ROTTEN TOMATOES: Total Recall: 20 Sequels We're Still Waiting For...

Total Recall: 20 Sequels We're Still Waiting For...

We take a look at some sequels that may or may not ever get made.

by Greg Dean Schmitz | May 22, 2008

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This week sees the long-awaited release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Indy fans have been waiting for almost 20 years for this sequel, even though from time to time it looked like it was never going to happen. This week's Total Recall takes a look at the top 20 sequels that were at one time announced and planned (or even just rumored) but for some reason or another have yet to actually go into production.

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20. Flash Gordon 2

The Set-Up: At the end of the Queen-scored, flamboyantly campy 1980 space opera Flash Gordon, a gloved hand picks up Ming's power ring, we hear Ming laugh, and the screen says, "The End?"

The History: Considering how Star Wars pretty much re-invented science fiction adventure, bringing back Flash Gordon from his serial picture past might have made sense, but a sequel to this expensive flop ($27 million U.S. from a $35 million budget) did not.

The Future: Twenty-six years later, today's audience barely remembers the 1980 movie, so it makes sense that this week, Sony announced that they had won a bidding war to bring the franchise back to theaters in a new project that won't be a sequel.

Pathetic Earthlings... who will play Ming now?

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19. Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League

The Set-Up: In 1984, there was a strange little science-fiction comedy called The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, about a genius scientist who had adventures with his group of sidekicks who supported him in his night job as a rock star. The end of the movie included a title card for a sequel.

The History: Buckaroo Banzai was one of those movies that was helped greatly in becoming a cult classic by coming out in the midst of the VCR explosion of the 1980s, but it didn't actually make that much real money, no matter how many times people rented it. Hence, no real, firm sequel plans ever happened besides that ending.

The Future: We may never see Peter Weller or anyone else play Buckaroo again, but the movie's original writers started a comic book series for the character last year.

Still waiting for the Hong Kong Cavaliers reunion tour...

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tgibfo writes:
on May 22 2008 05:46 PM

Um............ guys check this again. You've got some serious problems with repeating titles and photos in the wrong places. (See "Crouching Tiger" title next to Austin Powers pic and Vega brothers repeated on two pages)

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FreakyNipples69 writes:
on May 22 2008 06:19 PM

Back to the Future isn't on this list. You fail.

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mouse_clicker writes:
on May 22 2008 06:22 PM

A Scott or Cameron helmed Alien movie is unlikely to ever happen. The studio realized they can make a lot more money hiring people like Paul W.S. Anderson to make crappy AvP movies over and over again.

And ugh, I really wish people would stop propagating the Episodes 7, 8, and 9 myth. There ARE no episodes 7, 8, and 9. There never WAS. There wasn't even really episodes 1, 2, and 3 until Lucas decided he could make a fat wad of cash capitalizing off the vague background ideas he already had. I think we've had enough of Star Wars, and assuming the Clone Wars series isn't terrible (why on earth did they not get Genndy Tartakovsky to do it?), hopefully we'll be done with George Lucas ruining our memories of Star Wars.

Besides, there's not even room for more episodes, the expanded universe has pretty much everything overlapping with the end of Jedi to decades later covered.

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Some guy you dont know writes:
on May 22 2008 06:34 PM

No Evil Dead IV? Seriously?

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tomwaitsjr writes:
on May 22 2008 06:38 PM

I hear talks that Evil Dead I may be remade. . .

And yah, I've been waiting for Evil Dead IV for a long, long time.

Evil Dead II is one of the funniest films ever made.

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kottke123456 writes:
on May 22 2008 06:39 PM

evil dead IV is already going to be made in 2009, under the name The Evil Dead, according to imdb.

I would also add Boondock Saints 2. It didn't initially have a wide release but it became one of the biggest limited-release low budget cult films ever. Supposedly they've been trying to make it for about 5 years, but nothing has started yet.

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AudioNinja writes:
on May 22 2008 06:46 PM

Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II.

Nuff Said

==TJ==

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RT-Matchity writes:
on May 22 2008 06:55 PM

Hey Freaky, we've tweaked the intro a bit to specify that this is a list of sequels that were announced and planned at some point, but have yet to actually happen. That's why Back to the Future isn't on the list. In fact I was working at Universal when the last 2 BTTF films were released, and I can tell you that there never were any serious plans to make more films in that franchise.

And Mouse_Clicker, it's widely acknowledged that Lucas announced his intentions to make 2 additional trilogies about 25 years ago. Just because he didn't have them completely plotted out when he said that doesn't invalidate his intentions at the time (and he isn't really good about acting like the Expanded Universe is canon anyway). That being said, I definitely agree with you when you say that based on what we saw in the prequel trilogy, a sequel trilogy may not be something we really want.

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juggernaut8 writes:
on May 22 2008 07:02 PM

I think a vega brothers movie would of been pretty cool.

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juggernaut8 writes:
on May 22 2008 07:05 PM

I think a vega brothers movie would of been pretty cool.

BUT IT WOULD OF BEEN SET BEFORE THEY BOTH DIED IN THEYR'E MOVIES, RIGHT QUENTIN?
QT AND PREQUALS. SOUNDS COOL.

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ihatecarneys writes:
on May 22 2008 07:23 PM

The Incredibles 2 needs to be made, or at least a movie about Frozone. "Ice to see you again."

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on May 22 2008 07:30 PM

What about SIN CITY 2? I wonder if thats ever going to get made... Yeah Boondock Saints 2 has been talked about alot for a while... Bubba Ho Tep 2 has been talked about for a while.... I really mostly wanna see Mad Max 4 and Sin City 2 get made the most. I wonder if they will make another Die Hard? I loved the new Indy, and I honestly wouldnt mind 1 more, or possibly have a Shia spin off series.

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u1sart writes:
on May 22 2008 07:36 PM

seriously i think one of the biggest spoof film was Top Secretnwith Val kilmer. and is underlooked as one of the best away from blazing saddles and kung pow. And i think that those movies should get a sequel. well i guess its too late now cause the spoofs comedys are soooo lame and dumb. from the likings of Meet the spartans, Superhero MOvies, Epic Movies... etc.

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A Lapse In Reason writes:
on May 22 2008 07:36 PM

Sadly we will probably never get to see many if not all of these films. There is always hope though!!!!

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reavus4983 writes:
on May 22 2008 07:39 PM

WHERE'S SERENITY 2?!

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lestatthevampire writes:
on May 22 2008 07:48 PM

No one remembers FLASH GORDON? The F**K we don't!!!!!

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nbxzero writes:
on May 22 2008 08:03 PM

How about a sequel to "John Carpenter's The Thing"?

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fullmetal_medji writes:
on May 22 2008 08:15 PM

Kung Pow: Enter The Fist is just begging for a sequel. How long do I have to wait for Tongues of Fury?!

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Ecs5001 writes:
on May 22 2008 08:16 PM

Yeah, I would really want a sequel to Sin City. Does any one know if its in the works?

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someonewhoisdead writes:
on May 22 2008 08:32 PM

The starwars prequels would be fantastic if given over to a more competent director...

I can't say anyone is to blame for the prequel ****-ups except lucas himself...

All the budget, all the nostalia, all the brand power, all the special effects, and all the actors in the world couldn't save his ****ty *** script and directing.

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