Nothing pleases pic studio apartment and financiers more than a continuation . With their familiar characters and built - in audiences , it ’s a way of life to help absolve the tens of millions of dollars risked every time a movie bewilder a wide release . It ’s why Universal reportedly pursued Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass for a fourthJason Bournefilm for nearly a ten , and why April’sThe Fate of the Furiousmarks the 8th ( and probably not the last ) time that same studio apartment has plotted a heist motion picture set on asphalt .
But not all sequel are treated with such veneration . Sometimes , rightfulness issue or other gene can make the promise of a sequel more of a threat , with the original distributer or filmmakers left out of the par . Take a look at eight follow - ups that were made in spitefulness of legal prohibitions .
1.RAGING BULL II(2017)
Consistently regarded by critics as one of the fine American films ever made , 1980’sRaging Bullwas directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Robert De Niro as the torment and tragic boxer Jake LaMotta . The two never had any intentions of make a take after - up , but the real - life boxer who inspired the film had other design . In 2012 , LaMotta entered into an concord to accommodate his book , Raging Bull 2 , into a film produce by RB II Productions . This was apparently inviolationof an agreement LaMotta made with MGM for the master copy , which grant the studio first in good order of refusal to any follow - up .
In 2012 , MGM filed a lawsuit to squash the film over claims its title was destine to confuse audiences . Producers for the sequelagreedto change the title toThe Bronx Bulland make a public declaration that had it nothing to do with the original . The film had a video discharge in 2017 and stars William Forsythe andMojean Ariaas an aging and young LaMotta , severally . Of the continuation , Scorsese toldGQthat “ I do n’t know where they ’re going to go . ”Esquireofferedthat it “ bet like the Lifetime Original Movie version ” of LaMotta ’s story .
2.EASY RIDER: THE RIDE BACK(2012)
The unfortunate fates of Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper ’s biker character in 1969’sEasy Riderwould appear to suffocate any talk of the town of a follow - up . Despite the film ’s substantial influence on American counterpunch - polish and Hollywood filmmaking top into the seventies , it stood as a one - off without any franchise potentiality , despite talk over the class of resurrecting the characters . Fonda ’s Wyatt Williams , a.k.a . Captain America , mighthave been in prisoninstead of stagnant . Nothing materialized .
That did n’t dissuade Ohio lawyer Phil Pitzer . The first - time filmmaker and actor decided he wanted to sprout a grim - budget sequel begin in 2004 , establish on the premise that the rights were uncommitted after a extremely convoluted transfer of possession grew blurry due to anunpaid loanword . Pitzer grabbed the rights in the result legal haggling , though he was deject to encounter out it didn’tallow for himto use clips from the master copy .
beholder doubted the mess could be sort to allow for a proper firing , but Pitzer had no reservation . “ Dude , we have the rights , ” he told theSan Francisco Gatein 2005 . Pitzer shot the film beginning in 2004 and take it to Cannes in 2009 , eventually releasing it in 2012 despite apartner suing himover sound debt . The subsequence , which see Williams ’s lifespan before his fateful route trip render in the original , has been wide lambasted onbad picture podcasts .
3.ZOMBI 2(1979)
Convoluted does n’t begin to describe the pathZombi 2took to get to Italian cinemas . An unsolicited descendant of George Romero ’s 1978 zombi classicDawn of the Dead , Zombi 2followedZombi , which was an Italian release ofDawnreeditedby iconic filmmaker Dario Argento . After its succeeder , another music director , Lucio Fulci , embarked on a sequel that had no sound connecter to eitherDawnor its alien - language iteration . Set on a Caribbean island inhabited by the undead , it incorporates hoodooism and was keep an eye on byZombi 3andZombi 4 .
4.JAWS 5: CRUEL JAWS(1995)
5.BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS(1970)
Before primetime soaps full of drugs , luxuria , and lewd conduct , there wasValley of the Dolls , author Jaqueline Susann ’s 1966 pulp novel aboutpill - popping Manhattaniteswho will do anything — even enter a medically - induce coma — to stay thin . The book was turned into a hit 1967 film starring Patty Duke and Sharon Tate , and 20thCentury Fox was eager to revisit the premise in a subsequence maneuver by development specialiser Russ Meyer andwritten by Roger Ebert .
6.WAR, INC.(2008)
7.ROAD TO HELL(2008)
What can you get away with if you ’re a fan of director Walter Hill ’s craze classicStreets of Firebut do n’t own the rights to make a subsequence ? If you ’re conductor Albert Pyun , quite a bit . Pyun , a fan of the 1984 stone opera house original , hire starMichael Paré for a low - budget 2008 follow - up titledRoad to Hell . In it , Tom Cody ( Paré ) embarks on another journeying home when two killers get in his way . Made in just six days and receiving only a special release , Pyun has n’t appeared to suffer any sound recoil for the effort .
8.NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN(1983)
Perhaps the most fearless and highest - visibility sequel that upset rights bearer , manufacturer Kevin McClory used hisclaimto chronicle elements developed during seance with James Bond writer Ian Fleming forThunderballto make a rogue Bond film . Instead of being included in the right Bond canon — then being lead by Roger Moore — McClory decided to stir the pot by invite former 007 Sean Connery back for one more go . adhesiveness right holder EON Productions scared off some studios during the result litigation , but McClory eventually saw the moving picture made as 1983’sNever Say Never Again . It was one of two Bonds release that yr , along with Moore’sOctopussy . The " roast - off " bail failed to gross as much as EON ’s official production .
