The Different Types of Sequels
These days, a successful movie is almost guaranteed a sequel, sometimes before the movie is even released. Sometimes sequels are inevitable, and other times they are merely a cheap way to make more money. In this guide, I'll attempt to demonstrate and identify the many different types of sequels, as well as whether or not they merited from the beginning.
Sequels are made for many reasons despite the obvious monetary factor. There are different types of sequels that are made with different purposes. Sometimes sequels are made to continue a story, and sometimes they are made to merely place the same character in a different situation, or they retell the story in a different setting. For the purposes of this article, I will place series together with sequels when the sequels at least follow the characters from the previous entry. For example, the Indiana Jones movies do not technically have sequels, but they are a series, because the stories are not in any way continuous. You could watch any one of them and not even know there were others. The same holds true for movies such as Mission: Impossible and The Expendables, just to name a few. There are also sequels that were already planned from the beginning and that finish an incomplete story, and are required. An example of this would be Back to the Future, with it's open ending of the first one, or The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Then there are the sequels that continue a story, and while they may have been unnecessary due to the closure received in the first one or previous entry, they provide further plot and character development. An example of a finished movie receiving a sequel would be Taken. That movie was finished, and could've been left at that, but due to its success, a sequel was made, and then another. It's not that this was bad, but just done for other reasons than necessity. (Keep Reading)
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