10 Best Movie Sequels (Not Directed By The Original Filmmaker)

10. Blade Runner 2049

How do you even attempt to do a sequel to one of the all-time great sci-fi movies in history? A film whose popularity has only further increased from decade to decade? A picture that continued to have fans debate its true meaning time and time again? Why, you bring in revolutionary filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.

That was the case for Blade Runner 2049, which was a sequel 35 years in the making.

Ridley Scott's 1982 Blade Runner rightly continues to garner so much praise to this day, but many raised an eyebrow when a follow-up was announced for a 2017 release. That sequel was not needed, served minimal point, and the consensus was that the only thing this new movie could achieve was to tarnish the legacy of Scott's '82 picture.

Blade Runner 2019 was largely well received by the masses, and a key component of that was the choice to have Villeneuve overseeing the picture. Having gone from strength to strength with Prisoners, to Sicario, to Arrival, Villeneuve was the perfect person to handle the mountainous task of a Blade Runner sequel - and he handled that task with aplomb.