Movie sequel ideas are rarely as good as the original, and this will be no exception. The big difference we will make is that we will have sequels to movies that didn’t need them. Yes, we are going there, and you are all coming with us on the journey of nostalgia death. The modern movie sequel is like inflation in that it devalues everything.
Amadeus 2: Sarlieri on the run
The Amadeus movie sequel won’t get as many Academy Awards as the 1984 predecessor. But we are confident F. Murray Abraham would say yes. Salieri gets out of the crazy house and is pursued by everyone. Lorl demands payment after Salieri failed to pay her for the last two weeks with Mozart.
Then Mozart’s wife is launching a civil case against the former Court Composer for the death of her husband and sexual harassment (see the director’s cut of the first one) and Mozart’s son is going all out Jack Marston in trying to avenge his papa.
The Green Book 2: Bros
It is 1965, and Tony Lip’s wife (Delores) is trying to find Don Shirley a nice boyfriend. But things go crazy when Don starts going out with Delores’ brother (what are the odds). This interracial LGBT relationship puts the family dynamic to the test while having lots of laughs, hugs and reflection. It is the movie sequel that takes the deep south edge off.
Crash 2: Ghost Groceries
Crash 2 will be an even more hilarious movie than the first one. Detective Graham Waters is still secretly buying groceries for his mother, who believes it is her other son’s ghost. Only after she gets committed to the crazy house does Graham admit to his mother that it was always him. It’s all a great laugh in the end.
In other plots to this horror movie sequel, Graham ends up sharing an apartment with a lower-ranking police officer who turns out to be Officer Tom Hansen, who killed his brother. When he sees the statuette, he murders Hansen, puts him in the trunk of his car but gets into a crash while on the way to the disposal site. And guess who turns up to rescue him? None other than Sergeant John Ryan and his father.
Goodfellas 2: A Karen for all seasons
This follows the tale of Karen Hill as she divorces Henry and starts stalking everyone who slept with her husband (as we know, that is a lot of women). Watch as she calls the superintendent (ala Janice Rossi) and even meets up occasionally with Mickey Conway (who still spits on her own floor). But this will be a real feminist take on the whole story, and we will want to infuriate the traditional fanbase. Let’s bring Maggie Gyllenhaal to direct this abomination of a movie sequel.
Meet Joe Black 2 (hours only)
If you didn’t suffer enough during the first one (three hours of Claire Forlani’s teary-eyed, sensitive looks), you will suffer in the sequel. We will discover that Bill Parrish was a mad sexual predator, and his firm is plagued by lawsuits.
We also discover that the young man in the coffee shop who reemerged after Death was finished with his body is actually a real jerk and a degenerate gambler who is only after Susan Parish’s money.
Drew gets out of jail all buff and tries to get revenge on the Parish family, but Susan calls up Death, and he takes over the body of a man played by Dave Bautista, and he throws Drew out of a helicopter. We promise not to go over 2 hours of running time with this movie sequel.
The Wrestler 2: Cassidy is damaged goods
The sequel to the 2008 classic will be more light-hearted. Randy the Ram repairs his ailing heart via movie logic. He then gets a WWE legends contract for ‘reasons’ and tries to mend fences with his stripper love interest, Cassidy. However, all is not going to plan as Ric Flair comes in and starts making moves on Cassidy. Slick Ric even produces fake photos of him and Cassidy together. Randy the Ram challenges Flair to a match at Mania and wins. Randy retires, but Flair fights on.
How would these compare to our movie sequel ideas for Braveheart, Philadelphia or Pulp Fiction? The movie sequel is a quest for failure on moviespread.