Sentences with phrase «as a prequel with»

Josh Brolin's Dwight storyline acts as a prequel with him playing the younger version of the same character Clive Owen previously played.

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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.

Created a pop culture phenomenon that probably has no equal and deservedly so as A New Hope is a classic that only gets better the more they try to expand this universe with sequels and prequels.

Despite being a sequel nominally, Super Paper Mario features a completely different gameplay style, with nearly as much depth as its prequels.

He can't help himself from following that shot with a deeply curious coda, which uses the movie narrative logic of cliffhangers and sequels to position The Post as prequel to All the President's Men.

Created by creator Jonathan Steinberg as a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island set in 1715, pirate Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his crew prepare to fight the British Royal Navy over New Providence Island with the help of Eleanor Guthrie (Hannah New), a daughter of

Created by creator Jonathan Steinberg as a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island set in 1715, pirate Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his crew prepare to fight the British Royal Navy over New Providence Island with the help of Eleanor Guthrie (Hannah New), a daughter of a local smuggling kingpin.

Disney animators had fun with this one, coloring mostly within the lines of the Pixie Hollow movies but slipping outrageously outside the margins every now and then as they offer a rollicking prequel to Peter Pan.

I usually try to review remakes (or prequels or sequels, for that matter) on their own merit as standalone films, but it's impossible for me to do so with Disney's live - action remake of its 1991 animated take on Beauty and the Beast.

Directed with not much flair by Leigh Whannell (who wrote the previous two installments), «Insidious: Chapter 3» is being billed as a prequel.

After faking out, misleading and generally disappointing fans with MGS 2, Kojima treated its sequel — actually a prequel — as a sort of apology.

It goes without saying that Batman Begins is the best prequel of the summer, a film that allows Liam Neeson as Bruce Wayne's mentor / surrogate father figure to make amends for The Phantom Menace and offers a peek, along with Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring, at the full grim panorama of what the Star Wars films have squandered.

As simians and Homo sapiens touch base with their lowest, the Planet of the Apes» prequel series reaches... Read More»

ALIEN: COVENANT Director: Ridley Scott Starring: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, Amy Seimetz In 2012 director Ridley Scott brought his Alien franchise back to life with Prometheus which posed as a prequel to his 1979 classic.

The British actor hit the U.S. market at 18 with a turn on the quasi - «Psycho» prequel «Bates Motel» as Emma, the dark show's shot of empathy offsetting a deranged family dynamic.

Everybody's back, just as with First Day of Camp, including new characters that were introduced in that prequel series like Chris Pine.

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With production now underway on Ridley Scott's Prometheus sequel / Alien prequel Alien: Covenant, some new spyphotos have arrived online from the Sydney set of the film, showing what has been described as an «extraterrestrial massacre» featuring what looks to be scorched humanoids (or Engineers?).

It has been three decades since the first Alien film was released, which was directed by Ridley Scott, and with many people curious as to what kind of prequel we can be expecting it is just exciting to hear that Ridley is back on the franchise that he started.

Before he got to play with giant monsters and machines with the upcoming Pacific Rim Uprising, former Daredevil showrunner Steven S. DeKnight spent several years working as a co-executive producer on the fan favourite Superman prequel series Smallville.

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.

Now fans of Sopranos have gotten their wish as Deadline reports Chase is returning to the world he created with The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel feature film that he is -LSB-...]

It's just part of why I think it works as well as it does, for as much as prequels have a tendency to take the fun out of their predecessor's central mystery, Prometheus adds layers to the universe that began with the classic Alien.

As for the connective tissue of how Bucky got here, with his mind right and a man bun, it may be alluded to in the movie — when Shuri receives «another broken white boy to fix» — but the answer comes by way of an Infinity War prequel comic, in which Shuri undoes Bucky's HYDRA brainwashing using a...

There are, inevitably, plans in the works for a «Transformers Universe» featuring sequels, prequels, and possibly crossovers with other Hasbro - toy franchises such as G.I. Joe.

The thinking must have been that with Alves» experience working on the prequels, as well as his talent in the creation of the lifelike sharks, he surely must know this project as well as anyone.

It's incumbent on prequels to have enough vitality to keep us from noticing that we're heading to a pre-determined destination, but this listlessly written ordeal — loaded with terrible effects and horrible misuse of future franchise savior Deadpool — ranks as the hottest mess of the mutant adventures.

Regardless that this is a prequel so we know that Leatherface is going to survive and therefore lacks any suspense at all, as a movie Leatherface is all over the place with references to what comes later shoehorned in — like the blink - and - you'll - miss - it appearance of Grandpa in the opening scenes and the character of Hartman (the unscrupulous Mayor in Texas Chainsaw 3D was called Hartman, in case you'd forgotten)-- and details that just don't make sense, such as Drayton being portrayed as a psychopathic killer but yet in Tobe Hooper's original movie he «takes no pleasure in killing», and three people climbing into a cow's carcass to hide from the police which looks as dumb as it sounds.

The next game from the pair is The Legend of Bum - bo, described on the blog as «a mix of Puzzle Quest and The Binding of Isaac, with a tactics spin, and is technically a prequel to the Binding of Isaac.»

The Breaking Bad spin - off / prequel continues to astound with how it bridges the gap between its iconic progenitor through the experience of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) as he is pushed to embrace his worst impulses and become Saul Goodman.

But, as redundant as it may be, the film stands out from the prequel crowd by being set in the early 1960s and having so much fun with its period setting.

Since RDR2 is shaping up to be a prequel (while not confirmed, the released promo art, as well as RDR's plot make this pretty much the only possibility), you won't have trouble understanding the plot without this info, however it will definitely make things more enjoyable being able to connect the dots with «Aha!»

«Alien Covenant» almost completely gives itself over to the scary stuff; director Ridley Scott dredges up a little of the «Prometheus» balloon juice (this film is a direct follow - up to that prequel), but he's more interested in an interstellar version of «Friday the 13th,» with a respectable ensemble of actors as the camp counselors and various fanged slimeballs filling in for Jason Voorhees.

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.

Ultimately, Warner Bros. is likely happy with the numbers they are seeing, as Fantastic Beasts is in striking distance of a top 10 opening weekend for a prequel.

If the rumors are true, that the Redemption sequel will actually be a prequel following Marston in the earlier parts of his criminal life, that could provide an opportunity to play as someone with a more distinct moral compass that is forced to develop a character arc over the course of the game.

Would Rockstar really be so bold as to make a prequel with a «2» tacked onto the end?

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.

Network bosses have teamed with Marvel Comics to create Revenge: The Secret Origin of Emily Thorne, a prequel to the hit Tv show, in which 19 - year - old Thorne is sent on her first mission as a vigilante in Switzerland.

It was one common complaint - as - question among many leveled at the Star Wars prequel trilogy: With all the Jedi,...

As a result, Rockstar decided to go back in time and bring us a prequel, with Red Dead Redemption 2 set before the events of its predecessor and featuring a fresh - faced (well, kinda) John Marston in the process.

The upcoming film functions as both a prequel and a sequel as it jumps between the present, where Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is now pregnant with her first child, and we cut back to see a young Donna (Lily James) living it up in the past.

Director Wes Ball's feature film debut delivered the first in author James Dashner's trilogy (he wrote two prequels as well) with an earnest, no - nonsense commitment to the protagonist's waking nightmare.

Deadline is reporting that Brave director Brenda Chapman is set to make her live - action directing debut with Come Away, which is said to be envisioned as a prequel to the classic tales Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.

With Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron as the only big names returning, the prequel / sequel also stars Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt, and features a first - time director in Cedric Nicolas - Troyan.

The Avengers is a brilliant balance of indecipherable against crowd - pleasing, with bouncy fight scenes, one - liners as character development, and the absolute confidence that everyone in the audience has on purpose seen each of the films designed as a prequel to this one.

The first part of the game or prequel mission serves as a tutorial which teaches the players the control mechanics of the title which is fleshed out more when you return to your abandoned oil rig with Ocelot (Troy Baker) who helps you fine tune your mercenary skills at «mother base».

I didn't bother seeing the sequel, and quietly hoped that the franchise would simply die... unfortunately those hopes were dashed when I heard that there were also doing a third Scooby - Doo movie as a direct - to - DVD prequel with an entirely new cast!

The film will serve as both a prequel and a sequel, sort of like The Godfather Part II, but with more Abba songs.

A timely prequel to All the President's Men, Spielberg's drama follows The Washington Post «s Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep), the United States» first female newspaper publisher, as she is met with evidence of a massive government... Read