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10 Prequels Hollywood Should Avoid

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By James White published 27 May 2009

Young Lara Croft? Bad. This Lot? Funny!

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28 Days Later

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The fine folk at Cracked.com threw down the gauntlet to their followers to create the worst prequel ideas.

Since Lara Croft is now going to get her origin story, we thought we’d look at some even worse ideas…

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*Spoiler alert!

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James White is a freelance journalist who has been covering film and TV for over two decades. In that time, James has written for a wide variety of publications including Total Film and SFX. He has also worked for BAFTA and on ODEON's in-cinema magazine. 

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