From Hellboy to Spider-Man: the movie sagas that were left unfinished

Beyond enjoying a good movie, something that moviegoers like is being able to have more installments of their favorite films. However, even though sagas like Star Wars Rocky or even, Harry Potter have marked generations and had memorable closures, there are other narratives that remained unfinished in the history of cinema.

Whether due to production problems, budget or creative differences, over time there have been some products of the Hollywood industry that have left a bad taste in the mouth among the regular fans. That is why below is a recount of the films that promised more deliveries, but remained in a sad hope.

It was in 2005 when the adaptation of the book The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe made it to the big screen. Thus, the story of four brothers who find a magical wardrobe that takes them to an extraordinary world and full of all kinds of mythological beings and dangers, it began to gain popularity among the young people of the time.

next to the lion Aslanthe sequels were not made wait and in 2008 came prince caspian, and then continue with The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 2010, but, although the latest installment titled The Silver Chair hit theaters, this never happened.

And it is that the books written by CS Lewis between 1950 and 1956 were originally seven, so not only one edition would have been aired, but it was missing: The horse and his child, The magician’s nephew Y The last battle.

It should be noted that in 2017, the film director Joe Johnston reported in an interview during the Comic-Con of Paris that the movie was planned The Silver Chair and its premiere was expected for approximately 2019.

“It will take a couple of years to make the film, but we won’t be able to start shooting it until next winter (…) We will be in New Zealand, in the South Island, where it will be summer. Then post-production and visual effects and everything else will take a year. So, it will be 2019″ said the famous filmmaker.

Although it was never officially said what were the reasons why this film was no longer made, something that surprised the fans was that Netflix acquired the rights to the franchise in 2018, which could be a reason to stop the other project.

Thus, the company streaming noted that they planned to do a series of The Chronicles of Narnia and give a fresher spin to the production.

According to the statement, all titles will be produced by Netflix and Entertainment One; while Douglas Gresham and Vincent would be in charge of supervising the development of the different projects.

For lovers of comics, hell boy (2004 and 2008) is one of the most memorable sagas that exist and was directed by Guillermo del Toro in his first and second films. However, although the red creature with the amputated horns -played by Ron Perlman- was waiting for the closure of his trilogy, this never took place.

It was Mike Mignola himself, creator of the comics, who revealed during an interview for Nerdist in 2017, the reasons why the third installment of this story was no longer carried out.

“I would have loved if Guillermo del Toro had made the third movie and finished the story. But over time it became very clear that this was not going to happen. About three years ago, both the producers and the writer Andrew Cosby and I started working on this new story. Del Toro wanted nothing to do with this, because he wasn’t going to direct it. We offered him to be a producer because Ron Perlman said he wouldn’t do it without Guillermo del Toro.”said the creator of the character.

According to the artist, after failing to reach an agreement with the Mexican film director, decided not to make a third film and opted for a reboot which would be released in 2019.

“Once we had Neil Marshall we thought: ‘Why are we going to have to continue with that universe?’ Because a del Toro movie is a del Toro movie. Y you don’t want to give such a personal movie to someone else. Especially someone as great as Neil Marshall. That was how we came to opt for a reboot instead of a third party.

Even in February 2022, when all hope for the followers of this saga seemed lost, Ron Perlman is back to get fans excited about the possibility of a third installment.

The actor mentioned that he would be willing to retake the character in case Guillermo del Toro was once again considered to direct.

In this sense, it is worth mentioning that the first film of hell boy grossed nearly $100 million at the box office; the sequel topped $160 million in theaters worldwide. When Del Toro (two awards Oscar by the shape of water) suggested carrying out hell boy 3 estimated the production budget at USD 120 million.

One of the film franchises that caused the most controversy in recent years was The Amazing Spider-Man (The amazing Spiderman) , which was released in 2012 and starred Andrew Garfield. This film marked a starting point for the followers of Marvel, Well, after several years of cataloging Tobey Maguire as “the original” Spiderman, the actor in films like To a man either Social network promised to take the arachnid sagas to a new level.

After opening and grossing a total of $7.5 million during midnight screenings and a total of $35 million on its first day of screenings, hopes for more of these films began to rise, but although in 2012 Sony announced that the saga would be a trilogy, everything remained a promise, since the last film titled The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Electro’s Menace it premiered in 2014.

From that moment, the third film was left without a date and in 2017 it was released Spider-Man: Homecoming, which represented a different stage for the arachnid man, Well, it starred Tom Holland and Zendaya.

Fans of the saga played by Andrew Garfield were waiting and, to their surprise, in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) the well-known “multiverse” was present and Andrew Garfield with Tobey Maguire They reappeared on the big screen.

Given this, social network users again asked for the third installment of the promised trilogy to be made The Amazing Spider-Man, but the official account of Sony in Twitterput a stop to the rumours.

“Yes, we have seen the hashtag. No, we decide what movies we make. We are only the communication team ”, it could be read.

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