With all else being sequel
Until The Equalizer 2, Denzel Washington was one of the few Hollywood actors not to have made a sequel. Who are the others?
According to denzel Washington, there was only one reason he hadn’t previously made a sequel: ‘i haven’t been asked. The only time i’ve been approached was for Safe House, but that didn’t make sense because my character had died, so they were talking about a prequel.’
other actors have made a more conscious decision about not appearing in follow-ups. daniel day-Lewis has had a selective career, which has ensured him lots of acclaim, with three Best Actor oscars for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln.
Kevin Bacon may be famous for the high number of films he has made, but he has never been in a sequel. He was killed off in the first Friday The 13th, was smart enough to avoid the inferior sequels to Tremors and didn’t set foot in the 2011 remake of Footloose.
The X-Men films are a multi-franchise and Bacon did appear in X-Men: First class, but his character did not survive to appear in a follow-up.
Leonardo dicaprio made his screen debut in critters 3. However, he has not personally made a sequel.
Kevin costner has had a rollercoaster career, reaching the heights in The Untouchables, dances With Wolves and JFK, and the lows in Waterworld and The Postman, yet has never made a sequel.
Jacob Hutchinson, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
Why are Fleetwood Town supporters known as the Cod Army?
FLeeTWood the coastal town was founded in 1836 by local landowner and MP Sir Peter Hesketh. He was descended through his paternal grandmother from the Fleetwood family, who had owned the large rossall estate in West Lancashire. He hired architect decimus Burton to design his new town and changed his name to Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood. While he had envisaged a resort in the style of St Leonards- on- Sea in east Sussex, it was quickly recognised that with its excellent rail links, it would be an ideal fishing port to rival the east coast’s Aberdeen, grimsby and Hull.
The Fleetwood docks Act of 1864 enabled the construction of a dock and embankment for fishing and cargo.
While steamers operated pleasure and commercial services to Belfast, Ardrossan in Ayrshire and the isle of Man, fishing vessels expanded their catchment area from the irish Sea to the haddock and cod grounds of the north Atlantic.
Up until the late 19th century, fishing vessels out of Fleetwood were sailpowered. Harriett, a 40-ton fishing smack, is preserved at the Fleetwood Museum.
in 1891, the first steam trawler, the Lark, tipping the scales at 133 gross tons and with a length of 99 ft, arrived at the docks. James Marr brought a fleet of steam trawlers to Fleetwood to fish for hake. in 1908, the docks were expanded and the Fish dock built. This was the year the original Fleetwood Town football club was established.
The fishing industry was at its height in the Twenties, employing more than 9,000 people. However, by the late Sixties, the industry was in decline. it was wiped out by the cod Wars, a dispute over fishing rights between iceland and the UK.
As Fleetwood’s trawlers mainly fished the north Atlantic in search of cod, the loss of these fishing grounds sounded the death knell for the port. in 1982, the last deep sea trawler left the port.
Yet the sense of Fleetwood as a once vibrant commercial fishing port stays strong and lives on in the name of its football supporters, the cod Army.
The current club was established in 1997 as Fleetwood Wanderers and renamed Fleetwood Town Fc in 1999.
Mark Hutchins, Fleetwood, Lancs.
When World War II pilot Mary Ellis had flown a plane to an airfield, how did she get back home?
THE earlier answer describing how Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) pilots returned home using a rail warrant was only partly true. This was inefficient as it took a long time for the pilot to travel back.
Tiger Moths and civil requisitioned aircraft were then used, but they had a limited passenger capacity and needed a valuable pilot to fly them.
The solution was the Avro Anson, which could carry seven or eight passengers, and became the air taxi for the ATA.
The excellent book about the ATA, The Forgotten Pilots, was written by Lettice curtis, one of the women pilots.
John Gregson, Hexham, Northumberland.
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