The egg and i. Ma and ka kettle took over after the first movie.
The egg and i. Ma and ka kettle took over after the first movie.
"Van Wilder" and "Van Wilder: Rise of the Taj"
"Bruce Almighty" and "Evan Almighty"
Both passed the torch of the sequel to a supporting character in the first film... (not exactly "franchises" but...y'know)
oops, someone already mentioned this one
Last edited by OpaqueGiraffe17; 10-28-2020 at 08:05 PM.
Brian was the POV character but I don't think you can call Vins role a supporting character. They were co-leads and continued to be untill Walkers death.
Staying with Vin Diesel there is Pitch Black/Riddick. Though In the ssme boat as Fast and furious I dont think his character was a side character. Mitchel and Walker played the PoV characters kinda but Vin got just as much attention if not more.
The X-Men. Most movies were primarily about Wolverine guest starring the X-Men as supporting characters, and then Apocalypse came and they switched places. Then the X-Men were the main protagonists in Dark Phoenix
(all you Fox fans -- I'M KIDDING.)
Sandra Bullock tool over "Speed" from Keanu, but it didn't quite work out.
In the Nolan trilogy, Batman was the main character in Batman Begins, but Joker was the main character in Dark Knight Returns and Bane was the main character in Dark Knight Rises.
Every day is a gift, not a given right.
To elaborate, the gentleman thief Sir Charles Lytton was intended to be the main character. But Inspector Closeau was such a show stealer he took over the lead in all the movies that followed up until Peter Sellers' death, and Charles Lytton was played by a different actor in his next appearance, and wasn't in most of the other Sellers movies.
Indeed. It got to the point where people forget that Mrs. Voorhees was the killer in the original, as the movie 'Scream' noted. Jason Voorhees didn't begin his murder spree until the second movie.
Then there was the Fugitive movie in the 90s starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. Tommy Lee Jones' character, who was pursuing Ford's fugitive character of Kimble, returned in the movie US Marshalls, where he's on another case featuring someone wrongfully accused.
Well in the first movie, they were meant to be different characters. Vader becoming so iconic certainly increased Anakin's overall role in the saga to the point he became a messianic character. Originally Vader was just an exotic henchman, like Oddjob or Jaws.
Frozen is maybe sort of example of this - character of Elsa was originally written as antagonist as the Snow Queen in the original story. In the finished movie she was written into sort of a victim role, but she became face of the franchise.
Last edited by Ikari; 10-30-2020 at 01:09 AM.
I'm not 100% positive, but didn't the "American Pie" franchise continue on by bringing the supporting characters more to the front after the leads left?