Whether it's the threat of a futuristic digital consciousness, a rampaging cyborg, or just a whole lot of displaced dinosaurs, these sci-fi sequels are waiting to strike.
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00:00Whether it's the threat of a futuristic digital consciousness, a rampaging cyborg, or just
00:05a whole lot of displaced dinosaurs, these sci-fi sequels are waiting to strike.
00:10If you thought that Jurassic World Dominion was the end of the Jurassic saga, think again.
00:15It turns out a new picture is underway with original Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp
00:19leading the charge.
00:21But instead of Colin Trevorrow or Steven Spielberg directing, sci-fi stalwart Gareth Edwards
00:25is taking over for the next dinosaur blockbuster.
00:28As he told Collider at an event in February 2024,
00:31"...this is the only movie that would make me drop everything like a stone and dive right
00:35in.
00:36I love Jurassic Park."
00:37Right now, only a few story details for Edwards' Jurassic World follow-up are out there, namely
00:41that the picture, rumored to be titled Jurassic City, is set to follow a band of adults and
00:46teens as they're stranded on an island.
00:48Which dinosaur island they're stuck on remains a mystery.
00:51Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, and Rupert Friend have been confirmed
00:56to star, and production began in June 2024.
00:59As of now, the project has a release date of July 2, 2025, nestling it right between
01:03upcoming features like James Gunn's Superman reboot and Disney and Pixar sci-fi flick Elio.
01:09"...life, uh, finds a way."
01:12For years, fans wondered if a third Tron was in the cards.
01:15Though plans for a continuation were once announced, a direct sequel to 2010's Tron
01:19Legacy never happened, with Disney focusing on Star Wars and Marvel Cinematic Universe
01:23movies instead.
01:25Though initially attached to the threequel, Legacy director Joseph Kosinski eventually
01:29moved on to bigger things like Top Gun Maverick, but a third Tron wasn't entirely dead.
01:34In 2017, a reboot film was in development, but it wasn't until January 2023 that Kon-Tiki
01:39director Joachim Roening was hired to direct Tron Ares.
01:43Principal photography began a year later.
01:45Despite initial claims that the movie would be a series reboot, original Tron star Jeff
01:49Bridges is returning, which seems to confirm some kind of continuity.
01:53Though whether he's returning as Kevin Flynn or the program Clue is currently unknown.
01:58Bridges revealed on the Film Comment podcast,
02:00"...Jared Leto is the star of this third one.
02:02I'm really anxious to work with him.
02:04I've admired his work."
02:05At the time, Ares was still in production, but Bridges has since concluded work on the
02:09film, and it's now set to hit theaters on October 10, 2025.
02:14If you've been paying attention to the Skyline franchise, which launched over a decade ago,
02:18you might be familiar with its two sequels, Beyond Skyline and Skylines.
02:22You might not know that a fourth feature is coming sometime in 2025.
02:27Originally titled Skyline Radial, Skyline Warpath is set five years after the last two
02:31installments and follows Iko Weiss' Sua and Scott Atkins' Eric as they deal with the continuing
02:36alien threat.
02:37Unlike the original disaster film, Warpath will combine martial arts with the standard
02:41alien invasion plot.
02:43Franchise co-creator Liam O'Donnell, who directed the previous two and co-wrote the original,
02:48returns to the director's chair.
02:49O'Donnell has said that the film was partially inspired by Star Trek, but that's not the
02:53only major Hollywood franchise the creative team is pulling from.
02:57As he told Deadline in 2020,
02:58"...as crazy as it sounds, we see this as our own niche version of a Fast Five-slash-Avengers
03:04type of sequel where we are bringing together the characters from previous installments
03:07into a bigger, crowd-pleasing sci-fi martial arts adventure."
03:12For a while, the Predator franchise felt directionless, with various sequels getting canceled over
03:16the years, making fans wonder if we would ever get another solid installment again.
03:21Hulu changed all that with the release of Prey in 2022, and audiences and critics alike
03:26raved about the standalone prequel.
03:28Many praised Prey as the best of the series since the original 1987 film, and it's not
03:33hard to see why.
03:34It even broke streaming records for Hulu, so another Predator movie seemed almost inevitable.
03:39The next Dan Trachtenberg-directed Predator installment is currently titled Badlands.
03:44Like its predecessor, the film will feature a female lead, with Elle Fanning confirmed
03:48to star, and is rumored to be set in the future rather than the past.
03:51While no official release date has been set, the film will likely go into production sometime
03:55in 2024.
03:57In addition to Trachtenberg's next picture, a more direct Prey sequel is also in active
04:01development, with Amber Midthunder likely to return.
04:04If Prey 2 does happen, it would mark the first Predator sequel with a returning lead actor.
04:11When Disney acquired Lucasfilm, they were quick to pursue a variety of Star Wars anthology
04:15films that detailed different characters or events throughout the universe.
04:18Rogue One and Solo ended up being the only theatrically released of these anthology projects,
04:23with others like Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Book of Boba Fett being reworked into streaming
04:27miniseries.
04:28And while Solo received mixed reviews, Donald Glover's portrayal of a young Lando Calrissian
04:32was highly praised, with many hoping to see more of his take on Billy Dee Williams' original
04:36trilogy character.
04:37Hello, what have we here?
04:40Disney saw potential in young Lando, too.
04:42Though a Lando series was originally announced as a Disney Plus event, it was revealed in
04:46September 2023 that the project was actually a feature film.
04:50Donald Glover is set to star, but after Billy Dee Williams' return in The Rise of Skywalker,
04:55it's possible that both the older and younger versions of the character could appear.
05:00Though many assumed that The Rise of Skywalker would effectively close that chapter of the
05:04Star Wars universe, another Rey-centered feature is in the works with Daisy Ridley
05:08set to return.
05:10Ms. Marvel director Charmaine Aubet-Chanoy is set to helm this sequel, which is being
05:13penned by Stephen Knight of Peaky Blinders fame.
05:16The project was first announced at the 2023 Star Wars celebration, and is set to follow
05:20Rey as she establishes a new Jedi Order in the wake of Luke Skywalker's death.
05:25Right now, it's unclear if this film will bring back other sequel trilogy characters
05:29like John Boyega's Finn or Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron, but given the period set to be explored,
05:34we wouldn't be surprised if we saw some familiar faces.
05:37We may even see the Force ghost of Luke Skywalker as Rey carries on his legacy.
05:41As of July 2024, the project has been confirmed to still be in development.
05:47Since its release in 1999, it's safe to say that The Matrix has always been something
05:51of a classic.
05:53Though the lackluster sequels have left a lot to be desired, fans have kept returning
05:56to the artificial world the Wachowskis dreamed up decades ago.
06:00It was Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus who first gave Neo that infamous choice in the original
06:04film.
06:05You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
06:12Unfortunately, Fishburne didn't return for the 2022 revival, The Matrix Resurrections,
06:16which recast a new version of Morpheus with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
06:20Despite that, fans have still held fast to the original character, and there have been
06:24rumblings of a Morpheus prequel for years.
06:27In 2017, the first rumors circulated that Michael B. Jordan would play a young Morpheus
06:31in a prequel film written by Zak Penn.
06:34Penn said in 2019 that his film was set earlier in the timeline than Resurrections.
06:38Unfortunately, we haven't heard much about Penn's prequel project since, but in April
06:422024, Warner Bros. announced their plans for a new Matrix film from The Martian scribe
06:46Drew Goddard, who will also direct the picture.
06:50After three relatively successful Star Trek reboot films were released between 2009 and
06:552016, a fourth picture from Paramount seemed like a natural next step.
06:59Producer J.J. Abrams teased that Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth would both return, but
07:03by August 2018, Hemsworth and Pine exited the project.
07:07From there, Star Trek IV's fate looked sealed.
07:09As shows like Discovery and Picard kept eyes on the franchise's original timeline, the
07:13possibility of revisiting Abrams' alternate-universe continuity felt slim.
07:18Paramount's constant delays didn't help either.
07:21But in February 2022, Star Trek IV was re-announced with Abrams producing, Pine seemingly back
07:26on board, and the promise that the rest of the cast would follow.
07:29Though the film was slated to hit theaters on December 22, 2023, this also fell apart,
07:34with director Matt Shackman exiting the project.
07:37Shortly after, Paramount pulled the sequel from its release schedule, but even this setback
07:41hasn't killed the Enterprise crew just yet.
07:44In January 2024, Paramount reaffirmed its plans for more Trek pictures, including a
07:49still-untitled Star Trek IV, which is now being considered the final chapter of the
07:53reboot franchise.
07:56If you're still confused about whether the 2014 Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt sci-fi adventure
08:00is called Live, Die, Repeat or Edge of Tomorrow, or some combination of the two, you aren't
08:05the only one.
08:06But that confusion didn't stop both critics and audiences from loving the manga-inspired
08:10action flick.
08:11As early as 2015, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie told Collider that the idea for
08:16a sequel was ready to go, and director Doug Liman has continued to tease the project for
08:20years, revealing the potential title to be Live, Die, Repeat and Repeat.
08:25Emily Blunt has also expressed interest in returning, noting that Tom Cruise's Mission
08:29Impossible films keep getting in the way.
08:31In January 2024, a deal was struck between Cruise and Warner Bros. that even further
08:36opened the door for the sequel.
08:38Though no official announcement has been made, we're closer now to an Edge of Tomorrow follow-up
08:42than ever before.
08:45After the last few attempts at prolonging the Terminator franchise, especially 2019's
08:49Terminator Dark Fate, it's somewhat surprising that another Terminator film would be in development
08:53so soon.
08:54But as Arnold himself said it,
08:56"...I'll be back."
08:58Both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton have voiced their displeasure with how Dark
09:02Fate and its predecessors turned out, and have expressly stated that they would not
09:05be open to returning for more.
09:08Nevertheless, James Cameron hasn't completely given up on the fan-favorite cyborg just yet,
09:13discussing a return as recently as 2023.
09:15"...Stay here.
09:17I'll be back."
09:18Cameron has reiterated his desire to re-examine the modern concepts of AI through the franchise,
09:23and further revealed at 2023's Dell Technologies World Conference that he was writing the next
09:28film himself.
09:29Of course, the Terminator franchise isn't entirely dead, even without a seventh movie.
09:34Netflix's animated Terminator Zero revisits the timeline when it drops in August, and
09:38the video game Terminator Survivors is coming in October 2024.
09:42Still, the prospect that Cameron himself is penning the next installment is good news.
09:46"...I'll be back."
09:48"...What?"
09:49Terminator isn't the only franchise James Cameron is currently expanding.
09:53After his 2009 blockbuster Avatar, Cameron has fought hard to sustain the world of Pandora
09:57through various multimedia projects and planned many sequels to further explore this alien
10:02paradise.
10:032022 saw the release of the acclaimed Avatar the Way of Water, which reunited Cameron and
10:07the Avatar cast after over a decade.
10:10Its box office returns ensured we'd see some sequels in the future.
10:13As early as 2019, the director has been teasing up to five films in the series, with tentative
10:18titles like The Seedbearer, The Tulkun Rider, and The Quest for Aiwa.
10:23The first is set to hit theaters on December 19, 2025, the second on December 21, 2029,
10:29and the third on December 19, 2031.
10:32But if you thought that James Cameron would be satisfied with only five Avatar films,
10:36think again.
10:37The filmmaker revealed to People magazine that he's already planning more films if the
10:40next few go well, saying,
10:42"...We're fully written through movie five, and I've got ideas for six and seven, although
10:46I'll probably be handing the baton on at that point.
10:49But I mean, we're enjoying what we're doing, we're loving it."
10:52It sounds like what we've seen of Pandora thus far is only the tip of the iceberg.
10:57The entire Stargate timeline is something of a nightmare to navigate, but generally
11:00speaking, it consists of the original 1994 film, three live-action television series,
11:05an animated show, some made-for-TV movies, and a miniseries prequel.
11:10If that sounds confusing, that's probably why Amazon-slash-MGM is looking to reboot
11:14the franchise after all these years.
11:17Back in 2022, Amazon was open to pitches for a number of the properties they obtained from
11:21MGM, including the beloved sci-fi adventure series.
11:24Though a television continuation of the Stargate SG-1 timeline was previously in development,
11:29those plans fell through during the COVID-19 pandemic.
11:32SG-1 co-creator Brad Wright told fans in a 2022 Reddit AMA,
11:36"...I suspect they're also considering starting fresh, without any of the baggage of previous
11:41iterations."
11:42As of April 2023, Amazon was still working on developing both film and television Stargate
11:47projects, with talks currently discussing a feature to kick the whole thing off.
11:51Hopefully we can get another gate open soon.
11:55Also acquired in Amazon's purchase of MGM was the RoboCop franchise.
11:59"...I'd buy that for a dollar."
12:02The series currently consists of three movies, four series, some video games and comics,
12:06and a 2014 remake that didn't quite live up to the hype.
12:10Over the years, there have been various rumors of some sort of RoboCop continuation, like
12:14a direct sequel to the original 1987 action flick, a continuation of the 2014 reboot,
12:19a Neil Blomkamp-directed follow-up, and the Abe Forsythe-helmed RoboCop Returns.
12:24In each case, RoboCop failed to live again.
12:27Amazon's buyout of MGM prompted the streamers' plans to develop RoboCop into both a television
12:32series as well as a feature film.
12:34Though these plans were announced in early 2023, there haven't been any updates.
12:39Given all the other revival films being made today, it's possible we might get another
12:43RoboCop in the future.
12:45Will Peter Weller return to the role as he did for the 2023 video game RoboCop Rogue
12:49City?
12:50With no filmmakers attached and no pending release date, we aren't holding our breath
12:53for a movie anytime soon.