# What movies promised us a sequel, then failed to deliver? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953 "2011-08-08T15:57:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/21 "2011-08-08T17:42:33Z")
The long “advertisement” (for Pepsi and McDonalds) _Mac and Me_ had the alien blowing a bubble at the end promising “We’ll be back!”. Alas, they haven’t been yet. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/22 "2011-08-08T17:42:46Z")
I’ll be very surprised if we see _Atlas Shrugged: Part II_–at least from the outfit that gave us _Part I_. ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/23 "2011-08-08T17:48:09Z")
The Incredibles Passion of the Christ ---
**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:** [August 8, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/24 "2011-08-08T17:50:03Z")
> [@bup](#): > > _ **The Fantastic Four** _. Huh? Are you talking about a sequel to the 1994 movie? Because they made a sequel to the 2005 movie. Or is this one of those “that movie doesn’t exists” posts? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/25 "2011-08-08T17:53:17Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > The Chronicles of Riddick > > Yes, I know they talk about it, but I’m not sure if it will ever happen. [Au contraire](http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c_id=mlb&content_id=17782089&query=game_pk%3D288608). ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/26 "2011-08-08T17:55:03Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > _Lord of the Rings_ Bakshi failed to deliver, didn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/27 "2011-08-08T17:58:04Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Speaking of Mel Brooks, what about _History of the World: Part I_ ? > > Of course, that was part of the joke. Whaaa? I was really looking forward to Hitler on Ice. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/28 "2011-08-08T18:00:37Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > I swear I saw an Airplane III promise at the end of the VHS tape we had. It did say something like “Coming soon: Airplane III.” Then William Shatner says, “that’s just what they’re expecting us to do” or some such. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/29 "2011-08-08T18:04:57Z")
[Forrest Gump](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump). There were always rumors of a sequel being made based on the novel [Gump and Co.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gump_and_Co.) But it never materialized. ---
**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 8, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/30 "2011-08-08T18:06:49Z")
Leonard Part 6. Part 7 would have been Bill Cosby’s greatest film appearance ever. Also, Spike Lee should have followed up Malcolm X with Malcolm XI. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/31 "2011-08-08T18:27:10Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Bakshi failed to deliver, didn’t he? Yep. That was a seriously disappointing movie. PJ’s version left us hanging, but at least we knew that two sequels were pretty much guaranteed. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/32 "2011-08-08T18:33:55Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > It did say something like “Coming soon: Airplane III.” Then William Shatner says, “that’s just what they’re expecting us to do” or some such. Parenthetically: Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker (the creative team behing the original movie) had nothing to do with Airplane II. I saw a sneak preview of “Top Secret!”, the movie which they made after “Airplane!”, several months before it was released; the three of them did a Q&A session after the screening. The story which they related was as follows: When “Airplane!” was a huge hit, Paramount came to them and said, “that was great, do a sequel!” They said, “but, wait, we’ve _done_ all the good disaster-movie jokes; we want to spoof something else.” Paramount replied, “we’re certain that a sequel will do well at the box office; we don’t know that a different spoof movie will.” The three of them said, “Well, _we_ aren’t doing a sequel.” Paramount’s reply: “That’s all right, we don’t need you, as we own the rights, we’ll just do it anyway.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/33 "2011-08-08T18:39:33Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Paramount’s reply: “That’s all right, we don’t need you, as we own the rights, we’ll just do it anyway.” And the rest was bad, unfunny history. I sort of remember reading a quote from one of them in which he compared watching it to watching someone rape his daughter. It wasn’t THAT bad. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/34 "2011-08-08T18:47:11Z")
Eragon. C’mon, the first movie wasn’t _that_ bad… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/35 "2011-08-08T18:48:27Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Huh? Are you talking about a sequel to the 1994 movie? Because they made a sequel to the 2005 movie. Or is this one of those “that movie doesn’t exists” posts? No, I completely forgot about the Silver Surfer sequel. Or, rather, I never saw it, and forgot that it had the Fantastic Four in it. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/36 "2011-08-08T19:03:55Z")
I didn’t see it, but I’m told that _Battlefield Earth_ (the movie) only covered the first half of the novel, and John Travolta was going to use the revenue from the first one to fund Part II. We all know how that ended up. > [@bup](#): > > _ **The Incredibles** _. > [@Shmendrik](#): > > The Incredibles Guys, I’m pretty sure that the ending scene of _The Incredibles_ isn’t intended as a promise of a sequel, but rather as a statement that the adventures will continue offscreen. A kind of a “…and they lived happily ever after” for the comic book genre. I seem to remember that soon after release, Brad Bird went on the record adamantly insisting that the story was over, and there would not be a sequel. (However, wikipedia – quoting [this article](http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=21218) – says otherwise. So who knows?) ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/37 "2011-08-08T19:10:56Z")
I’m still waiting for a sequel to _The Matrix_. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/38 "2011-08-08T19:24:18Z")
I’m waiting for _Loaded Weapon 2_ and _Potfest_. And I’m also long-tired of those “that movie never existed” posts. Yes, there was a _Highlander 2_ and a _Star Trek V_ and _Matrix_ sequels. The joke’s not funny any more, give it a rest. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/39 "2011-08-08T19:37:03Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > Also, there were rumors of sequels to the original Star Wars trilogy, but none were ever made. Realize your making a joking reference to the prequels (and seriously, can we retire the “hated movie was never made” joke yet?), but didn’t Lucas say he’d written three sequels as well as three prequels to Star Wars at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/40 "2011-08-08T19:41:36Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Realize your making a joking reference to the prequels (and seriously, can we retire the “hated movie was never made” joke yet?), but didn’t Lucas say he’d written three sequels as well as three prequels to Star Wars at some point. I think **Hentor** was actually referring to what you’re talking about, and not intended as prequel snark. My contribution is Roland Emmerich’s _Godzilla_. The end scene was pure sequel tease, but thank _god_ they didn’t follow up on it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953.md?page=3)