Rebootleggers

This week we bring you another exciting Rebootleggers Speedboot™! We pick one actor and move through their movie history, coming up with quick reboots for each, until we reach the present. This week our subject is Sandra Bullock, and boy do we have a lot of ideas about The Lake House . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Rebecca's back, and we reboot Ready or Not, a movie about if Hide and Seek was a DEADLY DEMON DEAL. Our reboot, Ready or Not 2 Deluxe Edition , extends the demon-deal-through-games universe with a movie about a demon who makes deals through The Sims . You remember The Sims ? It's still a thing! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We heard they were making a 4th Matrix movie, so we beat them to it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we reboot The Social Network as an Avengers-style sequel that brings together the team of internet chat applications (that each definitely got their own solo movie before) to defeat Facebook and its cadre of social media villains! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're joined by special guest Sarah Everett, and we reboot Hamlet ! Sarah has never seen or read Hamlet and also just kind of hates Shakespeare in general, so the three of us created a Shakespeare play she would watch! You can find Sarah on twitter ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we reboot Sailor Moon by asking the obvious: what if the Sailor Scouts were actual sailors? In other big news, Rebootleggers is now part of the Hello Sweetie Podcast Network ! They're a great little network with a bunch of other fun shows, so go check them out! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're rebooting Rise of the Guardians since we kept getting it confused with Legend of the Guardians ! It's 10 years later, and Jack Frost and the gang are tangled up in yet another sinister plot involving teeth, but this time with even more teeth. Big news! Rebecca Frost has officially joined us as our occasional co-host! She'll basically be on any time we don't have other guests, so ge...

Rebecca Frost joins us AGAIN, this time to reboot Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole , a movie about owls who wear helmets and fight with swords, directed by Zack Snyder. Our version is better, because there's no way it couldn't be. Go see Rebecca on Twitter! She's real funny. https://twitter.com/josswheelin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Rebecca Frost joins us in rebooting her grandfather's favorite movie, Harold and Maude , a 1971 film that's basically the original Garden State if you just replace Natalie Portman with 79 year-old Ruth Gordon. You can find Rebecca on twitter: https://twitter.com/josswheelin ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're joined once again by B.J. Mendelson! Together we reboot Detective Pikachu as Pikachu Noir: a dark gritty film noir set in 1940s Los Angeles, starring Danny DeVito as Pikachu, and Idris Elba as a Psyduck! B.J. is an author and comic book writer, and you can find more of his work on his website: https://bjmendelson.com/ You can also follow B.J. on Twitter if you want to see good twee...

This week we create a new Star Wars story, and end up kind of rebooting The Craft as a Star Wars movie that then makes an abrupt pivot near the end.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're rebooting Limitless , the movie that Bradley Cooper did while he was still just "That Guy from The Hangover!" The original movie only dealt with breaking the limits of the mind, so our reboot asks, "what other limits can we break with a magic pill?" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brock Wilbur returns to help us reboot the movie Postal , a very problematic movie based on a very problematic game! We decided on this reboot to tie into the book Brock wrote about Postal for Boss Fight Books. Come join us as we try to navigate how to reboot this movie in a way that addresses the issues of toxic masculinity and gun violence, and attempts to fix them rather than glorify them. It's...

This week we reboot Teen Witch! Mostly we just take this one weird rap battle scene and craft an entirely new movie around it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxxBXpnn2Jw Also triangles feature prominently. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We reboot Bio-Dome , the 1996 stoner comedy! It turns out the original movie didn't have much worth keeping, so we got rid of everything except the dome. Now it's called Biomes-Dome . Okay we also kept the weed stuff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We reboot Stuart Little by teaming him up with other rodents living in human worlds! Featuring Stuart Little, Ralph (from The Mouse and the Motorcycle ), Roddy (from Flushed Away ), and Rataouille! It's like the Avengers, if they were rats and mice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the big American Football time again, so that apparently means we reboot something American Football-y! So we rebooted Little Giants, a movie based on a McDonald's commercial. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You knew it was only a matter of time before we rebooted Shrek. Come listen as we reimagine Shrek as a Warriors-esque story, where the big green man lives in an irradiated area of a gang-infested city, and must help the rival gangs come together to defeat the evil Mayor Farquad! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we reboot The Mummy ! The 1999 one with America's sweetheart, Brendan Fraser. Not the 1932 one with Boris Karloff. We bring it into the modern and marvel over the fact that no one has thought to do this yet! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back in 2019! To kick off the new year, we're starting a special new episode type, where we preemptively reboot all of the planned Hollywood reboots for the coming year, in one single speedboot episode. Welcome to the 2019 Preboot Speedboot! Buckle up for the following reboots: What Men Want Chaos Walking Dumbo Pet Sematary Aladdin The Lion King Artemis Fowl The Addams Family Charlie’s Angel...

2018 is almost over, which means it's time for us to talk about our favorite reboots that came out this year! Thank you all so much for listening and staying with us, and we'll see you in 2019! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back to the regular format this week, trying to get out ahead of Disney's new live-action Kim Possible with a pre-boot of our own. We think it's safe to say we'll be hearing from Disney any day now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EPISODE 100! We did it! In celebration of this milestone, we've compiled our favorite memories from previous episodes, as we remember how far we've come. Don't call it a clipshow, because it's different. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we reboot The Shaggy Dog, a movie starring Tim Allen and Robert Downy Jr., where Tim is turned into a dog and learns a lesson about family. Join us as we embark on a tale of danger and excitement, chronicling one man’s journey as the Chosen Fifth Member of elite interstellar space warriors: KISS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brock Wilbur returns, helping us reboot Mars Attacks! , a movie that disappointed him as a child but we all love as adults. Except Frank, who didn't bother to watch the movie before the episode. Learn more about Brock at brockwilbur.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.