Column Chronicles: More failed movie sequels

More failed movie sequels

Frank Cotolo
May 8, 2025

Hollywood often tries to milk money from the public after a huge hit movie by producing a sequel. Many times it works and sometimes the sequel is better than the original. Other times, the sequel is so bad that it is never completed. Thanks to secret sources, here is a list of sequels that never made it to the screen.

TITANIC 2
Picking up a year after the original hit screenwriters wrote scripts to cash in on the success of the 1997 film. One script considered told the story of ship named Titanic 2 which was bigger and also considered indestructable. Only couples madly in love could book passage on its maiden voyage. In the end everyone on board dies when Titanic 2 is no better than the first lemon.

THE JERK ELEGY
Hampered from the start when no one in the original's cast wanted to do a sequel, a script was written to star unknowns. The casting call read: Wanted to audition - actual jerks, doofuses, chumps and morons for a film about the family of the main character in the original. Hundreds of thousands auditioned and there was no way to eliminate any, so producers bailed out.

APOCALYPSE LATER
No Francis Coppola or Marlon Brando involved, the idea of the film was to do a version of the original that takes place 200 years later than the first where Marlon Brando's Col. Kurtz character was cloned and plans to create The Rapture with actors.

BEING THERE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
This started with much excitement. It is the story of where main character Chauncey Gardner goes after he walks on water across a lake at the end of the first movie. A lot of CGI was expected to bring the character to a freaky landscape where he battles dragons and classic video game villains. Hopes to cash in on a video game product were high. Unfortunately so was the cast and crew.

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