It featured Dizzy and his cousin Danny and is a prequel to the main game, ending with Dizzy teleporting to the first screen of Magicland Dizzy.

During Comic-Con 2010, it was revealed that Campbell would be the star of a Burn Notice made-for-television prequel focusing on Sam's Navy SEAL career, titled Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe.

The studio rejected the idea as they wanted a sequel, not a prequel, though Schumacher was able to include very brief events in Batman's past.

The follow-up album entitled Act II-The Father of Death was released in 2009 and serves as a prequel to Act I by establishing the history of Dr. Light, Dr. Wily, and how the world came under the rule of Wily.

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.

The Prose Merlin was also used as a prequel to the later Post-Vulgate Cycle, the authors of which added their own continuation, the Huth Merlin or Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin.

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.

Descent 4 was a game being developed by Volition as part of the Descent game franchise, as a prequel to Descent.

The general theme of the season was a refocus on the prequel concept of the series, with many episodes making reference to themes, concepts, and characters from past series.

As explained by Pocket Books editor Margaret Clark, it was decided to scale back the number of books published not due to low sales or lack of interest in the prequel series, but due to the fact that the televised series often conflicted with planned literary plotlines, or beat the book series to the punch entirely.

The Lunar series, despite the relatively narrow circulation the two titles on the Mega-CD received, was critically acclaimed and became a cult classic, with both games receiving remakes for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in the late ' 90s ; and a prequel to the series for the Nintendo DS in 2005.

A four volume prequel featuring Lina and Naga, Slayers Delicious, was released between 1997 and 1999.

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

It was followed by a prequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, in 2006.

In 2012, a prequel, based on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo, titled The Family Corleone was written by Ed Falco.

Once that was done, the decision was made to update Carl Sargent's storyline, using similar prequel adventures to pave the way for the updated campaign setting.

The theme was revived for the prequel trilogy.

In the final two films of the prequel trilogy, Christensen was the only actor portraying a Jedi who was not allowed to customize his character's lightsaber.

The later prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise describes the warp engine technology as a ' Gravimetric Field Displacement Manifold ' ( Commander Tucker's tour, " Cold Front "), and describes the device as being powered by an anti-matter / matter reaction which powers the two separate nacelles ( one on each side of the ship ) to create a displacement field ( the aforementioned " bubble ") The episode also firmly establishes that many other civilizations had warp drive before humans ; First Contact co-writer Ronald D. Moore suggested that Cochrane's drive was in some way superior to forms that existed beforehand, and was gradually adopted by the galaxy at large.

A half prequel, half sequel was released in 2005, entitled Day of the Dead 2: Contagium.

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.

A younger version of the character makes a brief cameo in the prequel film Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, where he was portrayed by Wayne Pygram.

Raimi is set to direct Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, which will be released in 2013 by Walt Disney Pictures.

The six Star Wars films are generally separated into two trilogies ; the " original trilogy " ( the three films released between 1977 and 1983 ) and the " prequel trilogy " ( the three films released between 1999 and 2005, which take place before the original three films ).

In 1992, after the two World of Greyhawk Swords prequel modules and the Greyhawk Wars game had been on the market for some months, TSR released the new Greyhawk setting, From the Ashes, a boxed set primarily written by Carl Sargent that described the Flanaess in the aftermath of the Greyhawk Wars.

It was released on March 5, 1999 and was followed by two direct-to-video films: a prequel, Cruel Intentions 2, and a sequel, Cruel Intentions 3.

A two-issue prequel to the movie was released in early 2008 called Of Hunan Bondage.

A seven-volume prequel series, titled, was released from May 25, 2000 to October 25, 2002 and adapted the beginning of the arc.

If Y is a prequel to X, then Y's storyline precedes X's, yet Y is released at a later date than X.

For example, the Star Wars episodes were released in the order IV-VI followed by I-III ; Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ) is a prequel to Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ) but, under the dictionary definition, is only a predecessor rather than a prequel of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones ( 2002 ) due to release order.

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.

In 2003, a 45-minute prequel called Young Black Stallion was shot and released for IMAX theaters.

A number of scenes from the film were recreated in Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale, a two-issue comic book prequel released by WildStorm in 2007.

Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep Canvas-pioneering Tarzan, Best Picture-winner American Beauty, critically acclaimed animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2 and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film Being John Malkovich, M. Night Shyamalan's breakout hit The Sixth Sense, the controversial Fight Club, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and the first installment of George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy were released this year.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert, released on October 31, 1996, is set in an alternate universe 1950s and was originally made to be the prequel to Command & Conquer establishing Red Alert as the prologue of the entire Tiberium series of games.

The prequel comic storylines were also released as the graphic novel Speed Racer: Born to Race ( ISBN 1-56389-649-4 ) and a Racer X miniseries featuring the artwork of Chinese manga star Jo Chen.

The novella has been adapted three times as a motion picture, the first in 1951 as The Thing from Another World, the second in 1982 as The Thing directed by John Carpenter, and most recently as a prequel to the Carpenter version, also titled The Thing, released in 2011.

A third adaptation, also titled The Thing, was released on October 14, 2011 and serves as a prequel to the events of Carpenter's film.

** Spear of Destiny ( video game ), the prequel for the above game, released in 1992

The development of Doom started in 1992, when John D. Carmack developed a new 3D game engine, the Doom engine, while the rest of the id Software team finished the Wolfenstein 3D prequel, Spear of Destiny.

* Silent Hill: Origins, the fifth installment of the Silent Hill survival horror series and prequel to the original 1999 game

Hook later appears in the game series prequel, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, where he tricks Terra into attempting to kill Peter Pan for him.

This game spawned a prequel entitled Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the Super Nintendo in which the player could control Yoshi in order to keep Baby Mario out of harm's way as they advanced through the game.

Despite its title, this game serves as a prequel to all other games within the established Mario Bros timeline.

Also presented was a short animated ' prequel ' to the story in the style of the upcoming feature-length film detailing the Martians ' ecological destruction of their own world ( which was originally made for the 1998 computer game Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds ) and their preparations to invade Earth, and including a short remix of " The Red Weed ".

Markedly improved from the prequel, DKC2 was praised for having excellent graphics, plot and characterisation and as a result DKC2 has received much critical and commercial praise, having sold millions of copies worldwide on the SNES, making it the second best selling game of 1995 and the sixth best-selling game on the platform overall.

Vastly different from its predecessor and prequel La Fortune des Rougon, La Curée, the portion of the game thrown to the dogs after a hunt, usually translated as The Kill-is a character study of three personalities: Aristide Rougon ( renamed " Saccard ")-- the youngest son of the ruthless and calculating peasant Pierre Rougon and the bourgeois Félicité ( by whom he is much spoiled ), both of them Bonapartistes and consumed by a desire for wealth, Aristide's young second wife Renée ( his first dying not long after their move from provincial Plassans to Paris ) and Maxime, Aristide's foppish son from his first marriage.

* Tron: Evolution, a 2010 video game that serves as a prequel to the movie Tron: Legacy.

Developed as the prequel to the original, the Red Alert series was spun-off into a separate, lighthearted and comic series, while the original game and its sequels became known as the " Tiberium " series, retaining its sci-fi and serious tone.

Spear of Destiny, often also called Spear, Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny or just SoD, is a 1992 first-person shooter computer game developed by id Software and published by FormGen Corporation, and is the prequel to id Software's Wolfenstein 3D.

This is a prequel to the main game, mainly for children.

* Constructor ( video game ), a 1997 PC game by Acclaim, the prequel of Constructor: Street Wars

* Dead Space: Extraction, a video game for the Wii that serves as a prequel to the 2008 video game Dead Space

Two sequels, Halo 2 and Halo 3, a side game, Halo 3: ODST, and a prequel, Halo: Reach, were released in 2004, 2007, 2009, and 2010, respectively.

Castle Wolfenstein inspired the game Wolfenstein 3D and its prequel Spear of Destiny by id Software, which were both released in 1992 and helped popularize the first-person shooter genre.