# What film(s) deserve a Legacy Sequel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 25, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331 "2022-08-25T15:09:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/21 "2022-08-25T19:56:58Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Esp. if the kid is sort of straight laced. _Coming just in time for this holiday season, from Hallmark._ _A touching tale of innocence, faith, and White Russians._ _And a rug that really ties the family together…_ _The Littlest Lebowski._ ---
**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:** [August 25, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/22 "2022-08-25T20:22:39Z")
**The Graduate** is due for a legacy sequel. **The Geriatric** A disillusioned retired plastics salesman finds himself torn between his lover and her grandmother. _Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) returns to California to live with his kids after his wife dies and he retires from the plastics industry. He gets a cold welcome from his kids and Ben isn’t quite sure what to do with the rest of his life. He is soon seduced by Ms. Robinson, the foxy granddaughter of his dead father’s partner, who methodically pursues the horny old man. Soon, they are meeting regularly in hotel rooms. Warned by her to stay away from her grandmother Elaine, his kids goad him into taking her out on a date. He finds he quite likes rekindling his affair with old Elaine but when young Ms. Robinson learns he’s been having an affair with her own grandmother, she tries to spice things up in the bedroom to win him back. He’s smitten with the old bag however and pursues her._ On second thought, that may not fly today. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/23 "2022-08-25T20:43:05Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > **Star Man**. I really wanted to know what that kid was gonna do with the space marbles. you missed the pretty ok tv series ? > [@Miller](#): > > That’s going to be tough, what with Tim Curry being confined to a wheelchair and unable to speak clearly due to a stroke ten years ago believe it or not, he’s somewhat recovered from that ( he was seen at an award show a couple of years ago and complained/joked he was slowed down he was using a cane and he needed to drop a few pounds … ---
**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 25, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/24 "2022-08-25T22:23:18Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > **The Graduate** is due for a legacy sequel. A scene in _The Player_ shows Buck Henry [pitching](https://youtu.be/biaTRgFKJ3I) the idea of a sequel. Egad, that was done 30 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/25 "2022-08-25T22:57:13Z")
One movie that never had a followup was The Highlander, one of my favorite 80’s movies. Thing is, they kind of wrapped up it all up in that movie so it was sequel proof. Perhaps 40 years later, a new immortal somehow is discovered? Possibilities. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/26 "2022-08-25T23:00:18Z")
I am surprised no one tried to make a sequel to _Con Air_ showing Cameron Poe( Nic Cage"s character) going on further adventures and heroics like John McClane from _Diehard_. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/27 "2022-08-25T23:37:40Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > A scene in _The Player_ shows Buck Henry [pitching](https://youtu.be/biaTRgFKJ3I) the idea of a sequel. Wow, I never saw that but it’s similar to my suggestion. Buck Henry’s a funny guy. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/28 "2022-08-25T23:40:29Z")
Let’s do **Groundhog Day** again. Would love to see what all those zany characters are up to, and Bill Murray is always great. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/29 "2022-08-26T00:01:03Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Let’s do **Groundhog Day** again. Would love to see what all those zany characters are up to, and Bill Murray is always great Happy Death Day 2 U was a pretty successful sequel to a groundhog day style movie. Very funny. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/30 "2022-08-26T00:46:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Dunno. I’d like to see a Conan movie – as I’ve said many times before – that actually used stuff that Robert E, Howard has written. While I love a lot of the original stories (I have a sweet collection of his works, including many of the fragments), I don’t know how filmable they all are by modern standards. I mean, they absolutely could be done, but they could be problematic to modern tastes. I’d love to see an adaptation of ‘Queen of the Black Coast’ and would have thought it a great idea during the Pirates craze a decade or so back. But even with her character as a strong partner for Conan, the rest of the material has . . . moments. > [@Miller](#): > > That’s going to be tough, what with Tim Curry being confined to a wheelchair and unable to speak clearly due to a stroke ten years ago. I see @nightshadea brought it up, but while his health isn’t what I’d like it to be, he’s been back to doing voice work according to wiki, and I imagine any legacy sequel would have Darkness as a body double or (more likely) CGI - plus, it would work just as well if it went with the seduction style of the midpoint of the first movie, a banished Darkness whispering in the ear of a (grand?) son/daughter of Cruise. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > One movie that never had a followup was The Highlander, one of my favorite 80’s movies. Very good, the self hypnosis is holding. Just relax and don’t think too deeply… reeeeelllllaaaaaxxxxx… (backs away slowly as to not break the illusion) ---
**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 26, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/31 "2022-08-26T00:49:09Z")
Gads! I actually heard that in my head in “Announcer Voice.” ---
**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:** [August 26, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/32 "2022-08-26T01:50:43Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > I don’t know how filmable they all are by modern standards. I That’s not how the folks who made **Sword and the Sorceror** felt about it. They lifted the best moments of that movie from Howard’s Conan stories and rushed the thing into theaters before the official Conan movie. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/33 "2022-08-26T12:44:36Z")
I really liked the first **Mad Max** film. Only really liked the first ten minutes of **Mad Max 2** (lost interest when Max sees the Gyrocopter) and obviously didn’t like **Thunderdrome**. Nor did I like the recent **Fury Road**. Not convinced there’s actually a story that could interest me set forty years after Mad Max but IF there was such a story and IF **Mel Gibson** AND the last of the V8 Interceptors could justifiably be up front and centre stage in the narrative… TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/34 "2022-08-26T13:31:38Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > **King Conan** , sequel to Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer, with Ahhhnold. 🙂 PLOT: Conan does a pretty good job as king, but he gets frustrated with the endless responsibilities and the infighting with members of his own faction who think he’s too liberal as king to be one of them. He also has some personal scandal, including an affair with a servant maid, which results in a divorce from Mrs. Conan. So he retires as king and goes back to barbarianism, his real love. The end. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/35 "2022-08-26T13:50:39Z")
THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF THE DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS. Mandy Patinkin wants to retire from piracy and pass the _Revenge_ onto Wesley’s and Buttercups daughter. Most of the cast is still around and we can get Miracle Max to Jedi ghost Andre the Giant back for a few more rhymes. We must get Rob Reiner though. No Reiner - no sequel. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/36 "2022-08-26T14:07:09Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I’ll start: **The Truman Show** > > While the ending of the original is pretty fantastic, there could be an amazing opportunity on commentary on current celebrity and social media culture on visiting Truman many years after. What has he done with his newly found life? How has society reacted to the reality of Truman? Can he live up to the worldwide celebrity? What happened to Christof after his masterpiece has crashed down around him? It’s been nearly 25 years, life goes on. > > Jim Carrey and Ed Harris are both still active, as is Laura Linney but I’m not sure she’s someone we’d follow in the sequel. I’d be down for that. And Natascha McElhone is the love interest we’d want to see (although I’m sure Laura’s character would have written a tell-all book in the interim). > [@ParallelLines](#): > > I’ll add a note for a movie that has long been asked for, but never (yet) materialized - **King Conan** , sequel to Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer, with Ahhhnold. 🙂 > > Ideally it would be an adaptation or inspired by one of the last Conan stories, an aged but still vital Conan is separated from his retinue and decides enough is enough - his heir is old enough to take control of things and he’s long tired of his role as King, and heads out on his final journey. Although others have their own opinions. Another “yes” vote from me. > [@running\_coach](#): > > I want to know how **Charlie** is doing with his **Chocolate Factory.** A sequel to which film? Note that Dahl did write a sequel that immediately followed the events of the first book, [Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Great_Glass_Elevator). It is considerably less interesting than the first book and more episodic, although it does introduce us to the [Vermicious Knids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_characters#The_Vermicious_Knids). Maybe a brief mini-series instead? > [@Mahaloth](#): > > **Serenity** - this was the movie made after Firefly was cancelled and it was certainly good enough to warrant a sequel. It’s been 17 years and I think it qualifies. Disney, which now owns it, is too busy producing a reboot. Which I’m sure will be FINE. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/37 "2022-08-26T14:16:43Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > A sequel to which film? > > Note that Dahl did write a sequel that immediately followed the events of the first book, [Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Great_Glass_Elevator). It is considerably less interesting than the first book and more episodic, although it does introduce us to the [Vermicious Knids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_characters#The_Vermicious_Knids). Maybe a brief mini-series instead? - Either one. 20-30 years in the future. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/38 "2022-08-26T15:50:57Z")
@CalMeacham - we could argue about what Hollywood considers appropriate and box office poison for hours, but that’d be an entirely different thread. All I will say is that quite a few movies of the early/mid 80s just would not be done today (and for good reason!). Anyway, this thread is about a legacy sequel WITH the original actors as possible, which is the main reasons I suggested the ‘King Conan’ story / era, rather than most of the original works, or even The Phoenix on the Sword - Ahhhhnold is probably too old to make it convincing and I don’t want to see a CGI’d youthfulness effort done. A compromise, which would work better as a miniseries on a streaming or pay-platform would be Ahhhnold as King Conan in which he is telling stories to his son about his exploits as a younger man, with a newly cast character then enacting many of the original stories, and King Conan providing the framing bits. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/39 "2022-08-27T17:12:22Z")
**Soul Man 2 - Putting On The Ritz** C. Thomas Howell and Rae Dawn Chong have a son together who’s applying to college. As a result of his experiences in the first movie Howell is now a major philanthropist and proponent for Black causes though the events of the first film have all faded from public memory. Their son who’s mixed race is trying to apply to a major ivy league college but his GPA isn’t that great, so he tries to get in using a sports scholarship since the colleges sports teams aren’t any good and he senses an opportunity to get in that way. However it turns out that there are public rumors that the coach in charge of the sports team (sport he’s applying too currently undetermined) is racist which is why their sports teams have so few black players (and also why their teams suck in the first place) so the son plans on posing himself as white and using make-up to hide his black features. Posing as an upstanding white guy he’s accepted by everyone and gets on the team becoming the star player, where he witnesses anti-black racism by both the coach and other students firsthand because they all think “he’s one of them” and show their true colors. However all of this is disrupted when video footage of events from the first movie comes out showing C Thomas Howell in blackface causing a massive scandal and internet uproar where despite his good works Howell gets publically “cancelled” and this winds up dragging his son into this where not only does he get exposed in front of his racist friends that he’s mixed, now other black people he knows claims he’s a “sell-out” for posing as white and try to cancel him too It’s going to be a wacky comedy for the internet age! ---
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There’s one insurmountable problem with this: Teri Garr is still around, Bob Balaban, too. Probably Roy’s kids. But Dreyfuss is in his seventies and won’t be able to pass for 35-ish when he gets off the spaceship. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331.md?page=3)