Some things are better left alone. Highlander being one of them. In fact there are many movies that didn’t NEED a sequel, and some franchises are just worse off because they bothered to sequel them. Paramount doesn’t agree with me.
Intent on reviving their once dead properties to join in on the money grubbing, Paramount has joined the fray, starting up a new division to develop and produce sequels, prequels and remakes of popular titles from the libraries of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, DreamWorks, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies reports Slash Film.
Amongst the titles that could be on the list are Beverly Hills Cop, Crocodile Dundee, Clueless, Collateral, Coming to America, Days of Thunder, Deep Impact, Event Horizon, Face/Off, Forrest Gump, Ghost, Grease, Indecent Proposal, Tomb Raider, Mean Girls, Mission: Impossible, School for Scoundrels, Star Trek, The Addams Family, The Brady Bunch Movie, The Italian Job, The Longest Yard, The School of Rock, and Top Gun.
So with the exception of Star Trek and maybe continued Tomb Raider movies, I just can’t see any reason to give sequels or prequels to ANY of these films.
Lets not kid ourselves though. Its not about reason. Its not about common sense. It is about the money. If they think they have even the slimmest chance of making a buck off of another Brady Bunch movie, you know they will pony up and we will see as many of them as the public pays for.
Many of these movies were great in the simple fact that they didnt NEED to be retold, or expanded upon. Forrest Gump is brilliant in that it tells the WHOLE story. Where do you add more to that?
I will always be a super huge movie nut. But even in the party mix, I skip over those cheezey stick shaped things.
