10 Movies That Bombed So Hard They Killed The Sequel

10. John Carter

As is the case with almost any big-budget blockbuster these days, John Carter was originally intended to be the first installment in a trilogy, but those plans were pretty much dead in the water as soon as the opening weekend box office numbers came in.

The movie became one of the biggest bombs in history after making less than $285m globally against combined production and marketing costs than ran to well over $300m, and while Andrew Stanton's live-action debut has since undergone something of a reappraisal after finding a second life as a cult favorite, less than three years after John Carter hit theaters Disney let the rights revert back to Edgar Rice Burroughs' estate.

Planned follow-ups Gods of Mars and Warlords of Mars were quickly shelved as the studio took a massive financial loss on John Carter, with the sci-fi epic rumored to earn at least $500m worldwide just to break even, a number that it didn't even come anywhere close to approaching.