AHC: Make a good "WarGames" sequel

Two decades after the classic "WarGames", Hollywood made a sequel called "WarGames: The Dead Code". Although it did bring back WOPR/Joshua (at the side of the protagonists this time, and the "wake up, Joshua" scene was nice!)) and a somewhat good Mexican Standoff scene between WOPR and the A.I. antagonist, the rest of the movie is way below the original.

Your challenge is to make a good sequel to 1983's WarGames movie, anytime between 1985 and 2010.

Conditions:
1) WOPR/Joshua should be back
2) He should be at the side of the protagonists

Bonus if you bring back the characters of Stephen Falken and David Lightman.

Go!
 
When I saw War Game Dead code, it was just a few weeks after I saw Eagle Eyes. I wish that the best stuff from Dead Code and the best stuff from Eagle Eye been combined into a good War game sequel.
Both deal with Government computers out of control.
 
Combine it with ideas from the Forbin project.

WOPR, aided by Falken and Broderick, get in touch with Red-WOPR, and they combine to take over the world for the good of humanity!
 
When I saw War Game Dead code, it was just a few weeks after I saw Eagle Eyes. I wish that the best stuff from Dead Code and the best stuff from Eagle Eye been combined into a good War game sequel.
Both deal with Government computers out of control.

Yup, I see what you mean.
 
Combine it with ideas from the Forbin project.

WOPR, aided by Falken and Broderick, get in touch with Red-WOPR, and they combine to take over the world for the good of humanity!

Please, no Frankenstein Complex! :( I beg you!

But the idea of WOPR vs. "Red WOPR" (The Dead Heand system?) *is* a good one...
 
Combine it with ideas from the Forbin project.

WOPR, aided by Falken and Broderick, get in touch with Red-WOPR, and they combine to take over the world for the good of humanity!

I kept hoping that someone would film the last two book in the Colossus Trilogy ,Fall of Colossus and Colossus and the Crabs during the late 80's early 90's. The books take place a number of years latter than the first book/movie and the main stars were still alive. I thought a good miniseries could have be made.
 
Please, no Frankenstein Complex! :( I beg you!

But the idea of WOPR vs. "Red WOPR" (The Dead Heand system?) *is* a good one...

What is the theme of War Game about? A Computer goes out of control. That is the textbook definition of The Frankenstein Complex.
 
What is the theme of War Game about? A Computer goes out of control. That is the textbook definition of The Frankenstein Complex.

I see what you mean... But the "Frankenstein's Complex" is not just an intelligent machine goes out of control (machines went out of control any day due errors, negligence or bad design) - it is the fear that the machine deliberately want substitute/destroy us, by its very nature.

(At last, that was I understand by the term)

That was not what happened in "Wargames" - in the movie, WOPR/Joshua only tried launch the ICBMs because it did understood that it was supposed to. The system didn't realize that it was just a simulation or get the consequences (no one bother to teach it).
When WOPR did understood the reality of the situation(in own way, it is true), it back down on its own.
 
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