Sequels that are also a semi-reboot?
 

What sequels are also a semi-reboot?

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Star Trek (2009)

It's a "sequel" in that it Leonard Nimoy makes an appearance, but also a reboot since it had a mostly new cast.

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Thanks for the reply, and I had forgotten about Star Trek.

Also, I just remembered:

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Transformers: Age of Extinction

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On Her Majestry's Secret Service
Live & Let Die
The Living Daylights
Golden Eye
Casino Royal

The Incredible Hulk

Superman Returns

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Have you ever seen these movies?

Live and Let Die and The Living Daylights especially are about as similar to their predecessors as it gets. OHMSS seems more like a one-off due to its one-off director than it does for having a one-off Bond, and EON essentially did a de-boot by hiring the director of the best Bond movie to do the 3 subsequent ones.

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THE BLACK BIRD (1975) - 34-years later sequel to THE MALTESE FALCON. Two of the original cast are in it.

INTERNATIONAL VELVET (1978) - 34-years later sequel to NATIONAL VELVET. None of the original cast are in it, although they could have gotten Liz Taylor and Mickey Rooney easily enough.

TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN (1949) - first Tarzan movie with Lex Barker following the Johnny Weissmuller series, yet Brenda Joyce continues as Jane, a role she'd played in the last four Weissmuller Tarzans.

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938) - sort-of sequel/reboot of DEAD END and the beginning of Warners' Dead End Kids series. And then the first East Side Kids movie (BOYS OF THE CITY) and the first Bowery Boys movie (LIVE WIRES) might qualify also, more reboots although part of the whole continuity that began with DEAD END and ended in 1957 with IN THE MONEY, the last Bowery Boys movie and with Huntz Hall, the only original DEAD END cast member to stick with it to the bitter end.

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Jurassic World
Mad Max: fury road

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The Incredible Hulk is a reboot that seems like a semi-sequel only because it picks up in South America.

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Creed
Deadpool

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but they're all semi-reboots and sequels per the op's question.

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Based on what? I mean, obviously it's just a list of the first Bond movie for each actor. If anything the series is known for maintaining traditions from film to film and trying to reassure audiences that the movies aren't reboots. There are entire scenes devoted to it in OHMSS and DAD.

Casino Royale aside, your list would fit perfectly in a thread about movie series where a main role was recast with no rebooting going on whatsoever.

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Shaft (2000)

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Good one. Roundtree had a cameo as the original John Shaft. Sam Jackson played his nephew.

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The one obvious Bond sequel wasn't even mentioned. For Your Eyes Only was an attempt to return the Bond films to a more realistic spy series after the fantastical sci-fi Moonraker.

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Unless James Bond doesn't age, then each actor is playing a slightly different version of Bond. Occasionally they make references to something that happened in a previous movie played by another actor, but the james bond in the first movie can't be the same Bond played by Bronsan in his movie as they're 30+ years apart.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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Bond did age for 23 years. So did Moneypenny and Q and M. And then when they recast a substantially younger Bond they didn't even refer to the fact and made Bond one of many characters throughout the history of fiction that don't age in real time. The Living Daylights also has the Gogol and Keane characters that were otherwise exclusively used in the Moore films and that's on top of the obvious fact that it also had the same Q and M. How any of this pertains to reboots is beyond me.

I'll give you this though: had this thread been a trivia contest about the first Bond film starring each EON Bond actor you woulda passed with flying colors.

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I know, I know! Pick me, pick me!

Ghostbusters!

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GI Joe Retaliation

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Escape from L.A.

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I fully expect the new TMNT movie to fit this description.

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Return to Oz, Vacation.

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Evil Dead II

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Star Wars - The Force Awakens ?

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Highlander 2 :(

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The only Bond reboot has been Casino Royale.

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No.

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Why not? It's clearly a sequel and after the prequels, clone wars and last 15 years of PT era Star Wars, it's kind of a reboot as well.

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It is in no way a reboot. It's a sequel to Return of the Jedi.

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Which version? The one where they fucked up the storyline and made Connor McLeod into an Alien instead of immortal?

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It's a reboot in the sense that's it's a changing of the guard. The old characters are being phased out, passing the baton to a new group of main characters.
Not unlike Star Trek: Generations which ended TOS crew moving full time to TNG crew.

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That's not a reboot. A reboot involves recasting the existing roles and restarting the series altogether.

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Star Trek has to be the best answer here. Unlike every other reboot (probably) ever, it's not a do over. It's just a new timeline.

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Wouldn't it be X-Men: First Class? Days of Future Past seems like a direct sequel to First Class whereas First Class comes off as more of a reboot/sequel.

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Well First Class was originally intended to be a prequel, and for the most part it was, some minor continuity issues aside. While DOFP was certainly a direct sequel to First Class, it also firmly rebooted the old continuity.

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It's not a changing of the guard, it's a continuation of the Skywalker story. Naturally characters are going to change with a decades-long and counting storyline. Generations was a "passing of the torch" film but that doesn't make it a reboot either. Your definition of the term is skewed.

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yes

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Just for the record, the following are NOT sequels (they're reboots that are semi-sequels..the OPPOSITE of what the OP asked about):

Star Trek (2009)
Creed


The Force Awakens is definitely a sequel that also serves as a semi-reboot.

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But it's NOT a sequel...you're misunderstanding the OP's question. He's talking about direct sequels that also offered fresh characters/ideas that re-launched a "stale" series in new ways. Star Trek (2009) was a reboot that also tied in to the old story...total opposite of what the OP meant (I think!).