TopBilled Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Biggest gaps between an original film and its sequel...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Shaft 1971---2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 10, 2012 Author Share Posted February 10, 2012 According to wiki, this film holds the record for time between sequels (thirty years) while featuring the original stars: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 *The Last Picture Show* (1971) *Texasville* (1990) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 *NATIONAL VELVET* 1945 *INTERNATIONAL VELVET* 1978 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegerg69 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 > {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}Shaft 1971---2000. That was a remake...not a sequel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegerg69 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 > {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}Psycho (1960) ....... Psycho II (1983) Psycho (1960) ... Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) (1977) ... Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ... Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (2008) Fantasia (1940) ... Fantasia 2000 (1999) The Maltese Falcon (1941) ... The Black Bird (1975 - with two original cast members) Star Trek (the original tv series - 1966) ...Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) ...and by a bit of a stretch: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) ... The Bride (1985) (The Bride is a sort of combo remake/sequel, actually continuing the story instead of ending it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 It was not a remake. In fact, Richard Roundtree makes an appearance as the original "Uncle" Shaft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegerg69 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Wow, really? I didn't know that...I understood it was a remake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 No, the plot is entirely different. Compare the synopses: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1280/Shaft/ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/336348/Shaft/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaney7 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Chinatown (1974) and The Two Jakes (1990) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegerg69 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Darkblue already mentioned that one 3 hours ago...just 10 posts below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 With RAIDERS and CRYSTAL SKULL, we did have a few titles in between. There is definitely a gap between LAST CRUSADE and CRYSTAL SKULL (19 years). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arturo Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 GODFATHER 2 (1974) - GODFATHER 3 (1990). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marysara Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I know this is something most people want to forget, but Scarlett (1995) is a sequel to Gone With The Wind (1939) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegerg69 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Why? The 4th Indy film takes place in the late 1950's...Raiders takes place in 1936. Two different time periods. Also a connection between the final scene of Raiders taking place in the same location that the opening scene of Crystal Skull takes place in. That basically makes it a direct sequel to the first film. We even get to see a glimpse of The Ark in the opening scene, right where it was stored at the end of Raiders. The *PSYCHO/PSYCHO IV* example I quoted is also appropriate, since IV is almost entirely a PREQUEL to the original movie, taking place before the events of *PSYCHO*, regardless of the fact there were two other films with Tony Perkins in between. HALLOWEEN (1978) and HALLOWEEN H2O (1998) are also perfectly valid, continuing the story of Jamie Lee Curtis' character...even though HALLOWEEN II (1981) was released 3 years after the original. The discussion is perfectly valid and not "bogus" in the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegerg69 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Yes, it would because it has the original stars and it was also a theatrical release....but the gap between Gone With The Wind and Scarlett (tv mini-series) is greater: 56 years. That seems to be the record holder, regardless of any other particulars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegerg69 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Not bogus at all...You're simply being very limited in your guidelines for what YOU think it should be. The original post here NEVER mentioned it should be the FIRST (and only that one) sequel. This is what TopBilled said: "Biggest gaps between an original film and its sequel...? " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegerg69 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 ...and what difference would it make? Just CONTINUE with this thread as it is. Move ahead with your life...This thread can contain BOTH types of examples, regardless of what you would LIKE it to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegerg69 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Give it up...all you are doing is trolling by trying to get a rise out of me....waiting to see what I post next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegerg69 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 > {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}You're the troll here. All I did was make a suggestion. You're the one who's turning it into an argument - pretending my question would be unacceptable for some reason. My first reply after your "bogus" reasoning were examples I gave and in which I defended why it was not "bogus". You were the one who continued this ridiculous reasoning and continued attempting to say that it was "bogus". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My understanding of the intent of this thread was to point out that sometimes there is a long period of time between an original movie and the next initial sequel (not any sequel). The longer the amount of time from the original release until this initial sequel impacts the marketing of this initial sequel as well as the casting of the movie (e.g. are some of those original actors still around,,, a new generation of movie goers will not have seen the original etc....). To me these concepts don't apply as well to subsequent sequels made after the initial sequel. (in fact the number of years between these subsequent sequels would have more of an impact then the number of years from the original to a subsequent sequel). Thus I reviewed those examples, and based on my understanding of the intent here, I have to say I think they are bogus (miss the mark). But hey, maybe my view of the intent of this thread is bogus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 THE ODD COUPLE II was the inspiration for this thread. I found it interesting that Lemmon and Matthau AND Simon all reteamed so many years later to provide an update on the beloved characters. Incidentally, Lemmon and Matthau had recently completed the sequel for GRUMPY OLD MEN, called GRUMPIER OLD MEN. So maybe they were in a sequel mood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc1 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Wall Street 1987 Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps 2010, (23 years) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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