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a movie that takes place after the original and before the sequel
This question has meaning only if you assume that a story can be a sequel or a prequel all by its lonesome. This is, to my mind, an unwarranted assumption. A story can only be a sequel or prequel in relation to another story. Thus, the story in the middle is a sequel to the earlier story and a prequel to the later.
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I'm glad to see you are taking a Heinlein on this.
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ah, we so seldon resort to puns around here. it might get a bit hari if we did. 
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But a prequel is actually a sequel in disguise. So prequel is, in actuality, inaccurate. A cheap cop-out, even.
So perhaps a sequel that explores exposition to the orignal film could be called a paleosequel.
pale-; paleo-; palae-; palaeo-: involving or dealing with ancient forms or conditions
Wellt did happen a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
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asimov outta you, Alex! 
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Actually, I rented Star Wars II: The Clone Wars this weekend and found it pretty weak. It didn't have much chemistry between the major actors and actresses, unlike the original film with Mark Hamil, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher (Fischer?). If wasn't for the original film (and its original sequel The Empire Strikes Back) I doubt anyone would find this film very interesting as a whole. Natalie Portman was very interesting indeed but the inner gutter policeman forbids further comment.
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>Actually, I rented Star Wars II: The Clone Wars this weekend and found it pretty weak.
The entire Star Wars prequel trilogy, along with "Titanic", is in my personal list of "things I won't watch unless someone with a very large gun makes me." So far, Allah be praised, no one has.
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Me: a movie that takes place after the original and before the sequel
Faldie: This question has meaning only if you assume that a story can be a sequel or a prequel all by its lonesome.
How so? The sequel I'm referring to would be a sequel to the original, not the movie I'm wondering about. The new movie would then be the third released, but the second chronologically. Nothing standing alone here.
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The new movie would then be the third released, but the second chronologically
I interpreted your question to be looking for one word to refer to the movie in question. It doesn't have one word to describe it. It is a sequel to the first movie in chronological order (which, in the case of the Star Wars movies, was the fourth by production order) and a prequel to the first by production order or third (or, eventually, fourth) in chronological order of story line. Thus Attack of the Clones is a sequel to The Phantom Menace and a prequel to the original Luke Skywalker trilogy.
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. What he said.
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