The end credits talk of a sequel, “Buckaroo Bonzai against the World Crime League” - that script ended up being repurposed into “Big Trouble in Little China”
Edge of Tomorrow. Not a huge Tom Cruise fan, but that one really gets me. Emily Blunt is awesome in it. Went in not expecting much, but I was blown away.
Watched it last year and immediately searched to see if there was sequel in the pipe. Development hell.
In the book there are some references to Rita (Emily Blunt) fighting in various places and I think her getting her start in South America. Might be remembering that one wrong, but a prequel with her learning how to fight the monsters would have been good if they stuck more to the book.
I read something about that a while ago. If I recall correctly, it was intended to be a franchise, but Master and Commander was so incredibly expensive that they decided against it.
I responded to this on another comment but from what I remember they got torpedoed by the MCU and thought they wouldn’t be able to compete against them…however reading these comments here gives me hope as everyone seems to be over the CGIverse now.
That’s good to hear. I haven’t read any of the books (not my preferred literary genre) so I didn’t have a preconception of the Aubrey character. This sadly left me loving Russell Crow as Aubrey, and I’ll have a hard time with anyone else playing him. Crow is 59, now; he might still be able to get away with it.
And there’s a whole bunch of more books to be adapted. That movie was so perfectly done I wish it had worked enough to allow a whole series of sequels.
Such a great movie that should’ve launched at least a trilogy, it was so much better than the Stalone movie, it kept the stakes relatively low, just a day-in-the-life sort of story, but did some great world-building. No “end of the world” stakes or anything silly, just some Judges trying to clear out a building, one apartment building in a mega-city.
Just an apropos of that, I’m at dinner with friends and one of them says that I had bad tastes in movies. His example of that was that I liked Dredd. I think the entire table turned on him at that point. I think that he said that The Raid did it better. I was like … they’re just different movies to me … I LOVE The Raid. That being said, I really enjoyed Dredd. It’s a damned tragedy Karl Urban didn’t get to reprise the role.
I’m late to the party here, but since I didn’t see it mention elsewhere, I’ll throw up unbreakable with Bruce Willis. given his health conditions, it won’t happen with him but it might be able to happen with somebody else in his place.
I feel like that movie established some solid characters and a somewhat unique case of the every man turned superhero. The whole idea of him just being able to touch someone and then get a glimpse into their hidden life was really cool. Plus there was the relationship with his son, bad guy suffering from that brittle bone disease to contrast with Bruce Willis’s character being, well, unbreakable. it was a good setup I thought for a whole series of films.
Kung Fury has a sequel and it’s been finished for several years, I’m just suprised the damn movie hasn’t released yet. They were suing some company because they were owed money by them but that’s settled now and we have no word as to why it’s not out yet.
I completely agree, and was trying to find a way to say “Star Wars Force-centric hero worship” without getting in the weeds. Rogue One was similarly fantastic (though, arguably can’t compare to Andor), and The Mandalorian is easily the best western nod to Lone Wolf & Cub there ever was — with core tenets intact and meta for days.
This thread needs more explanations than just straight responses.
Anyways, I will say that the most surprising to me was Dredd. I mean, I shouldn’t really be surprised because it didn’t do well in the Box Office, but it was just so awesome. Was such a great movie all around and I really wanted to learn more about that world.
Ah, but Urban did get a chance to reprise that character, IMHO: Chronicles of Riddick. In my head canon, his Dredd was the younger version of his Necromonger in CoR. 🤌🏼 (In much the same way that Ras Al’ghul’s origin story was the flick The Grey.)
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