Trilogies that were never completed

Pigman II

I'm trying to compile a list of trilogies that never got completed.

So far I've come up with:

x Lars Von Triers "USA Land of Opportunity" trilogy (part 3 "Wasington" is on hold indefinetly.)
x His Dark Materials Trilogy (Golden Compass didn't do as well as hoped at the box office and there is at present no plans to film it's two sequels)
x Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings (1st part of this animated trilogy completed in 1978).

Aside from adaptations, obviously guys like George Lucas and the Wachowski brothers only let it be known after the fact that their movies were intended all along to be trilogies so it would be interesting to know if there are any other (original source) stand-alone movies out there that were originally intended to be trilogies based on financiall success.

So can anyone here think of trilogies (quadrilogies etc) that never got completed or currently look like never having their sequels made?

Standard Toaster

Mad Max 4: Fury Road

c - 13

The third Alan Duff book in the "Once were warriors" series was never made into a movie.

The first two "Once were Warriors" and "What becomes of the broken hearted" were in 1994 and 1999 respectively but the final book "Jake's long shadow" remains in book form only.

MementoMori

I think the whole Nightwatch Daywatch was abandoned when the director Timur when off to direct Hollywood films?

Vokes

Pigman II wrote: »

x Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings (1st part of this animated trilogy completed in 1978).

No, that was just meant to be 2 films (a duology?).



I'm still waiting for the planned Riddick trilogy of which Chronicles was supposed to be the first. I guess the less then stellar box-office of Chronicles of Riddick have put paid to that.

Driver 8

Chinatown/The Two Jakes....the third film (Cloverleaf or something?) was never made

newbie2

The_Edge wrote: »

Mad Max 4: Fury Road

Trilogy
Pronunciation: \ˈtri-lə-jē\ Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural tril·o·gies Etymology: Greek trilogia, from tri- + -logia -logy Date: circa 1661 : a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme

Standard Toaster

newbie2 wrote: »

Trilogy
Pronunciation: \ˈtri-lə-jē\ Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural tril·o·gies Etymology: Greek trilogia, from tri- + -logia -logy Date: circa 1661 : a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme

Pigman II wrote: »

So can anyone here think of trilogies (quadrilogies etc) that never got completed or currently look like never having their sequels made?

newbie2, were you able to see that the second time?

big_show

The_Edge wrote: »

newbie2, were you able to see that the second time?

I lol'd :pac:

mike65

The third Dr Phibes movie never happened - the first two were great fun.

Mike

Nichololas

MementoMori wrote: »

I think the whole Nightwatch Daywatch was abandoned when the director Timur when off to direct Hollywood films?

AFAIK they were going to do the others (or maybe just remake night/daywatch) in English? Can't remember where I read that, so hopefully someone else actually knows. Kind of a kick in the teeth for the russian film industry, considering it's the highest grossing russian film ever.

RNL

Von Trier's Kingdom trilogy also remains incomplete.

The third part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible trilogy was halted during production and never competed, due to Stalin seeing to many allusions to himself in it.

The film that Greenaway was supposed to make following Prospero's Books and The Baby of Mâcon hasn't been made yet, and he seems to have lost interest in it. It was called Augsbergenfeld and it was set during the Thirty Years War, and was about an anatomist searching for the physical location of the human soul. He wanted to use an all over-60s cast and it was to feature some necrophilia and be shot largely in the dark... he couldn't find financing.

johnny_ultimate

Enlil_Nick wrote: »

AFAIK they were going to do the others (or maybe just remake night/daywatch) in English? Can't remember where I read that, so hopefully someone else actually knows. Kind of a kick in the teeth for the russian film industry, considering it's the highest grossing russian film ever.

Yup Twilight Watch was going to be focusing on an American Watch squadron, since the Russian story was tied up very nicely at the end of Day Watch. They were gonna have a few cameos from the original stars, but was going to be mainly funded by Fox (I think). Director has mentioned it a few times, never know if it will go ahead or not.

But let us be thankful the Golden Compass didn't do well. Can't imagine how badly they'd mess up the increasingly grim and complex sequels.

Vic Vinegar

newbie2 wrote: »

Trilogy
Pronunciation: \ˈtri-lə-jē\ Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural tril·o·gies Etymology: Greek trilogia, from tri- + -logia -logy Date: circa 1661 : a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme

That backfired rather spectacularly!

newbie2

PeakOutput

id lvoe to see twilight watch not a big fan of daywatch but i loved nightwatch

ziedth

I'm pretty sure the Cronicles of Riddick was suppose to be a Trilogy

The Don

I think that War of the Worlds remake by Spielberg was supposed to be a trilogy?

Battlefield Earth was supposed to be a trilogy aswell but the original flopped.

Lost in Space was left open for a sequel but not sure if any were planned before hand.

oxygen_old

Unbreakable by M Night Shyamalan was meant to be a trilogy, but the first one didnt really set the box office alight. Its a shame cause it was a good setup for a trilogy, but instead at the end of unbreakable

they just lashed up a load of text, which is always a bit out of place on fictional films.

rayobri

ziedth wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the Cronicles of Riddick was suppose to be a Trilogy

As far as I know it is to be a trilogy.All depends on when Vin Diesal gets around to it.

norrie rugger

Stargate was ment to be one also AFAIK

the two guys in charge went and did Independance Day (which could have been a great sequel to Stargate)

When they went back to discussing an actual 2 more movies, MGM had the rights and spun SG-1

syklops

independence day could have spawned a couple of killer sequels.

The matrix. The two movies which followed it should be forgotten imo.

Obviously movies like Elektra, Daredevil, Catwoman etc were planned for trilogies they were just so bad they never bothered.

What about The Sum of All Fears? They did what i call a "Batman Begins" on the genre and brought it back to the beginning. Do you think they plan or were planning a sequel or two to create a prequel trilogy like with Star Wars? E.g. first 3 jack ryan movies were Clear and Present danger, Patriot Games and the Hunt for Red October. Maybe they plan on having another couple of the Tom Clancy books as sequels to Sum of All Fears but prequels to the aforementioned? Which books would they use? I am thinking The Cardinal in the Kremlin as, if memory servies me, and it was about 10 years since I read the book, the principle spy in the book was Spinnaker, who we meet in The Sum of All Fears(movie).

Other ideas for trilogies which never got finished are a third Tomb Raider, a third Ghostbusters and a third Men in Black. Whether its a good thing they never got made, I will leave to your good selves.

fluke

I always thought a third gremlins movie would be great!

Galvasean

Commando 2 had a script which never became reality.

Pride Fighter

Galvasean wrote: »

Commando 2 had a script which never became reality.

Film Producer: Remember I said I'd make you last, I lied.

monkeyfudge

The third Ring book was never made into a film. The first two books were adapted in Japan as Ring and Rasen. Rasen was terrible and flopped, so they made their own follow up to the first film as well which was Ring 2 and didn't have anything in common with the second book.

I think there was a really bad Dreamcast game that was loosely based on the third book.

Galvasean

Jurassic Park 4 is still in universal Studio's maybe pile.
Bad Boys 3 is due to be made, if Michael Bay ever finishes with the Transformers franchise.

311

Naked gun 2 1/2 ,at least they were honest about not finishing it :pac:

Supermax1988

I hear Unbreakable 2 is in the works to save Shyamalan's ailing career.

Would have loved to have seen the proposed sequels to Serenity. Smashing film in my opinion and Joss Whedon could only have made the rest of the trilogy better.


News just in today! Steve Guttenburg, Tom Selleck and Ted Danson to re-team for.........wait for it.......

THREE MEN AND A BRIDE!

Pigman II

Supermax1988 wrote: »

News just in today! Steve Guttenburg, Tom Selleck and Ted Danson to re-team for.........wait for it.......

THREE MEN AND A BRIDE!

Genius! Although I hope the plot is more along the lines of Four funerals and a wedding.

Sanjuro

Willow, the Ron Howard directed, George Lucas written fantasy film was originally envisioned as a trilogy. The sequels never happened. I think they were going to be named The Daikini Strikes Back and Return of The Peck. Heh heh.

ziedth

Pigman II wrote: »

Genius! Although I hope the plot is more along the lines of Four funerals and a wedding.

How old would that girl be now? To lazy togo onto IMDB :D

Pigman II

ziedth wrote: »

How old would that girl be now? To lazy togo onto IMDB :D

Prob about 20 by my reckoning. Old enough for Sam Malone to start sniffing around her.

Supermax1988

Pigman II wrote: »

Prob about 20 by my reckoning. Old enough for Sam Malone to start sniffing around her.

He's the biological father though????:eek:

Ghostbusters 3 in the works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D

Handsome Bob

As a fan of Burton's Batman movies, I lament the film that never was because WB pissed their pants when the mommy's started to get angry.

johnny_ultimate

Galvasean wrote: »

Jurassic Park 4 is still in universal Studio's maybe pile

I remember hearing the words "dinosaur with guns" being tossed around concerning that sequel. So let it stay in that hopefully deep maybe pile.

Pigman II

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I remember hearing the words "dinosaur with guns" being tossed around concerning that sequel. So let it stay in that hopefully deep maybe pile.

It's Spielberg so surely it'd be "dinosaurs with walkie-talkies"?