeye, Trapper, Radar and Hot Lips meet up again in a veterans hospital. As … patients? Old folk (late 70s and 80s) with health problems. Set in the 90s. What, no Klinger? ---
**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 12, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/24 "2019-09-12T20:11:24Z")
By the Great Flying Head! Just about everyone who was in **Zardoz** is still with us! Including director John Boorman. On the other hand, the sight of an 89 year old Sean Connery as Zed running around in a red diaper with suspenders might be too much for modern audiences. We saw him crumbling into dust in the closing credits sequence (to the music of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony), but I have to assume that he didn’t just sit there the whole time he wa aging and dying. So maybe we can find out what he did while living in that crashed giant head after the Fall of Civilization. > **[Zardoz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz)** > > Zardoz is a 1974 science fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling. It depicts a post-apocalyptic world (which Boorman says, in the audio commentary, is matriarchal) where barbarians (the "Brutals") worship "Zardoz", a stone god with the power to grant either death or eternal life, and who—in the opening scene—declares: "The gun is good! The penis is evil!". In this future dystopia, while the Brutals live in a wasteland, their ... ---
**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 13, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/25 "2019-09-13T12:17:01Z")
Just remembered another for-real example. When Hanna-Barbera started making new episodes of _The Jetsons_ in the 1980s, over twenty years after the original run of the series, they were able to use the entire original voice cast. Voice artist Daws Butler\* commented proudly about this, claiming that they were the only TV show able to reunite the original cast after such a long hiatus. \*Butler did a lot of iconic voices (most notably Huckleberry Hound for Hanna Barbera/Country Wolf for MGM – they have the same voice), but I always think of him as “the ppor man’s Mel Blanc”. But maybe Don Messick is better suited for that position. All three worked regularly o The Jetsons. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/26 "2019-09-13T12:23:33Z")
Someone suggested remaking Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin as Kevin, but no one acknowledges he’s a 39 year old adult. ---
**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 13, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/27 "2019-09-13T13:34:04Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > As … patients? Old folk (late 70s and 80s) with health problems. Set in the 90s. What, no Klinger? Whatever. Take your pick. Klinger was not in the movie, and Wayne Rogers is dead. Take your pick. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/28 "2019-09-13T15:07:20Z")
NM ---
**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 13, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/29 "2019-09-13T16:33:06Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > On the other hand, the sight of an 89 year old Sean Connery as Zed running around in a red diaper with suspenders might be too much for modern audiences. It was a bit much for 1974 audiences. ---
**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 16, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/30 "2019-09-16T06:01:42Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Hawkeye, Trapper, Radar and Hot Lips meet up again in a veterans hospital. What about Rene Auberjonois, Robert Duvall, Carl Gottlieb, Jo Ann Pflug, John Schuck, Tom Skerritt, and Fred Williamson? It’s amazing how many members of the cast are still around almost fifty years later. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/31 "2019-09-16T11:32:25Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Magnum PI…the buddies solve crime at their assisted living facility. Many years ago, I imagined a sequel in which, through Magnum’s bumbling, Rick loses his bar, TC loses his chopper business and Higgins was either fired as the Major Domo for Robin Masters, or lost all his money if he WAS Robin (never quite understood the final word on that.) They were all living in a trailer park, and still getting on each other’s nerves, with pale imitations of their old arguments coming up again and again. Higgins: oh **my\*\*\*\*GOD** , Magnum, were you using the trampoline!? We didn’t agree to trampoline privileges! And I found a scratch on the Versa! Yeah. I amuse easily. They’re too old for trampolines, but I was told by someone at the time that trampolines were very big in trailer parks, and much of the social status of the children related to having one, or having use privileges. ---
**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 16, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/32 "2019-09-16T21:58:55Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > What about Rene Auberjonois, Robert Duvall, Carl Gottlieb, Jo Ann Pflug, John Schuck, Tom Skerritt, and Fred Williamson? > > It’s amazing how many members of the cast are still around almost fifty years later. Oh, the movie. Don’t forget Bud Cort. Sadly they can’t have Ben Davidson passing a joint on the sideline. Speaking of which. How about the original _Conan the Barbarian_? Besides Davidson, the most significant late, great is Mako. Quite a few of the main cast are still kicking. Do you want to live forever? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/33 "2019-09-16T23:56:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > What about Rene Auberjonois, Robert Duvall, Carl Gottlieb, Jo Ann Pflug, John Schuck, Tom Skerritt, and Fred Williamson? > > It’s amazing how many members of the cast are still around almost fifty years later. Ahem. Forget Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman, and Elliott Gould? Not to mention Gary Burghoff, the only movie actor to reprise his role in the TV series. They’re all alive, as well. ---
**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 17, 2019, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/34 "2019-09-17T06:41:47Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Ahem. Forget Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman, and Elliott Gould? Not to mention Gary Burghoff, the only movie actor to reprise his role in the TV series. They’re all alive, as well. They were all referenced in Annie’s post, which I was responding to. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/35 "2019-09-17T11:02:50Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > They were all referenced in Annie’s post, which I was responding to. You’re right. For some reason I was thinking of the TV series actors. ---
**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 17, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/36 "2019-09-17T12:28:05Z")
Hey, how about a sequel to **The Sound of Music**? The nuns are gone, I’ve afraid, and so are the Countess and Uncle Max, as well as several of the kids. But Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer are still around, and so is Daniel Truhitte, who played the “Sixteen going on Seventeen” boy who turns Nazi (although Charmian Carr is gone). And Marni Nixon and Bill Lee have died, so they’ll all have to sing themselves, or find new overdubbers. But you could still make a film with the ones left. You could use the Mad Magazine 1970 spoof “The Sound of More Music” as a script. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/37 "2019-09-17T15:26:17Z")
Real life example: They made a sequel to _Independence Day_ twenty years later, reuniting most of the cast (notable exception: no Will Smith). Some of the kids characters from the original film were in the sequel as adults, but I don’t recall if they were played by the same actors or not. Same director, too. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/38 "2019-09-17T15:37:53Z")
Happy Days - Tom Bosley is gone. Otherwise Mrs. C., Ritchie and his friends could do a reunion show. It would be interesting to see what Fonzie is doing these days. Richie is probably a CEO at a company. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/39 "2019-09-17T16:31:07Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Hey, how about a sequel to **The Sound of Music**? The nuns are gone, I’ve afraid, and so are the Countess and Uncle Max, as well as several of the kids. But Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer are still around, and so is Daniel Truhitte, who played the “Sixteen going on Seventeen” boy who turns Nazi (although Charmian Carr is gone). And Marni Nixon and Bill Lee have died, so they’ll all have to sing themselves, or find new overdubbers. > > But you could still make a film with the ones left. You could use the Mad Magazine 1970 spoof “The Sound of More Music” as a script. I kind of think people would be singularly uninterested in the von Trapp’s move to the US via Italy, and subsequent move to Vermont and setting up a music camp there, all while touring as the “Trapp Family Singers”. ---
**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 17, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/40 "2019-09-17T16:34:41Z")
**The Thing** The 1982 version, of course. I hated the recent “prequel” with a vengeance. Almost all of the stars are still alive, although Martin Dysart and Donald Moffat and Charles Hallahan have passed on. Director John Carpenter is still around, too. Of course, most of the cast were killed/absorbed by The Thing or died in other ways, but a really clever scripter can get around that. And we wouldn’t want to make another prequel – before The Thing showed up at the research station, things were clearly a drag. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975.md?page=3)