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)

Our Thomas Jane podcast episode

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)

Christopher McQuarrie

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)

The Dreyfus affair

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)

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

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)