I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to ‘Marley and Me.’
John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you’d expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
Lesley Gore’s part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in ‘It’s My Party,’ savored revenge in the sequel ‘Judy’s Turn to Cry’ and belted the proto-feminist anthem ‘You Don’t Own Me.’
We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
It was sheer coincidence that ‘Amaidhi Padai’ had an open-ended climax. The idea for a sequel kept coming up, and I decided to act on it, nearly 20 years after the first film. It was not a planned decision.
‘The Irish Duke’ is a sequel to ‘The Decadent Duke’ about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. ‘The Irish Duke’ tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn.
I’m all in favor of people – myself included – going into the same territory if there’s something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, ‘Make a sequel to ‘Heathers’,’ I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that’s a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.
For us the acceptance of audience is important, we won’t keep making sequel after sequel just for the heck of it.
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
It’s just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It’s never going to be as good as the first one.
I’m always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I’m the most skeptical. You know, I’m very proud of what we’ve done, and I don’t want to screw up our series.
Yes, Luv Ranjan and I have a sequel in mind for ‘De De Pyaar De.’
Harmesh Malhotra’s ‘Nigahen’ is said to be a sequel to his ‘Nagina.’ But in reality, the characters in the second film did not flow out of the first.
‘How to Train Your Dragon,’ the first one, was a film I’d seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don’t often watch family animated movies, but it’s one that I loved and thought was really well done: beautifully crafted storytelling.
Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to ‘The Exorcist.’ But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, ‘But I died in the first film.’ ‘Well,’ he told me, ‘this is from the early days of Father Merrin’s life.’ I told him I just didn’t want to do it again.
I would want a sequel to ‘Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai.’ But more than me, it’s the audience who are looking forward to the same.
The first ‘Blade Runner’ is a cool movie. It’s a classic. Just to be part of the sequel was such an honor and a beautiful learning experience.
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you’re out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.
Other than Peter Jackson doing ‘Lord of the Rings,’ I don’t get it when filmmakers follow up a movie with a sequel to the same movie. God bless ’em if they can be up for it, but that would drive me insane.
With a sequel, you always worry for its integrity.
Everything about ‘Avunu 2’ will be many notches higher than its prequel. The sequel is scarier, and there’ll be more thrills and chills. I myself felt it when I was shooting.
With a sequel you’re always trying to get bigger and better.
I have apparently become a sequel queen because of films ‘Raaz: Reboot,’ ‘Guest-Iin-London,’ ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se’ and ‘Housefull 4.’
‘Shantaram’ is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to ‘Shantaram,’ the first a prequel.
When you’re an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can’t fake you or hire another actor to play you.
I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn’t going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
That’s why I wanted to say ‘Stranger Things 2,’ because I don’t want to think about it as a TV show. Maybe it’s a snobby thing, but it’s like: ‘Oh, I want it to be a movie. I want it to be a movie sequel.
I’d love to make a sequel to ‘The Rocketeer.’ The film didn’t do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.
I feel the way I always do about sequels. If there’s an idea that excites me enough, and it feels like a way to do something new and fresh, then great. But I don’t ever want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel.
Even when people abroad see me, I’m often asked about a ‘Zone of the Enders’ sequel.
I filmed the ‘Sicario’ sequel ‘Soldado’ with Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin. That was cool. I play the female lead. I’m the bad guy’s daughter.
You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn’t take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it’s a feature of pretty much any feature you do.
It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to ‘The Silence of the Lambs,’ which suggests that while everyone was desperate to read it, he was not desperate to write it.
‘Baby Boy’ is one of my favourite films, and Tyrese keeps telling everybody we’re going to make a sequel. I mean, we have a story right now but we don’t know where we’re going to take it.
The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as ‘Chronicle’ was, it’s not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying ‘This is what the sequel should be’ because there’s a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that’s really what’s going on with ‘Chronicle 2.’
The cast of ‘Fukrey’ will remain the same in the sequel. But the story is more of a fresh one.
And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
Maybe because I’m a child of the ’80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven’t seen the original, then you don’t understand the second one. Like ‘Back to the Future 2.’ If you haven’t seen the first one, you’re not going to get anything out of ‘Back to the Future 2.’
People talk a lot about Pixar going off the rails. A lot of people are saying they aren’t happy that we are making sequels. But for every one of those people, there is one that is happy because they fell in love with the worlds we created. We hope we’ve proved that a sequel can be every bit as enjoyable as the original.
You get involved with a studio, and optional pictures and sequel options and that sort of thing are becoming part and parcel with the roles they’re handing out.
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything – or anything – about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.
Once you get into a feature, whether it’s a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you’re creating a world, creating new characters. You’re also tracking emotions. You’re trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.
As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.
There’s a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don’t execute well.
The sequel to ‘Aliens’ is not a movie, it’s a video game. How cool is that? That’s how important our industry has become.
I would definitely return to ‘Neverland’ for a sequel if there was the chance again because we all got on so well, and I think it will be great.
I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing ‘The Magicians.’ I only ever considered it a standalone.
It’s absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn’t a who or a what, he’s an idea. The thing is, you couldn’t continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story’s finished.
I’d love to do a ‘Sopranos’ sequel.
At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.
The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could’ve done with the character. If we’d done a sequel to ‘The Thomas Crown Affair,’ what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it’s just going to break your heart.
The first sequel thing I wrote was this ‘Forever Dawn’ thing that will never get out, because it’s horrid. But it’s a really good outline for ‘Breaking Dawn’ – it’s very similar. I knew what I was doing, which is good, because I think if I hadn’t, there might have been a lot of pressure.
