In Stephen King's novel Misery the protagonist, Paul Sheldon, is forced to write a sequel to his book Misery's Child, in which the main character, Misery Chastain, dies.

More evidence is found in the fact that John Fletcher, Shakespeare's successor as house playwright for the King's Men, wrote The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed as a sequel to The Shrew, telling the story of Petruchio's remarriage after Katherina's death.

In the 1660s, The Shrew was adapted by John Lacy, an actor for Thomas Killigrew's King's Company, to make it better match with Fletcher's sequel.

* Betty King, The King's Mother, pub 1969, sequel to the above, the story of the widowed Margaret Beaufort.

In 2008, a spiritual sequel titled King's Bounty: The Legend was released.

Also, there exists an unofficial fan sequel usually called " King's Bounty 2 " developed in 1992.

The film is sometimes said to have been intended as Creepshow 3, a sequel to George A. Romero and Stephen King's popular horror anthology, Creepshow.

She is known to horror fans for directing the 1989 adaptation of Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary and its sequel, Pet Sematary II.

This sequel to the original King's Quest provided not just a second look at the life of King ( formerly Sir ) Graham of Daventry, it also began a tradition of using King's Quest as a training ground for future designers.

"... As a story, it's the best ... an enchanting game ..."- Scott Mace, Insider Magazine, " If you liked King's Quest, you'll love the sequel "- Consumer Software News, " Roberta Williams has simply outdone herself "- Computer Entertainment, King's Quest II has " the most lushly painted and highly detailed scenery seen since ... well, King's Quest I.

Also, KQV's ending ties into its sequel, King's Quest VI.

Cohen cast Moriarty in It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive ( 1987 )-the third part of the Alive Trilogy-and again in A Return to Salem's Lot ( 1987 ), the unofficial sequel to Stephen King's novel and TV miniseries, Salem's Lot.

It is a sequel to Henry King's 1939 film Jesse James.

After a false start in 1984 with the release of the sequel Scraper Caper, Hogue finally released in 1985 the official sequel, Bounty Bob Strikes Back.

This oversight was addressed in the game's sequel, Asteroids Deluxe, and led to significant changes in the way game developers designed and tested their games in the future.

The character was played by Rosamund Pike in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, the second of a planned trilogy.

Vinge's Children of the Sky, " a near-term sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep ", set ten years later, was released in October 2011.

In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would be part of the writing and production teams for a sequel to COSMOS, to be called Cosmos: A space-time Odyssey, which is expected to be telecast in 2013.

Evil Dead II made enough money internationally that Dino De Laurentiis was willing to finance a sequel.

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

It is the sequel to Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, which was a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner, and the book on which the film was based, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?.

It was eventually followed by another sequel, The Dark Knight Rises ( 2012 ), which serves as a conclusion to Nolan's film series.

It was followed by the sequel Batman: Arkham City ( 2011 ), which also received widespread acclaim and holds a Metacritic ranking of 94 %.

Warner Bros. was willing to fund the project on the condition that Gibson sign for another Lethal Weapon sequel, which he refused.

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.

Bixby was executive producer of the three Hulk made-for-television sequel movies in the late 1980s and in 1990.

A sequel, entitled Night of the Ghouls, was finished in 1959, but due to last-minute financial problems, was not released until 1987.

In 1916, " Food For Young Children " along with its sequel for adults, " How to Select Foods " was the first USDA guide to give specific dietary guidelines.

Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods.

On television, the made-for-TV movie The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders ( which aired January 14, 1979 ) starring Jane Seymour was a highly-rated success, spawning the 1980 sequel The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

In the late 1990s, Cronenberg was announced as director of a sequel to another Verhoeven film, Basic Instinct, but this also fell through.

Although the two parts are now normally published as a single work, Don Quixote, Part Two was a sequel published ten years after the original novel.

This was a sequel to the Hilbert-Ackermann book Principles of Mathematical Logic from 1928.

After the success of his 1968 breakthrough, De Palma and his producing partner ( Charles Hirsch ) were given the opportunity by Sigma 3 to make an unofficial sequel of sorts, initially entitled Son of Greetings, and subsequently released as Hi, Mom !.

In 1999, Activision released Civilization: Call to Power, a sequel of sorts to Civilization II but created by a completely different design team.

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

The character later appears in the sequel story released first as a book, 2010: Odyssey Two and then as a movie, 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

A sequel, Escape from L. A., was released in 1996.

A sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, was released in 2002, and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, which contained material that was planned for but not included in the sequel, was released in 2003.

A game of the same name developed by G-Artists and published by Bandai was released in 2005 for PlayStation Portable, but this is a sequel to the PlayStation 2 game, with a completely different storyline, setting, and gameplay.

* In 2008, IDW Publishing released a comic book sequel to the movie entitled Galaxy Quest: Global Warning.

An indirect sequel, Hexen, was released a year later.

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

The Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau released a video game in 2003 entitled Special Force and a sequel in 2007 in which players are rewarded with points and weapons for killing Israelis.

A third Wolfenstein sequel has been released by Raven Software, using the Id tech 4 engine.

A sequel to this game was released for the Game Boy in 1991, and a third entry to the series was published for the Nintendo 3DS handheld console in March 2012.

A Game Boy sequel to Kid Icarus, titled Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, was released in North America in November 1991, and in Europe on May 21, 1992.

It was released a second time in 2009, as part of a double pack with the sequel, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.

A sequel, entitled Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, was released on March 24, 2005.

Maxis released The Sims 2 in 2004, a sequel title that features a full 3D environment as opposed to the original's dimetric engine.

Eight expansion packs and nine stuff packs have been released for the sequel.

Even as DreamWorks switches distribution of live-action films that are not part of existing franchises to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Paramount will continue to own the films released before the merger, and the films that Paramount themselves distributed ( including sequel rights ; such films as Little Fockers will be distributed by Paramount and DreamWorks, since it is a sequel to an existing DreamWorks film – in this case, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, though Paramount will only own international rights to this title, whereas Universal Studios will handle domestic distribution ).