Edge of Today?! A possible prequel to the action-adventure sci-fi film Edge of Tomorrow (2014)? Edge of Tomorrow is not the best name for what happens in the film, but regardless, the film concept is amazing! A prequel or origin story would make the alternate world even more exciting than it is! For those of you who haven’t watched it yet (highly recommend if you’re into action movies), I will give a brief summary.

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The movie begins by throwing you into an unknown variation of reality where aliens, named Mimics, are attempting to invade and take over. To beat the so called Mimics, the world’s joint forces created an exoskeleton that enhances a humans strength. With this new technology they were able to win their first battle with the Mimics. A media relations military officer, William Cage played by Tom Cruise, gets into trouble and is sent out to the front lines for an almost certain death. The offensive is a colossal failure and many die within seconds. Cage miraculously is able to defeat one of the Mimics and gets coated in its blood. He then dies to another Mimic, but suddenly wakes up where he was a day prior. Over his next few lives, he attempts to figure out what is happening to him and finally decides to go and talk to the hero of the only battle that has been one. Once he talks to her, Rita Vrataski played by Emily Blunt, she tells him that the same thing happened to her and that is why they won. In his next life, he seeks her out before the battle and she begins to train him over his next lives. Once he is trained enough, he sets out to the battle and makes it further with each life. His goal is to reach the Omega Mimic who controls the regular Mimics and destroy it. He is able to find out where he is with the help of Rita and ends up defeating it. He then dies due to wounds and wakes up two days prior in an alternate reality where he has his original military tittle and the Mimics are weak and helpless.

I suggest a prequel be made because I cannot think of a plot for a sequel. In a prequel, the initial battle where the humans would could be the main plot line. Writers could also go in the direction of an origin story of the Mimics and what they have gone through. Maybe this plot line could Mimic Ender’s Game which I discussed in a previous post. All in all, there are a lot of directions for the prequel to go in that will keep us guessing.

The movie did not make outrageous amounts of money, but it definitely did well enough for another movie, so that is not stopping anything. The movie’s budget was estimated to be around $178 million and it grossed about $370 million worldwide. With this profit there is no reason that there shouldn’t be a sequel.

I definitely need to see another movie in this alternate world, and I am sure I am not the only one!

The Last Witch Hunter (2015) is one of the best action fantasy movies out there! Many people including myself would be very excited for a sequel! There are many directions the writers can go, and there is a lot of potential. For those of you who don’t plan on watching (even though I highly recommend it) or forget what happened, here is a summary:

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The movie starts in a village where Kaulder’s (played by Vin Diesel) family dies from the plague and he sets off to kill the witch queen who caused it. Luckily, he is able to survive, but the queen cursed him with eternal life before he died. With this curse he sets out to hunt witches and protect humanity from them. After saving a witch from herself, Kaulder’s assistant, Dolan (played by the infamous Michael Caine), is put under a powerful spell that can only be broken by killing the witch who put him under it. Kaulder begins to follow the clues and gets advice to remember his past. With this he requests a good witches help to put him under a dream state where he can go to the memory of his initial battle with the witch queen. While in this dream state, he is attacked and does not get a chance to finish it. He requests that the witch makes another, but she lacks the rare supplies. In the meantime the witch queen is resurrected by the same witch that attacked Kaulder while he was dreaming. After this a series of battles and tricky occurs and Kaulder loses his immortality to the witch queen. He is still able to go into the dream state and finds out that their hearts are connected, so if the heart is destroyed, they both die. He is willing to sacrifice himself once the get the heart, but doesn’t because the good witch persuades him that there are greater evils out there.

Obviously the movie itself is much better than what could be written in a brief summary. There are many more intricate and small elements which I think really sets an elite movie apart from just a good movie.

What would the sequel be about? Well despite the tittle, I think Kaulder could have a child and they could be the next witch hunter. This would make a good training movie where the child is challenged too. Another path the writers could follow, is moving the setting to a time period between his initial battle with the queen and the time the movie is set.

The reason the sequel has not been made is because of the limited profit of the original. The budget for the movie was approximately $90 million, and it made almost $150 million. This profit is nowhere near as much money as some of the other sequels I have written about.

The Sixth Element could be a name to a spectacular movie of its time, The Fifth Element (1997)! Compared to science fiction movies now such as Interstellar, this movie’s use of Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) is far less complex, but for its time the producers did a great job. For many people including me, this movie was far before our time, so I will give a brief summary to possibly spark some of you to watch it!

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The movie starts by showing what a great evil in the universe has done to a military ship and shows its immense power. It is a great evil that appears only every 5,000 years, and only a group of 5 elements when combined can defeat it. Four of these elements (earth, water, wind, and fire) are held within stones while the fifth element is a person named Leeloo. Gremlins that work for the great evil plot to murder Leeloo, and take the stones. They do succeed in destroying the ship she was on, but with advanced biotechnology, she is brought back to life. When she wakes she jumps out of a window due to fear, she falls into a taxi that an ex special operative named Dallas is driving. The government then reaches out to Dallas requesting his help because he develops a personal relationship with Leeloo. They then go on to battle for the stones and obtain them. Once they have the stones and reach the ancient temple, the are able to unleash the great light which defeats the great evil. The movie itself is much better than a summary I could ever write and goes much deeper into detail that makes it exciting to watch.

A possible future movie may be named The Sixth Element. The sequel’s plot may introduce an additional element into the mix such as a non-Earth material or maybe can add an element that is emotion. This could be set 5,000 years after the original with the re-emergence of the great evil. Or possible, the movie could be set 20 to 30 years after the original where the characters have children and they have to fight an early emergence or a remnant of the great evil.

We would have seen a sequel sooner, but this movie was not exactly a blockbuster. It’s estimated budget was around $93 million, and it grossed worldwide approximately $264 million. Fortunately, this movie did make a lot of money, so a sequel is very much a possibility.

There is potential for this sequel to be extremely good, but as the years go on the audience it originally captured is fading. Evidently the time is now for a sequel.

Hancock (2008) excited my wild side, and I want that same feeling again! Essentially Hancock (played by the infamous Will Smith) has super powers, but he doesn’t always use them as one would think. He is a superhero that damages property costing people millions. A sequel is needed, so we can get this same kind of thrill again!

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For those of you who didn’t get a chance to watch it or forgot what happened, I’ll give a brief review. John Hancock is an alcoholic who has a few superhuman abilities such as flight, invincibility, and superhuman strength. The public views him as a menace to society, because his actions are reckless and he cost their society millions. One day he derails a train for a man named Ray. (PS re-read that last sentence). Ray invited Hancock over for dinner and they discuss his life. In order to help Hancock, Ray tells him to go to prison until society calls upon them. After some convincing Hancock goes to prison. Then, like Ray predicted, society calls upon him to help in a bank robbery. Hancock does save the day, but he still destroyers a lot of public property while doing so. Because of their minor success, Ray and Hancock get closer to each other. As they try to increase Hancock’s public image, it is found out that Ray’s wife is Hancock’s 3,000 year old cousin (both immortals). Hancock does not remember, but Ray’s wife explains that when they get closer together, they start to become mortals. The bank robber returns, and injures them both. Hancock flies away so that they both can recover from their near fatal wounds. The movie ends with Ray’s logo on the moon 🙂 (I thought that was pretty cool)

Now what might Hancock 2 be about? Personally, I would love to see an origin story. With both super-humans being 3,000 year old, a creative writer could venture in any direction with the amount of recorded history that has happened since then. In Hancock, we were never told how they got their powers, and not much information was given at all. This allows for a sequel to go practically in any direction.

The data shows that sequel would net a lot of profit as well. The original Hancock budget was about $150 million, and it made half of that back on its opening weekend alone. Worldwide, the movie made $625 million which is extremely good for a new concept movie.

Overall, a sequel would bring great profits for the producer and bring excitement to the audience. Its still a win-win situation, so bring on the sequel!

We need a sequel to the science-fiction thriller Ender’s Game (2013)! Gavin Hood’s Ender’s Game had me on the edge of my seat throughout the movie. For those of us who try to silently guess what comes next in a movie, this one will leave you stumped and I strongly encourage you to watch it!

Without further ado it has been some time since the movie first came out, so here is a recap:

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The movie begins on an alternate Earth where humans were invaded by an alien species called the Formics. Fortunately, the humans survived the invasion and began to train gifted students over a course of 50 years to launch a counter-attack. At this point, the movie introduces Ender Wiggins who is a quiet, but brilliant teenager. The military leaders recognized his exceptional performance regarding space battles. Ender is sent to a training program in orbit around Earth that helped him hone his strategic skills. While at school, he makes many friends and some enemies. His friends help him succeed by trusting his unorthodox strategies. Ender’s enemies are jealous of his success and try to harm him, but Ender was able to outsmart them in combat. Ender begins to have doubts about the ethics of what he is doing, but he pushes onward and trusts his leaders. When, again, the military leaders recognized his exceptional ability, they transport him to a station near the alien’s planet. Once there, he is put in charge of a team and they practice the counter-attack through advanced simulations. To see if Ender is ready for the real battle, the military leaders set up a ‘final test simulation’. In this simulation Ender successfully defeated the enemy Aliens and celebrates. Shortly after his victory, he is told that the ‘final test simulation’ was actually the real battle. Ender feels extreme guilt for the lives he sacrificed and the aliens he decimated (keep in mind Ender is merely a teenager this whole time). To end the movies, he sets himself on a mission to restore the species he destroyed. The movie itself is much more exciting and complex then anyone could describe in words.

What would a sequel’s plot be? It could simply bring the viewer along on a journey throughout the solar system or an adventure on Earth to help revive the alien population. Ender’s alternate universe is completely unknown, as the movie mainly is set on Earth and space bases, so the writers could take the movie in a multitude of directions.

So why wasn’t there a sequel made in the past several years? There simply was not enough money to be made. Ender’s Game’s cast had a few A-list celebrities that most likely costed a fortune. This cast included Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, and Abigail Breslin. The complex CGI (Computer Generated Images) similarly costed millions. All factors considered the movie costed $110 million to make, and only brought in roughly $125 million. Unfortunately, with a profit margin of only $15 million, it would be too risky for the makers to fund a sequel.

We may never see a sequel to Ender’s Game, but regardless, it is a great stand alone film that is fun to watch. Maybe some day a company is willing to fund a sequel, and with that possibility I am excited.

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