{"id":18021,"date":"2019-09-15T10:35:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T17:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18021"},"modified":"2019-09-15T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T17:49:34","slug":"sequel-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/09\/15\/sequel-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequel titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Coming soon from the Coen Brothers: <cite>Blood Simple II: Blood Simpler<\/cite>.<\/p>\r\n<p>I think I made that one up. I\u2019ve also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2000\/10\/22\/uuunivers\/\">suggested<\/a> that the sequel to <cite>The Mac Is Not a Typewriter<\/cite> should have been called <cite>The Mac Is Still Not a Typewriter<\/cite>. A couple of other sequel titles, these ones not by me (I don\u2019t know who came up with them):<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>A sequel to <cite>E.T.<\/cite>, to be titled <cite>ETC<\/cite>.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The <cite>Alien<\/cite> trilogy: <cite>Alien<\/cite>, <cite>Aliens<\/cite>, <cite>Alienses<\/cite>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>(See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2012\/08\/25\/roman-numerals-in-film-sequel\/\">Roman numerals in film sequel titles<\/a>. And the joke about waiting to see <cite>Malcolm X<\/cite> until after you\u2019ve seen the first nine movies in the series.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Okay, your turn now: Suggest other unlikely titles for movie or book sequels.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-titles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18025,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18021\/revisions\/18025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}