Still waiting on Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money
I liked Rick Moranis’s idea for it, Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II.
I feel like you can modify it to include both ideas Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money
Thanks-killing did that, skipped a sequal and the third film was about destroying the second (that dosent exist).
They’d have trouble fitting all the gags about repetition and nostalgia in a reasonable running time.
Mel Brooks is 97, good luck!
he just made a history of the world part 2 show earlier this year i believe
They can AI gen Yogurt just like they did with Admiral Tarkin.
Pretty sure he’s not needed if it’s the search for more money. It won’t be any good, but if they think it will make money…
They made that, it was just split into three movies and made by Disney, with different titles.
Underwhelming too.
They did History of the World Part 2 finally, so there’s a chance!
Can we get Jews in space and Hitler on ice. I mean technically space balls was the former but what would be the latter.
Constantine. Keanu Reeves has said he would like to do it, and there is a ton of story material to draw from between the Constantine series and all of the Hellblazers, not to mention cameos in other series.
District 9.
Wasn’t district 10 in the planning?
Yeah but the director got distracted by making other movies.
District 9 could easily have a couple seasons of a series on Netflix.
Hell yea! I loved the worldbuilding of that movie. Give me more!
This is the one I’m most disappointed by. I would love to know what happened to Wikus.
Exactly! Or was the goal of the aliens to convert all of the earth’s bio mass into more prawns but there was a screw up and no queen caste was present?
Chappie?
District 9
If I remember correctly, a sequel has been in development hell for years.
What would they call that, District 9 2?
District 9 + 1
District 9 Years Later
Tristrict 9
District Nein.
Christoph Waltz would be lead.
District 10
Alita: Battle Angel. I’ve heard there is a sequel planned, but it’s been a few years since the first movie. James Cameron is still involved as a producer, but I guess his blue-skinned money machine has kept him busy lately.
it took ten years for avatar to get one
And he’d been working on it through that period, too — whereas poor Alita ain’t getting that same treatment. 🥹
I think Alita is the better movie, honestly
The manga is leagues beyond both. 🤗
Master and Commander. It’s atmospheric and fun, and I’m sad they didn’t make more with that cast.
I read something about that a while ago. If I recall correctly, it was intended to be a franchise, but Master and Commander was so incredibly expensive that they decided against it.
Worth every penny, IMO.
I responded to this on another comment but from what I remember they got torpedoed by the MCU and thought they wouldn’t be able to compete against them…however reading these comments here gives me hope as everyone seems to be over the CGIverse now.
That’s surprising. Master and Commander came out in 2003, years before the first MCU film was released.
In 2021 there was some planning/writing done for a prequel, but I don’t think anything came of it.
That film is having a bit of a cultural comeback, so there’s still hope.
That’s good to hear. I haven’t read any of the books (not my preferred literary genre) so I didn’t have a preconception of the Aubrey character. This sadly left me loving Russell Crow as Aubrey, and I’ll have a hard time with anyone else playing him. Crow is 59, now; he might still be able to get away with it.
Favourite movie of all time!
And there’s a whole bunch of more books to be adapted. That movie was so perfectly done I wish it had worked enough to allow a whole series of sequels.
Still waiting for the Zootopia sequel. Genuinely good and creative movie that used the format to talk about tricky topics with some cushion and then became a cult favorite. They added some extra stuff under Zootopia+, they tee’d up the buddy cop format, did all this world building and then… what, Disney, this is the one IP you’re not going to squeeze for all its worth? Where’s the next one?
They are making a sequel to it.
Hopefully, we’ll find out who is getting milked to make the ice cream.
I’m holding out for a movie and Frozone.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
It was good. It was written by Douglas Adams. He also wrote screenplays for the next 2 books to be made into movies.
And despite it making a couple million more than it cost, the first one was considered a flop. :(
It was ok. Didn’t understand the side story with John Malkovich at all, pointless. And Zoey Deschanel was terrible as Trillen, like criminally awful at the role to the point she ruined it for me. Sam Rockwell was perfect casting though, same with mos Def and Martin Freeman
Sam Rockwell is cast perfectly in just about everything. Phenomenal actor. Kinda surprised we don’t see him more.
No one else could have asked kids if they want regulars or menthols in the 1990 TMNT movie.
Ok, maybe not that one.
Yeah I was just joking with that. It just blows my mind that he was played by Sam Rockwell.
Thay movie was awful. As a huge fan of the series, I don’t know how anyone can watch it and understand the plot without being familiar with it beforehand.
The BBC series is much better, and goes up to Book 3 iirc.
I disagree. I loved the film. I remember it fondly.
Do you like the books? I find that people who like or have read the books tend not to like the movie and vice versa. I do not like the books.
The funny thing about THHGttG is that it exists several times simultaneously with wildly different canons. The original BBC radio show was the original, then they did the TV miniseries with much of the same talent (Mostly replacing Susan Sheridan with Sandra Dickenson as Trillian), THEN the book pentology, THEN the 2005 movie. They all start pretty similarly with Arthur’s house and the pub and the Vogons, but then they go into all kinds of different directions in different orders.
For me personally, the plot doesn’t matter all that much anyway. What I love is Douglas Adams’ prose - the plot’s mostly just a vehicle for that - and I feel that doesn’t really translate to film. The perfect example:
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
It’s funny. It’s succinct. It’s very descriptive. It doesn’t just tell you that the ships were hovering, it draws comparison to bricks which conjures up images of blocky, inelegant ships, and it gives the impression that the way they’re just stationary in the sky is somewhat unsettling or surreal. I think it’s quite impressive how much such a short sentence manages to convey really!
Translating it to film, and having shot of some blocky, inelegant ships hanging in the sky, doesn’t manage to capture the same humour or feeling that that short sentence in the book does, at least for me. And it’s the same throughout the whole series, but that line is probably the easiest example to bring up. Some books translate really well to film and the imagery in the film ends up being far better than what I could imagine myself on the fly, but that’s not the case with Hitchhiker’s Guide at all.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide radio series has a fair amount of narration so the prose still shines through in that.
I had similar issues with the various Dirk Gently adaptations, too. And I find I have the same issue with screen adaptations of Terry Pratchett’s work for similar reasons. Without Adams’ or Pratchett’s wonderful prose, it often tends to feel very B-movie-esque to me.
Agreed. Second-worst date movie ever. She was shellshocked and missed all the humour cues.
I’m surprised it’s never been made into a decent TV show. The entire thing has already been made into half-hour radio shows, so the scripts are there and road tested. It’s basically halfway done already.
I weirdly enjoyed the 1981 BBC series:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker’s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(TV_series)
Master and commander… They had the ship built already too - why not make a sequel? There’s about 20 books worth of material.
I saw something on this that it was the last “great epic” type movie before Hollywood was run over by the MCU. Absolutely fantastic series of books, which translated well (IMO) in the movie, but…pew pew lazereye firerboys demigods won the day.
Pacific Rim, such a great fun mechs vs monsters movie that had a gritty feeling to it. Not over the top fantastical bullshit with flips or garish colors, just solid, slow, huge mechs fighting solid, slowish, sea monsters.
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No.
That movie was so bad
It’s like they took everything in the original that made it work and threw it out.
For people wondering how much impact a film director makes, this is a prime example.
I point to those two movies to illustrate a great director as opposed to an average one.
Pacific Rim is a brilliant film that pays homage to multiple films and genres.
Pacific Rim: Uprising is a terrible film that completely missed the point of the first movie.
Sicario 1 and 2 as well except it’s an example of an amazing director vs. a competent one.
At least Sicario 2 is quite watchable and has some amazing scenes. Can’t say the same for Pacific Rim 2. That one’s just bad and not even in a fun way. As you say, all the things that made the original work. It managed to miss all of them.
Let’s just pretend that film never released.
Beat me to it. Hahaha.
Godzilla vs Kaiju
The Nice Guys
Absolutely. Easily one of the best films of the last decade.
Man of Steel. It was a shot in the arm for DC movies, and the Superman character in film. Why they didnt follow up with a direct sequel, and instead released that dumpster fire Batman v Superman instead, I will never understand.
They wanted their own marvel cinematic universe
You’d think after the second or third time they tried to skip a rung on the ladder and smacked their face in humiliation they would have learned. At least it seems they’ve learned now and put people who actually understand story in charge rather than people who just chase box office numbers.
I will forever be mad about that. I was defending Man of Steel, while others shit talked it. I thought it was a great beginning for a Superman franchise. Sure he killed Zod, but imagine how this will change Superman to never want to kill again? But they never went back to do a solo Superman movie. Poor Caville was shafted hard by WB suits who wanted their own Marvel franchise.
DC tried launching into their own DCU way too fast. Whereas Marvel setup most of the major characters beforehand and let it simmer for a little bit before jumping into the ensemble movies, DC just tried jumping right into their cinematic universe. DC just can’t seem to do anything right when it comes to their movies unless by accident (or if it’s an animated movie). Maybe James Gunn will be able to turn it around and put together something cohesive, but it’s hard to tell where anything starts or stops with DC now, it just feels like a convoluted mess. Plus, the whole superhero movie trend may be dying out anyways thanks to Disney’s/Marvel’s lazy writing.
Princess Bride
I always thought a sequel where the roles are reversed and Fred Savage is reading to an ailing Peter Faulk would have been a great way to start a sequel.
The prince’s bride?
The prince’s groom*
Ha…I don’t think Peter Faulk was around for Fred Savage to grow up, sadly. Not the most healthy guy.
Edit: damn.
Fred Savage was 35 years old when Peter Falk died in 2011. He was 83 at that time. Poor dude had Alzheimer’s for those last few years.
They could’ve definitely filmed a reunion scene in the 90s, early 2000s though.
Wow for some reason I though he died in the 90s
Firefly.
I mean more series, uh episodes.
Really? The movie was the handout for the people who were pissed the series didn’t last longer. Asking for a second movie is a nonstarter, even if the first was good.
Which, honestly, to be 100 percent honest, it wasn’t. I hated the movie. I understand its my fatal flaw, but I look at works holistically. One of the things that got me into firefly was it’s pacing; the promise that everything was going to have room to breathe. I would rather just have the first season; the movie crammed plot threads and character arcs meant to sustain an entire 5 season series into a 2 hour movie. Except its worse, because I got to see what the slow burn was like.
The girl with the dragon tattoo. (American version)
Man I wanted this so much.
The first one was so so good.
