The Real Reason These Sci-Fi Movies Never Got Sequels 

John Carter 2 would b awesome👍🤔

John Carter sequel with a different director. Ditto for The Last Starfigter.

I am number 4 with Timothy olyphant

Whatever happened to the Golden Compass?

It'll be really, really hard to do a sequel to the 1980 Flash Gordon.

Totally agree.

Virginia!

I got you Virginia!

u get to meet the other fan much ? lol

I enjoyed it. I was really hoping they would make the sequel.

Movie based on series of books.

*"Avengers Assemble"* is the reason for *"John Carter"'s* failure. A shame really as it was a good film.

There’s 11 books. Enjoy!

Despite the numerous changes they made to the story, I'm in that same boat. To be honest John Carter of Mars needs to be a tv series...the serial format of the original writings lends well to this, a movie series just doesn't make as much sense.

To watch ihm reunited with his princess. Jas00m, Bars00m...

Totally agreed about the excellent John Carter. Disney messed up the marketing there. I quite enjoyed Star Trek Nemesis, but still sympathised with a recent vid which rated it worst of all the Star Trek films, at least partly due to the unjustified (from a plot POV) sickening mind rape of Troi; plus the abrupt despatch of Data, though at least it effectively set up Star Trek Picard to give him the send off he deserved.

Johnny #5 maybe? Even Short Circuit got a sequel.

Loved that movie. With plot line being open ended, I was expecting a TV series. But, alas, nothing came of it.

Well #6 and #7's story arc was too complicated so they scrapped the rest of the series

Exactly

I was waiting also. I thought it was a good movie

I liked it, it was a great movie

I liked the movie-but the Main actor was boring

I dont understand why it didnt do better. I liked it also

and there was so much available for sequels

The book was amazing.

Loved the movie...was pissed it didn't get a sequel..even though budget wise..it was a flop

That movie sucked beyond belief.

Loved it!

@@rhoonah5849 " That movie sucked beyond belief. " As long as it sucked good, image if it sucked bad

@@millantronni3242 "image if it sucked bad". Uhhh... ok?

@@rhoonah5849 John Carter was good if you didn’t read the books. I enjoyed it, as did everyone that I’ve recommended it to so far. Once I read the books, I noticed how many liberties that were taken. Yet, I still enjoy the movie.

I think the media killed it because they do not like traditional white male heroes even though the movie had a very strong female hero. Look what they have done to Star Wars for instance.

@@kannaman211 what? Ya that’s it. It must be nice to have something to blame things on.

@@kannaman211 Right

Thank you, I agree!

I watched it several years ago and I loved it.

took the words right out of my mouth

I thought it was awesome too

Damn right! Also. It's not that obscure if you're in your 40's. Marvel ran Conan style adaptations of the Barsoom stories for some time (in the 70's and/or 80's). I loved them, growing up...

It was a decent movie, but to me it's greatest flaw was that didn't have anything distinguishing it from other scifi movies. It felt generic, which shouldn't be that surprising, because many of Burroughs original ideas have been copied and improved upon since his books were published. They should have made it at least a decade earlier for it to have a chance.

Damn, seeing Lynn Collins as Dejah almost sent me back 50 years to teenage infatuation. She looks so gooood.

Of course there should be multiple sequels for ALL of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom books.

Might work a bit better if they forgot the idea of a traumatized hero and went more for something like the first Indiana Jones movie's tone: a very self-confident adventurer ends up on a strange planet and jumps into the adventure with enthusiasm, and apart from a few occasions when he is worried about his love interest or his chances with her mostly seems to be enjoying himself. Which would be somewhat closer to the tone of the novels. This Princess of Mars adaptation is a pretty good movie when viewed by itself, but I don't like it as an adaptation. There is a definite tonal difference with the depressed reluctant hero and runaway bride princess and so on from the novels. Besides most of the other characters are very different from the ones in the book too... like Tars Tarkas, who is an impressive and pretty scary warrior who doesn't need Carter's help at all when it comes to killing his personal enemies among the Tharks. Compare that to the rather friendly from the beginning TT who needs to be saved by him in the movie. A really good adventure story seems to be a surprisingly hard thing to get just right as a movie. But yep, when they do work you do have a very lucrative cash machine, and a really fun first movie can carry a pretty long-lived franchise even when none of the other movies in the series ever manage to get all the way there.

@@pohjanakka4992 A second movie could have been great if they follow the book. In the book when he gets back from Mars he doesn't even know where he's at. He then comes across another species that he knows nothing about kind of like giant black creatures. He has to find his way back and finds out he has a son.

I know. Right? Makes you wonder if they also don't know about Tarzan.

@@beastmastreakaninjadar6941 ANd they apparently have not heard of the phenomenal success the ERB estate is having with his material in current comics. Pretty much his entire literary list is now in comics print and they added an expanded universe.

Too bad John Carter and Alita can't "meet up" and have a simple, lovely evening together ?

How is it a top ten wtf

Movie...

@@dfsempire2712 I thought the movie was shot well it looked good visually and I enjoyed the story thought the story was top notch.. it's in my top 10 doesn't have to be in yours...

Books are public domain... So even you could make a film attempt

Loved the movie.

@@PaoloGiovanni Oh, Earth 2! I loved that series, it was great.

Don't forget The Seventh Sense, Eight Samurai, and 10-1/2 Weeks. Oh. And Saturn Ascending.

I also thought it was a comedy.

There is a sequel in the works

District 10 is currently in production.....

Want this sequel.

i loved it

This. Hellboy 3 was considered but then got shelved.

Don't get me started. Instead they made that stupid prequel...

I thought they did make a Hellboy Pt. 3, wasn't that an Animated sequel??? I think it went Straight-to-Video, didn't it???

IT was SJW crap also.

I would rather choose Genisys to have a sequel rather than Dark Fate.

I always felt if they had gone with adding the subtitle "... Warlord of Mars" to the name, the film might have perked more interest, and have gotten a bigger box office share.

@@STSWB5SG1FAN Yup, like the old comic magazines

@@STSWB5SG1FAN exactly!

Disney will ruin Star Wars. And Star Wars has ruined Disneyland. Curses to Disney.

There are far less known scifi books that got very quickly their own movie trilogy like "Hunger Games" and "Maze Runner". It's frustrating that Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars novels and Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles have had such a struggle to make proper movies about them.

I loved that movie but it's perfect the way it is, without a sequel.

You should have said John Carter like everybody else.

Also I agree. Part 2 would have been nice.

First Contact was my fave but Nemesis was far better than Insurrection which was the true end of the TNG films. Nemesis wasn't good enough to recover from that bomb but not much would of been IMO.

I don't play Warcraft but I did like the movie. Had a nice bittersweet ending. Not bad at all. That there is no sequel to John Carter is a crime.

The sequel is so late in arriving it should be called "Ava-Tardy".

And before the kelvin timeline you had both voyager and deep space nine which while not sequels still built on the next generation setting.

Exactly!

@@davidmartensson273 Spinoffs?

From a somewhat logical standpoint, John Conner's existence was a tad problematic. His father was from the future and was killed when he went to the past. If you get killed when go back to the past, do you exist in the future? So, did John's father ever exist?

The story should have been made as 2d animation tv series or movies

I think you mean "Barsoom".

@@davidanderson_surrey_bc Sorry, yeah. Auto correct, not sure why.

@@elenidemos a Bassoon is a musical instrument

@Neil F Bassoon is a reference to "Princess of Mars". A series of books written decades ago, by Edgards Rice Burroughs "ERB".

@@elenidemos "Barsoom" for the books, "Bassoon" is a musical instrument, 2 different words, different spelling. Looks like Auto correct tripped You up again 🙂

That would make sense.

@@thudthud5423 because Speilberg can rarely make a bad film. Even "War of the Worlds" was OK, for a 21st century take on the 19th century novel.

It gets blurry because the original terminator was a combination or organic and inorganic material. There was real, living flesh over the metal skeleton. That flesh is not "robot" per se. Of course, for the original movie, that was required. Reese couldn't bring weapons because you couldn't send metal unless in was encased in bio material. Which creates a conflict with how then managed to send the other models in later movies. Liquid metal and whatever is still metal. That was a pretty big plot-hole.

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