10 Upcoming Movie Sequels That Are A Really Bad Idea

Sequels are of course the lifeblood that Hollywood depends on, and that's perhaps truer now than it's ever been in the current treacherous cinematic climate.

Movie studios love sequels because they represent a significantly smaller risk than, you know, investing in something new and untested.

Why roll the dice on a new movie with IP potential when you've already got a shelf of Content ready for sequelisation?

Yet for as many good and even great sequels are there are, it's fair to say that far too many end up falling massively short of expectations, perhaps even turning out legitimately terrible.

The possible reasons for this are myriad: perhaps the studio rushed the sequel out, the key personnel decided not to return, or the filmmakers simply struggled to concoct a compelling reason to return to this world.

And while there will surely be many satisfying sequels released over the next few years, these are the ones that have a lot of fans suspicious - if not nervous.

These 10 sequels are, for one reason or another, probably a terrible idea all things considered, given the high possibility that each ends up falling horribly flat...

Discussions about a sequel to 2007's apocalyptic box office smash I Am Legend have been in the works for literally around 15 years, but the filmmakers shot themselves in the foot big time with the original movie's atrocious theatrical ending.

The ending saw Will Smith's protagonist, Dr. Robert Neville, sacrificing his life to preserve the cure to the Krippin Virus, after test audiences rejected the infinitely superior original ending where Neville survived.

As such a prequel to I Am Legend was originally on the cards, but last year Warner Bros. confirmed that the new movie would indeed be a direct sequel, with Will Smith set to reprise his role.

At first many fans understandably assumed that Smith would appear in flashbacks, but just recently returning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman confirmed that the sequel would be disregarding the first film's theatrical ending and embracing the alternate one instead.

While it's a growing trend for belated sequels to reject parts of the canon they don't like - as with the new Halloween trilogy ignoring the glut of sequels - it's a new trick to literally toss out the ending to the previous movie that tens of millions of people saw.

Though pairing Smith with new co-lead Michael B. Jordan certainly sounds interesting, given the high probability that this new continuity will confuse the hell out of audiences, and it's again being penned by the wretched Goldsman, this feels doomed to be a sloppy mess.