prequelnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈpriː.kwəl/us/ˈpriː.kwəl/a film, book, or play that develops the story of an earlier film, etc. by telling you what happened before the events in the first film, etc.:
Jean Rhys's novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" is a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre".
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Types of film, play, book etc.
- adaptation
- anime
- blockbuster
- epic
- epigram
- epistle
- film noir
- hagiography
- hokum
- indie
- lampoon
- mystery
- pap
- pastiche
- pastoral
- prose
- saga
- satire
- slow
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