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 Aug 17, 2017
Thursday Aug 17, 2017
Is Interstellar Christopher Nolan’s funniest movie? This week on Beyond The Box Set, we’re joined by super fan Joe Timothy to pitch sequels to the time travel space epic that somehow makes room for a wisecracking robot and some unintentionally hilarious cameos…
Along the way, we debate NASA’s questionable training strategies, Anne Hathaway’s baby problem and whether a movie about wormholes and time travel is pushing credibility a little too far by expecting us to believe that Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain are the same age…
As ever, once we’ve fully talked out the movie itself, we get down to business with some fantasy sequel ideas. This week’s pitches include a deep sleep entertainment program that finds Cooper and Brand playing through a virtual Christopher Nolan Greatest Hits, a tense psychological thriller with a Fight Club-esque twist and a crossover into a galaxy far, far away…
Every 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 Interstellar episode, please hit subscribe and consider leaving us a review. It’s the best way to help other listeners to find our little show.
00:00 Intro – Matt Damon’s RuPaul’s Drag Race moment
19:15 Pitch One – Interstellar 2: Nolan 64
31:00 Pitch Two – Interstellar 2: Introspection
40:45 Pitch Three – Interstellar 2: A Star Wars Story
53:45 Listener Submissions & Episode 28 Preview
Friday Aug 11, 2017
Friday Aug 11, 2017
It was the cult Australian rom-com that launched a worldwide reality TV phenomenon. This week on Beyond The Box Set, we’re joined by Ellie Chalkley – host of the Keep Dancing podcast – to help us pitch sequels to Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom.
Join us as we discuss the fabulously tragic glamour of regional ballroom championships, the perils of 90s fake tan and whether Bill Hunter’s wig in this movie may actually have been possessed of a demon…
As always, we’re also on hand with a selection of weird and wonderful sequel ideas, including an All Star Ballroom Championship that rapidly descends into violent bloodshed, a reality TV reunion that finally gives Fran the happy ending she deserves and a… questionably related sequel that somehow incorporates The Lion King and the birth of The Simpsons.
Beyond The Box Set is a podcast in which we take classic standalone movies and compete to come up with the most ridiculous sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen. If you like what we do, please hit subscribe and take a few minutes to write us a nice review. It’s not just to feed our fragile egos – it also really helps us to find new listeners too – honest!
00:00 Intro – Scott’s mom never even tries for a casual look
14:00 Pitch One – Strictly Ballroom 2: Hell Toupee
26:55 Pitch Two – Strictly, Strictly Ballroom
37:25 Pitch Three – Strictly Disney
46:35 Listener Submissions & Episode 27 Preview
Thursday Aug 03, 2017
Thursday Aug 03, 2017
Tyrion Lannister and Abed from Community in a comedy horror movie about Live Action Roleplay? Sounds like a recipe for hilarity. Sadly, the reality of obscure box office bomb Knights of Badassdom turns out to be rather different…
This week on Beyond The Box Set, we sat through 85 tortuous minutes of olde worlde accents, nonsensical plot exposition screamed out by wildly overacting TV stars and genuinely incompetent filmmaking – then attempt to justify a sequel.
Join us as we discuss – among other things – Peter Dinklage’s genuinely uncomfortable acting choices, Danny Pudi being given literally nothing to do in this movie and the bizarre plot mechanics of Summer Glau’s relationship with her dangerously disturbed cousin.
Despite the fact that this is very possibly the worst film we’ve ever covered – yes, even worse than the Super Mario Bros. movie – we do have some ideas for what the sequel might look like, including a Lego version with a much starrier cast and an origin story that attempts to explain how Peter Dinklage’s agent tricked him into appearing in this garbage movie in the first place…
00:00 Intro – Peter Dinklage seems troubled
18:35 Pitch One – Knights of Badassdom 2: Revenge of the Nordic Nerds
31:40 Pitch Two – Knights of Lego Badassdom
46:00 Listener Submissions & Episode 26 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 Jul 21, 2017
Friday Jul 21, 2017
We’re ready to tell you our secret now. We see… a scenery-chewing Wahlberg brother, questionable plot mechanics and a lot of unnecessary exposition.
This week on Beyond The Box Set, we’re pitching sequels to M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 breakthrough hit ‘The Sixth Sense’, a movie we’re pretty sure Haley Joel Osment still gets quoted at him every day.
What if Cole cashed in on his ghost-whispering abilities and became a celebrated TV medium with some very famous contacts on the other side? Or what if our favourite pint-sized psychic travelled to Westeros to attempt to reason with the famously chatty White Walkers? The answers to these and many other questions can be found in this week’s podcast…
Each week on Beyond The Box Set we take a classic standalone movie and compete to come up with the best, worst and weirdest sequel, prequel and spin-off concepts to bring them back to the big screen. If you like what you hear, please hit the subscribe button and give us a review. It feeds our fragile egos and helps new listeners to find the show.
00:00 Intro – Donnie Wahlberg needs to reign it in a little…
19:10 Pitch One – The Sixth Sense 2: The Touring Dead
37:30 Pitch Two – The Sixth Sense: Icy Dead People
53:30 Listener Submissions & Episode 24 Preview
Friday Jul 14, 2017
Friday Jul 14, 2017
Does Edgar Wright have a woman problem? As his new movie Baby Driver lands in cinemas, John and Harry revisit Scott Pilgrim vs The World and are left with very mixed opinions about the Cornetto Trilogy director’s first American movie.
From Michael Cera’s leading man credentials to Brandon Routh’s highly questionable wig work, this movie left us with plenty to talk about – and that’s before we get to our fantasy sequel ideas, featuring a Western remake and a chilling drug-fuelled Trainspotting crossover.
Each week on Beyond The Box Set we take a classic standalone movie and compete to come up with the best, worst and weirdest sequel, prequel and spin-off concepts to bring them back to the big screen. If you like what you hear, please hit the subscribe button and give us a review. It feeds our fragile egos and helps new listeners to find the show.
00:00 Intro – Michael Cera is hard to watch
18:50 Pitch One – Scott Pilgrim vs The West
37:00 Pitch Two – Scott Pilgrim vs Addiction
54:00 Listener Submissions & Episode 23 Preview
Friday Jul 07, 2017
Friday Jul 07, 2017
What do you get when you cross an alien body horror movie with a Parks and Recreation style mockumentary? This week on Beyond The Box Set, John and Harry revisit Neill Blomkamp’s inventive but tonally weird feature debut District 9 and imagine what the long-awaited sequel might actually look like. Prawn Swanson, anyone?
Along the way we also discuss Sharlto Copley’s incredible accent, the strange racial politics of the original movie and why we never want to make popcorn again after witnessing *that* scene.
Each week on Beyond The Box Set we take a classic standalone movie and compete to come up with the best, worst and weirdest sequel, prequel and spin-off concepts to bring them back to the big screen. If you like what you hear, please hit the subscribe button and give us a review. It really helps us out.
00:00 Intro – John thought this was a totally different film
19:50 Pitch One – District 9 2: Prawns and Recreation
40:15 Pitch Two – District 9: Prawn Origins
52:50 Listener Submissions & Episode 22 Preview
Friday Jun 30, 2017
Friday Jun 30, 2017
Is Tom Hanks a great actor, or do people just like him? John and Harry attempt to decipher the appeal of Hollywood’s favourite every-ham as we pitch sequels to Robert Zemeckis’ Oscar-nominated classic Cast Away. From the rise of a Scientology-style religion built around the cult of Wilson, to the return of Seth Rogen, James Franco and Jonah Hill in a stoner survival comedy set on a deserted island, we’re taking Cast Away so far off course, not even a CGI whale and a weirdly unflattering photo of Helen Hunt could bring it home…
If you enjoy our fantasy sequels for Cast Away, hit subscribe to ensure you never miss one of our episodes. Every week on Beyond The Box Set, we take a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel or spin-off idea to bring it back to the big screen. If you really like what we do, please consider leaving us a review. It’s great for our egos and it helps other people to find us.
00:00 Intro – A Volleyball with the voice of Tim Allen
17:15 Pitch One – Cast Away: Weed Island
29:50 Pitch Two – Cast Away 2: Wilsonism
45:00 Listener Submissions & Episode 21 Preview
Thursday Jun 22, 2017
Thursday Jun 22, 2017
It’s time to resolve the first ever Beyond The Box Set cliffhanger this week, as Harry delivers the second half of his The Room/The Truman Show crossover sequel – with a touch of HBO’s Westworld thrown in for good measure. Along the way we also discuss John’s deep-seated aversion to Jim Carrey, Laura Linney’s eerily perfect hair and why reality TV may soon leave us all watching Z-list celebrities hunting each other for sport…
If you enjoy our fantasy sequels for Peter Weir’s 1998 reality TV satire, hit subscribe to ensure you never miss one of our episodes. Every week we take a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel or spin-off idea to bring it back to the big screen. If you really like what we do, please consider leaving us a review. It’s great for our egos and it helps other people to find our show too. We’re not averse to trading nudes for five-star ratings.
00:00 Intro – John is allergic to Jim Carrey
16:00 Pitch One – The Truman Show 2: The UnReal World
33:30 Pitch Two – The Truman Show: Trial and Error
46:50 Listener Submissions & Episode 20 Preview