If a film comes out and does nicely, the thought of a sequel is prone to be seen as engaging by producers… and hopefully, the artistic minds behind the primary movie, too. Ideally, the prospect of a sequel can be fascinating to each events, and if it’s significantly fascinating, it stands to purpose that the early phases of manufacturing for a sequel will occur comparatively quick.

For a number of the following sequels, that means of commencing manufacturing took surprisingly lengthy, and the sequels understandably passed off roughly the identical variety of years later in-universe and in actual life. At different instances, the sequels didn’t take as lengthy to return out, however there was a time bounce, generally specializing in new characters because of this (whereas telling a continuation of the identical core story). With dozens and even a whole bunch of years between a few of these examples, it’s inarguably an fascinating approach to shake issues up for an ongoing collection.

10 ‘Gladiator II’ (2024)

Set 16 years after ‘Gladiator’ (2000)

Whereas a good few historic/motion epics adopted within the wake of Gladiator all through the early to mid-2000s, it took a substantial period of time for an precise sequel to get launched. After all, Gladiator II was all the time going to have its work minimize out for it, given the way it ended with comparatively few major characters left alive, so a time-skip made sense.

In the long run, Gladiator II was launched 24 years after the unique, however the bounce ahead in time inside the movie’s universe was rather less dramatic, at 16 years. Ridley Scott’s sequel is strong, even when it doesn’t fairly attain the heights of the primary film, however it delivers a decently executed storyline and a few fairly spectacular motion set items (the bounce ahead in particular results between 2000 and 2024 is on full show).

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9 ‘It: Chapter Two’ (2019)

Set 27 years after ‘It’ (2017)

As a reasonably clear duology, It: Chapter Two is an fascinating instance of a deliberate bounce ahead in time, with it popping out solely two years after It, however (largely) going down 27 years later. This was due to the method taken to adapting Stephen King’s mammoth novel, It, which largely takes place in 1958 and 1985, however jumps between these durations (and travels to some different years) fairly persistently. Within the adaptation, although, issues bounce from 1989 within the first film to 2016 (once more, largely) in the second.

The method taken within the novel is a little more partaking, and the method taken by the movies does lead to a sense of It: Chapter Two repeating the primary film, whereas the novel has the characters equally compelling as youngsters and adults. However the novel can be nicely over 1000 pages lengthy, so the splitting was maybe inevitable, and doing it this manner (with just a few flashbacks present in Chapter Two for good measure) was what they went with.

8 ‘Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens’ (2015)

Set 30 years after ‘Return of the Jedi’ (1983)

Whereas there have been different Star Wars motion pictures launched between 1983’s Return of the Jedi and 2015’s The Pressure Awakens, the previous was Episode VI, and the latter was Episode VII. By that logic, one is a sequel to the opposite, and the span of 32 years between the discharge of each motion pictures is mirrored with the motion in The Pressure Awakens going down three many years on from Return of the Jedi.

It’s a galaxy far, distant, however it looks like they nonetheless have Earth-specific ideas, like years that (seemingly) final three hundred and sixty five days… returning characters do look 30 Earth years older, a minimum of. Anyway, The Pressure Awakens is divisive in different methods, so possibly most individuals aren’t going to be bothered by this concept, however it’s there. Additionally, whether or not on Earth, with reboots and sequels, or on this distant galaxy, with its continuous wars among the many stars, historical past appears destined to repeat itself. Destined to repeat itself.

7 ‘Blade Runner 2049’ (2017)

Set 30 years after ‘Blade Runner’ (1982)

There’s an excellent argument to be made that Blade Runner 2049, maybe greater than most distant sequels, exhibits the way to re-enter a singular cinematic universe many years later in a seamless vogue. 1982’s Blade Runner very explicitly says it takes place in 2019, after which simply two years earlier than that yr in actual life, a sequel clearly set 30 years later (see the title) got here out.

The world in Blade Runner 2049 has superior in the way in which the 2019 model of that world may’ve, reasonably than this 2049 reflecting what the precise 2049 may appear like particularly. It’s because of this that the world feels appropriately constructed upon and expanded, all to the purpose that the return of Harrison Ford, plus some thematic concepts explored within the first movie, truthfully really feel extra like icing on the cake. Throughout two motion pictures made many years aside, the Blade Runner universe stays huge, mysterious, and intensely immersive, and that is what makes the pair of films so nice.

6 ‘High Gun: Maverick’ (2022)

Set 30-ish years after ‘High Gun’ (1986)

Whereas it’s not as cut-and-dry as Blade Runner being set in 2019 and Blade Runner 2049 being set in its titular yr, it’s probably a minimum of 30 years have handed between High Gun and High Gun: Maverick. After all, Tom Cruise ageing lower than most individuals muddies the water additional, however Bradley Bradshaw, who was 4 years outdated within the first film, is performed by Miles Teller in Maverick, and Teller turned 35 in 2022, so… possibly 31 years?

Certain, Bradley – now often known as “Rooster” – could possibly be in his late 20s reasonably than his early 30s, however know-how has additionally marched on significantly in High Gun: Maverick, making Cruise’s Maverick much more of an outlier, what along with his old-school methods and all. And Maverick was launched 36 years after High Gun, so deciding on “30-ish” years for the hole of time between motion pictures looks like a good estimate.

5 ‘Physician Sleep’ (2019)

Set 30-ish years after ‘The Shining’ (1980)

It: Chapter Two wasn’t the one Stephen King-related sequel to return out in 2019 and have its motion be set a substantial period of time after the unique movie. The legendary horror film that was The Shining (1980) received a sequel within the type of Physician Sleep in 2019, with it being an adaptation of the 2013 King novel of the identical identify, albeit additionally feeling like a sequel to the 1980 model of The Shining, which made some notorious deviations from its supply materials.

Physician Sleep has an grownup Danny in what looks like 30 years sooner or later, at minimal. Nevertheless, it might feasibly be 39 years, as a result of Ewan McGregor – who performs Danny in Physician Sleep – is not a lot older than Danny Lloyd, who performed the character in The Shining (they had been born in 1971 and 1972, respectively).

4 ‘Halloween’ (2018)

Set 40 years after ‘Halloween’ (1978)

There are a irritating variety of motion pictures referred to as Halloween, together with 1978’s Halloween and 2018’s Halloween. Many different Halloween motion pictures existed between the releases of those two (together with a remake of the 1978 model in 2007 additionally simply referred to as Halloween), however 2018’s Halloween ignored them and as a substitute served as a direct sequel to the unique. It’s secure to say that the chronology of this collection is greater than a little bit unconventional.

Jamie Lee Curtis returned, and the movie was each set 40 years on from the occasions of the unique and launched 40 years after the primary film got here out, helped codify numerous slasher film tropes, and terrified audiences. Halloween (2018) itself received two sequels, however these had been made in fairly fast succession not lengthy after this Halloween got here out, and as such, logically didn’t bounce ahead in time.

3 ‘Marvel Lady 1984’ (2020)

Set 66 years after ‘Marvel Lady’ (2017)

2017’s Marvel Lady began within the current, flashed again to earlier than 1918, after which had most of its scenes happen throughout 1918, the ultimate yr of World Warfare I. That does make it an fascinating superhero film, given it’s additionally one thing of a warfare film that has clear fantastical parts, with that previous being deserted for a barely newer previous within the movie’s 2020 sequel.

Like with Blade Runner 2049, it doesn’t take a genius to determine that Marvel Lady 1984 is predominantly set in 1984. It was not an excellent sequel, however a minimum of it shook issues up a bit by leaping ahead 66 years, all of the whereas nonetheless ensuring to set itself a while earlier than the titular character received concerned with the Justice League.

2 ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ (2024)

Set roughly 300 years after ‘Warfare for the Planet of the Apes’ (2017)

After a prologue, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes jumps ahead just a few centuries past Warfare for the Planet of the Apes; about 300 years, to be a little bit extra exact. It naturally can’t comply with any of the characters from that earlier 2017 movie, however that was for the very best, as a result of the story advised there – and within the different two Caesar-focused Planet of the Apes motion pictures – felt greater than full.

As such, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is extra concerning the legacy of sure characters and concepts from these earlier motion pictures, and utilizing the bounce ahead in time to make the titular apes much more superior, and nicely and actually the dominant species on Earth. It was strong science fiction and fairly good so far as trendy motion motion pictures go, and the entire thing ends in a means that would result in additional fascinating sequels.

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1 ‘Jason X’ (2001)

Set 400 years after ‘Jason Goes to Hell: The Last Friday’ (1993)

The Friday the thirteenth collection took rising dangers because it went alongside, with the ninth film within the collection, Jason Goes to Hell: The Last Friday, type of doing what the title implies (however possibly not as a lot as you’d hope). The title lied completely when it got here to the entire “Last Friday” factor, although, as a result of eight years on from that film’s 1993 launch, audiences had been “handled” to a tenth Friday the thirteenth film referred to as Jason X.

This one sees the slasher collection going into full-on science fiction territory, and that entails Jason being cryogenically frozen and never springing again to life till a powerful 400 years later. Sci-Friday the thirteenth is not as a lot enjoyable in execution as it’d sound on paper, however a minimum of there was a marginal effort to do one thing wild right here, and possibly that’ll make it watchable for anybody significantly keen on the collection.

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