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This week on Beyond The Box Set, we’re pitching sequels Christopher Nolan’s ridiculously complicated cult hit Memento. Is Carrie-Ann Moss still messing with Guy Pearce’s head 17 years later? Has the dawn of the iPhone helped cure Leonard’s tattoo addiction? And why does he feel a strange affinity with a certain memory afflicted blue fish?  beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 00:00 Intro – Why this movie needs Ellen Page 06:50 Pitch One – Memento: Mirrors 19:30 Pitch Two – Memento: Back To The Future 31:00 Guest Submissions + Episode Ten Preview

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… beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 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

Is 50 First Dates a charming romantic comedy or the chilling tale of an abusive manchild manipulating a severely mentally ill woman into falling in love with him? We had mixed opinions on this 2004 Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore vehicle, but its bizarre tonal shifts did provide a surprisingly rich source of potential sequel ideas. Join us as we dig far deeper into the internal logic of this movie than anyone involved in its creation ever did… beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 00:00 Intro 12:35 Pitch One – 50 Waking Nightmares 33:33 Pitch Two – 50 First Days 48:27 Guest Submissions and Episode Eight Preview

In our first ever Beyond The Box Set Guest episode, Ross Burton from Beer, Pizza & A Movie joins us to pitch sequels, prequels and spin-offs for Sergio Leone’s classic 1966 Spaghetti Western The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. From a Zootopia crossover to a high school grave robbing comedy, by way of a thinly veiled dig at Star Wars Rogue One and other pointless prequels, after listening to this episode you’ll never hear that iconic Ennio Morricone score in quite the same way again… beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 00:00 Intro 11:05 Pitch One – The Good, The Bad and the Furry 26:15 Pitch Two – Before They Were Good, Or Bad, Or Ugly 43:30 Pitch Three – The Good, The Bad and the Fugly 58:50 Episode Seven Preview

This week on Beyond The Box Set, we’re pitching sequel ideas for Luc Besson’s insane sci-fi classic The Fifth Element. From Gary Oldman’s bewildering accent work to Chris Tucker’s positively Jar Jar Binks-ian performance as Ruby Rhod, it’s fair to say that this movie divides people. But what might a new take on the film look like in 2017? From a gender-swapping Western to a mockumentary turned found footage horror, join us as we get down to business with a pair of very different, but equally ludicrous ways to bring The Fifth Element back to the big screen… beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 00:00 Intro 12:15 Pitch One – The Fifth Element: Odyssey of the Fifth 29:30 Pitch Two – The Fifth Element: Mangalore Nights 45:55 Episode Six Preview

In the second of our shamelessly off-brand bonus episodes, we blearily reflect on the 2017 Academy Awards, including the most deserved winners, the most robbed losers and the jokes that should have been left on the cutting room floor… beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 00:00 Intro – The morning after the night before 06:40 Best Supporting Actor, Shots for Suicide Squad & Costume Chat 09:50 We definitely understand the difference between Sound Editing & Sound Mixing 15:20 A bunch of technical awards that Arrival totally should have won 23:00 Nobody steals from The Muppets 27:10 Mel Gibson needs some fresh air 32:25 The greatest Oscar cock-up of all time 33:50 Final thoughts

Here at Beyond The Box Set, we love the Oscars! So much so, that we’re going totally off-brand with a bonus episode in which we rank all nine of the 2017 Academy Award nominees for Best Picture from worst to best. Which Best Picture nominee do we really wish had been directed by Steven Spielberg? Which film definitely should have been nominated for Best Achievement in Wigs? And why was one nominee almost ruined by our decision to watch it in a Dutch cinema? Find out in this very special feature-length episode… beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 00:00 Intro – Going off-brand 00:40 #9: The worst Best Picture Nominee of 2017 05:00 #8: Pacing issues and questionable wig-work 09:10 #7 Acting versus *ACTING!* 14:00 #6 Impenetrable accent work and Best Supporting Extra 18:35 #5 Mahershala Ali is having a very good year 23:50 #4 Hyperbole: The Movie 30:40 #3 The most delightful nominee of the year 35:50 #2 #DryFaceCry 41:00 #1 Never watch a sci-fi movie in a Dut

It’s the best film about dream invasion since Nightmare on Elm Street 3 – this week on Beyond The Box Set we’re pitching sequel ideas for Christopher Nolan’s 2010 sci-fi smash Inception. By giving its characters near-limitless scope for dream-building and storytelling, Inception provides plenty of fertile ground for expanding its universe. Alas, it seems that Christopher Nolan has too much “integrity” to mine the concept for a full-blown franchise. Fortunately, we have no such qualms… beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 00:00 Intro 17:05 Pitch One – Inception 2: Hormonal Awakening 33:10 Pitch Two – Inception: Building the Dream 47:35 Episode Five Preview + Bonus Episodes!

A notorious box office bomb that couldn’t even get basic colour coordination right, this week on Beyond The Box Set we’re pitching sequel ideas for the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie. It’s hard to come up with story ideas even half as demented as the utterly nonsensical plot of this movie, but whether it’s an all-star reboot featuring Scarface and Amy Poehler or a bleak direct sequel that opens at Mario’s funeral and ends in an animated bloodbath, we can definitely say we gave it our best shot… beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 00:00 Intro 07:45 Pitch One – Super Mario Bros: The Quest for Peach 24:35 Pitch Two – Super Mario Bros: Boss Battle Squad 40:05 Episode Four Preview

An endlessly-quotable sword and sandal epic that spawned a thousand crappy imitators but strangely no direct spin-offs (yet), this week on Beyond The Box Set we’re pitching sequel ideas for Ridley Scott’s Gladiator. Can any current Hollywood star could possibly match Russell Crowe for girth and gravitas? What if Michael Bay took over the franchise? And would this movie be as popular if it was reimagined as an all-singing, all-dancing, hyper-violent musical? These are the questions we hope to answer… beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 00:00 Intro 05:30 Pitch One – Gladiator! The Musical! 22:50 Pitch Two – Gladiator: Warzone 41:10 Episode Three Preview + Oscars 2017 Chat

Beyond The Box Set is a movie podcast with a difference – instead of just reviewing cinema classics, we’re pitching prequel, sequel and remake ideas for the films that don’t have any. Where better to start than with one the highest grossing movies of all time, James Cameron’s 1997 romance epic Titanic. From a direct sequel featuring a ghostly DiCaprio and more plot twists than an M Night Shyamalan movie to a stoner comedy that ends with James Franco and Jonah Hill in drag, we can guarantee these movies will never actually get made, but we’d like to think that they should be… beyondtheboxset.com twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset 00:00 Intro – Establishing the ground rules 07:00 Pitch One – Titanic: A Stoner Comedy 21:20 Pitch Two – Titanic 2: A Woman’s Heart 36:50 Episode Two Preview

Here 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. beyondtheboxset.com