Fallen (1998). I love the premise and villain so much I wrote a short intro script to a hypothetical sequel.
You play with themes of growing old. Tom Hanks reprises the Josh role. He’s growing old. I’d say newly widowed and is starting to show early signs of dementia. His adult kids don’t really know what to do with him, but his grandkids adore him and he tells them stories of the Zoltar machine and how it granted his wish. Eventually things escalate with the dementia and he is put in a nursing home. The grandkids decide to track down the machine and bust Josh out of the nusing home and start a cross country adventure. They get to the Zoltan machine and expect him to wish to be young again…but he just wishes his grandkids to have the healthy, happy lives.
Election is the sequel to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Ferris has grown up and is no longer the golden boy. Now he’s the loser high school administrator at being outsmarted by a student.
True, but the Disney film was pretty true to the books. You dont need to take the original material and make it darker do you>
Oh, that’s what you mean. No, not at all, what I’m getting at is during a day and age where Disney has made sequels to (direct to video and other), re-released, or made live action adaptations of every property they own, that this property had been languishing, not even being given a major home video release until comparatively recently.
If they did do a remake or sequel, I don’t want them to lose the dark elements that made the original great to the young me, in hopes of increased sales.
That’s why I specified the two movies I did, both of which are at least largely ignored by the majority of Disney’s team.
Is that more clear?
I was surprised how much I liked this movie. I think a sequel could be very interesting.
Oh, Okay. Yeah, there was “just enuf” dark in that original film and the books.
I’d rather see a movie that was closer to the book than that movie was. I was surprised by how much better I liked the book (Falling Angel).
A familiar story genre capturing the style and spirit of the 80s. Wiki says it “influenced the creation of Buffy Summers.”
The Last Starfighter should have had a sequel

Election is the sequel to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
I’m now getting the déjà vu feeling I didn’t make this up but may have read it somewhere, maybe on this site. If so, I apologize and blame old age!
Has anyone said The Rocketeer yet?

The Black Hole (1979)
I would have the original plot of a madman obsessed with a Black Hole as the first third of the movie, then the journey through the hole as the second act, which would reveal it’s actually a wormhole to the other side of the galaxy, then the last act is trying to get home.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 2: Detours & Destinations
Neal Page (Steve Martin) plans a smooth journey to his granddaughter’s wedding in California, but when his flight is canceled, he reluctantly teams up with Dale (Martin Short), Del’s eccentric brother, who shows up in a dilapidated RV. Along the way, they pick up Del’s daughter, Delaney (Melissa McCarthy), whose free-spirited antics cause chaos and strife. From breakdowns in quirky towns (including a run-in with Sheriff Buck Cowchip—Bill Burr), to desert misadventures and a bizarre Burning Man-type festival detour (run by slick charlatan brothers, Cosmo and Astro Nomica—Chris Rock/Dave Chappelle), the trio face one kooky obstacle after another. As they bond over memories of Del (with flashbacks of John Candy), they discover that the real destination is the friendship found along the way.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 2: Detours & Destinations
Neal Page (Steve Martin) plans a smooth journey to . From breakdowns in quirky towns (including a run-in with Sheriff Buck Cowchip—Bill Burr), to desert misadventures and a bizarre Burning Man-type festival detour (run by slick charlatan brothers, Cosmo and Astro Nomica—Chris Rock/Dave Chappelle), the trio face one kooky obstacle after another. As they bond over memories of Del (with flashbacks of John Candy), they discover that the real destination is the friendship found along the way.
Didn’t I see you in a Starbucks the other day, working on your screenplay? What you’ve got so far seems really good; keep going!
Streets of Fire. I’d love to see another story set in that deliberately anachronistic modern fantasy world.
Thanks! PTaA is one of my favorite comedies. I’d write the sequel as a labor of love…and by love, I mean a mountain of cash.
Valley Girl 2: The Next Day!
I want to know what happened after they completely destroyed that prom. Julie certainly didn’t just go back to school on Monday and say “So, how was your weekend, Suzi?”
I also want to hear the conversation between her and Randy. “WTF!?! After a whirlwind romance you dump me and treat me like shit because of your stupid friends You owe me an explaination, bitch!”
Yeah, lots of unanswered questions.
It is not because Deborah Foreman was my teen/early twenties crush.
Does that mean No Hard Feelings is the sequel to Election? (Happily married and well-off, Ferris wishes his timid teenage son could follow in his footsteps as a fun-loving rebel.)

The Last Starfighter should have had a sequel
I agree entirely. The movie itself suggests that other things would be happening. I’d also like to see them update the CGI effects to a better standard in the original ane re-release it.
Most of the other movies I like from that period already have sequels.
I just thought of a movie I would like see a sequel or follow-up to and it is interesting choice because it is technically a part of a horror franchise:
Halloween III: Season of the Witch --it is the one without Michael Myers and has a plot inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers,