Dredd. Karl Urban absolutely nailed that role, and all without ever showing the top half of his face.
Sadly Dredd didn't make enough money to recoup their production costs, while it was in theaters. It's been estimated that Dredd made around $20 million in the Home Market. This means how many DVD and Blu-ray sales they made. I wasn't able to find any info on streaming numbers unfortunately.
I still hold out hope that a sequel is made and released before the end of the decade.
District 9
I might be in the minority but Chappie was a really good movie. It’s a real bummer Die Antword were so horrible to work with that the director kinda gave up on it.
I really wanted Spaceballs II, the Search for More Money.
Galaxy Quest.
There was a script for one but Alan Rickman passed away (😭😭😭) and it got shelved. There are always rumors circling about still but nothing concrete.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It did quite well when it came out, and it felt like there was potential for sequels
I'm surprised nobody has done a modern TV version. All five books have been successfully adapted for radio, the scripts are done, it's already blocked out into well-paced individual episodes. It's just sitting there waiting to be made. You just need a good cast and a show runner who isn't going to monkey with the source material. It's already proven to be popular and long-lived. Seems like a no-brainer.
Master and Commander. It was such a great adaptation of a hugely popular series, I expected it to do better at the box office than it did.
Matrix
Yeah, would have been nice to find out what happened after Neo flew away. At least Rage was playing.
Warcraft
Like the video game. It was actually a pretty good introduction to the lore, (which I only know surface level from playing the games and not digging real deep. So there may have been mistakes) and it was just about to get good, but, there just wasn't enough interest to sink more money in the franchise.
I just watched it this weekend and it was far better than I expected.
Jumper. It was setting up an interesting world with more depth than the first movie could delve. I loved that one of the characters was so cool that the author of the original novel went out and wrote another book just about the movie's character and it rocked.
Return of the Jedi. Episode 7 is not a sequel but a remake. Episodes 8 and 9 are bullshit.
Kung pow! They even had a silly thing after the credits that i thought was real but it never came to fruition =(
Constantine, I'm surprised it's taken them this long to even talk about a sequel.
Amazed no one else has mentioned The Fifth Element. It was planned at one point I think but got cancelled.
The fifth element is a perfect self contained story. I’m not sure how you could up the stakes for a sequel. You could tell other stories in that world maybe, but I don’t think a sequel featuring the original characters would be good.
Beetlejuice. It was such a popular movie that spawned a musical, a cartoon, various video games, etc yet there's only been the one movie. There's been talks about a sequel over the years but nothing has materialized yet.
Either this is a joke that whooshed over me, or you’re going to have a fine time next month - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049403/
I didn't realize there was a sequel coming out next month. Don't know how I missed that.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Jonn Dies at the End
A sequel to Prometheus that actually focused on getting answers from the engineers. Covenant had an interesting performance from Fassbender but nothing else.
The Road to El Dorado was the pilot for an animated series that never got greenlit. Massive missed opportunity, I would love to see "the continuing adventures of three latin rogues and a horse"
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
They even teased it man... Pretty sure every kid has an existential crisis when they searched for that sequel in Google and found out it didn't exist.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Excellent, fun movie. Huge universe to built on. Shame they're probably not continuing the series
For a long time, I would have said Unbreakable. I’m glad that he ended up continuing the story, eventually.
Salt (Angelina Jolie)
I thought it was a pretty decent film..
Although there were a lot of problems with Ender's Game, I was a little surprised that they didn't adapt any of the sequels. I mean I wouldn't have watched them, but it seemed like they went pretty all in on that first one to not at least try the second with a significantly reduced budget.
The Golden Compass
There's a whole series of books.
Though there is a TV series now....
Flash Gordon.
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