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Category: Sequels

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The Reboot is Dead. Long Live the Multiboot.

4 Jul 20235 Jul 2023
For a few years now, I’ve wondered what would come after the dark and gritty reboot. I wondered if it would be the light and funny reboot. More franchises rebooting…
Corrective Sequels…

Understanding Sequels Through the Lens of Halloween

28 Oct 202129 Oct 2024
Updated in 2022 because there are even more sequels now. There are so many things a sequel can be these days. Reboot and requel are common descriptions accompanying many latest…
Batman…

Sick of Reboots, Sequels, and Extended Universes? Blame Classic Literature

25 Jun 20173 Nov 2021
We find ourselves in the midst of another summer and with it, an endless brigade of sequels, prequels, reboots, requels, and the ongoing march of extended cinematic universes. A new…
Bale…

How Has This Not Happened Yet: Natalie Portman in a Sequel to The Professional

3 Nov 20153 Nov 2015
This is another guest post, the second in the new guest author series. This post is authored by Russ Ball, a haiku writer and film fan. Okay, film fans. There's…

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