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Hollywood flick franchises have been known to give up on the series part - way through , due to box part bombs or other circumstances . Several main superhero movies ended when the right to the character were bought by Disney , after struggle to compete with the MCU . Other sequels languished in development the pits for years before the people involve with the projection ultimately admitted that the next movie was never encounter .
These planned motion-picture show ' cancellations may have come as a relief or a disappointmentto audience . mass will argue that certainunfinished movie enfranchisement are still deserving watching , particularly when absolute terrible review were not the reason the franchise was not completed . Some series were never polish off because the actors or directors became busy with other projects . However , this is typically diagnostic of the most recent motion-picture show not being that great and the people involved miss interest in it as a final result .
Some of these franchises are still ongoing , and though many continue to make money at the box office , it ’s clear where the stories should ’ve stopped .
10The Amazing Spider-Man
Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man series ended after two movies when the rights were bought by Disney.
Spider - Man famously saw multiple reboots within a short period , leading up to the character being incorporated into the MCU.The trilogy starring Tobey Maguire had a inviolable run until its wide criticized third instalment , after which Andrew Garfield starred in twoThe Amazing Spider - Manmovies , which achieve middling review but accusative box office success . Garfield and other actors ' performance are the movies ' self-aggrandizing strengths , even if other authorship decisions proved to be factious . lead up to the release ofThe Amazing Spider - Man 2 , a sequel was all but confirmed .
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Release date
The Amazing Spider - Man
2012
The Amazing Spider - Man 2
2014
The Amazing Spider - Man 3
be after for c. 2016 - 2018 ; canceled
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However , The Amazing Spider - Mancoincided with the grow dominance of the MCU.The Amazing Spider - Man 3was then canceledwhen Garfield was fired from the role after fail to look at a substantial press event , and Sony eventually soldSpider - Manto Disney . Disney managed to impart Spider - Man to the MCU in disc sentence , with Tom Holland debuting as Peter Parker in 2016’sCaptain America : Civil War , only two years after Garfield was last seen in the role .
9Jack Reacher
The Jack Reacher movie sequel failed before the franchise was overtaken by a reboot.
On paper , aJack Reachermovie enfranchisement starring Tom Cruise is a surefire profits . It is exactly the variety of character Cruise is known for and there is a substantial amount of author material , with Lee Child ’s series to comprise 29 books and a short news report assemblage as of October 2024 . However , the dramatic failure ofJack Reacher : Never Go Backspelled doom for this adaptation . Director Edward Zwick blamed himself forJack Reacher’sfailure , stating he did not understand what audiences wanted from the motion-picture show .
Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher : Never Go Back
2016
The long gap between the first and secondJack Reachermovies suggests that they were playing each sequel by ear , andNever Go Back’sawful reception severalise them it was hopeless . Meanwhile , Amazon produce a much more popularReacherTV show , while Cruise return to work onTop GunandMission : unsufferable . Although it was never formally canceled , it would seem thatJack Reacher 3is numb .
8Journey To The Center Of The Earth
Dwayne Johnson’s new would-be franchise only featured him in one movie.
Johnson confirmed in 2018 that the movie(s ) had been formally cancel , to a middling reaction when the enfranchisement never had much of a dedicated fanbase .
Based on Jules Verne ’s classic risky venture novels , theJourney to the Center of the Earthfranchise recoil things off with a comparatively successful flick of the same name , starring Brendan Fraser and Josh Hutcherson . Later , Dwayne Johnson replaced Fraser as the series ' headliner , playing Hutcherson ’s character ’s stepfather rather than his uncle . Whilestudio executives might have thoughtJourney 2 : The Mysterious Islandcould be a solid setup for a serial of movies star Johnson , which seemed probable whenJourney 2was also a hit .
Journey to the Center of the Earth
2008
Journey 2 : The Mysterious Island
Journey 3 : From the Earth to the lunation
Canceled
Journey 4
Plans were made forJourney 3 : From the Earth to the MoonandJourney quarto be filmed back to back . However , Journey 3was abandoneddue to job with the script and Johnson ’s busy schedule . Johnson confirmed in 2018 that the movie(s ) had been officially canceled , to a fair reaction when the dealership never had much of a dedicated fanbase .
7National Treasure
National Treasure was reimagined as a TV show after a long development — then canceled.
National TreasureandNational Treasure : Book of Secretswere off - beat but self-coloured action adventure mystery movies for the mid-2000s . With the second movie setting up thepage 47 cliffhangerthat would function as the next sequel ’s plot , National Treasure 3seemed like a given . However , the film has now been stuck in growing for almost two decades . Meanwhile , Disney+ give rise the entertaining but abruptly - lived subsequence TV show that was call off after one time of year .
National Treasure
2004
National Treasure : Book of Secrets
2007
National Treasure 3
make bold to be canceled
National Treasure : Edge of History(TV show )
2022 ; canceled
In the Wake Island ofNational Treasure : border of chronicle , producerJerry Bruckheimer suggests thatNational gem 3could still happen . However , this seems unlikely when lead actor Nicolas Cage has , in no uncertain term , said that the pic will never live . Ultimately , if they require this movie subsequence , they should have fought hard for it in the years followingBook of Secrets , before the histrion and the diligence moved on .
6Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The live-action TMNT trilogy ended after the second movie bombed at the box office.
SeveralTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmovies were canceledover the age , perhaps illustrating how the franchise would be better served by animation when the premise is inherently cartoonish . Despite this , the badly - survey , hot - military action adaption of the funnies that came out in 2014 was a box seat - office hit . However , its sequel , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Out of the Shadows , failed at the box office as well as with critic .
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Out of the Shadows
Therefore , the third pic in the reboot series was quick abandoned . after on , the animatedTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Mutant Mayhembecame the best movie of this franchise , at least in the 21st century , make a Golden Globe nomination for its efforts . However , despite the failure of the former live - actionTMNTmovies , theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Last Ronincomic serial is take an R - tell on , live - action adaptationthat will derive out alongsideMutant Mayhem’ssequel .
Hollywood still seems to keep that live - action is inherently superior , but these big franchise parade well storytelling through animation .
5Percy Jackson & The Olympians
Both Percy Jackson movies were poorly received, leading to a reboot.
The movie version of Rick Riordan ’s firstPercy Jackson & the Olympiannovel is wide detest due to the change made to the beginning material that made the level unrecognisable to fans . DespiteThe Lightning Thief’sfailures , producer forged forrader with a sequel , releasingSea of Monstersa fair three long time afterwards . However , Sea of Monstersalso buckled under the weight unit of the inherent story problems the first flick established , and any dreams of see the flick dealership to mop up were dash .
Percy Jackson & the Olympians : The Lightning stealer
2010
Percy Jackson : Sea of Monsters
2013
A decade later on , Percy Jacksoncame back strong with a TV show rebootthat retain the most substantive parts of the books . With an age - appropriate cast and Riordan on display panel as a consultant , the show has a smart time to come , withPercy Jackson and the Olympiansseason 2now in the employment ( at the time of writing ) . In the case ofPercy Jackson , abandoning the unpopular movie franchise was doubtlessly the right pick .
4Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four went through the same reboot cycle as Spider-Man.
Fantastic Fourrepresents a similar phenomenon in Hollywood asSpider - Man , being the two most illustrious Marvel property . With such a famous group of superheroes at their disposal , studio executives and filmmakers urgently want to make something out of it . However , while Sam Raimi’sSpider - Mantrilogy is something of a dear classic and Christopher Nolan’sDark Knighttrilogy is just shy of a everlasting chef-d’oeuvre , the 2000sFantastic Foursaw mediocre at best reviews and fizzled out after two movies , despite there being plans for more .
Fantastic Four
2005
Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer
Fantastic Four 3
2015
The series ' branding was complicated when Chris Evans became boundlessly more famous for playing the MCU ’s Captain America at the beginning of the 2010s.20th Century then produced aFantastic Fourreboot in 2015 with a young plaster cast in what was at long last a bootless attemptto see some success with Marvel ’s biggest property before accept defeat and selling out to Disney . The MCU is now working on addingFantastic Fourto its batting order , with Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby in the lead roles .
3Hellboy
Guillermo del Toro & Neil Marshall’s demon superhero series has a rocky history.
From the macabre judgment of Guillermo del Toro , in partnership with his conscientious objector - film director Neil Marshall , came a flaky superhero film about a daimon summons by the Nazis who is rescued by the Allies and grows up to become a torpedo . Hellboywas never a monolithic blockbuster , but the first two movies in the enfranchisement were profitable and well - reviewed . However , Hellboy 3was cancel after a tenner in developing due to del Toro ’s engaged schedule and problems plug funding .
Hellboy
Hellboy II : The Golden Army
2019
diagnostic of Hollywood ’s oversaturation with reboots , Marshall mastermind a reboot that came out in brief after it was confirmed that del Toro ’s sequel was not happen . While David Harbour seemed like the perfect person to take over from Ron Perlman , theHellboyreboot was a decided failure . In addition to the movie ’s lackluster writing , the foreign premise ’s time and place may have simply faded into history .
2Divergent
A decrease in genre interest and a weak story led to Divergent’s early end.
Despite the largely derivative story , Divergentinitially seemed like it would be just as strong of a franchise .
Riding on the coattails ofThe Hunger Games , one of the most successful smash hit franchises of the 2010s , Divergentbenefited from the popularity of the young grownup dystopian literary genre at the clock time . Despite the mostly derivative history , Divergentinitially seemed like it would be just as strong of a dealership . Lead actress Shailene Woodley had already starred in Best Picture nomineeThe Descendantsalongside George Clooney when the series began , while other A - lister took on supporting purpose .
Divergent
The Divergent Series : Insurgent
The Divergent Series : Allegiant
The Divergent Series : Ascendant
However , Divergent’sstory problems initiate to eclipse its marketability with the second movie , while there was a downswing in YA dystopias with the closing ofThe Hunger Games . The thirdDivergentmovie received the worst follow-up yet , leaving studio executives scrambling to complete the serial . While there was talk of wrapping things up with a TV movie , most of the roll bequeath the enfranchisement , and the final movie was finally scrapped .
Movie franchises including Divergent , The Maze Runner , and Mortal Engines had hope of being the next Hunger Games but did n’t survive up to the hoopla .
1The Chronicles of Narnia
The Silver Chair was in development for years before Netflix bought Narnia.
The movie adaptation of C. S. Lewis ' classical phantasy novelThe Lion , the Witch & the Wardrobeproved to be as magical and dramatic as fan could have hop for , becoming a vital and box office hit . This guaranteed a continuation , but the massive changes to the book made forPrince Caspiandid not entirely work out in its favor . While the movie still made a profit , the fact that it did not make as much of a profit as its herald was the defining level .
The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian
The Chronicles of Narnia : Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Chronicles of Narnia : The Silver Chair
The next motion picture , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , was already dealing with one of the more hard Narnia books to adapt and bombard at the box federal agency . Despite this , The Silver Chairwas in growing for twelvemonth before Netflix bought the right to the serial publication , with Joe Johnston slate to direct and Millie Bobby Brown being offered the lead use . The Chronicles of Narniahas a complicated history in Hollywood , constitute some marvel if the moving-picture show dealership should have been invalidate just to make another one .
