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.
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Late Arrivals
- The Witches of Eastwick (1984) / The Widows of Eastwick (2008)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) / Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
- Psycho (1960) / Psycho II (1983)
- Gone with the Wind (1936) / Scarlett (1991)
- The Hustler (1961) / The Color of Money (1986)
- Bambi (1942) / Bambi II (2006)
- Rambo III (1988) / Rambo (2008)
- The Birds (1963) / The Birds II: Land's End (1994)
- Earthsea: The Farthest Shore (1972) / Earthsea: Tehanu (1990)
- Dracula (1897) / Dracula: The Un-Dead (2009)
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