What Film Are You Surprised Didn't Get A Sequel?

Dredd. Karl Urban absolutely nailed that role, and all without ever showing the top half of his face.

District 9

The Matrix

I really wanted Spaceballs II, the Search for More Money.

Galaxy Quest.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It did quite well when it came out, and it felt like there was potential for sequels

The Man from UNCLE. And because of Armie Hammer it’ll never happen

Master and Commander. It was such a great adaptation of a hugely popular series, I expected it to do better at the box office than it did.

Nice try Disney.

Matrix

Warcraft

Like the video game. It was actually a pretty good introduction to the lore, (which I only know surface level from playing the games and not digging real deep. So there may have been mistakes) and it was just about to get good, but, there just wasn't enough interest to sink more money in the franchise.

Jumper. It was setting up an interesting world with more depth than the first movie could delve. I loved that one of the characters was so cool that the author of the original novel went out and wrote another book just about the movie's character and it rocked.

Kung pow! They even had a silly thing after the credits that i thought was real but it never came to fruition =(

Return of the Jedi. Episode 7 is not a sequel but a remake. Episodes 8 and 9 are bullshit.

Constantine, I'm surprised it's taken them this long to even talk about a sequel.

Buckaroo Banzai

Big Trouble in Little China

Amazed no one else has mentioned The Fifth Element. It was planned at one point I think but got cancelled.

Beetlejuice. It was such a popular movie that spawned a musical, a cartoon, various video games, etc yet there's only been the one movie. There's been talks about a sequel over the years but nothing has materialized yet.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Jonn Dies at the End

A sequel to Prometheus that actually focused on getting answers from the engineers. Covenant had an interesting performance from Fassbender but nothing else.

The Road to El Dorado was the pilot for an animated series that never got greenlit. Massive missed opportunity, I would love to see "the continuing adventures of three latin rogues and a horse"

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Excellent, fun movie. Huge universe to built on. Shame they're probably not continuing the series

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

They even teased it man... Pretty sure every kid has an existential crisis when they searched for that sequel in Google and found out it didn't exist.

For a long time, I would have said Unbreakable. I’m glad that he ended up continuing the story, eventually.

Although there were a lot of problems with Ender's Game, I was a little surprised that they didn't adapt any of the sequels. I mean I wouldn't have watched them, but it seemed like they went pretty all in on that first one to not at least try the second with a significantly reduced budget.

Jumper

Salt (Angelina Jolie)

I thought it was a pretty decent film..

Chronicle 😭

The Golden Compass

There's a whole series of books.

Though there is a TV series now....

Flash Gordon.

Buckaroo Banzai.

I'm gonna answer a slightly different question, What film am I surprised didn't get a sequel sooner? The Incredibles. Sure, it was a self-contained story, but it could've gone anywhere after that. The last scene with the undertaker was just teasing another Incredibles adventure. But instead we just kept getting toy stories.

By the time they did announce a sequel, it had been so long that I wasn't confident that it could live up to the original - and I was pretty much right, it wasn't a bad movie but I've never felt the desire to watch it again like I have the first a few dozen times. So yeah, that's one movie where I'm like "why didn't they ever make a sequ- ... oh, that's right they did"

Freddy Got Fingered. Absolute masterpiece.

I’m way too late on this one but I’m going with Battle Angel Alita.

We need History of The World Part 2

I can't see anyone mentioning Titan A.E. man I love that movie, the mix of hand drawn animation and CGI was great for the time and I really enjoyed the world building.

Titanic

Fast and the Furious.

The David Fincher version of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Rock N Rolla

The cabin in the woods. I'd love to see other groups trigger other monsters or a prequel on how they captured all the monsters.

The Mist

Ninja Assassin. Okay, not a great film but it made a profit in the box office, the fight scenes were pretty sick, and it hinted at a little bit of world building with the mention of other clans.

Downfall (Der Untergang), 2004

Any moderately successful one that people remember.

Not a film, but the series Taboo. Was crying out for it, but Tom Hardy got big after the first series.

The Golden Compass. I know it's being done as a series instead but expected movies following the first.

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