Spinoff thread: movies that SHOULD HAVE had sequels

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My suggestions are:
John Carter
The Man From Uncle

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Well, those will be the top of most people's lists.

I'll add:
The Rocketeer
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

The Truman Show. Call it the Truman Life. Starts off with Truman and Paul Giamatti engulfed in black (implying Truman is where he is after stepping out of the Truman Show) and Paul asks Truman if he’s ready to meet the world, and when the doors open it turns out Truman is actually on Times Square where he finally reunites with Sylvia as hundreds of millions cheer.

Then you hit Truman with the realities of life and Truman settles with Christof for a billion dollars. Truman writes everyone directly associated with the show out of his life, but Marlon tries to make amends but to no avail.

Honestly even over Truman himself, Marlon may be the biggest victim of the Truman Show. Marlon was aware of the nature of the show from the time he was like five and brutally bullied into deceiving Truman by his own family, which led to a life of addiction to cope with it.

In the script, Marlon actually does see Truman escape, but intentionally lets him go. And there is this deleted scene as well which makes it clear that Marlon is the only person on the cast that truly cares about Truman and is not a complete psychopath:



Eventually Christof tries to reboot the Truman Show with a new infant, which makes Truman lead some mass protests to stop it. Marlon and Truman eventually reconcile over stopping the reboot, and Truman will eventually directly confront Christof and expose him before the world.

Plus I’m interested where Truman and Sylvia’s relationship goes because while Sylvia knows Truman, Truman does not really know Sylvia. Plus Truman processing the monstrous levels of betrayal he dealt with.

But too late now for this.

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The Man From Uncle

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Really sad more people didn't go see this.

I'm a Bond fan but this was better than 90% of all the Bond movies out there. So fun. Vikander was a smoke show too.

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Curious- was this ever intended to be a franchise (like Mission: Impossible), or was it a one-off?

I know John Carter was supposed to be a franchise from the start, and Disney bailed (and bought Star Wars instead- which I think was the actual intention, don't get me started on that).

Master and Commander.

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

They Live
Prince of Darkness

After thinking about it, I'd say they should have continued the Monsterverse... Tom Cruise's The Mummy was supposed to have started it.

As I remember, the movie wasn't really bad, but just very blah overall. Didn't get much traction at the box office, so they killed it.

But you had Cruise as the Mummy, Russell Crowe as Dr Jeckyll/Mr Hyde, and a bunch of potential other "classic monsters" to add in and build on. Wasn't the next movie supposed to be the Creature from the Black Lagoon? And then you obviously have the Wolfman, Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster down the road.
Considering what we do have right now, I imagine it could have had some good alternatives to watch.

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now that the OML fan fiction is out of the way, the answer of course is master and commander

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Well yeah, that definitely should have had a sequel and I remember walking out of the theater thinking that.