His Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740, with a less-happy sequel in 1741), using (like all Richardson's novels) the epistolary form, tells a story of an employer's attempted seduction of a young servant woman, her subsequent victimization, and her eventual reward in virtuous marriage with the penitent exploiter.
(By a happy coincidence, the sequel to the film of that name opens in London today).
McMillan's later novels include A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2001), The Interruption of Everything (2005), Getting to Happy (2010)—a sequel to Waiting to Exhale and Who Asked You? (2013).
McMillan's new novel, "Getting to Happy," is a sequel that resumes the story some 15 years later.
The likes of Warner Brothers, Sony and Universal Pictures are also racing to mine the genre, spending hundreds of millions on movies like "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" and a sequel to "Happy Feet".
While audiences and critics were happy to see a sequel to Finding Nemo (Finding Dory has become the biggest animated film of all time in the US), they've been less impressed with most other sequels offered up this summer.
Many of the creative staff at Pixar were not happy with how the sequel was turning out.
So if that's a possibility, A) I would be very happy to do a sequel, but B) a lot of these ideas, set pieces and all that, actually have in them a really good seed for a sequel".
Hey, if you want a happy ending, see the sequel-cum-remake, "An American Werewolf in Paris".
