11. Ghost II : Second Sight

Shortly after the release of the 1990 smash hit Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze as the kindly chain shaker, Paramount floated the idea of a sequel - presumably fixing on Whoopi Goldberg’s ‘medium’. Nothing ever come of it - thank goodness!

12. Flatliners 2

Screenwriter Eric Red (The Hitcher, Near Dark), who had worked with director Joel Schumacher on an abandoned Lost Boys prequel, was also charged the task of sequelizing Schumacher’s 1990 thriller. “In my story, a group of young international convicts, criminals, rapists and killers with much worse sins than the first kids, volunteer for an international space organization experiment”, explains Red. “Keifer Sutherland’s character has developed a cryogenic hypersleep capsule for long distance space travel where people are frozen and reactivated, i.e. killed and brought back to life, and they need human subjects to test the technology on. The new kids get put down much longer than the kids in the first film. And of course much worse horrors and sins come back with them. The third act is a fantastic voyage to the land of death where the convicts go on a rescue mission to bring back one of them from the other side, but some don’t make it.”

13.King Conan

John Milius, the director of the Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring Conan the Barbarian films, had tried for years to get another film in the series going. Schwarzenegger would reprise his role as the aged titular character. Robert Rodriguez and The Wachowski Brothers were also onboard the project at different times. After seven years in development hell, Warner Bros lost the film rights to Paradox. A reboot, starring Jason Mamoa in the lead role, is now in production.

14.Gladiator 2

Aussie boy Nick Cave, who made the transition from music to film with his bravura The Proposition, wrote a sequel - as did John Logan (Charlie’s Angels) at one stage - to the Russell Crowe hit.
The wild but welcomingly imaginative script saw Crowe’s ‘dead’ character Maximus battling Roman gods in the afterlife. Assumingly, a coward exec nixed the idea as soon as he heard ‘Crowe would be a Ghost’.

15. Wild Hogs 2

God was smiling down upon us the day Disney decided to can the Wild Hogs sequel. Though a screenplay was in the works, and the original cast had all verbally expressed their interest in reprising their roles, the new head of Disney at the time simply decided it - and several other films - weren’t fit for consumption.

Read Clint’s Canned Sequels (Part 1) Here
Read Clint’s Canned Sequels (Part 2) Here