trilogy
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Disney got to work making spin-offs of spin-offs of stories about a bounty hunter who had around 10 minutes of screen time in the original Star Wars trilogy.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Halley’s credits include the “True to the Game” film trilogy that featured Vivica A. Fox, and the BET reality TV series “Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is,” which ran on BET from 2006 to 2008.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Part of Ferrell’s man-child trilogy with Adam McKay, the film follows a blowhard racecar driver as he works his way back to the winner’s circle following a dramatic and embarrassing wreck.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
His trilogy on Europe’s long 19th century, published between 1962 and 1987, is highly readable if not entirely reliable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Re-creations of the Addams Family house, the abandoned shack in the Evil Dead trilogy, Tyler Durden’s flophouse in Fight Club, and the Lars Homestead on Tattooine.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
"It sits absolutely between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogies, and books in fact," he explains handily, as it can be difficult to keep up with the ever-expanding Tolkienverse.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
He wrote more than two dozen books, including Cold War spy trilogies and World War II nonfiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
"For all the scope and detail lovingly packed into the two trilogies, the vast, complex and dazzling universe dreamed up by J.R.R. Tolkien remains largely unexplored on film," Warner Bros.
From Reuters ● Feb. 24, 2023
Many filmmakers think in terms of trilogies and conclusions, but since these movies are so different from one another, it sounds like you’re freed from carrying those burdens.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
I finished re-reading the 2nd of the Tolkien trilogies and began the 3rd.
From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Lauren Ann Isaacson
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