“They’re making a sequel to Gerry?”
Sequels and prequels are quite the rage. If the first movie was good, seeing how they got there must be better. You liked the characters before? Well, here they are again on a new adventure…whether it makes sense or not. Therein is the biggest issue with sequels. Isn’t their story done? Do we need to see that backstory in action? This just the first thing bringing the need to make a sequel or prequel may hurt the original story.
Author James Harrington looks over the craze of sequels in movies and his home turf of novels and suggests some improvements to the concept.
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