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.
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.
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!
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
“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.
