As a general rule, we should never be surprised when Hollywood makes a sequel to something. If a film makes a big enough profit, Hollywood will find a way to produce a sequel. Even if the main character dies in the first film, or there is no logical reason to continue the story beyond the end of the first film, or the first film was based on a book with no further material to adapt, or the entire cast and crew did not They want nothing more to do with each other and refuse to do another project together. Is there money to be made? If the answer to that question is yes, then there is also a sequel to be made, narrative or logistical issues be damned.
However, there are times when a sequel is genuinely surprising, like when an actor swore never to reprise a role and did so anyway (again: money to be made!), or when a film flopped on its initial release and then has accumulated enough of a fan base to demand a second film, or if it’s been years or even decades since a franchise last appeared in theaters. The list below contains 20 examples; extremely unlikely sequences whose mere existence is genuinely shocking in this day and age.
There are definitely more examples out there (did you wait for Harrison Ford to make another one Indiana Jones without Steven Spielberg and George Lucas at 80? I didn’t!), but here are 20 of the least likely sequels in film history, in chronological order…
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We can’t believe these sequences exist.
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