Longest stretch between sequels?

[matome]

It's been twelve years since the last <i>Terminator</i> movie and it'll be at least 15 years since the last Indy flick. Are these the longest stretches between sequels? I know the Alien series has had a couple of seven year ones as well.

[eedoon]

Terms of Endearment and its sequel (I forgot the name). I think it's about 20 years or so.
Blue Brothers and Blue Brothers 2000. Also about 20 years.

[Groucho]

How about The Hustler and The Color of Money?

[audrey]

Not the longest but <b>The Two Jakes</b> followed 16 years after <b>Chinatown</b>.

[wendersfan]

Originally posted by Groucho
How about The Hustler and The Color of Money?

Close...

The Hustler - 1961
The Color of Money - 1986

25 years

The Godfather 2 - 1974
The Godfather 3 - 1990

26 years

[NCMojo]

I am astonished that it has been that long since Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade came out... not to mention T2. My first thought was Last Picture Show and Texasville, but heck, that was only 19 years.

[marty888]

Originally posted by wendersfan
Close...

The Hustler - 1961
The Color of Money - 1986

25 years

The Godfather 2 - 1974
The Godfather 3 - 1990

26 years

:hscratch:


I never <i>did</i> understand new math.

[wendersfan]

Originally posted by marty888
:hscratch:


I never <i>did</i> understand new math.

Never mind... I hadn't had my morning coffee.

The sad thing is that my job requires me to work with numbers on a regular basis.

[LBPound]

The Hustler -> Color of Money (25 years) is as long as The Parent Trap -> The Parent Trap II. Same years ('61, '86) too.

[conscience]

Originally posted by eedoon
Terms of Endearment and its sequel (I forgot the name). I think it's about 20 years or so.

Actually

Terms of Endearment and <b>The Evening Star</b> were only 13 years apart.

[Cusm]

The first one I thought of was Phantasm and Night of the Living Dead, but they were
9 years
Phantasm 1979
Phantasm II 1988

and 10 years
Night of the Living Dead 1968
Dawn of the Dead 1978

[Groucho]

Originally posted by LBPound
The Hustler -> Color of Money (25 years) is as long as The Parent Trap -> The Parent Trap II. Same years ('61, '86) too. Wasn't The Parent Trap 2 a made-for-tv sequel? If we include those (which I don't think we should), what about Scarlett?

[jfoobar]

Originally posted by Groucho
How about The Hustler and The Color of Money?

My first thought also but I could have sworn I have seen this question asked either here ages ago or over on HTF or on Usenet and someone came up with one or two even farther apart then the Fast Eddie Felson saga.

[Groucho]

How about:

King Solomon's Mines (1937)

and

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

?

[BigPete]

Originally posted by Groucho
How about:

King Solomon's Mines (1937)

and

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

?

Yeah, but KSM was re-made in the mid 80s so you'd have to decide which Alan Quartermain was Sean Connery acting more like.

[Philip Reuben]

Some of Disney's recent sequels have got to be strong contenders.

The Jungle Book (1967)
The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
36 years

Peter Pan (1953)
Return to Never Land (2002)
49 years

Cinderella (1950)
Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True (2002)
52 years

Dumbo (1941)
Dumbo 2 (upcoming I believe)
62 years and counting

Cinderella 2 was direct to video, and Dumbo 2 probably will be as well (assuming I didn't make it up, but I swear I remember it being mentioned), so they might not count. The other two were released theatrically though.

[D G D]

Psycho & Psycho II

tag line:

"It's been 22 years, and Norman Bates is back in the hotel business."

[Pants]

If you count made of TV movies, Scarlett the sequal to Gone with the Wind, definately wins.

[LBPound]

Originally posted by Philip Reuben
Cinderella 2 was direct to video, and Dumbo 2 probably will be as well (assuming I didn't make it up, but I swear I remember it being mentioned), so they might not count. The other two were released theatrically though.

I've heard that Dumbo 2 might have been ditched, but it was DEFINITELY on the planning board for some time. The Dumbo DVD even has a little bit on what they were (maybe 'are') planning to do.

But since, I've heard rumors that they discarded it as it wasn't working. In any event, it would have been direct-to-video, and it would be the longest time between sequels I can think of.

"Wizard of Oz" and "Return to Oz" (46 years) is up there, too.

[Jason1973]

What about Fantasia and Fantasia 2000? Or does that not work.

[Steve Phillips]

57 years passed between the release of 1939's GONE WITH THE WIND and the 1996 sequel, SCARLETT.

[neiname]

Why don't we narrow it down to sequels that feature the same actor/actress playing the same character that they did in the original. I personally don't think cartoons should count.

[matome]

^^^
Sounds good to me!

[theneobez]

I'll tell you one thing, after seeing Reloaded Thursday night the wait for Revolutions just got much much longer.

[martinp]

Django (1966) and Django Strikes Again (1987) 21 years between them. The title character in both was played by Franco Nero and yes I know there was a massive amount of unofficial sequels that had nothing to do with the orginal excpet to cash in on the orginals success though there were some good ones.

[Sierra Disc]

What about The Wizard Of Oz (1939) and Return To Oz (1985) = 46 years. Obviously not the same actors, seeing as Judy Garland was, y'know, dead and all, but very much the same storyline (based on the original books) and at the time pretty much marketed as a sequel and bombing horribly because everyone expected singing and lightness instead of (IMHO) a much more effective adaptation of the original books.

[danol]

Eddie and the Cruisers 1983 sequel Eddie Lives 1989.

[Giantrobo]

2001 and 2010 had nice stretch

[DRG]

Next summer's Re-birth of a Nation reunites most of the original cast, but it's having difficulty finding a distributor due to its controversial nature.

[NCMojo]

Speaking of Re-births... what is the deal with these resurrected threads? Someone has been digging around in the history books.

[MasterCXtreme]

ummmmmm Star Wars maybe? Suprised nobody has said anything so far. Sure Episode 1 is a prequel, but it's still pretty far apart from "Return..." I don't know the years so I can't do the math.

[Groucho]

There was 16 years between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace, which is a lot but not even close to some of the other entries.