7 iconic 80s films that deserve a legacy sequel after Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice 2 is successful cinemas and determination are rumours of a caller The Goonies film – the 80s are good and genuinely back.

Tim Burton’s eagerly-anticipated sequel sees the foodstuff connected the escaped erstwhile much arsenic a now-adult Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) calls connected his assistance to prevention girl Astrid (Jenna Ortega) from the underworld.

Other returning formed members see Catherine O’Hara arsenic the hilarious Delia Deetz arsenic good arsenic Michael Keaton successful the achromatic and achromatic striped suit arsenic our titular anti-hero.

But Beetlejuice isn’t the archetypal iconic 80s movie to get a bequest sequel decades on, with movies similar Top Gun: Maverick dominating the container bureau successful 2022.

As we crook backmost clip and our favourite nostalgic flicks deed the large surface for a 2nd time, galore much-loved films person ne'er received the sequel attraction – but truly should arsenic they person truthful overmuch much to offer.

Yes, we know, you don’t request to messiness with the classics! But present are 7 films we deliberation person the imaginable to marque a large bequest sequel.

The Neverending Story

The Neverending Story has, successful fact, somewhat ended arsenic we person not had a movie since the 1985 original.

Yet there’s truthful overmuch magic successful the communicative that a bequest sequel could grow connected the original, thrilling modern audiences each implicit again.

The beloved movie tells the communicative of Bastian (Barret Oliver) who hides successful a bookstore to debar his bullies, sneaking distant with a book, The Neverending Story.

As helium reads each astir the onshore of Fantasia and the acheronian that threatens to destruct it all, Bastian begins to wonderment if helium is the quality kid that could assistance Fantasia survive.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Ferris Bueller has had capable clip off, don’t you think?

While we are getting a spin-off movie, Sam and Victor’s Day Off, it would beryllium large to spot what happened successful the decades that person followed John Hughes’ 1986 drama classic.

Matthew Broderick stars successful the archetypal movie arsenic Ferris, who has a unsocial accomplishment astatine being capable to chopped classes and instrumentality risks and someway ever get distant with it.

As graduation looms, Ferris ducks retired again to research Chicago, but precocious schoolhouse main Rooney (Jeffrey Jones) is determined to yet drawback him successful the act.

The Breakfast Club

Another John Hughes deed that should person received a sequel by present is The Breakfast Club.

Hughes adjacent reportedly considered the thought of a follow-up movie but ne'er got the task disconnected the crushed earlier his decease successful 2009.

The teen flick follows 5 precise antithetic precocious schoolhouse students – John (Judd Nelson), Claire (Molly Ringwald), Allison (Ally Sheedy), Brian (Anthony Michael Hall), and Andrew (Emilio Estevez) – arsenic they endure detention nether the watchful eyes of main Vernon (Paul Gleason).

As the time goes on, each gets the accidental to archer their communicative and the radical realises they person much successful communal than initially thought.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

There person agelong been rumours that a 2nd Who Framed Roger Rabbit movie is connected the way, but we’re yet to spot immoderate much adventures from the animated bunny.

Several abbreviated films followed its 1988 merchandise arsenic good arsenic comic books and a video game, but we’re yet to dive backmost into a fictionalised Los Angeles for different death-defying adventure.

The archetypal movie saw down-on-his-luck backstage oculus Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) hired by cartoon shaper R.K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern) to analyse a ungraded involving Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner) the woman of Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer), the producer’s biggest star.

But things go much analyzable erstwhile Jessica’s alleged concealed person Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye) is recovered murdered and Roger becomes the people of Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd), a antheral with a vendetta against toons.

Flash Gordon

Despite its occurrence successful the UK astatine the clip of its merchandise and yet achieving cult classical presumption worldwide, Flash Gordon has ne'er received the sequel treatment.

John Walsh, the writer of Flash Gordon: The Official Story, antecedently told Den of Geek that determination were 2 sequels for the iconic 1980 movie planned, but neither person materialised conscionable yet.

The abstraction opera follows shot backmost Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones) and question cause Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) arsenic they travel Dr. Hans Zarkov (Chaim Topol) to analyse a mysterious eclipse and ‘hot hail’ that NASA assures them is thing to interest about.

Once they get astatine the satellite Mongo, they find themselves uniting the warring factions of the satellite to overthrow the oppressive Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow)

Big Trouble successful Little China

Big Trouble successful Little China has been the taxable of sequel rumours for immoderate time, with prima Kurt Russell antecedently opening up connected the hurdles it could face.

He told ComicBook.com: ‘You ne'er accidental never. I mean, if idiosyncratic were to constitute a large script, that was amended than the archetypal one, [and] it had thing caller to say, I don’t know, we tin slap John Carpenter astir a small spot and say, “Come on, John! Let’s spell bash this.’

Russell plays motortruck operator Jack Burton successful the 1986 movie who accompanies his person Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) to prevention his green-eyed fiancée from bandits successful San Francisco’s Chinatown.

As they task into the town’s mysterious underworld, they conscionable an past sorcerer named David Lo Pan (James Hong), who requires a pistillate with greenish eyes to wed him successful bid to beryllium released from a centuries-old curse

Spaceballs

Spaceballs fans are successful luck, arsenic it was announced successful June a sequel is present successful development.

Josh Greenbaum volition nonstop the movie with Pixels and Frozen histrion Joshua Gad acceptable to star.

The 1987 parody movie chiefly sends up the deed sci-fi franchise Star Wars and follows Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his alien sidekick Barf (John Candy) arsenic they rescue Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) and her droid Dot Matrix (Lorene Yarnell, voiced by Joan Rivers), from being captured by the Spaceballs, led by President Skroob (Mel Brooks).

However, the radical find themselves stranded connected the godforsaken satellite and meets Yogurt (also Brooks), who teaches Starr the powerfulness of ‘the Schwartz’ – dependable familiar?

Got a story?

If you’ve got a personage story, video oregon pictures get successful interaction with the Metro.co.uk amusement squad by emailing america [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 oregon by visiting our Submit Stuff leafage – we’d emotion to perceive from you.

MORE : 80s movie prima pours acold h2o connected reboot claims arsenic helium admits ‘I hatred to fto fans down’

MORE : 80s popular fable unrecognisable 38 years aft band’s biggest hit

MORE : Original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles dependable histrion Peter Renaday dies aged 89