21 Movies That Were Supposed to Start Franchises But Failed

Making a single well-crafted, standalone movie seems to be both impossible and an abject failure these days. Everything must set up a potential sequel, closure is verboten.

But not all intended bank or find their audience in time, and sometimes they’re such turds that people would rather pull out their rectums with their toenails than sit through four more installments. Whatever the case, when  Zdvj asked r/AskReddit, “What movie was meant to set up the next big franchise only for the first film to spectacularly fail?” Reddit had stories to tell.