15 Great Film Franchises Ruined By Too Many Sequels And Remakes

Film Count: 11 (At least 3 more in the works)

You'd be hard-pressed finding someone that doesn't love Star Wars. It's a cultural phenomenon, an icon of cinematic history.

It's also a money-making machine, fuelling an assembly line of financial dominance, bringing in big dollars through every piece of branded merchandise you could possibly imagine.

While they could merchandise until the end of time and still make a fortune, the most flammable substance for this metaphorical fire is the movies.

The series thus far has raked in over $10 billion (US) at the box office worldwide. And that number nearly doubles when you account for inflation of the original saga. That's an issue though. Each film is a brand new cash cow to milk and they'll likely keep making them for the rest of time for that reason.

The original trilogy would have been a perfect beginning and ending. Everything else after that isn't necessary.

The polarising nature of the prequels was a warning sign that revisiting the well isn't always the best idea, but they've kept pushing on.

The movies have generally been good, with the worst of audience backlash coming from fans picking all logic to pieces. It's a fictional universe people, not everything has to make Earthly sense!

Each instalment, especially the emergence of spin-offs between feature film years, just reeks of cash grabbing. There didn't need to be a prequel series, there didn't need to be a continuation trilogy, and there won't need to be a trilogy for films ten-to-12.