8 Movies You Wrongly Thought Were Sequels
6. The Bourne Legacy
When Matt Damon decided to follow Paul Greengrass in pulling out of the original Bourne 4 - which would have been a straight sequel - Universal simply ploughed on undeterred, bringing in Tony Gilroy and Jeremy Renner and sticking with the title of The Bourne Legacy.
Even with a different lead character, it seemed likely we were getting a sequel, given that the title had Bourne in it and was also the same as a genuine Jason Bourne-starring sequel novel written by Eric Van Lustbader in 2004.
Sure there are links (like David Strathairn's character reappearing), but Legacy is an entirely different beast, which introduces chemical augmentation to its super soldier plot and whose only real tie to Bourne is the idea of shady government black ops programmes.
Legacy is an anthology movie, the same as 10 Cloverfield Lane was, and it arguably might have done better critically and at the box office if they hadn't lumbered it with the Bourne brand name. That way it wouldn't have been directly compared - which ultimately made it very obviously appear inferior.