Sequels that 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.
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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Re: Sequels that are also a semi-reboot?
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
Live & Let Die
The Living Daylights
Golden Eye
Casino Royal
The Incredible Hulk
Superman Returns
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Re: Sequels that are also a semi-reboot?
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.
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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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.
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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Re: Sequels that are also a semi-reboot?
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.
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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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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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.
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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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.
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!
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.



