Meaning of prequelize | Babel Free

Definitions

To release a prequel to a work.

informal, transitive

Examples

“Coordinate term: sequelize”

“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.”

“FWIW, another of my favorite movies inspired a novel not too long ago. Casablanca was prequelized/sequelized in the novel As Time Goes By, by Michael Walsh.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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