New Top Gun fi lm key to Hollywood’s new obsession with the ‘legacy sequel’
The Guardian|May 21, 2022
Next week, Hollywood will take an estimated $300m (£240m) gamble on Top Gun: Maverick , the sequel to a film released 36 years ago .
Andrew Pulver
New Top Gun fi lm key to Hollywood’s new obsession with the ‘legacy sequel’

Meanwhile one of the hottest projects at the Cannes film festival market , where rights are sold to as-yet-unmade films – is the sequel to This Is Spinal Tap , a film released 38 years ago.

Then this Christmas we’ll get the sequel to James Cameron ’s blockbuster Avatar , 13 years after its first appearance. In between, this summer will see the arrival of The Railway Children Return , a sequel to the beloved family classic, 52 years later.

Sequels have been Hollywood’s life blood for decades , but the profusion of “belated sequels” appears to be reaching epidemic proportions . Top Gun: Maverick, in which Tom Cruise revisits his 80s hotshot navy pilot character in middle age, joins the likes of Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, Jurassic World, Rambo, Mad Max and Star Wars in attempting to convert fan nostalgia for a successful franchise into a new mass-appeal blockbuster.

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