Throwaway Movie Lines That Could Inspire Whole Sequels

It’s happened earlier and it’ll hap again. As beloved IPs are scraped for additional content, studios pore implicit every line of the root worldly for inspiration. In the close hands, each notation oregon seemingly innocuous connection uttered by a Bryce Dallas Howard could perchance motorboat the adjacent Jurassic World trilogy.

Just a fewer years ago, Ghostbusters: Afterlife virtually raided the tomb of Ivo Shandor, the concisely mentioned occult designer who designed Dana’s flat building, for a hook to motorboat a caller franchise. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story took a enactment of substance from the opening crawl of Episode IV and developed its ain movie and TV series. Not to notation the precocious released A Quiet Place: Day One, a prequel inspired by a enactment of Djimon Hounsou’s dialog successful A Quiet Place Part II, oregon the the upcoming Beetlejuice Beetlejuice–which, arsenic evidenced by Monica Bellucci’s jilted bride character, developed an full communicative astir a azygous gag from the archetypal movie.

Today, we contiguous immoderate precise strange, off-handedly mentioned lines from celebrated sci-fi films and franchises that really beg to beryllium their ain stories.

King Kong (1976)

Image: Paramount Pictures

“In 1605, Fernando De Queres was blown southbound from Tenotang. He wrote of piercing the achromatic veil. That’s the unreality bank. And landing connected the formation of the skull, wherever helium heard the roar of the top beast… the remainder of that log introduction was suppressed by Rome. In 1749, a waterIogged lifeboat was recovered successful the aforesaid area. It was empty, but drawn successful humor connected the larboard was a likeness of a huge, slouchy humanoid thing. And this unusual warning: ‘From thy wedding with the carnal who touches heaven, lady—God sphere thee.’”

Of course, determination are respective small, Predator-esque vignettes to unpack from the above, but the large takeaway present is the proposition the Vatican has been willfully suppressing cognition of Skull Island for centuries. Catholicism simply cannot quadrate the beingness of an land of uniquely evolved megafauna, and an full communicative exploring this thought could precise good beryllium the top movie ne'er made.

As films astir exorcisms and the religion stay popular, a communicative replacing Satan with the specter of a elephantine gorilla feels similar a slam dunk. The beloved Shin Godzilla explored the authorities surrounding the demolition of the Fukushima reactor done the mean of a kaiju story, truthful it lone feels close King Kong should get a ace astatine thing similar—namely, a spiritual governmental thriller. Consider the latest Omen movie, and its shot of a candle-lined tabernacle, framed successful specified a mode to lucifer a quality skull. Now, ideate an full movie utilizing the aforesaid conceit with Catholic imagery to make abstract renderings of King Kong beside the Pope.

The Matrix Reloaded

Image: Warner Bros.

“Every clip you’ve heard idiosyncratic accidental they saw a ghost, oregon an angel. Every communicative you’ve ever heard astir vampires, werewolves, oregon aliens, is the strategy assimilating immoderate programme that’s doing thing they’re not expected to beryllium doing.”

While the archetypal Matrix projected experiencing deja vu was simply a “glitch” successful our simulated reality, its sequel went a measurement further, suggesting each brushwood with the supernatural successful recorded past was the strategy responding to amerciable enactment connected the internet. This is specified a bombastic portion of lore to driblet connected america and not revisit (there was an Underworld-inspired pack warfare successful the video games) it should person caused the Matrix itself to hemorrhage successful course-correcting disbelief. The accusation a family’s generational werewolf curse whitethorn person originated from a teen downloading Cannibal Holocaust connected Limewire is golden. Was Trinity the Mothman? Could Bigfoot beryllium the carnal incarnation of a shared Disney+ password? The conception could warrant a 2nd Matrix trilogy, not to notation a monster-of-the-week constabulary procedural.

RoboCop 2 and 3

Image: Orion Pictures

“On the international scene, the Amazon nuclear power facility has blown its stack, irradiating the world’s largest rain forest. Environmentalists telephone it a disaster. But don’t they always?”

“From the blazing fields of the Amazon warfare comes state-of-the-art municipality pacification…”

As mentioned successful RoboCop 2 and expounded upon successful RoboCop 3, the detonation of a atomic installation successful South America owned by North American interests led to a struggle called the “Amazon War.” Though details are hazy, an OCP-backed paramilitary unit known arsenic the “Rehabs” were known to participate—of which Cain, the person of a decorator drug-influenced cult, was a erstwhile member. An occurrence of RoboCop: The Series additionally notes OCP developed a plasma cannon for the incidental with which to disrupt force craft and armored vehicles alike.

The Amazon War is specified a fascinating idea, but we’re near to our ain imaginations to determine what followed successful its wake. Given that this is acceptable successful the continuity of RoboCop, radioactive sloths and jaguars are a fixed successful a brutal, bloody warfare movie acceptable against the unexplored territory of an irradiated rainforest, populated with perpetually mutating flora and fauna. Sort of similar Annihilation meets Salvador. Couple this with corporate-sponsored U.S. mercenaries successful a overseas state they person nary concern being in, and you person the licence to people wealth successful immoderate planetary currency.

Rollerball (1975)

Image: United Artists

“You cognize however the crippled serves us. It has a definite societal purpose. Nations are bankrupt, gone. None of that tribal warfare immoderate more. Even the firm wars are a happening of the past.”

By a akin token, the post-apocalyptic satellite of Rollerball is stated to beryllium acceptable immoderate years aft the world’s largest corporations decided to instrumentality up arms against each other. The victor, apparently, was the titular “rollerball”—a highly profitable crippled providing a convulsive distraction to a colonisation ruled by a fistful of almighty masters, where each lucifer is preceded by the solemn “Corporate Anthem.”  Of course, we’d emotion to spot a movie successful which Johnson & Johnson forms a queasy confederation with General Electric to level a crushing stroke against Nestle ft soldiers. To punctuation Ned Beatty successful Network, “There is nary America. There is nary democracy. There is lone IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the satellite today!” Our lone interest is that it whitethorn beryllium a small excessively preachy.

28 Weeks Later

Image: 20th Century Fox

“Why isn’t she showing immoderate symptoms?”

“I don’t know.

“Speculate.”

“A familial abnormality which acts arsenic immoderate benignant of earthy immunity.”

“But the microorganism is inactive successful her humor and saliva, so… technically, she’s not immune.”

“She’s a carrier.”

In the sequel to 28 Days Later—and soon-to-be prequel to 28 Years Later—it’s speculated a parent and girl sharing heterochromatic eyes (one green, 1 brown) are someway immune to the effects of the zombifying “Rage Virus.” How, exactly, the organisation of melanin could support oneself against the microorganism remains wholly speculative and unfastened to adjacent review, but let’s see what the find implies: a big of celebrities including, but by nary means constricted to, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Seymour, Simon Pegg, Henry Cavill, Christopher Walken, Kiefer Sutherland, and Riverdance’s Michael Flatley would go the inheritors of the Earth.

Forgetting for a infinitesimal idiosyncratic would surely announcement that 1 oregon much of these radical were not becoming rage zombies reasonably aboriginal connected successful the pandemic, it’s casual to envision their banal would emergence exponentially among the fewer who negociate to instrumentality it retired successful this post-apocalyptic world. Their oculus colour would beryllium noted, eventually, but apt not astatine first. Word would spread. Celebrity sightings would beryllium discussed among each pouch of survivors—”I saw Kate Bosworth get bitten, and she’s fine!” Conspiracies, religions, and imaginable fiefdoms would follow. It’s estimated six radical retired of each 10,000 shares this aforesaid mutation. If a vaccine could genuinely beryllium developed from their blood, past determination are rather a fewer candidates connected record. However, idiosyncratic would person to announcement this shared trait up of their celebrity—and would that happen, erstwhile they’re them, you’re you… and everyone other is dead? 

We crook it implicit to you, readers. Was determination an intriguing, weird ,or inconsequential enactment from a movie, book, oregon TV bid you’ve ne'er been capable to wholly forget? Pitch america your sequel ideas successful the comments.

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