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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      Non-Film Score Discussion: First Film That Left The Door Open For A Sequel?    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2       Last Post   Posted:   May 2, 2016 - 5:54 PM     By:   jenkwombat   (Member) "Gone With the Wind", maybe? "After all, tomorrow is another day....". The untimely death of Margaret Mitchell made such an admittedly-remote possibility even more unlikely, and it didn't happen --- thank goodness --- for decades.    Posted:   May 3, 2016 - 12:06 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) This is really a topic with no answer. How do you delineate the difference between an intended open or ambigious ending, and an ending that is clearly intended to lead into another film (like those 'cliffhanger' movies that inspired Lucas so much)? The latter implies a production that is already set on making another film before they've finished their current one, and one would need particular insight for that. Otherwise, everyone is just speculating wildly with no ground in reality.    Posted:   May 3, 2016 - 12:17 AM     By:   jenkwombat   (Member) Yes, clearly Mitchell didn't intend, at least immediately, to do a sequel to "Gone With the Wind". But the door was left open. Personally, I'm glad most people have forgotten "Scarlet", or whatever it was called....    Posted:   May 3, 2016 - 12:31 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) THE BIRTH OF A NATION It left the door open for THE FURTHER EXPLOITS OF THE KKK (You didn't say it had to be a movie that actually got a sequel) Well, the film DID get sequels, but it was never intended to spawn any.    Posted:   May 3, 2016 - 1:43 AM     By:   Rameau   (Member) Yes, I suppose you could do a sequel to any film, it really depends on how well the film did (& how lazy the studios are). The end of Casablanca invited a sequel, but wisely they didn't do one. There's the films where the sequel was already filmed before the first film was released: the Richard Lester Three/Four Musketeers films, & Back To The Future 2/3. I think the second Quatermass film (1957) was the first sequel to just have a 2 after the title (that title was just copied over from the TV sequel). The least likely sequel...Escape From The Planet Of The Apes, because at the end of Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, the earth blew-up (unlikely, from just one small warhead, but there you go), & they did that by going back in time (as you do).    Posted:   May 3, 2016 - 7:01 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) This is really a topic with no answer. How do you delineate the difference between an intended open or ambigious ending, and an ending that is clearly intended to lead into another film (like those 'cliffhanger' movies that inspired Lucas so much)? The latter implies a production that is already set on making another film before they've finished their current one, and one would need particular insight for that. Otherwise, everyone is just speculating wildly with no ground in reality. Going back to my example. Star Wars could have been and open and closed book. A self contained movie. No need for a sequel. The destruction of the Death Star was a metaphor for the collapse of the Empire. But purposely filming a shot of the main villain escaping screamed the intentions for a sequel. Many films after that showed the bad guy escaping in the end, or popping up in the end credits singling to the audience a sequel was at least possible. Of course there are films like The Three Musketeers and Superman that filmed two movies at the same time but the first films were self contained and I don't remember a " To Be Continued" or what ever at the end of them. (or did they?) Someone stated the Bond films as examples were it told the audience another film was in the works. Edit: In retrospect I was wondering what film told the audience a sequel was coming or highly hinted at it. (Not that sequels always happened like in the case of Masters Of the Universe and Avatar)    Posted:   May 3, 2016 - 7:54 AM     By:   RoryR   (Member) Yes, I suppose you could do a sequel to any film, it really depends on how well the film did (& how lazy the studios are). The end of Casablanca invited a sequel, but wisely they didn't do one. There's the films where the sequel was already filmed before the first film was released: the Richard Lester Three/Four Musketeers films, & Back To The Future 2/3. I think the second Quatermass film (1957) was the first sequel to just have a 2 after the title (that title was just copied over from the TV sequel). The least likely sequel...Escape From The Planet Of The Apes, because at the end of Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, the earth blew-up (unlikely, from just one small warhead, but there you go), & they did that by going back in time (as you do). Ok, I'm being nerdy here, but the bomb in BENEATH isn't meant to literally "blow the world up" but instead ignite the atmosphere and, as Charlton Heston says in the movie, "burn the planet to a cinder." The problem I have will ESCAPE is just how did pre-industrial apes salvage Heston's spaceship, launch it into orbit, not to mention where did they intend to go? Then you're asked to except that a shock wave in space would send you back in time. Talk about the need for suspension of disbelief!    Posted:   May 3, 2016 - 10:34 AM     By:   CH-CD   (Member) Just off the top of my head ...... THE ROBE - DEMETRIUS & THE GLADIATORS ON MOONLIGHT BAY - BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON FUNNY GIRL - FUNNY LADY HOME ALONE - HOME ALONE II DR. NO - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN - BELLES ON THEIR TOES GOING MY WAY - THE BELLS OF ST. MARY’S THE PALEFACE - SON OF PALEFACE    Posted:   May 3, 2016 - 11:27 AM     By:   RoryR   (Member) THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS -- WHERE ANGELS GO, TROUBLE FOLLOWS Just sayin'     Non-Film Score Discussion: First Film That Left The Door Open For A Sequel?    << < 1 2  >   Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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