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Impossible Sequels


Jean Valjean

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:kaukau:There are certain movies that you simply cannot make sequels to. I can only imagine how bad these sequels would be.

 

Titanic 2: I once looked up Titanic on Google Image search and found a parody poster of this. Hardly any description is needed to advance the humor of this ridiculous idea. Although the poster did include the catch phrase "Jack is Back".

 

Schindler's List 2: The Alternative History of Minor Events that are Minutia Compared the Main Event: If it's a really good and noble movie about actual and powerful real events, common sense dictates that you're going to look really stupid trying to do a follow-up.

 

It's A Wonderful Life 2: Let's Give George Baily Another Inspirational Lesson That Makes the Original One Seem Insufficient: Hey, it ended happily enough that I'm not wondering about his life afterword.

 

Twilight Extravaganza: It's not that the original was so good that nothing could be added to it. Sometimes something is simply so bad that it shouldn't be continued.

 

The Princess Bride 2: Unless the Sicilian was genius enough to fake his death the whole time, I don't want anything shattering my childish fantasy that lovers can live happily ever after.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Title After It Has Already Gone Around the Entire World and Hit You in the Back of the Head Because It Is So Long: Peter Jackson had a lot of guts to pull off as many of the endings depicted in the book as possible. Let it not be in vain.

 

Star Wars Saga #2: This Time Without Darth Vader: And can you imagine trying to pull it off with all those various Star Wars books out there? Not a chance.

 

The Lion King 2: Wait, they already did that...What have they done?

 

Your Honor,

Emperor Kraggh

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Peter Jackson had a lot of guts to pull off every single one of those endings as depicted in the book. Let it not be in vain.

 

Actually, he cut a big chunk out of the end of Return of the King. Which is an important thematic part of the original book too. That said, Return is my favourite of the three, if only for the huge battles and having an army of undead actually be good guys for once.

 

 

Star Wars Saga #2: This Time Without Darth Vader: And can you imagine trying to pull it off with all those various Star Wars books out there? Not a chance.

 

Lucas is already erasing novels from canonicity with the Clone Wars series, he'd probably have no qualms with wiping out later novels.

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I did read somewhere that Lucas had originally planned nine movies in three trilogies. Probably won't happen, considering that he's already said that the six movies are it, but it leaves the mind to wondering.

 

Especially considering how many people have speculated that the Thrawn trilogy would make a good film adaptation.

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