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Sequel/Prequel/Limited Series/Remake

Hypothetical continuation or adaptation.

Sequel/Prequel/Limited Series/Remake has run in 56 episodes. The most recent 40 are listed below — open any episode at its timestamp to hear the segment.

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‘Apollo 13’Bill Simmons

None — Apollo 13 is untouchable; Bill rejects any sequel, prequel, prestige TV series, or remake and immediately moves on.

‘Speed’Bill Simmons

Pitches a fictional 'Speed 3' as a domestic drama/EV thriller: Keanu and Sandra Bullock, now married and in their 'dotage', driving an EV to their daughter's wedding (daughter played by Ariana Greenblatt/'Indian Everett'), on a ferry from Boston to Martha's Vineyard, tied to a Howard Payne Jr. revenge plot

‘Speed’Chris Ryan

Wanted a Bomb Squad spin-off/prequel focused on Howard Payne in Atlanta, starring Joe Morton training two new bomb squad recruits, instead of the actual Speed 2 sequel

‘Speed’Sean Fennessey

Riffs on the Speed 3 bit that the best person to play the villain/killer would be Julia Litman (or Wesley) since no one would see it coming

‘About Last Night’Bill Simmons

No good Danny/Debbie check-in sequel makes sense — 'there isn't one that's why it didn't happen'

‘About Last Night’Chris Ryan

Notes there were various real efforts to make a Danny/Debbie check-in movie, and jokes that Bernie is dead so that complicates it

‘About Last Night’Mallory Rubin

Pitches a sequel premise where Danny and Debbie are divorced with a kid, keep running into each other at school/softball events, and fall back into it — says she 'could be convinced'

‘The Italian Job’Bill Simmons

Missed opportunity that they never made a sequel given the movie made ~$200 million; would have gone to see at least one more sequel

‘The Italian Job’Chris Ryan

Wanted a prestige TV show about Danny Ocean's crew/Donald Sutherland's character (the Basher Tarr-type figure) as a spin-off

‘The Italian Job’Craig Horlbeck

The Stella Bridger (safecracker) character could have gotten her own international heist series

‘The Italian Job’Van Lathan

Pivots to broader point that there's rarely an all-black-cast heist movie treated with the same 'elegant/ingenious' framing as all-white heist films like Ocean's 11; cites Takers, Uptown Saturday Night, Let's Do It Again as closest examples but argues black-led heist crimes are perceived differently by audiences due to institutional bias

‘Obsession’Bill Simmons

Wants a prestige anthology series where each episode is about a wish (inspired by 'Wish' reboot idea); also pitches a sequel where Ian didn't die, becomes a billionaire but all his friends are dead, and someone else (maybe Andy Richter) finds and spends his money

Episode	Host	Answer
‘Apollo 13’	Bill Simmons	None — Apollo 13 is untouchable; Bill rejects any sequel, prequel, prestige TV series, or remake and immediately moves on.
‘Speed’	Bill Simmons	Pitches a fictional 'Speed 3' as a domestic drama/EV thriller: Keanu and Sandra Bullock, now married and in their 'dotage', driving an EV to their daughter's wedding (daughter played by Ariana Greenblatt/'Indian Everett'), on a ferry from Boston to Martha's Vineyard, tied to a Howard Payne Jr. revenge plot
‘Speed’	Chris Ryan	Wanted a Bomb Squad spin-off/prequel focused on Howard Payne in Atlanta, starring Joe Morton training two new bomb squad recruits, instead of the actual Speed 2 sequel
‘Speed’	Sean Fennessey	Riffs on the Speed 3 bit that the best person to play the villain/killer would be Julia Litman (or Wesley) since no one would see it coming
‘About Last Night’	Bill Simmons	No good Danny/Debbie check-in sequel makes sense — 'there isn't one that's why it didn't happen'
‘About Last Night’	Chris Ryan	Notes there were various real efforts to make a Danny/Debbie check-in movie, and jokes that Bernie is dead so that complicates it
‘About Last Night’	Mallory Rubin	Pitches a sequel premise where Danny and Debbie are divorced with a kid, keep running into each other at school/softball events, and fall back into it — says she 'could be convinced'
‘The Italian Job’	Bill Simmons	Missed opportunity that they never made a sequel given the movie made ~$200 million; would have gone to see at least one more sequel
‘The Italian Job’	Chris Ryan	Wanted a prestige TV show about Danny Ocean's crew/Donald Sutherland's character (the Basher Tarr-type figure) as a spin-off
‘The Italian Job’	Craig Horlbeck	The Stella Bridger (safecracker) character could have gotten her own international heist series
‘The Italian Job’	Van Lathan	Pivots to broader point that there's rarely an all-black-cast heist movie treated with the same 'elegant/ingenious' framing as all-white heist films like Ocean's 11; cites Takers, Uptown Saturday Night, Let's Do It Again as closest examples but argues black-led heist crimes are perceived differently by audiences due to institutional bias
‘Obsession’	Bill Simmons	Wants a prestige anthology series where each episode is about a wish (inspired by 'Wish' reboot idea); also pitches a sequel where Ian didn't die, becomes a billionaire but all his friends are dead, and someone else (maybe Andy Richter) finds and spends his money