Sentences with phrase «positioned as a prequel»

If you're not a Star Wars junkie you needn't worry about having to take an entrance exam to follow the narrative, which is positioned as a prequel to George Lucas» groundbreaking 1977 movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (or, as we called it back then, Star Wars).

Positioned as a prequel, the film follows a team of scientists at an Antarctic dig site, where they've discovered a hundred - thousand - year - old spacecraft wedged below the earth's surface.

Positioned as a prequel to the original Deus Ex, Human Revolution — Director's Cut is a startlingly dark tale.

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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.

War for the Planet of the Apes is being positioned as the end of a trilogy of Planet of the Apes prequels leading into the 1968 original.

JJ Abrams was in a bit of a strange position; despite the huge expectation attached to the new Star Wars film, nobody really expected The Force Awakens to measure up to the original trilogy, and barring some catastrophic error of judgement, nobody really believed that it was going to be as bad as the prequels.

Ever since his introduction in Gotham, it's seemed as though the Batman prequel series was positioning Cameron Monaghan's Jerome Valeska to fully transition into the iconic villain The Joker.

I'd intended to position the prequel as a standalone, but customer reviews tend to describe it as the «prequel to midnight thief.»