 Welcome to the Adam does movies podcast. I'm Adam and today we're going to be talking about movie trilogies or Lack there of that's right. I've prepared for you 10 films that had to at least decent if not amazing starts or grossed enough to Potentially have a third film and Hollywood dropped the ball. They pulled the plug something happened Something that's worth. I think wildly speculating on so I have prepared 10 because we always do 10 We do top 10s much like we do trilogies That's just the natural order of things in the world and when it doesn't come to be well, you know You get ruffled feathers you get people a little bit up in arms, and I know I'm one of them I've been dwelling on some of these films that haven't had a third movie since the beginning of time Since birth I came out. I was like, why do we not have sister act 3? Well, I'm getting ahead of myself Let's begin the list And I want to I want to start by saying by kind of like Prepping this whole thing by saying I'm not feeling great. I'm on the precipice of a full blown cold Tomorrow, I'm gonna wake up and I'm gonna feel like crap. I just know what hammered shit is coming my way My son has it. He's ground zero He's brought this disease into our household. We've remained cold free for like two years It's been honestly a miracle and my 11 year old son decided hey I'm gonna be in basketball now at the YMCA and I'm gonna be in kids faces breathing Touching each other doing all sorts of things that are bringing the body harm And now he's brought me harm and I can feel it coming in. I drank some honey for the throat I had a bunch of water and I you know, I'm just gonna let this thing play out But so my goal is to get this done get a few other videos in the hopper and the Dennis hopper and hopefully that'll last Throughout the week while I'm dying in bed. These videos will be scheduled out. So be like, oh, hey Adams here You must be doing okay. No false Adams not okay at all Adam's nursing a cold. He's a nurse in a headache. Can't talk to save his life I can barely talk how it is but okay enough of that. Let's begin with the first one I teased it sister act three. Where is it? Everybody wants to know where is the third sister act? Where's whoopee? I Know she's doing the view or I think she is still I'm not actually sure what she's doing But she's got to get back right in the habit for the third time these movies. I did I did take notes Sister act to pulled in 124.6 million dollars at the box office and that's off a paltry 38 million dollar budget So this thing tripled its investment. It definitely made enough money the original pulled in 231.6 million. There's a cash cow cash penguins really since it's about the nuns Whoopee has gotten on record just recently because there has been a buzz about sister act three potentially going to Disney plus Which is where good films go to die She says she will not reprise her role as sister Mary Clarence unless Maggie Smith returns Maggie Smith who's a spry 88 years young right now. I'm not sure she can get out of bed very well in the morning I love Maggie Smith, but what are we doing here? Whoopee? I mean, come on. You're all you're all getting a little too old to be back in the habit Maggie Smith Deserves to rest her weary bones. She's acted her heart out for many years. Let McGonagall Take a rest But if she's up for it. Yeah, bring her in bring the whole crew in The heavy-set lady who was really funny who I think lost a bunch of weight, so she's not as funny Just like men you take off the pounds. Look what happened to Newman Wayne Knight He's so damn funny when he was jolly and fat and then he lost all that weight. What are we doing anymore Wayne? You're looking out for your health. No, look out for my humor. Look out for my entertainment All right, so sister act three is on my bucket list it potentially is happening on Disney Plus and then we all lose All right, next up Hellboy 3. This is no this is no Victoria's Secret that del Toro Beniche del Toro and Ron Perlman have been wanting to make that wait. Is it Beniche del Toro? That doesn't sound right. Let me look that up Benit Beniche Don't know to spell it Benicio del Toro Yeah, Benicio del Toro. That's probably also not how you pronounce it, but you know It's what you're gonna get with me here Benicio del Toro and Ron Perlman have wanted to make a third Hellboy for a long time What I noted is its face setbacks including financial troubles and other project commitments. That's very laissez-faire Despite the director and Ron Perlman's enthusiasm Hellboy 3 was ultimately shelved due to a lack of financing and studio support and of course they rebooted in 2019 with David Harbour Not good Not a good film But the first two Hellboys are I really I really dig them Hellboy, I think the first is a little stronger actually than the second in my opinion But I still really would like a third to come out, but I don't think it's gonna happen at this point Fantastic Four The gift that never really gave Fantastic Four there was two of these movies by Fox Studios the film grossed. This is the sequel 301.9 million worldwide That's off a budget of 120 to 130 million that's what I noted so the movie the movie didn't do Great numbers, but it's still I think turned a profit you double your financial investment Sometimes you have to like two and a half times your investment So yeah, it's it's on the precipice of making money. I've said precipice twice already in this podcast That's how you know, I'm not feeling well Due to 20th century Fox's disappointment with the box office return of rise of the silver surfer, which is of course the sequel to the original a potential third Double f is what I'm gonna call it for this one time only Film and a silver surfer spin-off were canceled. They were doing it They were they had the cojones to do a silver surfer spin-off. What is going on over at Fox? RIP now it's owned by disney for the most part They they tried spinning off all their x-men shit too. Remember Wolverine had the spin-offs. Magneto was supposed to get a spin-off They were probably gonna do a spin-off of professor x and toad and jubilee and beast and uh The puffer fish guy from the third movie everybody's getting a spin-off over there except for no one is That's unfortunate. So yeah fantastic for One and rise of the silver surfer Um, they're not good They're watchable kind of hot masses. I don't find them like either of them too insultingly bad. They're just kind of like You know chris one of the chrisses is in it evans captain america. He's the human torch. He's really funny Johnny storm. I believe is the the the character name you have uh jessica alba These are really at the end of the day jessica alba vehicles for me. I'm only there to watch her Which is ironic because she's playing the invisible woman The dude from the shield is the rock guy. What's his name? Michael chick less He's in them And then the guy from nip talk one of my favorite lines in the first Movie is I always wanted power. It's so weird how that actor Says that phrase. It's not like I always wanted power Or I always wanted power. It's I always wanted power Just this like nonchalant obvious kind of turn of phrase. Okay. Oh god. My nose is itch, you know You can do audio on this podcast or you can do the visual versions to get to see me like itching my nose Sniffing wiping snot coughing gagging Thrusting maybe I did watch showgirls recently and roasted that so I'm all about the thrust Okay, we got hellboy done fantastic for it. We're gonna go to Now this is fun. These next two on my list both came out the same year the sequels did and they came out Seven years nay nine years They're their first their first installments. So since city three came out in 2014 along with 300 rise of an empire rise of 301 was in like 2007 or something like a long time ago in a galaxy far far away Okay, um, ultimately the film since city two grossed 74.1 million off of a 40 million dollar budget Overseas the film grossed 84.6 for a total of 158.7 million dollars. That's since city three That movie did make Not very much Um, and not I mean 40 million dollar budget It made 158 million. That's actually pretty good That's that's more than enough to get a third installment I think but no it didn't happen and that's probably fine because it wasn't very good the sequel I like since city the original quite a bit It is one of those cases where the trailer was so freaking good That the movie did let me down a little bit in comparison But the first since city trailers one of my favorites It's Dan Ernie Has this awesome rock soundtrack Black and white noir style footage. You got bruce willis pulling out a gun Grabbing on to his bum ticker. Uh, it was just alba's strip teasing. I mean my god I noticed there's a lot of alba on my list already I mean that that seems fair no spy kids on here though because they made they made a spy kids four With jessica alba and it's the only one I haven't seen although. I don't know if that new one's out on netflix yet They rebooted spy kids With the original director again, robert rodriguez. He rebooted his own movie series It's bold and it looks incredibly lame All right, let's talk about 300 rise of an empire So since city great since city two not so much I think it might be better than rise of an empire though. I couldn't even get I tried watching 302 Rise of an empire not that long ago with my wife She was pretty much checked out when she when she saw that jarred butler was not in it I mean that was kind of mostly why she likes the first one So then after that going away and seeing that the new lead character was really kind of a Like a pathetic shell of a man. It didn't do anything for her. Eva green was enough for me to stay invested But not much so 300 rise of an empire gross 106.6 million in north america And 231 in other territories with a full total of 337.6 million I don't know why I needed to write down all these numbers And the budget was 110 million. So yeah, there there's enough. I think of a Of a financial gain To to allow for a third and funny enough when I did look up 303 Zack snider reveals in an article that he wrote a third and final chapter as it were of 300 But studio warner brothers passed because the tentatively titled blood and ashes Really didn't fit the third movie of the franchise and the right to say that because zack snider himself admits that Blood and ashes really isn't a 300 movie. It's about king arthur and it's a love story And it kind of goes on a tangent a different area and he wrote it during a cobit times So yeah, they were probably right to pass. I also think zack sniders not a very good writer He co-wrote the first 300 of course based on the frank miller novell graphic novel I think doing your own thing is a mistake when it's snider sniders decent at Helping out in the writing department and obviously is a vision and he's good behind the lens of a camera and direction and whatnot But no, let's keep him away from pen and pad if possible. It doesn't sound like 303 is going to happen anytime soon They'll probably reboot at some point because there's money to be made in those mountains We got gremlins 3 next god what a banger of a soundtrack When released into theaters, this is what I wrote. I assume it makes sense on june 15 1990 gremlins 2 the new batch Was a box office disappointment grossing only 41.5 million on a budget of 30 to 50 million Yeah, that's not making enough money. The original gross 212.9 Million dollars in 1984 84 to 90 so you have a six-year gap in between that's too long That's too much time passing by not helping matters as the sequel was way more off the wall Looked a lot different than the first one which was more of a horror comedy The sequel's just like a straight-up parody comedy of itself I enjoy both of them immensely for very different reasons But uh, obviously main state like mainstream fans did not because they didn't check it out That seems like a cut and dry reason why we don't have a third one. But wait There's more I am db less as I looked up gremlins 3 Curse of the mogwai is a sequel of gremlins 1984 What it's a sequel gremlins 1984 Okay, what are we doing here? It was written by chris columbus. All right. He's directed a lot of good stuff harry potter For instance and carl elsworth and counts on steven spielberg as its executive producer It is scheduled for release december of 2023. Yeah, that did not happen That is not happening for sure. That's this year. I am db. I don't think so homie don't play that We're only a few months away from that brah. There's nothing on gremlins 3 So this is what we call a placeholder movie thing and i am db. It's called the placeholder holder movie thing That's the technical term. That means that this is bullshit So we have no word on a gremlins 3. There was an animated show that hit netflix just recently It looks atrocious in my opinion. It's a kitty kind of take on gremlins About about gizmos past or something. He's fighting monsters. It really doesn't resemble anything To do with gremlins. It's just weird and I can't talk again. All right. We are getting there national treasure 3 How did this not happen and some of you might might be saying but adam there is a national treasure 3 It's on disney plus and it stars a strong female lead And for the national treasure franchise, let's be honest It's about time Nobody watched that movie Nobody wants to see a movie that has a different strong male lead that isn't nicolas cage. This is a cage vehicle We like him going over the top Talking about stealing the declaration of independence Having his indiana jones esque ventures in the city with his ragtag crew of people I don't want some descendant of his or a daughter or whatever the hell they came up with And I certainly don't want it straight to disney plus because those are synonymous with garbage nine times out of 10 So what happened original came out in 2004 it grossed 347.5 million Book of secrets came out in 2007 a nice three year gap. That's good And book of secrets not to be confused with book of shadows, which was a Blair witch project a sequel That's not on the list. I don't think they made a Blair witch 3 I know they did like a a reboot. I think Blair witch it was just called again Maybe that was the third one. You never know with hollywood naming conventions if it's a sequel a reboot A soft Reboot as it were there's there's different terminology a sidequel A prequel a proquel Okay, uh, where was I at six months later? Okay, so after the sequel comes out It's announced six months later that producer Jerry Brackheimer Confirms national treasure 3s in development, but according to nicolas cage himself The underwhelming performance of a few of his other movies unrelated to national treasure kind of tamed down excitement and expectation and disney decided to walk away I haven't seen any concrete evidence as to why disney pulled the plug on a third national treasure Because the second one actually made more than the first Outside of some of the others on this list. That's a rarity a lot of the movies that i've talked about so far The sequel did not generate as much Um, so you have a you have a movie franchise. That's very much full stream ahead Full steam ahead as well stream and steam at the same time and then you pull the plug. It's just assanine to me Who knows though Here's one that makes sense kick ass kick ass one and two Kick ass one solid. I just rewatched it with my son. He was super excited to see an r-rated comic book movie That it was really cool second movie. We have not watched yet. I remember being very underwhelmed by it very disappointed Especially since jim carries in it kind of playing a cool tough as nails brawler The what do we have? We have a three-year gap on these ones too I don't believe von came back for the sequel. He directed the first one matthew von He did not do the sequel which looked noticeably worse on all fronts worse music Worst visuals. It seemed like the budget was slashed. I don't know what happened. Also all the actors aged like 12 years In the span of three years. Chloe grace marettes went from a like an eight-year-old to a 22-year-old. It is crazy The the leap in their physical appearance in between movies It was it's nuts. And so that doesn't translate well well for hit girl either So what what do you do if you make a kick ass three now? Chloe grace marettes is like 30 some years old She's playing hit woman at this point Maybe there's something like that in the comics they can play off of but this just does not look like it's going to happen Let's see what we got here sequel only made Despite receiving mixed reviews. Oh wait, I kind of like wrote this down wrong. What do we earn? It earned 60.8 million on a 30 million I had to fly fly in front of my mouth when I was talking. Why is there a bug in here? Get out of your bug Okay, it earned 60.8 million on a 30 million dollar budge short for budget the first film gross 96 million okay So these movies don't do like amazing numbers, but they're they're cheap to make right practical effects for the most part Okay, not too long ago This was back in 2021 I believe things looked hopeful that the wheels would again be begin cranking to life on kick ass three In the span of a single month Miller indicated that previous hopes for kick s3 at least as fans anticipated it Were all but dead while Matthew Vaughn in a separate update told collider that a big reboot was in the works in two years time around right now Around right now describing it as so fucking nuts that I can't talk about it I believe what they're waiting for is to get the rights back So there's been a lot of exchanging of properties and who owns what disney probably owns kick ass at this point I don't know. I could look I'd rather speculate and make other people do the work for me Maybe I just don't care that much kick ass I think was good enough Even in the sequel department that it could have got a third, but maybe at this point it is best to just start over This is one of the biggest head scratchers of all The amazing spider-man 3 now Don't get me wrong. I don't like the amazing spider-man 2 In the slightest visually it looks pretty fantastic, but I think the story is a disaster. I think pretty much everything else about it's kind of miserable It's way too long. It's way too melodramatic not for me even though I like the the toby maguire ones Those are incredibly over the top dramatic Regardless This movie made seven hundred and nine million dollars How would you pull the plug when a movie's making that much money? Sony looked at it and thought okay. Well the fan reception is terrible It actually made less than the original amazing spider-man Which was in the eight hundred fifty million dollar range and the american sales only accounted for like 30 percent of the gross So americans are losing interest in this property It's making less than the original so by all you know accountants is going to do worse every time They did however introduce the sinister six They kind of mcu'd this thing built up a lot of characters for the third installment and going forward So you would imagine that like throwing dr Octopus back in And some of these other more popular characters would get people to the theaters, but no Sony said we're not doing it. We're gonna start over and now we have venom and And and morbius and all these trash movies that they're putting out because they don't really care about the quality It turns out it really is about the bottom line And they do have very high expectations for how their movie properties perform and for sony spider-man is major Major mula. They need that guy to perform at his top And if he's not We just reboot again just keep rebooting until that fucker gets the web that web money that we need The last one and this one is truly kind of sad for me. I'm bummed. They haven't done it yet, but sherlock homes three Where is the trilogy completion? I like these movies guy richie did a good job robert downey jr. Is always wonderful He plays well with jude law as homes Rachel mcadams is nice in the first one and oddly goes missing right away in the second one I really don't know what happened there. I did try looking that up And I can't find shit about why rachel mcadams is barely in the sequel. I mean, we're talking to glorified cameo Regardless game of shadows came out in 2011 These films both each brought in both each that's redundant. They both brought in Over 500 over half a million half a billion over half a billion dollars each This is a very solid property That's ripe for more robert downey isn't losing a step. He was just in Uh oppenheimer barbenheimer recently. He was great in that He's a well-rounded actor get him back as sherlock And I like how guy richie infuses the the cool detective angle with his more like snatch style Filmography, you have the slow motion calculated fight scenes Plus you have some of the smart dialogue and the scripts that weave in and out the mysteries and the clues and I eat it up I want sherlock three 2011 was the last one. Come on Let robert downey do this again and come on guy richie needs a win He needs a box office win I haven't seen the covenant or whatever the hell his last movie was called. I heard it's really damn good And I do intend on watching it soon Just haven't found the right time yet in between all the other stuff. I'm doing but it is on my radar But financially, I don't think it did very well. So we need guy richie back making money We need robert downey back with the with the jacket on the top hat the pipe solving mysteries Those are my 10 now. I do have a bonus a double feature of sorts because I think these movies are just stupid fun And it'd be nice to get a little bit more We have escape from new york slash la two movies basically One movie escape from la is kind of a soft reboot of escape from new york same basic plot different location um, I wanted an escape from I don't know canada escape from las vegas would actually be pretty cool. It's gonna escape from las vegas in the mix Um, and I want I want snake plisken back. I need snake plisken back That's the bottom line and crank three jason statham proves that he can be in the most god awful shit and turn a profit Turn some money meg two made a dumb amount of cash. It's a stupid movie jason statham's killing it Put him in crank three. Let him finish out his legacy film Get amy adam's back. What's amy doing? She's not doing shit. Get amy adam's back in the mix Bring crank back home. All right. Let us have some fun with this again And if you don't know what the crank movies are that's okay, too They're basically the transporter again, but somehow even more insane All right, those are my top 10 plus the bonus trilogies that never got resolved that I guess you know what some of these I don't care that they got resolved I just kind of scratch my head as to why they didn't like national treasure three like the amazing spider man three like, uh hellboy three I mean, I guess hellboy two didn't do very well, but Del Toro is a big enough name and I think that with the technology where it's at They could make something pretty damn cool on a decently small budget if they wanted Anyway, those are my thoughts. Let me know yours if you're watching this on youtube I encourage you to leave a comment leave a like subscribe share Notification bell all of that shit. Tell me adam This is a third movie they never made and I want to know why or I can't believe they didn't finish this off They had a good thing going where are we at with the third movie put it in the comment I do push these out on spotify apple podcasts other podcasts every morning on monday at 8am So if you want to hear it early, you can hear it there first on youtube I do the the video premiere thing where I'm in the comments chatting with you on the live chat And we're watching this together or listening together whatever and that usually goes up around noon So you're gonna have a nice lunch with me. We'll have a nice meal together All right, that's it if you want to support the channel You can join me on patreon at patreon.com slash adam does movies become a member there You get exclusive access to 300 videos and counting Plus you get to throw out a roast recommendation on my youtube channel where I roast terrible movies If you're a mithral level member same with on youtube be the youtube join button So there's ways to support the channel Ways to give back and uh, hopefully you do because I have a feeling i'm gonna be knocked out So a couple extra patreons or youtube join members a little extra support might heal me faster Hopefully that's the case. All right, take care