Sequels to films that never were

Alex · 12-04-2009, 10:06 AM

Yeah, I'm a bit fuzzy on the idea here. If I understand correctly it is essentially this:

The creator of a new work chooses to delve into the later exploits of existing characters but completely independent of that original creation. Kind of like if I sat here and wrote the screenplay to Crocodile Dundee IV.

If so, I'd question Return to Oz because while it may be completely separated from The Wizard of Oz as a movie it is still an amalgmation of two of L. Frank Baum's sequel novels.

Hook, I can see. I'm not immediately coming up with another movie but the first thing that comes to are books that do a similar thing in taking a work in the public domain and writing the a sequel. Like the Gone with the Wind sequel written years back. After his death there was a mini cottage industry of other authors writing novels set in Isaac Asimov's Robots/Foundation universe using their own personal style, but those weren't entirely segregated.

12-04-2009, 10:06 AM	#3
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Yeah, I'm a bit fuzzy on the idea here. If I understand correctly it is essentially this: The creator of a new work chooses to delve into the later exploits of existing characters but completely independent of that original creation. Kind of like if I sat here and wrote the screenplay to Crocodile Dundee IV. If so, I'd question Return to Oz because while it may be completely separated from The Wizard of Oz as a movie it is still an amalgmation of two of L. Frank Baum's sequel novels. Hook, I can see. I'm not immediately coming up with another movie but the first thing that comes to are books that do a similar thing in taking a work in the public domain and writing the a sequel. Like the Gone with the Wind sequel written years back. After his death there was a mini cottage industry of other authors writing novels set in Isaac Asimov's Robots/Foundation universe using their own personal style, but those weren't entirely segregated.
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