Least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise/IP-based flick of 2025

"Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr." clinches my vote.

Not going with Now You See 3?

Not seeing anything from here, hmm, maybe it's in a lower league.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twisted_Childhood_Universe

Now You See Me 3 might be the most puzzling, yes. Who's asking for this?

Not even the guy who wrote the books can get the Witcher right. For all their sins, you do gotta hand it to CD Projekt Red for nailing the games

Naked Gun Remake? Surely you can't be serious

xxxp

Was going off this list, which didn't include Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2025

Also had to cut some video game adaptation (Until Dawn) to get the list down to just 50.

Tron: Ares, because I have no interest in "Tron but with Jared Leto".

A Looney Tunes movie? I might actually want to see that.

The Jurassic Park franchise has been thrown in a bin, and is now dripping with discarded beans and tin can juice.

The Naked Gun reboot I am cautiously optimistic for, because there are at least some decent names involved.

pls call it Now You Three Me

Wolf Man is no The Invisible Man ftr

an abundance of options here. at first i was leaning Freakier Friday, which initially irritated me since the fourth remake of the same concept really does not need its own special title. now I'm more annoyed to discover it is actually a lega-sequel to the 2003 film, reuniting Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. in theory that means it could actually tread new thematic ground, but this whole trend of quasi-remakes with the same old casts is generally pretty grim.

live action Lilo & Stitch and Snow White are also contenders, both for carrying on this horrible Disney remake conveyor belt, and specifically for doing it to films that really are distinctive/magical/special to begin with. presumably they'll be just as bad and pointless as all the others tho.

Superman might actually be good, and feels less superfluous than some of these because the concept is pure gold and yet has somehow only got two solid movies over all these years. same with Fantastic Four except it's never even had one good movie.

Avatar 2 was watchable and often lovely - seems reasonable to think 3 might do the same. at least those are just regular old sequels, with the same maniacal author continuing the ongoing story of the main characters, rather than disguised remakes or exercises in trademark extension disguised as "universe building."

James Schamus remaking The Wedding Banquet with a new director is a truly odd decision to me, but almost plausible as a creative and commercial proposition ... I haven't seen the original but from my understanding of it, it seems lik you could actually do new and relevant things with that basic story in 2025, and probably reach a huge audience that will never ever have heard of the Ang Lee version. huh. i should get around to the first one i guess.

in the end, come on this has to be Jurassic World: Rebirth. a "rebirth" coming in just three years after capping a supposed "trilogy " with a film absolutely nobody liked, which already tried to juice audience interest by bringing in the beloved cast of the 1993 film, following an appealingly demented but similarly misbegotten second entry in this generally misbegotten series of sequel/remakes. i mean who are they trying to fool? the very title proclaims recycled franchise dross.

The Bride! (remake of Bride of Frankenstein)

Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal! Starring Christian Bale as Frankenstein's monster! Features "big dance numbers"!

This could go either way.

1997’s Anaconda isn’t a movie that one would typically think of as a comedy, but that’s how Sony Pictures is reimaging the franchise with comedy stalwarts Paul Rudd and Jack Black and director Tom Gormican.

I think this is my vote.

my Anaconda don’t want none unless it’s got fun, hon.

A CIA-focused FBI spinoff is in the works at CBS.

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— CBR (@CBR) January 22, 2025

where's 28 Semesters Later?

They should have at least waited 28 years after the original film, but strike while the iron is hot I guess.

Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal! Starring Christian Bale as Frankenstein's monster! Features "big dance numbers"!

Barbie is gonna have a lot to answer for, huh?

How to Train Your Dragon (live action)

Kinda leaning toward this one just because I hate the fact that they call these photorealistic CGI remakes "live action" — no they're fucking not! At best, if there's a live human in there interacting with the motion-capture or CGI characters, it's a Roger Rabbit type deal.

Side note: I have no idea who Henry Danger is, but I initially misread that as Henry Darger: The Movie, and that could have some potential, but in the current climate around sexuality it would probably result in torch-wielding mobs burning down theaters.

The live action how to train your dragon is at the very least the one that made me roll my eyes the hardest when I saw a trailer at the movies recently, though I see on this list that there is also a Lilo & Stitch live action movie, which seems like an even worse idea.

My kids are really excited about the Dog Man movie (even my 16 year old wants to see it, I guess he has fond memories of the books), so that will almost certainly be our next family outing to the movies when it comes out next week.

Great opportunity to sell some Dog Star Man tickets

voting for jurassic world, that series has been creatively bankrupt for two decades now

im sure enough other people will vote for the totally pointless how to train your dragon live action

I did feel some alarm seeing the HTTYD trailer and realizing we're at the point where only fifteen years need separate the animated movie and the CGI-animated remake. Of course, virtually every single one of these things has been so irksomely wrong-headed in terms of what might connect with an audience emotionally or catch hold of a child's imagination. (David Lowery's Pete's Dragon was nice, but had the benefit of starting from exceedingly mediocre source material.)

I love these polls, voted Smurfs

Somehow the fourth Smurfs film and *third" attempt at a Smurfs series since 2011.

Maybe the combination of Rihanna as Smurfette and Kurt Russell as Papa Smurf will finally unlock the magic chemistry they've been seeking all this time.

They should make a live action Smurfs movie with real Smurfs.

Den Of Thieves 2 supposedly a trashy attempt at a Melvillian gangster film so I approve, in principle anyway.

New Looney Tunes supposed to be good too.

I was going to say Star Trek: Section 31 looks promising based on the cast (Tatiana Maslany, Paul Giamatti, Tig Notaro, Robert Picardo) but that's the also upcoming Starfleet Academy.

What angers me about the Smurfs these days is that both the original Franco-Belgian comics and the 80's tv show were known as Os Estrumpfes in Portugal, a tweaking of the original Les Schtroumpfs. But ever since Neil Patrick Harris got involved they are marketed as "os Smurfs" back home and now there's a generation that doesn't even know what an Estrumpfe is. Society is in the gutter.

What angers me about the Smurfs these days

thank you for this

Oh they will know what Estrumpfe is, I assure you

these "live action" remakes make me a bit sad. as a kid who really only used to enjoy cartoons and had no interest in watching live-action anything it's a bit "just because you can doesn't mean you have to" for me

only fifteen years need separate the animated movie and the CGI-animated remake

Nine years and eight months, if Moana hits its release date.

a "rebirth" coming in just three years after capping a supposed "trilogy " with a film absolutely nobody liked

This part's funny to me. We have the Jurassic Park trilogy, the Jurassic World "trilogy", and a new sequel which drops the World cast and is pitched as being a return to the "tone" of the Park trilogy. The pattern would seem to suggest picking a new name for a new trilogy, but nope, it's Jurassic World Rebirth.

Jurrasic Park: World: Rebirth 3: The Jurassicaning

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

is this like muppet babies?

Is that really Saw ELEVEN??
(sorry I don't read Roman)

Where have the years gone?

How can the same thing happen to the same guy 11 times

Saw XI vs. Ocean's Eleven

There's also Greta Gerwig's Chronicles of Narnia reboot

but that's promising!

Not 'til 2026.

ah

and now apparently Egger's sequel to Labyrinth

Looking forward to E.T. 2 in 2028

Holding out for 3T myself.

E.T. 2: Brute

Y tu mamá alien

reviews are arriving for 'star trek: section 31' and they are not great

I bailed after the third scene where the Suicide Squad stood in a circle and argued/made wacky jokes.

E.T. 2: Brute

Post not getting the recognition it deserves.

Jurassic World imo

can confirm that Star Trek Section 31 is garbage but i’ve already seen it so i’m voting based on anticipation or lack thereof

I keep thinking that making decent Jurassic Park/World movies shouldn't be that difficult yet somehow they keep doing it wrong

Hard to come up with stories that aren’t just slight variations of the original unless you have like a tender family comedy about misfits running a successful and peaceful Dino zoo.

they forgot to put dinosaurs in the last one so they're trying again

XP We Bought A Dino Zoo

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Predator: Badlands could be promising if it reunites Martin Sheen & Sissy Spacek

The tagline is “It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive”

oh wow my eyes totally glazed over the naked gun remake, idk what could possibly make that one successful

so zero votes for 'Anaconda' shows that it holds some promise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62scKoepHwg

snort/snooze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot0cwH6r0Lg

There should be an Aliens Vs. Predator Vs. Dinosaurs movie.

remaking a movie thats defined by a specific actor and not really anything else about it is ???

are they going to remake austin powers next

"We need DNA from the three biggest dinosaurs."

This is going to be highly intellectual, I see.

At least the Jaws sequels had the good sense to stop after four.

Although tbf that was after the Michael Caine one where the shark followed them half way across the world to exact its revenge

And inspired a classic Caine zinger!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P4CLrC2xLw

Lego Pharrell movie scrapped in post-production.

https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/pharrell-williams-michel-gondry-scrap-musical-golden-post-production-1235093027/

“When all of us got into the editing room we collectively decided there wasn’t a path forward to tell the version of this story that we originally envisioned. We appreciate all the hard work of the talented cast and crew. While we’re disappointed, we can’t deliver this film, we have incredible partners at Universal and will collaborate in a different capacity again soon,” Williams and Gondry said in a statement.

“Golden,” originally titled “Atlantis,” was a musical set during Williams’ coming-of-age years in the 1970s growing up in Virginia Beach. It starred Kelvin Harrison Jr., Halle Bailey, Brian Tyree Henry, Janelle Monáe, Missy Elliott, Quinta Brunson, Anderson .Paak, Jaboukie Young-White, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph in what would’ve been her first role since winning an Oscar for “The Holdovers.” Universal had even set a release date of May 5.

The Lego Pharrell movie already came out, that appears to be something different

Noted. Taking it over here: one time there were two magician movies