prequel
[pree-kwuh l]
- a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a later work, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.
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Origin of prequel
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Only one other Star Wars film has earned a PG-13 rating, the 2005 prequel Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
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January 3, 2015
But David Simon said, ‘It can’t be a sequel, it has to be a prequel.
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September 16, 2014
This lawsuit is like a horrible sequel—or possibly a prequel, depending on timing—to the upcoming Benghazi hearings.
The missing part of the story—the prequel, if you will—begins like this.
But if I had a really great way to do it, I would do maybe a prequel.
prequel
- a film or book about an earlier stage of a story or a character's life, released because the later part of it has already been successful
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Word Origin
C20: from pre- + (se) quel
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