12 Movies You Didn’t Realise Were Originally TV Shows

5. Blues Brothers 2000

While not quite a show, the Blues Brothers did start life, as so many other comedic properties, as sketches on Saturday Night Live. Dan Akroyd and John Belushi then brought the sketch to the big screen in 1980's The Blues Brothers, where the titular duo get their R&B band back together to save the orphanage they grew up in. And if the franchise stopped there, it would be a case of "all's well that end's well." However, in 1998, John Landis and Dan Akroyd opted to bring the franchise back with Blues Brothers 2000, despite the fact that Belushi had died in 1982. Both John Candy and Cab Calloway, who appeared in the first film, had died as well, making the sequel a rather sombre "reunion." John Goodman took a lead role as a new member of the band, in effect replacing Belushi. How could anyone not know such a classic, or at least a sequel to a classic, originated on TV? Well, in the late '90s a lot of younger movie fans probably had to turn to their fathers, uncles, or at least older brothers to find out who the Blues Brothers even were, and were more than likely directed to the first movie. SNL had already begun its decline, and it was the likes of the Farrelly brothers and Kevin Smith who were producing relevant comedies. Belushi's heir apparent on SNL, Chris Farley, died the year before Blues Brothers 2000 came out. Beyond that, like so many other '90s SNL-based comedy flicks, Blues Brothers 2000 bombed, although it did have an excellent crop of related guest stars including B.B. King and Aretha Franklin.