What was the first PREQUEL? and PREQUELS: S&D

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Search: The Godfather 2, a prequel wrapped in a sequel. Infernal Affairs 2.
Destroy: The new Star Warses.

Prequel I want to see Peter Jackson make one of these days: The Hobbit.

― chris, Sunday, 29 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Search: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

― chris, Sunday, 29 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Temple of Doom was a prequel, yes? I can't think of a 100% bonafide prequel that came before that one. But I'm sure there is one.

― Deric W. Haircare, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

someone else is doing the hobbit prequel

― cutty, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

The Hobbit isn't a prequel, unless you're just talking about the upcoming film.

I think there's a difference between a prequel that simply features the same character in an earlier point in history (like Temple of Doom) and a prequel that has a direct connection to the events of the original story (like the Star Wars prequels).

― Tuomas, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

i'll bet there was a prequel made before 1930.

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

butch and sundance: the early years.

― pisces, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Acordding to imdb, the first prequel in film was "The Nightcomers" (1972)[2] based on the book by Henry James prequeling all the previously made movies based on his novel The Turn of the Screw.

-Wikipedia

The article also claims that the word 'prequel' was made up for the press pack of Godfather II.

― chap, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Emmanuelle Deflowered.

― Casuistry, Sunday, 29 April 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

The Conception of a Nation

― lindseykai, Sunday, 29 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

Does Young Frankenstein count? I'd assume that it would have to, by any measure.

― Deric W. Haircare, Sunday, 29 April 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

It's either "Man Getting a Bucket to Wash His Horse With" or "Packing For a Voyage to the Moon."

― nabisco, Sunday, 29 April 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

the aeneid

― Frogman Henry, Sunday, 29 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

how would young frankenstein count?! it's set like 100 years after the original!

― s1ocki, Sunday, 29 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

(obv ignoring the fact that it's hardly... uh... "canon")

― s1ocki, Sunday, 29 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

"Workers A Few Minutes Before Leaving Factory, Working."

― Casuistry, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, s1ocki. I forgot the <sarcasm> tags.

― Deric W. Haircare, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

i think the hobbit film would count as a prequel even though the book came first...

― chris, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

train arrives at station ("it'll scare the shit out of you") was followed by "train leaves the last station" and was sold as the flashback bit that explains the front story of the first.

― Alan, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know what proportion of the first 15 years of cinema/the projected moving image is even documented. hard to make big claims about it.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Emmanuelle Deflowered.

hahahahahahahahaha

― nickalicious, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

seven years pass...

news of the Sopranos possible prequel TV show made me think of this.

― piscesx, Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:47 (eleven years ago)

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