# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/81 "2011-08-09T22:39:13Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > _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. Yes, we had our birth of a superhero movie. I wanted my superhero movie follow up dang it! ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/82 "2011-08-09T22:45:40Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > 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. That sure seems plausible. The movie as filmed covers (loosely) the first half of the book. The second half of the book, with all the intergalactic finance law, is not covered in the movie. This is probably for the best, because if the first movie can’t make fighting an alien occupation exciting, there’s no way that they can make alien bankers trying to repossess the Earth fun. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/83 "2011-08-09T23:11:42Z")
The end of \*\*Jumper \*\*set things up for a sequel that never happened. ---
**Author:** ![clarkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@clarkstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clarkstar)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/84 "2011-08-09T23:33:01Z")
the bond movie with halle berry was supposed to have spawned a “Jinx” spinoff movie ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/85 "2011-08-09T23:51:16Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > One listed was **Spaceballs 3: In Search Of 2** , which would have rocked. Now, I’m the one nerd who really can’t stand Spaceballs(way too much of it cribbed directly from the source material, just with silly names and farts), but that title is fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Bartman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bartman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bartman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/86 "2011-08-09T23:57:46Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > The end of \*\*Jumper \*\*set things up for a sequel that never happened. Actually Jumper seemed more like a pilot to a TV show to me than a either a stand alone movie or a lead in to a sequel. It resolved very few of the problems/issues/plot-lines it brought up. At the rate it was going it seemed to be setting up another 20 hours of story, not just another single 90 minute episode. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/87 "2011-08-10T00:19:33Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > It would be OK if George would just say, “Yeah, that was my intention. But I changed my mind.” Instead, he tries to do the Mind Trick on us and acts like it never happened. THAT is what is just so freaking insulting. The problem is that it worked before: he successfully convinced nearly everyone that Darth Vader had always been Luke’s father. If he hadn’t gotten that positive reinforcement, he might actually have realized this. Once I finish the book, I’d be glad to talk about it in another thread. It’s pretty interesting (even if the writing is not the best). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/88 "2011-08-10T00:37:37Z")
Not exactly a sequel, but the creators of the TV series _Arrested Development_ have been promising a big screen reunion/followup since the series was cancelled. Jason Bateman and Michael Cera and others associated with the show all say “Still in the works but no shooting date” whenever it’s brought up. HBO once said there might be movie sequels to the series _Deadwood_ but star Ian McKellen and creator David Milch (who evidently cordially despise each other) have both said it’s not going to happen. _Zombieland_ apparently hasn’t started shooting a sequel. There was talk of making it a series of movies or even a TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/89 "2011-08-10T09:14:42Z")
If you got back to the Buster Crabbe “Flash Gordon” serials, at the end of the third one (“Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe”) Ming the Merciless is apparently killed when a rocket ship crashes into the building he is in but one of the characters says there is an escape if Ming thinks of it in time. I assume that was meant for a new serial which never happened. Besides “Master and Commander”, Gregory Peck starred in similar type of British Napoleonic war naval hero Horatio Hornblower in a 1951 film. I don’t know if a sequel was ever promised or if it was a dud financially but you would think they could have made more. I wonder if there was ever any talk of the Martians trying another invasion after the 1953 George Pal “War of the worlds”. Perhaps H G Wells’s estate wouldn’t allow it. Or for that matter, “Forbidden Planet”, although I am always convinced that Gene Roddenberry ripped it off big time for "Star Trek’. I am surprised that Disney and Warner Brothers can’t get together for another Roger Rabbit film. Any two minute appearance by that wascally wabbit Bugs Bunny is always appreciated. I am waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s career to sink low enough for her to make another Herbie the Love Bug film. But she may OD first. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/90 "2011-08-10T12:24:51Z")
_Last Action Hero_ (which, guilty secret, I kind of like) ended on a total sequel-promising cliffhanger. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/91 "2011-08-10T12:35:53Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > _Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze_, with Ron Ely in the title role, included an announcement of a sequel, _Doc Savage: Arch Enemy of Evil_. Whether this qualifies as a promise or a threat, I refuse to comment. You know, despite all of it’s many flaws, I liked _Doc Savage, Man Of Bronze_. Took me forever to finally get my own copy on DVD. George Pal’s last movie! ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/92 "2011-08-10T12:44:17Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > That would be [Leo Johnson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Johnson_(Twin_Peaks))… Thanks for that. Reading the article really brought back memories. Interesting that the wiki states that he was tied up in the last episode. I could have sworn it was an episode or two before that. Old age must be playing tricks with my memory. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/93 "2011-08-10T12:46:24Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > You know, despite all of it’s many flaws, I liked _Doc Savage, Man Of Bronze_. > > Took me forever to finally get my own copy on DVD. > > George Pal’s last movie! I felt the same way. I finally found the DVD on the Warner Studios site, which is a great place to find older movies, including made for TV ones. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/94 "2011-08-10T13:07:05Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > I’ll be very surprised if we see _Atlas Shrugged: Part II_–at least from the outfit that gave us _Part I_. It’s been announced for Autumn of 2012. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/95 "2011-08-10T13:10:07Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > I am surprised that Disney and Warner Brothers can’t get together for another Roger Rabbit film. > Any two minute appearance by that wascally wabbit Bugs Bunny is always appreciated. Supposedly a [sequel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit#Sequel) is under way. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/96 "2011-08-10T13:54:45Z")
> [@typoink](#): > > Now, I’m the one nerd who really can’t stand Spaceballs(way too much of it cribbed directly from the source material, just with silly names and farts), but that title is fantastic. And it was supposed to come out around the same time as **Naked Gun 2 1/2** , which would have made it the Summer of Oddly-Numbered Sequels. hehe ---
**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 10, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953/97 "2011-08-10T15:31:59Z")
When are we gonna see the continuing adventures of Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln? Huh? Huh? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-promised-us-a-sequel-then-failed-to-deliver/591953.md?page=4)