What standalone film (no existing sequel/remake) would you like to see more of?

MakeEmLaugh

Most sequels aren't very good, and indeed, many great films have been left with a somewhat sour aftertaste by poor follow ups (The Godfather Parts I and II, the Indiana Jones trilogy).

However - and I know most wouldn't like to see any - if you HAD to pick a standalone film, which currently doesn't have any sequel or remake, and give it a sequel, what would it be?

For me, it would be Danny Boyle's Trainspotting. I adore the original, and I don't want the film's legacy to be tainted. However, novelist Irvine Welsh, who created that universe, has already gone by back to it in both a literary sequel (Porno) and prequel (Skagboys).

If Danny Boyle were to direct, and the original cast reunite, and screenwriter John Hodge to adapt Porno, I'd be there on opening night.

What would you choose? And remember, I'm talking about films which don't have existing sequels or remakes.

tom_tarbucket

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

Most sequels aren't very good, and indeed, many great films have been left with a somewhat sour aftertaste by poor follow ups (The Godfather Parts I and II, the Indiana Jones trilogy).

However - and I know most wouldn't like to see any - if you HAD to pick a standalone film, which currently doesn't have any sequel or remake, and give it a sequel, what would it be?

For me, it would be Danny Boyle's Trainspotting. I adore the original, and I don't want the film's legacy to be tainted. However, novelist Irvine Welsh, who created that universe, has already gone by back to it in both a literary sequel (Porno) and prequel (Skagboys).

If Danny Boyle were to direct, and the original cast reunite, and screenwriter John Hodge to adapt Porno, I'd be there on opening night.

What would you choose? And remember, I'm talking about films which don't have existing sequels or remakes.

I choose Life.

I'll get my coat

Optimalprimerib

That is an incredibly tough question as most movies that I would like a sequel to have been disappointments (the matrix and how to train your dragon) but one I suppose that never got a sequel as far as I am aware of is bladerunner. It had a universe developed for a franchise of movies, but it was never realised.

Mickeroo

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

That is an incredibly tough question as most movies that I would like a sequel to have been disappointments (the matrix and how to train your dragon) but one I suppose that never got a sequel as far as I am aware of is bladerunner. It had a universe developed for a franchise of movies, but it was never realised.

The blade runner sequel is happening, there's a thread about it here somewhere.

I'd like a sequel to Dredd to see what they could do with a bigger budget and also want Guillermo Del Toro to make Hellboy 3. Can't think of any others off the top of my head.

S.M.B.

I'd love to see another Boyhood in 12 years time.

Has this been officially ruled out anywhere?

Turtyturd

Difficult question as most of the films I thought of are self contained stories and don't need sequels. Dredd as mentioned above would be one, just so much material they could use and I would personally love to see the Dark Judges on screen. Would also love to see Hellboy 3, 2 was such a visual feast.

Maybe Inception but it's hard to think how they wouldn't just be rethreading the same ground, and I wouldn't want to take away from the original's ending.

Looper has an interesting universe, and I know the Prometheus sequel is on the cards and is something I want to see.

Comedy wise I would like to see more Bad Santa or Step Brothers.

Sad Professor

S.M.B. wrote: »

I'd love to see another Boyhood in 12 years time.

Has this been officially ruled out anywhere?

Linklater initially ruled it out but says he’s now thinking about it. He said it would have to have its own structure and wouldn’t necessarily cover 12 years.

Kiith

Serenity (though that may be cheating as it did have a tv series)

Mickeroo wrote: »

...also want Guillermo Del Toro to make Hellboy 3.

Oh my god yes! I'd absolutely love to see this happen.

S.M.B.

Sad Professor wrote: »

Linklater initially ruled it out but says he’s now thinking about it. He said it would have to have its own structure and wouldn’t necessarily cover 12 years.

So they basically haven't continued their schedule of the previous 12 years?

In saying that a Before series like jump could be enough. The benefits of following the same production schedule as Boyhood are nowhere near as evident now that Ellar has grown up.

Birneybau

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

Most sequels aren't very good, and indeed, many great films have been left with a somewhat sour aftertaste by poor follow ups (The Godfather Parts I and II, the Indiana Jones trilogy).

However - and I know most wouldn't like to see any - if you HAD to pick a standalone film, which currently doesn't have any sequel or remake, and give it a sequel, what would it be?

For me, it would be Danny Boyle's Trainspotting. I adore the original, and I don't want the film's legacy to be tainted. However, novelist Irvine Welsh, who created that universe, has already gone by back to it in both a literary sequel (Porno) and prequel (Skagboys).

If Danny Boyle were to direct, and the original cast reunite, and screenwriter John Hodge to adapt Porno, I'd be there on opening night.

What would you choose? And remember, I'm talking about films which don't have existing sequels or remakes.

'Porno' is being made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porno_(novel)#Film_adaptation

In 2013 Boyle said that any sequel to Trainspotting would be loosely based on Porno which he has described as “not a great book in the way that Trainspotting, the original novel, is genuinely a masterpiece”. Boyle says that if the sequel happens 2016 would be the release.[5]

In July 2013 at the San Diego Comic-Con Robert Carlyle officially confirmed that the sequel will happen.[citation needed]

On 6th May 2014, during a BBC Radio interview with Richard Bacon, Welsh confirmed that he had spent a week with Boyle, Andrew McDonald and the creative team behind Trainspotting to discuss the sequel. Welsh stated that the meeting was in order to "explore the story and script ideas. We're not interested in doing something that will trash the legacy of Trainspotting... we want to do something that's very fresh and contemporary." [6] Welsh did not however confirm any kind of timeline for the film, unlike Boyle's comments about wanting the film to come out in 2016.

But in a newspaper interview with The Scotsman on 17th November 2014, Welsh revealed that McGregor & Boyle had resolved their differences and had held meetings about the film, saying “I know Danny and Ewan are back in touch with each other again. There are others in the cast who’ve had a rocky road, but now also reconciled. With the Trainspotting sequel the attention is going to be even more intense this time round because the first was such a great movie - and Danny’s such a colossus now. We’re all protective of the Trainspotting legacy and we want to make a film that adds to that legacy and doesn’t take away from it.” [7]

Sad Professor

A Transporting sequel has been happening forever. I’ll believe it when I see it. Boyle doesn’t like Porno and he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy to spend months in development trashing out a script’s problems. Then there’s the fact that McGregor can just say “nope, don’t like it” and scupper the whole thing.

Duggy747

After recently watching Ravenous I want to see Robert Carlyle chewing scenery in movies again

Arkaron

I’m gonna have to go for Tsui Hark’s Seven Swords, which was supposed to be a multi-sequel franchise initially… In my opinion, the awesome The Berlin File, from Ryoo Seung-wan, could benefit from a smart follow-up.

I wouldn’t mind going back to the Event Horizon universe as well. I mean they’re making a sequel to frakking Skyline!!

More recently, Jupiter Ascending’s dense universe is also dying to be explored.

Adamantium

Nightcrawler 2.

MadDog76

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

Most sequels aren't very good, and indeed, many great films have been left with a somewhat sour aftertaste by poor follow ups (The Godfather Parts I and II, the Indiana Jones trilogy).

However - and I know most wouldn't like to see any - if you HAD to pick a standalone film, which currently doesn't have any sequel or remake, and give it a sequel, what would it be?

For me, it would be Danny Boyle's Trainspotting. I adore the original, and I don't want the film's legacy to be tainted. However, novelist Irvine Welsh, who created that universe, has already gone by back to it in both a literary sequel (Porno) and prequel (Skagboys).

If Danny Boyle were to direct, and the original cast reunite, and screenwriter John Hodge to adapt Porno, I'd be there on opening night.

What would you choose? And remember, I'm talking about films which don't have existing sequels or remakes.

Titanic

Bipolar Joe

Came here to say Hellboy 3. Love the comics, love the movies, and I really want it to be a trilogy.

MakeEmLaugh

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

If you HAD to pick a standalone film, which currently doesn't have any sequel or remake, and give it a sequel, what would it be?

Turtyturd wrote: »

Would love to see Hellboy 3, 2 was such a visual feast.

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Came here to say Hellboy 3. Love the comics, love the movies, and I really want it to be a trilogy.

Hellboy already has a sequel.

Bipolar Joe

Ah, rightio. I want Hellboy 2 to have a sequel, they can call it Hellboy 3 :pac: :pac: .

They Live. Roddy Piper is still doing movies, and if I remember correctly, you don't actually see him dying, but I can be corrected on this.

Carpenter should make more movies, even if it's just so he can do more commentaries for them.

errlloyd

A few hours ago the Inception official Facebook page which hadn't posted in well over a year posted "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger darling" - With the picture of Eames.

Dropping a hint?

JohnFalstaff

I'd pay good money to see a film made of Nick Cave's script for Gladiator II.

Russell Crowe battling Gods and the undead in the afterlife - what's not to like?

The script ends with a montage of Maximus' future as we see him leading Medieval Crusaders in the Holy Land, in the snows of a European battlefield, surrounded by tanks in WWII, fighting in the jungles of Vietnam and, finally, in a suit sat at a table in the Pentagon. He looks up at the men sitting around the table and asks, "Now, gentlemen...where were we?"

tony1kenobi

Unbreakable

Adamantium

Master and Commander: Far Side of the World.


The best Star Trek film ever made.

More Paul Bettany and Russell Crowe being bros, thank you very much Hollywood. Still waiting 10+years.

MakeEmLaugh

tony1kenobi wrote: »

Unbreakable

Have you seen this? It's US comedian Patton Oswalt's pitch for an Unbreakable trilogy.

billion dollar baby

The Goonies. Been rumoured for years it doubt it'll ever happen

Right Turn Clyde

MadDog76 wrote: »

Titanic

A few months after Titanic was released I was told that 'Titanic 2' was happening. Apparently Jack didn't die after all, and he and Rose would meet again in later life. This was before smartphones and the ability to instantly prove when someone is talking out of their arse. The internet's greatest achievement is allowing people to kill those conversations stone dead.

e_e

Jim Jarmusch following up Ghost Dog by focusing on the little girl 15 years later.

Mongfinder General

Trading Places. Absolute gem of a movie.

kelator

A Leon sequal following Mathilda as an an adult could be good with the right script & Natalie Portman onboard.

titan18

Zombieland would be decent. I'm sure they could do a sequel to that (not counting the crappy Amazon that was killed).

Spawn too, been talks about a sequel for 15 years or so. Would enjoy if that got made again

Drexel

Right Turn Clyde wrote: »

A few months after Titanic was released I was told that 'Titanic 2' was happening. Apparently Jack didn't die after all, and he and Rose would meet again in later life. This was before smartphones and the ability to instantly prove when someone is talking out of their arse. The internet's greatest achievement is allowing people to kill those conversations stone dead.

I'm sure I seen titanic 2 on watch or syfy or some channel like that. Set present day. They rebuilt it

darkdubh

To be perfectly honest I think a lot of my favourite standalone movies would be spoilt by a sequel.

Cokeistan

Would love a District 9 sequel after that ending.

LiamNeeson

Titanic II, maybe some sort of story about the lives of the immigrants in America

TerrorFirmer

There is a Titanic II, believe it or not. It's pretty terrible.

It would have been nice to get a proper high-budget sequel to Starship Troopers. SST3 was pretty OK but just too low budget to be a proper sequel. SST2 and Invasion were just bad.

MakeEmLaugh

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

There is a Titanic II, believe it or not. It's pretty terrible.

I thought that 'Titanic II' wasn't really a sequel, but a film about a ship which was named 'Titanic II' (a pedantic observation, but you get the idea).

TerrorFirmer

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

I thought that 'Titanic II' wasn't really a sequel, but a film about a ship which was named 'Titanic II' (a pedantic observation, but you get the idea).

Well...yes, obviously. I mean, you didn't think that a $100 million dollar epic sequel to Cameron's Titanic somehow slipped out under the radar I assume

MakeEmLaugh

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Well...yes, obviously. I mean, you didn't think that a $100 million dollar epic sequel to Cameron's Titanic somehow slipped out under the radar I assume

I just meant it wasn't even an 'unofficial sequel'! It was 'Titanic II' the way 'Ocean's 11' isn't a sequel to 'Ocean's 1-10' (though the name was clearly a cash-in).

degrassinoel

Cloverfield but without the blair witch camera style

kearneybobs

degrassinoel wrote: »

Cloverfield but without the blair witch camera style

https://vimeo.com/greatesthits/cloverfieldexcerpt

Would LOVE to see another Ronin film.

K.Flyer

I always thought there would be the possibility of a follow up to Source Code.

Wedwood

A counter view to the one asking what standalone movies should get a sequel.

If you could re-write history, imagine a cinema world where they say stop after the first movie. Ok, there's a few notable exceptions, but in the main you avoid diminishing the original, as has happened to many movie masterpieces :

Jaws, Planet of the Apes, The Magnificent Seven, Dirty Harry, Superman the Movie, Psycho. All great movies that eventually became parodies because they became franchises.

JohnFalstaff

Wedwood wrote: »

A counter view to the one asking what standalone movies should get a sequel.

If you could re-write history, imagine a cinema world where they say stop after the first movie. Ok, there's a few notable exceptions, but in the main you avoid diminishing the original, as has happened to many movie masterpieces :

Jaws, Planet of the Apes, The Magnificent Seven, Dirty Harry, Superman the Movie, Psycho. All great movies that eventually became parodies because they became franchises.

That's an interesting question... and I can see your point in certain cases but I don't think the fact that sequels exist to films like Jaws or Psycho diminish the originals.

Both these films are classics and I would disagree that their sequels take anything away from the originals.

Turtyturd

Jurassic Park would probably be my stand out suggestion for a movie which never should have gotten a sequel.

MakeEmLaugh

Wedwood wrote: »

A counter view to the one asking what standalone movies should get a sequel.

If you could re-write history, imagine a cinema world where they say stop after the first movie. Ok, there's a few notable exceptions, but in the main you avoid diminishing the original, as has happened to many movie masterpieces :

Jaws, Planet of the Apes, The Magnificent Seven, Dirty Harry, Superman the Movie, Psycho. All great movies that eventually became parodies because they became franchises.

I actually started a thread about this last year.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90719690

I think the most commonly mentioned film was The Matrix.

Personally, I quite like Magnum Force (although if it contradicts the ending of Dirty Harry - which is in my top five favourite thrillers of all time). Even The Enforcer is a bit of a laugh.

ShaneU

Would love another inception movie

Skylinehead

I'll second the calls for Master and Commander. Superb film, and it was already set up for a sequel at the end. Plus O'Brian wrote 20 books in the series, so the material is already there.

Shame it only did "ok" at the box office, so what we get instead is lots of big budget Pirates of the Carribean crap.

Mickeroo

Skylinehead wrote: »

I'll second the calls for Master and Commander. Superb film, and it was already set up for a sequel at the end. Plus O'Brian wrote 20 books in the series, so the material is already there.

Shame it only did "ok" at the box office, so what we get instead is lots of big budget Pirates of the Carribean crap.

Still think that's the best film Crow ever did.

Skylinehead

Mickeroo wrote: »

Still think that's the best film Crow ever did.

With him as the absolute lead, not a shadow of a doubt for me. Far prefer it to the likes of Gladiator.

But then there's LA Confidential....

Mickeroo

Skylinehead wrote: »

With him as the absolute lead, not a shadow of a doubt for me. Far prefer it to the likes of Gladiator.

But then there's LA Confidential....

That's one I must re-watch, think I was too young to fully appreciate it when I saw it.

Chip Whitley

The Mist (2007)

MakeEmLaugh

Skylinehead wrote: »

With him as the absolute lead, not a shadow of a doubt for me. Far prefer it to the likes of Gladiator.

But then there's LA Confidential....

The Insider is also great.