Although some movies are popular enough to get a sequel , what you see on the screen is often not the first suggested storey idea . We ’ve write before aboutproposed sequelsthat ( gratefully ) never occur . Here are eight more resist ideas for movie sequel .
1.ROGER RABBIT II: THE TOON PLATOON
write by screenwriter Nat Mauldin , Roger Rabbit II : The Toon Platoontook place in 1941 , six years before the events of the first picture show . After he learns he was adopted , Roger move to Hollywood from the Midwest with Richie Davenport , his human best friend , to essay to find his literal parent . Once in L.A. , Roger meets Jessica Krupnick , who would later become his married woman . Roger and Richie enlist in the U.S. Army when Jessica gets abduct by a Nazi undercover agent . Roger and Richie then go to Nazi - occupied Europe during World War II to save Jessica . After the pair saves the day , they all riposte to Hollywood where they get a zep ’s salutation with a parade . Roger is then reunite with his parent and happen upon that his existent Padre is Bugs Bunny .
In the nineties , the statute title was changed toWho Discovered Roger Rabbit , but executive producer Steven Spielberg had no interest in retrovert for the continuation . He palpate that it would be in poor gustation to lampoon and lampoon the Nazis after makingSchindler ’s List . Once the development budget balloon , then - Disney chief operating officer Michael Eisner canceled the sequel exclusively and shifted the studio ’s attention to CGI invigoration after the success ofToy StoryandA Bug ’s Life . run footage was commission in 1998 , but the result was an awkward premix of CGI and live military action .
" It was never in the card , we could never get the planet back into alinement , " co - producerDon Hahnsaid of the would - be sequel . " There was something very special about that time when invigoration was not as much in the forefront as it is now . "
2.JURASSIC PARK IV
BeforeJurassic Worldhit theaters last yr , Universal Pictures spent much of the 2000s trying to getJurassic Park IVoff the ground . Screenwriter William Monahan was hired to compose a book , while John Sayles was rent for revision . Jurassic Park IVwould’ve featured dinosaur escaping Site A for the mainland , while a team of deinonychuses was being trained for a rescue mission and genetically modified dinosaur - human hybrid were being used as soldier of fortune . Sam Neill and Richard Attenborough were set to reprise their roles as Dr. Alan Grant and John Hammond , respectively . Keira Knightley was also reportedly in talk to take a supporting role .
The sequel was in ontogeny for years , but the 2007 - 2008 Writers Guild of America strike stay the project further , as manufacturer were n’t felicitous with draft after draft of screenplays fromMark Protosevichand written material team Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver .
" He felt neither of [ the drafts ] balance the science and adventure component in effect , ” special effects wizard Stan Winston toldIGN.comof producer Steven Spielberg ’s thought on the original sequel ’s maturation . “ It ’s a tough compromise to reach , as too much science will make the picture show too talky , but too much adventure will make it seem hollow . "
In 2013 , writer / director Colin Trevorrow was brought on to the task with a raw and improved variation of theJurassic Park IVscreenplay , which was now titledJurassic World , set for passing during the summertime of 2015 , and go on to become one of thehighest - grossing filmsof all - time .
3.BATMAN UNCHAINED
Sometimes calledBatman Triumphant , Batman Unchainedwould’ve been the fifth movie in theBatmanfranchise , and was set up for waiver during the summer of 1999 . However , after the very unsatisfying box role and critical reception toBatman & Robin , the sequel was scrapped , and the enfranchisement laid dormant until Christopher Nolan boot it withBatman Beginsin 2005 .
Screenwriter Mark Protosevich ( yep , same hombre fromJurassic ParkIV ) was engage to writeBatman Unchained , which would have followed The Scarecrow terrorizing Gotham with his fright toxin , while The Joker generate to the franchise , as a fright - induced hallucination . Harley Quinn was written as The Joker ’s daughter instead of his lover , as she was set to avenge his death . George Clooney , Chris O’Donnell , and Alicia Silverstone were all quick to return to their roles as Batman , Robin , and Batgirl , respectively , while Nicolas Cage was considered for The Scarecrow . Madonna and Courtney Love were bruit for the role of Harley Quinn .
“ I ’m get a call from Joel [ Schumacher ] , whose main commentary was that I had spell mayhap the most expensive picture ever made . Then I remember I never heard from the executive at Warner Bros. I called many time , never start any kind of reaction , " Protosevich toldThe Hollywood newsperson . " This get into a stop of week and then a calendar month , and my agent pestering Warners . And the next matter I knew , they were pull out the plug on the whole project . They were going to wait and see what they were going to do with Batman . The Joel Schumacher - drive Batman railroad train was taken off the rails . "
4.INDIANA JONES AND THE MONKEY KING
In 1984 , George Lucas wrote an eight - page treatment titledIndiana Jones and the Monkey King . It would ’ve been the third installment in the series before Steven Spielberg and Lucas developedIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade . The film would have opened in Scotland in 1937 , with Indiana Jones ( Harrison Ford ) fighting the ghost of Baron Seamus Seagrove III before heading to Africa to explore for the Fountain of Youth , which was afterward changed to the Garden of Immortal Peaches . Indy ’s old friend Scraggy Brier , Dr. Clare Clarke ( a Katharine Hepburn - case ) , and a 200 - year former pigmy would unite him on an dangerous undertaking in Africa trying to get away from the Nazis . Indiana Jones dies in the history , only to be resurrected by the Monkey King .
Chris Columbus was brought on to write a playscript , but after four potation , Spielberg and Lucas ultimately passed on the story because they felt it would be too difficult to take .
" It was pollyannaish and full of the same nostalgia that we solicit into inRaiders of the Lost Ark , so in that sense Chris was right on the money,”Spielbergrecalled . “ But I do n’t remember any of us wanted to go to Africa for four month and attempt to get Indy to hinge upon a rhinoceros in a multi - vehicular following , which was one of the chronological sequence Chris had written . Once I got into the script , I began to feel very old , too old to organize it . ”
5.BEETLEJUICE GOES HAWAIIAN
In 1990 , Warner Bros. wanted Tim Burton to manoeuver aBeetlejuicesequel — and to do so as soon as possible . However , Burton was n’t interested in making sequels at the time , so he pitched an theme that he figured the studio would freeze off : BeetlejuiceGoes Hawaiiansaw the Deetz family moving to Hawaii , only to discover the tropical repair they ’re develop sits on top of an ancient burial ground of a Hawaiian Kahuna . Once again , they call upon the service of Beetlejuice ( Michael Keaton ) to scare the liveliness and ghosts away , while he also gets a suntan , deliver the goods a surfriding contest , and tries to marry Lydia Deetz ( Winona Ryder ) again .
Surprisingly , Warner Bros. sleep together the idea and Keaton and Ryder were interested , too — as long as Burton was directing . But the filmmaker was busy makingBatman return . According toscreenwriter Jonathan Gems , “ Tim thought it would be peculiar to fit the surfing backdrop of a beach movie with some sorting of German Expressionism , because they ’re totally wrong together . ”
6.ALIEN 3
In 1986 , after the button ofAliens , Twentieth Century Fox was queasy to turnAlieninto a franchise , but quickly flow intostory problemswhile developing the third film over the next six years . A number of writers were brought on to drop a line a screenplay that involved the survivor of the Sulaco either going to the Xenomorph ’s home planet or the slayer extraterrestrial coming to Earth . The movie studio even made a drone that strongly hint and rally the latter — even though it never happen inAlien 3 .
In 1987 , one prognosticate action - heavy musical theme came from cyber-terrorist writer William Gibson , who wrote a version ofAlien 3where Hicks ( Michael Biehn ) discovers the Weyland - Yutani Corporation is nominate an Alien army , while the masses of a float space place fight back against an invasion . The idea was scrapped when Fox wanted more covert clock time for Sigourney Weaver ’s Ripley , who was in a coma throughout a legal age of the cinema . " Sigourney Weaver is the centerpiece of the series , " Fox presidentJoe Rothsaid . Ripley was " really the only distaff warrior we have in our flick mythology . "
In 1990 , New Zealand film maker Vincent Ward was charter to directAlien 3 , base on a tar he came up with on the flight to Los Angeles . He thought of Ripley clang landing place on a planet made completely out of wood and discovering a monastery full of all - male monk who see the Alien as a punishment from God . The continuation would ’ve been an interrogatory of Ripley ’s soul and psyche throughout the serial — and a meet destruction for the character .
Fox quickly fired Ward and brought on a unseasoned David Fincher to make an activity - labored thriller about Ripley smash landing on a prison satellite , as a new Xenomorph picks off the captive one by one , which made it more similar to the originalAlienmovie . Alien 3opened in May 1992 to lukewarm recap and restrained box part number .
7.SUPERMAN LIVES
Before the going ofSuperman Returnsin 2006 , there were a number of sequel and reboot ideas surrounding the Man of Steel that were vacate or invalidate — most notably 1996’sSuperman Lives . FilmmakerKevin Smith(who was also offered the writing occupation onBeetlejuiceGoes Hawaiian ) was commission to save a screenplay for producer Jon Peters that featured Superman dressed in all bootleg , fighting a polar bear at the Fortress of Solitude , then fighting a giant spider in the film ’s climax . Nicolas Cage was cast as Superman , while Tim Burton was hired to direct . Superman Livesalso featured two baddie , Brainiac and Lex Luthor , who teamed up to destroy the Man of Steel .
Superman Liveswas slated for dismission during the summer of 1998 for the sixtieth day of remembrance of the fictional character ’s comic Koran entry . However , after various rewrite , delays , and dropouts , the superhero movie was delete ( even after Warner Bros. spent more than $ 30 million over four twelvemonth of pre - production and preparation ) . The filmThe Death of " Superman Lives " : What Happened?documents almost every aspect of what live on wrong and why the picture was n’t made
“ The only matter I ’ll say about that — because that is such a lightning rod cell blistering topic and if I say anything at all it just seems to snowball — but I will say that I had great notion in that moving picture and in what Tim Burton ’s vision was give out to be for that movie , ” Cage toldYahoo ! Movies . “ I would ’ve screw to have meet it , but I experience that in many ways , it was sort of a profits / win because of the might of the imagination . I think mass can actually see the motion-picture show in their minds now and imagine it and in many ways that might resonate more deeply than the finished undertaking . ”
8.CHRONICLE 2: MARTYR
In 2012 , Twentieth Century Fox hired Max Landis to write a follow - up to his surprise hit , Chronicle . He wrote a dark sequel calledChronicle 2 : Martyr , which sport a female scoundrel named Miranda , who had the same superpowers as the protagonists from the first film — and was also schizophrenic .
“ There ’s this really interesting moment where she ’s turned into this supervillain , she has a motorized case — like a literal affair they can ramp up now that would cost $ 20 million , but if you ’re a genius you may do it — and she ’s altogether insane , living in this house with garbage everywhere , film herself and talking to the camera on pilotless aircraft like it ’s her swain , ” Landis toldThe Daily Beast . “ It ’s one of my better handwriting . It ’s very dour . It ’s notChronicle . It has a much felicitous ending thanChronicle ! ”
Landis also had another sales talk that would bring the original triad fromChronicleback to the sequel via time travel . Andrew ( Dane DeHaan ) , Matt ( Alex Russell ) , and Steve ( Michael B. Jordan ) discover that they can now rig and control time after they go on the run from the authorities . Andrew and Matt then go bad in a gunplay , as Steve looks into the camera and rewinds time back to the eye of the movie .
“ Steve wait at the television camera and goes , ‘ This did n’t encounter this way . ’ And just like that , it rewinds to the origin of the second act ofChronicle 2and you see them being filmed by these Gallic young lady that they were hanging out with , and you see Steve go , ‘ We ’ve got ta go , ’ ” Landis explained .
However , Fox did n’t wish either pitch and removed Landis from the project . The continuation is still in development , with screenwriterJack Stanleycurrently write an all - Modern script .
