# 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:** 3
**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 8, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/41 "2011-08-08T19:45:16Z")
Boy, nobody mentions **The Sword and the Sorceror** and its promise of _Tales of an Ancient Empire_? It’s been four years since the said they were actually making the sequel, and it _still_ hasn’t shown up. Note added: Apparently it has shown up, somewhere. I never saw it, or any advertising for it. And it didn’t star the people it was supposed to. Apparently this new film promises yet another sequel, _Red Moon_. I won’t hold my beath. > **[Tales of an Ancient Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_an_Ancient_Empire)** > > Tales of an Ancient Empire is a 2010 American fantasy-sword and sorcery film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Kevin Sorbo, Michael Paré, Whitney Able, Melissa Ordway, Ralf Moeller, Lee Horsley, and Victoria Maurette. It is a sequel to Pyun's directorial debut, The Sword and the Sorcerer. > Queen Ma’at finds her kingdom of Abelar under attack when treasure seekers accidentally open the tomb of vampire queen Xia. The Queen sends her half-sister, Princess Tanis, to the outlaw city of Douras to fi... Just as an aside, the sequel annonced at the end of the James Bond film **The Spy Who Loved Me** was _For Your Eyes Only_. Only it wasn’t – _Star Wars_ happened, so they made _Moonraker_ instead, blatantly ripping off the ending of Star Wars. Probably just as well they didn’t makeFYEO right away. It was one of the better Bonds, and easily Moore’s best, and it might not have beemn if they hadn’t gotten the silliness out of their system with that awful _Moonraker_ first. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/42 "2011-08-08T21:00:46Z")
_Little Shop of Horrors_. Little baby Audrey in the front lawn. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/43 "2011-08-08T21:13:48Z")
Baby Audrey on the lawn, Ming’s hand (or someone’s) picking up the ring… I don’t think you can count those as a promise (or even a vague suggestion) that a sequel is in the works. It’s just a little trope that horror movies love to toss out all the time. Sort of a “and it never ends!” kind of comment. My favorite twist on that was in the totally forgettable Lou Diamond Phillips movie “Bats.” Just when they think they have killed all the evil bats, and are driving off into the sunset, you see one more bat emerging from a hole in the ground. But then, the heroes in their Jeep run over it, splatting it to a pancake! ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/44 "2011-08-08T21:52:12Z")
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Never Say Never Again ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/45 "2011-08-08T22:03:13Z")
Not a feature film, but a TV movie or mini-series: **Babycakes** the fourth book in Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City” series of books. The first book was made into an excellent mini-series, the second and third books were made into Ok mini-series. Maupin tried hard to get a fourth mini-series or at least a TV movie made of the fourth book, but never got it off the ground. It’s quite a shame too. The fourth book, with the introduction of AIDS into the storyline, was the point at which the previously whimsical series took on some gravitas. The third book revolved around a fluffy, frankly ridiculous story about a drifter who may or may not have been Jim Jones. “Babycakes” really deserved a film treatment though, as it showed well-established characters undergo some truly dramatic life changes. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/46 "2011-08-08T22:04:20Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Boy, nobody mentions **The Sword and the Sorceror** and its promise of _Tales of an Ancient Empire_? > It’s been four years since the said they were actually making the sequel, and it _still_ hasn’t shown up. > Note added: Apparently it has shown up, somewhere. I never saw it, or any advertising for it. And it didn’t star the people it was supposed to. Apparently this new film promises yet another sequel, _Red Moon_. I won’t hold my beath. > [Tales of an Ancient Empire - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_an_Ancient_Empire) Oh man - reading the reviews of _Tales of an Ancient Empire_ was a treat. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/47 "2011-08-08T22:07:38Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > _Lord of the Rings_ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/48 "2011-08-08T22:32:04Z")
> [@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. You remember him saying that. I remember him saying that. Every freaking person in the US over the age of 30 remembers him saying that…except George Lucas. He denies he ever planned it as a 9 parter, much less wrote them. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/49 "2011-08-08T22:38:44Z")
_Godfather IV_ is rumored every few years. Supposedly there’s a treatment Puzo did around the time of GF3 that’s set between the “Young Vito” scenes of Godfather II and the beginning of Godfather I (roughly 1930-1940). Coppola himself said he’d like to contrast the Family under Vito with a modern day plotline of present don Vincent who is over a more “GoodFellas” family of street crime and no longer any pretense of anything noble. ---
**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, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/50 "2011-08-08T22:45:24Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > You remember him saying that. I remember him saying that. Every freaking person in the US over the age of 30 remembers him saying that…except George Lucas. He denies he ever planned it as a 9 parter, much less wrote them. :dubious: He never said it in the Director’s Cut Version of reality. ---
**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, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/51 "2011-08-08T23:30:42Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > 😕 Bakshi version. ---
**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, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/52 "2011-08-08T23:49:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Probably just as well they didn’t makeFYEO right away. It was one of the better Bonds, and easily Moore’s best, and it might not have beemn if they hadn’t gotten the silliness out of their system with that awful _Moonraker_ first. Personally, of Moore’s turns as Bond, my favourite is _Octopussy_, but I’m a sucker for Maud Adams and cold-war fiction. And the silliness came back in antibiotic-resistant-epidemic force for Moore’s _A View to a Kill_. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/53 "2011-08-08T23:51:34Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > You remember him saying that. I remember him saying that. Every freaking person in the US over the age of 30 remembers him saying that…except George Lucas. He denies he ever planned it as a 9 parter, much less wrote them. :dubious: True though that is, look at it this way. Do you \*\*want \*\*Lucus writing three more _Star Wars_ movies? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/54 "2011-08-08T23:52:42Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Bakshi version. Ah. I had forgotten that. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/55 "2011-08-09T00:05:32Z")
Baby’s Day Out. After being returned to his crib at the end, he snatches a book from the shelf titled something like Baby Goes to China. ---
**Author:** ![YPOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e99b99/32.png) [@YPOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YPOD)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/56 "2011-08-09T00:18:29Z")
Silvderado - at the end, the Kevin Costner character shouted “we’ll be back.” ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/57 "2011-08-09T00:58:06Z")
I am probably the only person who remembers this but there was a lame '80s comedy called Making the Grade which at the end promised its two main characters would come back. It even gave the title (which I don’t remember) but I am sure it was never made. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/58 "2011-08-09T01:28:28Z")
_Unbreakable_ was intended as the first movie in a trilogy. At the very least, M. Night wanted to do a second one, but a poor box office gross and too many people expecting a traditional superhero movie put the kibosh on that. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/59 "2011-08-09T01:42:41Z")
“Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” practically announced an impending sequel in its last minute or two. Despite that, and despite the fact it was a sensational movie, the producers have indicated that they haven’t any intention of making another. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/60 "2011-08-09T02:14:33Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > 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. Now this is funny! hh [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953.md?page=4)