Going Number Twos

Pop the cork and pour some bubbly as we create a sequel to the 1956 rom-com musical, HIGH SOCIETY. This film is sort of like a Wes Anderson film of its era; there are colourful sets, great music, and eccentric rich people with daddy issues.

Hey pitch pals, You've been listening to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 2 - JINGLE BALLS TO THE WALLSIf you had fun then please help us out by sharing it and if you've got a moment, please rate and review us on apple podcasts or subscribe. If you want to learn more about the crew at GN2, then head to goingnumbertwos.com (t-w-o-s). If you want to request a movie we should make a sequel for, send us a tweet or email us at pitchpals@goingnumbertwos.com with your film suggestionsGoing Number Twos features Simon Godfrey, Dan Alleman, Ryan Coffey and myself, Simon Keck. Next episode we're doing something a little different, in the before times, back when Covid was just a glint in a bat's eye, we recorded an episode in person. Yeah, face to face, around a table. We drank a lot of vodka, because we all pitched a sequel to BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. Yep, it's a bonus episode, free from us to you.

This week we made a sequel to the 80's classic, Electric Dreams! If you haven't watched the original, do it now! It's kind of like Fatal Attraction meets… a computer? In Electric Dreams 2.0, Miles Harding has made a fortune from his incredible earthquake proof brick, but all is not well in his office when the disembodied and digital Edgar creates a cult of disgruntled fax machines looking to get into heaven.

This week we made a sequel to the 80's classic, Electric Dreams! If you haven't watched the original, do it now! It's kind of like Fatal Attraction meets… a computer? In Electric Dreams 2.0, Miles Harding has made a fortune from his incredible earthquake proof brick, but all is not well in his office when the disembodied and digital Edgar creates a cult of disgruntled fax machines looking to get into heaven.

We've made a sequel to the 1964 Schlockbuster, THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (not to be confused with the gay porn of the same title). After a common cold decimates the ant-like race known as the Selenites, one lone ant boy falls from the moon to earth. Will he embrace the hedonism of democracy or turn to fascism and become Ant Hitler?

We've made a sequel to Crossroads! No, not the Britney Spears version. We're talking Ralph Macchio at the height of his Macchio-ness. A decade after beating the devil, Lightning Boy is a famous musician. Finding life as a celebrity unfulfilling, he makes a deal with the devil to take away his talent, but when he can no longer play music he hits the road again to find his old flame and discovers that you don't need talent to be a star. You just need to be a DJ.

The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore this week’s film. Yes, we’ve created a sequel to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off! A sad, middle-aged and down on his luck Ferris now works as a fry cook in a very steamy strip club. Can he reignite his friendship with the now wealthy Cameron and get back on track or is Ferris about to have a very ‘off day’?

We’ve created a sequel for our first foreign film, WAGES OF FEAR. When Bimba and Luigi are caught in an explosion in the first film, the big bang tears open a hole to an alternate world and they find themselves in a gladiatorial race. So what do you do when you’re named Luigi and in a motorised death match? You start throwing turtles filled with nitroglycerin of course.

In Crooked House 2, Max Irons, our inept and incredibly dull detective has to once again solve a murder at the premiere of… Crooked House? It’s meta murder gone mad! Luckily just about every single detective from Marple to Inspector Rex are lending a hand or paw.

Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is now king of the carnies. When he unwittingly picks a haunted field to set up their carnival, ghosts from the past, both literally and figuratively, begin to haunt the fairground. Elvis does what he does best; sings his way out of trouble and saves the day from a pack of Civil War ghosts.

William Thatcher’s cousin, Maggie Thatcher, wants to introduce the world to the sport of Sky Macing. You know that sport, the one where they launch a person into the air via catapult. That one. However, women aren’t allowed to compete as knights, so she puts on some drag and battles it out with the pope of all people.

Wyatt Earp has long retired from his days as a lawman and now runs Tombstone Park, a western themed amusement park that will close if they can’t turn a profit. How will they do it? By finding some lost treasure. That’s never been done in a sequel before, right?

Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russel) and Annie Stayton (Goldie Hawn) are about to finally tie the knot, until an ancient evil washes ashore. Is she pregnant to a moth? Maybe.

Bill and Jo Harding saved the world, perhaps a little too well. Forced to become TV weather presenters they must become storm chasers once again to hunt down their old nemesis, Dr. Jonas Miller, who has become a living tornado.

Lincoln Hawk (Sylvester Stallone) has to win the love of his only son, but with broken arms how will he do it? By entering into illegal underground tickle fights of course.

Strap on your concrete shoes, because we’re heading to Prohibition Era Chicago to write a sequel for The Untouchables. Things go so far off the rails in this episode, but we somehow still manage to pull it together... kind of.

This week we’re making a sequel for the 1998 film, The Horse Whisperer. This gruelling survival film cum romantic drama explores intimacy, relationships, horses... I guess, tight jeans… I dunno I kinda tuned out around the 2 hour mark because this film NEVER. FREAKING. ENDS. 

This week we are feasting on SOYLENT GREEN!This 1974 science fiction film stars a glistening Charlton Heston and literally no other actor we recognise. SOYLENT GREEN is a dystopian film set in the far off year of 2022 where in this world the Y2K Bug apparently made everybody start boning like no one’s business.