20 Movie Sequels That Took WAY Too Long

5. Basic Instinct 2

Love it or hate it, Basic Instinct was one of the most iconic films of the 1990s, in turn bolstering the popularity of the erotic thriller in this period.

The film's staggering $353 million box office haul sparked fast interest in a sequel, but by 2001 development had stalled, enough that star Sharon Stone actually sued the producers, alleging she was promised $14 million even if the sequel was never made.

By 2004 producers finally agreed to make the film, and Basic Instinct 2 hit cinemas in 2006, where it was near-universally panned for being an outrageously silly rehash of the original film which arrived way, way too late.

Though there was a predictably sexist discourse about a 48-year-old Stone being "too old" to lead an erotic thriller at the time, it goes without saying that a Basic Instinct 2 released about a decade earlier, when Stone was at the near-peak of her popularity and fresh off an Oscar nomination, would've surely been more successful.