Screenwriter Will Tracy (BUGONIA, THE MENU, SUCCESSION) returns to walk Josh and Joe through movies that themselves have been cancelled or have been made with a cancelled person.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Menu (2022)

Bugonia (2025)

Heathers (1988)

Song of the South (1946)

Jezebel (1938)

The Little Foxes (1941)

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Treasure Island (1950)

The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Get Him to the Greek (2010)

Casablanca (1942)

Clownhouse (1989)

Powder (1995)

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Boys Town (1938)

Stand by Me (1985)

Lord of the Flies (1960)

Bound (1996)

An Officer and a Spy (2019)

Crimes and Misdemeanors  (1989)

Match Point (2005)

Manhattan (1979)

The Two Jakes (1990)

Chinatown (1974)

The Godfather Part III (1990)

Knife in the Water (1962)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Repulsion (1965)

Predator (1987)

Die Hard (1988)

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

Rollerball (1975)

Rollerball (2002)

The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)

The 13th Warrior (1999)

I Love You, Daddy (2017)

Blue Jasmine (2013)

One Battle After Another (2025)

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Crash (2005)

Green Book (2018)

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Other Notable Items

Our revamped Patreon! 

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Succession TV series (2018-23)

The Onion

The Academy Awards

Stavros Halkias

Wikipedia

Daniel Waters

William Hurt

Our Thomas Jane podcast episode

Disney

Dalton S. Reymond

Maurice Rapf

Morton Grant

The Hays Code

Splash Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA

James Baskett 

M*A*S*H* TV series (1972-83)

Br'er Rabbit 

Elliott Gould

Bill Cosby

“The Devil and Daniel Webster” short story by Stephen Vincent Benét (1936)

Kevin Spacey

Bryan Singer

Russell Brand

Diddy

Jonah Hill

Christopher McQuarrie

Humphrey Bogart

Richard Wagner 

Woody Allen

Roman Polanski

Victor Salva 

Francis Ford Coppola

American Zoetrope

The Wachowski sisters

Colombo TV series (1971-78, 1989-2003)

Johnny Cash

Donald Pleasence

Ruth Gordon

The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007)

Breaking Bad TV series (2007-13)

Robert Towne

Jack Nicholson

The Dreyfus affair 

Sofia Coppola

Winona Ryder

The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood book by Sam Wasson (2020)

Peter Bogdanovich

Polly Platt

Andrew Hickey’s The History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast

“Waterloo Sunset” song by The Kinks (1967)

Ray Davies

The Beatles

John Lennon

Yoko Ono

“I’m Not Angry” song by Elvis Costello (1977)

John McTiernan

Anthony Pellicano

Chris Klein

LL Cool J

Sean Connery

Sam Neill

Stellan Skarsgard

Alec Baldwin

Antonio Banderas

Louis C.K.

Louie TV series (2010-15)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV series (2014-26)

John Malkovich

Apropos of Nothing memoir by Woody Allen (2020)

Dane Cook

Roberto Benigni

Steven Spielberg

Jerry Lewis

Nick Vallelonga

Al Franken

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