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
Thursday Aug 24, 2017
Thursday Aug 24, 2017
Before the Twilight franchise ruined vampire movies for everybody, two of Hollywood’s most iconic leading men signed on to play a bloodsucking duo with a relationship so dripping with homoeroticism, producers briefly considered adding Cher to the cast to butch things up a little…
This week on Beyond The Box Set, John and Harry revisit the campy/scary delight that is Neil Jordan’s Interview With The Vampire. Join us as we discuss Tom Cruise’s magnificent scenery chewing, appreciate little Kirsten Dunst’s fierce post-mortem ringlet game and struggle to identify exactly what the plot of this movie is.
After waxing nostalgic for a while, we move on with our fantasy sequel pitches, including a Dark Universe crossover that stretches Harry’s celebrity impersonation skills to the limit, and an origin story that attempts to answer why celebrated vampire novels always seem to be written by bored housewives with no previous writing experience…
Each week on Beyond The Box Set, we take a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequels, prequels and spin-offs to bring them back to the big screen. If you enjoy our Interview With The Vampire episode, hit subscribe for a regular dose of ludicrous fan fiction, and leave us a nice review so other listeners can find us as well. I mean, you don’t have to, but we’d really appreciate it if you did…
00:00 Intro – A SWOT Analysis of Vampirism
22:00 Pitch One – The Vampire: A Dark Universe Movie
42:10 Pitch Two – Interview With The Vampire 2: Fangs For The Royalties
53:00 Listener Submissions & Episode 29 Preview
Thursday Jul 27, 2017
Thursday Jul 27, 2017
Everybody should have one talent. Ours is coming up with questionable sequel ideas for classic movies. This week it’s the turn of Anthony Minghella’s fiendishly gripping 1999 psycho-sexual thriller The Talented Mr Ripley, featuring Matt Damon as a murderous bisexual con artist, Jude Law in speedos and Philip Seymour Hoffman being the most Phillip Seymour Hoffman he can be…
This week on Beyond The Box Set, we flash back to this star-studded 1999 thriller and pitch our spin-off ideas, including a Tom Ripley origin story and a sequel that catches up with him in the Disco Seventies. Along the way we also discuss Cate Blanchett’s role as the ultimate gap year girl from hell and reminisce about the days before Gwyneth Paltrow forgot how to act…
Every week on Beyond The Box Set, we take a classic standalone movie and compete to come up with the best, worst and most ridiculous sequel, prequel and spin-off concepts to bring them back to the big screen. If you enjoy our show, please hit the subscribe button and leave us a review. It really helps us to pick up new listeners.
00:00 Intro – Is everybody bisexual in this movie?
19:00 Pitch One – The Talented Mr Thor
31:30 Pitch Two – The Talented Mr Ripley 2: The Disco Years
52:00 Listener Submissions & Episode 25 Preview
Friday May 12, 2017
Friday May 12, 2017
Not many people actually saw this unexpectedly sweet gay necrophiliac love story, but we liked it so much we decided to come up with some sequel ideas. Obviously Daniel Radcliffe being in it means our ideas are mostly just Harry Potter jokes, but who among us wouldn’t want to see JK Rowling’s boy who lived reimagined as a flatulent corpse?
00:00 Intro – The unlikely sweetness of farting
13:00 Pitch One – Swiss Army Man and the Voyage of the Fancy Yacht
25:30 Pitch Two – Swiss Army Man 2: Mannyquin
42:45 Listener Submissions and Episode 14 Preview
Friday Apr 07, 2017
Friday Apr 07, 2017
It’s the endlessly quotable cult comedy that turned Winona Ryder into an icon. But how would Heather’s pitch-black sensibility translate in 2017? From comic book crossovers to copycat killers, we explore the possibilities in another bewildering edition of Beyond The Box Set. Join us, it’ll be very…
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00:00 Intro – Winona Ryder has always been crazy
10:15 Pitch One – Spiderman: Heathers
27:15 Pitch Two – Heathers 2: Damage Control
40:30 Episode Nine Preview