10 Announced Movie Sequels Nobody Asked For

There's no denying the fact that sequels are the lifeblood Hollywood feeds on. 

If a single movie is successful, producers will want to see a follow-up that gives audiences more of what they dug the first time around.

And while many sequels simply make complete sense artistically as well as commercially, there are some whose announcement simply leaves everyone asking, "Why, though?"

Money is of course always the answer, but even then, these confirmed sequels are in such low demand, with so few moviegoers requesting their existence, that you have to consider whether it can even be considered good business either.

These 10 announced sequels are all due to be released in cinemas in the next few years, some of them having even already been shot, and yet it's extremely difficult to rustle up much enthusiasm, if any, for them at all.

Some are blatant cash-grab sequels, while others don't even feel like they have much of an audience at all, because the original movie did such a stellar job of sewing the story up.

It'd certainly be great to be wrong about all of these movies, but knowing what we do about Hollywood and its relationship with sequels, it's likely that this lot falls upon deaf ears...

It's fair to say that the Meet the Parents franchise had well and truly run its course after three movies. 

The original hit comedy could've easily been a one-off, but sequels Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers followed in 2004 and 2010 respectively.

Though the third film - which was critically panned and the lowest-grossing of the trio - seemed to mark the end of the "IP," it was just confirmed that Meet the Parents 4 is now in early development.

John Hamburg, who wrote the first three films, will serve as writer and director this time around, while original stars Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are all expected to return.

There are creatively bankrupt, wildly "unnecessary" sequels, and then there's... whatever this is. 

Considering that theatrical comedies have largely gone away and the world has generally moved on from Meet the Parents as a franchise, it's tough not to see this as a desperate nostalgia play.

A trilogy was already at least one movie too much, and now this?