Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Viewers didn't care for the answers, apparently, as it was a box office flop. Where 2001 answered nothing, 2010 answered a lot. It certainly has direct narrative ties to 2001: A Space Odyssey, just without the grandeur or the heavy existential surrealism of the original. And, it was actually a very good movie, but it was a concrete narrative about the United States and the Soviet Union coming together to determine what happened to the Discovery One mission to Jupiter. 2010: The Year We Make Contact was written and directed by Peter Hyams ( Capricorn One) and starred one hell of a cast with Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, and John Lithgow. Clarke happened to write a sequel novel in 1982, 2010: Odyssey Two, and Hollywood tried to capture lighting in a bottle once more. Stanley Kubrick made his space masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 and to this day its still hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Roy Scheider and John Lithgow in 2010 (1984) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) It basically closed the door on The X Files storytelling on the big screen. The box office was also weak, getting hammered by the release of The Dark Knight.
While it reunited David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and Mitch Pileggi in their classic roles, the movie functioned as a standalone thriller that felt thin to hardcore fans of the series looking for more mythology, and like a lesser episode in terms of story quality. A sequel movie then languished in development hell until 2007 when Carter figured out a story that would continue where the series ending left off. The X-Files: I Want to Believe was a big departure from the first movie. Directed by Chris Carter then returned his focus to The X-Files series until it ended in 2002. The first The X-Files movie hit in theaters in 1998 and was a box office and critical success.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe | Online Trailer | 20th Century FOX /20th Century StudiosYouTube It won six Academy Awards and is widely regarded as the best of the Mad Max films.
However, the end result was pure movie magic as this was one of the rare sequels that was absolutely worth the wait. Production on Mad Max: Fury Road commenced in July 2012 and it was one hell of a rocky shoot with cast fights, heat issues and tons of practical effects. It wasn't until 2009 that Miller finally announced it was actually happening with actor Tom Hardy taking over the role of Max. The fourth installment essentially became the cursed title that was delayed for a myriad of reasons including 9/11, the Iraq War, and eventually Mel Gibson's personal controversies. Miller came up with the idea for a new installment in 1987 but it languished in developmental hell because the original trilogy wasn't much of a barn burner at the box office. Mel Gibson played the titular character for all three movies, and (what was then) the last installment worked to close out the post-apocalyptic hero's arc. Mad Max: Fury Road - Feels Like Hope Scene (7/10) | Movieclips YouTubeĭirector George Miller essentially completed his Mad Max trilogy in 1985 with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Since we like to celebrate the underdogs, SYFY WIRE presents 10 science fiction movie sequels that made their fandoms flop sweat, form prayer circles and perhaps almost give up before they were rewarded with more stories: 1. It's one of the most dramatic spreads ever between the original release and a sequel, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of other examples of sequels that took their sweet, sweet time before making it back to the big screen. Like this week's Top Gun: Maverickwhich appears 36 years after the original Top Gun was released in theaters back in 1986. In fact, there have been plenty of successful movies, and even ones that have gone on to cult classic status, that have had to wait a very, very long time to tell a next chapter. We're firmly rooted in a cinematic era rife with franchises that exist to feed audiences sequels and spin-offs of familiar IP, so it's easy to forget "next chapters" aren't always a given.