We want to soft reboot our fransise, here is two first instalments of new plot. You liked it? Too bad, we cancelled it, we move on with new projects and we will never talk about that soft reboot ever again.
I understand that sometimes that's not the fault of the creators but it's so freaking irritating when it happens especially when there were plans for continuing the original plot.
scream 7- Everyone basically knows about this. Even though that thing was kinda also in Scream 6, they showed that they can make movie without Sidney. I really enjoyed the dynamic between sisters played by Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera. The original scream 7 was supposed be the ending of "sisters trilogy" where Sam daughter of Bill,one of the original killers was supposed to take the ghostface persona. Unfortunately the war in Gaza happened and Paramount is one of the most right-wing companies so after Melissa condemned Israel for attacking Gaza Paramount fired her, which made the cast of the previous part angry and they left the project. To safe face Paramount teased Stu return in their version scream 7 ||which was switch and beat, the killers are two nobodies who don't have any connections to Sidney or ghostface legacy||
The next two are kinda stretch but I think I should talk about them:
Resident evil (9) requiem- the two previous games were about Winters family, where Biohazard was a return to horror of first titles, Village taken the route of more fantasy creatures(also that big vampire lady who for some reason everyone lust for, I don't judge). At the end of Village Ethan Winters dies and we are left with the last scene of the game that teased that we will now play as his daughter Rose. Un/Fortunately her story is quickly ended with dlc that ends with her becoming normal girl. I'm the least mad about this because the story felt closed but I'm pretty sure they could do more with her.
FNAF secret of the mimic- I bring it here because I hate steel wool for what they did to Security breach, there are hours of materials about cut content. Security breach was supposed to be the debut of the next big bad, Vanny. Unfortunately they took on the sun with a hoe and to meet the release date, they chopped the game so much that it was practically a beta, and then barely lifted a finger to fix it. Instead, they released a mediocre DLC to show us the new villain, Mimic. Unfortunately for them, they expected people to read the books that built his character which most people didn't do it so they had to create an entire game for people to understand the plot. To be clear, I don't hate Mimic, but compared to the lost old story, it pales in comparison.
Do you have any more examples of this?