Sequels that should of happened and never did

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Obviously written with sequels in mind with many sub-plots left open, too bad it faired badly at the box office
 
If they hadn't messed up the original so badly, maybe we'd have seen them do The Restaurant of the End of the Universe. As it stanRAB, I'm bloody glad they didn't.

Sorry... But thinking about what a bish they made of it still gets me a bit narky.
 
Yes please, a much underrated film?

Gladiator would have been good, as he is carried away at the end, you can clearly see a pulse in his neck so they could have gone on from there?
 
That's happening isn't it? Just not anytime soon.

I wonder if they'll change the title to "The Sharp Knife," given the lack of subtlety in the last title...
 
Can't tell you how much I disagree with this. Whilst IWTV is my favourite film of all time, there really should not be a sequel. There has already sort of been one - Queen of the Damned - but that didn't do very well at all, and is generally ridiculed, though I haven't got anything majorly bad to say against it.

Plus I believe the original cast wouldn't want to come back, so everyone would be recast. Who could play a better Louis, a better Lestat?

Moving on, I completely agree with the sentiments behind letting The Subtle Knife have its chance. I HATED what they did to Northern Lights (or is that The Golden Compass?) in the way that they simplified it beyond comprehension and changed the bleeding ending! If TSK was to get made, I would hope for a more adult tone and for the producers/director/whoever to stick to the story - there's a reason why it is one of the most read and enjoyed trilogies ever written.
 
i think the only way you could make a meaningfull version of The Subtle Knife (which I'm reading at the meoment for the first time), would be for NewLine to drop the series completely, and for another Studio to take on His Dark Materials.

They should completely remake Northern Lights, only this time INCLUDE the references to organised religion, then they can make a proper version of The Subtle Knife.
 
I agree. The Golden Compass was aimed way too much at the wider audiences and obviously all that stuff had to be cut out for fear of a backlash, and presumably for the big bucks. I was surprised i think some religious groups still condemned it, even in the family-pleasing form that it was.

The film was kind of like the producers hadn't even read the Subtle Knife and Amber Spyglass, as they should have known that they would have to include the references to organised religion, if they wanted to make the sequels. Or maybe one film was only ever the plan.
I doubt another studio would want to remake it so soon. The way that the Golden Compass was made really closed teh door and has made it quite hard for anyone to commit to another film.

The Subtle Knife is a good book by the way.
As is the Amber Spyglass.:)
 
How about The Wicker Man. Surely he'd be missed. No doubt they would have scuttled his plane but maybe someone in the future finRAB the plane, or one of the islanders escapes.

Maybe the crops continued to fail even after resorting to putting the Lord in the wicker man and they had to go to the mainland for help.
 
Damn it yes - firefly!

What is it with canning all the good series? (I know this is off the point a bit, but just as good a place to have a bitch as any)

Firefly - canned
Deadwood - canned - it was just getting interesting between Swearengen and Hearst too.......
Rome - canned

As far as sequels go, sneakers was pretty fun, they could have had made a kind of "oceans 11, 12 and 13" thing out of that.....
 
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