Column Chronicles: Movie sequels that cancelled production

Movie sequels that cancelled production

Frank Cotolo
April 4, 2024

Not every great movie needs a sequel. Most sequels made exist in name only to make money off of the original. Here are a couple of money-making movie sequels of that were so badly scripted they were never made.

GONE WITH THE WIND 2: RETURN OF THE WIND

As Reconstruction begins, Scarlet O'Hara falls in love with a rebel soldier refusing to surrender but he is captured and hanged. Scarlet falls in love with the hangman and moves north. When she meets a Canadian Mountie who has lost his way, she abandons the hangman and rides off with the Mountie to live and hunt with him in Alberta.

BEN-HUR RIDES AGAIN

Judah supports his dying family by breeding chariot race horses and selling them to wealthy shieks and is doing well but a group of equine-rights activists begin influencing Roman senators to ban the sport for its cruelty, threatening Judah's livlihood.

SON OF COOL HAND LUKE

A bastard son of the late prisoner known to inmates as Cool Hand Luke is a sideshow attraction at a travelling carnival where he astounds an audience by eating dozens of hard boiled eggs while riding a bike on a trapeze wire. During on performance he falls and is forced to find another job.

40,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

After his submarine crew quits, Captain Nemo is forced to repair the vehicle while it is trapped deep in an ocean. He is successful with the repair work he swims to the surface too quickly and gets The Bends.

TRUER GRIT

A Rooster Cogburn imitation calling himself Poul Cockburn claims to be a Bounty Hunter but doesn't kill anyone. He takes the fifty percent upfront pay and disappears. Cheated customers form a sting operation and chase Cockburn across the wild plains and rugged mountains.

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