The phrase "a sort of sequel" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a work that continues or expands upon the story or themes of a previous work, but may not be a direct continuation.
Example: "The new film is a sort of sequel to the original, exploring the characters' lives years later."
Alternatives: "kind of follow-up" or "somewhat of a continuation".
Now out from behind the curtain, he has produced "The Running Mate," a sort of sequel to "Primary Colors".
His 2006 film "Belle Toujours" reunited him with Piccoli in a sort of sequel to Luis Buñuel's 1967 drama "Belle de Jour," culminating in another quietly terminal resolution.
In 1995, Saura created a sort of sequel, "Flamenco," with no story — just three hundred musicians and dancers doing their stuff.
Verne was preoccupied with the intentionally incomplete and mysterious (and possibly supernatural) ending, and wrote a sort of sequel that completes the narrative.
"Acorn" is a sort of sequel to "Grapefruit," Ono's influential first book, which was published in 1964, before she became involved with John Lennon.
But, he added, "I am going to work on 'Belle Toujours,' a sort of sequel to Buñuel's 'Belle de Jour' in France, next, based on my own screenplay".
16 Graffiti Bridge 1990 ★★★ OK, so the film (a sort-of sequel to Purple Rain) sucked like a Dyson, but with "Thieves In The Temple" and "Question Of U" on the soundtrack, that could be forgiven.
Small Steps is a sort-of sequel to Sachar's much-praised novel Holes, which picks up the story after the escape from the Texas juvenile correctional facility featured on the first book.
A sort-of sequel to their previous experiment in deliberate underachievement, Bad Play, Bad Musical sees Dan Mersh, Jeremy Limb and Paul Litchfield staging the dramatically inert story of a young man's rise from humble origins to the top of the British banking system – and back again.
Tim Ferriss is a 33-year-old Silicon Valley angel investor, consultant, Singularity University advisor, and former entrepreneur who in 2007 published a book called The 4-Hour Workweek; in 2008 won Wired's "Greatest Self-Promoter of All Time" prize; and last month published a sort-of-sequel, The 4-Hour Body.
Read a full review 48 Sort-of sequel to the JJ Abrams-produced found-footage monster movie.
