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 Jun 15, 2017
Thursday Jun 15, 2017
You are tearing us apart, listeners! This week on Beyond The Box Set, we’re pitching sequels to a feature that’s more meme than movie – Tommy Wiseau’s baffling, brilliant The Room. Joined by super fan Sebastian Clark, we discuss the movie’s clear Shakespearean parallels, Lisa’s limitless capacity for evil, Denny’s major boundary issues and the character whose tragic arc brings John to tears mid-podcast.
As is the tradition, we also pitch our own sequel ideas for the film, including a Gosford Park-style period remake, a reincarnated Johnny’s quest for revenge and a surprise Westworld crossover revealing that – spoiler alert! – the cast and crew were actually robots the whole time. Which, let’s face it, would certainly explain the acting…
00:00 Intro – The most successful independent movie of all time?
13:45 Why Claudette is the true hero of this movie
25:30 Pitch One – The Room With a View
37:00 Pitch Two – The Room 2: Flowers for Denny
48:20 Pitch Three – WestRoom
54:00 Our First Cliffhanger + Episode 19 Preview
Thursday Jun 08, 2017
Thursday Jun 08, 2017
Incompetent police work, bizarre casting and death by vagina – David Fincher’s Gone Girl is a movie that makes some choices. This week on Beyond The Box Set, John and Harry wade through the plot holes to pitch sequels for one of the most insane thrillers of recent years. Join us for an unlikely riff on 1950s camp classic ‘The Bad Seed’, an Amazing Amy lifetime movie starring a steroid-pumped Elijah Wood, plus a horrifying act of fictional feline abuse that almost breaks up the podcast…
00:00 Intro – Amazing Amy’s Killer Vagina
17:45 Pitch One – Gone Girl 2: Go Girl!
34:50 Pitch Two – Gone Girl 2: Bitches Be Crazy!
55:50 Listener Submissions and Episode 18 Preview
Tuesday Jun 06, 2017
Tuesday Jun 06, 2017
Last week on Beyond The Box Set, we pitched sequels to Alexander Payne’s highly acclaimed 2005 movie Sideways. In this very special bonus episode, we’re joined by Rex Pickett, author of the award-winning original novel on which the film was based. In a candid and wide ranging discussion, he discusses the novel’s unusual journey from page to screen, what it feels like to be played by Paul Giamatti, and why the time might finally be right for a Sideways sequel…
00:00 Introduction – The Sideways Origin Story
19:30 Miles and Jack’s Connection
25:30 Finding Miles
35:30 The Future of the Sideways Universe
59:15 Rex Pickett’s Fantasy Sequel
Friday Jun 02, 2017
Friday Jun 02, 2017
It’s sing-a-long week on Beyond The Box Set, as Harry and John pitch unfilmable sequels to the charming – yet also deeply unsettling – musical classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Along the way we discuss Caractacus Potts’ questionable parenting abilities, whether long movies should still come with intermissions and exactly what kind of weird sex stuff Baron & Baroness Bomburst were supposed to be into…
From the return of the Child Catcher – now paired with a murderous Mary Poppins impersonator – to an origin story so bleak it’d have to be directed by Lars Von Trier, if you like your family movies served with a side of surreal black comedy, download our latest episode toot suite!
00:00 Intro – This film is longer than you remember
16:50 Pitch One – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 2: Return to Vulgaria
34:50 Pitch Two – A Shitty Shitty Romance
50:15 Listener Submissions and Episode 17 Preview
Friday May 26, 2017
Friday May 26, 2017
This week John and Harry pitch sequel ideas to Alexander Payne’s bittersweet classic Sideways. Twelve years after the events of the original movie, has Paul Giamatti’s Miles finally made piece with Merlot? Has late in life celebrity transformed Thomas Hayden Church’s Jack into a crack-addled Hollywood train wreck? Are the characters still constantly drunk-driving with reckless abandon? The answers to all these questions and more in an extra tipsy edition of Beyond The Box Set…
00:00 Intro – Kimmy Schmidt has ruined Pinot Noir forever
18:25 Pitch One – Sideways 2: The Hangover
38:40 Pitch Two – Sideways 2: Road Rage
52:30 Listener Submissions and Episode 16 Preview
Friday May 19, 2017
Friday May 19, 2017
A poignant exploration of love and the nature of memory, the romance between Joel and Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind might just be too lovely to taint with our trademark brand of silly sequel ideas. The deeply creepy central premise and side characters on the other hand…
00:00 Intro – Elijah Wood should play more sex pests
18:45 Pitch One – Eternal Winter of the Wandering Mind
35:45 Pitch Two – Eternal Moonlight of the Spotless Mind
49:40 Listener Submissions and Episode 15 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
Thursday May 04, 2017
Thursday May 04, 2017
This week on Beyond the Box Set, pitching sequels to Alfonso Cuarón’s 2013 space epic Gravity proved to be tougher than expected. Join us as we discuss 3D vomit, intergalactic baseball and why Sandra Bullock is no match for Sigourney Weaver when it comes to tank top wearing space survivors…
00:00 Intro – Harry needs to stop killing our friends
18:05 Pitch One – Gravity 2: The Lost World
29:55 Pitch Two – Gravity 2: Down to Earth
47:20 Episode 13 Preview
Friday Apr 28, 2017
Friday Apr 28, 2017
Patty cake sex games, horrifying toon-on-toon violence and a traumatic act of Shoe-icide – Who Framed Roger Rabbit might me the most unlikely smash hit of the 80s. This week on Beyond The Box Set we revisit the Robert Zemeckis classic and pitch sequel ideas including a modern whodunnit involving the murder of a beloved Pixar icon and a toon sex coverup conspiracy involving America’s first family…
00:00 Intro – John’s Pigeon Trauma
16:30 Pitch One – Who Framed Dodger Rabbit?
33:40 Pitch Two – Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2: The Melancholy Death of Baby Herman
49:40 Fan submissions and Episode 12 Preview
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
You might not remember this utterly bonkers 2006 time travel action thriller from director Tony Scott, but if you enjoy unbridled sci-fi silliness, it’s well worth a watch. This week on Beyond The Box Set, we attempt to unravel the movie’s many, many plot holes, before diving into some equally demented sequel ideas – including multiple Denzel Washingtons causing havoc in New Orleans, and a look at time travel technology in the age of the app…
00:00 Intro – Was Val Kilmer even in this movie?
15:45 Pitch One – Deja 2: Butterfly Effect
31:45 Pitch Two – Deja Vu: Deja Vu
31:00 Episode 11 Preview