10 Upcoming Movie Sequels Everyone Will Ignore
4. Johnny English 3
Who can forget those 1990s Barclaycard commercials where Rowan Atkinson played a pompous but gaffe-prone secret agent, a sort of missing link between James Bond and Mr Bean? The character was such a national comic treasure (it says here) that Atkinson brought him to the big screen not once but twice, in 2003 and 2011.
A sequel every eight years or so isn’t exactly milking it, but Johnny English is a one note character who should’ve stuck to hawking credit cards. His entire shtick revolves around being the world’s worst secret agent. Think Archer without the wit, aimed at people whose favorite Bond film is Die Another Day.
(Small World Dept: Die Another Day’s screenwriters also wrote all three Johnny English films. Be afraid, be very afraid).
Due in October 2018, this third installment ropes in Bond girl Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace), but while this sort of thing was okay when it was competing against The Pink Panther remake, it’s looking a bit tired now.