The film would not be a sequel or prequel to the existing film or television franchise and Joss Whedon would have no involvement in the project.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

The series would not be a sequel or prequel to the existing movie or television franchise and Joss Whedon will have no involvement in the project.

He is portrayed in the original trilogy by Alec Guinness and in the prequel trilogy by Ewan McGregor, and is voiced by James Arnold Taylor in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie and television series.

In May 2008, it was announced that Morales would play the role of Joseph Adama in the science fiction television series Caprica – Syfy's prequel to the series Battlestar Galactica.

Last of the Summer Wine inspired other adaptations, including a television prequel, several novelisations, and stage adaptations.

It is revealed in the final episode of the British science fiction and police procedural drama television series Ashes to Ashes ( and by extension its prequel Life on Mars ) that Gene Hunt is the soul of a murdered constable, and part of a supernatural limbo populated by other dead or dying police officers ( often due to injuries sustained in the line of duty ), many of them displaced from their original time periods.

In the 2008 episode " The Beginning Of The End " of the BBC television series Merlin, a prequel to and re-imagining of the Arthur legends, Mordred appears as a young Druid boy whom Merlin protects despite being warned that he would one day kill Arthur.

These types of films may be, and more commonly usually are, released direct-to-video ; there have been some films, such as The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning ( a prequel to the film version of The Dukes of Hazzard ), which have been released near simultaneously on DVD and on television, but have never been released in theatres.

The 2009 film Star Trek, is one such case ; by means of a time travel plot it is at once a prequel, sequel and reboot to the 1960's television series of exactly the same name.

Most recently she appeared on the television series Spartacus: Vengeance, Spartacus: Blood and Sand and its prequel Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, playing the major character Lucretia.

The Little Mermaid television series is a prequel to the movie of the same name.

With the release of the prequel film The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning in 2008, some events in this television series have been contradicted ( such as Ariel's first encounter with Flounder ).

In the prequel television series Enterprise, Klingon ships are designed to appear more primitive than those chronologically later in the franchise.

* Ponderosa ( TV series ), a television series that was the prequel to Bonanza

Stoltz starred as Daniel Graystone, inventor of the Cylons, in the science fiction television series Caprica, a prequel set 58 years before the Battlestar Galactica series.

Mädchen Amick (, ; born December 12, 1970 ) is an American actress best known for playing Shelly Johnson on the cult television series Twin Peaks and its 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

This book is a prequel to both the movie and television series, in the months leading up to the arrival of the Tenctonese on Earth.

In 2006, Mania. com revealed that " Sideshow Collectibles and ADI have announced their reproduction of the original graboid design maquette ... based on the creature from the film, which spawned two sequels, a prequel and a television series " and " created by the effects company ADI, led by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff.

The Great Heep, a television special following the series, served as a prequel to the third Mungo Baobab cycle.

The Twelve Colonies of Man or Twelve Colonies of Kobol are fictional locations that constitute the principal human civilization in the original Battlestar Galactica television series, the " reimagined " series of the same name in 2004, and in the prequel series, Caprica.

The series is a prequel to the 1997 television series Yongzheng Dynasty, and was followed by Qianlong Dynasty in 2002.

Sōkyū no Fafner: RIGHT OF LEFT, a 50-minute prequel special to the television series, aired on December 29, 2005.

Philip William " Phil " Daniels ( born 25 October 1958, Islington ) is an English actor, most noted for film and television roles as cockneys such as Jimmy Cooper in Quadrophenia, Richards in Scum, Stewart in The Class of Miss MacMichael, Danny in Breaking Glass, Mark in Meantime, Billy the Kid in Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, Kevin Wicks in EastEnders, DCS Frank Patterson in New Tricks and Grandad Trotter in the Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips.

Neal Moritz was to produce and Ken Nolan was to write the screenplay which would combine an original story for Plissken with the story from the 1981 movie, although Carpenter has hinted that the film might be a prequel.

Grammer supplied the voices for " Stinky Pete the Prospector " in 1999 Disney / Pixar film Toy Story 2, Vladimir in the Fox animated movie Anastasia, Rothbart in Barbie of Swan Lake, Zozi the Bear in the subsequently produced prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat.

* X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a 2009 action film, prequel to the X-Men film trilogy.

The project, ultimately reduced to a single film called Prometheus, which Scott described as sharing " strands of Alien's DNA " while not being a direct prequel, was released in June 2012.

Like Enterprise, the new film ( which did contain an indirect reference to the series: Scotty believes he has been " exiled " to the remote Starfleet outpost, where Kirk and the older Spock encounter him, as punishment for losing Admiral Archer's beagle-whom Kirk is quite familiar with-in a transporter mishap ) also adopted a prequel concept, with a different approach.

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown ( which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film ), Geordi ( now a commander ) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

According to the 2009 film Star Trek and the prequel comic series Star Trek: Countdown, Romulus ( and presumably Remus ) is destroyed in 2387 by a star going supernova.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi had expressed an interest in directing a film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

The film was followed by two sequels, a remake, a film that straddles both those categories, and a prequel.

In 1992, the series spawned a prequel, the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, a commercial failure in America, but a success in Japan.

Perhaps the most explicit reference to the Holocaust in the film series would be in the prequel film X-Men: First Class, in which a fourteen year old Magneto suffers Nazi human experimentation during his time in the camps and witnesses his mother's death by gunshot.

In the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown ( the official prequel to the reboot Star Trek film ) Data, having successfully transferred his positronic pathways and memories into B-4, now commands the Enterprise-E in its mission to stop the Romulan Nero.

He is portrayed in the 1993 film Gettysburg ( based on the The Killer Angels ) by Tom Berenger, and in the prequel, Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), by Bruce Boxleitner.

In 2000, Collins joined the cast of The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, a prequel to the 1994 Universal Studios live action film The Flintstones.

For Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the first film in the prequel trilogy, Lucas made Anakin nine years old to make the character's departure from his mother more poignant.

* Oz: The Great and Powerful, intended as a prequel to the 1939 Wizard of Oz film

* Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, a 2001 American film ; a prequel / sequel to the American thriller film The Omega Code ( 1999 )

In all of his film appearances, which consists of the prequel films and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he is played by Christopher Lee.