Movie Sequels That Never Happened

[JamesG]

Originally Posted by JamesG

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.

Detective Axel Foley is ready to ride again. Beverly Hills Cop 4, the long-gestating sequel to Eddie Murphy‘s cop-comedy movies, has been given new life, thanks to a deal between Paramount and Netflix that gives the streaming company license to develop the film, EW has learned.

Netflix will work with Murphy, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Paramount to finance the movie, hire a director, develop scripts, and release the sequel on the streaming platform.

Bob Bakish, Viacom’s president and CEO, confirmed the news on Thursday morning in a Viacom earnings call with press.

https://ew.com/movies/2019/11/14/bev...urphy-netflix/

[JamesG]

Originally Posted by JamesG

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".

My mistake... The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia came out in 2013 and the New York film centered around Amityville.

[JamesG]

It was announced in 2014 that Sony Pictures was doing a sequel to the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid.

Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan and Taraji P. Henson were set to come back with Breck Eisner on board to direct.



After years of no progress on the sequel, Jackie Chan was asked about it in a 2017 interview. He said that the initial script wasn’t very good and the current script being worked on is much better.

He also said it might be problematic since Jaden Smith grew taller. "He’s not a kid anymore. You cannot call it The Karate Man. I don’t know."

[JamesG]

With the new Candyman coming out shortly, original director Bernard Rose was asked about the unmade sequel to his 1992 film.

"It was not directly following the story of the first film at all. But following on from the idea of the mythical ‘bogeyman’, and what its origins were. What it is about these sort of figures in history and in society that’s so universal and terrifying. You want to have this hurt, wounded, but terrifying brutal killer.

And we’re still fascinated with this. Every show on Netflix is about a serial killer, right? All of them. If you took out the police procedurals, serial killers, and the medical dramas, there’d be nothing on that place.





I started to think about – who was really the first bogeyman? By ‘bogeyman’, I mean ‘shadowy figure who will come out of the dark and just kill you mercilessly and mutilate you’. And who was the first one in history who really fit that bill? And of course the answer is Jack the Ripper. And so, I got very fascinated by this idea.

I wanted to make something that basically would be about, as it were, the ghost of Jack the Ripper in modern London. The idea that he was this sort of mythical figure that kind of haunted … the East End. We’re talking about the London of the early 90s which still had these really soot-stained, really derelict areas where prostitutes would hang out on the street corners. No different from the 1880s. It still had that almost kind of Hogarthian feel about it, that was kind of disturbing.




Basically, my story was that the Jack the Ripper murders start to happen again. And whereas the first Candyman was about race, the idea was to make the second Candyman about gender. It was to be about the idea of this faceless, brutal killer who only attacked women, in a horrific sexual manner. And whose primary objective was to stop ‘whores’ – his weird, moralistic take to it. That’s also very perverse, at the same time.

So … the protagonist of the film was actually a British policewoman who starts to investigate the murders. And of course, as in all Ripper stories, the moment she starts to uncover all of these theories, these Masonic influences in the British police force coalesce to stop her. So far, so much like every other Ripper thing you’ve read, right? But…you start to realize as she’s getting more and more isolated from her policeman husband, and – in the same way as Candyman’s Helen – she was being more gaslit by all of the people around her.

And the closer she got to the heart of the mystery, the more layers of strangeness floated around her – it became a weird procedural. At the same time, there was this threat that was coming closer and closer. And it all seemed to revolve around terrible things people had seen in tube trains rattling along the tunnels.





It had a very, very extreme but rather wonderful denouement which was somewhat based on ‘The Midnight Meat Train’. I took the central gag of a train, which is basically a meat wagon with all the dead people hanging from the straps, bleeding on the floor. That was the climactic scene of the film. In the original short story, the train pulls into a secret station where there’s an alien feasting on them.

In my film … there was a secret railway station under Buckingham Palace, which led to a banquet hall where some members of the Saxe-Coburg family were feasting on naked women. Cannibals. I kid you not, that was how the film ended! With…I won’t name them even, because they’re dangerous, those people. You know who I mean, the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas. Google them, you’ll find out they’re still in power.





All these stories about the Ripper were all just ********. All the conspiracy theories, it was all a fantasy to hide the real objective – which was that the rich, the ruling classes, were going to dine upon the poor. And that they needed a special class of person called a “Ripper” to supply them with meat … for the feast.

And the climax, the denouement, the gag was – she gets right to the bottom of it. And one of the things the Masons do, they did to all the people who knew something, was they cut the tongues out of anybody who could tell the story. She’d gotten there, she found out the truth, so they cut out her tongue.

The end of the story was that she became the Ripper. She got the job. She became the first female Ripper. The idea was this progressive thing – the whole idea of it being a gender war, was only ended when she became the agent of it. It was a bit more complicated than that … it was kind of abstract, but it was hair-raising stuff, and really quite in-your-face.





But… there was no Candyman in this story. I had Purcell, the professor from the first film popping up as a character. And he basically said ‘The Ripper is *like* a Candyman’. So there we are. I had him in the script, and mentioned the word ‘Candyman’ once. ‘This is kind of like a Candyman’.”

https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclus...ver-exclusive/

[Torgo]

Mutant (1984)

A sequel was written in the early 2000s but was never filmed. Bo Hopkins was attached to the project and was set to reprise his role as Sheriff Will Stewart. A part was also specially written for Ken Foree.

[Dr. Thong]

The Godfather Part III, circa 1977-78, with either John Travolta or Sylvester Stallone.

While we eventually did get a Godfather Part III in 1990 with Al Pacino, there were rumors going around that either Sylvester Stallone or John Travolta would be starring in a third installment.

By this point, director Francis Ford Coppola and the original cast members had moved on, so the studio made various attempts at a GFIII. The only role I could see Travolta playing would be Michael Corleone's son Anthony. As for Stallone...well, let's just say I liked him in Rocky, but I can't see him being in a Godfather movie.

However, Travolta did do a Vito Corleone impression on a Welcome Back, Kotter episode, so that's as close as we got to seeing him in a Godfather film.

[Torgo]

Friday The 13th Part III

On the Crystal Lake Memories documentary, Amy Steele says she was asked to come back for the lead in Part III, she would be in a mental institution and everyone there would get killed off one by one. Amy turned it down, so Part III went in a completely different direction.

Part V uses the idea of the mental institution setting.

[JamesG]

Recent interview with writer Dennis Paoli on scrapped House of Re-Animator.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/interv...phantom-limbs/

[JamesG]

Justice League (2017) was under the working title "Justice League: Part One" as a sequel was supposed to come out by June 2019. It was originally delayed due to the upcoming (at the time) release of Robert Pattinson's The Batman.

Then WB announced in late 2017 that there were "no immediate plans" for Zack Snyder to direct any future DC films. WB reshuffled many staff jobs on film production, with Snyder now an EP, after the mixed reaction and box office performance of the film.

[JamesG]

A sequel to Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) was in the works for a while before being scrapped.

In February 2002, the sequel was reported for a summer 2004 release with producer Albie Hecht saying that the sequel, "would be made on the same budget as the first, but with a new batch of inventions and adventures in Jimmy's town of Retroville." The title was "Jimmy Neutron 2: The Search for Carl".



In Feb. 2020, animator and executive producer Keith Alcorn said, "once the TV series came out, there wasn't a lot of incentive to make a movie when fans could simply watch Jimmy Neutron for free at home."

(However, the 2002 Game Boy Advance game, Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron, used plot elements from the scrapped sequel.)

[Torgo]

I see nothing anywhere but the credits about a sequel, but the end of the 2015 horror film RWD has this on the end credits:

[JamesG]

There was an unmade sequel to the remake of When a Stranger Calls that was going to be "When a Stranger Returns".

Screenwriter Jake Wade Wall says, “What we had originally discussed was the concept of having it basically unfold the same way as the original did. Have Jill then later become a mom, and blow that out to an entire film where she goes through the same experience now as a mother, not the babysitter.

And so, it was basically taking that original movie and making the first remake and its sequel, in essence, the same [as the original].”




“We had a problem with Camilla Belle, who was absolutely fantastic in the original. There was a discussion that, if we did that version of it, we’d have to wait a few years because she was quite young when she did the original. Carole Kane, on the flip side, was older and could play older, but could also play young. The studio just thought that we just needed to give it some time to let her age into it.

It was more the idea phase. It became a project that … the more I would work on it and sketch out how it would look, Screen Gems in the interim became quite successful with their remake films [which included Quarantine, Prom Night, and The Stepfather]. So I think, because they had a series of other successes, there stopped being an urgency to it.”



Full Interview Here:
https://bloody-disgusting.com/editor...phantom-limbs/

[JamesG]

Anthony Mackie Shares Real Steel Sequel Idea that Never Happened
by Nick Romano
October 7, 2021


Anthony Mackie was offered the role of Finn, owner of the underground robot boxing arena Crash Palace in the 2011 film Real Steel, over a phone call with director Shawn Levy.

"He offered me the part with the idea of the part growing throughout the scope of the movie and hopefully the series — because I was like, 'Man, we could do part 2. We could do part 10,'" Mackie said during EW's oral history of Real Steel for the movie's 10th anniversary.

"I wanted it to be like the Fast and the Furious series."




Unfortunately that didn't happen for multiple reasons, but Mackie explained how he "always advocated for a sequel" and even shared an idea of where he wanted to see the Real Steel cinematic universe go.

"I think the possibilities are endless," the actor said. "I always thought about the idea of going to the underground world and seeing what the reality is. The underground boxing circuit is so different than that last fight [the finale League match in the movie] with all the glitz and the glam and the polish. I feel like you can do a Mad Max meets Real Steel, and I could be Tina Turner."




Shawn Levy explained why a sequel to Real Steel never happened, even though so many fans and reporters to this day ask him if one will ever happen.

"We had some ideas right as we were finishing the movie, but none of them felt fully formed and special enough," the filmmaker said. "Are we sure we can top it? We never got to that draft."

https://ew.com/movies/real-steel-2-a...e-sequel-idea/

[JamesG]

It was announced in 2017 that The Crooked Man, from The Conjuring 2, was supposed to get his own movie.

New Line hired Mike Van Waes to pen the script.

In Spring 2019, The Conjuring franchise producer Peter Safran said that The Crooked Man film had "fallen by the wayside" after the success of The Nun character so they went and did her film instead.

[JamesG]

It was announced around 2012 that there were plans for a female-oriented spin-off of The Expendables movies called "The Expendabelles".