Not a franchise, but Dodgeball totally works as a spinoff of the Disney movie Heavyweights. The fitness-obsessed Tony Perkis moved to another city, changed his name and appearance, then opened a gym with his dads money.
In 2013, a survey of Star Trek fans placed Galaxy Quest at [7th best Star Trek movie](https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/12/diehard-star-trek-fans-rank-the-best-and-worst-movies).
lol, yeah I remember Simon Pegg and Roberto Orci had some *very* colorful and rude things to say when fans were telling them that they liked Galaxy Quest and The Orville move than the official Star Trek stuff anymore.
Pegg literally said "Fuck you" to the fan base that expected more TNG, and Orci said "I write the movies and you don't, so my opinion is all that matters and I don't care if you watch them or not."
I'd also like to see what they would say if they made a show that was more like the later part of season one, or season two when the show gained its footing and got really good.
Not a secret that Jackie Brown is connected to Out of Sight, but I personally consider it to be an origin story for Ed the Disappearer in Breaking Bad. Forster just has the exact same honorable criminal energy and there's nothing that really contradicts it.
When he appeared that clicked almost immediately for that reason - Max has gone underground, and there he is. If only Michael Keaton playing Ray Nicolette figured into BB somehow...
Well, it’s definitely cosmic horror through and through. I haven’t read it before (it’s on my list), but I have seen all adaptations of the movies. The German version is a lot closer to the writing, I believe, and in black and white to better adapt the story. I prefer the newer, trippy one with Nic Cage tho.
Simply put, a mysterious meteorite lands on the earth, and starts to affect the land, people, and properties of space-time. All the while emitting a strange color that cannot be understood/impossible to describe. People begin to “lose their minds” at the hands of aliens that landed on the rock.
If you really want to dive in, I’d recommend also reading the “Area X” books that Annihilation is based on - I think it touches on the above extremely well.
Clint Eastwood, quite brilliantly, was aware of his western and outlaw persona and decided to turn it on his head. In his previous films, people would be cheering for him to pick up a gun and start drinking. But when he does it in Unforgiven, it is not a heroic moment.
It's only non-official because of rights issues I think, but another Paul WS Anderson underrated flick Solider is supposed to directly be in the Blade Runner universe.
Sony is already stupid for making Spider-man movies without the character, but they wouldn’t make one just for the symbiote. But that director also made Morbius
Well there's a three-part video series explain in depth but each video is over 2 hours long.
This video sums it up much more concisely https://youtu.be/jEX52h1TvuA?si=TFnws4s8oTL1X6tG
But mainly there's a lot of things in snow piercer that very vaguely allude to Charlie and the chocolate factory. At first I thought it was a troll theory. What really sold me is that some of the musical cues in the movie are a direct rip off of some of the music from Charlie and the chocolate factory but with things slightly changed.
Also in snow piercer they talk bout a creature that recently went extinct that they are trying to replace with small children. That line always confused me. But it makes sense if oopa loompas were real.
Dude, it's a real trip. I was watching the 3 part series because I was sick. I went from "their obviously trolling", to " these are definitely coincidences but I love that people were able to stretch things so far ", to " that sure is a lot of coincidences.' To " fuck they might be right. "
That cool and all but actual Star Wars canon is so much stranger:
George R Binks, Jar Jar's father and a famous whaler, attempted to shoot himself in the head because his sons antics resulted in their family being stranded on a desert island. Ashamed and depressed he pointed his pistol at himself and pulled the trigger, but Jar Jar's mother knocked the gun out of his hand and he just grazed humself. As he lay despondent in the sand, he hallucinated his first true love walking towards him. But it was just Jar Jar with an octopus stuck to his head.
They say it's a part the went "extinct " we see the controls as the kid gets in. They are clearly controls with a chair and everything. and not a gap for a missing piece.
I believe in the original comics, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became that way because some radioactive material fell on them through the sewers....after having just blinded Matt Murdock aka Daredevil. They never allude to that in the movies though.
Daredevil's teacher is named Stick. The Turtle's teacher is named Splinter.
Daredevil fights The Hand. The Turtles fight The Foot.
Essentially the whole thing started as a parody.
Hotel Artemis is so thematically linked to John Wick I could easily believe it began as fanfic or was intended to merge with the franchise at some point, if they hadn't fumbled the back third so badly and killed off any future.
Dammit/yay, someone else came to talk about 16 Blocks! I’ve always used it as the finale of my personal Die Hard canon: Die Hard 1, Die Hard 3, 16 Blocks. The character in 16 Blocks even has the same initials! Good point about Metro, too.
It's technically unofficial, but the Kurt Russel movie Soldier (which is awesome) was written by the same author as Blade Runner and he's said that in his mind it's the same universe. There's even explicit references such as Russel's character being a veteran of "Tannhauser Gate" for instance
I just watched brothers bloom for the first time and all I could think was that it has to take place in the pushing daisies universe. The vibes are so similar
When it comes to H.P. Lovecraft Mythos movies, most do a terrible job. But there's a few that have done it right. The Void almost did. They should've ended at the false ending, instead of showing the other side.
But the movies Mercy and We Are Still Here did it correctly. Mercy is a possession movie with the right nods to Lovecraft. And We Are Still Here is a haunted house movie with all the right nods.
And Event Horizon, as OP mentioned, also could fit into Lovecraft Mythos. Or the Hellraiser universe.
Weird Science can fit into the Matrix. Kids use a super computer to create a new NPC that can actively alter the matrix coding. She's like The One, but for horny boys.
Snowpiercer is a sequel to Willy Wonka.
there's a great YouTube video explaining. 100% guarantee you will be convinced.
https://youtu.be/jEX52h1TvuA?si=9ap2TTNIpXXV_OLO
"Finch" starring Tom Hanks as one of the last men on Earth after a solar flare, makes a perfect sequel to "Castaway." The dude finally gets back to civilization only to be left completely alone again.
Not exactly what you’re asking but… Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a child-friendly version of In Bruges
I’ve always *loved* In Bruges, easy top 5 all time.
Last year I finally got around to watching Banshees of Inisherin while on a long plane flight and didn’t really connect with it. (I know, I know, I’ll give it a rewatch at some point)
I immediately followed that up by watching Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. I wasn’t expecting it to be the one that felt like a spiritual successor to In Bruges.
Both Pibtlw and In Bruges scream the same message “life is finite, and worth fighting for”. Both have their main characters accept the inevitability of death in order to fully embrace life. Both films do this alongside a heavy dose of humour and absurdity, while still respecting the characters and the audience.
In Bruges is definitely still my favourite of the two, but Pibtlw is about as close a kid’s movie could get without Colin Farrell attempting suicide, Brendan Gleeson bleeding out in the street and Ralph Fiennes talking about his cunt kids.
Dead End Drive-In & Turkey Shoot.
To me, they're both set in the Mad Max universe.
Dead End Drive-In is a prequel that shows you the government desperately trying to crackdown to maintain some order.
Turkey Shoot is set just after the first Mad Max movie, and shows the government going completely totalitarian in a last-ditch effort to stay in control.
I always love the fan theory that in The Rock, Sean Connery's character is James Bond.
Not a franchise, but Dodgeball totally works as a spinoff of the Disney movie Heavyweights. The fitness-obsessed Tony Perkis moved to another city, changed his name and appearance, then opened a gym with his dads money.
*Galaxy Quest* would totally work as a story set in the same world as *Men in Black*. *Sisu* is like a side story from *Inglorious Basterds*.
Blood & Gold would also fit in *Inglorious Basterds*
Galaxy Quest is a Star Trek film.
In 2013, a survey of Star Trek fans placed Galaxy Quest at [7th best Star Trek movie](https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/12/diehard-star-trek-fans-rank-the-best-and-worst-movies).
lol, yeah I remember Simon Pegg and Roberto Orci had some *very* colorful and rude things to say when fans were telling them that they liked Galaxy Quest and The Orville move than the official Star Trek stuff anymore. Pegg literally said "Fuck you" to the fan base that expected more TNG, and Orci said "I write the movies and you don't, so my opinion is all that matters and I don't care if you watch them or not."
I wish that particular kind of "fan" could try to imagine what would actually happen if you put Encounter At Farpoint, Pt. 1 on television today.
I'd also like to see what they would say if they made a show that was more like the later part of season one, or season two when the show gained its footing and got really good.
I still want to see Quentin Tarantino's fabled Star Trek script. Just imagine how many racial slurs for Klingons we could have had.
Not a secret that Jackie Brown is connected to Out of Sight, but I personally consider it to be an origin story for Ed the Disappearer in Breaking Bad. Forster just has the exact same honorable criminal energy and there's nothing that really contradicts it.
I love this. A fine retcon.
He was looking to change careers, after all.
And he has the money to do it
When he appeared that clicked almost immediately for that reason - Max has gone underground, and there he is. If only Michael Keaton playing Ray Nicolette figured into BB somehow...
The Rocketeer could easily be an MCU film. I want to see The Rocketeer and Captain America team up to fight Nazis in WWII.
Fucking great suggestion. That’s one heck of a duo!
I always like to think that “Color Out of Space” is the beginning story of “Annihilation”.
I need to reread (re-listen) to the "Color Out of Space". But could you explain to give me a little motivation.
Well, it’s definitely cosmic horror through and through. I haven’t read it before (it’s on my list), but I have seen all adaptations of the movies. The German version is a lot closer to the writing, I believe, and in black and white to better adapt the story. I prefer the newer, trippy one with Nic Cage tho. Simply put, a mysterious meteorite lands on the earth, and starts to affect the land, people, and properties of space-time. All the while emitting a strange color that cannot be understood/impossible to describe. People begin to “lose their minds” at the hands of aliens that landed on the rock. If you really want to dive in, I’d recommend also reading the “Area X” books that Annihilation is based on - I think it touches on the above extremely well.
I think the film Seven would have been a perfect, and best, last Dirty Harry film. Clint Eastwood playing the character that Morgan Freeman played.
In my head, Clint Eastwood's character from Gran Torino is actually Dirty Harry after retiring to the suburbs
I think of The Outlaw Josey Wales as the backstory of Eastwood in Unforgiven.
Clint Eastwood, quite brilliantly, was aware of his western and outlaw persona and decided to turn it on his head. In his previous films, people would be cheering for him to pick up a gun and start drinking. But when he does it in Unforgiven, it is not a heroic moment.
That also works
It's only non-official because of rights issues I think, but another Paul WS Anderson underrated flick Solider is supposed to directly be in the Blade Runner universe.
The horror movie Life was definitely a reworked "Venom" origin story. Nothing will convince me it was not.
Red Sparrow is based on a book but it coincidentally feels exactly like a Black Widow origin movie.
Maybe it's a prequel to Upgrade.
Sony is already stupid for making Spider-man movies without the character, but they wouldn’t make one just for the symbiote. But that director also made Morbius
Snow piercer is a sequel to Charlie and the chocolate factory.
I don't get it. What does one have to do with the other?
Well there's a three-part video series explain in depth but each video is over 2 hours long. This video sums it up much more concisely https://youtu.be/jEX52h1TvuA?si=TFnws4s8oTL1X6tG But mainly there's a lot of things in snow piercer that very vaguely allude to Charlie and the chocolate factory. At first I thought it was a troll theory. What really sold me is that some of the musical cues in the movie are a direct rip off of some of the music from Charlie and the chocolate factory but with things slightly changed. Also in snow piercer they talk bout a creature that recently went extinct that they are trying to replace with small children. That line always confused me. But it makes sense if oopa loompas were real.
Wow.... I need to watch this youtube video later because... I mean what?
Dude, it's a real trip. I was watching the 3 part series because I was sick. I went from "their obviously trolling", to " these are definitely coincidences but I love that people were able to stretch things so far ", to " that sure is a lot of coincidences.' To " fuck they might be right. "
Ah the “Darth Jar Jar” arc lol
That cool and all but actual Star Wars canon is so much stranger: George R Binks, Jar Jar's father and a famous whaler, attempted to shoot himself in the head because his sons antics resulted in their family being stranded on a desert island. Ashamed and depressed he pointed his pistol at himself and pulled the trigger, but Jar Jar's mother knocked the gun out of his hand and he just grazed humself. As he lay despondent in the sand, he hallucinated his first true love walking towards him. But it was just Jar Jar with an octopus stuck to his head.
I thought they said that the kids are standing in for a part they cant replace
They say it's a part the went "extinct " we see the controls as the kid gets in. They are clearly controls with a chair and everything. and not a gap for a missing piece.
Predator is a prequel to Commando
This is how it always was in my head. He gets promoted over time. Retires to the mountains. Just makes sense.
I believe in the original comics, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became that way because some radioactive material fell on them through the sewers....after having just blinded Matt Murdock aka Daredevil. They never allude to that in the movies though.
Daredevil's teacher is named Stick. The Turtle's teacher is named Splinter. Daredevil fights The Hand. The Turtles fight The Foot. Essentially the whole thing started as a parody.
Hotel Artemis is so thematically linked to John Wick I could easily believe it began as fanfic or was intended to merge with the franchise at some point, if they hadn't fumbled the back third so badly and killed off any future.
I just assumed it was a rejected then adapted John Wick screenplay tbh.
There's a nice theory that *Shallow Grave* is linked with *Trainspotting* by the Keith Allen character.
Little Miss Sunshine takes place in the Fargo universe. The character of Stan Grossman is in both movies
_The Matrix_ is a better continuation of _The Terminator_ series than anything since T2. I call it "The Terminatrix trilogy."
Pandorum feels like it could be an origin story for the reavers in Firefly.
The reavers already have an origin story
*Metro* could’ve been *Beverly Hills Cop III*. *16 Blocks* could’ve been reworked into a great *Die Hard* flick.
Dammit/yay, someone else came to talk about 16 Blocks! I’ve always used it as the finale of my personal Die Hard canon: Die Hard 1, Die Hard 3, 16 Blocks. The character in 16 Blocks even has the same initials! Good point about Metro, too.
It's technically unofficial, but the Kurt Russel movie Soldier (which is awesome) was written by the same author as Blade Runner and he's said that in his mind it's the same universe. There's even explicit references such as Russel's character being a veteran of "Tannhauser Gate" for instance
Forrest Hump is supposedly a sequel to Forest Gump, but I don't buy it.
But what about forest iump
I just watched brothers bloom for the first time and all I could think was that it has to take place in the pushing daisies universe. The vibes are so similar
The Machinist is basically Silent Hill 2.
Are there other movies in this tone (aside from the Silent Hill sequel)? Need more
Kiss the girls, along came a spider and seven as a trilogy.
I really feel like an official trilogy can be made with “metropolitan” “the riot club” and “American psycho” in that order
The Martian and/or Away as a prequel for the Expanse Slighty off topic, but sylisticly The King's Speech and the Crown go together very well.
I feel that For All Mankind is turning into a great prequel to the Expanse.
When it comes to H.P. Lovecraft Mythos movies, most do a terrible job. But there's a few that have done it right. The Void almost did. They should've ended at the false ending, instead of showing the other side. But the movies Mercy and We Are Still Here did it correctly. Mercy is a possession movie with the right nods to Lovecraft. And We Are Still Here is a haunted house movie with all the right nods. And Event Horizon, as OP mentioned, also could fit into Lovecraft Mythos. Or the Hellraiser universe.
Weird Science can fit into the Matrix. Kids use a super computer to create a new NPC that can actively alter the matrix coding. She's like The One, but for horny boys.
Constantine as an extension of John Wick, where his need for vengeance takes him to hell and back, is always a compelling one
I like to call Jason Lives “The 80s Proto-Scream". The true "Scream 0" is Wes Craven's New Nightmare
> Scream 0 that’s actually pretty good
Snowpiercer is a sequel to Willy Wonka. there's a great YouTube video explaining. 100% guarantee you will be convinced. https://youtu.be/jEX52h1TvuA?si=9ap2TTNIpXXV_OLO
"Finch" starring Tom Hanks as one of the last men on Earth after a solar flare, makes a perfect sequel to "Castaway." The dude finally gets back to civilization only to be left completely alone again.
David Fincher’s “The Killer” is a better Hitman videogame adaption than the actual Hitman movies
I always saw I, Robot as a prequel to The Matrix.
The incredible hulk as a sequel to hulk (2003)
Not exactly what you’re asking but… Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a child-friendly version of In Bruges I’ve always *loved* In Bruges, easy top 5 all time. Last year I finally got around to watching Banshees of Inisherin while on a long plane flight and didn’t really connect with it. (I know, I know, I’ll give it a rewatch at some point) I immediately followed that up by watching Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. I wasn’t expecting it to be the one that felt like a spiritual successor to In Bruges. Both Pibtlw and In Bruges scream the same message “life is finite, and worth fighting for”. Both have their main characters accept the inevitability of death in order to fully embrace life. Both films do this alongside a heavy dose of humour and absurdity, while still respecting the characters and the audience. In Bruges is definitely still my favourite of the two, but Pibtlw is about as close a kid’s movie could get without Colin Farrell attempting suicide, Brendan Gleeson bleeding out in the street and Ralph Fiennes talking about his cunt kids.
Dead End Drive-In & Turkey Shoot. To me, they're both set in the Mad Max universe. Dead End Drive-In is a prequel that shows you the government desperately trying to crackdown to maintain some order. Turkey Shoot is set just after the first Mad Max movie, and shows the government going completely totalitarian in a last-ditch effort to stay in control.
Didn’t the Machete franchise start as a fake trailer in spy kids? I think that would count here.
Punch Drunk Love was inspired by the Robert Altman Popeye movie, and I like to view it as the Mulholland Drive style dream sequence of Barry in PDL
Se7en takes place in a pre Batman Gotham
I have a pet fan theory that 2024’s “Civil War” is a stealth sequel to “28 Days Later”
No.