prequelize
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[edit]prequelize (third-person singular simple present prequelizes, present participle prequelizing, simple past and past participle prequelized)
- (transitive, informal) To release a prequel to a work.
- Coordinate term: sequelize
- 1998 December 5, Phineas Narco, “'PSYCHO' SUCKS!!!”, in rec.arts.movies.current-films[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-19:
- Psycho has been sequelized, cable-TV prequelized, made into a short-lived TV series, and now it's been remade. Someone in Hollywood keeps trying to franchize[sic] this movie with some pretty bad results.
- 1999 December 2, Meg Thornton, “The business”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-19:
- When Feist started grafting onto the end of the Riftwar saga (which had got rather dull by the third book anyway), I started to get irritated. Then McCaffrey started sequelising and prequelising as though she had a fifth mortgage to pay off, and the whole damn mess seems to have gone to hell in a handbasket.
- 2002 April 21, David Thomas, “LV 426 - the aftrermath. AR is pointless”, in alt.cult-movies.alien[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-19:
- Also, there's plenty of room in there for Alien 5 to prequelize Alien 4 and sequel Alien 3 and explain that something *did* happen there if indeed it wasn't destroyed.
- 2022 August 4, Adam Nayman, “Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present”, in The New York Times[5]:
- In 2011, the Swedish director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. tried to “prequelize” Carpenter’s movie, but even though his “Thing” was set in the days before the 1982 version, it was more or less a straight remake — or, in the spirit of the material, an inhabitation, fetishistically mimicking the textures of its source material in an attempt to replicate it.