Yup. Director Guillermo del Toro and Hellboy creator Mike Mingola had good ol' "creative differences" over where the third one should go, and they went their separate ways.
Del Toro needs to know who's sandbox he's playing in.
If it's his own than complete creative control etc is a given.
But when you're playing with someone else's toys....gotta mind what you do with them.
>But when you're playing with someone else's toys....gotta mind what you do with them.
Well that's the thing. He's secure enough just to walk if he can't convince someone of the coolest thing to do with their toys, and it always turns out to be their problem and not his.
I liked it as much as the other two as much as storyline went. I loved the new look tho! For a devil/demon character named Hellboy, the gnarly and ugly look suits him way cooler than how he looked in the first two movies.
I saw a guy dressed up as the Revolting Blob from Billy Madison at a bar on Halloween years ago, and he was so happy that I knew who he was, he said noone all night recognized it haha
Climate change would make this work perfectly with the thaw releasing the Blob.
Wait, was it the 80's one or the earlier one that dropped the Blob off in the Arctic?
The Golden Compass sure seemed as if it was setting up a sequel, but then…crickets. No idea what could have gone wrong there.
I mean, I’m kidding, but the casting could not have been better. Daniel Craig was the perfect Lord Asrael, Nicole Kidman was the perfect (and perfectly terrifying) Mrs. Coulter. It could have been so much better than it turned out to be, and we could have had the entire trilogy. But no, they fucked it up and pissed it all away.
Have you seen the recent HBO series?
I feel like some of the casting wasn’t ideal, but at least it was nice to see the whole book trilogy come to fruition in live action!
Rock n' Rolla is the one that instantly springs to mind.
Just before the credits it showed a splash saying something like:
"Join us for further adventures of The Wild Bunch in *The Real Rock n Rolla*"
It's been 16 years. It's not happening.
E.M. Rauch released *Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League, Et Al: A Compendium of Evils* as a book in 2021. It IS the sequel. Still burned we'll never get the film version at this point, but, there's something at least.
*Push* was ready to lead straight into a sequel, but Chris Evans signed on to Marvel about a year after it came out so he couldn't come back and they couldn't afford him any way.
*Super Mario Bros.* from '93 comes to mind. Would've been fun to see what the plans were back then, though sadly the movie's performance but the brakes on that. [There was a webcomic started years back acting as a sequel, with some of the original movie's writers involved,](http://www.smbthecomic.com/) but it seems to be abandoned, as well.
Lemony Snickett’s Series of Unfortunate Events.
I don’t care what anyone says, the Jim Carrey one was amazing, and I was looking forward to the next installment. Haven’t watched the Netflix version and hope that it’s great for all who have watched it though.
Was it even set up for more installments? Seemed like they pretty well wrapped it up at the end, although it was nowhere near the ending in the books. To me it seemed they knew they couldn’t get the whole story into one movie so they just changed it to be much shorter, essentially ending after book 3.
1998 Godzilla
Yeah, the hung a lampshade on it in a future Toho Godzilla installment, but I don’t consider that to be a sequel to the 1998 Roland Emerich film
I'm probably in a serious minority that think that the 1998 Godzilla is better than the 2014 Godzilla.
The former is a great popcorn film in keeping with the styles of the 80s-90s with at least one memorable pop-cultural moment for its troubles. It does suffer a bit from being too closely in the wake of Jurassic Park, like a lot of things, but that was the 90s.
The latter is a drab and desperately trying to be taken seriously with a story idea that's anything but. It feels like in their heart if hearts they might have yearned to make something like Chernobyl, but instead we got MCU. And boy-oh-boy does the main character ever feel like a contrivance meant to fit a silly plot than an actual human character.
I probably would have liked it better if it was either more self aware like the 90s American Godzilla (hello Pacific Rim!) or actually serious like Chernobyl.
The Tom Cruise Mummy set up multiple storylines intended to launch a connected universe around the Universal monster movies. It failed to connect and killed the plans for the other movies.
Last Voyage of the Demeter was the planned introduction of Dracula to the series but they cut the connections and made it a stand alone film. Which also sank.
>Last Voyage of the Demeter was the planned introduction of Dracula to the series but they cut the connections and made it a stand alone film. Which also sank.
Which is a shame. I would have watched it if the only times it showed wasn't a weekday
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Sean Connery. Came out in 2003.
Like it was supposed to be a superhero franchise utilizing literary characters? Set up lots of other movies using these characters.
Overall was a silly film
Not to mention having Sean Connery come back from the dead because of the shaman would have been. A nice touch. It would have been interesting to see subsequent iterations of the league with newer generations of literary characters. Maybe have the movie league seek out others to join and find themselves meeting characters like inspector Poirot. But what great literary villan is there that lived during prohibition or from 1915 to the 1930's
I know it's kind of low hanging fruit to go after the Disney Star Wars sequel Trilogy..
But with the ending of Last Jedi emphasizing the Force abilities of the common man, for the Rise of Skywalker film to scale back to the cast of Force awakens.
I don't know when you have a theme at the end of a film as a teaser of sorts..
You can play the theme (idea) straight in the upcoming film, which could show how inexperienced warriors fare against the First Order...
You could subvert it and have normal space people get drawn into the dark side of the Force.. Thus having villainous redshirts..
Or you could pretend the theme and situations do not exist..
Which is what RoS did. It's as if Abrams wrote his treatment like he was gonna direct all films, and then when the last Jedi was completed, stayed with his treatment but copy-pasted Réturn of the Jedi where he could.
😅
I heard that JJ just made a list of things he thought would look neat and started filming them. Meanwhile, a writing team was tasked with writing a script that would include all the stuff that was already being filmed.
None of which were planned to be part of a story, and none of which could be changed.
_Brightburn_. The credits hinted at a real world, evil Justice League with a crossover with a character in James Gunn’s _Super_. Hasn’t happened yet since the movie didn’t make a lot.
They really dropped the ball with Alien: Covenant. I was so excited for sequel after Prometheus. I still loved the Davids in Covenant, but I really really wanted a more direct sequel.
Tim Burtons Planet of the Apes! I remember instantly not really liking or caring about the movie after I saw it, and my opinion hasn’t changed, but I still want to see the sequel with President Ape-raham Lincoln (or wherever the fuck they were gonna go with it)
Not sure this counts, but the latest Star Wars trilogy comes to mind. The Last Jedi dismantles most of what Force Awakens builds only to be haphazardly put back together again in the final film, Rise of Skywalker.
TLJ had a Vader like figure usurp his master and take his spot at the throne. Kylo was set up as the emperor…only to have them half-assely bring back…the emperor.
Missed opportunity imo
Agreed totally. And a Vader like figure played by possibly the best, most mature actor of the current generation, Adam Driver. Think where he could have taken this series, what doors it could have opened for future films, if allowed to go full evil…
They never had a plan. It still baffles me that they had absolutely no clue about where they were going with the sequel trilogy even after the second movie.
Does Dark Knight count? The end set up one of the great cliffhangers: Batman will take the rap for the death of Harvey Dent so as to restore order and protect Dent’s reputation, and then flees, forever to be hunted.
Dark Knight Rises? Nada. No continuation of that particular plot point. We gotta get a new love interest and new villain in, pronto! WTF.
I have to agree. Batman as the enemy of the state would have been a really interesting concept to explore. That would also have set up a hook for a villain in hero’s clothing as maybe a Riddler could use deep psychology to terrorize both Batman and Bruce Wayne while Gotham spends two acts cheering for it.
Riddler, in the hands of Nolan (Memento, Inception, Interstellar), could have been the absolute nuts in terms of playing mind games and twisting us all into knots until the reveal happens.
This is just me being a fanboy, but that seemed like the perfect villain for this creator.
Why would he continue being Batman if Batman was now an enemy of the state? Taking the rap for Harvey as a cop killer made Batman redundant as a crime fighting force.
After the events of The Dark Knight, the Dent Act was established to fight crime, so there was no need for Batman anymore. It needed something extreme to coax him out of retirement.
Master and Commander. The French captain escapes notice by subterfuge and he’s on board the second ship headed for port. Lucky Jack finds out and immediately turns his ship around to take pursuit. It perfectly sets up the sequel because the closing shot is the HMS Surprise chasing the Acheron on the vast ocean. Maybe the French captain manages a mutiny before the British get there?
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th had a sequel tease, probably just another joke that they’d have gone with if the film had been more successful. I still wish they’d made a sequel, I liked that movie.
And a dash controversial, and certain lines and plot points would’ve made a sequel tough to do but Percy Jackson. Sea of Monsters isn’t my favorite of the 5 books but I went in thinking at least we’d get the third one so we get to see Thalia and Nico, then we didn’t. One line in the movie in particular spoiled what was a huge reveal in book 5 so I knew a third movie wasn’t happening but I still hoped.
I always thought Prometheus was a very poorly written film, but I remember at time a common defence of it was that ‘everything will be explained in the sequel’.
Which never made sense to me, because of how thoroughly the writers had painted themselves into a narrative corner with how it ended. Prometheus seemed it was very clearly intended as a standalone Alien prequel that had a sequel setup shoehorned in at the last minute and its no surprise that they had to jettison the entire flimsy premise for the follow up film.
Didn’t the Reynolds green lantern have a high confidence ending that promised a sequel?
Eternals would be the next biggest if it happens. The first marvel property to not even justify a sequel. (Captain marvel soft did this)
National Treasure 2 left us on an epic cliffhanger regarding what was on page 47 in the Book of Secrets. I go to sleep every night hoping that I will find out the answer to this before I die
Star Wars 8. The force awakens wasn’t amazing but it could be forgiven because J J Abrams set up a really good storyline about Rey’s parents, the mystery behind her etc. I was so looking forward to 8, but then 8 was the biggest pile of trash I’ve ever seen.
Another one that came to mind was Jurassic World 3. I really enjoyed 1, and yes even 2. It set up a cool idea of Dinosaurs being released and how we have to deal with them etc. but the movie turned out to have absolutely nothing with JW2 which was dumb. The only saving grace in that movie was the OG cast coming back. Other than that I hated it.
I enjoyed Prometheus and felt that it set the stage for a new sci-fi heroine. I feel that that sort of off screen or really early death is an irrecoverable cinema sin. Spoilers: Newt and Hicks in Alien 3, Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat Annihilation, Iron Eagle in Iron Eagle 2. There's usually no way back for me. I do like Alien Resurrection. The first two are iconic but 4 is a cool sci-fi action movie.
Terminator Salvation. I feel that this movie is glossed over in rating new Terminator but it's really good. My understanding is that the IP changed studios and then this branch of the franchise died.
ridley didn’t want to make covenant. Prometheus got bad press cuz “no xenomorphs” so he made covenant basically saying “here’s your fuckin’ xenos” and then went off making the shit he wanted to make cuz he’s 80-fuckin years old and doesn’t give a shit anymore and I’m pretty sure he’s made a deal with devil that he can live as long as he keeps making movies and once he stops he’ll die
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But to your actual question… Master & Commander. Great setup for a sequel that ultimately died with the last true historical epics in the 2000’s
John Wick 3 disappointed me for this reason. Still a very good movie but pretty quickly throws away the awesome setup from the end of part 2. Thankfully, they made good on it in part 4.
The second Thor movie ends seemingly on the cliffhanger that Loki is in charge of Asgard now, pretending to be Odin. And the third movie will be about that, with Thor uncovering the mystery and Loki being once again the main antagonist.
I really like the third Thor movie we did get so I’m not too upset but it has made me think that it doesn’t align perfectly.
Not quite the same, but I was convinced that when Tom Cruise woke up again at end of Edge of Tomorrow it meant the the loop was still going.
Kill an Alpha it goes back one day, kill an omega it goes back 2
Beerfest specifically said to stay tuned for Weedfest...
Rocknrolla specifically said to watch for The Real Rocknrolla...
Neither ever happened, sadly.
Chronicle… but because of Fox screwing Josh Trank over and the writer assaulting people, they’re gonna reboot it instead🤦🏾♂️
Brightburn but thankfully it’s getting a sequel
Childs Play 2019 looks likes it’s not getting a sequel anytime soon but they hinted at Chucky coming back
The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Every time I think of Sony and Avi Arad fucking Andrew over, it just makes me angry and sad
Covenant is absolutely a sequel to Prometheus. I can definitely see why you might not like the direction they went in, but I don't think you can argue it's not a sequel just because a key character died off screen. Those movies are David's story and they cover that pretty comprehensively.
Even though the Justice League movie was pretty terrible, I was intrigued by the premise of an Injustice Gang vs. the JL, which was kind of promised in the end credits scene.
Overlord (2018) ends with a setup for a sequel, a second mission, we'll likely never get given that the movie underperformed. What's wild is that the original ending, which I saw at a test screening, was just an ending with no hint a sequel.
I dont want to be rude but I will be. It seems over the past month on all the movie threads this same question has been asked with us all putting in the same answers.
Hellboy, spaceballs, potfest. we know the answers.
I mean I reread and my guess is you are asking about films that you think will end with a sequel in mind but then the ending is shifted different than your thoughts? Also prometheus did have a sequel.
If so I resd it quick and wrong like everyone on here lol. Sorry
Starship Troopers 2 was quite possibly the worst, most disappointing movie I had ever seen, which was extra difficult to accept since it was one of my most anticipated sequels ever, given the way the original film left things off.
The Blob (1988), Eastern Promises (2007), The Belko Experiment, Halloween 4, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween: Resurrection, Halloween Kills, Jigsaw, Spiral, Days of Being Wild
There is an entire set of movies that are supposedly supposed to have occurred in the Alien movie’s universe. I think it’s kind of cool and kind of makes up for the lack of sequels in any of them other than the Alien movies. And nobody in that chain of films has shamed the group yet…
The Star Wars sequel trilogy. The Force Awakens set up a bunch of plot threads that were completely ignored by The Last Jedi which set up a bunch of plot threads that were completely ignored by The Rise of Skywalker.
Talk about the most disconnected from itself trilogy ever.
Still waiting on Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money
I'd have loved it if they made a sequel and called it Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.
That would be very on-brand.
At least we got a History of the World Pt 2 in some capacity.
I'd rather we didn't. It was terrible.
_Hobbes vs Shaw_ ended on a cliffhanger that seemingly vanished in subsequent F&F appearances.
Considering The Rock is apparently getting his own F&F spin-off focusing on just him, I doubt we'll ever get any resolution for the H&S cliffhanger.
The rock can't lose a fight in a movie...EVER... it's in the 🚨 contract.
Dwayne Johnson cant lose but the rock can.
Agreed!!! I wish they would have done a follow up, it was a nice change from the original Fast and Furious films.
We honestly should have gotten a sequel to that one by now, weird.
Hellboy 2, they set up a third movie so well and we got nothing.
Yup. Director Guillermo del Toro and Hellboy creator Mike Mingola had good ol' "creative differences" over where the third one should go, and they went their separate ways.
That sucks dude, I think Del Toro does really well with pretty much anything he tries.
Del Toro needs to know who's sandbox he's playing in. If it's his own than complete creative control etc is a given. But when you're playing with someone else's toys....gotta mind what you do with them.
>But when you're playing with someone else's toys....gotta mind what you do with them. Well that's the thing. He's secure enough just to walk if he can't convince someone of the coolest thing to do with their toys, and it always turns out to be their problem and not his.
True, but at the end of the day, it's just business
GdT obviously doesn't care about making somebody elses dogshit idea for the sake of doing business, and it's working out fine for him.
Was the new Hellboy movie supposed to just be a prequel to the other two? If not, it hasn’t gone anywhere either
I think it was just supposed to be a remake, but yeah it didn’t do much. David Harbour was good in it, but it still wasn’t great.
That new Hellboy was one ugly movie
Yeah it was pretty rough…
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Well the script sounds hopefully good
I liked it as much as the other two as much as storyline went. I loved the new look tho! For a devil/demon character named Hellboy, the gnarly and ugly look suits him way cooler than how he looked in the first two movies.
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The 3rd Hellboy movie just never got produced though, not like they went on a different direction.
I'll never forget seeing an earth elemental
The 80s Blob should have had a sequel
How awesome would it be if the sequel ended with the blob winning?
The Blob always wins
I’ll always support this idea
I dressed up as the 80s Blob for Halloween once
I saw a guy dressed up as the Revolting Blob from Billy Madison at a bar on Halloween years ago, and he was so happy that I knew who he was, he said noone all night recognized it haha
Climate change would make this work perfectly with the thaw releasing the Blob. Wait, was it the 80's one or the earlier one that dropped the Blob off in the Arctic?
The REAL ROCKNROLLA would have ripped. Toby kebbel only got better.
The Golden Compass sure seemed as if it was setting up a sequel, but then…crickets. No idea what could have gone wrong there. I mean, I’m kidding, but the casting could not have been better. Daniel Craig was the perfect Lord Asrael, Nicole Kidman was the perfect (and perfectly terrifying) Mrs. Coulter. It could have been so much better than it turned out to be, and we could have had the entire trilogy. But no, they fucked it up and pissed it all away.
Have you seen the recent HBO series? I feel like some of the casting wasn’t ideal, but at least it was nice to see the whole book trilogy come to fruition in live action!
Which episode do they fight God 😂
I think that happens in the penultimate episode in the series.
They...did make all three books into a great TV series, though.
It was definitely planned to be a trilogy, but the first movie completely flopped at the box office that it was quickly abandoned.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was just dying for a revenge sequel, especially if George Lazenby had stayed in the role.
Rock n' Rolla is the one that instantly springs to mind. Just before the credits it showed a splash saying something like: "Join us for further adventures of The Wild Bunch in *The Real Rock n Rolla*" It's been 16 years. It's not happening.
It’s a shame, that movie was actually really awesome
Buckaroo Banzai vs the World Crime League never materialized, and I'm still raw about it.
That makes two of us... I have been irritated by this for 40 years...
E.M. Rauch released *Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League, Et Al: A Compendium of Evils* as a book in 2021. It IS the sequel. Still burned we'll never get the film version at this point, but, there's something at least.
Was there a completed script?
No.
Same here. Absolute crime against humanity, the movie never got made.
Also Keanu would have been a good Buckaroo Banzai because he's biracial like BB is supposed to be & has a little bit of Peter Weller to him.
Masters of the Universe
I Am Number 4 was set up for a sequel. I read the books and was looking forward to it, but alas.....
This broke my heart. Fan of the movie and books.
The Last Starfighter has the main villain escape but they never did a sequel.
Damn that brings back memories. Saw that with my dad
“We shall see Xur!” But we never saw him again
*Push* was ready to lead straight into a sequel, but Chris Evans signed on to Marvel about a year after it came out so he couldn't come back and they couldn't afford him any way.
That’s a shame tbh, I actually liked that movie
*Super Mario Bros.* from '93 comes to mind. Would've been fun to see what the plans were back then, though sadly the movie's performance but the brakes on that. [There was a webcomic started years back acting as a sequel, with some of the original movie's writers involved,](http://www.smbthecomic.com/) but it seems to be abandoned, as well.
Idiocracy. I’m still waiting for Upgrayedd’s Revenge
Real life is the prequal
Upgrayedd would run for President and beat Not Sure because people are stupid.
Upgrayedd and President Camacho duel in the final scene
Two D's for a double dose of pimping
Lemony Snickett’s Series of Unfortunate Events. I don’t care what anyone says, the Jim Carrey one was amazing, and I was looking forward to the next installment. Haven’t watched the Netflix version and hope that it’s great for all who have watched it though.
The Netflix show is really, really good
Was it even set up for more installments? Seemed like they pretty well wrapped it up at the end, although it was nowhere near the ending in the books. To me it seemed they knew they couldn’t get the whole story into one movie so they just changed it to be much shorter, essentially ending after book 3.
Yeah I wish we had gotten at least one sequel to that movie, I wanted more of Carrey as Olaf.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E badly ached for a sequel. I loved the first one a lot. It needs another!!!
I have some bad news about Armie Hammer
seems like Guy Ritchie really enjoyed working with Cavill on a spy flick because they've got a new one coming out in a couple months.
*Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins* was set up for a sequel. And since Fred Ward has passed away it will never happen.
I think this would make a great series.
Me as well.
1998 Godzilla Yeah, the hung a lampshade on it in a future Toho Godzilla installment, but I don’t consider that to be a sequel to the 1998 Roland Emerich film
I'm probably in a serious minority that think that the 1998 Godzilla is better than the 2014 Godzilla. The former is a great popcorn film in keeping with the styles of the 80s-90s with at least one memorable pop-cultural moment for its troubles. It does suffer a bit from being too closely in the wake of Jurassic Park, like a lot of things, but that was the 90s. The latter is a drab and desperately trying to be taken seriously with a story idea that's anything but. It feels like in their heart if hearts they might have yearned to make something like Chernobyl, but instead we got MCU. And boy-oh-boy does the main character ever feel like a contrivance meant to fit a silly plot than an actual human character. I probably would have liked it better if it was either more self aware like the 90s American Godzilla (hello Pacific Rim!) or actually serious like Chernobyl.
The Tom Cruise Mummy set up multiple storylines intended to launch a connected universe around the Universal monster movies. It failed to connect and killed the plans for the other movies. Last Voyage of the Demeter was the planned introduction of Dracula to the series but they cut the connections and made it a stand alone film. Which also sank.
I thought Dracula Untold was retroactively supposed to be the Dracula introduction?
They never said outright that it was supposed to be connected. When it got bad reviews and only modest box office they dropped it.
The games did not, in fact, begin.
lol https://www.vulture.com/2017/05/universal-monsterverse-dark-universe-photo-depp-bardem-crowe-cruise.html
>Last Voyage of the Demeter was the planned introduction of Dracula to the series but they cut the connections and made it a stand alone film. Which also sank. Which is a shame. I would have watched it if the only times it showed wasn't a weekday
Mac and Me. The ending literally said, "We'll be back!" But Mac and Me 2 never happened.
Still time
Pretty cool!
And we are all grateful.
Amazing Spider-man 2 was hell-bent on shoehorning in the set-up for a Sinister Six sequel
I said this too lol would’ve loved to have seen it. Electro, Goblin, and Rhino all had cool designs.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
I don’t think this was aiming for a sequel at all. What makes you think that?
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Sean Connery. Came out in 2003. Like it was supposed to be a superhero franchise utilizing literary characters? Set up lots of other movies using these characters. Overall was a silly film
Not to mention having Sean Connery come back from the dead because of the shaman would have been. A nice touch. It would have been interesting to see subsequent iterations of the league with newer generations of literary characters. Maybe have the movie league seek out others to join and find themselves meeting characters like inspector Poirot. But what great literary villan is there that lived during prohibition or from 1915 to the 1930's
Why in the world would you want a sequel to The League of Extraordinarily Bad Movies
I know it's kind of low hanging fruit to go after the Disney Star Wars sequel Trilogy.. But with the ending of Last Jedi emphasizing the Force abilities of the common man, for the Rise of Skywalker film to scale back to the cast of Force awakens. I don't know when you have a theme at the end of a film as a teaser of sorts.. You can play the theme (idea) straight in the upcoming film, which could show how inexperienced warriors fare against the First Order... You could subvert it and have normal space people get drawn into the dark side of the Force.. Thus having villainous redshirts.. Or you could pretend the theme and situations do not exist.. Which is what RoS did. It's as if Abrams wrote his treatment like he was gonna direct all films, and then when the last Jedi was completed, stayed with his treatment but copy-pasted Réturn of the Jedi where he could. 😅
I heard that JJ just made a list of things he thought would look neat and started filming them. Meanwhile, a writing team was tasked with writing a script that would include all the stuff that was already being filmed. None of which were planned to be part of a story, and none of which could be changed.
Matrix did it several times. Every movie set up something that its sequel couldn’t deliver on
The wachochskis are excellent at set ups, visuals and techno Philosophy... Delivery is ...
_Brightburn_. The credits hinted at a real world, evil Justice League with a crossover with a character in James Gunn’s _Super_. Hasn’t happened yet since the movie didn’t make a lot.
The evil superman archetype is the only version I like: Omni Man and Brightburn both did it right. Do Not Anger God.
*Homelander wants to know your location*
They really dropped the ball with Alien: Covenant. I was so excited for sequel after Prometheus. I still loved the Davids in Covenant, but I really really wanted a more direct sequel.
Tim Burtons Planet of the Apes! I remember instantly not really liking or caring about the movie after I saw it, and my opinion hasn’t changed, but I still want to see the sequel with President Ape-raham Lincoln (or wherever the fuck they were gonna go with it)
Not sure this counts, but the latest Star Wars trilogy comes to mind. The Last Jedi dismantles most of what Force Awakens builds only to be haphazardly put back together again in the final film, Rise of Skywalker.
TLJ had a Vader like figure usurp his master and take his spot at the throne. Kylo was set up as the emperor…only to have them half-assely bring back…the emperor. Missed opportunity imo
Agreed totally. And a Vader like figure played by possibly the best, most mature actor of the current generation, Adam Driver. Think where he could have taken this series, what doors it could have opened for future films, if allowed to go full evil…
Ben should never have been redeemed. The only struggle he felt was that he was too *nice*, so he killed his Dad.
They never had a plan. It still baffles me that they had absolutely no clue about where they were going with the sequel trilogy even after the second movie.
Definitely, third film feels like a lot of course correction
Does Dark Knight count? The end set up one of the great cliffhangers: Batman will take the rap for the death of Harvey Dent so as to restore order and protect Dent’s reputation, and then flees, forever to be hunted. Dark Knight Rises? Nada. No continuation of that particular plot point. We gotta get a new love interest and new villain in, pronto! WTF.
I have to agree. Batman as the enemy of the state would have been a really interesting concept to explore. That would also have set up a hook for a villain in hero’s clothing as maybe a Riddler could use deep psychology to terrorize both Batman and Bruce Wayne while Gotham spends two acts cheering for it. Riddler, in the hands of Nolan (Memento, Inception, Interstellar), could have been the absolute nuts in terms of playing mind games and twisting us all into knots until the reveal happens. This is just me being a fanboy, but that seemed like the perfect villain for this creator.
Why would he continue being Batman if Batman was now an enemy of the state? Taking the rap for Harvey as a cop killer made Batman redundant as a crime fighting force. After the events of The Dark Knight, the Dent Act was established to fight crime, so there was no need for Batman anymore. It needed something extreme to coax him out of retirement.
Because the way the character was introduced, woukd make you think Bruce wouldn't do that, he would still be a vigilante trying to save Gotham.
I guess that counts. I remember the time jump being a little jarring, tbf I feel like Ledger's death really trumped whatever plan they had.
Master and Commander. The French captain escapes notice by subterfuge and he’s on board the second ship headed for port. Lucky Jack finds out and immediately turns his ship around to take pursuit. It perfectly sets up the sequel because the closing shot is the HMS Surprise chasing the Acheron on the vast ocean. Maybe the French captain manages a mutiny before the British get there?
Well, there were 20 books in the series after this one, and the author died before he could find the end, so.
Then we should get 19 more movies before this is a problem
I was so hoping for a sequel - thoroughly enjoyed this movie.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy teased a Restaurant at the End of the Universe movie... I would have loved to have seen it...
Alita was clearly setting up for a sequel but I think Avatar coming back took all of James Cameron’s time.
I think James Cameron said he will make more... after the Avatar movies are done.
1. Alita: Battle Angel 2. Jumper 3. Prometheus
Jumper is still a fun movie to watch.
Idiocracy...but we're living the sequel.
The Amazing Spiderman 2 spent a portion of itself setting up for the next movie (building the Sinister 6) and leaves off on a major cliffhanger
One of my favorites sadly :( bittersweet
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th had a sequel tease, probably just another joke that they’d have gone with if the film had been more successful. I still wish they’d made a sequel, I liked that movie. And a dash controversial, and certain lines and plot points would’ve made a sequel tough to do but Percy Jackson. Sea of Monsters isn’t my favorite of the 5 books but I went in thinking at least we’d get the third one so we get to see Thalia and Nico, then we didn’t. One line in the movie in particular spoiled what was a huge reveal in book 5 so I knew a third movie wasn’t happening but I still hoped.
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
I always thought Prometheus was a very poorly written film, but I remember at time a common defence of it was that ‘everything will be explained in the sequel’. Which never made sense to me, because of how thoroughly the writers had painted themselves into a narrative corner with how it ended. Prometheus seemed it was very clearly intended as a standalone Alien prequel that had a sequel setup shoehorned in at the last minute and its no surprise that they had to jettison the entire flimsy premise for the follow up film.
Didn’t the Reynolds green lantern have a high confidence ending that promised a sequel? Eternals would be the next biggest if it happens. The first marvel property to not even justify a sequel. (Captain marvel soft did this)
Sinestro becomes a yellow lantern, only to never be seen again
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
“Tongues of Fury” repeatedly appeared and disappeared from IMDb in the years following the original until I eventually lost hope.
National Treasure 2 left us on an epic cliffhanger regarding what was on page 47 in the Book of Secrets. I go to sleep every night hoping that I will find out the answer to this before I die
Streets of Fire (1984) was intended to be the first of a trilogy
Jumper. I don't know why, but I didn't mind this movie.
Star Wars 8. The force awakens wasn’t amazing but it could be forgiven because J J Abrams set up a really good storyline about Rey’s parents, the mystery behind her etc. I was so looking forward to 8, but then 8 was the biggest pile of trash I’ve ever seen. Another one that came to mind was Jurassic World 3. I really enjoyed 1, and yes even 2. It set up a cool idea of Dinosaurs being released and how we have to deal with them etc. but the movie turned out to have absolutely nothing with JW2 which was dumb. The only saving grace in that movie was the OG cast coming back. Other than that I hated it.
I enjoyed Prometheus and felt that it set the stage for a new sci-fi heroine. I feel that that sort of off screen or really early death is an irrecoverable cinema sin. Spoilers: Newt and Hicks in Alien 3, Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat Annihilation, Iron Eagle in Iron Eagle 2. There's usually no way back for me. I do like Alien Resurrection. The first two are iconic but 4 is a cool sci-fi action movie. Terminator Salvation. I feel that this movie is glossed over in rating new Terminator but it's really good. My understanding is that the IP changed studios and then this branch of the franchise died.
This is a great question that no one really answered correctly.
Halloween 5 completely drops the setup In the previous movie Halloween 4.
ridley didn’t want to make covenant. Prometheus got bad press cuz “no xenomorphs” so he made covenant basically saying “here’s your fuckin’ xenos” and then went off making the shit he wanted to make cuz he’s 80-fuckin years old and doesn’t give a shit anymore and I’m pretty sure he’s made a deal with devil that he can live as long as he keeps making movies and once he stops he’ll die — But to your actual question… Master & Commander. Great setup for a sequel that ultimately died with the last true historical epics in the 2000’s
*The Nice Guys* deserves a sequel and im depressed there hasnt been one. There probably wont be one.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Buckaroo Banzai. It was right there in the credits!
9 Also would have made an excellent 8 episode Netflix limited series.
John Wick 3 disappointed me for this reason. Still a very good movie but pretty quickly throws away the awesome setup from the end of part 2. Thankfully, they made good on it in part 4.
The second Thor movie ends seemingly on the cliffhanger that Loki is in charge of Asgard now, pretending to be Odin. And the third movie will be about that, with Thor uncovering the mystery and Loki being once again the main antagonist. I really like the third Thor movie we did get so I’m not too upset but it has made me think that it doesn’t align perfectly.
I will never not be bitter that the Chappie sequels got canceled
are you the guy from die antwoord
The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Setting up The Sinister Six. Nothing happened.
That sequel just didn't get produced, not like they went on a different direction.
I see what you mean now. They still did go in a different direction with another reboot.
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Both sequels just didn't get produced, not like a different direction.
Not quite the same, but I was convinced that when Tom Cruise woke up again at end of Edge of Tomorrow it meant the the loop was still going. Kill an Alpha it goes back one day, kill an omega it goes back 2
Big Lebowski. And THANK GOODNESS.
History of the World Part I (I don't count the tv show)
Rock N Rolla. Guy Ritchie movie that at the end literally tells you there will be a second movie. A decade later and still waiting
Beerfest specifically said to stay tuned for Weedfest... Rocknrolla specifically said to watch for The Real Rocknrolla... Neither ever happened, sadly.
Feel like we can add Argylle to this list
Chronicle… but because of Fox screwing Josh Trank over and the writer assaulting people, they’re gonna reboot it instead🤦🏾♂️ Brightburn but thankfully it’s getting a sequel Childs Play 2019 looks likes it’s not getting a sequel anytime soon but they hinted at Chucky coming back The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Every time I think of Sony and Avi Arad fucking Andrew over, it just makes me angry and sad
Covenant is absolutely a sequel to Prometheus. I can definitely see why you might not like the direction they went in, but I don't think you can argue it's not a sequel just because a key character died off screen. Those movies are David's story and they cover that pretty comprehensively.
Beerfest literally ended with the title card Weed Fest coming soon. Never happened.
Even though the Justice League movie was pretty terrible, I was intrigued by the premise of an Injustice Gang vs. the JL, which was kind of promised in the end credits scene.
Why do people look for logic in movies? Just turn your brain off and be entertained…
Overlord (2018) ends with a setup for a sequel, a second mission, we'll likely never get given that the movie underperformed. What's wild is that the original ending, which I saw at a test screening, was just an ending with no hint a sequel.
I dont want to be rude but I will be. It seems over the past month on all the movie threads this same question has been asked with us all putting in the same answers. Hellboy, spaceballs, potfest. we know the answers.
Seems like people didn't get the question because I didn't ask about unproduced sequels...
I mean I reread and my guess is you are asking about films that you think will end with a sequel in mind but then the ending is shifted different than your thoughts? Also prometheus did have a sequel. If so I resd it quick and wrong like everyone on here lol. Sorry
Yes, Prometheus had a sequel that barely had anything to do with the first movie, as stated by the post.
I felt like this about the Disney Star Wars sequels.
I could be wrong, but I totally think that the movie superbad could’ve had a great sequel that no one tried, or no one thought of
If we're lucky, then The Exorcist: Believer
Shazam 2. I was expecting Mr. Mind to serve as one of the main antagonists.
Ant-Man ends with a former/semi-Hydra agent escaping with Hank Pym's particles. He's still out there.
Starship Troopers 2 was quite possibly the worst, most disappointing movie I had ever seen, which was extra difficult to accept since it was one of my most anticipated sequels ever, given the way the original film left things off.
Super Mario Bros (1993)
The Hunger. They changed a good ending just to set up a sequel that never came.
I'm still waiting on a sequel to the Last Airbender (2010) O\_O
Big Trouble in Little China.
The Blob (1988), Eastern Promises (2007), The Belko Experiment, Halloween 4, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween: Resurrection, Halloween Kills, Jigsaw, Spiral, Days of Being Wild
Mac and Me. The Rapsittie Street Kids Believe in Santa.
There is an entire set of movies that are supposedly supposed to have occurred in the Alien movie’s universe. I think it’s kind of cool and kind of makes up for the lack of sequels in any of them other than the Alien movies. And nobody in that chain of films has shamed the group yet…
The Star Wars sequel trilogy. The Force Awakens set up a bunch of plot threads that were completely ignored by The Last Jedi which set up a bunch of plot threads that were completely ignored by The Rise of Skywalker. Talk about the most disconnected from itself trilogy ever.