Kicking Things Off! Starting a Franchise...

For this week's episode, our host Richard wants to talk about franchises - specifically how they begin. What makes a successful franchise?  What was a movie that looked like it was going to start off a great franchise but everything went down hill from there?  Are there standalone movies that really deserved to have their world expanded and their characters' stories continued?

(We might also get side-tracked early on trying to define what we mean by 'franchise' - we can only apologise!)