distant sequel

plural distant sequels

1. uncommonbroadcastingA sequel that continues the story of an earlier work but is set much later in the same fictional timeline, often years, decades, or even centuries after the orignal.

   See also METROPOLIS, to which Fumoon is a distant sequel.

   2001, Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy, The Anime Encyclopedia, A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, page 210

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   Without that distant sequel, the memory may appear as meaningless as the book; but for the moment I can only leave on record here the two facts to which I managed somehow and in some sense to testify.

   1936, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Autobiography, page 102

   In the two distant sequels, the poet captures the exhilaration of the flight of the bird.

   1981, Sélections Lardanchet (contributor), Bulletin des Lettres, page 66

   This successful picture is, in fact, a distant sequel to the science-fiction movie classic Forbidden Planet (1956).

   1996, Kirk H. Beetz, editor, Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, volume 7, page 2151