Prequelize

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.