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Without diving too deeply into the divided responses to Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections, it’s clear that late sequels are becoming increasingly the norm. If a once-popular property can be revived, it will be, if there’s even a single cast member still alive (though technology, I suppose, is making even that consideration increasingly irrelevant). Matrix 4 took 18 years to come to the screen—on the long side for sequel gestation, but not the longest. It’s also a case in which a series that was well and truly done is getting a revival, necessary or otherwise.
Within the next month, the fifth Scream movie (titled, confusingly, Scream) is coming to theaters, with only a scant 11 years having passed between sequels. Slasher franchises are notoriously hard to kill, so this one’s less surprising, although the series had previously been the province of director Wes Craven. The director’s death in 2015 means that this is the first Scream movie for which he wasn’t involved. Whether that means that the film will be a complete reinvention or a tribute remains to be seen. Both modes can work.
It’s tempting to guess at what’s coming next, but I’d guess we’re going to continue to see more direct sequels and slightly fewer reboots...neither style is inherently better than the other, but sequels pack a bit more of a concentrated nostalgia punch (Ghostbusters: Afterlife didn’t really do better than the 2016 reboot, but it definitely stirred up a lot less shit). Here are some recent, long-awaited (or not) sequels that worked.
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