# 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:** 4
**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:** [September 11, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/61 "2022-09-11T02:33:57Z")
I thought someone had mentioned **National Treasure** , but I guess not. Only Riley appears to be involved, and maybe just a cameo. Not a sequel, but a Disney+ series. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QOTKWuIlmh8/maxresdefault.jpg "National Treasure: Edge Of History | Official Trailer | Disney+") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOTKWuIlmh8) ---
**Author:** ![BigDfromLA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@BigDfromLA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDfromLA)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/62 "2022-09-11T05:30:49Z")
Bend It Like Beckham II; The College Years The adventures of Jess and Jules as college soccer players at Sonta Claaaraaa in America. How they mesh with their teammates. Jess can fall for a classmate, creating a love triangle with ex-coach Joe. Jules experiments dating girls. The actual David Beckham can make a cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/63 "2022-09-11T05:45:12Z")
I was literally thinking yesterday for this topic about a sequel too. **Who Canceled Roger Rabbit**? After semi-retiring and living in relative obscurity for the latter half of the 20th century living off residuals but still happily married, a MASSIVELY successful TV cartoon reboot in the 2000s causes Roger Rabbit back to being the most popular cartoon character in the world. He’s now suddenly given his dream job, a chance to write and direct a Pixar CGI autobiopic of his life and a $200 million dollar budget. However someone from his past sends some incriminating film to him and a blackmail notice, Don’t Make This Movie Or Else. Unperturbed naively thinking people would understand, on his first day of directing he’s shocked to find out the film has been leaked and gone viral on Twitter. The film? A series of Top Secret WW2 cartoons shown only to the troops where Roger Rabbit fights the Nazis and the Japanese, dressing up as a Nazi to spy in the former and killing Japanese soldiers in the latter using VERY un-PC language and making several racist expressions. He tries to explain it was a different time and the government had told him they would only be shown for training purposes but it doesn’t work. Now the Woke Twitter Hate Mob has descended on his house and work with protest signs DEMANDING he be fired from the movie. When rape and death threats target Jessica Rabbit he decides enough is enough and quits the movie but now decides to do his own private investigating to find out who and why he’s being unfairly targeted. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/64 "2022-09-11T11:00:57Z")
Your version of a _Roger Rabbit_ legacy sequel is a little too dark for me, to put it mildly. Rape threats against Jessica? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/65 "2022-09-11T19:37:37Z")
I hear they’re doing a new Beverly Hills Cop. If it “deserves” it or not, I’ll leave to other posters. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/66 "2022-09-11T19:46:43Z")
I wanted it to be one of those “Gritty and Edgy Modern Day Reboots” that almost never work. The bad guy would be Eddie Valiants grandson who wants revenge on Roger after reading a leaked script for Rogers movie online and learns that Roger actually minimizes his grandfather’s role and makes Roger out to be the sole hero of the Judge Doom incident. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/67 "2022-09-11T23:38:07Z")
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/68 "2022-11-02T20:09:21Z")
Dunno if this is deserved but… > **[A Christmas Story Christmas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story_Christmas)** > > A Christmas Story Christmas is a 2022 American Christmas comedy film directed by Clay Kaytis with a script he co-wrote with Nick Schenk, from an original story co-written by Schenk and Peter Billingsley. It is a legacy sequel to A Christmas Story (1983) and is the eighth installment in the Parker Family Saga franchise. The film was produced by Billingsley and Vince Vaughn along with Cale Boyter, Jay Ashenfelter, Marc Toberoff and Irwin Zwilling. Billingsley reprises his role as Ralphie Parker ... ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/69 "2022-11-11T04:20:42Z")
A bunch of legacy sequels (some are actually reboots). Beetlejuice, National Treasure, Face/Off, and Kingpin are the most interesting to me. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zVODryWzSYw/maxresdefault.jpg "Legacy Sequels You Didn't Know Were Even Happening") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVODryWzSYw) ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/70 "2022-11-11T15:17:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 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? Pfft, did you miss the part where they said over and over and over “There Can Only Be One!” So, sorry, a sequel would be stupid. _Unless…_ that’s what you’re aiming for. Hmmm, that’s an idea: film a sequel so bad that it pisses on every single thing in the first movie, and becomes a weird passive-aggressive parody. But would anyone realize it wasn’t a real movie? ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/71 "2022-11-11T15:48:39Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Pfft, did you miss the part where they said over and over and over “There Can Only Be One!” So, sorry, a sequel would be stupid. They killed Sean Connery off in the first one, anyway. He was the coolest thing in it and he obviously can’t be in any potential sequel, so what’s the point? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/72 "2022-11-11T16:09:52Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > They killed Sean Connery off in the first one, anyway. Kind of had to, didn’t they? Since there can be only one. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/73 "2022-11-11T18:36:11Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Face/Off I didn’t realize this flick had any thing going for it. It’s a classic of sorts, huh? I remember watching it in a little truckstop theater. At one point I exclaimed: “you’d think she would have recognized his pecker!” A guy in the audience: “that’s what I was thinking!” ---
**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:** [September 25, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/74 "2025-09-25T21:16:49Z")
Did anyone picture **Spaceballs** getting a legacy sequel? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/75 "2025-09-25T21:25:20Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > anyone picture **Spaceballs** getting a legacy sequel? On the one hand Joan Rivers isn’t around to loudly complain about it, but on the other the sound of John Candy spinning in his grave will be deafening. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/76 "2025-09-25T21:40:45Z")
“Thelma and Louise” They survive the plunge into the river and wash up on an old mining claim and cabin. Become the wives of Abbeys’ much married Seldom Seen Smith, reopen the mine and become wealthy, incompetent eco terrorists. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/77 "2025-09-25T21:54:33Z")
It’s a shame we didn’t get an Undercover Brother sequel when Obama got elected. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/78 "2025-09-25T22:12:37Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > “Thelma and Louise” _Thelma and Louise_, but only if Brad Pitt got pregnant from the encounter, and the story is about the kid (now older than Brad was at the time), trying to figure out WTF. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/79 "2025-09-25T22:13:34Z")
I like it! ---
**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:** [September 28, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331/80 "2025-09-28T19:59:50Z")
And [The Devil Wears Prada](https://deadline.com/gallery/the-devil-wears-prada-2-film-set-photos/). Pretty amazing that it was 20 years ago and all 4 main actors are still active and at the top of their game. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-film-s-deserve-a-legacy-sequel/970331.md?page=5)