Called Armikrog, the new game is a sort of "spiritual successor" (read: a sequel that isn't really a sequel… but is about as close as they can get before things get sticky, legally).
A sequel that's been waiting since 2003?
I think that's probably the best you can hope for with a sequel: that it stands on its own as a great film".
2) There were too many sequels, but it seems this is a phenomenon that can be observed every year.
Though DreamWorks has had 59 Academy Award nominations and won the Best Picture Oscar in three of the past four years (although this year they had no nominations for best picture or director), it hasn't yet built long-lived, James Bond-style franchises that can spawn sequel after sequel.
Now what a great sequel that would be.
In the sequel, we see some important corollaries that can be implied as the results of the above theorem.
Now more than ever Hollywood studios need franchises films that can generate multiple sequels, TV shows and lots and lots of merchandise.
Such micromotion generates stress/strain states at the interface that can cause beneficial or detrimental sequels.
It's not as if Lewis composed some children's stories, then sprinkled on a dusting of religious imagery that a sequel writer can easily sponge off.
