15 Great Film Franchises Ruined By Too Many Sequels And Remakes

Film Count: 12 (13th expected in 2020)

Has there even been a franchise with such a dramatic and startling difference between its highest and lowest points? For every Logan, Days of Future Past or Deadpool, the mutant saga produced dross like Origins: Wolverine, Apocalypse and the savagely panned Dark Phoenix.

Two decades of the most eclectic string of films has left fans throwing the proverbial dart at the board whenever a new release comes out.

Hugh Jackman managed to launch the series, stink it up, then return to steal it. The original trilogy fell apart at the end, only for the original cast to reappear throughout the remainder of the franchise. The next generation of actors took the reigns but seemingly flipped a coin for each new movie as to whether they'd have a decent go or not.

There's never been a shortage of star-power involved either, which makes it more bemusing at the sheer head-first dive of quality at times with so much talent at the disposal of each project.

Jumping across timelines within movies never helps, acknowledging and ignoring spin-offs, or at least portions of them, and a s**t show of villain-scripting in the later versions in particular has marred what is, in a lot of parts, a great collection of films.

Just don't mention Wade Wilson's first appearance.