The Onion on Film Franchises That Flopped
Is there a sorrier sight than than marked-down action figures headed for the island of unwanted toys?
After the heavily hyped GODZILLA remake, I recall seeing broken, abandoned 'Zilla toys and knockoffs on 14th street -- you couldn't give that stuff away.
The Onion's A/V club remembers thirteen failed franchises, movies that looked like Part One of a sure thing, from comic book heroes (DICK TRACY) to spinoffs (DAREDEVIL) to literary adaptations (MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD). One even had summertime box office king Will Smith (WILD WILD WEST)
What went wrong?