10 Planned Movie Sequels To Failed Franchises
Superman redeemed? Batman descending into lunacy? It all nearly happened long before Dawn Of Justice.
There was a time when you could count great movie sequels on one, maybe two hands. Certainly those that seemed to surpass the original - Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Spider-Man 2, these weren't just great films, but continuations of what became massive movie franchises. In today's era, said franchises are everywhere, from the uber-successful Marvel Cinematic Universe to upcoming (and sometime questionable) franchises like Universal horror or... well... Robin Hood. It doesn't matter what the question is, a stand-alone Friar Tuck movie isn't the answer. But that's the thing about franchises; they're unpredictable, and seldom work out the way the studios expect. Even the most bankable names and faces can come to a crashing halt - failures like Batman & Robin and Police Academy 7: Mission To Moscow proving so bad that they killed off their entire institutions. Of course, before a time of death is officially announced, there's already a lot of planning gone into the next installment under the misguided presumption of both critical and box office success. Hollywood is littered with unfinished scripts and ideas for sequels that never saw the light of day. I recently took a look at 10 planned seasons of cancelled TV shows, now I'm taking a look 10 planned sequels to failed movie franchises. Movie gems lost to us, or lucky escapes? I'll let you decide...