Scrapped Movie Sequels

[Hubunkey]

Originally Posted by Rzzzz

Also known as Grizzly 2: The Concert...

Pretty sure a producer finished this and a Blu release is coming this fall
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/...-nagy-trailer/

[JamesG.]

"Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor"

A fourth film in the Sleepaway Camp series was being made in the early 90s. Production and filming had to come to a stop due to the company producing it going bankrupt. Only 34 minutes of footage was filmed.

The footage from the unfinished film was made available on the "Sleepaway Camp: Survival Kit" box set.

(A fourth film did eventually come years later in 2008 called Return to Sleepaway Camp)







"The Godfather Part IV"

There was a rough draft written for a fourth Godfather film by author Mario Puzzo.

The general plot of the script was to show flashbacks to Vito Corleone's early years (perhaps to once again be played by Robert Deniro) and to show how his children came to discover their father's "business".

Due to Mario Puzzo's death in 1999 nothing ever came of it.







"Airplane III"

Airplane II: The Sequel was created with the obligation that its creative team return for a third installment. Expectations were so high that the next film was promised at the end of the credits.

After Airplane II bombed, the plans for "Airplane III" stopped. However, the ad remained in most prints.







"The Crimson Eagle"

There were plans for a third film in the Jack Colton/Joan Wilder series (Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile) that was scrapped due to Kathleen Turner's pregnancy.

The title of the movie was said to be "The Crimson Eagle".







"Unbreakable 2"

There was word that M. Night Shyamalan was in talks to do a sequel to Unbreakable (2000). Unbreakable was his next directed feature after the box-office smash The Sixth Sense (1999) and it did not perform as well.

Studios were at first interested in the idea due to Unbreakable's high sales on home release but ultimately decided not to do it and M. Night Shyamalan went on to do other motion pictures.

(This was way before Split / Glass)







"Swingers 2"

Jon Favreau had written a follow-up to 1996's Swingers before the film was released, but he ultimately decided not to do a sequel.

Vince Vaughn said in a 2005 interview, "There was actually a very funny sequel to 'Swingers' that we had written before the first film was released, but with 'Swingers' becoming what it did, we thought we might be better off just leaving it alone."







"Dumbo II"

A preview for Dumbo II, which was to be a straight-to-video sequel, was featured on the 2001 60th Anniversary DVD of Dumbo.

Disney even had Joe Grant, the 95-year-old Disney vet who was the story supervisor on the original Dumbo, come in to view test footage.



Disney reportedly didn't like how the animation looked and, after various delays, "Dumbo II" was officially scrapped by John Lasseter after he was named CEO of Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2006.

Joe Grant passed away in May 2005.







"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"

Author Roald Dahl was very displeased with David Seltzer's (uncredited) rewrite of the script for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Dahl felt that the rewrites focused too much on the Willy Wonka character, and not enough on Charlie, and that it had sweetened his story's dark tone.

Dahl then disowned the film, refused to allow the movie to be remade again in his lifetime, and did not sell the film rights for the sequel novel "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator".



In 2005, Roald Dahl's estate allowed Tim Burton to remake the film.

Tim Burton has stated that he has no plans on making a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, however the ending of his movie included some parts from The Great Glass Elevator.







Tales from the Crypt Trilogy

The first Tales from the Crypt film, Demon Knight, was originally intended to be the first of a trilogy.

The next two planned films never materialized on the big screen, which were "Dead Easy" and "Body Count". The people making the films weren't happy with the scripts and they felt that, "the humor was becoming lost which was essential for 'Tales from the Crypt'."

Two more Crypt films did come about, Bordello of Blood and Ritual, but they were stand-alone.







"The Naked Gun 4"

Paramount looked into making a fourth The Naked Gun film without Leslie Nielsen around 2008 and decided it would do better as a straight-to-DVD release.

The writers suddenly left when those involved got wind of Nielsen's non-involvement with the project.







"The Last Full Measure"

The 3rd book in The Civil War trilogy, The Last Full Measure, has yet to receive a film adaptation.

Gettysburg (1993), based off of The Killer Angels, was met with widespread acclaim and is regarded as a cinematic masterpiece.



Director Ronald F. Maxwell, and some of the Gettysburg cast, returned 10-years later for the prequel Gods and Generals, but this film was a bust.

Gods and Generals ended with a sequence saying that the story will continue in the 3rd film, but there has been no progress at all on the final film.







"The Last Starfighter II"

Director Nick Castle (known to horror fans as the original Michael Myers) revealed in a 2018 interview with Bloody Disgusting that he was working on a sequel to The Last Starfighter (1984).

"This was 10 years ago or more, maybe 12 years ago. I think it was 2005 and it was going to be at that point a 30 year, 35 year sequel. It was literally a sequel where Lance Guest and Catherine Marie Stewart, the leads were going to come back as parents.

We had a fun script so I’m not sure right now where Jonathan Betuel is going to take it. He has a partner named Gary Whitta who wrote Rogue One so he’s in good company there. Hopefully, they’ll mount something fun and we’ll see our characters again."







"Van Helsing Franchise"

Hugh Jackman's 2004 Van Helsing was intended to be the first of a franchise, but it underperformed box office expectations and received negative reviews from critics.

[ben6543]

Hellboy 3 GDT wanted to much money Hollywood said no so instead we got that pile of reboot demon dookie that came out last year

[Rzzzz]

I read about that, I hope it happens. I watched a fan edit years ago on Youtube that was interesting. It seems that they never got around to filming the attack scenes and special effects. I wonder if the camping scene with Laura Dern, Charlie Sheen and George Clooney will be intact?

[scissorpuppy]

I Highly recommend the “Best Movies Never Made” podcast.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nevermadefilm

So far a lot of the unmade sequels mentioned here have been covered and at times they
Actually have guests that were involved in the development process.

[JamesG.]

Bimbo Barbeque




The sequel to Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988) was teased during Bimbos' end credits.

An old Hollywood Reporter article from 1988 said that director Anita Rosenburg was about to start work on the sequel and that she had sent Kathleen Turner the script, "because she said she would like to play a bimbo sometime, but I don't think she will do it."

A poster appeared in an old trade magazine.







Laserblast II




Charles Band had planned on doing a sequel to Laserblast (1978) around 10-years later in 1986-87. Band's company Empire Pictures was going through financial difficulties around this time, during the production of Robot Jox, and Laserblast II was scrapped.

However, plot elements were used for Deadly Weapon (1989). A concept poster was created.







Parasite II




A sequel to Parasite (1982) was scrapped after Embassy Pictures folded.

According to an early trade poster, Robert Glaudini was set to come back.

[dommie]

This will most likely not happen and I am probably in the minority in asking for this but I would really like to see a sequel to "Solo: A Star Wars Story." Yes, this much maligned and only Star Wars film identified as an infamous box office failure should get a second chance with a sequel that was set up in the climax of this film. If Disney doesn't want to go all in with a big theatrical, then at least do something for Disney+. Wrap the story up.

[Deezer1986]

Originally Posted by dommie

This will most likely not happen and I am probably in the minority in asking for this but I would really like to see a sequel to "Solo: A Star Wars Story." Yes, this much maligned and only Star Wars film identified as an infamous box office failure should get a second chance with a sequel that was set up in the climax of this film. If Disney doesn't want to go all in with a big theatrical, then at least do something for Disney+. Wrap the story up.

I just recently watched this, as my wife and I both were not interested in seeing it. I think we both were kinda in the “If it ain’t Harrison Ford it ain’t Han” mindset. But I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Solo. Would definitely be up for a sequel.

[JackForrester]

Bimbos: Nomi Does Hollywood (official Showgirls sequel)

Ugh, if only...

[JamesG.]

"The Van Helsing Chronicles"

Anthony Hopkins was going to reprise his role as the vampire hunter in a spin-off film of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Francis Coppola and writer James V. Hart were going to produce.







"Shocker 2"

Wes Craven aimed to produce a sequel to the 1989 film with Bruce Wagner writing and directing.







"Vipex"

This was the title for a Lord of Illusions sequel that was going direct-to-video for MGM/United Artists. The title was a reference to the monster Harry D'Amour was going to confront.

Adam Grossman was in line to direct and Clive Barker came up with the concept and was executive producing. It was going to be the first in a line of D'Amour direct-to-video titles.







"Still Running"

A sequel to Running Scared was planned and different scripts were written. Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines did not think any of them were strong enough to warrant a sequel and turned them all down.







"Candyman 2"

Director Bernard Rose was asked about the unmade sequel to his 1992 film.

"It was not directly following the story of the first film at all. But following on from the idea of the mythical ‘bogeyman’, and what its origins were. What it is about these sort of figures in history and in society that’s so universal and terrifying. You want to have this hurt, wounded, but terrifying brutal killer."

I wanted to make something that basically would be about, as it were, the ghost of Jack the Ripper in modern London. The idea that he was this sort of mythical figure that kind of haunted … the East End. We’re talking about the London of the early 90s which still had these really soot-stained, really derelict areas where prostitutes would hang out on the street corners. No different from the 1880s.

It still had that almost kind of Hogarthian feel about it, that was kind of disturbing."







"It’s a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story"

In late 2013, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story was announced for the 2015 holiday season. Film financing entity Star Partners and Hummingbird Prods, a music producing company for commercials, were behind the sequel plans.

The story was to be about George Bailey's not-so-good grandson being visited by his Aunt Zuzu (to be played by original film actress Karolyn Grimes) who is now an angel showing him how much better off the world would be had be never been born.

Paramount then vowed to fight the sequel plans as they argued that the companies didn't have all of the necessary rights. The sequel was then scrapped.







"Dixie City Jam"

Alec Baldwin was hoping to return to the Dave Robicheaux character in a follow up to be called "Dixie City Jam", but this film's failure at the box-office led to the sequel being scrapped.

However, Tommy Lee Jones would go on to play an older Dave Robicheaux in In the Electric Mist in 2009.







"I Am Legend 2"

Director Francis Lawrence said WB wanted a sequel, but he couldn't think of anything that could work.

"Warner was really, really, really into coming up with something, and I just didn’t know how to do it. It just felt forced to do a prequel... we would have been doing Contagion. And to do something that’s a follow-up either doesn’t have him in it, or you have to do something really dumb, which is, you know, ‘Scientists have taken his DNA and reanimated him somehow!’

And that would have been really dumb, and so I just kind of bowed out."







"Independence Day 2"

Before Independence Day: Resurgence came out, Roland Emmerich and writer Dean Devlin tried to pen a sequel in the early 2000s, only to ultimately scrap it.

“It was after 9/11 and Dean and I wanted to make the movie about peace, and it just didn’t work. There’s still an element of that in the new one, but that version was only about that. We shoot aliens down accidentally and then at the end of the movie they land on the White House lawn and say ‘we come in peace’ and that was it.

It was just too weak an idea and we didn’t really want to do it. It didn’t have an Independence Day feel. Only the alien ship was destroyed!”







"Deadgirl 2"

Deadgirl screenwriter Trent Haaga put up his sequel script online and said:

"There was some hoopla about a year ago about the fact that Deadgirl 2 was being talked about. I'm not going to get into all of the terrible particulars that killed the project, but needless to say the outcome wasn't pretty and I don't think that a sequel will ever get made. It certainly won't get made with my participation. And it's probably the best that it remain this way."

"My idea for the sequel was to try and tell a story from the point of view of a female outcast and what would happen if she found the Deadgirl this time ... instead of using the Deadgirl for the impetus of her sexual fantasies, what if she used the Deadgirl for her revenge fantasies instead?"

[Member-244966]

Originally Posted by JamesG.

[B]

"It’s a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story"

In late 2013, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story was announced for the 2015 holiday season. Film financing entity Star Partners and Hummingbird Prods, a music producing company for commercials, were behind the sequel plans.

The story was to be about George Bailey's not-so-good grandson being visited by his Aunt Zuzu (to be played by original film actress Karolyn Grimes) who is now an angel showing him how much better off the world would be had be never been born.

Paramount then vowed to fight the sequel plans as they argued that the companies didn't have all of the necessary rights. The sequel was then scrapped.

Of all the films in the world to make a sequel to, this is not one of them. This sounds terrible.

[storythecorgi]

Salt 2
Bridesmaids 2

[Leslie Dame]

Originally Posted by storythecorgi

Bridesmaids 2

Not sure if they even tried doing a sequel. Kristen Wiig always said she won't do a Bridesmaids sequel, and I doubt they would make one without her, unless it goes straight to home video.

[JamesG.]

I was wondering if anyone knew why a film version of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol was never made?

We have The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno films - but The Lost Symbol was never made into a film.

[JamesG.]

Originally Posted by JamesG.

I was wondering if anyone knew why a film version of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol was never made?

We have The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno films - but The Lost Symbol was never made into a film.

An update to this is that Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol was adapted into the Peacock series coming out September 2021.

Ashley Zukerman will play Robert Langdon.

[Leslie Dame]

How Cheerleader Camp 2 became Camp Fear

Production began as a sequel to the slasher film Cheerleader Camp (1988) in early 1990, starring Betsy Russell to reprise her role from the first movie. Halfway through filming distributer Prism Entertainment was experiencing financial troubles and another production company took over. There's no info about the original script, however, it is known that the script went through changes and rewrites and eventually became The Millennium Countdown.
No crazy killer, Cheerleaders or slashing. Instead it offers Lambada dancing, evil bikers, an indian ghost, a seamonster and a giant druid.

For its home video debut in 1994 the title was changed to Camp Fear and falsely advertised as a slasher by using the poster art from the Italian slasher film Bodycount (1986).

[Mikezilla3k]

Not exactly a sequel but:

A Space Godzilla

Originally going to be the 16th Godzilla film, it was released as a two-part short story in the Japanese edition of Starlog magazine illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo. It revealed Godzilla's origin as an alien creature named "Rozan".

Synopsis:

In Arizona, strange signals are detected coming from a dark nebula. Meanwhile, Godzilla washes up on the shores of Japan, dying of diabetes. Scientists are able to examine the monster's organs, including its brain, and after an attempt to communicate with the brain psychically it is discovered that Godzilla is actually an intelligent alien creature named Rozan, from the Godzilla Planet, located in the region where the strange dark nebula signals originated, and is pregnant with a child. Against the protests of the victims of Rozan's rampages, the monster's body is transformed into a rocket in order to send her and her unborn child back to their home planet.

Once there, Rozan and her child Lilin are reunited with their husband/father Kunin. The Godzilla Planet comes under attack from an alien race known as the Sunerians, a species of half-human looking creatures. Kunin and the now grown-up Lilin combat the Sunerian's general, Gamoni, in order to defend the planet, eventually emerging victorious.

Illustrations from Starlog:

[Show spoiler]

Basically, a kaiju eiga version of Highlander 2: The Quickening.

[clortho]

Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash

Per Bruce Campbell:

”We had a five minute conversation with New Line Cinema about Ash vs. Jason vs. Freddy. They approached us. So they go, ‘What do you think about that?’ And we were like, ‘Great, Ash can kill ‘em both.’ There was a long pause, ‘Well actually that’s not something we can entertain.’ And we couldn’t control any other character, only control Ash - what these guys said, or what they did and you can’t kill either one. So right from the start, it’s creatively bankrupt. Economically, now you’re splitting the pot with two other partners - nah. We’re good. So that’s why - fans may not realize why things don’t happen.”

It was was my understanding that at least one draft had been written which ended up being adapted in to the limited comic series by Wild Storm.

I’m sure Bruce’s account is accurate, but I think it went further than a conversation on New Line’s end.

[JamesG.]

Speaking of Bruce Campbell, he said in 2017 on a Sirius XM appearance that he had no interest in appearing in a Bubba Ho-Tep sequel.

Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She Vampires was talked about over the years and Paul Giamatti was said to be playing Elvis' manager.



Campbell said, "I told the creators that I didn’t want to dance around it anymore. I feel that the first one was a nice little gem and you don’t have to make a sequel for everything.

Don Coscarelli, God bless him, go make it. You know, get somebody else. They had Ron Perlman at one point. Knock yourself out. I don’t want to stop you from making this, but I don’t want to. So, that one I’m just going to let go."

[starsteam]

Godzilla 2

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2...m-part-4-of-4/

After the release of Tristar's 1998 American reboot of Toho's Godzilla, options were brought up to do a sequel. Sony had bought sequel rights from Toho and while the film didn't perform at expectations it still brought in over $370 million worldwide. However licensors were uninterested due to the overestimated merchandise sales of the first film. Sony realized there was little demand for a Godzilla sequel.

Roland Emmerich had the idea to go into a different genre with a take on the Monster Island concept from the Toho film series using original monster concepts. Tab Murphy was brought on to write the script, but after a budget dispute between Sony and Emmerich/Devlin the creative team left the project. The studio had then come to the conclusion that a Godzilla sequel would take too much time and money.

A animated series sequel, which was developed while the first movie was being released, performed well with highest ratings in its programming block, but retailers refused to carry any merchandise due to shelves still being full of unsold movie toys. Sony couldn't continue to market this Godzilla.

While Sony was figuring out how to continue the franchise, Toho saw that the American film had brought back a wave of interest for Godzilla in Japan and pulled the character out from its 1995 retirement with a new reboot titled Godzilla 2000: Millennium. The 1992 contract Toho made with Sony allowed them to make their own Godzilla films in conjunction to Sony's. Sony saw the interest and thought bringing the film over to America (as Godzilla 2000) would be marketable. They nulled over the idea of doing their own reboot instead of a sequel to the Emmerich film and Godzilla 2000 would serve as a break from the previous film allowing them to have a fresh start.
Ultimately Sony never made the sequel and their rights expired in 2003. Toho contiuned to make their own Godzilla films until 2004. In 2010 the rights to produce American Godzilla films were bought in joint by Legendary and Warner who made their own reboot of the franchise.