The Talented Mr Ripley 2: Tom Ripley’s Disco Years

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.

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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