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00:00Despite their commercial potential, sequels can be tough to pull off artistically because they require filmmakers to deliver an experience that's consistent with what came before, whilst also feeling like something new altogether.
00:13Countless sequels have failed because they either strayed too far from what viewers loved the first time around, or just felt like a lazy rehash of the original concept.
00:23But where these upcoming sequels are concerned, these ones might have what it takes to be serious improvements on their predecessors.
00:32I'm Ewan, this is WavCulture, and here are a bunch of yet-to-be-released movie sequels that could be huge improvements.
00:40First up, Mortal Kombat 2.
00:452021's Mortal Kombat reboot was fine.
00:48It certainly delivered a bevy of bloody action as fans of the franchise would have expected, but it left a lot to be desired on the story and character front, which is, you know, arguably, like, more important.
01:01Like, for starters, where the hell was Johnny Cage?
01:05That's my best impression of the announcement voice.
01:08I'm really trying to build my repertoire of voices here.
01:10Please let me know in the comments section if I should persist.
01:13Either way, the good news is that the impending sequel, titled Mortal Kombat 2, will be rectifying the cagelessness of its predecessor,
01:22with the great Karl Urban roped in to play the fan-favorite martial artist slash moody star from the video games.
01:29The trailers certainly suggest that Urban is having a ton of fun playing Cage,
01:33and in addition to this, the sequel also introduced other iconic combatants,
01:38such as Katana, Jade, Quan Chi, Shao Kahn, Sindel, and Baraka, which, yeah, that's a great roster.
01:47But perhaps the biggest relief to fans of the gaming franchise is that the protagonist of the first film, Cole Young, played by Louis Tan,
01:55appears to have been relegated to glorified cameo duty this time around.
01:59Given that he was an original creation for the first movie and functioned as a rather pointless audience surrogate character,
02:08the fact that his presence is being seriously curtailed should help Mortal Kombat 2 be a vastly superior sequel.
02:15Next up, Fast 11.
02:18Or maybe Fast XI, whatever it's going to be called.
02:21The most recent Fast and Furious movie, Fast X, was frankly a lot of old tosh.
02:26Even for the series' rather loosey-goosey standards, post the seventh installment in the franchise.
02:33But for Fast X specifically, we reached a whole new Nadir with this one.
02:37It's never felt more tired and on autopilot than it did here,
02:42with a bland script, played out action sequences, and a resoundingly lame cliffhanger ending,
02:49which, oh, Vin, what are we doing here?
02:52Were it not for Jason Momoa's wildly over-the-top performance as villain Dante Reyes,
02:58basically the Fast and Furious Joker, Fast X would have been outright forgettable.
03:03But there is some scant promise for the next one,
03:06which Vin Diesel has promised will be a more back-to-basics affair,
03:10returning to the franchise's street racing roots in Los Angeles,
03:14while dialing back the cartoonish, globe-trotting action super-spy... stupidity.
03:20And again, take this with a huge grain of salt,
03:23but Fast XI has also been confirmed to be the final entry in the mainline series,
03:28and so it's fair to assume that Diesel and company will be attempting to cook up something meaningful,
03:34and potentially it could be an emotional farewell to the fanbase.
03:37Though it's reasonable to just be, you know, a little concerned about Diesel's claims
03:42that the late Paul Walker's Brian O'Connor will make an appearance in the film,
03:47presumably through VFX trickery once again,
03:50at least the creatives appear to have listened to the vocal criticism of the last movie,
03:55which again was...
03:56shit bad.
03:58On the way, Scary Movie 6.
04:00There was genuine surprise when a sixth entry into hit horror spoof franchise Scary Movie
04:06was announced last year,
04:07considering the spoof genre more or less died a painful death in the 2010s
04:12with the rise of social media,
04:14and such bad movies as Meet the Spartans,
04:18and...
04:18was it superhero movies?
04:19Well,
04:20oh man,
04:21those were bad.
04:22Moreover,
04:232013's Scary Movie 5 was an absolute dumpster fire of a film,
04:28a charmless,
04:29virtually laugh-free slog of a movie,
04:31which was universally panned by critics,
04:33confirming beyond any doubt
04:35that the series had finally run its course.
04:37And so,
04:38while it's absolutely fair to say that the bar is firmly in hell for Scary Movie 6,
04:44it's also a prime example of a series that,
04:46despite the tawdry quality of its later entries,
04:49is still held in fondly nostalgic regard by many cinephiles.
04:54Furthermore,
04:55the horror genre has changed considerably over the last decade plus,
04:59ensuring the sequel shouldn't want for a fresh angle or new material to draw from.
05:05And above all else,
05:07Scary Movie 6 was recently confirmed to star Anna Faris and Regina Hall,
05:12reprising their roles as Cindy and Brenda respectively,
05:15after conspicuously sending out the previous entry.
05:18So,
05:19that's another plus.
05:20With these elements in play,
05:21it's pretty much mathematically impossible for Scary Movie 6 to not be
05:25at least a solid-ish improvement over the last film,
05:29even if it's just like a,
05:31a little solid,
05:32like,
05:33like a smidge.
05:34The consistency is,
05:35you know,
05:36it's healthy,
05:37but,
05:38you know,
05:39it's,
05:39it's acceptable.
05:40Next up,
05:41we're holding out for a hero,
05:43Shrek 5.
05:44As iconic as the Shrek franchise remains to this very day,
05:49it's also inarguable that the series' quality peaked with its terrific second film,
05:54after which the lore of diminishing returns swiftly kicked in across the next two sequels.
06:002010's Shrek Forever After was a fairly mediocre finale,
06:05enough that fans vocally rallied for DreamWorks to produce another movie,
06:09and in 2027,
06:11they'll finally get their wish.
06:12It's like a whopping, like, what, like, 20?
06:1426 years?
06:15Since the first Shrek?
06:18Ah!
06:20Brief existential crisis aside,
06:23though we don't know much about the plot of Shrek 5,
06:25it's probably fair to assume that it'll deal with the legendary ogre
06:29entering middle age and dealing with being a parent to teen triplets,
06:34one of whom we know will be voiced by Zendaya.
06:37This isn't to say that Shrek 5 will be a banger on par with the first two films,
06:42but there's also clear scope for a Shrek legacy sequel to add something worthwhile to the franchise,
06:48far beyond being just another Shrek sequel, as the previous installment was.
06:54Next up, we don't want none.
06:56Bad movie sequels.
06:58Anaconda.
06:59Okay, so we're admittedly stretching the definition of the word sequel here,
07:04but the new Anaconda movie is certainly tough to quantify.
07:08Something of a soft reboot for the horror franchise,
07:11this new film is effectively a meta legacy sequel to the original 1997 Jennifer Lopez starring movie,
07:19with Jack Black and Paul Rudd playing a pair of goofy pals who head into the Amazon
07:24to remake their favorite childhood movie, which was Anaconda.
07:29You know, no judgment.
07:30I'm just saying, you know, like, there are better childhood movies to have out there.
07:34Like, you know, the Digimon movie?
07:36That's a movie everyone can agree is great.
07:38Stop getting sidetracked, you.
07:39The rub with this one is that once they start shooting,
07:44a real giant Anaconda shows up, and all hell breaks loose.
07:49The Tropic Thunder route is certainly a delightfully unhinged angle for a new Anaconda movie,
07:56and considering the original film is more of a trashy, guilty pleasure
08:00than a genuinely good romp in its own right,
08:03there's a lot of potential here for this quasi-sequel monstrosity
08:08to actually be an improvement.
08:10Like, just going off the crew alone,
08:12it's co-written and directed by Tom Gormacken,
08:15who did a fabulous job on the unbearable weight of massive talent a few years back,
08:20so don't be surprised if this new Anaconda movie few people were probably asking for
08:26actually breathes fresh life into this dubious franchise.
08:31Yep, they're doing another.
08:33Insidious 6.
08:34The Insidious franchise has admittedly been wildly hit and miss ever since its inception,
08:41though there's a strong consensus that 2023's fifth film,
08:45Insidious The Red Door, was among the weaker entries,
08:48despite that wonderful cover of Stay With Me by Ghost and star Patrick Wilson,
08:53which was just...
08:55Ah, that's the good stuff.
08:57One of the chief complaints was that medium Elise Rainier, played by Lin Shay,
09:01was relegated to a thankless cameo,
09:04despite being by far the franchise's most popular character,
09:08and basically, it's only real, enduring protagonist.
09:12But for the recently confirmed upcoming installment,
09:15it was confirmed that Lin Shay will reprise her role as Elise in a leading capacity,
09:20which is just...
09:21Yeah, let's go!
09:23Let's go!
09:24Woo!
09:25Evidently, the filmmakers saw just how disappointed many fans were with Shay's minimal presence in the red door,
09:31and so it appears that she'll be front and center once again,
09:35which should make Insidious 6, you know, better.
09:38You throw a bit of Elise in there, and it's gonna be...
09:41a better movie.
09:42Just put her in everything.
09:43Put Elise...
09:44in everything.
09:45That's...
09:45That's my pitch to Hollywood.
09:47Coming up, the Super Mario Galaxy movie.
09:512023's The Super Mario Bros. movie may have been a billion-dollar box office smash,
09:56but it was kind of relatively mediocre and forgettable,
10:01and it really failed to back up its sprightly visuals with a particularly witty or even halfway interesting script.
10:08The only way is up for the sequel,
10:09and many heads were touring when Nintendo confirmed that the second film would be called
10:14The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,
10:18which, if you're familiar with the series, that's, like,
10:21pretty good green flag right there.
10:23Given that the two Super Mario Galaxy games are among the most beloved Mario games ever made,
10:28the potential is inherently huge for a vastly superior sequel.
10:33More to the point, the space-faring nature of the Super Mario Galaxy games ensures endless possibilities
10:39for spectacular set pieces and eye-popping visuals,
10:43enough that'll probably make the first Mario movie look positively quaint by comparison.
10:48Though some fans were a bit surprised that Nintendo opted for a big-scale Galaxy movie
10:53so early in their animated franchise,
10:56they clearly appreciated the massive potential of going there as soon as possible.
11:01Another entry in the Jason Statham has a job canon,
11:05The Beekeeper 2.
11:07The Beekeeper was one of 2024's most surprisingly successful films,
11:11and in addition to being a box office smash,
11:14it was also one of the Statham's more entertaining recent action movies,
11:19which is, oh, great, I'm always here for a bit more of the Statham.
11:22The sequel was swiftly announced,
11:24and while action sequels can be a tough nut to crack,
11:28we're hearing all the right things with this one so far.
11:31For one, The Beekeeper 2 will swap out director David Ayer for the far more inspired choice of Timo Giugianto,
11:38the brilliant Indonesian filmmaker behind The Night Comes For Us,
11:42and who recently lent his kinetic action chops to Nobody 2.
11:47Giugianto should ensure that The Beekeeper 2's action sequences pop with more personality than the first film,
11:53and in addition to most of the principal cast returning,
11:57the ensemble has also added Pom Clementeeth and WWE's Edge, aka Adam Copeland, to the mix.
12:04This should all add up to an absolutely wild combo of a film,
12:07hopefully ensuring that The Beekeeper 2 builds on the surprisingly fun foundations of its clearly John Wick-inspired predecessor.
12:15And with Timo at the helm, there's every possibility that this is a majorly beefed-up action extravaganza.
12:21Definitely keep your eye on it when it drops next year.
12:24Next up, the other Freddy who's made horror his home.
12:28Five Nights at Freddy's 2.
12:30Blumhouse's adaptation of the hit video game Five Nights at Freddy's was...
12:35Not good, to be kind.
12:36No matter that it went down a storm with your mates who think making you watch a 25-minute lore explainer on Springtrap Gooseman's Origin
12:44is a fun shared activity the whole family could enjoy.
12:49It's not.
12:50Please stop.
12:51The movie itself, in pure cinematic terms, was clunkily written, wildly overlong,
12:57and not nearly intense enough to do justice to its premise.
13:00But the soon-to-release Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is apparently taking on viewer feedback from the first,
13:08with star Matthew Lillard, who we all love, suggesting that the sequel will amp up the action
13:14and horror elements that were kind of lacking the first time around.
13:17The trailer has definitely seemed to be indicating that the sequel will be scarier, more intense,
13:22and double down on all the twisted lore that all the fans love.
13:26Beyond this, the cast will be expanded with the likes of Skeet Ulrich, McKenna Grace, and Wayne Knight joining the fray.
13:34That's a really cool ensemble.
13:36Armed with a mighty $50 million budget, which is two and a half times that of the original,
13:42it seems that returning director Emma Tammy is going to make the murderous animatronic mayhem
13:47a lot more gloriously chaotic this time around.
13:50If not, do you have my permission to throw me into one of those creepy mechanical suits and turn me into gooey paste?
13:58This is legally binding now.
14:01Why did I do that?
14:02Everyone, prepare to be aged.
14:05Focker in Lore.
14:07The Meet the Parents franchise well and truly seemed like it ran out of juice with 2010's atrocious third film,
14:14Little Fockers, as blatant a cynical cash grab sequel as Hollywood has ever made.
14:20So, few were expecting a fourth film, Focker in Lore, to be announced late last year,
14:27with most principal cast members from the initial trilogy actually returning alongside Ariana Grande, of all people.
14:35Even accepting that Little Fockers was widely panned and won itself a Razzie,
14:39Focker in Lore should benefit more from the passage of time than most belated comedy sequels.
14:46After all, Ben Stiller is now older than Robert De Niro was when he played the overbearing father in the original movie.
14:54So, there's plenty of potential comedy and drama to be mined from the role reversal,
14:59as Stiller is now playing the concerned father.
15:01While few are actually expecting a classic from this one,
15:05if it can mine humor and pathos from the march of time,
15:09then it could very well be a rare third comedy sequel that actually kind of works.
15:15Next up, let's make some noise for A Quiet Place Part 3.
15:20The original A Quiet Place was a superbly crafted and thoroughly original horror thriller
15:25that proved successful enough to launch a wider franchise.
15:29A Quiet Place Part 2 was pretty good,
15:32though definitely lacked some of its predecessor's novelty factor,
15:35while not really doing much to expand upon what came before.
15:39This might well speak to how quickly John Krasinski made the sequel,
15:43which was shot barely a year after the first film came out,
15:47but with the upcoming third and apparently final entry into the mainline franchise,
15:52he's taken considerably longer to actually put everything together.
15:56A Quiet Place Part 3 will release in July 2027,
16:00some eight years after Part 2 was shot,
16:03ensuring that Krasinski will have had oodles of time to figure out a more imaginative path
16:08for what's intended to be an epic conclusion to the Abbott family story.
16:13The success of last year's prequel, A Quiet Place Day 1,
16:17also proved that these movies don't need to be relentlessly packed with set pieces
16:21and might actually benefit from a greater emphasis on actual character development.
16:27Krasinski is surely keeping that in mind while he develops Part 3,
16:31which will hopefully wrap the trilogy up in satisfying and emotionally gratifying fashion.
16:36We're on the highway to hell with Sisu, Road to Revenge.
16:40Finnish action thriller Sisu was one of the most unexpected hits of 2022,
16:45a tight-to-the-point revenge flick that was a whole ton of grisly Nazi murderin' fun.
16:53Sorry, I get carried away when we get to like the fun World War II pulpy movie stuff.
17:02Anyway,
17:03few were likely expecting a sequel when Sisu was released,
17:06but it performed well enough for writer and director Yalmari Hellander to quickly get to work
17:11on Sisu, Road to Revenge.
17:14The follow-up once again revolves around former Finnish Army commando Atami Korpi,
17:20played by Jorma Tamila,
17:22who this time finds himself facing off against the Soviet Red Army,
17:26led by Igor Dragunov, played by Steven Lang,
17:29the very officer who killed his family.
17:32Sisu, Road to Revenge premiered at Fantastic Fest last month to rave reviews,
17:38and currently sits at 100% on the tomato meter,
17:40with many critics hailing it as a bigger, bloodier sequel
17:43that still maintains the original's tight and lean pacing.
17:47In addition to Tamila once again receiving heaps of praise for his lead performance,
17:52the great Steven Lang has also been lauded for his menacing turn as the antagonist,
17:57so yeah, what's not to like?
17:59If it manages to hit at least as well as the first film,
18:02we can probably expect Sisu 3 to get the green light suit enough too,
18:06which, yeah, I'm definitely down for more of these.
18:09Next up, a Rian Johnson comeback?
18:12Wake Up Dead Man, A Knives Out Mystery.
18:15Glass Onion was certainly a worthy-ish follow-up
18:19to Rian Johnson's outstanding murder mystery romp Knives Out,
18:23even if it didn't quite hit the same highs of some of its storytelling choices
18:27and the ultimately less satisfying nature of its actual payoff.
18:32But the impending third film in the series,
18:35Wake Up Dead Man,
18:37looks like it could very well be a marked improvement over Glass Onion,
18:41and perhaps even outdo the original.
18:43I know, don't shoot the messenger, this is just the buzz it's been getting.
18:47For one, the cast is absolutely stacked,
18:50with Daniel Craig being joined by
18:52Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis,
18:57Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott,
19:00Kaylee Spadey, Daryl McCormick, and Thomas Hayden Church.
19:05That's...
19:05We're being spoiled here.
19:08Johnson also promised that the threequel would be darker and more grounded than Glass Onion,
19:13a relief for anyone who felt the second film got a little too zany for its own good,
19:19which, yeah, I'd be inclined to agree with.
19:22And best of all, it's received rave reviews so far since its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival,
19:29with some prominent critics even dubbing it the best film in the series thus far.
19:34That would be quite the accomplishment, so here's hoping it all comes together.
19:38Coming next, Return to Silent Hill.
19:41Though 2006's first big screen adaptation of survival horror game Silent Hill was actually pretty solid,
19:492012's sequel Silent Hill Revelation was a thunderous disappointment,
19:54suffering from a poor script, slack direction, uneven performances,
19:58and a noticeably lower budget than its predecessor.
20:01But with the recent rejuvenation of the video game franchise,
20:05Hollywood's interest in the IP was also reignited,
20:09and so a third film is eminently due for release, called Return to Silent Hill.
20:15Now, while it's clear from the footage released so far that the streetquel was made for less than the original film's $50 million,
20:22it does at least have that film's director, Christoph Gans, back at the helm.
20:27Gans has been fighting to get this film made for, like, so long now,
20:32so it's clearly not just a dispassionate paycheck gig.
20:36Above all else, though, Return to Silent Hill is adapted from Silent Hill 2,
20:40by far the most acclaimed entry in the franchise,
20:43ensuring that, if nothing else, the film has an extremely sturdy storytelling foundation to actually work from.
20:50While few are expecting Return to Silent Hill to be a home run,
20:54it does at least have the potential to capture the atmosphere of the source material,
20:59something the previous films categorically failed at.
21:03Next up, it's Jerry Butz with more dadcore material.
21:07Greenland 2 Migration.
21:09Few were expecting much from the 2020 Gerard Butler starring disaster flick Greenland,
21:15but, you know what, despite its storytelling excesses, it wasn't bad at all.
21:20You know, it was just a little, fun little throwback to the 90s disaster movie era,
21:24where Aerosmith ruled the airwaves, and, yeah, it was just a little, just a fun little time.
21:30You have the fun little guy, you have a fun little time.
21:32And that's basically what the first Greenland actually was.
21:35And Greenland 2 Migration sure as hell looks like it's gonna double down on the first film's end of the world mayhem,
21:42as the Garrity family exits the Greenland bunker in search of a new home across Europe.
21:49The trailer looks positively bonkers,
21:52showing Jerry Butz and his fan taking on radioactive storms,
21:56media strikes, and even a giant tidal wave at one point.
22:00Butler appears to be giving another reliably grizzled performance in the lead role,
22:04and the production values look seriously beefed up compared to the more modestly staged $35 million original.
22:10All solid original director Rick Romainbois is back behind the camera.
22:15From what we've seen so far, there's every possibility that this is a rare disaster movie sequel
22:20that one-ups what came before,
22:22and could even lay the groundwork for an actual third film,
22:26which would be great for the Gerard Butler hive among you.
22:30Controversial pick now, maybe?
22:32Spider-Man Brand New Day.
22:34Spider-Man No Way Home was a phenomenal success when it released in 2021,
22:39and while the film was generally well-received by both critics and fans alike,
22:44it's also fair to say that its reputation took a hit once the dew-eyed honeymoon period began to war off.
22:51Yeah, No Way Home is an entertaining exercise in Unite the Spidey's fan service,
22:56but on a narrative and visual level, it's an absolute mess.
23:01Likely a result of the film's compressed production schedule,
23:05and as a result, it doesn't really hold up much on repeat viewings.
23:09Oh, and please resist the urge to send me threatening Willem Dafoe-esque voicemails because of this opinion,
23:15because I will cry and, um, it won't be pretty.
23:20Although it would actually be also kind of funny.
23:23So, potential pumpkin bomb incidents on my own horizon aside,
23:28it is a relief to hear that the currently shooting Spider-Man Brand New Day
23:32is set to be a more grounded Spider-Man movie,
23:36where Tom Holland's Peter Parker deals with street-level crime across...
23:40New York City.
23:41And yeah, there's something to be said for going back to the basics,
23:45especially after years of overcooked, multiversal nonsense in the MCU,
23:50which I think we're all pretty tired of.
23:53Next up, Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey 3.
23:57Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey may have been widely panned by critics
24:01for rather cravenly cashing in on Winnie the Pooh entering the public domain,
24:07but credit where it's due,
24:08last year's slasher sequel was actually a marked improvement.
24:13No, seriously, it's actually pretty okay.
24:16With a larger budget and more considered approach to its own blood-soap take on Pooh,
24:22Blood and Honey 2 landed an honestly impressive 47% on Rotten Tomatoes,
24:28far beyond the original's brutal total of three.
24:31A third film is set to start shooting in early 2026, and here's the rub.
24:37The screenplay has been written by genre legend Richard Stanley,
24:41who is behind films like Hardware and Color Out of Space.
24:46A genuine genre name getting involved in the...
24:48Pooh-niverse, definitely lends it some much-needed credibility.
24:55And above all else, should ensure that this unlikely threequel
24:58is by far the most compellingly scripted of the trio.
25:02If the filmmakers can combine this with their penchant for grisly B-movie schlock,
25:07there's every possibility that Blood and Honey 3
25:10actually one-ups both previous films.
25:13On the way, 28 years later,
25:15The Bone Temple.
25:1728 years later, it was a movie I adored,
25:20but it was also a polarizing sequel that had the tricky task
25:24of re-immersing audiences in the world of Danny Boyle's 2002 post-apocalyptic horror classic.
25:31And that's a pretty hard task.
25:33It wasn't a home run necessarily,
25:36but it was a confident, bold, visceral piece of work
25:39that seemed to promise greater things on the horizon.
25:42Follow-up, 28 years later, The Bone Temple is just months away from release at the time of recording,
25:48and the trailer released so far looks absolutely stunning.
25:52While 28 years later had to acquaint audiences with a host of new characters,
25:57The Bone Temple will benefit from our familiarity with the likes of Spike,
26:00played by Alfie Williams,
26:02Dr. Kelson, played by an amazing Ray Fiennes,
26:05and Jamie, portrayed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
26:07While also lending greater context to the previous film's, um,
26:12puzzling, shall we say?
26:13Final sequence.
26:15And of course, we also know that The Bone Temple will feature an appearance in the series' original lead,
26:20Cillian Murphy,
26:22though Boyle has already warned fans that it's more of a cameo
26:26intended to tee up a bigger appearance in the next planned sequel.
26:30Even so, if The Bone Temple is basically setting the table for a grand finale revolving around Murphy's gym,
26:37then it should leave fans decidedly more excited than the previous film's wildly divisive ending.
26:42Next up, Avatar, Fire and Ash.
26:45Avatar, The Way of Water offered yet more proof that you doubt James Cameron at your own peril,
26:51because in addition to the film's astonishing commercial performance,
26:55it was also a visually stunning and ultimately emotionally gratifying spectacle
26:59that had to be seen on the big screen.
27:02It did, however, have its fair share of narrative hiccups.
27:06The goofy resurrection of villain Miles Quadridge, played by Stephen Lang, for one,
27:10and much of the contrived later plotting revolving around his son Spider, played by Jack Champion.
27:16But with Way of Water getting a lot of the awkward onboarding out of the way,
27:21there's sure potential for the third film, Avatar, Fire and Ash,
27:25to be far sturdier and less clunky on a narrative level.
27:29With the threequels clear focus on a new Navi tribe, the Ash People,
27:34Fire and Ash should have a distinct flavor to its predecessor,
27:38and above all else, the new villain Varang, played by Una Chaplin,
27:42looks like an absolute badass.
27:44While The Way of Water more or less rehashed the same conflict from the first Avatar,
27:50Fire and Ash will seemingly make things more interesting by having disparate Navi tribes
27:54facing off against one another, which is all kinds of cool.
27:59And lastly, we have Fall 2.
28:022022's Fall was a tightly wound vertiginous thriller about two women who get stranded at the top of a
28:072,000 foot TV tower, and though it wore its low budget on its sleeve,
28:13it was honestly pretty good considering those obvious constraints.
28:17Its surprise success both theatrically and on streaming ensured that not one,
28:22but two sequels were swiftly announced.
28:25Just stop going up there.
28:26The solution's obvious.
28:28Jokes aside, it was recently confirmed that Fall 2 will be a standalone sequel
28:32focused on another duo of young climbers who end up trapped in an improbably perilous situation.
28:39And honestly, this one sounds a lot better.
28:42This time around, the climbers encounter a rock slide while doing Thailand's famous plank walk of Mount Kwan,
28:49leaving them stranded 3,000 feet in the air on a rickety hunk of wood,
28:54which, yeah, that sounds, sounds not for me that, like, the actual real life thing.
29:01Maybe sounds pretty fun, but I, rickety wood and heights?
29:05Oh boy.
29:09And also, yeah, apart from just sounding like a far scarier and more visually interesting scenario
29:14than the TV tower of the first film,
29:16it's also a tad less ridiculous considering how much the original film inherently strained its credibility.
29:23It's all down to the execution, of course,
29:25but with the more experienced Sparig brothers who were behind Daybreakers and Predestination
29:30directing in favour of original filmmaker Scott Mann,
29:34there's a good chance it's an even more gut-wrenchingly tense outing than the first one.
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