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[freelancer3018]

Too bad you are wrong, all of those were planned ahead of time. Spider Man was actually going to be 5 movies , but he decided to can the last two later.

And you can throw The Dark Knight trilogy in there as well.

No, no they weren't. I'll give you Spiderman and the Dark Knight, but the others including the Matrix only received sequels and so on because of their success. Remove all the movies based off of book trilogies and your lists is depressingly small. The fact of the matter is that a vast majority of modern movie trilogies are merely the result of their success in the box office, rather than being a predetermined three movie story arc.

[EarthAtGates]

No, no they weren't. I'll give you Spiderman and the Dark Knight, but the others including the Matrix only received sequels and so on because of their success. Remove all the movies based off of book trilogies and your lists is depressingly small.

You really don't know **** about movies.

The Matrix Sequels were already written before the first movie was even made.

James Cameron wrote T2 during the same time as the first movie, and wanted to put the T-1000 in the original movie.

Disney already penned the scripts for PotC2 and 3 and only waited to greenlight them once they saw the success of the original. The only one which wasn't planned ahead of time was On Stranger Tides.

Then to even suggest that Sergio Leone didn't write the whole dollars trilogy ahead of time only shows that you are looking to **** on his name.

And then all of the book trilogies do count because the write their own scripts to adapt the film and very often do not follow the source material with LOTR being an exception.

Also, I think you hate Gabe Newell's beard.

[will_perdikakis]

You really don't know **** about movies.

You are the one claiming that Batman Begins was intended for sequels... I wonder if that was before or after Aronofsky's declination of the role, since it was supposed to be Batman: Year Zero...

But you knew all this, obviously.

[EarthAtGates]

You are the one claiming that Batman Begins was intended for sequels... I wonder if that was before or after Aronofsky's declination of the role, since it was supposed to be Batman: Year Zero...

But you knew all this, obviously.

Nolan and his brother wrote them all. The version you are talking about is a shelved revival before Nolan and his crew came in.

[icemanchilled]

This is just wrong. While many trilogies (especially ones in the video game and movie industries) start out as single works, there are numerous book series that started out with the full intention of being a trilogy or cycle.

You've obviously misunderstood what i wrote. I never said some series aren't planned as a trilogy, i said the story is not planned out from beginning to end. They may start with the basic premise of the story, but the detail and real content is created as the story is written, the twists and turns and surprises are added as the story is fleshed out. For instance, do you think JK Rowling knew what was going to happen in Harry Potter 7 when she was writing number 1? Of course not, the most she would have known was that Harry would fight Voldemort, the rest of the story would have taken shape as she wrote it.

E@G seems to think that the detail in these stories is, or should be, already planned out in detail, in advance. Which is obviously not the case.

Which sums up about how much icemanchilled knows about writing. Beyond books, movies are planned in similar manners.

I've forgotten more about writing than you'll ever know. The fact you think these things are planned from beginning to end in detail, just shows you've barely read a book in your life, never mind a trilogy or series of books. You are making yourself look ignorant, for your own sake, stop.

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The Matrix Sequels were already written before the first movie was even made.

That's just totally wrong, like the rest of your examples, here's a draft the Wachowski brothers did in October 2001, two years after The Matrix was released. I'd go through the rest and prove you wrong with those too, but i have neither the time nor inclination, besides, i think this one alone is enough to demonstrate how little you really know.

[freelancer3018]

You've obviously misunderstood what i wrote. I never said some series aren't planned as a trilogy, i said the story is not planned out from beginning to end. They may start with the basic premise of the story, but the detail and real content is created as the story is written, the twists and turns and surprises are added as the story is fleshed out. For instance, do you think JK Rowling knew what was going to happen in Harry Potter 7 when she was writing number 1? Of course not, the most she would have known was that Harry would fight Voldemort, the rest of the story would have taken shape as she wrote it.

Im pretty sure she made references numerous times during the release of her books that she always knew how it would end, maybe the way the story progressed wasn't fully planned out but the ending almost certainly was.

[icemanchilled]

Im pretty sure she made references numerous times during the release of her books that she always knew how it would end, maybe the way the story progressed wasn't fully planned out but the ending almost certainly was.

Of course, as i said, she probably had the basics down, i.e. Harry, et al, prepare for the showdown and he finally confronts Voldemort; they fight, Harry is victorious. There wasn't many ways she could end it and still leave the reader satisfied, so the ending almost wrote itself. The rest came from her imagination as she wrote, as with all writers; she tied in various plot lines, revealed the last of the secrets, and tied up all the loose ends. She wouldn't have known how she was going to do that, until she reached that particular part of the story.

[dracom_ma]

I won't touch on movies, since most movie series I know of are based on books. (Frank Herbert's Dune for example).

However, there are many TV series that are planned out. Stargate Universe had all the episodes planned out for a 5 season series. The story arc was already in place and ready to go. Stargate SG1 had much of it's running planned out. The last 2 seasons were obviously thrown in to continue the series of course.

And most noticeably, Babylon 5 was extensively planed out ahead of time. It was planned out as 5 seasons, then got shrunk to 4, but because of the success of the series, a newer unplanned 5th season was re-introduced, but even that 5th season maintained story elements that was planned out and revealed in earlier seasons. Of any series I have seen, Babylon 5 was able to maintain story continuity the best.

[CorrupT88]

EA make me sick tbh.... It is appaling....The sad thing is that all the young gamers will buy all of this **** DLC and EA will make loads of profit and continue to do the same.

[QuadDamage]

You've obviously misunderstood what i wrote. I never said some series aren't planned as a trilogy, i said the story is not planned out from beginning to end. They may start with the basic premise of the story, but the detail and real content is created as the story is written, the twists and turns and surprises are added as the story is fleshed out. For instance, do you think JK Rowling knew what was going to happen in Harry Potter 7 when she was writing number 1? Of course not, the most she would have known was that Harry would fight Voldemort, the rest of the story would have taken shape as she wrote it.

E@G seems to think that the detail in these stories is, or should be, already planned out in detail, in advance. Which is obviously not the case.



I've forgotten more about writing than you'll ever know. The fact you think these things are planned from beginning to end in detail, just shows you've barely read a book in your life, never mind a trilogy or series of books. You are making yourself look ignorant, for your own sake, stop.

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That's just totally wrong, like the rest of your examples, here's a draft the Wachowski brothers did in October 2001, two years after The Matrix was released. I'd go through the rest and prove you wrong with those too, but i have neither the time nor inclination, besides, i think this one alone is enough to demonstrate how little you really know.

Nope. Wachowski's wrote the whole script before the first Matrix was shot. From what i read, The Matrix series was originally planned to be released as comic books. Besides you could tell Matrix wasn't gonna end after the first movie.