5 Sequels That Came Out 20 Years Later (And Were Actually Worth The Wait)

5. Predators

The Previous Movie: Predator 2 (1990)

The Belated Sequel: Predators (2010)

The Gap: 20 years

The Predator franchise may bleed, but it seems impossible to kill – with Shane Black’s reboot The Predator making waves online and a massive extended universe of material (they’re called the Yautja, apparently), it’s clear the metal-masked vagina face will never go away.

That being said, there was a whole twenty years between movies in the main Predator franchise. Ever since Predator 2 and its xenomorph skull easter egg, Fox were obsessed with having the skilled hunter fight the perfect organism, to the point where they halted development of a Ridley Scott-directed, James Cameron-scripted Alien 5, spent the better part of ten years trying to get an AVP movie off the ground and refused to accept their mistake and made a sequel in 2007 to the delight of only the most deranged masochist.

When the dust had finally settled, the studio realised perhaps it was better to keep things separate (although don’t be surprised if the success of shared universes convince them to have another go at some point). Ridley Scott finally got to make his God-bothering Alien origin and Robert Rodriquez made Predators, a film that gets an unfairly bad rap; A neat latter-day expansion of the original that keeps the ethos and ups to characters and danger, it’s as good a throwback as you can expect.