After fifteen years in development hell, a direct sequel was released called Duke Nukem Forever.

A direct sequel to the previous year's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, this film was the least successful commercially of the entire Godzilla franchise.

The film acts as a direct sequel to the original 1954 film Godzilla.

Heretic II was released in 1998, which served as a direct sequel continuing the story.

A direct sequel, titled Quake 4, was released for the PC ( Microsoft Windows and GNU / Linux ), and later for the Xbox 360 and the Macintosh.

This standalone feature was not a direct sequel to the original film.

A few years later, O ' Brien wrote another script intended as a direct sequel to the cult classic entitled Revenge of the Old Queen.

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III ( 1990 ) was the second sequel to appear, though Hooper did not return to direct due to scheduling conflicts with another film, Spontaneous Combustion.

At E3 2006, Nintendo confirmed the game's status as a direct sequel to The Wind Waker, and released an extensive playable demo, including a multiplayer mode with " capture the flag " elements.

Return of the Living Dead sparked a legal battle with Romero, who believed Russo marketed his film in direct competition with Day of the Dead as a sequel to the original film.

The day Warner Brothers had declined to make the more personal Scissorhands even after the success of Batman, Burton finally agreed to direct the sequel for Warner Brothers on the condition that he would be granted total control.

A sequel, WarGames: The Dead Code, was released direct to DVD on July 29, 2008.

It has been claimed that Besson has written the script for a sequel, which Transporter 3 director Olivier Megaton was to direct and in which Portman would reprise the Mathilda role.

In 1989, the film's screenwriter Anthony Shaffer wrote a script treatment for The Loathsome Lambton Worm, a direct sequel with fantasy elements.

In 1989, Anthony Shaffer wrote a thirty-page film script treatment entitled The Loathsome Lambton Worm, a direct sequel to The Wicker Man, for producer Lance Reynolds.

Robin Hardy was not asked to direct the sequel, and never read the script, as he did not like the idea of Howie surviving the sacrifice, or the fact that the actors would have aged by twenty to thirty years between the two films.

In April 2009, 20th Century Fox confirmed that the sequel was still in development and announced that Oliver Stone would direct.

In the Museum of Modern Art retrospective ( 2010 ), it was suggested that the pieces of the mirror falling into the ocean waves set up At Land ( 1944 ) as a direct sequel, while Deren's last scene in the latter film ( running with her hands up with a chess piece in one of them ) is then echoed by a scene in Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ), with that character still running.

Yoshi's Island DS, released on November 13, 2006 for the Nintendo DS, is the most direct sequel and incorporates many of the same gameplay aspects.

She has appeared in six James Bond films, including Die Another Day ( 2002 ), Casino Royale ( 2006 ) and its direct sequel Quantum of Solace ( 2008 ), making her the longest-running current cast member of the series.

A direct sequel titled Super Mario 64 2 was planned for the Nintendo 64DD.

The game is closely tied to its direct sequel Sonic & Knuckles, as the two games were originally one until time constraints and cartridge costs forced the game to be split into two interlocking parts.

In 2001, he lent his voice to the character Vincenzo " Vinny " Santorini in the Disney animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and subsequently in the direct to video sequel Atlantis: Milo's Return.

It is the direct sequel to Darius, first released in arcades in 1989.

First released in Japan on June 3, 1986, it is the direct sequel to the then-best-selling video game of all time, Super Mario Bros.

The key distinguishing factor between direct and collateral appeals is that the former occurs in state courts, and the latter in federal courts.

On the death of Ahaz, c. 715 BCE, his son Hezekiah followed a policy which Isaiah saw as dangerous, waging war on the Philistine cities and on Edom even though territory under direct Assyrian control ( i. e., the former kingdom of Israel ) now came to within a few miles of Jerusalem.

In the case of the former two religions, their leadership each claims direct, special, ongoing revelation from God to establish accepted beliefs.

The former provides greater tribute and direct political control, yet limits further expansion because it absorbs military forces to fixed garrisons.

Using the data collected by Vesto Slipher and his ( Hubble's ) assistant Milton Humason ( a former mule-driver and janitor ), Hubble and Humason found a direct relationship between a galaxy's distance and its relative speed away from the solar system.

However ever since the European Union formed an over all streamlining and change of route plans have occurred as faster and more direct links to former Soviet bloc countries now exist and are in the works, with intense co-operation among European countries.

However, Pitt took a more direct role ; on 29 August 1796 he sent Vancouver a letter heaping many insults on the head of his former captain, and challenging him to a duel.

With about $ 18 billion in foreign direct investment ( FDI ) since 1989, Hungary has attracted over one-third of all FDI in central and eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union.

According to as-Sayyid ash-Sharif al-Jurjani, the Hadith Qudsi differ from the Quran in that the former are " expressed in Muhammad's words ", whereas the latter are the " direct words of God ".

* Turkmenistan-same gauge ( former Soviet Union railway system ) ( No direct link, passing through Uzbekistan, but proposed railway will pass throgh Turkmenistan and link Kazakhstan to Iran )

Mars, with little or no magnetic field is thought to have lost much of its former oceans and atmosphere to space in part due to the direct impact of the solar wind.

In a February 2006 interview, former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir answered direct questions:

When Ronald Reagan took office, he augmented the direct support to an anti-Sandinista group, called the Contras, which included factions loyal to the former dictatorship.

Although Shakespearean experts disparaged Ogburn's methodology and his conclusions, one reviewer, Richmond Crinkley, the Folger Shakespeare Library's former director of educational programs, acknowledged the appeal of Ogburn's approach, writing that the doubts over Shakespeare, " arising early and growing rapidly ", have a " simple, direct plausibility ", and the dismissive attitude of established scholars only worked to encourage such doubts.

It is one of only 2 of the Big Six to have this fate ( the other being Columbia Pictures, although unlike Paramount, it is still a direct sister to its former TV arm ).

The Founding Fathers of the United States rarely praised and often criticized democracy, which in their time tended to specifically mean direct democracy ; James Madison argued, that what distinguished a democracy from a republic was that the former became weaker as it got larger and suffered more violently from the effects of faction, whereas a republic could get stronger as it got larger and combats faction by its very structure.

" However, he is also notorious for having electrocuted a number of dogs in 1888, both by direct and alternating current, in an attempt to argue that the former ( which he had a vested business interest in promoting ) was safer than the latter ( favored by his rival George Westinghouse ).

With about $ 18 billion in foreign direct investment ( FDI ) since 1989, Hungary has attracted over one-third of all FDI in central and eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union.

The acquisition of Lorraine for the former Polish king, however, proved of lasting benefit to France, as it passed under direct French rule with Stanisław's death in 1766.

Many fans place the direct blame for the Redskins ' poor performance on owner Daniel Snyder, along with his former general manager and personal friend Vinny Cerrato, who shared control of the team with Snyder for 10 of the past 17 years.

In some cases, multiple factors may remove the economic basis for a community ; some former mining towns on U. S. Route 66 suffered both mine closures when the resources were depleted and loss of highway traffic as US 66 was diverted away from places like Oatman, Arizona onto a more direct path.

His incompetence, clumsiness and stupidity, the fact that he is usually right, and his ability to always survive perilous situations are enough to eventually transform his direct superior ( former Chief Inspector Dreyfus ) into a homicidal psychopath – to such a degree that Dreyfus even goes so far as to construct a doomsday device and threatens to destroy the world in a desperate attempt to kill Clouseau.

While the terms direct and prograde are equivalent in this context, the former is the traditional term in astronomy.

Greater progressivity was introduced in the tax system, with greater emphasis on direct ( income-based ) as opposed to indirect ( typically expenditure-based ) taxation as a means of raising revenue, with the amount raised by the former increasing twice as much as that of the latter.

Freed from this traditional system by the advent of independent commercial studios, the new generation of entrepreneurial producers – many of whom were former record company employees themselves – were able to create and occupy a new stratum in the industry, taking on a more direct and complex role in the musical process.