The 8 Longest Waits for Movie Sequels

It’s still hard to believe: in four years — the time it takes most to finish college — Marvel Comics got their cinematic act together. They created a sprawling universe with their most famous superheroes across six movies, culminating in this summer’s mammoth The Avengers. In those same four years, Christopher Nolan made his second and third Batman films, two of the most consistently challenging and unique entries in the superhero movie genre. The wait’s not always worth it — three Transformers movies came out in four years, after all — but Hollywood is doing its best to make our nerd fantasies come true in no time flat.

Yet we’ve also seen some incredibly long gaps between entries in our favorite existing and would-be franchises. The best laid plans of studios (usually, to get sequels in the can before their beloved actors age out or move on to other things) sometimes go awry for a variety of reasons. But, as this list shows, sometimes the wait is surprisingly intense, yet bizarrely worth it. And sometimes… it’s not.

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