Itd brought that particular narrative strand to a (not very satisfactory) conclusion.
However, in spite of miserable reviews,X-Men Origins: Wolverinedid okay.
So what should Fox do?
With Wolverine still firing, should it reboot, or something else?
It chose something else, opting instead for the prequel route.
A reboot of sorts, but not a full one.
James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence duly signed up.
Only a fleeting appearance by Hugh Jackman as Logan muddied things slightly.
Fox thus sidestepped theThe Last Standproblem, and left itself future wiggle room.
Did it work out?
Better than Fox dared hope.
By avoiding the reboot, but recasting anyway, Fox has given itself lots of future options forX-Menmovies.
The sad thing was that one of the few things that 1994sThe Flintstonesgot bang on was its cast.
Not many people deserve a warm handshake forThe Flintstonesmovie.
But the casting team does.
A prequel route again, in thatThe Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegaswas set beforeThe Flintstones.
As such, out went Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine OHara and John Heard.
Hence, this entrys going to focus on one of them, but notes the others too.
Those others beingAce Ventura JrandSon Of The Mask.Human beings try not to talk about either of those.
Carrey turned a return toDumb And Dumberdown too at least until recently and so New Line tried something different.
It pressed you guessed it!
No creative talent returned, and none of the cast did either.
So, Derek Richardson became Harry, and Eric Christian Olsen became Lloyd.
These would not prove to be breakout roles for the pair.
Well, there wasnt one outside of a boardroom really.
It wanted more of both of them, whatever the cost.
Turns out the cost was wrecking what it had in the first place.
With the officialDumb And Dumbersequel arriving at Christmas, expectWhen Harry Met Lloydto be thoroughly forgotten.
Hence, McG was hired to direct, and a new trilogy was planned.
Arnold Schwarzeneggers political career limited his involvement too.
That led to said rights going up for auction again.
Eventually, theyve ended up with Annapurna Pictures, which has put a new trilogy into production.
Said trilogy has been recast again.
The Mother Of Dragons herself, Emilia Clarke, is the latest Sarah Connor…
The first twoAddams Familymovies boasted four particularly excellent casting choices.
We got two big screen adventures, under the guidance of director Barry Sonnenfeld.
This was quite straightforward.
Paramount backed the first twoAddams Familymovies, whereas Warner Bros putAddams Family Reuniontogether.
A TV series that was never made.
Furthermore, Raul Julias tragic death was a factor.
In truth, most dont even know it exists.
Very few people are looking to correct that.
But how to do it?
Nominally, it went down reboot road, going back to the original cast but in their early years.
JJ Abrams came in to direct, andStar Trek 11went into production.
What stoppedStar Trekbeing an outright reboot?
The reappearance of Leonard Nimoy, linking the two film series together.
By most criteria, a raging success.
It would be fair to say that the latter is less popular with more hardenedStar Trekfollowers though.
It only just crossed $100m, but it nonetheless made it.
To date, its Eddie Murphys last live action comedy that has.
Kim Hinton, meanwhile, was no longer Regina King, as Tamala Jones got the nod.
Others to be moved on were Jeff Garlin and Max Burkholder.
Presumably, once Eddie Murphy had said no, what was the point of getting anybody else back?
Hell no.Daddy Day Campamazingly managed to be worse than the original.
that had been asked by many when watchingDaddy Day Care.
Star Wars: but you more than likely know the story there already.
George Lucas had also long since planned a prequel story.