Nearly ten years ago, Sandra Bullock pledged she would never again make a sequel to one of her many memorable movies.It was 2013, the year she and Melissa McCarthy released the buddy cop comedy “The Heat” — which grossed nearly $230 million at the worldwide box office.
While simultaneously making the awards rounds for “Gravity” that year, press relentlessly asked if she would return for a second film with McCarthy.“I’m not doing a sequel to ‘The Heat,’” she said at the time.
“I’ve done two sequels.
They were horrible.
What Melissa and I had was beautiful.
We might do another film together.
I think we should do a silent film together.”Film fans and social media users connected the dots, and guessed the two “horrible” sequels Bullock was referring to: the followup to her star-making film “Speed,” which grossed only a third of the original’s domestic box
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