A selection of film and cartoon franchises that will no longer have interesting parts (10 photos)

Today, filmmakers continue to milk many cult franchises that should have been finished a long time ago. For example, poor "Terminator", "Jurassic Park" and so on. Each new part turns out to be worse than the previous one and it becomes clear that there will be no new interesting sequels... Or are we wrong and there is still hope? Share your opinion in the comments! In the meantime, let's look at famous film and cartoon franchises that have long since fizzled out.

Terminator





The series had two masterpiece films and an interesting, bold ending to the third one. Everything else was drowned in audience negativity. John Connor himself becomes a cyborg, then he is killed as a teenager - the plot has been twisted in every possible way in the last three films. This series can still tell us: "I'll be back", but we would like to hear from it the long-awaited: "Hasta la vista, baby".

Star Wars



Since 2019, only TV series of varying degrees of success have been filmed in this universe. However, we are waiting for the announcement of the start of filming a new film trilogy: even more sequels, even more prequels, midquels, in the end, or even spin-offs - it is unnecessary to emphasize. But Disney, which owns the rights to the franchise, is clearly thinking hard about what to do to avoid making a mess like they did with the most recent film, "The Rise of Skywalker." And that was a mess of galactic proportions.

The film "The Mandalorian and Grogu" will be released in 2026. But this is not serious, it's just a continuation of the series. We are waiting for a trilogy about the great-grandchildren of Darth Vader or the great-grandfathers of Yoda, no less! But will anything worthwhile come out of this?

Jurassic Park





Or "Jurassic World", it's all the same. The very first part is one of Steven Spielberg's main masterpieces, but then everything went awry. The maestro himself could not make the sequel successful, and in his absence, the concept of dinosaurs coming to life in the modern world was turned into a visually interesting, but plot-wise uninspired machine for collecting good money at the box office.

In 2025, a new series of "Jurassic World: Rebirth" will be released, where Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali will suddenly star, that is, actors who, it seems, do not sign up for obviously failed projects (although ...). The main question here is where to move this story further, so that it is interesting?

Or maybe make a crossover with the next condemned series..?

Ice Age



In case you suddenly did not keep track, then in 2026 "Ice Age 6" will be released. Six! The period has clearly dragged on. There, the squirrel and the acorn were already in space, accidentally sending an asteroid to Earth, and the weasel Buck got his own solo cartoon (along with Crash and Eddie), which grabbed a confident red zone from the audience.

What can we expect from the sixth part of the series, when the last three were definitely not liked by the audience? Such cartoons have only one savior and at the same time sponsors - unpretentious children.

Fast and Furious



Yes, we were promised only one final (eleventh!) part, but, firstly, can we trust Vin Diesel when it comes to his favorite "Fast and Furious"; and secondly, this last part raises obvious concerns - after all, the last three turned out to be very weak and completely detached from any kind of adequacy.

Shrek



At the beginning of March 2025, a teaser for the fifth part of the cartoon was released, which in 27 seconds managed to collect a huge amount of criticism. Moreover, the public was disappointed with the changed appearance of the heroes, because they seemed to have fallen into the hands of completely different animators, see for yourself.

But this is only one side of the problem. Before the release of the scandalous video, skepticism towards the fifth part was caused by the very fact of its creation? After all, "Shrek the Third" and "Shrek Forever After" came out, to put it mildly, average, largely due to their optional plot. What will the fifth part be about?

Ghostbusters



This film series had a chance to worthily go through the reboot stage in the new century, but it seems that it was just wasted. "Ghostbusters: Succession" of 2021 took the story in an interesting direction and successfully presented young heroes, but "Chilling Horror" of 2024 turned out to be that same bad legacy sequel, where parasitism on familiar plot and heroes became more than new interesting discoveries.

Scream



There's a pretty well-known story here. The series will definitely have a seventh part, but for various reasons, two leading actresses dropped out - Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera. Well, that's it. To be fair, the last two parts weren't exactly stellar, and it's completely unclear how to get out of it now that the main characters need to be removed from the story.

Pirates of the Caribbean



In this franchise, it seems that every option for a sequel is a grave. With Johnny Depp — so the fourth and fifth parts were already sequels for the sake of a sequel (well, that is, money) without any striking features, but with three nominations for the Golden Raspberry. Without Johnny Depp — so what kind of "Pirates of the Caribbean" are they without Captain Jack Sparrow?! Ugh!

James Bond



Here's the thing. The future of the series was recently overshadowed by the announcement that Amazon had gained full control over it. The intellectual property rights were originally owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (the one with the lion), and since 2022 they have remained with producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who oversaw everything related to Bond, forming the image we are accustomed to with cars, British actors and drinks. But now they have finally parted with creative control over the $1 billion series, and since February 2025, the name and honor of the legendary MI6 special agent has passed into the hands of completely different people who can do with it whatever they please.

Here the situation is twofold: the current owners can, as the media fears, turn the story of agent 007 into an endless attraction of average quality, akin to "Jurassic World" or "Transformers", casting God knows who in the leading role, releasing a film a year and churning out series "in the universe", or a fresh approach will breathe new life into the series, and we will see films that are different in style, but no less exciting.

Belief in the second option seems overly optimistic for now.