10 Insane Movie Sequels That We Really Wish Had Happened

Just because they're crazy doesn't mean we don't want 'em.

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When it comes to sequels, Hollywood's general approach seems to be "more of the same." 

Follow-ups to successful movies usually set out to repeat the best parts of the originals, so what you end up with are a bunch of carbon copies that feel more like cynical moneymakers and less like works of art. 

Very occasionally, though, somebody will propose a sequel that is so entirely different to the original film - something genuinely insane or twisted or batsh*t crazy - that you kind of wish they'd gone ahead and made it, just to see how it might've turned out. 

None of the following unconventional sequels ever found their way into theatres, after all, but they were all considered to be viable projects in Hollywood for a brief time. 

It's a shame we never got 'em, because sometimes what you need to shake things up is a nutty sequel...

10. Con Airport

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It's A Sequel To: Con Air (1997)

Con Air isn't a particularly great movie, but it's trashy entertainment of the highest order; the sort of flick you can kick back and watch with a beer after a hard week. As such, there is no way in hell that a sequel to this flick could  ever be considered a bad idea, because this is a picture about Nicolas Cage fighting bad guys on a plane - the sort of insane film premise that only the '90s could spawn.

Once upon a time - some Hollywood genius had penned a 15-page treatment for a sequel to the 90s classic that would be titled Con Airport - the most natural progression for a tantalising unrealised franchise. 

The plot driving this absolute mania would have apparently seen John Cusack's US Marshal character from the first flick, Vince Larkin, now overseeing the daily proceedings at an airport designed specifically for the use of transporting criminals via planes. I know.

Picture the sort of mad sequences a movie like this might've contained: countless criminals hi-jacking planes and crashing them into one another; shots of John Cusack wondering why he took the job after the events of the first movie. Really could've been something.

Alas, the idea was scrapped (because it's crazy), but the '90s action movie aficionado in me is deeply sad that this was never a thing.

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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.