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10 Long-Delayed Sequels That Were Worth The Wait

10 Cloverfield Lane is no ordinary sequel. For starters, the film isn't really a direct follow-up to found-footage monster movie Cloverfield at all, but a project that - in the words of producer J.J. Abrams - simply shares the "DNA" of its predecessor. Another reason it's so different to the usual franchise movie? Unlike most, this sequel has arrived a whole eight years on from the original.

10) Mad Max: Fury Road

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Sequel to: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Time between movies: 30 years

30 years, it turns out, is exactly what George Miller needed to develop not just one of the greatest sequels of all time, but one of the great action movies, period.

After the stale Beyond Thunderdome, Miller temporarily put his Mad Max saga into hibernation. Then the delay for Mad Max 4 would extend, and extend, until original Max Mel Gibson dropped out and Miller found himself with literally decades-worth of ideas building up.

When Fury Road finally arrived last year, audiences could see the result of the long period of development: a hyper-stylized, hallucinatory and eccentric blockbuster unlike any other. It’s the high point for both Miller and the Mad Max series, proof that a franchise long thought stagnant can still have legs.

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