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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1499899" data-attributes="member: 5171">Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this to be factually inaccurate.  The creators might want it to look that way now, but the original movie was not "first of three" -- the original movie was supposed to stand alone, and then they made a ton of money and said, "Uh, sure, we can do sequels."As I said, please correct me if I'm wrong.  That was my understanding of it.  If you can find me a source that predates the directors signing on for sequels in which they say, "Yeah, this is just the first one, we hope we'll make enough money to do three," please fire away.Note that I'm differentiating between an "as they're shooting the sequels" interview that has them saying, "Er, yes, we'd always intended it to be a trilogy, sure, that's the ticket" and a "before they knew the sequels were gonna happen" interview that has them saying, "Ideally, we want this to be a trilogy".</blockquote>