At Beyond The Box Set, we believe every great movie deserves a questionable sequel. Each week, we take a stand-alone cinema classic and compete to come up with the best, worst and most bizarre pitches to bring them back to the big screen.
Episodes
Friday Feb 15, 2019
Friday Feb 15, 2019
A high octane racing thriller based on a popular video game franchise, Need For Speed should have been in pole position for a box office victory lap, but ultimately even the acting talents of Aaron Paul could get it across the finish line...
On this week's episode of Beyond The Box Set, we discuss the questionable morality of street racing, Michael Keaton's literally phoned-in cameo appearance and debate whether Rami Malek's horrible supporting turn in this film made us re-evaluate how much we really want him to win an Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody...
As usual, we also conclude with our own sequel pitches for this movie - including an Oscar baiting legal drama and a prequel that fills in the surprisingly detailed back story built into the original. All this plus drinking games, listener submissions and more!
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Each week on Beyond The Box Set, we take a classic - or questionably classic - standalone movie and compete to pitch the best, weirdest and most ridiculous sequel, prequel and spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen. We've been featured in The Guardian, on the front page of Apple Podcasts and as a Podbean 'Podcast of the Week', so check us out to find out what everyone's talking about...
If you enjoy the show, please hit subscribe and consider rating, reviewing or recommending us to a friend. It all helps us to infiltrate the ears of new listeners. You can also join our VIP listener group on Patreon for as little as $2 per month, where we offer a host of exciting bonus content including our weekly movie review show Beyond BTBS.
00.00: John has a serious moral objection to this film
49.10: Need For Speed Drinking Games
57.00: Need For Speed 2: Hot Wheels Edition
1.07.00: Need For Speed 2: Ready, Set, Go!
1.21.00 Listener Submissions & Episode 104 Preview
Friday Feb 08, 2019
Friday Feb 08, 2019
B12 - You sunk my battleship! To kick off our new 'movies based on games' mini-season, podcasting legend Phil Better joins us to discuss the frankly ludicrous 2012 Hasbro cash-in 'Battleship' - starring Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker and Rihanna in a concept so thin it barely covered a single movie, let alone a potential franchise...
Nevertheless, we're not ones to shy away from a challenge, so after we've finished dissecting the horrible dialogue, dreadful pacing and the unnerving sense that Battleship is less a movie than a 130 minute propaganda piece for the US Navy, we go all in on some sequel ideas - most of which involve extending the Hasbro cinematic universe to ever more ludicrous ends...
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Beyond The Box Set is a podcast dedicated to pitching sequels, prequels and spin-offs to classic standalone movies. From E.T. to Titanic and everything in between, for over two years and 100+ episodes, we've dedicated our lives to milking cash cows even the most hardened studio exec wouldn't dare touch...
You can find our show on all good podcasting platforms, including iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play and much more. If you like what you hear, please hit subscribe to get a new episode every Friday morning and help spread the word by rating, reviewing and recommending the show. Every little helps!
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00.00: If you like chicken burritos...
26.30: Battleship Drinking Games
38.00: Battleship 2: Hungry Hungry Hippos
49.45: Battleship 2: Jenga Edition
54:20 Battleship 2: Guess Who?
1.03.30: Listener Submissions & Episode 103 Preview
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
How do you solve a problem like following up your first ever live episode? By taking on one of the most beloved movies of all time, of course! This week's episode 101 spectacular is dedicated to the iconic family favourite 'The Sound of Music', starring the legendary Dame Julie Andrews.
Tune in to hear our thoughts on Maria Von Trapp's compulsive singing problem, impressive curtain-based design skills and how Harry's Granny may have been responsible for this movie's record-breaking box office takings back in the 60s...
As ever, we're also pitching some long overdue sequel ideas - including a very unexpected origin story, a crossover that keeps the hills but loses the music, and some dramatic speculation about Dame Julie's adventures in the swinging sixties.
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Beyond The Box Set is a weekly movie podcast that attempts to pitch sequels, prequels and spin offs to classic standalone movies. For over 100 episodes, we've pried open every closed narrative, slaughtered every cinematic sacred cow and pitched ideas ranging from the inspired to the downright un-filmable.
Our show is available on all good podcasting platforms including Itunes, Spotify and Podbean. If you enjoy the show, please leave a ratings and a review, they really help us to attract new listeners. Don't forget to subscribe too, for a new episode every Friday morning.
Beyond The Box Set is a proud member of PAVE Media, the home of independent podcasts online. Check them out to find out how they could help you to grow your podcast and get engaged with the vibrant independent podcasting community.
00.00: Harry's Von Trapp childhood
33.10: The Sound of Music Drinking Games
38.40: The Sound of Music 2: Back In The Habit
47.00: The Sound of No Music
54.30: Listener Submissions & Episode 102 Preview
Friday Jan 04, 2019
Friday Jan 04, 2019
In the second half of our epic 2018 review, we look back at the movies we watched between July and December and deliver our final verdicts - complete with increasingly drunken and dissolute sequel ideas... enjoy!
Remember, you can enjoy full-length reviews of all of these movies by signing up to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/beyondtheboxset
0.30: Skyscraper
4.45: Incredibles 2
8.50: Mission Impossible - Fallout
13.00: Mamma Mia 2
16.00: Hotel Artemis
20.05: The Meg
25.55: BlacKkKlansman
27.10: Crazy Rich Asians
31.30: Searching
37.50: The Predator
44.20: Venom
48.45: Bad Times At The El Royale
57.15: First Man
1.04.25: A Star is Born
1.12.50: Bohemian Rhapsody
1.19.10: Widows
1.25.10: Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald
1.30.15: Robin Hood
1.33.15: Spiderman - Into The Spiderverse
1.35.55: Mortal Engines
1.38.00: Mary Poppins Returns
1.40.35: Final Rankings + 2019 Preview
Wednesday Jan 02, 2019
Wednesday Jan 02, 2019
In addition to pitching sequels to old films, we also watched a lot of new releases in 2018. So we thought we'd end the year with a look back at everything we caught at the cinema over the past 12 months, while also attempting to pitch some very quick sequel ideas for them.
This was a very silly idea that turned into a literal all-nighter, so we've split the results into two parts. Here's part one, in which we ran down everything we saw between January and June. Spoilers abound, obviously!
You can listen to full-length review episodes for all of these films by subscribing to our Patreon for as little as $2 per month.
00.00: Molly's Game
04.55: The Post
07.25: Downsizing
12.35: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
16.08: The Greatest Showman
20.50: Phantom Thread
25.40: Call Me By Your Name
30.55: Black Panther
36.45: Darkest Hour
38.25: The Shape of Water
41.25: Coco
45.30: Ladybird
49.00: I, Tonya
52.35: Red Sparrow
55.30: Tomb Raider
58.30: Ready Player One
1.05.55: Love, Simon
1.08.50: Isle of Dogs
1.11.30: A Quiet Place
1.13.40: Deadpool 2
1.19.45: Avengers: Infinity War
1.24.40: Solo - A Star Wars Story
1.26.10: Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom
1.29.30: Hereditary
1.33.55: Ocean's Eight
1.36.30: Leave No Trace
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
A cynical 80s update of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with Bill Murray in the central role, Scrooged has all the elements of a festive home run. Yet back in 1988 critics received the movie like a lump of festive coal, and even Murray himself was publicly critical of his performance.
Nevertheless, years of TV syndication have helped Scrooged to endure as a cult holiday classic. Did the critics get it wrong, or has Murray's boundless charisma hoodwinked contemporary viewers into looking back at the film with rose tinted glasses?
To help us find the answer, we're re-joined this week by our most consistently available guest, Ross Burton from 2 Geeks 2 Movies. Together we discuss how Scrooged compares to other popular A Christmas Carol adaptations, whether we really believe Murray's change of character will last beyond the Holiday season, and why, depending on who you ask, Carol Kane's psychotic sugar plum fairy is either the best or the worst part of this movie...
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Each week on Beyond The Box Set, we sit down in front of a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas we can think of to bring them back to the big screen. Clocking in at almost 100 episodes and counting, there's no cinematic sacred cow we're not more than willing to defile.
We release a new episode every Friday morning, so hit subscribe to make sure you don't miss out, and please leave us a rating and review if you'd really like to help us spread the word. We also have a dedicated fan VIP club on Patreon - available from as little as $2 per month - and we sell exclusive Beyond The Box Set merchandise on TeePublic.
00.00: Harry is 100% done with Charles Dickens this year.
24.10: Scrooged Drinking Games
34.55: Scrooged 2: First Contact
46.30: Scrooged 2: Oliver Twisted
55.50: Son of Scrooge
1.05.14: Listener Submissions & Episode 98 Preview
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
It's a thought-provoking modern sci-fi classic that played a key role in Beyond The Box Set's Amsterdam-based origin story. So why did it take us 93 episodes to dedicate an episode to Arrival? Well, if time is a circle, then on some level, haven't we somehow always been dedicating an episode to Arrival? Wait, now we're even more confused...
Dante Pineau of PlayD&D and Let's Get Contextual joins us this week to discuss property porn, the perils of Dutch subtitles, how this movie got totally screwed over at the Oscars and more, before diving into some high-concept sequel ideas including a look at what might have been going on at the other research camps, a grief-stricken Jeremy Renner's attempts to unwind time and save his daughter's life and an expose on what the mysterious Abbot and Costello aliens were really up to...
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Beyond The Box Set is a creative movie podcast dedicated to pitching fantasy sequels to classic standalone cinema. Each week we'll thoroughly dissect a film that for some reason never spawned a spin-off, and compete to come up with the most inspired, or ridiculous, sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen.
If you enjoy the show, please hit subscribe on your preferred Podcasting platform and leave us a nice review. You can also contact us on social media and we have a Patreon page where dedicated listeners can access a wide variety of bonus content from as little as $2 per month.
00.00: Never watch a movie about linguistics in a Dutch cinema
28.15: Arrival Drinking Games
35.40: Arrival... In Devon?!
44.45: Arrival 2: Departure
55.45: Arrival: Behind The Laughter
1.06.50: Listener Submissions & Episode 94 Preview
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Put simply, 'The Birdcage' is one of the funniest movies ever made. Yes, it's a remake of the much-loved French classic La cage aux folles, but it's elevated above standard remake fare by inspired casting across the board and a strong emotional centre in the midst of all the camp farce.
A sequel without Robin Williams is obviously almost impossible to imagine, but we did find ourselves wondering how Nathan Lane's flamboyant Albert would cope with the loss of his remarkably patient life partner. Not to mention the tantalising/terrifying notion of how Agador Spartacus' personal style might have evolved as he entered his mid-fifties...
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Every week on Beyond The Box Set, we take a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch sequel, prequel and spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen. Sometimes they're completely ridiculous, other times they're strangely inspired, but either way they're guaranteed to out a new perspective on some of your favourite movies.
Our show is available on all good podcasting platforms, including iTunes, Spotify, aCast and Google Play. You can also sign up to our Patreon for as little as $2 per month to access a wide range of bonus content, including our exclusive spin-off show Beyond BTBS, a regular promo slot and the opportunity to choose a film for us to cover on a future episode.
00.00: Val is a garbage person
36.30: The Birdcage Drinking Games
43.45: The Caged Bird
55.00: The Birdcage 2: Starina Rides Again
1.05.20: Listener Submissions & Episode 93 Preview
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Little Red Riding Hood meets Twilight meets Murder On The Orient Express in this rather bizarre fairytale recalling directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Harry got bored, but John was compelled by the terrible camera work and ludicrously convoluted plot. Plus, Gary Oldman plays a wolf slayer with silver fingernails and a 20ft elephant, and that can never entirely be a bad thing...
In the third and penultimate edition of our Halloween 'Season of the Wolf', we discuss the Twilight effect, Virginia Madsen's alarming new face, Julie Christie's scenery chewing and much more, before pitching some fantasy sequels that inclue a Law & Order-inspired fairytale crime drama and a modern-day sex horror whodunnit with a terrifying twist. We guarantee that both are more interesting than the original - although that isn't exactly a high bar to clear...
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Every week on Beyond The Box Set, we take a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch sequel, prequel or spin off odess to bring it back to the big screen. From Oscar darlings to forgotten flops, we're running the gamut of cinema history in an effort to prove that no film is too good - or too bad - to spawn a franchise.
If you enjoy this episode, please consider hitting subscribe on your podcatcher of choice to receive a new episode every Friday morning. You can also leave us a review, which really helps us to attract new listeners, or purchase merchandise from our online Teepublic store.
For listeners who truly can't get enough, we also have a dedicated Patreon page where you can access a host of exciting bonus content - including our exclusive movie review show, the chance to pick a movie for us to cover on a future episode and a regular 30 second ad slot to promote anything you like - all available from as little as $2 per month with our pay as you feel tiered non-tiered subscription service.
00.00: Gary Oldman's torture elephant
32.30: Red Riding Hood Drinking Games
42.45: Red Riding Hood II: Red Riding Hoodie
59.50: G.R.I.M.M - The Father Solomon Chronicles
1.12.30: Listener Submissions & Episode 88 Preview
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
How far would you go to be with your children? In the classic 90s comedy Mrs Doubtfire, Robin Williams goes truly goes above and beyond to spend some quality time with his family, with predictably hilarious results.
Tune into this week's episode for our thoughts on the difference between a good Robin Williams movie and a bad one, the irresistible charm of Sally Field and why some 90s comedy tropes have aged better than others, plus much more as we pitch sequels to this timeless comedy classic...
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Beyond The Box Set is a British movie podcast that blends comedy, movie chat and creative storytelling to ludicrous effect. Each week our two hosts take on a classic standalone movie - Titanic, Gladiator etc. - and attempt to pitch fantasy sequel ideas to bring them back to the big screen. We've been featured by The Guardian, Podbean and Apple Podcasts as a must-listen show, and over 150 listeners have granted us a 'Five-Star' rating on iTunes. Not that we like to brag or anything...
If you enjoy the show, please consider hitting subscribe for a new episode every Friday morning, and drop us a review if you're feeling extra generous. It really does help us to find new listeners, and we'd totally love you forever.
For listeners who truly can't get enough, we also offer exclusive bonus content on Patreon, where for as little as $2 per month you can access our weekly bonus show 'Beyond BTBS', grab a 30 second on-air promo slot to advertise anything you like, and pick a movie for us to cover on a future episode of the main show. We also have merchandise available on Teepublic.
00.00: Sally Field has the best face in Hollywood
51.30: Mrs Doubtfire Drinking Games
1.02.40 Mrs Doubtfire 2: Stu's Return
1.12.40: Mrs Doubtfire 2: Not Without My Daughter
1.24.00: Mrs Doubtfire 2: Son of Doubtfire
1.33.25: Listener Submissions & Episode 84 Preview