re: Movies that should have had a sequel but box office killed it

Pandorum

* sequals were planned. Part 2 would have taken place prior to events in part 1. Part 3 would have taken place after the ship landed on Tanis.

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John Carter is the obvious answer.

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loved the books when I was around 12-13-14

I don't know if that age group is too sophisticated by bells and whistles for it to work now. They were just really good books.

and I was waiting to see if Deja Thoris was going to be "incomparable" like she was described in the books and she was (Lynn Collins)

Battlefield Earth

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John Carter is the obvious answer.

The critics purposely destroyed a very good movie - focusing more on its costs than the film itself. It kept people away.

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I blame a couple of Disney's Board of Directors or whatever they're called.

Understand: Disney wanted a big scifi franchise to ride, something they could bank on turning profits. Half the board wanted to build it in-house, and John Carter/Barsoom was the effort. It was slated to take over where Pirates of the Caribbean was, and maybe make even more money.
The other half wanted to go outside and buy an established franchise.

Go look it up: only a few months after JC flopped, Disney bought Lucasfilm for 4 billion. That's a huge amount of money to come up with in a short period of time, so it was clearly under consideration for awhile. But I don't think the full board would sign off on that if JC had hit it big, so it was in someone's best interests that JC failed.

The fricking shame of it all, Star Wars has failed too... for reasons John Carter would not have. There's over a dozen books in that series, so you have plenty of material to keep making movies. JC's stars were young so you wouldn't have to deal with transitioning to new characters for awhile, and then the books actually do a handoff to John and Dejah's son. You could have groomed a franchise, and as long as production values stay up, the more movies they made the more familiar (and profitable) each sequel would be.

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Mile 22

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I'll second this