It’s all wishful thinking, so go crazy.

  • Kcap@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 days ago

    I can’t believe they didn’t make a second Superbad. The plot line wrote itself. Seth goes to visit Evan and Fogel one weekend at Dartmouth. The cops have been fired and are now working as lowly campus security officers. Hi-jinks ensue. Call it Superbadder. Boom done.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 day ago

    Valerian and the city of a thousand planets. It’s an amazing setting and if you put some leads with actual chemistry in a sequel it could do well.

  • C1pher@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    Megamind. That SLOP they tried to sell as a TV series was just a cashgrab. Talentless cashgrab.

  • mriormro@lemmy.zip
    227·
    2 days ago

    None. Stop with the fucking sequels and prequels and spinoffs already.

    Your nostalgia will never be placated.

  • Sinthesis@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Stand by Me. The movie came out in 1986 but it is set in 1959…so 40 years later, the sequel is set in 1999. If anyone could write an awesome sequel, it’d be Stephen King.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    142·
    2 days ago

    Children of Men is the best movie ever for the plot and atmosphere more than the one shot extravaganzas. In terms of what the sequel plot should be, I think further advance in the collapse and despair of the world even if a new pregnancy in the world occurs. Perhaps from the perspective of the rulership leveraging despair for corruption gains.

    • simsalabim@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      I dunno, I love that the ending is so ambiguous. My headcannon is that there have always been new children, but they are all saved and hidden by the resistance movement, on an island to protect them from the world.

      Making an actual sequel would require them to make so many decision about their world, and similarly to the Mass Effect sequel I think it can only disappoint.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 day ago

        For sequel, Clive could have survived. The Human Project should have had other success in protecting children from establishment, There could have been a lot of children on that Island if fertile mothers were also taken there. Teenagers from that island could be a studio-friendly plot line. There is massive plot possibilities, but the uniqueness of the original was global despair from a lack of human sustainability. In an older more decayed world, the low hanging fruit for plot is a corrupt dead end establishment clinging to power instead of enabling the human project.

        Don’t look up had very poor plot around theme, except for “I am for the jobs the comet will provide” line. It was still a worthwhile movie. If the bar is better than original or disappointment, then ok, but it’s easy to be much better than don’t look up, IMO.

        • simsalabim@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          For sequel, Clive could have survived.

          Ugh, that would make the original movie actively worse. Don’t do that.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    872·
    3 days ago

    The correct answer is District 9.

    However, I find I’m often disappointed by sequels to great movies. I feel like there are far more mediocre movies that failed to fully explore the depths of a good concept, where a sequel (perhaps in a different genre) would retroactivel make the first movie better.

    For that, I also choose Johnny Mnemonic.

    Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie.

    I also think now would be a great time for a Galaxy Quest sequel. There’s a lot of fertile sci-fi tropes that could make for another hilarious movie. Like, after the end of the revival of the original show, there’s a Next Generation spin-off that overshadows the original, plus a bunch of expanded universe content. The Thermians and other aliens keep replicating the nonsense as real technology. What remains of the OG crew has to convince the new cast and writers/showrunners to stop being so lazy in their hand-wavy rushed bullshit, because there are very real consequences to poorly executed cash grabs full of plot holes and dangling threads. Maybe there’s a prequel series that creates a schism in the Thermian society, with the older generation following the Never Give Up, Never Surrender idealism, and the younger generation believing in a grittier, cynical imperialistic ideology.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Or maybe Just In Time. Time Out. Time Bandits, no that’s taken. Taken Out, no that was my spec script for the finale to the Taken franchise. Time and Again.

    • simsalabim@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      The correct answer is District 9.

      I dunno. I love that movie but I also think that Neill Blomkamp hasn’t made a truly great movie after that. Elysium was fun, but the last act was trash. The short stories on YouTube were great. But I think that he’s already given us the best of what he can deliver and be probably should concentrate on VFX and leave the field to better directors.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
      23·
      3 days ago

      Johnny Mnemonic is based of a short story of the same name by William Gibson. It’s set in the same world as Neuromancer and his other cyberpunk. If you want to see it explored more, I recommend reading those.

        • duckythescientist@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          2 days ago

          It would take one hell of a director but maybe. The descriptions of a lot of things in the book are abstract and weird. Things and ideas are sometimes described as if you are already familiar with them and the world. It would take someone with vision. I’m also worried that if it were done well, it may not have a wide enough appeal to please the execs at the box office.

          Apple is making it into a TV show right now, and I’m expecting to be disappointed. Most media has been too Netflixified.

          • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 day ago

            I hadn’t hear about that, but I think of all the streaming content producers, Apple has the best track record for producing quality content. But yeah, the fact that I barely remember reading Neuromancer, and what I do remember was confusion, I bet that’s a tough needle to thread.

        • Sarah@lemmy.world
          12·
          3 days ago

          It was one of the main inspirations for the Matrix so it sort of has been made.

          But yeah I could see a Neuromancer movie being good too! I can’t remember exactly how similar Neuro was to the Matrix because it has been so long but it did have the concept of “plugging in” to the network at least

          edit Neuromancer TV series is coming soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer_(TV_series)

          • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 days ago

            I think it is funny that Keanu is the lead in both movies, one where a bunch of data is shoved in his head and another where he is shoved into a bunch of data.

      • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
        24·
        3 days ago

        “In the works” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. They’ve been saying that for a decade. I’ll believe it when they actually start filming.

  • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
    682·
    3 days ago

    The Fifth Element. So much untapped potential in that dystopia. It could be a direct sequel following up on Korben and Leeloo, or a spin-off following Ruby Rod, or a prequel around the previous time the Evil threatened the world, or a thousand other possibilities.

    • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      There was originally plans for a sequel but I think there where some issues with casting it under performing in the box office. Also, it would need to be with someone else leading as Bruce Willis is too sick to act any more.

      • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, I know it couldn’t happen now, not with the original actors reprising the same roles at least. Still would have loved to see more of that universe though.

  • ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    611·
    3 days ago

    Constantine.

    I know it may not have checked all the boxes for comic fans but it was a great movie with great characters and atmosphere.

    I’ve thought about this several times since its release. Apparently I’m not the only one. Keanu was asked a similar question last year but about his own catalogue and he said the same thing, he wishes there had been a sequel.

    A few months after that, I think I read a sequel might be coming.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      I never saw the movie, but the 2014 TV show was awesome and I wish it had gotten another season. Having the same actor make a few lame crossovers with the Arrowverse did not suffice.

      • simsalabim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        To this day I’m not sure how to feel about their trolling attempt on how to pronounce the name Constantine. Which in the comics is “Constantine, like clementine”, but in the show and the movie it’s the other way.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        Do yourself a favour and give the movie a whirl. I’m in the minority but as a long time fan of Hellblazer (original run of 300! comics) I was happy with the movie, thought it was adequately close to the material (for a movie, how can you fit the scope of the source material into 1.5 hours…) and a good old romp overall.

        The TV show was excellent, quite close in look and feel and Matt Ryan nailed it (also his characterization in Legends but the writing there was lesser for the character, even though I enjoy Legends for their goofy, campy fun, Constantine wasn’t a good fit), totally want some more.

    • FatVegan
      33·
      3 days ago

      The worst part about Constantine was the main cast.

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
        17·
        3 days ago

        Keanu playing an emotionally arrested dude was pretty spot on.

        And although not a main character, but Peter Stomaire’s Lucifer was pretty haunting.

        • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
          8·
          2 days ago

          Tilda Swinton was great too. I was t familiar with the character from the comics, but I still remember her role from when I saw it at first release.