10 Movie Sequels You Have No Idea Were Just Released
9. Blade Of The 47 Ronin
2013's Keanu Reeves-starring samurai actioner 47 Ronin is one of the most infamous box office bombs of the last decade - if not all time.
Universal hilariously gave first-time filmmaker Carl Rinsch $225 million to produce the film, which flopped critically and commercially, effectively ending his feature directing career before it even got started.
That appeared to be all she wrote for the prospective IP, then, until Universal recently announced a belated sequel, Blade of the 47 Ronin, set 300 years after the original film with an entirely new cast, and unexpectedly co-written by former WWE star AJ Mendez (who also co-stars).
The movie was published under the studio's Universal 1440 Entertainment label, which is typically reserved for junky direct-to-video sequels and spin-offs nobody asked for.
Ultimately few critics even bothered to review the film, which has been dismissed as a relatively harmless yet utterly forgettable slice of martial arts slop - a hapless attempt to revive a "franchise" that was on life support the second it started.