Talk:List of feature film series with three entries

Hannibal

Do the Hannibal Lecter films belong as a trilogy? Aside from the fact that there are actually four (Manhunter not being included simply because he's played by Brian Cox and not Anthony Hopkins), but also because there's supposedly a prequel underway.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Bacteria (talk) • contribs) 21:00, 13 June 2005 (UTC)

I think they're a valid inclusion since Red Dragon and Manhunter come from the same book. When/if the rumoured prequel is made, they will be a tetralogy, but until then I think they should be considered a trilogy. --Urbane legend 18:38, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Structuring and adding content to this article

Should the article consist of:

• an alphabetic ordering of names of the movie trilogies
• an alphabetic ordering of names of directors, followed by the names of their respective trilogies in alphabetic or chronological order?

A lot of (most) entries in this list are still referring to the first movie of the trilogy, since mostly no article has yet been made that refers to the trilogy as a whole.Brz7—Preceding undated comment added by Brz7 (talk) • contribs) 00:30, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

I removed redlinks to a few trilogy titles of the form "This Movie trilogy|This Movie" that don't seem likely to receive their own trilogy pages apart from individual movie page(s) (for instance, Free Willy). Feel free to revert them as you see fit. I also propose that the year links be changed from "19xx" to "19xx in film", which seems more appropriate. Objections?—Crazilla 02:39, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Time will tell. I think all trilogies should have a trilogy article: "name of the trilogy" (trilogy). Brz7 00:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

..or maybe "name of the trilogy" (film trilogy)?--Brz7 23:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Trust me, do not use the word trilogy in the article name about the film series. You never know when Zemeckis might want to make a Back to the Future 4. I propose that they be named after the series..

Name of series (film series) or Name of series film series.
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 23:09, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Help us decide how we will name series articles! Vote!
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 19:49, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Video Games

I was wondering whether or not we should include video games in the trilogies. I know that they are not movies, per se, but many of them have cutscenes that act like movies. A good example would be Enter the Matrix which shot actual live-action footage.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dogma100 (talk • contribs) 03:10, 23 December 2006 (UTC).

Years

Don't forget to put the years that the movies were released or will be release? Such as for Spiderman & Xmen trilogies. MarioV 23:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Star Wars

Should we take off the Star Wars lists? The series is on the "List of film series" page. It is also actually just a series of 6 films, despite the time gap, and the list is quite long to be dividing series in half and adding them. Tim Long 06:01, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

IMO, leave them as two separate series. I don't consider the first three as part of the original three anyway. After watching SW1, I refused to see the next 2.
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 23:04, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I believe they should all be listed together. Dispite personal feelings toward the films, they do build on each other and expand on a single story. The 6 films are much more connected to each other than many other films listed together. Cmjc80 23:05, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I say that we should just leave the Star Wars films in both sections. They can be considered two separate trilogies or one hexalogy. While we're on the subject, I was thinking of including them in the duology section since there are a duology of trilogies. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dogma100 (talk • contribs) 03:07, 23 December 2006 (UTC).

I think we should contact mr Lucas about this topic if he say it is series of 6 films it sould be conted as such other wise not.The Tramp 19:58, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid is a trilogy by one director, but in 1994The Next Karate Kid was released, being the official forth Karate Kid film, making the series more than a trilogy.Brz7 16:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

The Karate Kid tetralogy is listed on List of film series.
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 19:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Broaden the list?

Maybe we should decide to include also film series that include more than 3 films? This would need to rename the article to e.g. List of film series. On top of the list/article could be mentioned that the trilogies in the list are bold (or the list could be subdivided).Brz7 16:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

List of film series is already started, and we have List of film duologies as well. Trilogies will stay trilogies. :)
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 19:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

What about movie series which for a long time were considered trilogies, until a 4th, generally less popular sequel came out? For example, many people do not consider "Alien:Resurrection" to be part of the Alien series, since it's so seperated from the other three. The first three Alien movies could then be considered to be a trilogy. Likewise, Halloween could be considered to be three seperate series. Already, there's at least three on the list that are considered trilogies (Indiana Jones, Shrek, and Rambo) for which a fourth movie is planned if not already being produced. Will those get removed when the next sequels are released? Or is the "trilogicity" of those sets sacrosanct? --Lurlock 02:34, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Once the fourth film is released for those series, they will be moved to tetralogies. These lists are for the actual amount of films in a series of films, even if the fandom doesn't agree. - LA @ 04:28, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Missing titles after reorg

Just noticed that some recent entries were elft off the reorg. If you remember your recent updates, please check to make sure they are on the list.Cmjc80 22:54, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Nominate for deletion?

Is there any good reason for this page to even exist? It's an extremely long list consisting of movies that happen to come in threes. Some were intended as trilogies, some just happen to be; some are still "in progress" and may get more entries at any given time. Some are clearly related, some of them are thoroughly arbitrary. Some are all theatrical releases, some include direct-to-video releases.

All of that, however, is somewhat beside the point. There don't seem to be lists of tetralogies or pentalogies, and there really shouldn't be, so what's the point of having a list for every "trilogy" that's ever existed? To steal an argument directly off of another discussion page here: "Wikipedia is not an indiscrimate collection of information." See Wikipedia:Listcruft as well. Also, Is the list's criteria so open-ended as to welcome infinite results or abuse? from Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia.

Any of the information about what films are sequels to each other or that a certain someone feels are thematically linked into an arbitrary trilogy should be (and most likely is) included on the separate pages for the individual films.

I'm nominating it for deletion. JoAnneThrax 22:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Bourne Movies Listed Twice

The 'Bourne' movies are listed twice on this page: Once under "The Bourne Trilogy" and once under "Jason Bourne" Novac 07:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

mission impossible

mission impossible needs to be added I would do it myself but am busy at the moment.--intraining ^{Jack In} 13:33, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

Please see Talk:Film_series#Requested_move - Robsinden (talk) 12:35, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Removed Aguirre

I have removed a list of three films: Aguirre, Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, and Cobra Verde. Aside from being directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski, can anyone explaine why these should be on the list? Robsinden (talk) 09:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Removed "Once Upon a Time Trilogy"

These three movies directed by Sergio Leone do not form an established series. Robsinden (talk) 09:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

American Pie

I am just curious as to why American Pie isn't on there. It is a trilogy, American Pie, American Pie 2, and American Wedding. "The American Pie presents" films are a separate entity and its only real connection to the trilogy is Eugene Levy. Its kind of like National Lampoon namesake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.91.187.31 (talk) 02:27, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Batman (DC Universe Animated Original Movies)

Removed this section: the three movies are not related to one another, beyond starring Batman. Vjmurphy (talk) 15:48, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

The Twilight Saga

The Twilight Saga isn't a Trilogy, just because there are three movies. The story is not over yet, there are already four books and they are gone make a fourth movie! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.87.116 (talk) 16:10, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Theatrical Trilogies

I think there should be a break down between theatrical trilogies and ones that have direct to video films. I know they are marked with a (v) or (tv) but they should be in two different section. That or we should make another page with just moves that were released in theaters. 75.150.239.241 (talk) 18:51, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Babji2000 (talk) 09:22, 17 October 2016 (UTC) Famous trilogies are removed from the list page. Ex: "The Lord of the Rings" is removed. Among other list pages as well, I am seeing discrepancies where spin-offs are merged. Ex: Cars sequel has the movies of the spin-off Planes as well (List of film series with five entries) Sequels for predator and alien are removed and merged under "Aliens VS Predator" which is plain wrong.What is the rationale behind this?

Double edge sword. If its same producer and largly same cast like LOTR and Hobbit then it sixology rather than triology, even if the narrative structure is triology. If its character that is spin off into his/her own film and is casted by the same actor as in the original movie he/she first appeared in then I think those films should be grouped together. Like the Marvel Cinema Universe films then all of those film should be groubed together. rather than split up individual character, such as Dr Strange, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther rather on their own for example, as it makes everything better to navigate. Bu Same probably for the Alien and Predotors if all these films are produced by the same producers. Since they made since they decided to acnowledge the existance of both in same universe. Far as Planes and Cars are concerned I must admit that I haven't seen any of those the former is made by Pixar and the later by ToonDisney if there no Planes in any of Cars movies then I would say they are probably not series, despite what Disney marketing might say. for me its minimal that film that is made as spunoff from another film that the main characters in the spinoff appear in the orignal film they are spun off. DoctorHver (talk) 18:26, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Cités antérieures

Removed this France short subject series from the article since this article is about feature films. DoctorHver (talk) 18:14, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Unnecessary 3 entries here ...

Some 3-entry movie series should be removed from here: The Lord of the Rings film series... Is add in 6 entries have more 3 films from this series. And right name of all series is Middle-earth > See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feature_film_series_with_six_entries#M

The Hobbit film series... Is add in 6 entries have more 3 films from this series. And right name of all series is Middle-earth > See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feature_film_series_with_six_entries#M

Zack Snyder's Justice League Trilogy is unnecessary... have DC Extendet Universe for this in 15 entries > See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feature_film_series_with_11_to_20_entries#D_2

Stargate trilogy is not a trilogy!!! last 2 films is not with first one is with tv series...

Black Christmas is not a trilogy... This first film is original second is remake 3 film again is remake is not a trilogy... please remove --84.252.28.57 (talk) 15:09, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Unnecessary 3 entries here ...

Some 3-entry movie series should be removed from here: The Lord of the Rings film series... Is add in 6 entries have more 3 films from this series. And right name of all series is Middle-earth > See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feature_film_series_with_six_entries#M

The Hobbit film series... Is add in 6 entries have more 3 films from this series. And right name of all series is Middle-earth > See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feature_film_series_with_six_entries#M

Zack Snyder's Justice League Trilogy is unnecessary... have DC Extended Universe for this in 15 entries > See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feature_film_series_with_11_to_20_entries#D_2

Stargate trilogy is not a trilogy!!! last 2 films is not with first one is with tv series... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.252.28.57 (talk) 15:04, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

This is not a list of film trilogies, and the Black Christmas series and each of the Middle-earth series have their own articles, hence they have better reason to be on this list than most of the others.★Trekker (talk) 15:28, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Only canon films is add in entries with 3,4 or more... Black Christmas 3 films are not canon --84.252.28.57 (talk) 18:06, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

No. Thats something you made up. This list is not about canon.★Trekker (talk) 01:47, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Film series and spin-off films

Hi. I can see that almost every spin-off films are included in the lists of film series here in the List of feature film series with (number) entries articles. I don't think it's actually correct, as most spin-off films are not a part of the film series, but a separate film in the same franchise as the film series. I guess that if it's a spin-off/sequel hybrid film like Men in Black: International (part of the Men in Black franchise) and Finding Dory (part of the Finding Nemo franchise), it should be included in the lists of film series since it's 50 % spin-off/50 % part of the film series. But if it's a 100 % separate spin-off film that's not a part of the film series like Hobbs & Shaw (part of the Fast & Furious franchise), Lightyear (part of the Toy Story franchise), Planes 1 and 2 (part of the Cars franchise), Lavalantula 1 and 2 (part of the Sharknado franchise), and Minions 1 and 2 (part of the Despicable Me franchise), it should not be included in the lists of film series. So I think we should either remove every 100 % spin-off films from these lists here in these articles or rename the articles where the word series is replaced with the word franchise. Karamellpudding1999 (talk) 12:42, 21 February 2022 (UTC)