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10 Movies That Were Meant To Reboot Franchises But Flopped Hard

The movie remake has been a popular trend for a while, but right now we are in a hot spot for franchise reboots – films that are not only redoing one popular movie from the past but also have to reignite whole series of movies. 2015 delivered a couple of big successes in this area with Jurassic World and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, while this year will see the likes of Ghostbusters join the ranks of reinvented franchises.
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4) Superman Returns

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As he is such a perennially popular character, it is odd to think that Superman disappeared from cinema screens for a huge 19 year period before 2006’s aptly-titled Superman Returns. Directed by Bryan Singer – the man who launched the mega-successful ­X-Men franchise – the Big Blue Boy Scout looked set to come back with a bang.

Unfortunately, though, Superman Returns was a strangely pitched movie. While its faithfulness is charming, the idea to set it within the timeline of a film series that had been dead for two decades was a probably a bad move. It means Brandon Routh’s Superman is put directly under the huge shadow of Christopher Reeve’s beloved performance and never has a chance to stand on his own.

The movie was not the big hitter that Warner Bros. were hoping for and so Supes vanished once again… until Man of Steel rebooted him in 2013.

3) Terminator Salvation

The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day are widely seen as two of the best films of their kind. Unfortunately, this winning streak was broken with Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines – which eschewed the thrilling action and drama of previous entries for dumb moments like putting Arnold Schwarzenegger in comedy glasses.

The fourth movie, Terminator Salvation, was meant to take the series in a completely different direction – no longer about the time travel, it was a future-set war movie with Christian Bale as a grizzled John Connor.

In the event, many felt that – despite being a slight improvement on the third movie – Salvation ended up being pretty pedestrian. The film did decent business but didn’t make a lasting impression and the rest of the trilogy it was meant to start never transpired.

That didn’t put studios off, though, as another Terminator film did eventually arrive…


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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'