I've often thought that we left the original 'Phantom' with a little bit of a cliff hanger, and I thought, 'Well, why not to do a sequel to it' at one point.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.
I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.
It's always scary when you're doing a sequel to a film, because you don't want to just repeat the first film in a different location like most sequels. You want to do something totally different, and something that actually expands the world of the main character.
And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.
When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel.
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.
Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.
I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.
To do a sequel is so weird, you don't really think about it.