Kershner had already directed several noteworthy, if not particularly commercial, films, including A Fine Madness (1966) and Loving (1970), but with Empire he moved into another bracket, and he followed it with two more vehicles in already established franchises, the James Bond movie, Never Say Never Again, Sean Connery's last appearance as Bond, and the sequel to the action hit, Robocop.
Writer Michael Dougherty wanted the sequel to be "action packed", featuring "other Kryptonians" with Brainiac and Bizarro also considered for primary villains.
The films he is referring to are The Crossing, a disaster drama about the real-life sinking of the Taiping steamship in 1949 from veteran director John Woo; Gone With The Bullets, a sequel to hit period action comedy Let the Bullets Fly from writer-director-star Jian Wen; and The Taking of Tiger Mountain, an action epic from another veteran director, Tsui Hark.
Tatum recently concluded production on Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the sequel to 2014's action film Kingsman: The Secret Service.
The proposal of the Council is a fitting sequel to its enlightened action whereby the excavation, which has proved so fruitful in results, was made possible.
(HBO, $59.99, not rated) CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE The writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor offer a sequel to their 2006 action film "Crank"; the hero (Jason Statham) has an artificial heart that frequently and inconveniently needs recharging.
It certainly looked like Platinum Games would never make a sequel to the popular action game, with publisher Sega uninterested in publishing a sequel.
In case you hadn't heard, Will Smith's cigar-smoking, alien-killing alter ego Steven Hiller won't appear in the sequel to the 1996 action classic "Independence Day," because, well... he's dead.
At a screening of Eisenberg's new film, Now You See Me 2, a sequel to the 2013 action-comedy about a gang of adventuring magicians, I spotted a new addition to the repertoire.
That means either tying it into the continuity of Batman: The Animated Series (with Kevin Conroy and Will Freddie reprising their roles as Bruce Wayne and Terry McGinnis) or making it a decades-later sequel to a live-action Batman movie.
