ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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Today's Hollywood is Sequel Crazy because they've learned that any movie they make can become an endless "cash cow" and spawn a franchise which will earn billions of dollars . . . if the public demands more movies after the initial production.

But back in the 1950s, the Tinseltown Dimwits had no clue that any well-made movie was a seed which could sprout into a crop of sequels, and they could rake in the cash for years to come!

Geez, those poor clueless morons . . .

However, bright folks like us can enjoy pretending we’re movie moguls in the 1950s who can come up with brilliant sequels for movies like the ones listed below!

So, let's have fun concocting a few follow-up films for the classics we love. And then we can flesh out the plots which would have dazzled sci-fi fans in the Golden Age of Sci-Fi!

Please understand that the suggestions below are just my own ideas for stories which would continue the plots of the great originals. I’ll leave it to you guys to offer more ideas about each one.

This thread is not restricted to the movies I’ve listed below. You guys don’t have to reply to the ideas I’ve suggested. This thread is for “sequel concepts” — not for “replies to Bud’s brilliant ideas”.

This is brainstorming at its finest!

So, feel free to suggest your own concepts to the movies listed below. And also you should feel free to add additional movies as well!

We’re using our imaginations to travel back in time and produce the movies Hollywood should have made when we were kids!

And just for the record, all our imaginary sequels will have really big budgets!

So, here we go!
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The Thing from Another World II

The planet that sent the first ship won’t just give up when they don’t hear a report form the alien who survived the crash. Obviously these “super carrots” never meant for the ship to land in arctic, so their next mission will make sure it lands in fertile region where the invaders can “start growing some kind of horrible army. Turn the human race into food for it?” (A quote from the movie.)

I’ve always thought the sequel would take place somewhere in Kansas or Oklahoma — in a remote area surrounded by a few thousand acres of rich, green farmland!




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The Day the Earth Stood Still II

Klaatu left Earth with no idea how much longer he’d live or what decision Earth would make after his dire warning concerning the threat of the Robot Police who possessed “a power over us” that “could not be revoked”. (Again, a quote from the movie.)

I’ve always wondered if his society wished they didn’t have to live under a rigid robot dictatorship, over which they actually had no control!

So, what if Klaatu came back to tell mankind that the situation he told us about was not as simple as he described, and that his interstellar society desperately needed our help, because the robots had such a strong hold on them!

You know . . . like the one shown symbolically in this picture! (Sorry, the image is so good I just couldn't resist using it!




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When Worlds Collide II

The authors of the book on which the classic movies was based wrote a great sequel. I’ve read it, and I actually like it even better than the first one! But if we were in charge of the sequel for the wonderful original, what would WE do with it?




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War of the Worlds II

Okay, the Martians were kickin’ our asses right up until the viruses in Earth’s atmosphere won the war for us.

But the Martians wouldn’t just give up after they found out that all their soldiers needed to get inoculated before going off to war!

So, what would the Martians do next?

Perhaps they would place a huge space station in orbit and drop containers which seed the Earth with a virus from Mars that THEY were immune to . . . but which WE were not!

Hell’s bells, turn about is fair play, right?




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Earth vs the Flying Saucers II

The alien invaders failed to conquer Earth because we found a fatal flaw in their propulsion system which made their saucer’s crash! But . . . did they ALL crash, or did some of them get away?

If so, perhaps the surviving saucers regrouped in space and developed a defense against our anti-magnetic ray . . . and then came back. Having gained a healthy respect for our technology and our determination, perhaps they would then decide to take a shot at negotiating with us.

But . . . even if they did, would we trust them?

Hell no!

With that in mind, mankind would get busy trying to reverse engineer the alien's technology so we could build our own flying saucers — partly to use them against the aliens, and partly to find out if there was a way to make them resistant to our anti-magnetic weapon.




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20 Million Miles to Earth II

Hey, guess what? Venus has life on it! The Ymir’s existence proves that.

And our rocket only crashed on Earth because it got hit by a meteoroid in space! So, we’ve got a proven spaceship that can get us to Venus and back, and we've got solid proof that life exist on Venus!

So, what do we do next?

Hell, we go back!

The working title of this sequel could be 20 Million Miles FROM Earth. (But of course, we can do better than that.).

Imagine a scene on Venus which pans across the Venusian landscape until we see a Ymir come into view as it gazes down into the valley below.

Suddenly a spacecraft from Earth soars across the strange terrain during it’s decent. It passes out of frame and makes it’s landing while the Venusian creature watches.

~ Click on the image to view a larger version of the gorgeous work of art I created by combining various elements with Paint.net.



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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Here's a few brand new thoughts to ponder._

The Ymirs on Venus are intelligent, and when the Earth ship lands, the Venusians deliberately allow the astronauts to take a Ymir back to Earth.

Why? Story wise, there are several possibilities.





~ The Ymirs on Venus hope the humans will raise it and teach it to speak one or more of our languages. Then they'll have a Venusian ambassador who can represent them on Earth.

~ What if the Ymirs communicate by telepathy, even over great distances. They plan to converse with the one on Earth when it becomes old enough to start transmitting and receiving thoughts. Then they could secretly study Earth and mankind through the eyes of their "spy".

But the Ymirs didn't realize that our atmosphere would accelerator the creatures growth, so the Ymir was still only a few days old when it was finally killed in Rome.





~ Consider this; because of the large size of mature Ymirs, building a Venusian spacecraft large enough for anything other then small crew would be difficult.

Sp, if the Ymirs wanted to invade Earth, they would send a ship controlled by an AI system, and the invasion force would actually be hundreds of eggs in containers. The AI system would control a group of robots who would allow the eggs to hatch after the ship landed in a remote area, such as the Amazon jungle.

Then the AI-controlled robots would care for and train the young Ymirs, teaching them the Ymir language (unless they are telepathic, as described above). The Ymirs would also learn how to use the high-tech weapons they brought to conquor Earth!

And if that idea ain't wild enough for you, consider the fact that the Ymir soldiers could lay more eggs for the robots to raise, increasing the hidden invasion force in just a few days, because they grow so fast on Earth!

Thoughts, anyone!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)