The sequel takes place right after the last film, with Sarah running for her life out of the Appalachian cave system. Remember, in the U.S. release of The Descent, Sarah got out — she was saved, not doomed to live trapped by her own insanity inside the depths of the cave, food for the Crawlers, as in the U.K. ending. But her memory is now gone and the cops are forcing her back into the darkness to find her buddies, naturally.

Here are a few clips from the sequel, which comes out in the USA December 4th:

Hospital:

Getting Ready

Down Under

Cave In

Emmerich told MTV that he's planning a two-film arc following the events of Independence Day. He doesn't have a script yet, but the idea is to continue the story of the original. He wouldn't elaborate on exactly what sort of foe humanity would face this time around, but it sounds like we'll be seeing an invasion of some kind:

It's always about earth and that earth gets invaded.

He also reiterated that the idea involves Will Smith and that the sequels would, like the original, focus on a "king who leads his troops into battle against an evil force, and that stays like that." So what title has Emmerich suggested for this opus?

'ID4-ever,' Part I and II maybe?

We'll have to wait and see if he's joking.

'Independence Day' Sequel To Be Two Movies, Possibly Called 'ID4-Ever' [MTV]

After Independence Day brought us Bill Pullman as the inspirational President Whitmore, Emmerich didn't feel the spirit of the film was compatible with the times of the Bush administration:

"In Independence Day, it was about a king who leads his country into a fight against an outside invader. I didn't want to make that movie during the Bush years. It was not thought that George W. Bush would have made a great king. Now with Obama, it's another story."

The sequel would, in fact, focus on the US President, but it's still plagued by funding woes and disagreements between Emmerich and Fox as to whether to bring back Will Smith. But Emmerich seems determined to return to the universe of what he calls his "defining film."

Roland Emmerich Wants To Make Independence Day 2 Because Of Obama [Cinema Blend]

Dacre Stoker, the author's great-grandnephew, along with Ian Holt, a Dracula historian, has put together Dracula: The Un-Dead, which Stoker's estate is calling the official sequel to Stoker's original. The younger Stoker claims the book is based on excised portions of Bram Stoker's original book, as well as his additional notes. The book takes place a quarter century after the events of Dracula, when disaster befalls the first novel's survivors:

Dracula The Un-Dead begins in 1912, twenty-five years after Dracula "crumbled into dust." Van Helsing's protégé, Dr. Jack Seward, is now a disgraced morphine addict obsessed with stamping out evil across Europe. Meanwhile, an unknowing Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school for the London stage, only to stumble upon the troubled production of "Dracula," directed and produced by Bram Stoker himself.

The play plunges Quincey into the world of his parents' terrible secrets, but before he can confront them he experiences evil in a way he had never imagined. One by one, the band of heroes that defeated Dracula a quarter-century ago is being hunted down. Could it be that Dracula somehow survived their attack and is seeking revenge? Or is their another force at work whose relentless purpose is to destroy anything and anyone associated with Dracula?

Dracula: The Un-Dead arrives October 13, and two studios are reportedly already in negotiations for the movie rights. But it would be nice to see the authors release an annotated edition as well, so we could see to what extent the book comes from Bram Stoker's own ideas, and to what extent we're simply seeing another pair of hands tackling the classic characters.

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Last Thursday, Tron Legacy director Joe Kosinski showed concept art from the new film at Comic Con's Disney 3D panel. Kosinski and his team have retained some of the characteristics of the original Tron, such as the solid blocks blocks in the scenery and the lines of blue light, but have used improved technology to lend the computer world some of the texture of the real world.

Among the vehicles showcased are an updated Recognizer, the ship the Master Control Program uses to capture programs, a Solar Sailer, a freight train that travels along a beam of light, a Light Runner, which is like a Light Cycle except that it can hold two passengers and travel off the Game Grid under its own power, a Light Cycle, a bike that travels along the grid, and the white Second Generation Light Cycle, designed by Flynn himself and faster than an ordinary Light Cycle.

Kosinski indicated that we would see the gladiatorial games on a larger scale in the sequel, and that they have evolved into a multi-round disc game tournament held in a giant stadium. Professional athletes were hired to provide motion-capture footage of players jumping, flipping, and catching the discs. In addition to the larger disc game stadium, Kosinski showed images of another place we haven't seen before: Tron City, a virtual metropolis where programs live and work. Kosinski told the audience that he hopes to capture what it's like for the programs to not only operate but actually live inside this city.

Images via Signalnoise

The new art shows more of the all-growed-up Samantha Darko, who wants to "make it big" in Hollywood, or somewhere. Sam and her bestie head out of town, following their inner souls, until a meteorite and the Darko issues start to plague little miss S. We'll be bringing you all the deets from the movie's NYCC panel.

The direct-to-DVD sequel, now called S. Darko will be coming out on April 28th from MGM's home entertainment.

The summary, according to the IMDB page is as follows:

S. Darko takes place in the summer of 1995, seven years after the original film. It follows Donnie Darko's younger sister, Samantha (Daveigh Chase), who, in the wake of his death, has found herself at age 17 with a broken family, mired in feelings of insignificance. She and her best friend Corey (Evigan) set off on a road trip to Hollywood in a bid to 'make it big', but their journey is cut short when their car breaks down unexpectedly, leaving them stranded in a small desert town. When a meteorite happens to crash-land nearby, Samantha is plagued by bizarre visions telling of the universe's end and it appears that their breakdown was part of some grander plan. When she finds out she was actually adopted by the Darkos, and that she is in no way related to Donnie, she must face her own demons and, in doing so, save the world and herself.

Bloody Disgusting has the first still from the DVD and shows a disheveled mer-teen all angsted out, from what I can only assume are an overdose of visions and time warps. Click on the picture for a better look.

The trailer will be premiering at this years New York Comic Con and we'll be there front and center to tell you if it heralds the return of Frank. But for now, amuse your self with the teaser.

Bradbury’s script outline for The Day the Earth Stood Still II: The Evening of the Second Day opens on Christmas Eve, thirty years after the events of the original film. Chris Atkins, an employee at the Vehicle Assembly Building for the Apollo Mission, witnesses the landing of an alien spacecraft, a sight he half-remembers from his childhood. It is revealed that someone left the spacecraft, and NASA officials are on the lookout for him, her, or it. But Atkins has a vague feeling about the ship, a feeling he describes with a vague bit of dialogue:

ATKINS

Maybe we don't search. Maybe we wait for it to find us.

DIRECTOR

Why should it do that?

ATKINS

Because — it knows one of us.

DIRECTOR

Who?

ATKINS

Me. I think. I have a hunch.

DIRECTOR

I hope your hunch is scientific.

ATKINS

And how will your search pay off?

DIRECTOR

It won't. Get home. It's Christmas Eve.

So Atkins returns to his boarding house, where he suspects one of his fellow boarders of being the alien visitor. First he suspects the cockney reporter, but while he’s trimming the house’s Christmas tree, a young woman hands him the star for the top. She is radiant and beautiful and Atkins falls instantly in love with her. So naturally she’s the alien.

The alien woman takes off and Atkins pursues her. He eventually catches up with her (after opening her ship with the words “Klaatu barada nikto”) and learns that she is Klaata, Klaatu’s daughter. Klaatu has died, but Klaata has traveled to Earth with his body to continue his work.

At first, Atkins is excited by her arrival, and the prospect of a messianic arrival on Christmas Eve turns him poetic:

ATKINS
Time for a Second Annunciation?

She knows what he is speaking about. The knowledge of the Biblical Annunciation is in her glowing face as she turns back to him.

YOUNG WOMAN [Klaata]

What would you like to have announced?

ATKINS looks from her to the world far across the land, past the silent gantries.

ATKINS

That this Christmas morn, we get the grandest gift that man ever got. That something incredible and wonderful is about to happen, that will change us forever and be only for the good!

The mood turns sour when Atkins realizes Klaata has come to judge humanity, as he is sure that humans have failed to carry out Klaatu’s edict to change their ways. But Klaata assures him it isn’t so dire:

KLAATA

You've behaved better than you think. That's why we delayed. You're strange people. You've actually done some things right!

ATKINS
Like what?

KLAATA

Don’t you know? Must I, from some other world tell you? Thirty years ago people still died from polio, malaria, scarlet fever. You've stopped all that. Your country invented new kinds of wheat and corn. You send food to 90 countries. Immigrants pour into your land, 500 thousand a year. Why are they coming here if you're as bad as you say?

It appears that by judging humanity, Klaata means she’s judging the US. Do the people dying of malaria in Africa not count?

But Klaata tells Atkins that she has come to Earth not as Santa Claus, but as an extraterrestrial Grinch. After demonstrating her awesome ability to unmake matter, she reveals to him her plan:

KLAATA then explains in some detail what their plan, her plan, KLAATU's plan, is. To let the panic grow in little starts and stops, little vanishings, little disappearances, at first unnoticed. Who cares, for instance, if a11 the tiddlewinks in the world vanish on the same day? Or all the collar-stays? Or all the pennies which now burden us and are almost worthless?

Somewhere down the line – OIL.

Where Klaatu warned humanity to abandon its violent ways, Klaata mostly wants us to end our dependence on oil. Before she leaves, she gathers military officials and world leaders to witness a demonstration of solar power, implying that Atkins should help lead them all into an era of alternative energy.

But Klaata isn’t taking any chances. She gives Atkins a list of problems humanity must solve within the next twenty years, or else face certain destruction. She gives him a small cube into which he must feed data from their assignments. Atkins apparently contemplates gaming the cube, but Klaata isn’t having any of it:

KLAATA

No. Don't even think it. You can't fool Gort.

ATKINS
Gort?!

That’s what everyone in the theater would have been thinking had this ever managed to get made. Did they dismantle Gort? Did he have an accident with a trash compactor? Klaata says this is Gort’s heart, but never says whether the rest of his body is lying in wait to enact humanity’s destruction.

Klaata promises her that if Atkins is a good boy and fulfills all of the duties on the list, humanity will be saved and the two of them will be rejoined:

KLAATA

If you have done as you say you will do, grown to fit your promise, given yourselves back to yourselves as a gift, then place this cube, still lit, in your space machine. You wi11 travel faster than Death can follow. This will take you to our world.

ATKINS

Where the angels of the Lord will sing and dance and shout our welcome?

KLAATA
Where I will be waiting.

They share a bittersweet kiss before Klaata departs, leaving Atkins to ponder whether humanity’s salvation or the promise of future alien nookie is a better incentive for solving the energy crisis.

[Scifi Scripts]

The idea of a Repo film with a "message" makes me severely uneasy. Slashfilm quoted writer Alex Cox describing it saying it will:

unfold against the background of the credit crunch and the subprime mortgage crisis in the US, where repossessions of homes, cars and other forms of property is at a new high. ‘The repo business has expanded to everything from boats, houses, aeroplanes, small nations…children

I trust Cox to deliver an insane script, but I worry about it getting lightened up in the process. Cox mentioned on his blog that Repo Chick will be predominately funded out of his own pocket, so there's still hope that when they start filming January 1 start date for filming. Until we know more we'll have to hold our selves over with the other Repo Man sequel that Cox wrote as a screenplay, but was turned into a novel called Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday.

The Repo Man Code:

[Slashfilm]

Mitch Pileggi, who played FBI assistant director Walter Skinner in The X-Files, stars as Horace Pinker, a serial killer who has made a deal with the devil. Once he gets caught and sentence to death in the electric chair, he comes back as a pure energy source and is able to transfer his consciousness between human hosts. So, he goes on another killing spree with his newfound power.

However, his estranged son realizes that he can be controlled, like any energy source, and eventually forces him into a television transmitter, where he chases him across the television landscape. They go through Entertainment Tonight, where they encounter John Tesh, zip though some old war footage, and even pass by Leave It To Beaver. No kidding. Just like in that recent Jumper commercial. Or in Amazon Women From The Moon. Eventually the son stops him with the mightiest of all weapons, the television remote. And... scene.

Please, zap this idea before it gets out of control and we have a repeat performance.

People Under The Stairs, Shocker Sequel? [Bloody Disgusting]

Let's do the math: humans invent sentient robots, they begin evolving on their own, then they rebel against mankind, and then they learn to disguise themselves as humans. Someone needs to check out Ronald D. Moore's Netflix account and see when the last time he rented Screamers was. However, anything that comes out now that features robots disguised as humans will "scream" BSG, so this ill-conceived sequel is too little, too late. Sorry Screamers 2, but you're destined for bargain bins and cable tv.

'Screamers 2' Finds A Director, Shoots Next Month [Bloody Disgusting]

Sammon's remarks, which came during a recent interview about his updated book Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner are sure to cause involuntary shudders and waves of nausea amongst fans of the original. Although the film is based on Philip K. Dick's classic Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, author K.W. Jeter has written three novels as sequels to the movie. These novels have generally been panned by critics, and only enjoyed by rabid Blade Runner megafans who long for a return to this dystopian vision of the future, while the rest of us would like to see this film remain untouched, sequel-wise.

Ridley Scott hasn't made a sequel to any of his films, and would rather move on to new territory than revisit somewhere he's been before. Let's hope Sammon's words are just wishful thinking.

Blade Runner II? {SciFi Scanner]

Star Wars should have moved forwards. New stories, new characters and a new lease of life.

His dream Aliens sequel would move the saga forward by bringing the aliens to Earth. And he has lots of ideas for video-game movies, including Peter Jackson's Halo and Doom done right. Image by Getty Images.

Top 10 Science Fiction Movies That Deserve To Be Made [Kitsimons]

It might only be direct-to-DVD, but all the original castmembers (even the ones who died in the first movie) are stoked to come back. Browncoats, it's time to go back into OCD mode again. Go buy another three copies of the first Serenity and hand them out on the street. You know you want to. The rest of us can try to figure out what's up with Summer Glau's dress in this picture.

Serenity 2: A New Hope? [Moviehole] Image by Getty Images