Sentences with phrase «up as a prequel»

Rather than repeating himself, writer, co-star and first - time director Leigh Whannell sets this one up as a prequel, and puts the exceedingly bad - ass Lin Shaye front and center.

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I like how they have engineered the plot from part three and the franchise as a whole into a bigger picture, all these films are prequels and the finale here does tie that up nicely.

Once again it can't be faulted too much for this as it is a prequel but they could have easily made the wrap up more interest.

Well, what we didn't tell you (because we didn't know) is that it's a prequel to My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument that takes us back to the teenage years of the characters in the 1995 film... And least promising sequel of the week has to be Spring Breakers: The Second Coming, a cash - in scripted by Irvine Welsh and directed by Jonas Akerlund, the man behind such bad - boy music videos as «Smack My Bitch Up» and the 2002 meth - addict comedy Spun.

A prequel to the genre mash - up «Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame,» Hark's film is billed on its back cover box as «the Sherlock Holmes of 7th century China,» which is a good if ultimately rather reductive shorthand.

The much anticipated Psycho prequel has just recently locked up Vera Farmiga as Norma Louise Bates who's character is being described as a passionate, and compelling, a -LSB-...]

and can be seen as its theoretical prequel), turned up on video at Chicago Filmmakers last October, also bearing English subtitles by Sanborn and accompanied by Sanborn's notes.

Where the latter was a fantasy thought up by Zeke, First Light serves as more of a prequel, offering a glimpse into one of Second Son's side characters, Abigail Walker, or as she is more commonly known, Fetch.

More mean ghosts show up from the «Further» as psychic Elise tries to help yet another innocent family in this unwanted prequel.

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.

As previously reported, the new Escape from a New York will be a prequel, kicking off a new trilogy of Snake Plissken movies that will lead up the events of the original film.

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.

Winstead is best known for her roles in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof and Live Free or Die Hard (as John McClane's daughter), while Edgerton is an up and coming Australian actor who played a young Uncle Owen in the Star Wars prequels.

This short season acts as a nice prequel to the lead - up into Life is Strange.

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.

The much anticipated Psycho prequel has just recently locked up Vera Farmiga as Norma Louise Bates who's character is being described as a passionate, and compelling, a smart, multidimensional character who is always capable of surpassing us.

That's exactly the kind of deletion that can be picked up, polished and expanded as necessary, then emerge as a prequel to lure readers with a delicious sample of the larger work to come.

There's also «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls» — which is billed as a prequel by a new author — as well as his follow - up effort, «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After».

As an Indie author, I have set up a permafree book (the prequel in the series) and a reader magnet (the first book).

Dini has also stated that he has no information on an Arkham sequel, but treat this as rumour for the time being, because bear in mind that the proposed follow - up is actually a prequel, and nothing to do with the Arkham saga.

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.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Why else would they be billing Dead to Rights: Retribution, coming to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 later this year, as a «reimagining» rather than a straight - up prequel?

Destiny 2's replayability stems from a wide range of areas such as the vast amount of single player, co-operative and Player vs. Player competitive modes in addition to perfect implementation of core gameplay elements that work in harmony including collecting loot and Glimmer, XP and levelling up, power levels and total character customisation which will collectively have players returning to Destiny 2 for just as long as its prequel.

Variety is reporting the next Rocksteady game and the follow - up to Batman: Arkham City will be a prequel taking place during the 1950s, otherwise known as the Silver Age of DC Comics.

Serving as a prequel to Red Dead Redemption, we're finally getting a chance to look inside of Dutch's gang and what lead up to the events we see unfold in Read Dead Redemption 2 that lead up to what John Marston chasing down Bill Williamson and Dutch van der Linde's band of not - so - merry gentlemen.

For more Mortal Kombat X, be sure to check out our list of the top 10 fatalities in the franchise's history, as well as read up on the Mortal Kombat X prequel comic.

As we are a prequel to the original, most of those ships have not been invented just yet; however, that does not mean they won't be, or at least their original designs won't start showing up in the universe.

Batman: Arkham Origins is planned as a prequel to the events of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City in which the player gets to play a young Bruce Wayne who has only recently taken up the mantle of the Caped Crusader.

As with many superhero movies, Insomniac Games» Spider - Man PS4 will also receive a prequel tie - in novel that sets up the game's story.

Perhaps the coolest of these pre-order bonuses was A King's Tale — a side - scrolling beat»em up prequel starring King Regis, framed as a bed - time...

Yakuza 0 makes a good starting point for those new to the series as it's a prequel to the original Yakuza — the original Yakuza game named Yakuza: Kiwami has been remade from the ground up for the PlayStation 4 and will be released in August 2017.

Beyond Good and Evil 2 will apparently act as a prequel to the original, but also something of a re-imagining of its world and concepts — perhaps similar to how Mirror's Edge Catalyst approached its own status as a prequel and spiritual successor, instead of a direct follow - up.

It's a neat idea, and it's really starting to bear fruit - the sublime Transparent has deservedly picked up a host of top TV awards, the brilliant Bosch has received rave reviews from the critics and the Michael Bay - produced Black Sails, a kind of adult prequel to Treasure Island, has got better and better as its gone on.