5 sagas that died with their first movie

It is well known that film franchises and franchises are the products that perform best at the box office. You just have to pay attention to the figures that Fast and Furious 9 has achieved in the eastern market. More than 160 million in its weekly premiere, being the second best premiere in the saga after its predecessor. But the projects do not always start as expected, generating sagas that died with their first film. Worst? On top of that they tend to have very high budgets, with the corresponding economic losses.1- “Eragon” “Eragon” (Davis Entertainment) This 2006 film was born in the same way as many other fantastic sagas, through a series of novels. It was a best seller in the New York Times, the problem is that to adapt it to the cinema they hired Peter Buchman, the scriptwriter of the despicable Jurassic Park 3. The funny thing is that in this case there was no crash at the box office. Eragon cost 100 million but raised almost 250 million dollars. What has included her in this list of sagas that died with her first film were the unanimously very bad reviews. 2- “The Golden Compass” “The Golden Compass” (New line cinema) Another failure related to the fantasy genre. It is based on Philip Pullman’s book series, Dark Matter. The original book is called Northern Lights and its adaptation tried to make an impact at the box office with the inclusion in its cast of big stars such as Daniel Craig, Ian McKellen and Nicole Kidman. It had a good gross, almost 140 million worldwide. But its producers did not want to continue the saga due to the division of criticism and the controversy surrounding the alleged criticism of the novel’s Catholicism.3- “Green Lantern” “Green Lantern” (Warner Bros Pictures) The worst used superhero mythology in the world of cinema? Warner spent a million to tell a critically-beaten story (it has 26% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes) and raised just over the $ 200 million it cost. The film was narrated in fits and starts and with an excessive use of CGI. At first Warner wanted to start a trilogy with the defender of the earth, but given the results they preferred to focus on the Superman and Batman tapes. At least it served for Black Lively and Ryan Reynolds to meet. 4- “John Carter” “John Carter” (Disney) This story by science fiction writer Edgar Rice Burroughs was the basis of inspiration for James Cameron to sign his great blockbuster work Avatar. At the time it was one of the most expensive Disney productions, with a budget of 250 million, it had losses of 200 million dollars and is considered one of the biggest economic failures in the history of the industry. The series has several novels but everything remained in this installment, Disney could not afford the risk of having a failure of such dimensions again. 5- “Jumper” “Jumper” (20 Century) This adaptation of the homonymous novel by Steven Gould closes the list of the sagas that died with their first film. It was 2008 and Jumper had everything he needed to succeed. Hayden Christensen came from acting in the last Star Wars prequel trilogy, it was a hero story and the bad guy was Samuel L. Jackson. In addition, the Century Fox film grossed more than $ 200 million at the worldwide box office.Although the critics were not very convinced, the end with the protagonist meeting his mother augured at least one sequel that never came.