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Post by wildojinx on Oct 4, 2022 13:35:48 GMT -5
What are some sequels to movies that were only released in book form but never made into a movie? One of the earliest examples I can think of is Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a sequel to Star Wars (it actually was going to be made into a tv movie if the first SW film wasnt a success).
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 4, 2022 13:42:35 GMT -5
Gump and Co. Forrest blunders his way through more historic things... also... he apparently hates the Tom Hanks movie  |
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Post by pinja on Oct 4, 2022 13:47:47 GMT -5
Not a film, but Dante Alighieri wrote a second and a third part to the video game "Dante's Inferno". I heard it's not as good as the original. =8|
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Post by darbus alan on Oct 4, 2022 14:05:07 GMT -5
William Shatner wrote a sequel to Star Trek: Generations where Kirk was resurrected somehow.
I don't remember a whole lot of the book, but IIRC it was pretty self-indulgent as Shatner is wont to be.
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Post by nickcave on Oct 4, 2022 14:09:58 GMT -5
I mean Heat 2 is probably the biggest example right now
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 4, 2022 14:16:33 GMT -5
There was a trilogy of book sequels to Blade Runner.    Well-written as they are, they get progressively more convoluted and a just a bit silly. {Spoiler}The first book establishes Pris wasn't actually a replicant and JF actually survived the events of the movie, and "fixed" Pris' corpse, turning her into something akin to the toys he kept in his apartment.
Tyrell's niece enacts a plot to bring down the Tyrell Corporation, killing all the Blade Runners except for Deckard, who's in hiding with Rachel in a suspended animation pod, and Holden, who's been hired by the human template Roy Batty to hunt down Deckard. Everybody winds up dead except for Holden, Deckard, and Tyrell's niece, who has Rachael killed and takes her place, destroying the Tyrell building and flying off to Mars to start a new life with Deckard.
The second book is set around a movie of the events of the IRL movie being made. Holden is duped into acting in the scene where he was shot by Leon and is killed. JF has now dehydrated himself into a drug that Deckard takes to communicate with him, and the Roy Batty template is a sentient briefcase. Tyrell's niece kills herself and Deckard takes custody of the first child born to a replicant.
The third book follows a different blade runner, Iris, who's tasked with hunting down the owl from the movie. Along the way she discovers that Tyrell was a UN puppet and that he had discovered a way to transfer his consciousness from his own body into a replicant one (via the eyes), and Roy Batty was aided in his mission to kill Tyrell to prevent him from gaining eternal life. Wouldn't you know it? Iris is also a Rachael-model replicant, and is rescued by Deckard in the end. |
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Post by agent817 on Oct 4, 2022 14:20:43 GMT -5
Good Burger 2 Go is an example of this, but I haven't read it.
Also, if comic books count in this discussion, Dredd has "Underbelly," which is a sequel to the 2012 film.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Oct 4, 2022 14:38:55 GMT -5
William Shatner wrote a sequel to Star Trek: Generations where Kirk was resurrected somehow. I don't remember a whole lot of the book, but IIRC it was pretty self-indulgent as Shatner is wont to be. He did a series of them. Kirk is resurrected in the 24th century and is the coolest, most badass space hero ever. |
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Post by MC Blowfish on Oct 4, 2022 14:41:44 GMT -5
Gump and Co. Forrest blunders his way through more historic things... also... he apparently hates the Tom Hanks movie Winston Groom hated the movie. I get it, because Forrest was his creation, but movie Forrest was infinitely better than book Forrest. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 4, 2022 14:51:58 GMT -5
William Shatner wrote a sequel to Star Trek: Generations where Kirk was resurrected somehow. I don't remember a whole lot of the book, but IIRC it was pretty self-indulgent as Shatner is wont to be. He did a series of them. Kirk is resurrected in the 24th century and is the coolest, most badass space hero ever. I didn't hate the ones I read, but they were most definitely Shatner's ego running wild, as was his wont. Was astounded to learn that there were ten of the damn things, though. Completely unsurprised that Shatner made a push to have the Shatnerverse canonised via a movie, however. |
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Post by Feyrhausen on Oct 4, 2022 15:14:57 GMT -5
Gump and Co. Forrest blunders his way through more historic things... also... he apparently hates the Tom Hanks movie Winston Groom hated the movie. I get it, because Forrest was his creation, but movie Forrest was infinitely better than book Forrest. It was more that Hanks and Zemekis had deals with a cut of the gross while Grooms deal was a cut of the net. And wouldnt you know it that movie has never made a profit after all of these years. Groom had even said he wont give them the rights to Gump and Co because they already lost money on one film and it would be a shame for it to happen again. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 4, 2022 15:59:17 GMT -5
Winston Groom hated the movie. I get it, because Forrest was his creation, but movie Forrest was infinitely better than book Forrest. It was more that Hanks and Zemekis had deals with a cut of the gross while Grooms deal was a cut of the net. And wouldnt you know it that movie has never made a profit after all of these years. Groom had even said he wont give them the rights to Gump and Co because they already lost money on one film and it would be a shame for it to happen again. good old Hollywood Accounting... Never go for the net... you'll never make your money back. edit: that said Grooms did settle with Paramount for an undisclosed amount but they would be able to make a movie off of Gump and Co. they did apparently try and fail to get off the ground at one point... |
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Post by BorneAgain on Oct 4, 2022 16:02:11 GMT -5
E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet came out a few years after the film and reveals the titular creature comes from a planet of botanists. There's also a vaguely weird telepathic communication between him and Elliot where he helps the latter talk to girls.
Its not a bad book by any stretch, but its a very low key story that likely never will be adapted for anything.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Oct 4, 2022 16:12:49 GMT -5
It was more that Hanks and Zemekis had deals with a cut of the gross while Grooms deal was a cut of the net. And wouldnt you know it that movie has never made a profit after all of these years. Groom had even said he wont give them the rights to Gump and Co because they already lost money on one film and it would be a shame for it to happen again. good old Hollywood Accounting... Never go for the net... you'll never make your money back. edit: that said Grooms did settle with Paramount for an undisclosed amount but they would be able to make a movie off of Gump and Co. they did apparently try and fail to get off the ground at one point... Hadnt heard. Good for him. Time is way past for another Gump movie, IMO. Events after the first are just way too depressing. I mean was Gump supposed to be a guest at the White House and sneezes on the memo that stated Al Qaeda planning to attack US? |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Oct 4, 2022 16:17:50 GMT -5
good old Hollywood Accounting... Never go for the net... you'll never make your money back. edit: that said Grooms did settle with Paramount for an undisclosed amount but they would be able to make a movie off of Gump and Co. they did apparently try and fail to get off the ground at one point... Hadnt heard. Good for him. Time is way past for another Gump movie, IMO. Events after the first are just way too depressing. I mean was Gump supposed to be a guest at the White House and sneezes on the memo that stated Al Qaeda planning to attack US? It was actually 9/11 that made them decide not to do the movie. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 4, 2022 16:48:52 GMT -5
Hadnt heard. Good for him. Time is way past for another Gump movie, IMO. Events after the first are just way too depressing. I mean was Gump supposed to be a guest at the White House and sneezes on the memo that stated Al Qaeda planning to attack US? It was actually 9/11 that made them decide not to do the movie. Like he blundered through the Oklahoma City bombing in the script. |
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Oct 4, 2022 18:35:52 GMT -5
If we can include comic books, there's Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash which follows on from the 2003 FREDDY VS. JASON film and brings over the protagonist of the EVIL DEAD franchise.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Oct 4, 2022 19:08:55 GMT -5
William Shatner wrote a sequel to Star Trek: Generations where Kirk was resurrected somehow. I don't remember a whole lot of the book, but IIRC it was pretty self-indulgent as Shatner is wont to be. He did a series of them. Kirk is resurrected in the 24th century and is the coolest, most badass space hero ever. It always sounded incredibly self-indulgent, but they allegedly have their fans. I do appreciate many of his non-ST stuff and his willingness to take the piss out on himself for humor, but I am aware that under the charming exterior is a tiny, garbage person. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 4, 2022 19:14:21 GMT -5
If we can include comic books, there's Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash which follows on from the 2003 FREDDY VS. JASON film and brings over the protagonist of the EVIL DEAD franchise. and Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors the sequel to that sequel there was also Aliens vs. Predators vs. Terminators at one point... which wasn't really a sequel to any of their specific films... but still |
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Oct 4, 2022 19:29:43 GMT -5
If we can include comic books, there's Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash which follows on from the 2003 FREDDY VS. JASON film and brings over the protagonist of the EVIL DEAD franchise. and Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors the sequel to that sequel there was also Aliens vs. Predators vs. Terminators at one point... which wasn't really a sequel to any of their specific films... but still In that same vein there's Jason vs Leatherface. It's a nice little crossover from the mid 90s. |
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