To ask you - to which book or film do you really wish there had been a sequel?

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Even though sequels are hardly ever as good and an unresolved ending can be the most powerful - if you could have the original author/scriptwriter/director/cast etc - for which story would you love to know what happened next??

I'd say:

• gone with the wind
• to kill a mockingbird
• dirty dancing
• pretty woman

I wish Antonia Forest had managed to complete the next book in the Marlows' series before she died. Any other wishes for sequels pale beside that one!

Pride and Prejudice. A proper one written by JA. In fact, I want a long series.

TKAM has a sequel!

I wish Ann Brashares wrote the follow to My Name is Memory just because it annoys me it’s been 8 years and I never found out the end

Misery. In fact I have Stephen King tied to a bed until he finishes it, the lazy bastard.

*follow up

Dirty dancing 2 exists!

It is set in Havana and has Diego Luna in it (It's pretty shit)

The Handmaid's Tale.

And I wish Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy had two more trilogy follow ups i could read them until the cows come home!

Not a book or a film but I am still pissed of there is only one series of Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip.

Another vote for a Jane Austen pride and prejudice sequel. I love Lizzy and Darcy as you can see

I need Hilary Mantel to finish her Wolf Hall trilogy. I know the ending isn’t exactly going to be a surprise but it’s been delayed for so long!
Plus the Handmaids Tale - she’s written the second series so I suppose Margaret Atwood has finally written the sequel but I was so frustrated when I got to the end of the book the first time I read it - all of the questions and unknowns made me really cross.

Inception!

Gone with the wind has a sort of sequel. "Rhett Butlers People"... in which Scarlett and Rhett reconcile and Belle Watling is killed in a fire IIRC at Tara

The Goonies

I would call "watchman" more a sister novel than a sequel - it's really a first draft. Utterly fascinating to see the differences between the 2.

Haha, I refuse to recognise DD2 as a film, never mind a sequel to Johnny and Baby

Very keen on a JA sequel. I often like to wonder what she would have written about today with no constraints on content - would she have been more of a frightfully intelligent high end author writing literary novels or delicate comedies of manners? Or would she have been writing another Bridget jones?

Mrsemcgregor Poke him with a stick until he has written a proper sequel to The Stand.

Sally - that's a travesty of book though! And the Alexandra ripley official "sequel", "Scarlett", is just terrible. She relocated to rural Ireland to find her grandmother and manages to have sex with Rhett on a beach... just NO!!!

A Dance with Dragons

Get a shift on George!

Event Horizon.
Superman Returns.

Roger Rabbit.

IanRushes I agree!! I haven't read Scarlett but just googled the synopsis. In the sequel of my own imagining she found herself and went off to conquer the world on her own terms

Shawshank Redemption - one of my all tome favourite films

Brooklyn film to be made into a series.

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde - I'd love the follow up to that.

Also the end of the Game of Thrones series would be great but I really doubt we'll ever get Wind of Winter or the one after it.

Sally - the only one I'm keen to read is Alice Randall's "wind done gone", about Scarlett's half black sister (although Scarlett is never actually named and the book is called a parody) - i think that looks a lot more interesting. Much better than the over sentimental tripe that's been tried otherwise!

It's such a problematic book of course, but I still can't help but love it - and DD2 is going to be a little scarlett when she arrives, all being well!