10 Hit Movies That Somehow Never Got A Sequel

Hancock is a movie of two distinct halves, with the end product having clearly been chewed up and spat out by the studio system. What begins as a subversive deconstruction of the superhero genre, with Will Smith playing against type as an alcoholic a**hole, soon descends into a standard CGI-afflicted beat-em-up by the third act.

However, because it was released when Smith was still a hugely bankable star and the 'King of Summer', Hancock would go on to earn $624.4m at the box office despite a rather tepid response. Most people are in agreement that the movie wasted the fantastic potential of its central premise, with all of the compromises made in watering down the concept and playing it safe hurting the final product.

Smith and director Peter Berg both publicly stated that a sequel had been discussed, and writers were even hired to work on the script before suddenly nobody ever mentioned Hancock ever again. A decade ago, a Will Smith superhero franchise was an exciting prospect but after Suicide Squad, maybe not so much.