Friday, 22 November 2019

Film interquels, prequels and sequels

Interquels

Dead Rising: Watchtower - between DR 2 and DR 3
Dead Rising: Endgame - between Watchtower and DR 3
Jeepers Creepers 3 - between JC and JC 2
Black Panther - between Captain America: Civil War and Thor: Ragnarok
Rings (2005) - between The Ring and The Ring Two
Tekken: Blood Vengeance - in an alternate timeline, between Tekken 5 and 6
Batman: Gotham Knight - between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight
Solo: A Star Wars Story - between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury is set between Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick, and was followed by video game sequel Assault on Dark Arena.

Unlike live-action counterparts, the CG Resident Evil movies are set in the same universe as video games.

Degeneration - between 4 and 5
Damnation - sequel to Degeneration and before 6
Vendetta - between 6 and 7

Non-numbered prequels

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Zulu Dawn
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Cube Zero
Seoul Station
The Thing (2011)
The First Purge
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
Monsters University
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Hannibal Rising
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Leatherface

Numbered prequels

Final Destination 5
Tarzan II
Messengers 2: The Scarecrow
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
Vacancy 2: The First Cut
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior
Insidious: Chapter 3
Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge
DragonHeart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
Exorcist IV: The Beginning
Cold Prey 3
Death Race 2
Internal Affairs II
Bambi II

Parallel sequels

The Godfather Part II

One part tells the story of new Don Michael Corleone, protecting the family business in the aftermath of an attempt on his life, and prequel covers his father Vito, from childhood beginnings, to founding family enterprise in New York.

Following Mario Puzo's death in 1999, Mark Winegardner penned The Godfather Returns, a sequel to original book which runs concurrently with Part II.

Final book The Godfather's Revenge deals with the fallout of Part II.

Video game The Godfather II is based on 1974 film sequel, and follows original character Dominic.  As with original, plot intersects with that of film's narrative and explores new situations.

Paranormal Activity 2

Begins in August 2006 and concludes on 9 October 2006 (day after events of original), where a possessed Katie murders Daniel and sister Kristi, kidnapping Hunter in the process.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Prologue is set in 1912, with a young Indy (River Phoenix) attempting to retrieve the Cross of Coronado.  Meat then jumps to 1938, so 2 years after Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Shaft (2019) prequels Shaft (2000) and soon becomes a sequel.

The Huntsman: Winter's War is both a prequel and sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman.

The frankly embarrassing Annabelle Comes Home plays out unseen aftermath of The Conjuring's opening scene, as demonologists take pigtails to Artefact Room, with meat occurring a year later in 1969.

300: Rise of an Empire takes place before, during and after original.

REC 3: Genesis takes place before, during and after the first two films.

Back to the Future Part II very briefly begins in 1985, jumps to 2015, an 'alternate' 1985, and finally back to 1955 (running concurrently with original and beyond), setting up final part of seminal trilogy.

The Grudge (2020) takes place during the events of The Grudge (2004) and The Grudge 2 (2006).

Death Race 3: Inferno is both a sequel to Death Race 2 and prequel to Death Race.

The latest in remake series Beyond Anarchy takes place after Death Race.

Sequels of same name

Keeping things simple, Halloween (2018) is the sequel to Halloween (1978).

Shaft (2000) is both a remake and story sequel to 1971 original.

This doesn't count, but for shits and giggles.

Because it was initially announced that Kiefer Sutherland would be reprising his role as Dr. Nelson Wright, we thought Flatliners (2017) was a sequel to 1990 film.

Of course, that turned out to be bullshit.

However, Sutherland did return in remake/re-imagining as different character Dr. Barry Wolfson.

Multiple prequels and sequels

Alien: Covenant - sequel to Prometheus which prequels Alien.

Will series continue? Who knows?

Lots of shorts were released to promote both.

Also, 2014 novel Out of the Shadows is set between Alien and Aliens.

Sea of Sorrows and River of Pain complete canonical trilogy.

Blade Runner Black Out 2022, 2036: Nexus Dawn and 2048: Nowhere to Run all set up Blade Runner 2049.

Underworld: Endless War is an animated feature collecting three tie-in stories to explain what happened before the events of Underworld: Awakening.

Hannibal Rising and Red Dragon prequel The Silence of the Lambs.

After Ridley Scott's gory eyebrow raiser Hannibal, acclaimed TV series of same name incorporated elements of Thomas Harris' novels Red Dragon, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising, and also served as a prequel to Jonathan Demme's classic.

Michael Mann first adapted Red Dragon as Manhunter in 1986.

Annabelle is a prequel/spin-off to The Conjuring and Annabelle: Creation prequels former.

Like Captain America: The First Avenger, The Nun (2018) is chronologically the first in universe.

Speaking of MCU.

Overall, Captain Marvel prequels Iron Man, The Avengers, Guardians Vol. 1, Infinity War, Endgame and even TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

It's worth noting that opening segments of others briefly pre-date jazz hands.

Guardians Vol. 2 (1980), Ant-Man and the Wasp (1987), Guardians Vol. 1 (1988) and Ant-Man (1989).

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