Films that should have had sequels

[Twincam16]

Not a film, but I'd love to see a '30 years on' one-off hour-long 'reunion' episode of The Young Ones.

Wouldn't be anything like as slapstick as the series (look, let's just assume they survived the bus crash), but I'd love to see what all the characters ended up doing. I can see Rik being one of the string-pullers behind New Labour, Mike crashing and burning in the wake of Black Wednesday, Neil going off on a permanent gap year and ending up farming organic mung beans on a commune in Somerset, and Vyv becoming a completely respectable and completely unrebellious community GP.

[HOGEPH]

Team America.

[K12beano]

Thelma and Louise.




Er, no.... wait, that won't work will it...


Butch Cassidy and the ........... oh, no, bugger.













And, more seriously, some more Inception please!

[petrolsniffer]

Would like to see a sequel of the newest dredd film.

Someone said the road yep definately would like to see what happend next.

[princealbert23]

pidsy said:

What was in that bloody box!

A MacGuffin

[blearyeyedboy]

HOGEPH said:

Team America.

fk Yeah!

[Sheets Tabuer]

ajprice said:

Yes. So much that I made a poster for it over on the Something Awful forums

Wow, I fear because she's female they'd make it a love story but jesus I'd love to see her take on leons teaching.

[GadgeS3C]

Benbay001 said:

Would love to see a sequel - one of the rare movies where the film works if you've read the books.

Crowe is keen to do it - maybe one day.

From Wiki - "Early 2012 20th Century Fox and Universal Studios have both expressed thoughts for a possible sequel to be released in 2014."

[Halb]

Stargate

Smiley's People might work, if it's a nice 2½ hours long. (TTSS was an honourable failure for me)

Return of the Jedi, the Thrawn trilogy.

[thesyn]

I nominate; Two Lane Blacktop and No Country For Old Men.

Would love to know what happened in each of these.

[944fan]

Twincam16 said:

Oh, and speaking of films needing sequels:



We need The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People, with the same cast. Gary Oldman has hinted at it.

I do totally agree. I am huge fan of the novels, TTSS being my favourite book. But I think the Honourable Schoolboy would be very difficult to bring to the big screen. The right screenwritter could do it but it could so easily go wrong. If they do go ahead it must have Gary Oldman back.

[davidf4]

Sway said:

Very good shout.

You fookin prrrrown!

That's just cracked me up...probably more than it should have.
Excuse me while I go and chuckle to myself.

[rhinochopig]

princealbert23 said:

pidsy said:

What was in that bloody box!

A MacGuffin

That would be a silly thing to have in the box.

[Twincam16]

944fan said:

Twincam16 said:

Oh, and speaking of films needing sequels:



We need The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People, with the same cast. Gary Oldman has hinted at it.

I do totally agree. I am huge fan of the novels, TTSS being my favourite book. But I think the Honourable Schoolboy would be very difficult to bring to the big screen. The right screenwritter could do it but it could so easily go wrong. If they do go ahead it must have Gary Oldman back.

I agree that THS could be difficult to put on the big screen given that it's so technically dense and description-driven, but I think what might be needed is, rather than doing a straightforward adaptation of the novel, to look at it as a series of acts, step back, and dramatise each stage. Yes, it'd be long, but so what? It's not a two-bit action thriller.

Also, it would look gorgeous. I found the attention to detail in the production values of TTSS absolutely staggering - we were in the Seventies, but in a way that didn't feel the need to flag up visual identifiers like spacehoppers, kipper ties and flares. The globetrotting of THS would given the production designers the opportunity to really have some fun.

Also, if Smiley's People was filmed but THS was overlooked, then we'd never learn what happened to Jerry Westerby.

The only odd thing about the rejigged version of TTSS was the characterisation of Peter Guillam. In the books and the original TV adaptation, he was almost a Michael-Caine-as-Harry-Palmer ladies' man, very suave. In the new film, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, he was a bookish homosexual. That could get difficult if they dramatise the other books and he starts seeing Molly Meakin.