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Pota.
Not the first at all, but it screamed what happened next to chuck.
Most films finished with everything tied in neat bunches.
A trend for open ended films that made you think kinder became more common in 60s and were de rigeur by the 70s.
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I don't have the answer, but let me say: if we dismiss the racist film, "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze" announced a sequel at the end of the film. Some reports say some of it was filmed, others seem to indicate that wasn't so. The script was written and re-written, and Robert O. Ragland did some demos.
I'm still waiting for "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money".
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Apr 24, 2016 - 4:54 PM
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Mike_J
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Pota.
Not the first at all, but it screamed what happened next to chuck.
Exactly. Amazing ending, but it wasn't really an intentional opening for another film.
Back in those days, there really wasn't any consideration of "franchise" films. Hence, the ending of the original PotA was just open ended and not designed to lead into a sequel. Proof of the pudding on that is, in Beneath, the blew the whole Apes planet to smithereens so at that time clearlly didn't consider the possibility of a third movie (despite all the many shortcomings and continuity errors in Escape from the Palnet of The Apes, you have to hand it to writer Paul Dehn for pulling that one out of the hat, after the planet and all the characters were apparently blown to oblivion in Beneath).
Applying the current studio thinking to movies, where every film is guaranteed a sequel if the first one does good box office, you can easily see how Gone with the Wind would have spawned a sequel back in the day (Gone with the Wind II: Tomorrow is another day). I liked it in the old days, when they only thought about follow ups after the first movie was a hit. Nowadays, you can imagine that, if a major studio made a film version of of, say, MacBeth, they would automatically sign up the talent to at least two sequels (Banquoy's Revenge and Fall of the Thane of Cawdor).
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So i cant have pota? Even though it was open ended, begged for a sequel and got 4 of them? Tough crowd on this thread.
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Apr 24, 2016 - 5:53 PM
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So i cant have pota? Even though it was open ended, begged for a sequel and got 4 of them? Tough crowd on this thread.
Actually I thought of it more as a proper conclusion of the story. Mystery solved. No reason they couldn't do more films of course.
I for one wish the '68 original never got a sequel. I was disappointed with BENEATH and BATTLE, and ESCAPE and CONQUEST were good back in the day, when i was only twelve and thirteen, but they haven't aged well with me at all.
Now, the new APES movies are interesting because they're trying to be prequels to the original, with a more intelligent scenario as to how it all began than what the '70s sequels proposed. I actually don't think about the old APES sequels any more, and would think of them less if only Fox would stop selling the original as the "first chapter in the APES saga," which it really isn't.
Charlton Heston didn't think the original needed a sequel, and I agree with him.
The problem with franchise, or series, films today is they don't come to satisfactory conclusions. They play merely as prelude to the next one to come -- if the boxoffice is good, that is. This is true of the new APES movies, but also the Bonds and everything else.
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We take them for granted now. But what was the first movie that left the door open for a sequel?
Hmm. I wonder if FOUR DAUGHTERS (1938) did this. It spawned at least 3 sequels.
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