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

Dredd with Karl Urban

The Matrix

District 9

Constantine. Keanu Reeves has said he would like to do it, and there is a ton of story material to draw from between the Constantine series and all of the Hellblazers, not to mention cameos in other series.

Edge of Tomorrow. Not a huge Tom Cruise fan, but that one really gets me. Emily Blunt is awesome in it. Went in not expecting much, but I was blown away.

Watched it last year and immediately searched to see if there was sequel in the pipe. Development hell.

The Fifth Element

I'm glad it didn't get a sequel because it is such a good stand alone movie. I'm just shocked the studio didn't try to milk it for everything it had.

Still waiting on Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

It was good. It was written by Douglas Adams. He also wrote screenplays for the next 2 books to be made into movies.

And despite it making a couple million more than it cost, the first one was considered a flop. :(

I’m not necessarily surprised this one didn’t get a sequel, but I really wish it had!

Event Horizon (1997)

Master and Commander. It's atmospheric and fun, and I'm sad they didn't make more with that cast.

District 9.

Alita: Battle Angel. I've heard there is a sequel planned, but it's been a few years since the first movie. James Cameron is still involved as a producer, but I guess his blue-skinned money machine has kept him busy lately.

Still waiting for the Zootopia sequel. Genuinely good and creative movie that used the format to talk about tricky topics with some cushion and then became a cult favorite. They added some extra stuff under Zootopia+, they tee'd up the buddy cop format, did all this world building and then... what, Disney, this is the one IP you're not going to squeeze for all its worth? Where's the next one?

Pacific Rim, such a great fun mechs vs monsters movie that had a gritty feeling to it. Not over the top fantastical bullshit with flips or garish colors, just solid, slow, huge mechs fighting solid, slowish, sea monsters.

Master and commander... They had the ship built already too - why not make a sequel? There's about 20 books worth of material.

Adventures of Tintin. Peter Jackson was supposed to direct it, but unfortunately he got busy with Hobbit.

Apparently they were supposed to adapt Prisoners of the Sun, which is arguably the best Tintin storyline to make a movie of.

John Carter of Mars

The Nice Guys

The A-Team with Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper. Such a fun movie.

Man of Steel. It was a shot in the arm for DC movies, and the Superman character in film. Why they didnt follow up with a direct sequel, and instead released that dumpster fire Batman v Superman instead, I will never understand.

TRON: Legacy

Should have made the sequel before Daft Punk retired

Princess Bride

I always thought a sequel where the roles are reversed and Fred Savage is reading to an ailing Peter Faulk would have been a great way to start a sequel.

The girl with the dragon tattoo. (American version)

Jumper

The Rock. It would have been very easy to set up another terrorist attack that is tied to Mason’s spy past. Goodspeed is the only one who knows Mason is alive and where to find him. Would have been an easy hit.

Kung Pow. The first one even had a trailer during the credits.

Serenity

😭☠️

Van Helsing. I liked it at the time.

remo williams was a decent, entertaining movie that flopped in theaters. a tv pilot was also produced, and but didn't lead to a series order.

based on the popular the destroyer series of novels (of which there is now over 150 published), it had huge potential.

not all that 'surprising' given its lackluster performance at the box office, more a 'disappointment'.. although hollywood has made far worse.

A few years ago I would have said Unbreakable.

The Last Jedi

V for Vendetta

This thread needs more explanations than just straight responses.

Anyways, I will say that the most surprising to me was Dredd. I mean, I shouldn't really be surprised because it didn't do well in the Box Office, but it was just so awesome. Was such a great movie all around and I really wanted to learn more about that world.

Elf.

I know Will turned down an obscene amount of money for it, and it was prolly the right decision, but I'm still surprised a sequel never got made given how popular Elf continues to be.

I'd be all about a prequel series for Morgan Freeman's character in Se7en. Only if David Fincher returned to direct through.

Nightmare Before Christmas. Not that I want a sequel, mind you, but it is Disney we’re talking about here. It’s like a to tobacco addict turning down one specific brand of cigarettes.

Alita: Battle Angel

Buckaroo Bonsai

Speed Racer. Loved the silliness and the love and passion the film had. Unfortunately I believe to much time has passed, the cast must have aged. But so glad we had the best racing movie in my opinion, had so much heart and car-fu

The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Commenting to take notes of movies that weren't ruined by useless sequels.

I wasn't really surprised it didn't get a sequel but I remember that "The golden compass" was made to have sequels from the get go and i think even ended with a cliffhanger, or maybe not. I juste remember feeling like the story was cut short. I didn't feel this with the Harry potter movies despite being another adaptation of a book, so they probably screwed up.

The Dark Crystal

Salt. I kinda liked it and felt that there was more that was planned.

John Dies at the End

They have the books and all, just make it.

Titanic

District 9

How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Taye Diggs poking MILFs back to health could have become annual event theater like Fast and the Furious.

I say first week in October. The leaves are changing. Pumpkin spice is back. Every mom in America would buy new shoes and be there in an outfit she’d been mentally choosing for 4 months.

Watchmen. The series just wasn't as good. But Watchmen the movie, is one of my favorite superheroes movie of all time. Dark and funny.

Knick Knack. It's one of the earliest Pixar films that were made. They could make an actually amazing story out of this.

But all they did was include it as a bonus feature on the Finding Nemo DVD, and I guess a couple others idk.

The better the film is, the less likely it gets a sequel. (Or an Oscar.)

Blade Runner, for example. Released in 1982. Oh sure, it got one in 2015 ... because the slo-mo's had 33 years to catch up. And half the original audience was no longer around to mock it.

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Kung Fury has a sequel and it's been finished for several years, I'm just suprised the damn movie hasn't released yet. They were suing some company because they were owed money by them but that's settled now and we have no word as to why it's not out yet.

Schindler’s List

The Last Starfighter

It was a really cool movie that I think fondly of from my childhood. There’s been a “potential sequel” in the works for like 15 years.

Gladiator deserves the Nick Cave script sequel.

2008 Guy Richie gangster movie 'RocknRolla'.

Rock'n'rolla

if a movie didn't get a sequel it is either the greates masterpiece ever made or so unbelievably bad no one tried to save the idea. so i'm fine with pretty much any movie not getting a sequel. but i do wonder why star wars visions never went anywhere (technically not a movie but a series)

Not necessarily a sequel but kinda surprised they didn't make a prequel to coraline

Cloverfield

I'm late to the party here, but since I didn't see it mention elsewhere, I'll throw up unbreakable with Bruce Willis. given his health conditions, it won't happen with him but it might be able to happen with somebody else in his place.

I feel like that movie established some solid characters and a somewhat unique case of the every man turned superhero. The whole idea of him just being able to touch someone and then get a glimpse into their hidden life was really cool. Plus there was the relationship with his son, bad guy suffering from that brittle bone disease to contrast with Bruce Willis's character being, well, unbreakable. it was a good setup I thought for a whole series of films.

R.O.T.O.R. they teases the sequel at the end, but I guess it'll never happen.

I’m convinced this is a marketing ploy.

Either that or it’s a good faith question that I’m worried will be scraped by some desperate studio that will then force feed us a Netflix algorithm style “please everyone until the film means nothing” movie lol