12 Movie Sequels That Luckily Didn't Happen

David Fincher's 1995 psychological crime drama is one of cinema's most popular and widely imitated films. Starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as detectives attempting to track down a killer who is using the seven deadly sins as his M.O, Seven is as dark, bleak and affecting as it was 25 years ago.

Soon after the movie's release, a treatment was given on a possible sequel. The film, titled "Eight", would have seen Morgan Freeman's Detective William Somerset develop psychic abilities, which he uses to track down a new foe. Fincher was one of the first to reject the idea. When asked about the possibility of a follow up, the director bluntly said he'd rather have cigarettes put out on his eyes than make a sequel. He certainly didn't leave anything to the imagination there, and since then nothing has been said about a new project.

The 2015 film Solace is said to be an indirect successor to the original, but Seven doesn't deserve that kind of disrespect. "Eight" would have been panned - it's the kind of sequel that sullies the good name of what came before - and it's a blessing it never came to anything. Bringing in the supernatural to a film explicitly about the true extent of human evil would have cheapened everything that Seven achieved, and it's good to see no one's clambering to make it happen.