The movie comes out, you watch it, you love it, a sequel is hinted at, and you wait for it to come. I’m sure many are familiar with this sequence of events, but I find it funny how the movies I love the most have such long wait times until the sequel is released.
The first few that comes to mind are The Incredibles (2004) whose sequel came out not five, not 10, but almost 15 years later. There’s Avatar (2009) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) with a 13 year gap between them, and by the time Tron: Ares (2025) releases, 15 years will have passed since its predecessor Tron: Legacy (2010) came out.
Even if those movies took a long time to release, I’m glad they did. The fact that there’s no sequel to Eragon (2006) — despite its ending clearly hinting at it — still haunts my soul. That doesn’t beat the yearning for my all-time favourite movie, Alita Battle Angel (2019), to get its sequel. I scour the internet for updates every month, hoping, waiting. First, I plead that it gets confirmed and released someday, and second, that it won’t take more than 15 years.
