Sentences with phrase «as a prequel story»

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If you're following me on Instagram and watched my stories you might know that I'm a big Star Wars fan, one who watches the entire trilogy at least 2 - 3 times a year (and the battle scenes of the prequels every now and then) and one who was skeptical when Disney first acquired the movie rights but was eventually content after watching The Force Awakens, though not completely satisfied as to why that movie was even necessary in the first place.

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, abbreviated as TotJ, is a comic book series covering eight story... 25 Star Wars Memes To Get You Pumped For Any Sequel, Prequel Or Spin - Off May the farce be with you.

As unnecessary prequels go, «Solo: A Star Wars Story» isn't bad.

Raimi's first film since 2009's Drag Me to Hell (and first big - budget production since his Spider - Man trilogy) is a $ 200 million, visually dazzling, 3D prequel to the story told in 1939's The Wizard of Oz, chronicling the rise of said wizard from his humble beginnings as a small - time Kansas magician.

Just as Tim Burton's «Alice in Wonderland» sounded like a remake but was actually a sequel, Scott's «Robin Hood» is not a retelling of the jolly adventure story but a prequel to it.

A prequel to Monsters Inc., Monsters University tells the story of how Sully and Mike met as students.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a prequel to the original and will follow the story of Arthur Morgan and his merry band of thieves, the Van der Linde gang, as they fight and steal their way across the vast and gorgeous world Rockstar has created.

We saw from the first trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story that Genevieve O'Reilly will be reprising her role as Mon Mothma from Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith in December's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and now we can officially add another returning cast member from the Prequel Trilogy.

The Infernal Affairs series borrows another page from the Godfather series by having the next entry serve as both a sequel and a prequel to the first chapter (the first sequel mirrors The Godfather Part II by tracing the character history, while this one emulates its two - pronged story structure).

While sequels like Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier have overcome feeling like prequels to a different story audiences haven't seen yet, other entries into this super-powered universe, efforts like Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, struggled to come across as anything other than vehicles conceived and designed to get all of these characters into one place at the right time for this May's massive Avengers: Infinity War, none of them working outside of the larger story being told and as such aren't very entertaining or worth watching more than once.

Lionsgate Premiere has debuted the first official red band trailer for the horror prequel Leatherface, telling the story of the upbringing of the man who would eventually become known as «Leatherface».

Of course, as a prequel to the famous novel Treasure Island, we should have known that Silver's story would not end abruptly.

But then Jackson isn't interested in a faithful interpretation of Tolkien's novel as much as backfilling a prequel story to The Lord of the Rings, transforming the novel's story of legacy and destiny warped into greed and hubris, a grand fantasy adventure with dragons and trolls and Shakespearean dimensions, into the initial stirrings of the evil Sauron and a war that will engulf the world and all the races.

Created by the producers of the TV show Gomorrah, Suburra is Netflix's first ever Italian - language original series, and continues the story (however, as a prequel) to the film of the same name which was released in 2015.

WHY: For someone who supposedly counts «The Wizard of Oz» as one of his favorite films, Sam Raimi's prequel doesn't resemble it all, nor does the story add much to the mythology.

Nonetheless, I did the best I could to set aside memories of the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy, as well as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and think only about Star Wars: The Force Awakens for comparison's sake.

Creator Noah Hawley is in high demand these days, and for good reason, because he's once again crafted a funny, engaging and richly developed crime saga that works both as a prequel to the previous season as well as its own standalone story.

With the end of the Wild West era and the death of John Marston tying up all loose ends of Red Dead Redemption, pretty much the only possible way RDR2's story could unfold would be as a prequel.

So this time the story — it gets pretty messy — begins as a prequel, with the queen's heartbroken sister (Emily Blunt) fleeing to a frozen wasteland.

Pan functions as a prequel to the Peter Pan story that many know so well.

The story tries to act as a prequel and sequel at the same time yet crams too much in to flow well.

This prequel story traces the origins of the centuries - old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.

This prequel set in the «80s follows the story of a player - created student at Hogwarts as they learn spells, make friends and unravel the secrets of the venerable old school.

My response to the previous two films could be glibly summarized as an awed distance, but in this chapter, the story of the prequels is finally involving on its own merit.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes does serve as a prequel to the rest of the films, but also tells a terrific story which gives some credibility to them as well, as strange as that sounds.

Despite Williams not returning, the character will be re-imagined by Donald Glover in the upcoming Han Solo spin - off prequel, «Solo: A Star Wars Story», alongside Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo.

With the story this season set in 1979 and serving as a prequel to the first, this Fargo finds Patrick Wilson starring as Lou Solverson, a clean - cut Minnesota state patrolman, four years back from Vietnam, where he served in the Navy.

There are a couple of good freebie, as well: a 69 - page sampler comic with first chapters of a number of 2000AD stories and a Judge Dredd movie prequel.

Today I'm directing you to wonderfully funny Kristen Lamb's blog where she talks about the Star Wars prequels and why they arent telling as good story as they could.

While this is isn't a direct sequel to «The Girl with All the Gifts», it could best be described as prequel as most of the story's action takes place before the events of «Girl».

Wattpad will describe how some pioneering publishers are using the Wattpad platform as a marketing tool: building author - reader connections, publishing original short stories and prequels within existing series, and creating direct relationships with an increasingly global audience that buys their ebooks.

It's kind of like the prequel to the story as it explains a few more things.

A prison sentence he didn't deserve, the love of his life lost forever... Find out where it all began... In this gripping prequel to The Harrisons, Joe and Rose's story will have your fingers flipping the pages like lightning as their passionate story unfolds.BOOK DESCRIPTION: After 5 long years inside, Joe Harrison is finally about to taste the freedom he's been dreaming about for so long, except that the outside world doesn't exactly look kindly on ex-cons.

• Disney Publishing revealed details on a number of projects, including an Epic Mickey graphic novel and a Pirates of the Caribbean anthology, with at least one story that serves as a prequel to the next movie, On Stranger Tides.

My short story Mind Games just came out as a single, and it's FREE on Smashwords if you'd like to check it out (it's a prequel to the novels).

I have a short story prequel I wrote as a promo for my book Chance & Choices.

The novella that provides the back story and serves as a prequel.

They serve as a prequel to the main story and follow a member of the Survey Corps who develops the 3D maneuver gear that would later become the signature method of fighting, and escaping, the Titans.

The story is largely familiar fantasy tropes with your character being the chosen one who will save the world from a mysterious threat, although this time you do get to play as the son of a treacherous mage in a story that acts as a prequel to the previous two Spellforce games.

The first game had some great ideas which perhaps weren't executed as well as they could have been, and the story progression could have used some extra attention, but Bound in Blood, the prequel to the first game, seems to have been polished to a sweet, sweet shine, proven once more with the new trailer above.

Gamers who have been wanting to know more of the story behind Epic Games» Xbox 360 & PC mega hit Gears of War will get the opportunity as a prequel book will become available later in the year.

Cyborg joins Superman's regime in both the Injustice: God's Among Us game and prequel story and acts as Superman's eyes and ears reporting to him if he catches wind of any Insurgency activity or any crimes that are being committed.

On the story front, Hitman: The Complete First Season acts as both a prequel and sequel to previous games in the franchise.

Whatever your opinion on Ninja Theory's reboot DmC: Devil May Cry, everyone can agree that it has heavily divided gamers on the ways its prequel story sets it apart from the original game, as well as the changed physical appearance to series protagonist Dante.

Yakuza 0 serves as a prequel to the series, telling the story of the series» protagonist Kazuma Kiryu's early days...

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a prequel to the previous game in the series and follows the story of outlaw Arthur Morgan as a loyal member of the Dutch van der Linde gang.

In 2008 an animated feature based on the game was released, which functioned as a prequel to the story laid out during Dead -LSB-...]

The game's story is set thousands of years before the prequels, allowing BioWare to tell its own story without worrying about tripping over filmic lore, while at the same time fleshing out the universe as a whole.

That said, as an individual title it's a good - looking game with solid gameplay, so fans of third - person shooters might enjoy the experience — and as a prequel wouldn't need to have any prior knowledge to understand the story.

Skyward Sword, which serves as the prequel to the entire Zelda timeline, has Link pursuing Zelda after a tornado whisks her away from Skyloft, but we do see her being trained by Impa and establish that she is the reborn spirit of the goddess Hylia before she ends up sealed in a crystal and reduced to plot device for the rest of the story.