Actors who revived after many years

08/05/2023

06/05/2023

Kristen Bell

Bell has set aside Veronica Mars and picked her back up several times. The show’s original run ended in 2007, and then she starred in a (middling) movie in 2017. Then, in 2019, the series was rebooted for one season, which was a better send-off for the character than the film.

06/05/2023

Michael Douglas

Wall Street won Douglas an Oscar in 1987, but it was not a movie anybody expected to have a sequel. Don’t tell that to Oliver Stone, though. He brought Gordon Gekko back in 2010 with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which at least gave us another entry in the world of funny sequel subtitles.

06/05/2023

Jim Carrey

Dumb and Dumber was one of Carrey’s three hit comedies that came out in 1994. There was a 2003 prequel, but it did not feature Carrey or Jeff Daniels. That dynamic duo did return in 2014 for Dumb and Dumber To, a movie that, there may already be a theme emerging, fell flat.

02/05/2023

Ben Stiller

Zoolander was not a hit in 2001 but became a cult classic. Alas, some cult classics are best left alone. We got Zoolander 2 in 2016, but the movie felt completely flat, and all it managed to do was taint the legacy of the original.

02/05/2023

02/05/2023

02/05/2023

Bette Midler

The odd shelf life of Hocus Pocus gave us an unexpected return for an icon. Midler played Winifred Sanderson, the foremost of the three witch sisters in the Disney moved beloved by millennials. That film came out in 1993, and then in 2022, nostalgic thirtysomethings got a chance to see the Sandersons, Midler included, back in action in Hocus Pocus 2.

26/04/2023

26/04/2023

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford has seemingly gladly returned to play Indiana Jones a couple of times, including 2023’s upcoming fifth installment in the franchise. Then, he also begrudgingly returned for The Force Awakens to play Han Solo, perhaps to live up to his wishes of finally killing Han off.