10 Announced Movie Sequels That Shouldn't Happen
7. Free Guy 2
Free Guy was a perfectly acceptable blockbuster that arrived at just the right time - a breezy, crowd-pleasing tentpole that woke up the box office in the middle of the pandemic.
Still, who among us has given Free Guy a second thought since they saw it? It is a fleetingly amusing popcorn-gobbling diversion while you're watching it, but ultimately substance-devoid cinematic junk food. But of course, its decent box office performance ensured Disney wanted to fast-track a sequel into production, yet more than three years after release, we're still no closer to Free Guy 2 actually coming to fruition.
Though some version of a script was being written in 2022, director Shawn Levy revealed in 2023 that the success of Barbie caused them to rework the story to avoid similarities. Furthermore, given the success that both Levy and Reynolds had recently with Deadpool & Wolverine, they may ultimately prefer to reunite on another Marvel Cinematic Universe project rather than the sequel to a movie that barely cracked $300 million globally (during the pandemic, granted).
Is the world really thirsting for Free Guy to become an outright IP rather than a mere fun one-off?