The movie raised quite real and diverse questions of unfinish. As it opened widely in late 2007, the producers stressed that the two sequels would be filmed if and only if the box office figures for this first venture were sufficiently astonishing.

[T]here is no such mine, / None; but a gulf of ruin, swallowing gold, not making.

Well ſaid the wiſeman, now prou’d true by this, Which to this gentle Squire did happen late, That the diſpleaſure of the mighty is Then death it ſelfe more dread and deſperate.

[T]hy head ſhall ouerlooke the reſt, / As much as thou in rage out vvent'ſt the reſt.