Movie Trilogies That Won't Ever Be Finished

Not every trilogy goes as planned, and some never even make it to the finish line. Maybe they bombed at the box office, perhaps they were savaged by critics, or maybe there was behind-the-scenes drama. Whatever the reason, these movie trilogies were stopped in their tracks and will never be completed.

Sony Pictures saw dollar signs in the popular Millennium series by the late Swedish novelist and journalist Stieg Larsson, and assembled an all-star cast and crew to make a movie. David Fincher was perfectly suited for this dark, sordid material, while Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara seamlessly brought main characters Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander to life. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo won rave reviews from critics, but it wasn't a runaway hit, earning $102 million domestically and $232 million worldwide on a $90 million budget in 2011. Sony wanted to cut costs on the sequel, but Daniel Craig, fresh off Skyfall's global gross of $1 billion, wanted a raise.

As a result, the studio squashed any hopes of a Mara and Craig trilogy. Instead, Sony opted to go with an entirely new cast seven years later with the 2018 sequel, The Girl in the Spider's Web, casting Claire Foy as Lisbeth and Sverrir Gudnason as Mikael. But not even the film's modest $43 million budget could save it, with the film earning only $14 million domestic and $35 million worldwide gross.

With Tom Cruise in the title role, the original Jack Reacher film, about an ex-military policeman, was an above-average crime thriller, earning a 63 percent Tomatometer score and $217 million worldwide on a $60 million budget. However, the sequel's subtitle Never Go Back unintentionally served as a warning, as it earned a 37 percent Tomatometer score and $159 million worldwide on a $60 million budget — still profitable but a troubling 27 percent drop. While series creator Lee Child had nothing but nice things to say about Cruise as a person, he agreed with readers that the 5-foot-seven-inch Cruise wasn't the right fit for the towering character, and the series stalled out. Keep watching the video to see all the movie trilogies that won't ever be finished.

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The Millennium trilogy | 0:00
Jack Reacher | 1:19
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 1:58
The Golden Compass | 2:40
Timothy Dalton's James Bond | 3:43
Speed | 4:44
Percy Jackson | 5:39
Silent Hill | 6:46
Stargate | 7:48
Batman | 8:48
Gremlins | 9:51
Conan the Barbarian | 10:34

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