Prequels are having a second. 2024 sees the discharge of The First Omen (which, considerably confusingly, is definitely the sixth film in The Omen franchise) in addition to the primary prequel from the Mad Max collection, Furiosa. This 12 months additionally marks the twenty fifth anniversary of one of many greatest prequels in movie historical past, Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.
These are all high-profile initiatives, however prequels typically mark the final, determined act of a dying franchise. Having exhausted all different creatively promising choices, and/or having misplaced key stars or filmmakers to different initiatives, they don’t have any alternative however to show again the clock, rent actors who form of seem like the celebs of earlier motion pictures, and hope for the perfect.
Whereas some prequels, like The Phantom Menace, have grow to be main hits, and one even gained an Academy Award for Greatest Image (thanks rather a lot, The Godfather Half II!) so many others have pale into obscurity. After all, we right here at ScreenCrush can’t let something go. In our private lives, that could be a big downside. However professionally, it permits us to make articles like this concerning the world of forgotten film prequels. So on the entire, all of it form of balances out.
These 12 prequels — some a long time previous, a number of launched in simply the previous few years — all exist…ish. However they definitely didn’t break information on the field workplace, or do far more than prolonged the lifetime of a fading film franchise. Let’s hope for higher from Furiosa.
12 Forgotten Film Prequels
These prequels have been made. Then they have been forgotten. Or in some circumstances, folks by no means knew they existed within the first place.
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