10 Signs An Upcoming Film Is Going To Bomb HARD
5. It's A Belated Sequel
Hollywood is absolutely obsessed with digging up old properties for another go-around, and it's generally more fashionable these days to opt for some sort of sequel-reboot hybrid which allows said film to function as both a follow-up and an introductory entry for a new generation.
This approach is favoured so much because studios have seen time and time again how risky a direct, belated sequel tends to be.
There are countless tales of well-intended follow-ups that arrived years or even decades after-the-fact and simply missed the window of opportunity to capitalise on the zeitgeist.
Sin City was a major hit back in 2005, yet Robert Rodriguez famously took nine years to get the sequel made, by which point most fans had simply moved on.
Elsewhere, Tron: Legacy probably came at least a decade (or two) too late to be relevant to those who loved the original, Blade Runner 2049 boldly dared to be a mega-budget sequel to a cult classic box office bomb and paid the price for it, and Doctor Sleep failed to turn a profit because it was so aggressively tethered to a 40-year-old movie.
Though many of the aforementioned films received solid-to-great reviews, it stands to reason that straight-up, years-later sequels are a majorly risky investment.