10 Upcoming Film Sequels And Reboots That Nobody Wants (But Will Make Money Anyway)
The bad, the worse and Fifty Shades Darker.
There’s a school of thought that says the act of finishing a film and getting it shown to a paying audience is worthy of respect. Filmmaking is hard, time-consuming labour and nobody wants their efforts to be ignored.
That might hold true in the independent sector, but when filmmakers have every resource on the planet at their disposal and they still make sequels and reboots, it sounds more like whining from the rich kids. That kind of soulless, crassly commercial multiplex filler isn’t made to win awards or please critics, so being told to respect its creators is like Ed Gein saying he feels unappreciated.
To paraphrase Roger Ebert, some films are merely bad while others are evil and reprehensible, but few of them have any importance beyond inspiring movie reviews. That’s the most dispiriting thing of all, when the only thing you take from a movie is the urge to vent about bad it was.
Fortunately for movie masochists, Hollywood never stops making bad films, and the next 12 months promises a bumper crop.
Here are 10 to look out for...
10. Inferno
Not to be confused with Dario Argento’s Inferno, this adaptation of Dan Brown’s bestseller brings back Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, an academic who gets caught up in the unlikeliest adventures.
In The Da Vinci Code, Hanks discovered that Audrey Tautou was the last living descendent of Jesus Christ, while in Angels & Demons he encountered Ewan McGregor’s sky diving Cardinal. What nonsense does he get involved in this time, you ask?
Judging from the trailer, Hanks gets to save mankind from extinction by running around a series of glamorous locales accompanied by Felicity Jones, who looks young enough to be his daughter. You see, someone has created a plague and in order to stop it, Hanks has to solve a series of riddles based around the work of Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet. Expect two and a half hours of clunky plot contrivances and dialogue that lands with a thud.