“I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.” WellsFilmOfficeBoxesFollowingSequelsBox Office Author:Joe Johnston
“If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.” IfsFirstsFilmOpportunityAudienceHopefullySequels Author:David Heyman
“The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...” IfsFilmPleasureHalfQualityMillionsComedyJokesStudiosBillionsNot InterestedToiletsRemakesSequelsDismay Author:Woody Allen
“As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires werethese elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.” PeopleWritingChildrenFeelingsBeautifulFilmArtistFeltSawsBloodSceneResearchDaughterOriginalsDrinkingLondonVampireCurseSensitiveInterviewsTragicElegantSequelsGloriaHoldenMesmerizedBeautiful Daughter Author:Anne Rice
“With Batman&Robin, the fourth entry in the recent Batman movie series, the profitable franchise appears poised to take a nosedive. This film, which places yet another actor in the batsuit, has all the necessary hallmarks of a sorry sequel - pointless, plodding plotting; asinine action; clueless, comatose characterization; and dumb dialogue. Batman&Robin moves at a dizzying pace, yet goes absolutely nowhere.” ActionFilmMovingActorsSeriesSorryDialogueDumbPaceFourthProfitablePointlessEntrySequelsRobinsHallmarkCluelessCharacterizationBatman MovieComatose Author:James Berardinelli
“I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldBelieveIdeasWholeCharacterWould BeFilmSpeakI BelieveProcessCreatingAgreeCastsHopefullyBest ThingsThings To DoRelyGreat TimesSequelsEnsemble Author:Brendan Fraser
“We were lucky to get Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons and John McTiernan back. Long movie and hard movie to make and difficult for me because instead of working, my biggest concern was not repeating things I had done it in the previous films. And it rang notes in my head of episodic TV. A sequel is not a new movie; it's a chapter in a movie that you have already seen. Thank god Sam was there and thank god Jeremy was there. Again, it went outside the template of that series of films but it did well and made a ton of dough and the third chapter of a lot of sequels is always the one that falls down.” WellsLongMadeHardDoneFilmFallDifficultTvsLuckyConcernThirdsSeriesNotesIronThank GodChaptersFalling DownSequelsDoughSam Jackson Author:Bruce Willis
“I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.” IfsThinkingFilmPlansDangerousAssumingCommitObjectivesPrimariesSequels Author:Hutch Parker
“You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.” FirstsFilmCoastHumiliationSequelsHardcore Author:Jack Black