Least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise Flick of 2020

Fantasy Island was theatrically released in the United States on February 14, 2020 by Sony Pictures Releasing to overwhelmingly negative reviews. Despite this, the film was a box office success, grossing $48 million worldwide against its $7 million production budget.

Scoob! has been dumped to VOD, and is apparently not merely bad, but another failed universe-starter:

I’m not really spoiling anything, but the movie switches from being a Scooby-Doo movie to a vehicle to introduce various “B” level Hanna Barbera characters. (etc)

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:10 AM (seven months ago)

Yesterday I saw a trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 that makes me more optimistic--soundtracked to "Blue Monday" and featuring gloriously lol-80s graphic effects. I think I'm going to have to see this for the art direction if nothing else.

― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:04 AM (eleven months ago)

monkey's paw twitches

Can I just say I much more enjoy this stage of proceedings than the bit where, later in the year, half these films get their own threads and people start to unnaccountably say positive things about them?

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, January 15, 2020 1:08 PM (eleven months ago)

monkey's paw spasms uncontrollably for eighteen months or more

I saw Fantasy Island, The Grudge and Brahms the Boy in the cinema so they were released in the UK at least. I wouldn't recommend them.

The Fantasy Island film is a prequel and Jimmy O Yang becomes Tattoo.

I didn't see the WW trailer but that sounds infinitely better than the actual movie xp

damn, good work sic.

i'm pretty sure Croods 2 and Trolls World Tour both came out during quarantine. there must have been some general studio calculus that lost box office bucks were a fair trade for streaming service loyalty from frazzled parents, desperate for their kids to put something DIFFERENT on for twenty times in a row.

yep, sic is surely the James Brown of ilxor.com

I mean, minus the controversial James Brown stuff

hey, the Impractical Jokers movie came out, it was okay

actually no I was really irritated by it, all they had to do was follow the Jackass template and it would've been great but they tried to shoehorn a plot into it

so it was half good

i liked trolls world tour

Saw The Invisible Man (very good) and P.S. I Still Love You (already forgotten it). Haven't seen the new Bill & Ted yet, but I've heard good things.

I don't know if I should even bother doing one of these polls this year, considering that a lot of this stuff was/is pushed back. Let's meet here again in 2022.

Bill & Ted is at least as good as you reasonably could hope for a 30-years-later threequel, while obviously showing seams of losing 1/3 of their budget immediately before production, and then losing the ability to shoot a planned ending and pickups due to pandemic.

(You can also see the edges of a planned plotline that got cut for budget before the shooting script.)

agree it’s not v good

it's v not bad though

Personally would not go as far as “v” even with 4 layers of special pleading tbh

it's a Bill & Ted sequel imo

here we fuckin go

Warner Bros. has set a date for 'Wonka,' an origin story focusing on the storied chocolate factory ownerhttps://t.co/S2UgVSzuqg

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 19, 2021

I've always wondered what was going through the heads of the guys who poured the foundations, did the brickwork, etc. How did that wacky factory get built, is what I wanna know!

Hopefully this sets the stage for more prequels about famous fictional buildings. Film audiences are hungry for effortlessness!

haha yeah, the whole movie is just gonna be wonka meeting with city officials to get the permits.

"ok, so the building will be 5-square miles in area, 500 feet tall, and will go even further underground. also, there will be a nightmare cave."

climax scene is inspectors telling Wonka his buildings aren't up to code as they're made up entirely of food.

and Wonka killing them

Oh, lol, I overlooked the word 'owner' in that tweet. But let's just keep pretending that it's about the factory, that's fun.

And anyway, wasn't Burton's remake already a goddamn Wonka origin story? Chrrrrrist, just fucking try for once, Hollywood.

There's racist stuff in the book about him going to a foreign country to get oompa loompa slaves.

Not clicking that link. So, who is the person in the photo? Looks like a third Edgerton brother created from the toenail clippings and bodily wastes of the other two...

Netflix is currently working on its own Wonka content, with Taika Waititi (Thor: Love and Thunder) writing, directing, and executive producing two animated series based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. One will be a more traditional adaptation, while the second provides a wholly original take on Wonka's singing factory workers: Oompa-Loompas.

It's Wonka-mania out there.

The kids are screaming for it. Incessantly.

it's paul king of paddington/the mighty boosh

I'm expecting Coming 2 America to be an experience a little like The Force Awakens -- I will have an involuntary wide-eyed smile and reflexively chuckle throughout the movie but it will be purely a pavlovian response to various cues in the film. I will walk away remembering almost none of it.

It should be a fun movie to find via voice-activated remote.

NOOOO, not Coming to America! Coming 2 America! 'Two', not 'to'!... GODDAMMIT, NO!

Not a flick but

The CW has ordered a pilot for ‘THE POWERPUFF GIRLS’ live-action series.

The series follows the trio as “disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting.” pic.twitter.com/P1BddfDgjX

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 9, 2021

Um.

Fucking ideas, how do they work?

HBO MAX announces 'VELMA,' an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. voiced by Mindy Kaling.

Stunt casted v.o. is taking food out of the mouth of actual voice actors!

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was about the kids in primary school, already friends and solving mysteries together.

Velma was mostly the same as her older incarnation—intelligent and soft-spoken with thick eyeglasses. The most evident change to her character was that she owned a briefcase-sized mobile computer that could determine who the culprit was in any particular episode. Velma also owned an oversized engine-propelled skateboard with a color scheme similar to the Mystery Machine, which all the characters could ride on. She had a distinctive gait during longer walks or runs (rapidly-shuffling feet), and a distinctive dance style borrowed from Peanuts character 5 (as he appears during the dance scene in A Charlie Brown Christmas)

The subsequent series What's New, Scooby Doo? included

a flashback to Velma's fifth birthday, using the character designs from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, albeit with some modifications, such as Daphne wearing purple rather than pink. Fred and Velma were the only returning characters to speak in the flashback

So if it properly respects Scooby canon, this "adult-focused comedy" will be about the adventures of a four-year-old or younger girl.

The show follows how she loses her briefcase-sized mobile computer that can determine who the culprit is

and it winds up in the hands of.....

Inspector Gadget

who then also loses it

Adam Wingard's Not Making a Face/Off Remake—It's a Sequel https://t.co/QBlQVazq1x pic.twitter.com/y8d6mdXyxb

— io9 (@io9) February 12, 2021

Face/...ON!

Face/Lift, more like.

Face/Swap

Face/Butt

there shld be a Face / Off every two years by a different director and with two different leads

or just use Statham every time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLGD8g7pTfo

I'm gonna put your face....back on your face

here's that scene without most of the jokes cut out

there shld be a Face / Off every two years by a different director and with two different leads

i would prefer this over the biennial freaky friday movie

Hello, Cruel World. New Trailer Tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/oAFK0epmbB

— Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) February 16, 2021

they’re jokerfying cruella de vil