A Listers and Franchises. There Are No Streepquels.

Remember a couple weeks ago when we joked about Hollywood's endless reboots, remakes and sequels... Vera Drake 2: Jail Break! Well it's on everyone's mind this summer what with Star Trek rebooting and Terminator probably collapsing: first Sarah Connor gets cancelled and now T4 can't beat the $ of T3. Ouch. Bless Movie | Line for doing some investigating about A-Listers and their relationship to franchises. It's a fact of life for the top moneymakers. Or is it?

In this chart "near franchises" is a subjective number, referring to films

that were obviously intended for / or completely natural fits for sequels
if the star had wanted it or if the first film hadn't flopped

It turns out not all of the A-Listers believe in repetition. You may already know that our June subject girl Meryl Streep has never made a sequel but it was interesting to note who else has never done double or triple duty versus those who have done them regularly. Read away

As much as I tire of the franchise looping, I must admit it's fun to think of Streep recreating one of her characters. It would be such a novelty. Which film would you most love to see her make a sequel to: Kramer Vs. Kramer (what could they go to court about in their 60s?), The Devil Wears Prada... Again, The River Wilder, Adaptation 2, Death Becomes Them Still?