Unseen Prequels
Alex Massie 4:14pmThere are times when Twitter is a bit like playing I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Today, for instance, folk have been frittering the afternoon away thinking of Unseen Prequels that have mysteriously disappeared from cinema history. Some of my favourites:
All About Adam, Gremlin, Build the Bismarck!, Duck Stock, Le Depart de Martin Guerre, Snakes at a Metal Detector, The Undergraduate, Ferry Across the River Kwai, Blackhawk Aloft, Eyes Up Wolves from the Bar, Subject Kane and, my favourite of favourites, Lambo.
Thanks to Mr Eugenides and Overnight to Many Distant Cities for many of these. Readers are invited to submit their own candidates for a Festival of Unmade Prequels...
As always, my Twitter feed is here.
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Sir Graphus
November 3rd, 2009 4:38pm Report this commentStrangelove, B.Sc.
Apocalypse, Soon.
If we’re really doing ISIHAC, there must be “Bring Me the Fringe Trimmings of Alfredo Garcia”.
Chris
November 3rd, 2009 5:26pm Report this commentThe prequel to Les Vacances de M. Hulot:
M. Hulot Visite Thomas Cook
Chris
November 3rd, 2009 5:37pm Report this commentHitchcock's 'The Eggs' (plagiarised - found by Googling)
Hello, Mr. Potatoes
The Long Maundy Thursday
A Zippo and Some Saddles
Jon Rosenberg
November 3rd, 2009 6:05pm Report this commentChina Village
The Loneliness of the Ring
The Medium Size Sleep; The Small Sleep; The Infinitesimal Sleep (a popular series obviously all done by Michael Winner shudder shudder)
Before Being There
Into Africa
Bill and Ted's Lobotomies.
daniel maris
November 3rd, 2009 7:26pm Report this commentA Bridge Not That Far Really
Star Peace Negotiations
Twelve Men Irritated at Being Selected for Jury Service
Simon
November 3rd, 2009 7:30pm Report this commentLocal Zero
Tiberius
November 3rd, 2009 8:29pm Report this commentThe Day Before Yesterday.
Mills
November 4th, 2009 2:27am Report this commentHow about Chariots with Fuel-Tank-Ignition-Issues? Or Defective Loo Paper (Goldfinger)?
BM
November 4th, 2009 9:17am Report this comment2011
Joseph of Arimathea
6 Samurai
The Dotmatrix
6ix
Taxi License Candidate
Recruiting Private Ryan
Laurence of Caernarfonshire
To Aim at a Mockingbird
L.A: Inconsequential
Four Engagements and a Terrible Prognosis
The Great Capture
Mr Smith Packs for Washington
Strangers near a Ticket Booth
Conception of Brian
The Lion Prince
The Princess Fiancée
daniel maris
November 5th, 2009 12:47am Report this commentI think you've got the wrong Joseph there!
Presume you meant Joseph of Nazareth.
Anyway surely the prequel to Jesus of Nazareth is The Word (as in "In the beginning was The Word").
Chris
November 5th, 2009 4:47pm Report this commentThe Fiancee of Frankenstein
The Pregnant Woman (prequel to The Mummy)
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