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.
I’ll be very surprised if we see Atlas Shrugged: Part II–at least from the outfit that gave us Part I.
The Incredibles
Passion of the Christ
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?
Bakshi failed to deliver, didn’t he?
Whaaa? I was really looking forward to Hitler on Ice.
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.
Forrest Gump. There were always rumors of a sequel being made based on the novel Gump and Co. But it never materialized.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Eragon. C’mon, the first movie wasn’t that bad…
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.
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.
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 – says otherwise. So who knows?)
I’m still waiting for a sequel to The Matrix.
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.
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.