Here you can list whatever movie sequel ideas you know of that never came to be. I'm curious to see how many sequel ideas out there never happened and the info. about them.


There were plans at one point to have "The Mask 2" starring Jim Carrey.


Jim Carrey is not a fan of starring in sequels but he was forced to do Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) under contract.

After that movie he made a statement that he is not doing any more sequels so, despite being offered $10 million to do "The Mask 2", he declined the role and the original sequel plans were scrapped.


Sometime in the mid-90s Nintendo Power magazine even held a contest where the winner would receive a walk-on role on "The Mask 2".


A sequel did come about a decade later with Jamie Kennedy in Son of the Mask. It was a huge flop and received attrocious reviews.

Before he finally made Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Hooper had a totally different idea for a sequel which he had titled Beyond the Valley of the Chainsaw Massacre

Buddy Giovinazzo(writer/director of Combat Shock) and Joe Spinell(Frank Zito in Maniac) were working on a sequel to Maniac. Maniac 2: Mr Robbie, they got as far as making a promotional short, but Spinell died before they could make a feature.

Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League was the planned sequel by the studio, but Buckaroo Banzai didn't make enough at the box office so the idea was scrapped.

"Mac and Me" was intended to have a sequel, but since the film was bad enough...it never happened!

Lord Of The Rings 2was the planned sequel to Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of Tolkien's books. Rankin/Bass Productions(who also did the animated version of The Hobbit) sort of did a sequel with Return of the King(1980)

Before Rob Zombie did his re-imagining of John Carpenter's Halloween there were plans at one point for a 9th sequel with a working title rumored to be "Homecoming".

Another scrapped idea was to do a "Vs." movie with Michael Myers meeting Hellraiser's Pinhead.

Around 2007 it was announced that "Spider-Man 4" was in development with Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, and Kirsten Dunst returning.

A script was then completed and then there was word that John Malkovich, Dylan Baker, and Anne Hathaway were coming onboard.

Sam Raimi then decided to step down from the project due to his doubt that he would be able to make the planned May 2011 release date.

Sony then offically scrapped "Spider-Man 4" and announced a reboot project that will focus on Spider-Man in his high school years set for a July 2012 release.

There were plans at one point for a sequel to Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commando (1985).

A script was completed but Arnold was not interested in the project.

The script then had a little work done to it and it was turned into Die Hard (1988).

Grumpiest Old Men which was would have been a sequel to Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men was scrapped due to Jack Lemmon and Walther Matthau's box office flops Out to Sea and The Odd Couple II.

Grumpiest Old Men which was would have been a sequel to Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men was scrapped due to Jack Lemmon and Walther Matthau's box office flops Out to Sea and The Odd Couple II.

The Odd Couple II might as well have been the 3rd Grumpy Old Men movie, since it felt more like one of those films than the original Odd Couple.

The Forrest Gump (1994) sequel called "Gump and Co." was scrapped because of 9/11.

Screenwriter Eric Roth had a script completed based off of the second Forrest Gump novel.

The story of the script was called "no longer relevant anymore" by those who were planning the sequel because the world was changing.

I HEARD Their were going to make a squel to 1980 he-man movie master of the univser . i heard they were making squeal to shaiknight with jACKIE CHAN. i hadn't heard anything for awhile. I HEARD THEY were going to make a squeal to home alone withMacaulay Culkin as a teeanger.

i heard they were making squeal to shaiknight with jACKIE CHAN. i hadn't heard anything for awhile.

Yeah, there was word a while ago that a third film called Shanghai Dawn was supposed to be coming out. Nothing has happened with that




I HEARD THEY were going to make a squeal to home alone withMacaulay Culkin as a teeanger.

Yeah, what happened with Home Alone is that the third film was pitched around the same time as the sequel with plans to release them back-to-back but FOX did not allow that.

Then the plans for a third film came in the mid-90s and the idea was pitched to Macaulay Culkin about him reprising his role as a teen. He was not into it at all because he grew tired of the role and at the time he became frustrated with acting.

So they went with a whole new script and whole new cast for the unrelated third film that came out in 1997.

A fourth film in the Sleepaway Camp series was being made in the early 90s called Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor.

Production and filming had to come to a stop due to the company producing it going bankrupt. Only 34 minutes of footage was filmed.

On the box set "Sleepaway Camp: Survival Kit" the footage from the unfinished film was made available on it.


A fourth sequel did eventually come years later in 2008 called Return to Sleepaway Camp.

Though these weren't planned sequels, I like it when movies advertise fake sequels at the end.

The best being the trailer for History of the World Part 2 at the end of Part 1.

Others that did this-

Chainsaw Nurses hinted at the end of Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Hedges "Just when you thought it was safe to trim" at the end of Blades '89

Chainsaw Nurses hinted at the end of Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Hedges "Just when you thought it was safe to trim" at the end of Blades '89

I remember watching that years ago with my grandmother. I don't really remember it as I've haven't seen it in a LONG time.

After Conan the Destroyer (1984) there were plans for a third film called "Conan the Conqueror" set for 1987.

Schwarzenegger couldn't do it because he was under contract to do Predator and he didn't want to form a new contract with director Richard Fleischer after Red Sonja (1985).


The script for "Conan the Conqueror" was later rewritten and made into the 1997 Kevin Sorbo film Kull the Conqueror.

There was a planned sequel to I Was A Zombie For The FBI 1982, it would have been titled That New Columbus

From IMDb.

A sequel, "Earthquake II", was planned, and a first draft of the script was written by George Fox, who wrote the script for "Earthquake", but it never made it into development. The sequel follows several of the surviving characters of the original: George Kennedy; Victoria Principal; Richard Roundtree and Gabriel Dell, as they settle in San Francisco. The multi-tiered plot centers on a group of scientists trying to predict future earthquakes on the west coast, a corrupt builder constructing high rise apartments on unstable land, and the original characters adjusting to new relationships (Kennedy and Principal) and new business ventures (Roundtree and Dell). An unexpected, massive earthquake hits off the coast of San Francisco, leveling the city, as a tsunami threatens to wash the Bay Area off the map. Completed in late-1975, the script went through channels at Universal (up to Sid Sheinberg) and the project was active up until early-1977 ("EQII" and Rollercoaster (1977) were in pre-production simultaneously) but "EQII" project was killed. This original script was newly discovered in 2005.

There was a rough draft written for a fourth Godfather film by author Mario Puzzo.

The general plot of the script was to show flashbacks to Vito Corleone's early years (perhaps to once again be played by Robert Deniro) and to show how his children came to discover their father's "business".

Due to Mario Puzzo's death in 1999 nothing ever came of it.

There were ideas for a prequel to the SAW series that would show John Kramer (Jigsaw) in his early years.

The idea was then rejected because the creators "didn't want to do a movie like that".

The people who were behind the prequel idea, Marcus Dunston and Patrick Melton, used the basis and then made their own horror movie The Collector.

Though it did not do well in the box office there were plans for a sequel to Tom Jane's 2004 The Punisher due to its high sales on home rental and DVD. Tom Jane "The Punisher" and director Jonathan Hensleigh were originally said to be coming back.



The sequel was in the writing and planning stages for three years until Tom Jane decided to walk out of the project in Spring 2007.

Tom Jane left the sequel because he wanted to do a more "realistic and gritty approach more in the lines of Taxi Driver" and was not interested in the more comic book approach that the sequel was heading in.

When Tom Jane left due to his creative differences director Jonathan Hensleigh then decided to leave himself.



Due to this the project got a major make-over and new scripts, ideas, and casts were brought in.

Director Lexi Alexander had written a totally new script and everyone then agreed on it. They then casted a new "Punisher" with Ray Stevenson and released a new movie, Punisher: War Zone (2008), which was another stand-alone movie being unrelated to the previous two films.

There were ideas for a prequel to the SAW series that would show John Kramer (Jigsaw) in his early years.

The idea was then rejected because the creators "didn't want to do a movie like that".

The people who were behind the prequel idea, Marcus Dunston and Patrick Melton, used the basis and then made their own horror movie The Collector.

There are some Saw fans still hoping for a prequel. I can see where a lot of writers and directors don't like prequels. I thought The Collector was a solid movie had a lot of elements from Saw.

There are some Saw fans still hoping for a prequel. I can see where a lot of writers and directors don't like prequels. I thought The Collector was a solid movie had a lot of elements from Saw.

If they ever do one it will open the door for a SAW prequel series. :crazy:

Yeah, The Collector was pretty good.

Though these weren't planned sequels, I like it when movies advertise fake sequels at the end.

The best being the trailer for History of the World Part 2 at the end of Part 1.

Others that did this-

Chainsaw Nurses hinted at the end of Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Hedges "Just when you thought it was safe to trim" at the end of Blades '89

Didn't Airplane II: The Sequel do that with "Airplane III" also?

Didn't Airplane II: The Sequel do that with "Airplane III" also?

I don't remember, it's been awhile.

I don't remember, it's been awhile.

According to IMDB trivia on Airplane II: The Sequel:

"This film was created with the obligation that its creative team return for a third installment. Expectations were so high that the next film was promised at the end of the credits of this one.

When the film was released to mediocre box office, plans for Airplane III was doomed. But, the ad remains in most prints."

I heard right after "The Breakfast Club" came out that John Hughes had considered the idea of having a sequel to answer the question of what happened on Monday when they went back to school. The fact that this sequel never happened is very good news for fan ficiton writers. I've read some good scenerarios!

There were plans for a third film in the Jack Colton/Joan Wilder series ( Romancing the Stone (1984) and The Jewel of the Nile (1985) ) that was scrapped due to Kathleen Turner's pregnancy.

The title of the movie was said to be "The Crimson Eagle".

There's an unreleased sequel to the 70's killer bear flick Grizzly. Predator: The Concert(akaGrizzly 2: The Predator) Filmed in 1984.

Starring- Charlie Sheen, Deborah Foreman(playing Christopher George's daughter, Christopher George starred in the original), Laura Dern, John Rhys-Davies, Louise Fletcher, and George Clooney

For years the film's existence was questionable, but George Clooney has acknowledged it in this Newsweek interview: scroll down to where it reads That's the first job you were paid a lot for.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/96123

And there has been footage released on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZ327Hsyu0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jA699zaY0s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afTW0E_iNQg

There was word that M. Night Shyamalan was in talks to do a sequel to Unbreakable (2000).

Unbreakable was his next directed feature after the box-office smash The Sixth Sense (1999) and it did not perform as well as it did at all.

Studios were at first interested in the idea due to Unbreakable's high sales on home release but ultimately decided not to do it and M. Night Shyamalan went on to do other motion pictures.

Supposedly Don Coscarelli still plans on a Phantasm 5.

But at one time there was going to be a sequel written by Roger Avery(Pulp Fiction, Silent Hill) titled "Phantasm's End" and Bruce Campbell was going to be involved. But was rejected because it was considered too expensive.

Robin Williams turned down the script for "Mrs. Doubtfire 2" because he was unhappy with it.

The plans for the sequel were scrapped in 2006.

Supposedly Don Coscarelli still plans on a Phantasm 5.

But at one time there was going to be a sequel written by Roger Avery(Pulp Fiction, Silent Hill) titled "Phantasm's End" and Bruce Campbell was going to be involved. But was rejected because it was considered too expensive.

Sounds like there won't be a sequel after-all, a remake seems to be in the works.

Is it, or isn't it?

That seems to be the question for the 1991 flick Camp Fear aka The Millennium Countdown a supposed sequel to the 1988 slasher Cheerleader Camp aka Bloody Pom-Poms...according to IMDB:

This is actually the sequel to "Cheerleader Camp" that later changed to "Millennium Countdown" when Paramax took over the production after Prism studios bowed out of the initial production.

I heard right after "The Breakfast Club" came out that John Hughes had considered the idea of having a sequel to answer the question of what happened on Monday when they went back to school. The fact that this sequel never happened is very good news for fan ficiton writers. I've read some good scenerarios!
That would have made a good movie. I really enjoyed The Breakfast Club, too bad they didn't do a sequel for this one....

I kept hearing about a Sixteen Candles sequel and that hasn't materialized yet.

Going back to "Airplane III", Robert Hays did an interview a few months ago when Airplane! came to Blu-ray and he was asked what happened with that:



At the end of Airplane 2, there's a teaser for "Airplane 3".
How close did that ever come to happening?

It was very close. You have to understand the atmosphere, 31 years ago. Sequels were frowned upon. You were really looked down upon if you did sequels -- that was all you could do, you can't do anything else.

They'd go, "Oh, Robert, 'Airplane' Hays, you ever gonna do something besides 'Airplane'?" I was doing other films, it's just that was the attitude that they took. Nowadays, sequels are called franchises. Now they look for them.



That was the joke we had in Airplane 2, when Sonny Bono was buying the bomb at the store -- "I'll take the magazine, the candy bar, and the third bomb on the left" -- and behind him was a big poster in the shop with a little bald guy with boxing gloves and American flag shorts and it said "Rocky 38".

I was in London doing a film called Scandalous, at the time, and they were negotiating for doing "Airplane 3", and it had really gotten to me. I was being ragged on by the press a lot when I'd go to events and the paparazzi's there, and they would rag on me. I said, "Nah, don't wanna do it."

Of course all that did was raise the price more and more and more. When finally I said, "I'm not going to do it," that was it, they didn't do it. Of course, I wish we had done it, looking back now, but you know, that was then and this is now.

Wicker Man director Robin Hardy was working on a sequel in 2008.

It was to star Joan Collins and Christopher Lee as evil cult leaders.



Collins said of the film, "It's about two young people from America who are gospel singers. They go to a remote village in the Highlands to convert people to Christianity. They come in contact with an evil cult led by two people. One of them is Christopher Lee, and the other one is me."

The sequel was scrapped due to financial difficulties.





However, in 2011 Robin Hardy did The Wicker Tree which people call "a spiritual sequel" to The Wicker Man. The films are not related.

Christopher Lee has a small role in The Wicker Tree.

There have been rumors for years about a sequel to the early 80's Linda Blair slasher flick- Hell Night, I think they even talked about it on the DVD commentary.

Another long running sequel rumor is to The Goonies, I think they even talked about it focusing on the kids of the now adult goonies.

A few months ago, Will Ferrell made statements to the press that everybody (the cast and the fans) is interested in a sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004).

He mentioned that "the ball's in Paramount Pictures' court" and that they said that they believe it won't be a hit due to the numbers they ran.

Ferrell said it makes no sense when you look at how successful Anchorman was.

Jon Favreau had written a follow-up to 1996's Swingers before the film was released, but he ultimately decided not to do a sequel.

Star Vince Vaughn said in a 2005 interview, "There was actually a very funny sequel to 'Swingers' that we had written before the first film was released, but with 'Swingers' becoming what it did, we thought we might be better off just leaving it alone."

There was talk of a sequel to the horror-comedy Zombieland (2009) for a while after it came out.

The creators and the cast seemed to be enthusiastic about it.

However, the movie sequel was put on hold when they decided they were going to pitch a Zombieland television series instead.

There were plans to make a sequel to the 1981 slasher My Bloody Valentine. The plot would have the survivors of the first movie Sarah and TJ married with teenagers and Sarah being the sheriff of Valentine Bluffs. The mine would be reopened as a tourist attraction, and murders would happen again. It never got off the ground. Instead a 3D remake of the original movie was released in 2009 that got mixed reviews.

Flash Gordon 2

Yes, that last scene in the 1980 classic was intended to set up a sequel. And if it weren’t for Razzie Award Winning actor Sam J.Jones, the man behind Flash’s red jumper, there might have been one.

In a recent interview, director Mike Hodges explained that friction between producer Dino De Laurentiis and Jones essentially killed the franchise plans. “..although it was not a big hit in America, it was in Europe. But Sam and Dino fell out”, he said. “I was very fond of Sam but here’s what happened: we did the main shooting up until Christmas and then we stopped for the break. After Christmas I came back and did all of the second unit stuff too. For instance, I had to do the shots with the flying men and that sort of thing – what passed as special effects back then (laughs). So I also had to shoot a whole bunch of other stuff with a stunt double for Sam and I had to re-voice the occasional line of dialogue too. Not much but some – and I got somebody to impersonate Sam’s voice. You would never know it wasn’t him. But Sam found out and I think that was one factor that led to him being upset. And Dino and he just did not see eye to eye for a while. So when you lose your main star there can’t really be a sequel.”




Hellraiser Nightshines

A prequel to Clive Barker’s “Hellraiser” (1987), “Nightshines” would’ve been set in the ’40s and had the Mafioso unleashing Pinhead (Doug Bradley) onto the world. The script was written – and what a wacky script it was; it also included werewolves and genies. At one stage it has Pinhead taking control of the werewolves and sicking them onto the local gangsters – but never got close enough to a ‘greenlit’ stamp. Not to worry, about twenty other “Hellraiser” sequels did happen – the latest, “Hellraiser : Revelations” was the first not to feature series star Doug Bradley, which caused quite a bit of controversy – but sadly none of them feature lycanthropes or Elliot Ness.



Escape from Earth

Kurt Russell and John Carpenter would’ve hooked up again on a second sequel to the 1981 classic “Escape from New York”… had the money men been interested in making another chapter in a series that hadn’t exactly proved itself to be lucrative (that turkey “Escape from L.A”, released in 1997, single-handedly killed the Snake Plissken character and Carpenter’s viability as a bankable filmmaker).

Truth is, no studio has really been interested in working with Carpenter in years – he was the one who actually suggested the idea of doing a follow-up to “The Thing”, by the way; Universal ultimately made the movie, but without the filmmaker’s involvement.

You’ll find the treatment for the film on Carpenter’s office desk, along with an eye-patch prop.

There were plans to make a sequel to the 1981 slasher My Bloody Valentine. The plot would have the survivors of the first movie Sarah and TJ married with teenagers and Sarah being the sheriff of Valentine Bluffs. The mine would be reopened as a tourist attraction, and murders would happen again. It never got off the ground. Instead a 3D remake of the original movie was released in 2009 that got mixed reviews.

There was also talk for a sequel to the remake-

My Bloody Valentine 2

After the success of their (3D) remake of the classic Canadian slasher flick, Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer put their hard hats back on and lit up final draft to doodle down part two. The story would’ve picked up right after the first movie ended, Lussier told STYD. “It was going to start the moment the first film ended. We were going to wheel into the hospital with Axel [Kerr Smith] and his wife [Sarah, Jaime King] was there. He goes into surgery. She goes to make a phone call in one of the waiting rooms to check in on her son. She gets to the phone and she sees these muddy footprints and looks around the corner to the bathroom and there’s Tom [Jensen Ackles] trying to sew himself up. The massacre you didn’t see at the beginning of our Bloody Valentine perhaps you see in the beginning of the sequel.” The sequel that isn’t happening that is.

There was also supposed to be a sequel to the 2009 relaunch of Friday the 13th. It was announced shortly after the theatrical release ended.

Brad Fuller announced on his Twitter last year that the sequel was "dead" and Platinum Dunes then moved on to other projects.



A sequel to the 2010 relaunch of A Nightmare on Elm Street was also discussed after that came out.

Brad Fuller took to Twitter again to say that, "New Line is not interested in a script at this time."

Quentin Tarantino talked about doing an anime prequel to the Kill Bill movies.

It was to tell the history of The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.

Tarantino hasn't talked about doing this idea in years. He even stopped talking about it before David Carradine passed away in 2009.

Development hell....

House Of ReAnimator

The sequel, which reunites the original team (director Stuart Gordon, producer Brian Yuzna, writer Dennis Paoli and lead actor Jeffrey Combs), focuses on a Bush-like president who dies in office. His staff covertly brings in Dr. Herbert West to reanimate the Commander in Chief, and the expected chaos ensues.

William H Macy was even signed on to play The President.

After Rambo (2008) Sylvester Stallone talked about doing a fifth one.

The general plot was said to involve Rambo going after a human trafficking ring on the U.S./Mexico border.

Stallone officially scrapped the plans in 2010 and he then went on to do The Expendables.

There's a third Star Wars trilogy George Lucas conceived that picked up where Return of the Jedi left off. He originally planned to make it but decided to make just the 1999-2005 prequel trilogy instead.

There was supposed to be a sequel to Superman Returns (2006) with Bryan Singer returning to direct and with many of the cast coming back.

The sequel was originally announced 4 months before the Returns premiere for a mid-2009 theatrical release.



Filming was supposed to start by mid-2007 but Singer had to put it on hold when he produced Valkyrie.

Then the 2007-08 Writers Strike delayed things even more and then the release was pushed to 2010.

Ultimately nothing ever happened with "Superman Returns 2".

There was supposed to be a sequel to Superman Returns (2006) with Bryan Singer returning to direct and with many of the cast coming back.

The sequel was originally announced 4 months before the Returns premiere for a mid-2009 theatrical release.



Filming was supposed to start by mid-2007 but Singer had to put it on hold when he produced Valkyrie.

Then the 2007-08 Writers Strike delayed things even more and then the release was pushed to 2010.

Ultimately nothing ever happened with "Superman Returns 2".

Because people forgot about the original movie! :lol:

Gremlins 3, been hearing about this one for years...most likely we'll get a CGI reboot.

Evil Dead 4...What could have been...it was to pick up where the Army Of Darkness original ending version left off.

Creepshow 3...years before the horrendous Creepshow III(which has zero involvement from Romero or King)...animated film director Ralph Bakshi was in talks to do a totally animated part 3.

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins....I'm assuming from the title they had planned on sequels.

Child's Play 6....Chucky writer Don Mancini had planned on a sequel to continue where Seed left off....now a Chucky reboot is in the works.

Friday The 13th Part 6....Friday The 13th Part V A New Beginning left the film with Tommy being the new killer in the franchise, then Jason Lives came along and ignored it....personally I would like to see where the franchise would have gone.

"A Tsunami threatens to wash the Bay Area off the map."

The San Andreas Fault is not the kind of fault that generates Tsunamis. It's called a "Strike-Slip" Fault, whos respective sides, the North American and Pacific Plates, move side to side during a Quake. About 100 miles north of San Francisco, the north American Plate overruns the Pacific Plate offshore, becoming a "Subduction" Fault. These are the kind of Faults that launch Tsunamis, as the plates now move up and down instead of side to side. The Displacement of water results in a Tsunami. A Quake in the early 1700s caused a Tsunami that raviged the Future US and Canadian Coasts, and reached as far west as Japan. Japanese records tell of what they called an "Orphan Tsunami" (A Tsunami that wasn't preceded by an Earthquake) that killed thousands of people there.

"A Tsunami threatens to wash the Bay Area off the map."

The San Andreas Fault is not the kind of fault that generates Tsunamis. It's called a "Strike-Slip" Fault, whos respective sides, the North American and Pacific Plates, move side to side during a Quake. About 100 miles north of San Francisco, the north American Plate overruns the Pacific Plate offshore, becoming a "Subduction" Fault. These are the kind of Faults that launch Tsunamis, as the plates now move up and down instead of side to side. The Displacement of water results in a Tsunami. A Quake in the early 1700s caused a Tsunami that raviged the Future US and Canadian Coasts, and reached as far west as Japan. Japanese records tell of what they called an "Orphan Tsunami" (A Tsunami that wasn't preceded by an Earthquake) that killed thousands of people there.

What's this post about?

What's this post about?
Sorry about that. :doh:

On Page 2 there was a post about a Sequel to the 1974 Disaster Movie Earthquake that was supposed to take place in San Francisco, and a Tsunami was part of the plot.

I hope this clears things up a bit. :D

I read somewhere there was also a sequel planned for Fantastic Voyage. This time the crew would take a Miniturized Sub Ride through the body someone who was supposed to Testify against a Mob Boss. The Victim of an attempted "Rubout", the crew was to do another internal operation to save that persons life. Naturally, someone in the crew would be a member of the Mob, and that person would attempt to sabotauge the mission.

A preview for Dumbo II, which was to be a straight-to-video sequel, was featured on the 2001 60th Anniversary DVD of Dumbo.



The website Magicalears had an explanation back in 2003 on why Dumbo II never happened:

"Disney Television Animation is still trying to decide whether or not it wants to go forward with CG sequels. Disney was serious enough about this idea that it had Joe Grant, the 95-year-old Mouse House vet who was actually the supervisor of story of 'Dumbo' back in 1940-1941, come in last year to view test footage of several CG versions of the flying pachyderm.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you feel about CGI squeezing out traditional animation as Hollywood's choice du jour), none of the 'Dumbo II' test footage was quite up to snuff.

So Disney Television Animation opted to put 'Dumbo II' on hold for a year or two until enough advances can be made in computer animation so that direct-to-home-video-and-DVD sequels could be produced to these 1940s era Disney classics that actually looked like the original animated films."



Dumbo II never happened and Disney has never officially revealed the reason for why it never came to be.

Joe Grant, Dumbo's original story supervisor brought in for the sequel, passed away in May 2005.





Here's the preview for Dumbo II:

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Aside from the above mentioned, there were some other canceled Disney home video sequels. Just a few years ago, there was gonna be an AristoCats sequel, and (even though I forgot the link), there was even gonna be an Oliver & Company sequel as well.

But alas, all those, and other Disney Home Video sequel plans, were shelved indefinitely when John Lasseter took over DisneyToon Studios.

There were talks off-and-on since the mid-1990s about a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie.

Eddie Murphy said in an October 2011 interview that the fourth film isn't happening and that he is currently working on a Beverly Hills Cop television series instead.

Dee Snider has talked about doing a sequel to his cult-horror hit Strangeland (1998) for years.



In January 2009 Snider announced on his official website that production on Strangeland: Disciple will go into production later in the year.

Between 2009-10 Snider was talking very enthusiastically about the sequel in various interviews and on his radio show. He even said that Robert Englund had agreed to come back.

Then the talks of the sequel came to a stop and there was no word on any updates for over a year.



In August of 2011, a fan asked Dee Snider on his official Twitter about what's going on with the Strangeland sequel.

Snider's answer was "Dead in the water. #soeffingfrustrated."

Regarding the X-Men franchise there was supposed to be an origins movie based on Magneto aka Erik Lehnsherr.

It was announced shortly after X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) premiered.

However, Magneto's background was heavily featured in the new X-Men: First Class (2011) so a Magneto origins movie seems pointless now.

Film-maker Andy Sidaris was talking about doing another installment of his L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies franchise throughout most of the 2000s. It was to be called BattleZone Hawaii.

Not much is known about this one, but Andy Sidaris mentioned in a 2002 interview that he was "bringing the snake back."

In the coffee-table book Bullets, Bombs and Babes, published in 2003, it is mentioned that the film is "coming soon" and they planned on casting Devin Devasquez (of Guns) in it.

The film never happened because Andy Sidaris has difficulty getting the finances together and he became very ill later on. He died in 2007 from throat cancer.

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How about sequels made, but not released?

Porky's: The College Years '09 (aka Pimpin' PeeWee)

Adam Wylie(Picket Fences) plays PeeWee

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1346302/combined



About the Other Porky's Flick Messing Up Howard Stern's Remake Plans
http://www.movieline.com/2011/03/28/about-the-other-porkys-flick-messing-up-howard-sterns-remake-plans/

1988's Pulse Pounders.

It was an anthology film that contained sequels to Trancers, Dungeonmaster, and an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Evil Clergymen.

The film was shelved after the financial collapse of Empire Pictures.

I don't know if this has been mentioned., but . . .

Kyle MacLachalan, after making Dune in 1984, signed on to make three or four Dune sequels. 'Nuff said. :eek:

There were talks for years about a third Charlie's Angels film.


Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz have said in various interviews that they wanted to do a third installment. This was way before the tv-reboot was officially announced.

McG was also said to be coming back to direct but he dropped out to do Terminator: Salvation.

The 3rd movie plans were scrapped when the 2011 tv-reboot went into production that ultimately flopped. Drew Barrymore was an EP of the series.

How about sequels made, but not released?

Porky's: The College Years '09 (aka Pimpin' PeeWee)

Adam Wylie(Picket Fences) plays PeeWee

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1346302/combined



About the Other Porky's Flick Messing Up Howard Stern's Remake Plans
http://www.movieline.com/2011/03/28/about-the-other-porkys-flick-messing-up-howard-sterns-remake-plans/

puke:

Throughout the late 2000s Winona Ryder was saying in various interviews that a sequel to Heathers was in the works.

She said that Christian Slater had agreed to come back (he never said anything) and that "the script looks great."

Heathers director Michael Lehmann said that there are no plans for a sequel as far as he knows.



Then in late 2009 it was announced that FOX was interested in doing a Heathers tv-series.

Nothing ever happened with that.

A Blues Brothers sequel chronicling the further mis-adventures of Jake and Elwood was being developed, but the death of John Belushi in 1982 stopped it in its tracks.

An Animal House sequel was also in the works and didn't get made for the same reason.

Deadgirl 2

Deadgirl screenwriter Trent Haaga puts up his script for download and had this to say:

There was some hoopla about a year ago about the fact that DEADGIRL 2 was being talked about. I'm not going to get into all of the terrible particulars that killed the project, but needless to say the outcome wasn't pretty and I don't think that a sequel will ever get made. It certainly won't get made with my participation. And it's probably the best that it remain this way.

But I did write a script for it. I always saw the original DEADGIRL as a condemnation of misogyny as opposed to being misogynous - the boys were the monsters, not the "monster" of the title. But a lot of people didn't see it that way. My idea for the sequel was to try and tell a story from the point of view of a female outcast and what would happen if she found the DEADGIRL this time ... instead of using the DEADGIRL for the impetus of her sexual fantasies, what if she used the DEADGIRL for her revenge fantasies instead? I also wanted to put the story back into the "really small rural town" where the first one was supposed to take place (we shot the first movie in Los Angeles and while it looks a lot like "anytown," it didn't capture that economic desperation that I was hoping for ... desperation that would have added to the boys bizarre and angry choices). What I ended up writing could maybe be described as "Precious meets The Pit with a zombie attack dog."

Maybe this movie would have sucked. Maybe people would have loved it. Who knows? It wouldn't have hurt to at least try, but alas it wasn't to be.

... So as a special treat to my fans and blog readers and the fans of the first DEADGIRL, I've decided to let everyone who's interested take a look at the un-produced screenplay. My wife, among others, is like, "Why would you do something like that? What if the project comes back to life? Why don't you just change the title and see if you can make it anyway?" I dunno ... for me, the work has already been done and to have it just sit on a shelf collecting dust seems unfair to the story. I've basically moved on to other things. I would only make this story if it was DEADGIRL 2. It's the only way that it would make sense for me (although, to be fair, the story could easily be sold as something else - the DEADGIRL herself is the only returning character). And that's just not going to happen.

Enough pontificating. Here's the script. I hope that people dig on it. Remember that it's a first draft, so I'm sure it's got all kinds of bumps and warts, but it is what it is. Enjoy and leave me some comments, whydontcha?

Find the script here- http://trenthaaga.blogspot.com/2012/01/deadgirl-2-screenplay.html

I hoped that sequels would be made for Dirty Dancing and The Big Chill. Two Of my favorite movies! But it never happened.:(

Jet Li's 1993 Hong Kong film Kung Fu Cult Master was meant to be the first of a trilogy.

The trilogy was going to be based off of Jin Yong's Candor novels.

Kung Fu Cult Master was a huge production with the hopes of it being a big hit for Hong Kong cinema. When the film flopped the next two films were scrapped.

Jean Auel wrote six novels - a pair of trilogies - in her Earth's Children series about prehistoric Europe but, and correct me if I'm wrong, the first book, "The Clan of the Cave Bear," was the only one made into a movie. It was a flop, and the other five books have never been filmed.

Am I right?

Jean Auel wrote six novels - a pair of trilogies - in her Earth's Children series about prehistoric Europe but, and correct me if I'm wrong, the first book, "The Clan of the Cave Bear," was the only one made into a movie. It was a flop, and the other five books have never been filmed.

Am I right?

Yes

Thanks, I thought one of the other books might have been filmed with a different title.

they did make a squeal to drity dancing but it had differnt people in it i saw it on abc family long time ago.

Two that I read about were ET 2 and Grease 3. If I recall, the rumored sequel to ET was going to have him return and another version I remember reading was they were going to have a sequel with the kids grown and him coming back. Obviously no ET 2 ever happened. The Grease 3 if I recall got to the greenlight stage and Didi Conn (Frenchy)was one of the producers. The plot was about the children of the original cast. The script was reworked and became High School Musical if I recall.

Thanks, I thought one of the other books might have been filmed with a different title.

The original film version isn't a horrible movie if you separate it from the book...but I wouldn't mind seeing a more faithful adaptation.

Flowers in the Attic was the only one from the Dollanganger series to get a movie adaptation.

Kristy Swanson mentioned that she was contacted to do the sequel Petals on the Wind but it never reached production.

Two that I read about were ET 2 and Grease 3. If I recall, the rumored sequel to ET was going to have him return and another version I remember reading was they were going to have a sequel with the kids grown and him coming back. Obviously no ET 2 ever happened. The Grease 3 if I recall got to the greenlight stage and Didi Conn (Frenchy)was one of the producers. The plot was about the children of the original cast. The script was reworked and became High School Musical if I recall.

I'm glad Robert Stigwood never made Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 2 - after forcing the Bee Gees to butcher Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road, he still had the White Album to make another Beatles rock opera from! :eek: :lol:

The original Sgt. Pepper movie was a disaster, of course. It's worth seeing, though, if your idea of great entertainment is seeing Alice Cooper dunk his face in a cream pie - twice! :lol: :rotflmao:

A fifth installment of the ALIEN franchise was in talks during the 2000s.

James Cameron was working on a prequel that would explore the origins of the creatures, but this was scrapped when FOX was interested in doing ALIEN vs. Predator.



Then around May 2009 Ridley Scott announced that the ALIEN franchise was going to be rebooted.

The plan ultimately didn't happen and the script was reworked into a new, unrelated film Prometheus which is due for June 2012.

Aileen Quinn was originally under contract to appear in a bunch of Annie movies but when the first movie did less than was expected those plans fell through. It pretty much destroyed her career because by the time she was free from the contract she was pretty much forgotten :(

Richard O'Brien has claimed he's writing a sequel to Rocky Horror Picture Show ever since Shock Treatment... that's been over 25 years and still hasn't happened...

Labyrinth got a sort-of sequel in comics, so I hear, officially liscensed by Jim Henson productions. Doesn't sound like David Bowie's gonna be in any adaption though.

And Kevin Costner was working on a sequel to The Bodyguard which he planned to make with Princess Diana. The script was in the early development stages when she died so the story was never completed.

Aileen Quinn was originally under contract to appear in a bunch of Annie movies but when the first movie did less than was expected those plans fell through. It pretty much destroyed her career because by the time she was free from the contract she was pretty much forgotten :(



An Annie II either made it to Broadway or was on its way to Brodway but it was a flop.

An Annie II either made it to Broadway or was on its way to Brodway but it was a flop.

There was an Annie II movie made, but it was several years later and didn't have Aileen Quinn or anyone from the original movie.

There should've been a Mystery Men 2 or a Back to the Future Part 4

There was an Annie II movie made, but it was several years later and didn't have Aileen Quinn or anyone from the original movie.

I did not know that!

There was an Annie II movie made, but it was several years later and didn't have Aileen Quinn or anyone from the original movie.

Was this that tv-movie made in 1999 with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber, or is this something else?

Author Roald Dahl was very displeased with David Seltzer's (uncredited) rewrite of the script for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

David Seltzer was brought on board after Dahl didn't meet some required deadlines and he changed many things around. Dahl felt that the rewrites focused too much on the Willy Wonka character and not enough on Charlie, and that it had sweetened his story's dark tone.

Roald Dahl then disowned the film, refused to allow the movie to be remade again in his lifetime, and did not sell the film rights for the sequel novel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.





In 2005, Roald Dahl's estate allowed Tim Burton to remake the film.

Tim Burton has stated that he has no plans on making a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, however the ending of his movie included some parts from The Great Glass Elevator.

Author Roald Dahl was very displeased with David Seltzer's (uncredited) rewrite of the script for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

David Seltzer was brought on board after Dahl didn't meet some required deadlines and he changed many things around. Dahl felt that the rewrites focused too much on the Willy Wonka character and not enough on Charlie, and that it had sweetened his story's dark tone.

Roald Dahl then disowned the film, refused to allow the movie to be remade again in his lifetime, and did not sell the film rights for the sequel novel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

In 2005, Roald Dahl's estate allowed Tim Burton to remake the film.

Tim Burton has stated that he has no plans on making a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, however the ending of his movie included some parts from The Great Glass Elevator.


I always wondered why the 1971 movie was so different from the book - for example, Mr. Bucket was alive in the book but dead in the 1971 movie.

I read "Charlie and the Chocloate Factory" when I was seven. I never read "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator." I ought to - even though I'm now 46! :) :lol:

Was this that tv-movie made in 1999 with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber, or is this something else?

Not a remake, this was an actual sequel. It was called Annie: A Royal Adventure with Ashley Johnson. Personally, I skipped it.

There's Still Nothing Out There

This was going to be the sequel to Rolfe Kanefsky's early 90's horror comedy There's Nothing Out There, Rolfe talked about it with actor Craig Peck on the DVD commentary, it's even listed on Rolfe's website...but it's been on there for several years, and it's not listed on IMDB....maybe Rolfe may one day make it after he's done with all his lame comedies and cheesy erotic movies, but I doubt it.

The Tales from the Crypt feature films were originally intended to be a trilogy, but things didn't go as planned.



The first film, Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, was originally intended to be the first of the trilogy.

The next two planned films never materialized on the big screen, which were Dead Easy and Body Count. The people making the films weren't happy with the scripts and they felt that, "the humor was becoming lost which was essential for 'Tales from the Crypt'."



The second film that did follow was Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood which was a stand-alone film.



The third film, Tales from the Crypt Presents: Ritual, had a quiet release and I've spoken with a few people who don't even know that the film exists.

Ritual was originally set for theatrical release in 2002, but due to the theatrical failure of Bordello of Blood this didn't happen. The film was released internationally, but all references to Tales from the Crypt were taken out.

The U.S. release of Ritual didn't come until 2006 when HBO quietly put it out direct-to-DVD. HBO then added the Crypt Keeper segments and all other Crypt references back into the film for the home market.

Not really a sequel, but . . .

The French director Francois Truffaut set out to make a trilogy devoted to the performing arts in France. Day For Night (1973) was about the movies; The Last Metro (1980) was about the theater. He planned to make a movie about the French music hall tradition as his third movie in the trilogy, likely in 1987 so as to keep with the seven-year sequence, but he died in 1984 and so the music hall movie was never made. :(

Halloween 3D is currently in limbo. As of right now it is in "release to be determined" status.



The third film was officially announced shortly after H2 ended its theatrical run. Originally Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer were brought on to write the Halloween 3D script.

The script was completed in September 2009. They had eight days to write it before they had to go work on Drive Angry.

Todd Famer said, "At the end of the day there was just no time or money to pull it off."

No H3D? How about H2O? :lol:

There was supposed to be a true sequel to "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" that was actually relevant to that movie.

Years ago. I saw an IMDb page for "Ghostbusters III," which was supposed to be released in 1999.


I don't know if this qualifies as a sequel, but before Bing Crosby died, there was supposed to be another road movie called "Road to the Fountain of Youth."

No H3D? How about H2O? :lol:

We already had Halloween H20 in 1998.

There was supposed to be a true sequel to "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" that was actually relevant to that movie.

Years ago. I saw an IMDb page for "Ghostbusters III," which was supposed to be released in 1999.


I don't know if this qualifies as a sequel, but before Bing Crosby died, there was supposed to be another road movie called "Road to the Fountain of Youth."

Maybe they did that a few years later as Cocoon. ;)

A Blues Brothers sequel chronicling the further mis-adventures of Jake and Elwood was being developed, but the death of John Belushi in 1982 stopped it in its tracks.

Just to note, as I'm sure you know, that years later a sequel did get made - Blues Brothers 2000 (1998).

However, it was critically panned and virtually no one likes it.

Robert Englund did a recent interview with Moviehole.net where he talked about an un-produced Elm Street prequel.

"There was a great kind of 'Portrait of a Serial Killer' kind of docudrama script around, where you see Freddy and his first kills and the courtroom scenes where these really horrible, terrible lawyers keep getting him off; great corrupt lawyers getting him off and then the vigilante parents.

Finally in the climax, burning him alive, and maybe you see him manifest, and show up on Elm Street at the very end, where his sort of revenge, reign of terror would be hinted at."

After Die Another Day (2002) came out MGM wanted to do a spin-off film featuring Halle Berry's character Jinx. It was going to be the first spin-off film for the James Bond franchise.

MGM called off the project after noticing that other female-lead action movies of the time, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life, flopped. They told all of the people working on the Jinx film to now focus on 'Bond 21', which was to star Pierce Brosnan, for 2005.

Pierce Brosnan's 5th film as Bond never happened because he was demanding too much money and they couldn't negotiate any further. As a result the studio decided to reboot the entire James Bond franchise instead.

Tales from the Crypt and Halloween III both should've had sequels! Halloween III was creepy, had a great soundtrack, and I've never seen a movie quite like that!

Also the 1998 Godzilla movie was supposed to have a sequel with all the baby godzillas in that movie but it never happened!

We already had Halloween H20 in 1998.

Oops, I forgot about that.

I heard right after "The Breakfast Club" came out that John Hughes had considered the idea of having a sequel to answer the question of what happened on Monday when they went back to school. The fact that this sequel never happened is very good news for fan ficiton writers. I've read some good scenerarios!
Eh, it probably would've made a better SNL skit. My take on it would be that the five members of The Breakfast Club find their adult lives are total disasters, and by the end Vice Principal Vernon reveals that he rigged everything this way for them, and they all kick the living **** out of him.

But one other sequel that I know for a fact about, and have the script to is "Flamingos Forever," which was an intended sequel to John Water's cult classic "Pink Flamingos." The thing was never made partially because Divine didn't like the script and Edith Massey died.

Kung Pow and Deep Rising both kind of have a cult following asking for sequels but they won't ever happen.

http://splitsider.com/2012/11/a-crocodile-dundee-crossover-and-two-other-rejected-ideas-for-beverly-hills-cop-iii/

IDEA #1: Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, who made the first two Beverly Hills Cop movies, were originally brought to produce this one too in 1991, according to The LA Times. They hired Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne (who wrote 70s classics like Chinatown, The Last Detail, and Shampoo), who pitched a story about Axel Foley dealing with being a celebrity cop. Eddie Murphy liked the idea, but negotiations with Paramount broke down over Simpson and Bruckheimer's fees and provisions. The duo left the project along with Towne, taking the script with them and getting a million dollar payday anyway.

IDEA #2: Eddie Murphy rejected a story idea that would have seen Axel Foley traveling to London and teaming up with Sean Connery as a Scotland Yard detective.

IDEA #3: The craziest Beverly Hills Cop III idea of all (and one of the craziest movie ideas ever, in general) was pitched by then-Paramount Chairman Brandon Tartikoff, according to The LA Times. Tartikoff wanted to pair Eddie Murphy with Paul Hogan for a third Crocodile Dundee film. Yes, you read that right. Tartikoff had a good head on his shoulders and was responsible for making a lot of classic TV as the head of NBC in the 80s, so it's surprising that this concept would come from him. It's the epitome of a coke-fueled idea from a sleazy 80s movie producer ("Crocodile Hills Cop! I can see the poster now!"), but not something you'd expect somebody to pitch in 1991.

Sure, it's natural to think of Beverly Hills Cop and Crocodile Dundee together. They were both wildly-popular "fish out of water" 80s comedies – very similar movies, but pairing up Axel Foley and Dundee sounds like an iffy proposition, at best. Needless to say, Murphy turned this one down too.

i find it amazing that Eddie Murphy turned those ideas down - they would have been far better than a lot of his more rrecent movies.

Kevin Williamson recently revealed a scrapped Scream 3 plot:

"In my original story for Scream 3, the killers were basically a fanclub of Woodsboro kids that had formed because of Stab 1 and Stab 2. They were all doing the killings and the big surprise of the movie was when Sidney walked into the house after Ghostface had killed everyone… and they all rose up.

None of them were actually dead and they’d planned the whole thing… The motive was their quest for fame, they were trying to top Sidney's Woodsboro story so they could be the legacy of their hometown."

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/172001-kevin-williamson-on-a-scrapped-scream-3-story

Another one:

Roman Polanski's Chinatown was originally supposed to be the first in a trilogy of movies about J.J. Gittes (played by Jack Nicholson). Never really happened, of course, because of the sex scandal involving Polanski and 13-year-old Samantha Geimer (nee Gailey), and his fleeing from America in the midst of it.

There was somewhat of a sequel to Chinatown in 1990 called The Two Jakes, with Nicholson reprising his role and also directing it. But again, as far as Polanski's original ideas for Chinatown sequels were concerned, they never happened.

Polanski himself actually gave his thoughts on The Two Jakes. He said it was good, but he couldn't understand what was going on.

The Best Of Sex And Violence- At the end of this trailer compilation from 1981, John Carradine alludes to a Best Of Sex And Violence Volume 2, and underneath 'The End' it shows "Watch for The Best of Sex and Violence Volume II"

John Hughes,may he rest in peace,:( wanted to do a Ferris Bueller's Day Off Sequel but he and Matthew Broderick couldn't get the timing right what with Matthew's other projects. Now Broderick regrets not being able to do it. Hughes thought that maybe the next "perfect day" could have been with Ferris in college or at work. I'm thinking that a sequel couldn't compare with the original so I'm happy that they left well enough alone.:) What do you think?:confused:

John Hughes,may he rest in peace,:( wanted to do a Ferris Bueller's Day Off Sequel but he and Matthew Broderick couldn't get the timing right what with Matthew's other projects. Now Broderick regrets not being able to do it. Hughes thought that maybe the next "perfect day" could have been with Ferris in college or at work. I'm thinking that a sequel couldn't compare with the original so I'm happy that they left well enough alone.:) What do you think?:confused:

I agree. Some movies tell their story and don't need a sequel.

Hollywood doesn't always get that.

John Hughes,may he rest in peace,:( wanted to do a Ferris Bueller's Day Off Sequel but he and Matthew Broderick couldn't get the timing right what with Matthew's other projects. Now Broderick regrets not being able to do it. Hughes thought that maybe the next "perfect day" could have been with Ferris in college or at work. I'm thinking that a sequel couldn't compare with the original so I'm happy that they left well enough alone.:) What do you think?:confused:

He also talked about doing a sequel to The Breakfast Club. I've even heard rumors in the last few years of a follow up about the kids of the original characters serving detention.

Paramount looked into making a fourth The Naked Gun film w/o Leslie Nielsen around 2008 and decided it would do better as a straight-to-DVD release.

Not bringing Nielsen back was strictly for monetary reasons as they balked at how much it would be to hire him. The writers suddenly left when those involved got wind of Nielsen's non-involvement w/ the project.

Before Rob Zombie did his re-imagining of John Carpenter's Halloween there were plans at one point for a 9th sequel with a working title rumored to be "Homecoming".

Another scrapped idea was to do a "Vs." movie with Michael Myers meeting Hellraiser's Pinhead.

That sucks, I think Michael Myers VS Pinhead would be cool to see

Hell, since they made Freddy VS Jason then Michael Myers VS Pinhead would have worked

Robin Williams turned down the script for "Mrs. Doubtfire 2" because he was unhappy with it.

The plans for the sequel were scrapped in 2006.

I do not blame him, the script sounded awful

The Lost Boys (1987) was made with the intent of having a direct sequel. The vampire David (Kiefer Sutherland) did not explode like the other vampires and he was intended to not be dead.

Joel Schumacher had written a The Lost Girls script and tried to do it throughout the '90s, but it never happened.



In 2008, there was a limited comic book series The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs that explained that the antlers missed David's heart which did not kill him.

Then two direct-to-video sequels came out: The Tribe (2008) and The Thirst (2010).

Director Stuart Gordon mentioned plans for a sequel to Dolls (1987), but it never happened.

The storyline would have followed surviving characters Judy and Ralph back to Boston in which Ralph would have married Judy's mother and they would all become a family.

Judy would then receive a box sent from England containing the elderly toy makers, Gabriel and Hilary, as dolls.

Obscure 1980's comedy Making The Grade with Judd Nelson at the start of the end credits has his character in a blurb stating he would return in the sequel called Tourista which was probably intended as an inside joke.

Freddy Vs Jason 2 - they originally wanted Michael Myers or Ash from The evil dead series as the third main character but there was too much paperwork and legal matters to sit through so the idea was abandoned.

a few of the crew admitted Pinhead was originally going to appear in one of the original endings but the rights to the character cost too much to add to the film

I know I posted an image of it here, but the 1965 AIP teenexploitation flick "Ski Party" was supposed to have a sequel called "Cruise Party" that was never made.


On the other hand, there was something similar made in 1967 called "The Catalina Caper," and the cast and crew of MST3K blasted that one.

" in the mid 1990's Simon Wells had co-wrote a screenplay for Casper 2 a sequel to the 1995 film the sequel was cancelled by Amblin Entertainment because they did not believe there would be enough interest from moviegoers. Wells also credited the uncertainty of actress Christina Ricci returning & Fox's ill-received direct-to-video Casper films as contributing to the canellation of Casper 2 "

good news back in 2010 news come out that they were trying to get another casper film off the ground in hollywood but it would have a much darker tone

After the success of Se7en, studio execs wanted a sequel. David Fincher then worked on an Ei8ht script and it spent a lot time in the pre-production phase, but Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman wanted no part of it.

The script was eventually retooled and turned into the upcoming movie Solace, starring Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell, about a psychic who works with the FBI to track down a serial killer.

After the success of My Cousin Vinny, screenwriter/producer Dale Launer wrote a sequel but Marissa Tomei wasn't interested in coming back. Too much time eventually passed after Vinny came out and it never happened.

The sequel was going to be about Vinny, now a high profile defense attorney, hired for the case of an ex-football star charged with murdering his wife and her alleged lover. Vinny has to navigate his way through the L.A. law enforcement and corruption and decide whether or not he really believes his client or not.

back in 1971 Twentieth Century Fox was going to make a sequel to the movie MASH to be based on the sequel to the book MASH GOES TO BOSTON (which was about a reunion of the 4077th in Boston) anyway they decided to make a TV series instead (I forget why)

and in 1987 they were thinking about doing a sequel to the 1967 movie THE GRADUATE.

After the success of My Cousin Vinny, screenwriter/producer Dale Launer wrote a sequel but Marissa Tomei wasn't interested in coming back. Too much time eventually passed after Vinny came out and it never happened.

The sequel was going to be about Vinny, now a high profile defense attorney, hired for the case of an ex-football star charged with murdering his wife and her alleged lover. Vinny has to navigate his way through the L.A. law enforcement and corruption and decide whether or not he really believes his client or not.

It's funny they were considering a sequel.

Not all movies need or require a sequel. I think a movie like My Cousin Vinny was great, but it told its story. I liked it, but never thought they should do another.

Sometimes it's a good thing these proposed sequels never made it past the first stage of development

It's funny they were considering a sequel.

Not all movies need or require a sequel. I think a movie like My Cousin Vinny was great, but it told its story. I liked it, but never thought they should do another.

Sometimes it's a good thing these proposed sequels never made it past the first stage of development

I don't know, it would have been cool if they had a Vinny In Space.

they were planning a sequel to NATIONAL LAMPOONS ANIMAL HOUSE that would have been set at Haight-Ashbury. I forget why they never did it though. I think it was because of John Belushis death.

Paul McCartney supposedly considered the idea of the Beatles making a sequel to Magical Mystery Tour - about the Beatles at an Edwardian picnic, as author Nicholas Schaffner described it - but after the failure of the original film on British TV, the Beatles shelved the idea and went to study meditation in India instead. :D

they were planning a sequel to NATIONAL LAMPOONS ANIMAL HOUSE that would have been set at Haight-Ashbury. I forget why they never did it though. I think it was because of John Belushis death.

They were planning an Animal House sequel. It also would have starred Dan Aykroyd. A Blues Brothers sequel was also being planned.

Both were cancelled when Belushi died because they were being developed for him.

Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. Director Kevin Smith was offered the chance to write a sequel to Beetlejuice, to be set in Hawaii, but he said, "Didn’t we say everything we needed to with the first Beetlejuice?"

Tim Burton, who made the original movie, actually pitched the idea because he thought it would be so ridiculous they’d turn him down and he could go onto other things. Instead they loved it, and put it into development. It never got further than that.

Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. Director Kevin Smith was offered the chance to write a sequel to Beetlejuice, to be set in Hawaii, but he said, "Didn’t we say everything we needed to with the first Beetlejuice?"

Tim Burton, who made the original movie, actually pitched the idea because he thought it would be so ridiculous they’d turn him down and he could go onto other things. Instead they loved it, and put it into development. It never got further than that.

I'm glad they shelved that idea! Sounds really lame:crazy:

Paul McCartney supposedly considered the idea of the Beatles making a sequel to Magical Mystery Tour - about the Beatles at an Edwardian picnic, as author Nicholas Schaffner described it - but after the failure of the original film on British TV, the Beatles shelved the idea and went to study meditation in India instead. :D

I have to admit that Magic Mystery Tour was pretty bad. But the songs were great!:)

I have to admit that Magic Mystery Tour was pretty bad. But the songs were great!:)

"The Fool On the Hill" and "I Am The Walrus" are great, "the title song and "Your Mother Should Know" are pleasant throwaways," and "Flying" and "Blue Jay Way" are in between.

Cabin Fever: Outbreak - This was supposed to have been shot back-to-back with Cabin Fever: Patient Zero. It was going to be co-written by Adam Marcus who wrote Jason Goes To Hell, and Texas Chainsaw 3D...hmm, now that I think about it maybe it's a good thing it didn't get made.

There was supposed to be a "prequel" to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which of course was never made.

Bob Clark, who directed the 1974 horror classic Black Christmas, talked about wanting to do a sequel, ironically called Halloween, with Billy the killer returning to stalk and slash up more people on the holiday. But it never happened and four years later, John Carpenter's Halloween arrived.

Superman producer Ilya Salkind and actor Christopher Reeve weren’t happy with the way Superman III and Superman IV turned out. A storyline for a possible Superman V was developed. Brainiac would be the villain of the film, and in it, he would shrink Metropolis. Aware that Clark Kent/Superman is still in the shrunken city, Brainiac, miniaturizing himself, heads into town to bring him down. And he does – in the third act, Superman would have died (though he would’ve been reborn shortly after as a mortal). It never happened, in part because Salkind lost the rights to the Superman character.

that sounds like it would have been great! Shame they never made it.

There was supposed to be a "prequel" to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which of course was never made.
are you sure that's right? Because I know they were going to make a sequel and Bob Hoskins was also going to be in it; maybe that's what you're thinking of?

STAR TREK VI was originally going to have a different story, it was going to start by showing graduation day at Starfleet academy with Capt. James Kirk as the guest speaker since Kirk, Spock, McCoy etc. are now celebrities. After he gives his talk, he takes questions from the audience. Someone ask him how did he & Spock first meet and why have they remained such good friends all those years. Kirk says "Well, it's like this..." then the movie flashes back to show a young James Kirk growing up on his farm in Iowa, he's just applied to Starfleet and is nervously awaiting a response. He gets it and is accepted (obviously:lol: )
One day he's walking across the campus when he sees a group of students teasing a cadet for being a half Vulcan. He puts a stop to it and that's how he meets Spock.

I forget what the rest of it was going to be, but in the last scene Kirk, Spock & McCoy are talking about something then Kirk says for the first time in Star Trek the line that some people associate with it but was never said "Beam me up Scotty!" and they all beam out.

Just before the closing credits of 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimensionthere was an announcement for the next installment: Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League.' But it was never made.

Roland Emmerich Scrapped Early Independence Day Sequel about Peace
by Devan Coggan
6/14/16


It took Roland Emmerich 20 years to return to the original Independence Day, finally following up his 1996 blockbuster with the upcoming Independence Day: Resurgence. But while Resurgence may be the first Independence Day sequel to make it to the big screen, it isn’t Emmerich’s first attempt.

The director is serving as a guest editor for Empire online this week, and to kick off his tenure, he answered a slew of reader questions about Independence Day and his wide-ranging career.





In one answer, he discussed how he and original Independence Day writer Dean Devlin tried to pen a sequel script in the early 2000s, only to ultimately scrap it.

“It was after 9/11 and Dean and I wanted to make the movie about peace, and it just didn’t work. There’s still an element of that in the new one, but that version was only about that. We shoot aliens down accidentally and then at the end of the movie they land on the White House lawn and say ‘we come in peace’ and that was it.

It was just too weak an idea and we didn’t really want to do it. It didn’t have an Independence Day feel. Only the alien ship was destroyed!”





Emmerich also addressed why it took him 20 years to make a sequel — and why he changed his mind about never returning to the world of Independence Day.

“I’d never planned to make a sequel — I always felt that Independence Day was a standalone film. But over the years I realized how iconic the film had become for people and I was repeatedly asked by 20th Century Fox to do it. What really did it was just how amazing film technology is these days and how restricted I felt in ‘95/’96 when I did the original one.

But it’s not a traditional sequel.”

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/14/independence-day-roland-emmerich-scrapped-sequel

Suprised noone mentioned TMNT IV. I don't know if any of the cast was coming back, but concept art was made and it was advertised in magazines and toys. The turtles were supposed to have some kinda mutations I think, Shredder was back, and a 5th turtle called Kirby was supposed to be in it.

are you sure that's right? Because I know they were going to make a sequel and Bob Hoskins was also going to be in it; maybe that's what you're thinking of?

Maybe. I don't remember where I heard it.

at the end of Mel Brooks "HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1" there's a "trailer" for a sequel to it that was never made.

The 3rd book in The Civil War trilogy, The Last Full Measure, has yet to receive a film adaptation.

Gettysburg (1993), based off of The Killer Angels, was met with widespread acclaim and is regarded as a cinematic masterpiece.

Director Ronald F. Maxwell, and some of the Gettysburg cast, returned 10-years later for the prequel Gods and Generals, but this film was a bust. Gods and Generals ended with a sequence saying that the story will continue in the 3rd film, but there has been no progress at all on the final film.

at the end of Mel Brooks "HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1" there's a "trailer" for a sequel to it that was never made.

I always thought that was a joke, like the promise for Airplane III at the end of Airplane II.

I heard that Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures was gonna make a sequel to Good Burger called Good Burger 2 Go but the sequel never happened to appear and the only info released of the Good Burger sequel was a book of Good Burger 2 Go
Why was Good Burger 2 Go shelved suddenly?
Bestie

There were several versions of Godfather Part III attempted before the released version came out in 1990, including ones rumored to star John Travolta and Sylvester Stallone.

Peter Jackson’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 6

When trying to figure out a new direction after the box office drop from A Nightmare on Elm Street 5, New Line took a lot of pitches. They brought in a New Zealand filmmaker named Peter Jackson, at that time an unknown. His script was likened to A Clockwork Orange, with Freddy now seen as a joke and no longer a boogeyman or an instrument of fear. Now, kids would fall asleep intentionally and go into the dream world just to beat and torture the bitter, broken old dream demon. When one teen falls into a coma and becomes trapped in the nightmare realm, though, Freddy finally seizes the opportunity and takes the upper hand to restore his power.

http://wickedhorror.com/top-horror-lists/top-ten-horror-movies-never-happened/

Bob Clark, who directed the 1974 horror classic Black Christmas, talked about wanting to do a sequel, ironically called Halloween, with Billy the killer returning to stalk and slash up more people on the holiday. But it never happened and four years later, John Carpenter's Halloween arrived.

Not exactly...

Bob Clark:
I never intended to do a sequel [to Black Christmas]. I did a film about three years later… started a film with John Carpenter. It was his first film for Warner Bros. He asked me if I was ever going to do a sequel and I said no. I was through with horror; I didn’t come into the business to do just horror. He said, ‘Well what would you do if you did do a sequel?’ I said it would be the next year and the guy would have actually been caught, escape from a mental institution, go back to the house, and they would start all over again. And I would call it Halloween.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3413469/halloween-basically-unofficial-black-christmas-sequel/

Death Race 3000 - A direct sequel that would have starred Tom Cruise, but after Cruise turned down three scripts it was eventually scrapped. Also rumored that a version was planned that would have made the race international, but was also scrapped due to budget constraints.

A remake was eventually made starring Jason Statham, though director Paul WS Anderson says it's a prequel to the original film.

"Reno 911!" stars Robert Grant and Thomas Lennon mentioned in their book Writing Movies for Fun and Profit (published in 2012) that a sequel to Reno 911!: Miami (2007) was scrapped due to its poor box office.

They said that they planned to call the movie sequel Reno 911!: SOS and it was to feature the "Reno 911!" characters getting stuck on a deserted island with a serial killer on the loose.

Universal was planning a sequel to NATIONAL LAMPOONS ANIMAL HOUSE that would have starred John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd and would have been set at Haight-Ashbury. But Belushis death caused them to drop the idea.

They were going to make another STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION movie with the NEXT GEN., VOY., and DS9 crews but when STAR TREK: NEMISIS bombed at the box office Paramount scrapped the idea.

there was going to be an super man returns 2 & dooms day was going to be an villian but it never happened!! then they were going to make an super man movie with nick cage but it never did happen!! they were going to make another batman called trumpfit movie but then batman & robin bombed so they didn't make it!! they were going to make an home alone 3 with Macaulay Culkin as an teeanger but then he dropped out!!

Universal was planning a sequel to NATIONAL LAMPOONS ANIMAL HOUSE that would have starred John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd and would have been set at Haight-Ashbury. But Belushis death caused them to drop the idea.



That would have been interesting. Those 2 had great chemistry.

there was going to be an super man returns 2 & dooms day was going to be an villian but it never happened!! then they were going to make an super man movie with nick cage but it never did happen!! they were going to make another batman called trumpfit movie but then batman & robin bombed so they didn't make it!! they were going to make an home alone 3 with Macaulay Culkin as an teeanger but then he dropped out!!

The Nicolas Cage Superman movie, which was titled Superman Lives, was in development long before Superman Returns in the late '90s. Tim Burton was slated to direct from a script by Kevin Smith. Thankfully, based on things I've heard from Kevin Smith, that movie never happened.

There was never a sequel to Superman Returns planned because while the movie did reasonably well at the box office, it didn't live up to the financial expectations Warner Bros. had for it.

And if that Nic Cage/Tim Burton Superman movie had happened, Superman Returns would never have been made.

And in the early 2000s, when the Batman and Superman franchises were dead, an early version of Batman Vs. Superman was in development and it was being reported that a high profile director was attached to it. This never got off the ground, however.

Universal was planning a sequel to NATIONAL LAMPOONS ANIMAL HOUSE that would have starred John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd and would have been set at Haight-Ashbury. But Belushis death caused them to drop the idea.

I never heard the plotline was going to be set in Haight-Ashbury, but I know that a Animal House sequel was in development like you said.

The role of D-Day in the original movie was written with Dan Aykroyd in mind, but he turned down the part because he felt it was Belushi's movie and he wanted to focus on writing and performing for Saturday Night Live.

There was also a Blues Brothers sequel in development at the same time that would have starred Belushi and Aykroyd, but Belushi's death nixed that project and the movie was never made.

The Nicolas Cage Superman movie, which was titled Superman Lives, was in development long before Superman Returns in the late '90s. Tim Burton was slated to direct from a script by Kevin Smith. Thankfully, based on things I've heard from Kevin Smith, that movie never happened.

There was never a sequel to Superman Returns planned because while the movie did reasonably well at the box office, it didn't live up to the financial expectations Warner Bros. had for it.

And if that Nic Cage/Tim Burton Superman movie had happened, Superman Returns would never have been made.

And in the early 2000s, when the Batman and Superman franchises were dead, an early version of Batman Vs. Superman was in development and it was being reported that a high profile director was attached to it. This never got off the ground, however.

There was indeed a Superman Returns sequel planned. Often sequels are planned even before the original film is released:
https://www.moviefone.com/2014/02/03/bryan-singer-superman-returns-sequel/

There was indeed a Superman Returns sequel planned. Often sequels are planned even before the original film is released:
https://www.moviefone.com/2014/02/03/bryan-singer-superman-returns-sequel/

I stand corrected. But they dropped it pretty quickly after the movie's release and what they felt was disappointing box office.

The Nicolas Cage Superman movie, which was titled Superman Lives, was in development long before Superman Returns in the late '90s. Tim Burton was slated to direct from a script by Kevin Smith. Thankfully, based on things I've heard from Kevin Smith, that movie never happened.

There is a great documentary, The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?, where Jon Peters, Kevin Smith and Tim Burton discuss their involvement and eventual scrapping of the project.







There was never a sequel to Superman Returns planned because while the movie did reasonably well at the box office, it didn't live up to the financial expectations Warner Bros. had for it.

I had actually mentioned this one a few years back.


There was supposed to be a sequel to Superman Returns (2006) with Bryan Singer returning to direct and with many of the cast coming back.

The sequel was originally announced 4 months before the Returns premiere for a mid-2009 theatrical release.



Filming was supposed to start by mid-2007 but Singer had to put it on hold when he produced Valkyrie.

Then the 2007-08 Writers Strike delayed things even more and then the release was pushed to 2010. Ultimately nothing ever happened with it.







And in the early 2000s, when the Batman and Superman franchises were dead, an early version of Batman Vs. Superman was in development and it was being reported that a high profile director was attached to it. This never got off the ground, however.

That was Wolfgang Petersen and Josh Hartnett was in talks to be Superman.
He then left it to direct Troy.

I'm not sure who is a worse choice to play Superman Cage or Hartnett.

I like both actors, but I can't see either of them in the part. Though Cage I guess would have fit considering how weird that version would have been to begin with.

There is a great documentary, The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?, where Jon Peters, Kevin Smith and Tim Burton discuss their involvement and eventual scrapping of the project.

I'll have to check that out.

I did watch a DVD of Kevin Smith live where he talked about Superman Lives and how producer Jon Peters didn't want Superman to fly (if I'm remembering it correctly), wanted him to wear a re-designed costume and wanted him to fight a giant mechanical spider.

The movie obviously never happened, but Smith noted that the mechanical spider did show up in The Wild Wild West, a remake of the '60s TV show produced by...Jon Peters.

Kevin Smith basically said that Peters paid for the rights to Superman and wanted to make a movie about a character who wasn't really Superman, that he had no clue what made Superman tick.

I don't think Burton would have been a good choice for Superman. Just because he directed a couple of Batman movies doesn't mean he can do just any superhero movie.

I'll have to check that out.

I did watch a DVD of Kevin Smith live where he talked about Superman Lives and how producer Jon Peters didn't want Superman to fly (if I'm remembering it correctly), wanted him to wear a re-designed costume and wanted him to fight a giant mechanical spider.

The movie obviously never happened, but Smith noted that the mechanical spider did show up in The Wild Wild West, a remake of the '60s TV show produced by...Jon Peters.

Kevin Smith basically said that Peters paid for the rights to Superman and wanted to make a movie about a character who wasn't really Superman, that he had no clue what made Superman tick.

I don't think Burton would have been a good choice for Superman. Just because he directed a couple of Batman movies doesn't mean he can do just any superhero movie.

I think that was on Kevin Smith's first live DVD An Evening with Kevin Smith.

Smith basically rehashes those stories about Jon Peters in the docu. and Peters denied Smith's tales during his interview.

I think that was on Kevin Smith's first live DVD An Evening with Kevin Smith.

Smith basically rehashes those stories about Jon Peters in the docu. and Peters denied Smith's tales during his interview.

Well of course Jon Peters is going to deny it, because he comes off looking like a idiot.

I tend to believe Smith, because I've seen and read interviews with Peters and he comes off as arrogant and not too bright.

Alien 5 is "Totally Dead", According to Neill Blomkamp
by Joey Nolfi
June 5, 2017


In space, no one can hear you scream — and apparently, the movie gods didn’t listen to Neill Blomkamp’s bid for another Alien film, either.

Two years after the District 9 filmmaker debuted concept art for the upcoming fifth continuation of the franchise’s original storyline (2012’s Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, which is in theaters now, are part of a prequel trilogy), Blomkamp has confirmed that plans to take the series one step further are currently off the table, at least for him.

“I think it’s totally dead, yes. That would be an accurate assumption at this point,” he told The Verge of the project that would have starred Sigourney Weaver over the weekend. “It’s sad. I spent a long time working on that, and I feel like it was really pretty awesome. But politically, the way it’s gone now, and the way that it all is — it’s just not going to live.”





He went on to explain that the decision was in part made out of respect for Scott, who helmed the 1979 original, Prometheus, and Covenant.

“Ridley Scott was one of my idols growing up. He’s so talented and he’s made this film that really set me off in a direction. I want to just be as respectful and not go stamping around in this world that he created,” he explained.

“I think that if the circumstances were different, and I didn’t feel like I was getting too close to something that he obviously feels a massive personal connection to, that things that may have played out differently. But I did want to be as respectful as possible.”

http://ew.com/movies/2017/06/05/alien-5-totally-dead-neill-blomkamp/

I forget whether this was mentioned or not, but there was supposed to be a Kick-Ass 3, which was scrubbed due to the box-office failure of Kick-Ass 2. That's too bad, because I liked both movies.

Before the official release of The Godfather Part III in 1990, numerous versions had been in development in the late 1970s - through the mid-80s.

Some versions did not have the Michael Corleone character, while others had him as a minor character in a "next generation" style movie with the younger descendants of the Corleone family as the central characters.

Some of these versions were rumored to have had John Travolta and Sylvester Stallone as the star. I'm glad that never came to pass.

David Fincher said he wanted to make film adaptations of The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest after doing the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in 2011.

They never happened due to various script delays. Now they are working on adapting the 4th novel, The Girl in the Spider's Web, w/ Fede Alvarez set for Oct. 2018.

Marc Webb Reveals Scrapped "The Amazing Spider-Man 3" Plans
by Nick Romano
August 9, 2017


Before Sony Pictures struck a deal with Disney to bring Spider-Man into the world of The Avengers, Andrew Garfield was enjoying his brief run as the comic book wall-crawler in a couplet of films from director Marc Webb.

Plans were in motion to continue the story with a Sinister Six spin-off film and The Amazing Spider-Man 3. Those plans never came to fruition, but Webb recently opened up about what would have been his attempt at a Spidey expanded universe.

“We were talking about the Sinister Six,” Webb told Den of Geek of the film about Spider-Man’s super-villain squad. “They were going to make a Sinister Six movie before we did 'The Amazing Spider-Man 3', but I wanted… Chris Cooper was going to come back and play the Goblin.”





Cooper appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Norman Osborn, the head of Oscorp, the father of Peter Parker’s friend Harry Osborn, and the man who traditionally becomes the Green Goblin in the comics.

The character was thought to have died, leaving room for Harry (Dane DeHaan) to become the villain. The film also included Easter eggs for characters like Vulture and Doctor Octopus as teases for Sinister Six.



There was even supposed to be a scene, ultimately cut from the final film, with a jar containing Norman’s head. Speaking to how he would have brought back the character for a third film, Webb said, “We were going to freeze his head, and then he was going to be brought back to life. And then there was that character called The Gentleman. We had some notions about how to do it, but I think maybe we were thinking too far ahead when we started building in those things. But it was a fun exercise. I look back very fondly on those days.”

The filmmaker also confirmed, “Norman was going to be the main villain. He was going to come out and lead the Sinister Six. We had talked about Vulture a little bit, too, actually.”





Drew Goddard had been tapped to helm Sinister Six, but the combination of poor critical reviews for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, low box-office numbers, and the Sony e-mail hacking scandal upended these plans. Now Spider-Man’s cinematic world looks much different.

Tom Holland debuted as teenager Peter Parker in Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War, marking the landmark collaboration between Sony and Disney. The actor returned for his solo film, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and will be seen in next year’s Avengers: Infinity War.

Sony is already prepping films based on Spider-Man characters to be separate from this Marvel Cinematic Universe: Tom Hardy has been cast as Eddie Brock in Venom, scheduled for release on Oct. 5, 2018; and Gina Prince-Bythewood was also enlisted to helm Silver and Black, based on characters Silver Sable and Black Cat.

http://ew.com/movies/2017/08/09/amazing-spider-man-3-plot-marc-webb-andrew-garfield/

Bruce Campbell Says he won't Play Elvis in Bubba Ho-Tep Sequel
by Clark Collis
August 22, 2017


As befits a movie in which Bruce Campbell plays an Egyptian mummy-battling Elvis Presley and the late, great African-American actor Ossie Davis portrays John F. Kennedy, the 2002 horror-comedy Bubba Ho-Tep has achieved the status of beloved cult classic.

Fans of director Don Coscarelli’s movie have long waited for the proposed sequel, Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She Vampires, which at one point looked likely to find Campbell reprising his role of Presley and Paul Giamatti playing the King’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker.





But when Campbell dropped by the Sirius XM studios to appear on the EW Channel’s Entertainment Weirdly show, the actor made clear that he had no intention of appearing in a sequel.

“I killed it,” said The Evil Dead star. “I killed it for me. I told the creators that I didn’t want to dance around it anymore. I feel that the first one was a nice little gem and you don’t have to make a sequel for everything. Don Coscarelli, god bless him, go make it. You know, get somebody else. They had Ron Perlman at one point. Knock yourself out. I don’t want to stop you from making this, but I don’t want to. So, that one I’m just going to let go.”

http://ew.com/movies/2017/08/22/bruce-campbell-bubba-ho-tep-sequel/

Though I probably would have watched it if it was made, Bubba Ho Tep without Ossie Davis as JFK doesn't sound good to me. Bruce was great, but Ossie was part of the film just as much as Bruce. They were a great pair.

This one could still happen, but I think it's very unlikely.

Robert Rodriguez was going to do a trilogy based on Machete from the Grindhouse movie trailers and the 3rd one seems to be delayed. The 2nd film, Machete Kills, was met with bad reviews and poor fan reception. The film ended with a fake trailer for the upcoming 3rd movie Machete Kills Again... in Space.

Danny Trejo mentioned in some interviews back in 2015 that they were going to start filming on the 3rd Machete film later that year, but nothing happened. Rodriguez has since been working on "From Dusk till Dawn: The Series" and the film Alita: Battle Angel set for July 2018.

Though we eventually got a sequel, S.F. Brownrigg (director of the original Don't Look In The Basement), and director Bret McCormick (The Abomination, and other low budget films from the 80's/90's) were collaborating on a script for a sequel to Brownrigg's Don't Look In The Basement back in the 80's. But obviously it never came to fruition.
Brownrigg's son Tony, wrote and directed a sequel which was released in 2014, according to Tony's commentary for Don't Look In The Basement, he used similar ideas his dad had been planning in the sequel.

Another one that could still happen, but very unlikely is Sex and the City 3.

After Sex and the City 2 (2010) underperformed a third film was talked about for years, but nothing has happened with it. As usual, the ladies can't agree on money and have never signed on.

Sarah Jessica Parker reportedly has a story for it, but said in Sept. 2017 that "It's over, we're not doing it."

Another one that could still happen, but very unlikely is Sex and the City 3.

After Sex and the City 2 (2010) underperformed a third film was talked about for years, but nothing has happened with it. As usual, the ladies can't agree on money and have never signed on.

Sarah Jessica Parker reportedly has a story for it, but said in Sept. 2017 that "It's over, we're not doing it."

And the world yawns.

There was going to be another STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION movie that would have had the Next Gen., Voyager and DS9 crews. However when the last Next Gen film did so bad at the box office plans for it were scrapped.

A sequel to Dog Soldiers (2002) was first announced in 2004, but has never happened.

Dog Soldiers producer David E. Allen said that Dog Soldiers: Fresh Meat would begin filming shortly and said of the plot, "Cooper (Kevin McKidd) is picked up by an American team who, we find out, were the real opponents for the war games for Sgt. Wells' squad.

In the first film, it was a family who were the werewolves. In this one, it's an actual team of werewolves who are true military men. So even though they are now werewolves, they act like a trained military unit."




Teaser posters for Fresh Meat were released in 2005 and 2014, but the dates passed w/ no explanations for the delay.

Back when Monster Man (2003) was new, I read, or it may have even been on the DVD somewhere, but there was going to be a Monster Man 2 and 3 shot back-to-back. That obviously never happened.

This could happen, but I haven't heard any updates on it since I first heard of it a couple of years ago, but the 2012 found footage film Crowsnest was supposedly going to get a sequel.

Before we got the reboot/sequel Blair Witch, there were talks of a prequel about the Blair Witch herself, the film would have reunited the directors of the original film.

Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money.

C.H.O.M.P.S 2 never happened :(

C.H.O.M.P.S 2 never happened :(

A travesty.

A travesty.

I should have added "yet". Hasn't happened yet.

C.H.O.M.P.S 2 never happened :(

And neither has Airplane 3. :p

There were talks of a 3rd Hellboy film after The Golden Army came out in 2008. Guillermo del Toro has said that he wanted to do it, but could not get the budget together as no major studio wanted to pick it up.

Ron Perlman has also wanted to do it, but also said that it "probably won't happen." They then got involved w/ other projects, "Sons of Anarchy", "The Strain", and Hellboy 3 never happened.

Now Hellboy is being rebooted w/ David Harbour set for 2018.

Sequel to Pieces (1982):

Unproduced: Two Pieces

Admirers of Pieces (1982) know you don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre. But did you know a continuation of a certain gory campus massacre was once on tap?

Original director Juan Piquer Simón announced in 1991 that “there will be a continuation of Pieces entitled Two Pieces. This one will be much wilder then the first… so the critics can start sharpening their claws now!”

The Spanish genre director was never given a chance to follow through with his plans.
http://retroslashers.us/unproduced-two-pieces/

Simon Pegg Says Shaun of the Dead Sequel Ideas were "Just Pub Talk"
by Clark Collis
Oct. 24, 2017


Why has there never been a sequel to the beloved and financially successful 2004 zombie-comedy Shaun of the Dead?

Well, the film’s star Simon Pegg, who co-wrote the script with director Edgar Wright, says the pair did briefly contemplate the idea of a follow-up movie, but that their discussions never amounted to more than “pub talk,” a highly appropriate phrase given that much of the film is set in a London bar.





“I jokingly wrote a treatment for From Dusk Till Shaun, which was a sequel to Shaun of the Dead,” Pegg told EW in the course of reminiscing about the film for our recent oral history of the movie.

“It was all about Shaun and Ed having to go up to Edinburgh, or something. I don’t know. It was ridiculous. And it was a joke. It wasn’t like a serious pitch. Edgar thought it would be funny to do the film again, but with vampires. But it was all just pub talk.”





Wright himself recalled that he did indeed consider the notion of making the same film again but without zombies.

“There was a brief idea we had, that we entertained for all of like 72 hours, where I thought you could do an alternate reality sequel,” said the director. “It basically starts with the same movie but then it becomes not about zombies. But these films, they take three years. So, it’s like, if you’re doing another movie, let’s do something completely different.”

http://ew.com/movies/2017/10/24/simon-pegg-shaun-of-the-dead-sequel-ideas/

I Am Legend Director Francis Lawrence Explains Why We Never Saw a Sequel
by Brad Miska
Feb 7, 2018


Francis Lawrence, the director behind the Will Smith-starring adaptation of Richard Matheson’s same-named novella, recently reflected back on the 10-year anniversary, noting that it could have been much simpler and done just as well at the box office.

In the latest look back, Lawrence reveals that the studio wanted a follow-up, but he couldn’t find an entry point that made any sense. Sometimes filmmakers do make films for the art, not the money…




“Warner was really, really, really into coming up with something, and I just didn’t know how to do it,” he told the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I saw very quickly after the movie came out, and I went ‘People came to see the last man on earth. We’ve done the last man on earth, he died at the end of the movie, we can’t do it again.’ But people weren’t in love with him as a character. It’s not Indiana Jones, like this kind of iconic character that you just want to see again and again and again.”

“And it just felt forced to do a prequel,” he continued, “and that was basically, we would have been doing Contagion. And to do something that’s a follow-up either doesn’t have him in it, or you have to do something really dumb, which is, you know, ‘Scientists have taken his DNA and reanimated him somehow!’ And that would have been really dumb, and so I just kind of bowed out.”

http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3482131/legend-director-francis-lawrence-explains-never-saw-sequel/

I Am Legend Director Francis Lawrence Explains Why We Never Saw a Sequel
by Brad Miska
Feb 7, 2018


Francis Lawrence, the director behind the Will Smith-starring adaptation of Richard Matheson’s same-named novella, recently reflected back on the 10-year anniversary, noting that it could have been much simpler and done just as well at the box office.

In the latest look back, Lawrence reveals that the studio wanted a follow-up, but he couldn’t find an entry point that made any sense. Sometimes filmmakers do make films for the art, not the money…




“Warner was really, really, really into coming up with something, and I just didn’t know how to do it,” he told the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I saw very quickly after the movie came out, and I went ‘People came to see the last man on earth. We’ve done the last man on earth, he died at the end of the movie, we can’t do it again.’ But people weren’t in love with him as a character. It’s not Indiana Jones, like this kind of iconic character that you just want to see again and again and again.”

“And it just felt forced to do a prequel,” he continued, “and that was basically, we would have been doing Contagion. And to do something that’s a follow-up either doesn’t have him in it, or you have to do something really dumb, which is, you know, ‘Scientists have taken his DNA and reanimated him somehow!’ And that would have been really dumb, and so I just kind of bowed out.”

http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3482131/legend-director-francis-lawrence-explains-never-saw-sequel/

Not all movies are meant to have a sequel or worse, prequels and it's good that in this case, it didn't happen. It's good to see that the story was told and ultimately, left as was.

Not all movies are meant to have a sequel or worse, prequels and it's good that in this case, it didn't happen. It's good to see that the story was told and ultimately, left as was.

I saw Richard Lester's 1979 'Butch and Sundance' prequel. Not great, but not bad either.

There was word that M. Night Shyamalan was in talks to do a sequel to Unbreakable (2000).

Unbreakable was his next directed feature after the box-office smash The Sixth Sense (1999) and it did not perform as well as it did at all.

Studios were at first interested in the idea due to Unbreakable's high sales on home release but ultimately decided not to do it and M. Night Shyamalan went on to do other motion pictures.

An update to this 2010 post is that now M. Night Shyamalan is working on a combined sequel called Glass that's related to Unbreakable and his more recent Split.

Bruce Willis showed up as David Dunn at the end of Split.

Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer 2

From UpComingHorrorMovies:

Writer/director Jon Knautz gave a brief update on the status of the project, saying: "We’ve had a story done for a Jack Brooks sequel for some time now, but I don’t really know when we’ll get to make it. When we do, though, I think fans of the first will be blown away because we do want to raise the bar a bit for the second time around. But it’s not going to be happening anytime in the near future."
Filming was originally hoped to begin sometime in Summer '09.
Trevor Matthews returns as lead Jack Brooks.
This sequel will be "funnier and scarier."
It's said that Jack will be forced to "team up" with someone in this installment.
Originally announced back in 2008.
The obvious sequel to Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer.
http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/movie/jack-brooks-monster-slayer-2

Considering there has been no updates (as far as I know) since it was originally announced I'm going to assume it's not going to happen

Back in the 1970's John Russo (co writer of the original Night Of The Living Dead) wrote the original screenplay for a direct sequel to Night, titled Return Of The Living Dead, it picked up after Night, and featured characters from the original film including the sheriff. Dan O'Bannon rewrote the script, made it less of a sequel, and made it more comedy.

John Russo wrote a novelization for his original Return Of The Living Dead script, it was later republished as an omnibus with John's novelization for Night Of The Living Dead.

Two cheesy 1990's kid flicks promised sequels that never happened...

A 3rd (and 4th) film in the Bad Boys franchise was talked about for years, but ultimately never happened. Stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence were saying in interviews that Bad Boys III was "in the works" for about a decade.

Things seemed to be finally happening back in 2015 when Sony locked down dates for Bad Boys 3 and 4 for 2017 and 2019, which were now being directed by Joe Carnahan. Bad Boys III then got the title Bad Boys for Life and was eyed for a Jan. 2018 release while 4 was tentatively set for mid-late 2019.




In March 2017, Joe Carnahan left the project due to scheduling conflicts which were said to actually be "creative differences". Martin Lawrence then said in an August 2017 interview that he doesn't think that Bad Boys 3-4 will ever actually happen.

Now NBC ordered a spin-off pilot starring Bad Boys' Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba.

Another sequel that seems to be in development hell is Madison County 2, sequel to the 2011 horror film, haven't heard anything new on it since it was announced several years ago.

2015's The Boy (starring David Morse and Rainn Wilson) was supposed to be the first film of a trilogy, no listing on IMDB. It was announced in 2014:
http://deadline.com/2014/01/serial-killer-movie-the-boy-spectrevision-elijah-wood-666585/

Universal's 2017 The Mummy was meant to launch the "Dark Universe" that was to feature updated versions of the classic Universal monsters all inter-connected. Javier Bardem was announced as Frankenstein’s monster, Johnny Depp was The Invisible Man, and The Mummy also featured Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.

The Mummy turned out to be a major flop and both movie-goers and critics bashed it. Director Alex Kurtzman and writer Chris Morgan then abandoned the "Dark Universe" plans and a new Bride of Frankenstein was pulled from its Feb. 2019 release.

Dee Snider has talked about doing a sequel to his cult-horror hit Strangeland (1998) for years.



In January 2009 Snider announced on his official website that production on Strangeland: Disciple will go into production later in the year.

Between 2009-10 Snider was talking very enthusiastically about the sequel in various interviews and on his radio show. He even said that Robert Englund had agreed to come back.

Then the talks of the sequel came to a stop and there was no word on any updates for over a year.



In August of 2011, a fan asked Dee Snider on his official Twitter about what's going on with the Strangeland sequel.

Snider's answer was "Dead in the water. #soeffingfrustrated."

I asked Dee Snider about Strangeland 2 at Chiller today. He told me that he can't say "yes or no" right now if it will ever happen, but it doesn't look like that it will.

He said that things were "looking good" some time ago but the company producing it went bankrupt and he couldn't get the budget together. I mentioned to him that I saw that the sequel plans were greenlit back in 2009 and he laughed and said that the sequel was greenlit back in 1998 when Strangeland came out.

He finished with saying that he's not actively working on it.

Another sequel that's been talked about but never happened is a fifth Subspecies film. Director Ted Nicolaou, Anders Hove and Denice Duff were at Chiller where I got to meet them today.

I asked them all individually on the status of the film as I mentioned to them that I met Full Moon's staff at another Chiller back in 2014 where they said it was going to happen. Anders Hove and Denise Duff mentioned that there have been some recent developments within "the past few weeks", but Anders Hove said he's not getting his hopes up until it "actually starts happening."

Ted Nicolaou said that these recent developments are the closest that they've ever had on seeing it happen and he wants to get the chance to do it "before everyone's dead."

There were plans in the works for a second Batman film to feature George Clooney with Joel Schumacher returning for a third time as director.

But when 1997's Batman & Robin failed to meet Warner Bros expectations financially, the project was killed. Keep in mind that B&R wasn't a flop -- it made over $100 million in box office receipts. But for whatever reason, it wasn't enough for WB apparently.

Because of that B&R was seen as a franchise killer and we wouldn't see another Batman movie for eight years. And the franchise had to be rebooted.

The Last Dragon was a great cult classic that was supposed to have a sequel but the star Tamiak got greedy & held out for a multi-picture deal that NEVER came! He did get a deal for a sequel but didn't take it! Idiot!

Rambo V Was Originally Going to Put Sylvester Stallone Up Against an Inhuman Monster?!
by John Squires
May 8, 2018


One of last week’s big pieces of news was that Sylvester Stallone will be reprising the role of John Rambo for Rambo V, a new installment in the franchise that’s set to film later this year and be released in Fall 2019.

This time around, Stallone will do battle with the Mexican cartel; after a friend’s daughter is kidnapped, he crosses the border and does what he does best.





Of course, this isn’t the first time a new Rambo project has been reported by the trades, with several different iterations of “the continuing adventures of John Rambo” popping up in the ten years since the release of 2008’s ultra-gory Rambo. At one point, Rambo was going to battle a cult that kidnaps his daughter, while another project was set to reboot the franchise.

But the most interesting potential iteration of Rambo V was going to be an entirely different beast altogether (…quite literally), with Rambo battling his very first inhuman adversary!





Back in 2009, one year after the release of Rambo, Nu Image/Millennium Films announced another installment of the franchise, which was said to be placing the title character into a whole new genre. Initial reports indicated it’d essentially be a sci-fi film, set in the Pacific Northwest and centered on a top secret military operation to create super soldiers. Naturally, things go very wrong with that operation, and Rambo comes in to clean up the mess.

Stallone himself, however, soon clarified that the plot synopsis for what was being referred to as Rambo V: The Savage Hunt was wrong. Rather than being a Universal Soldier-type movie, as websites were reporting at the time, Stallone cleared the air and revealed that The Savage Hunt was actually going to be more of a Predator-type monster movie!





“It’s not a Universal Soldier… it’s not me fighting a super soldier… it’s actually a feral beast,” Stallone explained back in September 2009.

“It’s a… thing. It’s this amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure, unadulterated rage. It’s before men became… hu-men. This is when they were still inhuman. And so, what Rambo confronts is something that is everyone’s nightmare. But in no sense of the word does he go against the Dolph Lundgren or Jean-Claude Van Damme super soldier.”



Stallone continued, “He’s going against a feral beast that has absolute cunning and intelligence and a will to survive that is only matched by Rambo’s. And that’s what makes it uniquely different… man’s conscience fighting his dark, dangerous, uncontrollable subconscious.

Very similar to the plot in Forbidden Planet… when the doctor couldn’t control his mind and his subconscious took over and became a savage killing machine. It’s your worst nightmare. You’re battling your primitive self.”





According to reports at the time, Rambo V: The Savage Hunt‘s plot was inspired by James Byron Huggins’ 1999 novel Hunter, which Stallone had at one point acquired the rights to.

In the novel, a beast (“a half-human abomination created by a renegade agency through a series of outlawed genetic experiments”) is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle, and a tracker by the name of Nathaniel Hunter is tasked with taking it down before it reaches civilization.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3497671/rambo-v-originally-going-put-sylvester-stallone-inhuman-monster/

A 3rd (and 4th) film in the Bad Boys franchise was talked about for years, but ultimately never happened. Stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence were saying in interviews that Bad Boys III was "in the works" for about a decade.

Things seemed to be finally happening back in 2015 when Sony locked down dates for Bad Boys 3 and 4 for 2017 and 2019, which were now being directed by Joe Carnahan. Bad Boys III then got the title Bad Boys for Life and was eyed for a Jan. 2018 release while 4 was tentatively set for mid-late 2019.




In March 2017, Joe Carnahan left the project due to scheduling conflicts which were said to actually be "creative differences". Martin Lawrence then said in an August 2017 interview that he doesn't think that Bad Boys 3-4 will ever actually happen.

Now NBC ordered a spin-off pilot starring Bad Boys' Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba.

An update to this is that Bad Boys for Life is back on for a 2020 release with Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah set to direct.

Also, NBC did not pick up Gabrielle Union's television offshoot.

Bimbo Barbeque

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The sequel to Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988) was teased during Bimbos' end credits.

An old Hollywood Reporter article from 1988 said that director Anita Rosenburg was about to start work on the sequel and that she had sent Kathleen Turner the script, "because she said she would like to play a bimbo sometime, but I don't think she will do it."

A poster appeared in an old trade magazine.







Laserblast II

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Band had planned on doing a sequel to Laserblast (1978) around 10-years later in 1986-87. Band's company Empire Pictures was going through financial difficulties around this time, during the production of Robot Jox, and Laserblast II was scrapped.

However, plot elements were used for Deadly Weapon (1989). A concept poster was created.







Parasite II

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A sequel to Parasite (1982) was scrapped after Embassy Pictures folded.

According to an early trade poster, Robert Glaudini was set to come back.

A script for "Gladiator 2" was written by Australian singer/writer Nick Cave after he was approached by Russell Crowe to write it. It never got off the ground.

He said he wanted to call it "Christ Killer" and it featured Maximus (Crowe) resurrected by the Roman gods to kill Jesus and his followers. Apparently Maximus fought alongside many wars throughout history since then, like WWII, and a final scene was to feature him working at the Pentagon.

A script for "Gladiator 2" was written by Nick Cave after he was approached by Russell Crowe to write it. It never got off the ground.

He said he wanted to call it "Christ Killer" and it featured Maximus (Crowe) resurrected by the Roman gods to kill Jesus and his followers. Apparently Maximus fought alongside many wars throughout history since then, like WWII, and a final scene was to feature him working at the Pentagon.

Cave is writing The Crow remake. He co wrote the 1988 prison film Ghosts...of the Civil Dead, fantastic film.

Cave is writing The Crow remake. He co wrote the 1988 prison film Ghosts...of the Civil Dead, fantastic film.

The Crow remake/reboot has been off-and-on for like 10-years.

I remember Bradley Cooper was attached around 2009.

Patrick Lussier had wanted to do a theatrical sequel to Dracula 2000 and another direct-to-video one, but they never happened.

He told moviehole.net in 2009, "Joel Soisson and I originally wanted to continue the adventures of Uffizi… and before that, had even discussed a theatrical sequel to Dracula 2000, but none of those came to pass, I’m afraid.

But if you want to know what happened next… The Cardinal picks up Luke, forces him back into Transylvania to find Uffizi… only they find Julia, now mistress of the vampire horde. Uffizi’s bugged out on his own quest. Mayhem, of course, would’ve ensued."

Credit to Torgo for this one:

"Waxwork III: Looking Glass Wars" where Zach becomes a Time Warrior and travels to different moments in time.

Let's see;
I mentioned the final Bob Hope-Bing Crosby-Dorothy Lamour road movie "Road to the Fountain of Youth."

My hypothetical scenario for a comedy sketch spoofing a sequel to "The Breakfast Club."

The intended sequel to "Halloween III: Season of the Witch," which was actully supposed to be relevant to that movie, and not just another slashfest with Michael Myers.


"Cruise Party," the scrapped (and possibly rewritten) sequel to "Ski Party."


Now what's next?


Oh, I know; A never made sequel to the really bad 1990's bomb movie "Rollergator" (at least according to some fans of Rifftrax.).

https://www.rifftrax.com/rollergator

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207061/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Did You Know Syfy Almost Made a Sequel Miniseries to The Thing Back in 2005?!
by John Squires
August 17, 2018


John Carpenter’s The Thing, which ended on a cliffhanger that fans still hotly debate to this day, was followed up by comic books and even a video game, but did you know that Syfy had actually planned on continuing the story with a mini-series back in 2005, six years before Carpenter’s film got the prequel/remake treatment in 2011?!

The Instagram fan account The Thing Collector Community just shared a couple script pages from the abandoned project this week, and they laid out the basic gist of the story.




“Back in 2005 SyFy network planned a four-hour Television Mini-Series sequel to The Thing to be called .. wait for it… 'Return of The Thing'. It was written by David Leslie Johnson,” they detail. “The producer was to be Frank Darabont (The Green Mile).”

They continue, “It was never produced… why? I don’t know. Doesn’t seem to be any clear reason. Syfy channel was pretty big at the time. My digging hasn’t found a clear reason. If anyone has extra info…. feel free to add to the story.”




The Wiki page for The Thing reveals more details about the planned mini-series, which was going to pick up right after the events of Carpenter’s film and then jump ahead in time.

“The story follows a Russian team who recover the corpses of MacReady and Childs, and remnants of the Thing. The story moves forward 23 years, where the Thing escapes in New Mexico, and follows the attempts at containment.”

https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3516165/know-syfy-almost-made-sequel-miniseries-thing-back-2005/

Did anyone else know there was supposed to be a sequel to "Dude, Where's My Car," called "Seriously, Dude. Where's My Car?"

Did anyone else know there was supposed to be a sequel to "Dude, Where's My Car," called "Seriously, Dude. Where's My Car?"

I do remember hearing that at one point. It was in the rumor mill.

I think one of those movies was...more than enough.

Seriously dude.

;)

I do remember hearing that at one point. It was in the rumor mill.

I think one of those movies was...more than enough.

Seriously dude.

;)
Maybe the only redeeming quality, would be that the main character finally gets his car back and we can at least have an ending to the storyline, even if the rest of the movie sucks as much as the first one.

Maybe the only redeeming quality, would be that the main character finally gets his car back and we can at least have an ending to the storyline, even if the rest of the movie sucks as much as the first one.

To be honest, I never saw the first one.

I can't stand Ashton Kutcher, so there's no way I'd subject myself to watching that film.

I had to stop watching Two And A Half Men once he took over for Charlie Sheen.

These weren't sequels in the traditional sense since the plots in the series never really connected, but there were some unmade Ernest movies.



- One was "a real sequel" since it was supposed to be a direct sequel to the 1st Ernest film Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam.

Director John R. Cherry III said in a 1985 interview with the Sun Sentinel, "We're already planning a sequel. It is about Dr. Otto's encounter with an overweight, gospel-singing motorcycle gang."

It never happened.



- In 1987, John R. Cherry III told The Tennesean, "We are planning to shoot 'Ernest and the Curse of the Voodoo King' in Jamaica."



- Ernest Spaced Out was another unmade film that was to feature Ernest picked up by a UFO and later taken for a Martian by gullible Earthlings.



- Ernest and the Water Baby, an E.T.-like fantasy-comedy, was being worked on since the 1980s.

The plot featured Ernest as an alligator feeder at an alligator farm. He found a little E.T.-like creature, the water baby, and it became his buddy. Somehow the bad guys found out about it, and they wanted to use it as a tourist attraction.

These weren't sequels in the traditional sense since the plots in the series never really connected, but there were some unmade Ernest movies.



- One was "a real sequel" since it was supposed to be a direct sequel to the 1st Ernest film Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam.

Director John R. Cherry III said in a 1985 interview with the Sun Sentinel, "We're already planning a sequel. It is about Dr. Otto's encounter with an overweight, gospel-singing motorcycle gang."

It never happened.



- In 1987, John R. Cherry III told The Tennesean, "We are planning to shoot 'Ernest and the Curse of the Voodoo King' in Jamaica."



- Ernest Spaced Out was another unmade film that was to feature Ernest picked up by a UFO and later taken for a Martian by gullible Earthlings.



- Ernest and the Water Baby, an E.T.-like fantasy-comedy, was being worked on since the 1980s.

The plot featured Ernest as an alligator feeder at an alligator farm. He found a little E.T.-like creature, the water baby, and it became his buddy. Somehow the bad guys found out about it, and they wanted to use it as a tourist attraction.

Are you referring to the Ernest character that appeared in Ernest Saves Christmas?

Are you referring to the Ernest character that appeared in Ernest Saves Christmas?

Yes, Jim Varney's character.

Some of these have been mentioned before, but I saw this article today:



5 Halloween Sequels That Almost Happened
by Meagan Navarro
Oct. 18, 2018



Halloween 666: The Origin

The initial script for the sixth entry in the Halloween series was rumored to have angered Moustapha Akkad so badly that he threw it across the room.

Perhaps a large part of that was due to this iteration of Michael Myers being a homeless hobo squatting at the local Haddonfield homeless shelter. Tommy Doyle is still present in this version, but news reporter Dana takes center stage as the protagonist and long-lost sibling to Michael Myers.

As for the cult of Thorn? It didn’t exist in this draft.





Halloween 3D

This almost sequel would have picked up right at the end of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, well, more like 5 minutes before it ended, layering in new events from that fateful night and then skipping ahead to one year later.

Written by Todd Farmer (Jason X, Drive Angry), Halloween 3D was meant to bridge Zombie’s take on Michael Myers back to Carpenter’s original vision. As the title suggests, this sequel would have included 3D elements like Drive Angry and My Bloody Valentine 3D, both directed by Farmer collaborator Patrick Lussier.

Farmer completed the script in 2009, and it came close to getting made but never quite found the financing and time needed.





Halloween IV

After being tapped by John Carpenter and Debra Hill to write the novelizations for Halloween II and Halloween III, writer Dennis Etchison was asked by the pair to pen the script for Halloween IV.

Etchison’s script was set 10 years after the events of Halloween II and would follow teens Lindsay Wallace and Tommy Doyle, the two children in Laurie Strode’s care from the first film. Haddonfield had long since banned Halloween as a holiday, with repression a central theme in the story.

This version of the sequel wasn’t made, though, as Carpenter and Hill sold their interests in the franchise with Etchison’s script not part of their final deal.





Halloween 5: The Revenge of Jamie Lloyd

Halloween 5 was rushed into production without a completed script, thanks to the surprise success of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. There were several rejected pitches, including one by director Dominique Othenin-Girard’s friend Robert Harders, who wanted to make Michael Myers a sympathetic Frankenstein’s creature-like character.

The first actual draft was written by Shem Bitterman, who wrote a continuation of the cliffhanger ending of part 4. In other words, the focus of this sequel was on Jamie Lloyd and her new lust for murder after stabbing her adoptive mother in the previous film.

Even Donald Pleasance and Danielle Harris thought this was where the story would head, but producer Moustapha Akkad and Ohtenin-Girard scrapped the script and brought in Michael Jacobs to write a new script.





Halloween vs Hellraiser

Two years ago, an interview with Pinhead actor Doug Bradley revealed that we very nearly received a Michael Myers meets Cenobites crossover event.

Right around the time Freddy vs Jason was in production, Dimension Films was presented with not one but two scripts for the proposed feature. They rejected both, predicting Freddy vs Jason would bomb. When it didn’t, they quickly changed their mind.

The only problem? Akkad regained rights to the Halloween sequels and put an end to the crossover. It also likely didn’t help that fan reception for the concept was negative.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3521674/5-halloween-sequels-almost-happened/

Hellraiser: Hellfire

The Unnamable III

Been watching the interviews on The Unnamable Blu Ray. According to actors Charles Klausmeyer and Mark Kinsey Stephenson there was going to be a part 3, but it just never happened.

Charles and Mark also talked about how they even worked on their own scripts for sequels featuring their Unnamable characters.

Straight To Hell (1987) promised a sequel at the end credits:

Straight To Hell (1987) promised a sequel at the end credits:

So did Airplane 2. :lol:

"MEL BROOKS HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART ONE" in 1981 said in the end credits that "HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART TWO" was "coming soon" but it never did.

"MEL BROOKS HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART ONE" in 1981 said in the end credits that "HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART TWO" was "coming soon" but it never did.

I already posted this one in the first page of this thread. The 'sequel' promised was a joke, never meant to be an actual sequel.

Heaven's Prisoners (1996)

From IMDB Trivia:

Alec Baldwin was hoping to return to the Dave Robicheaux character in a follow up to be called "Dixie City Jam", but this film's failure at the box-office led to the sequel being scrapped.

^ Tommy Lee Jones would go on to play an older Dave Robicheaux in In The Electric Mist in 2009.

This is from the book Analog Nightmares: The Shot On Video Horror Films of 1982-1995

Tim Ritter, the director of Truth Or Dare: A Critical Madness (1986), talked about a sequel that didn't happen:

THE ORIGINAL TRUTH OR DARE SEQUEL? I had what I considered an excellent script. Funding was set and I had lined up David A. Hess, Camille Keaton and Linnea Quigley in lead parts. Then funding fell through and I was devastated. I can't help but think how cool that movie might have been... the dream cast.

Ritter went on to make 3 sequels, plus one currently in the works.

From Babies to Bridezilla, The Wedding Planner Writer Reveals Nixed Sequel Details
by Joey Nolfi
Feb. 11, 2019


As sure as yodeling atop a horse will send it into a crazed gallop, the 2001 romantic comedy The Wedding Planner was always meant to end with the titular marital architect Mary (Jennifer Lopez) smooching Steve (Matthew McConaughey) — the engaged man who saved her life from a renegade dumpster only to fall for her charm while she facilitated his marriage to another woman — as they slow-danced in the San Francisco park that hosted their first date.

But screenwriter Michael Ellis initially outlined a trilogy (and a TV series) to continue their story, beginning with Mary and best friend Penny (Judy Greer) planning the couple’s nuptials.



“She’d become a bridezilla,” he tells EW of Mary’s intended evolution, which would “destroy” her friendship with Penny.

“There’d be some grit to it…. they realize that in the first movie maybe they weren’t looking at each other realistically. There were some interesting romantic questions there.”







And forget about Mary’s confession about wanting a toned-down seaside wedding (complete with cool, salty breeze).

“When it came to her own wedding she’d be like, I want my big day,” Ellis explains. “When we were doing the research for the movie, all the wedding planners we interviewed were pretty cynical about the brides they were working for; When it comes to this is going to be my wedding, they just went crazy…. when Mary gets to have her own big day, [she doesn’t] want it to just be on a beach, she wants her day in the spotlight.

The drama of it is she’s become exactly the kind of thing she hated, and she takes a step back and figures out what’s important to her.”




“We’d also batted around the idea that, during the planning of the wedding, Mary found out she’s pregnant…. Which would lead to the third movie: Mary planning her daughter’s wedding!” he continues, adding that the central couple would’ve separated before the third film’s timeline, but the act of planning their child’s wedding would bring them back together.

“The idea of what she’d want for her daughter and what her daughter wants would come into play, and whatever her journey was in the second movie, in the third movie she’d learn a lesson and try to teach her daughter what she’s learned and probably try to talk her out of the grand spectacle of it all because it doesn’t mean anything.

What’s important is the person you’re going to be with, and she’d try to teach her daughter that lesson.”







Though Ellis discussed his ideas with director-producer-choreographer Adam Shankman (who even filmed an unused, fantastical dance number in the park after Mary and Steve’s first almost-kiss), the films didn’t launch.

Ellis confirmed, however, that ABC bought a single-camera dramedy pilot based on the film around 2006 that never took flight (Ellis supposes the swift cancellation of David E. Kelley’s similar Wedding Bells series at Fox had something to do with it).

“It was like a new incarnation of The Love Boat, where Mary facilitated a new [wedding] every episode,” Ellis adds, likening the series’ structure to that of "Ugly Betty" in that it would have extended the traditional half-hour comedy format into a soapy, hour-long affair.




And yet, ABC ultimately passed on the project (though the network did not provide EW with confirmation on Ellis’ claims about the planned TV show). But that hasn’t stopped Ellis from dreaming about what could’ve been.

“In that version, Mary and Steve didn’t make it, so she was on the market again,” he finishes. “[But] Steve came back at the end of season 1, like her version of [Sex and the City’s] Mr. Big” — ever lingering like the smell of sweet red plums and grilled cheese sandwiches.

https://ew.com/movies/2019/02/11/the-wedding-planner-sequel-plot-details/

Forrest Gump Sequel would've Seen Tom Hanks in the Back of O.J. Simpson's Bronco
by Nick Romano
March 21, 2019


Many films have been lost to Hollywood’s proverbial cutting room floor, one of which was a Forrest Gump sequel. Screenwriter Eric Roth wrote a treatment for what could happen to Tom Hanks‘ Oscar-winning character after becoming a father.

In a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Roth went in deeper about what this movie would’ve been like — and it involved Princess Diana and O.J. Simpson.




“I had him in the back of O.J.’s Bronco,” Roth said while looking back on his script. “He would look up occasionally, they didn’t see him in the rearview mirror, then he’d pop down.”

“I had him as a ballroom dancer who was really good,” he added. “He could do the ballroom dancing and eventually, just as a charity kind of thing, he danced with Princess Diana. So those kind of things we had.”




In the finale of Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis, Forrest reunites with Jenny, who introduces their son, Forrest Gump Jr. (played by a young Haley Joel Osment). Tragically, Jenny reveals she’s sick with an incurable disease and later succumbs to her illness.

The sequel would’ve begun “with his little boy having AIDS and people wouldn’t go to class with him in Florida,” according to Roth. “We actually had a funny sequence where they were bussing in Florida at the same time so that people were angry about either the bussing or the kids having to go to school with the kid who had AIDS. So it was a big conflict.”







Hanks, Zemeckis, and Roth decided to scrap the film after the events of 9/11.

“I wrote the sequel, literally I turned it in the day before 9/11 and Tom and I and Bob got together on 9/11 to commiserate about how life was in America and how tragic it was,” Roth recalled. “And we looked at each other and said, ‘This movie has no meaning anymore,’ in that sense.”




One of the big planned plot points of the sequel would’ve followed Forrest, finding his calling as a Bingo caller on a reservation, befriending a Native American woman.

As Roth explains, “Every day he’d go wait for his Native American partner. She taught nursery school at a government building in Oklahoma City and he was sitting on the bench, waiting for her to have lunch, and all of a sudden the building behind him blows up.”

“When 9/11 occurred,” Roth added, “I think we felt maybe everything we had written was meaningful and everything felt meaningless.”

https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/21/forrest-gump-sequel-plot-tom-hanks/

Forrest Gump Sequel would've Seen Tom Hanks in the Back of O.J. Simpson's Bronco
by Nick Romano
March 21, 2019


Many films have been lost to Hollywood’s proverbial cutting room floor, one of which was a Forrest Gump sequel. Screenwriter Eric Roth wrote a treatment for what could happen to Tom Hanks‘ Oscar-winning character after becoming a father.

In a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Roth went in deeper about what this movie would’ve been like — and it involved Princess Diana and O.J. Simpson.




“I had him in the back of O.J.’s Bronco,” Roth said while looking back on his script. “He would look up occasionally, they didn’t see him in the rearview mirror, then he’d pop down.”

“I had him as a ballroom dancer who was really good,” he added. “He could do the ballroom dancing and eventually, just as a charity kind of thing, he danced with Princess Diana. So those kind of things we had.”




In the finale of Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis, Forrest reunites with Jenny, who introduces their son, Forrest Gump Jr. (played by a young Haley Joel Osment). Tragically, Jenny reveals she’s sick with an incurable disease and later succumbs to her illness.

The sequel would’ve begun “with his little boy having AIDS and people wouldn’t go to class with him in Florida,” according to Roth. “We actually had a funny sequence where they were bussing in Florida at the same time so that people were angry about either the bussing or the kids having to go to school with the kid who had AIDS. So it was a big conflict.”







Hanks, Zemeckis, and Roth decided to scrap the film after the events of 9/11.

“I wrote the sequel, literally I turned it in the day before 9/11 and Tom and I and Bob got together on 9/11 to commiserate about how life was in America and how tragic it was,” Roth recalled. “And we looked at each other and said, ‘This movie has no meaning anymore,’ in that sense.”




One of the big planned plot points of the sequel would’ve followed Forrest, finding his calling as a Bingo caller on a reservation, befriending a Native American woman.

As Roth explains, “Every day he’d go wait for his Native American partner. She taught nursery school at a government building in Oklahoma City and he was sitting on the bench, waiting for her to have lunch, and all of a sudden the building behind him blows up.”

“When 9/11 occurred,” Roth added, “I think we felt maybe everything we had written was meaningful and everything felt meaningless.”

https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/21/forrest-gump-sequel-plot-tom-hanks/


so THAT'S what happened with that! I remember reading somewhere after the first one won all those awards that Paramount was planning a sequel and that Tom Hanks had expressed interest in starring.

there was going to be another STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION movie that would have had the Next Gen., DS9 and Voy. crews but after the movie bombed the idea was scrapped.

I'm glad there was no Forrest Gump movie sequel.

I think the movie told its story and didn't need a continuation.

I already posted this one in the first page of this thread. The 'sequel' promised was a joke, never meant to be an actual sequel.

Is that like the Spaceballs 2 sequel that never happened?

Spaceballs 2 - The Search For More Money :lol:

Is that like the Spaceballs 2 sequel that never happened?

Spaceballs 2 - The Search For More Money :lol:

That was a joke.

On the other hand, if a Spaceballs sequel had happened, they would have been covered.

;)

Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Sequel is Stuck in the Afterlife Waiting Room
by Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY
April 4, 2019


Remember the scene in 1988's Beetlejuice where Michael Keaton's obnoxious Betelgeuse is stuck sitting in the afterlife waiting room?

That might sum up the forever-stalled state of the movie's sequel, which has refused to fully die or go forward since director Tim Burton's fantasy drama hit three decades ago.




Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis played a recently deceased ghost couple trying to chase human occupants out of their quaint Connecticut home. They befriend the Goth teen Lydia (Winona Ryder), who unwittingly unleashes the full power of Keaton's demon.

"Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian," which changed the locale to a tropical island, was green-lit after the original film made $74 million, but never went into production. Ryder confirmed a Beetlejuice sequel on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" in 2015. Then crickets.




In 2017, industry news site Deadline reported that a new screenwriter was hired to write a script in time for the film's 30th anniversary. Then silence.

But the sequel talk has kicked back up again with a Beetlejuice musical on Broadway (opening April 25), as well as Burton reuniting with Keaton for the live-action "Dumbo" (in theaters now).




When USA TODAY asked Burton what's going on with the Beetlejuice sequel during an interview for Dumbo, he mumbled, "Nothing, nothing."

But is the sequel going to happen? "I don't know. I doubt it," Burton said, and waved off further questions.

Warner Bros. has shelved the project, with studio spokeswoman Candice McDonough telling USA TODAY, "the project isn’t in active development."




Larry Wilson, one of the original Beetlejuice screenwriters, has watched the sequel discussions ebb and flow over 30 years.

"The bottom line is, Tim Burton and Michael Keaton are not going to think about a 'Beetlejuice' sequel unless it somehow catches the energy of the first film. And that’s not easy," says Wilson.

"'Beetlejuice' really was lightning in a bottle. But there have been discussions since it really shocked everyone in 1988. And in terms of 'Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian,' wiser heads prevailed. Thank God there’s a level of integrity here."




Wilson is planning to attend the Broadway production's gala premiere to revel in the new direction. He'll see how the conversation goes from there.

"I don’t sit around in a bathrobe, watching 'Beetlejuice' and waiting for a sequel," he says. "But all eyes are going to be on that opening night. It seems like they have really reinvented the movie and it's looking like a real hit. So we'll sit tight until then."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/04/02/beetlejuice-sequel-tim-burton-michael-keaton/3337292002/

The 1998 movie Deep Rising is a cult classic starting Treat Williams. It's about a MASSIVE zillion tentacled sea monster that attacks a ship. At the end the survivors end up on an island where the last scene shows the monster starting to rise again!

It's SCREAMING for a sequel! There was even a petition in the early 2000s for a sequel but it never happened.

Sony announced in June 2013 that they were working on "Bad Teacher 2" with Cameron Diaz in mind to return.

Bad Teacher director Jake Kasdan was due to return.



In April 2018, while out promoting Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Kasdan was asked about the status of the Bad Teacher sequel.

He told moviehole.net, "I think it’s probably unlikely at this stage I’m afraid. We could never really figure it out, even though we loved making that movie and I loved working with Cameron but I think it’s probably unlikely that we’d do a Bad Teacher sequel."



Cameron Diaz also retired from acting after her role as Miss Hannigan in Annie (2014).

Another sequel that's been talked about but never happened is a fifth Subspecies film. Director Ted Nicolaou, Anders Hove and Denice Duff were at Chiller where I got to meet them today.

I asked them all individually on the status of the film as I mentioned to them that I met Full Moon's staff at another Chiller back in 2014 where they said it was going to happen. Anders Hove and Denise Duff mentioned that there have been some recent developments within "the past few weeks", but Anders Hove said he's not getting his hopes up until it "actually starts happening."

Ted Nicolaou said that these recent developments are the closest that they've ever had on seeing it happen and he wants to get the chance to do it "before everyone's dead."


Looks like a 5th Subspecies film is indeed happening. A digital release (through Amazon) is scheduled for 2/14/20. Ted Nicolaou is directing w/ Anders Hove and Denise Duff returning.

The film will be a prequel going into Radu's origins




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It was announced back in 2009 that there were plans to turn "The Haunting in..." into a franchise, but it didn't happen.

Gold Circle Films, the producers behind The Haunting in Connecticut, had plans for "The Haunting in New York" and "The Haunting in Georgia".

In late 2013, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story was announced for the 2015 holiday season. Film financing entity Star Partners and Hummingbird Prods, a music producing company for commercials, were behind the sequel plans.

The story was to be about George Bailey's not-so-good grandson being visited by his Aunt Zuzu (to be played by original film actress Karolyn Grimes) who is now an angel showing him how much better off the world would be had be never been born.

Paramount then vowed to fight the sequel plans as they argued that the companies didn't have all of the necessary rights. The sequel was then scrapped.

There was talk of a sequel to the horror-comedy Zombieland (2009) for a while after it came out.

The creators and the cast seemed to be enthusiastic about it.

However, the movie sequel was put on hold when they decided they were going to pitch a Zombieland television series instead.


The Zombieland sequel is now coming out -- Zombieland: Double Tap arrives on Oct. 18th.

Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, and Abigail Breslin are returning.

There was going to be a sequel to the 2010 horror film If A Tree Falls, it was titled If A Tree Falls 2: Exist To Exit. It was announced in 2013.

Even talked about here, with a teaser poster http://www.horror-movies.ca/2013/03/official-teaser-poster-for-if-a-tree-falls-2/

They even provided a link to an official Facebook page, but the FB page no longer exists.

1974's Foxy Brown was originally going to be a sequel to 1973's Coffy called Burn Coffy Burn!.

The studio decided at the last minute not to do a sequel and re-worked the script into an unrelated film.

After various delays and other projects for Stallone, a fifth Rambo film is indeed happening.

Rambo: Last Blood is set for Sept. 2019.

Kevin Costner Says Princess Diana Almost Starred in The Bodyguard Sequel
by Sydney Bucksbaum
June 28, 2019


Kevin Costner recently sat down with Lola Ogunnaike on PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing to reveal the royalty he almost landed as his costar for the scrapped sequel.

“The studio liked the idea of doing a Bodyguard 2 with Princess Diana in the same kind of capacity as Whitney. Nobody really knew that for about a year. Sarah Ferguson was the one who set up the conversations.

I just remember her being incredibly sweet on the phone when she asked the questions. She goes, ‘Are we going to have like a kissing scene?’ But she said it in a very respectful — she was a little nervous because I think her life was very governed.”

https://ew.com/movies/2019/06/28/princess-diana-kevin-costner-the-bodyguard-sequel/

Dan Schneider had written a script for a Good Burger sequel, but Nickelodeon did not green light it. Steve Holland adapted the story into a paperback book, called Good Burger 2 Go, released in 1998.

The plot is about Ed chasing after a short-changed (18 cents) customer around the world, while the restaurant is trying to get his secret sauce recipe officially licensed.

Tales From The Darkside 2

Laurel Productions initially announced a sequel to the film in October 1990. A screenplay was written by the first film's screenwriters Michael McDowell and George Romero, along with Gahan Wilson. Segments planned included an adaptation of Robert Bloch's "Almost Human," alongside adaptations of Stephen King's short stories "Pinfall" (originally planned for Creepshow 2) and "Rainy Season." This sequel, however, never came to fruition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Darkside:_The_Movie#Unmade_sequel