2011 - the year Hollywood runs out of ideas...

[acroyear]

Sony Announces 'Men in Black 3'! - Cinematical:

Are you excited for a new Men in Black movie? Did you dig the first two? Which project are you looking forward to the most: Ghostbusters 3, Men in Black 3, Spider-Man 4 or Where Have All The Original Ideas Gone?

The one exception in all this? Pixar with The Bear and the Bow. But even Pixar wonn't dodge the sequel bandwagon forever (Toy Story 2 I almost don't consider a sequel in that most of the plot was written for Toy Story 1), as we know of Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, and a Monsters 2 may be on the storyboards...

Comments

[mandrakan.livejournal.com]

::Shrug:: I'd start with 1989, because that one was clearly a reboot. In which case, Batman & Robin fits the pattern.

As for Bond (or the Thin Man, for that matter), I never thought of them as sequels, possibly because the first several were based on a series of books.

Numbering isn't essential - Crystal Skull pretty clearly counts as a #4 - but somehow Bond doesn't seem to. It may just be that I don't really know the order they go in without looking it up.