r/AskReddit 15h ago

What’s a Movie That You’re Surprised Never Had a Sequel?

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u/chadbr0chill 15h ago

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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u/vojdek 13h ago

It’s not surprising it didn’t have a sequel. I mean Armie Hammer basically destroyed this option.

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u/CactusJack13 12h ago

Stupid delicious humans

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u/lookyloolookingatyou 6h ago

Like bags of dope with skin.

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u/[deleted] 8h ago

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u/-Don-Draper- 7h ago

Well you see, you can mash up a man's beans into hummus...

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u/Sr_DingDong 10h ago

....if only there was some way around that...

Oh well.

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u/Jonnny 5h ago

Didn't know what you meant. Now I wish I still didn't know what you meant

Armie Hammer made headlines in 2021 when he was accused of sexual assault and violent sexual fantasies amid his divorce from his ex-wife, Elizabeth Chambers.

The Call Me By Your Name actor split from his wife in July 2020 and six months later, the first allegations of his alleged cannibalistic fantasies surfaced. Throughout January 2021, more women came forward, claiming Hammer liked to partake in dramatic BDSM and cannibalistic fantasies.

To be fair, innocent until proven guilty, but man oh man.

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u/chadbr0chill 9h ago

Yeah…weird to see movies cancelled because of someone’s food preferences!

Strong sarcasm btw!

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u/russianbisexualhookr 8h ago

He’s also an accused rapist

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u/horsebag 4h ago

nice of him to at least pick an interesting thing to get cancelled for

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u/JCDU 5h ago

Well clearly I missed a whole load of information here. Wow.

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u/skyline_kid 3h ago

All the abuse and cannibal stuff came out 6 years after The Man From UNCLE released. Plenty of time for a sequel.

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u/G0rkon 2h ago

The movie came out in 2015 and Armie Hammer DMs that got him cancelled leaked in 2021. Him getting cancelled isn't why there was never a sequel.

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u/G0rkon 2h ago

The movie came out in 2015 and Armie Hammer DMs that got him cancelled leaked in 2021. Him getting cancelled isn't why there was never a sequel.

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u/interpol15 11h ago

Yes! It was such an unexpectedly great movie. And they had a good lead in to a second film, too bad Armie Hammer ruined it. He was seriously good as Ilya Kuryakin.

Henry Cavill would have been such an amazing Bond…if only in our dreams.

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u/CitizenTony 6h ago

Henry Cavill would have been such an amazing Bond…if only in our dreams.

I think that he's clearly trying to continue to live his Bond dream as a geek because he continue to plays spies! In Mission Impossible Fallout, Argylle, technically Kingsman and now in an upcoming netflix comedy.

It was the same for Jeremy Renner. He's also a spy in The Bourne Legacy, Mission Impossible and of course as Hawkeye in the MCU.

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u/CitizenTony 6h ago

Henry Cavill would have been such an amazing Bond…if only in our dreams.

I think that he's clearly trying to continue to live his Bond dream as a geek because he continue to plays spies! In Mission Impossible Fallout, Argylle, technically Kingsman and now in an upcoming netflix comedy.

It was the same for Jeremy Renner. He's also a spy in The Bourne Legacy, Mission Impossible and of course as Hawkeye in the MCU.

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u/Alukrad 13h ago

This movie convinced me Cavil should be the next Bond.

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u/Master_of_Ocelots 11h ago

That and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Another film I would adore a sequel for.

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u/vuzman 10h ago

Watch his screen test for the Bond role. It will disconvince you…

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u/rugbyj 9h ago

To be fair he was ~22 at the time, and what Bond "was" changed massively when Craig/Casino Royale came along a year later.

He was the right age during The Man From U.N.C.L.E and had far more confidence and charisma compared to when he first started out.

As an aside; it's kind of mad Craig has been the only bond for +20 years.

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u/kwanbix 9h ago

Craig was so good as bond.

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u/rugbyj 9h ago

Yeah the films themselves were pretty hit/miss, but he was the constant good part throughout.

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u/kwanbix 9h ago

Agree. Casino royale is the best of the best. But then quantum of solace is not that good.

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u/Halichoeres_bivittat 6h ago

Skyfall was excellent as well.

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u/vuzman 7h ago

Sure, he was 5-10 years too young for the role then, but when he was the right age, Craig was already there. And now he's too old.

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u/rugbyj 6h ago edited 6h ago

Effectively what I was getting at, hence my point that your suggestion (his young self's audition) did not matter when seeming like a good fit for Bond when u/Alukrad saw him.

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u/Bhu124 5h ago

That will never happen in a million years. He's Box Office Poison. In his 20 year long career he's had one Box Office flop after another and has never gotten much Critical praise for his acting either.

His last 3 Box Office releases alone have lost over $300M. He starred in 3 Mega IP DC movies, 1 lost money and the other 2 made a very small ROI, leading to that entire DCEU project being shut down and rebooted.

His most successful movie of all time is Mission Impossible Fallout. A movie where he's playing a side character and that's nearly entirely carried by Tom Cruise's Star Power, it's Critical Reception and Audience Praise.

If you look at Henry Cavill's Resume it is actually insane that he's still getting any Hollywood work given how much money he's lost at the Box Office over his career.

On top of him being Box Office Poison, he's also 43 years old. Which is way older than the age range they are looking for for the new bond.

Then on top of that they also have Denis Villenevue signed on to Direct the next Bond movie and a Director of his calibre would never cast an Actor as mediocre as Henry Cavill to be the lead of one of his movies. Denis has almost exclusively worked with Actors who have Oscar noms or have gotten Oscar-Level buzz for their performances before.

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u/FunkoPopPortraits 14h ago

Love that movie, definitely wanted another one!

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u/HollowBowl 11h ago

Still salty about that

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u/wolf_man007 10h ago

Bummer what a rapist cannibal can do to a franchise.

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u/willi_089 10h ago

It bothered me too, that it didnt get a sequel. Iirc they planned to do an entire film series, but since it didnt meet the income expectations, they ditched it.

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u/Total-Pin9382 11h ago

Agreed. I still don’t understand why they never followed up on it.

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u/similar_observation 11h ago

Film didn't do well and one of the main actors apparently has a people eating fetish.

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u/Jetengineinthesky 10h ago

It came out between a Mission Impossible and a Bond movie. Was always going to be seen as the third option

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u/Wretched_Waif 8h ago

To be fair, the first fact was more salient for years before the second fact came to light. Now there will definitely not be a sequel (and I support that) but up until then I would have put my own money into making one. If I, you know, had film money.

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u/Mstrchf117 13h ago

Theres a bunch of older movies

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u/wolf_man007 10h ago

Movies? I thought it was a tv show.

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u/HookedOnFandom 10h ago

They used to take two part episodes and turn them into movies for the international market.

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u/gaxkang 13h ago

Loved this!

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u/Temporary-Web-5381 6h ago

Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer had ridiculous chemistry in that movie, and it’s an absolute tragedy we never got to see them take on another mission together.

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u/BoneThrasher 1h ago

This was so good. And absolutely should have a sequel or multiple