Top 10 Longest Sequel Gaps
John Updike's The Widows of Eastwick arrives almost a quarter century after its predecessor. Yet it ranks relatively low on the list of all-time greatest waits for sequels. TIME rounds up the longest hiatuses in cinematic and literary history.
The Witches of Eastwick (1984) / The Widows of Eastwick (2008)
Having dissected the American male in the first three of his Rabbit novels, John Updike decided to give the fairer sex a go in his 1984 work The Witches of Eastwick. 24 years later, the titular trio return to their former haunt—the coastal Rhode Island from which the novels take their name—to lament the passage of time.
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