10 crazy attempts to continue the Casablanca story

A film producer plans to mount a sequel to the beloved 1942 film classic. But she's not the only one who's tried to expand the Casablanca universe

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in a scene from the 1943 classic Casablanca.
(Image credit: AP Photo)

Is today the beginning of a beautiful Casablanca sequel? Producer Cass Warner, who runs a company called Warner Sisters, has announced that she's attempting to push a Casablanca follow-up — tentatively titled Return to Casablanca — into production. Warner Bros. passed on it in 2011, she says. “But they indicated they were willing to revisit this if I could find a filmmaker they were interested in working with.” Return to Casablanca would center on the love child of Rick and Ilsa, the central couple played by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the original Casablanca. Though raised by Ilsa and her husband Victor Laszlo, the boy "has a deep desire to find his real father," and ventures into Casablanca circa 1961 to track Rick down. Cinema purists are predictably horrified. But this isn't the first attempt to milk more money out of the 1942 Best Picture-winning classic. Here, 10 stabs at expanding the Casablanca universe:

1. Brazzaville (1943)

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