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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.

7) Return to Oz

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Sequel to: The Wizard of Oz

Time between movies: 46 years

Taking a family-friendly story and reimagining it for a more cynical age, Return to Oz is the tune-free antithesis of Victor Fleming’s technicolor masterwork The Wizard of Oz. It’s the nightmare to the original’s gaudy cheese-dream, the dark aftermath to the 1939 musical that nobody asked for. It is, fundamentally, brilliant.

Few responded well to Walter Murch’s Return to Oz initially (what would you expect when Apocalypse Now‘s sound guy is hired to helm a kids’ movie?). But slowly, over time, the consensus has changed. Critics have come around to viewing Return to Oz as its own unique property, a marvel of design that works as the sinister flipside to the 1939 classic.

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