Fantasy Reboot Podcast

Merry Christmas!

We've put together a little bonus episode for Christmas Day as a treat, if you can call it that, for anyone who needs a bit of company this year. This episode also brings to a close the first series of Fantasy Reboot Podcast and it has been quite an experience creating our first podcast.

Today we're doing something a little bit different. We're casting THIS PODCAST! So, who would play Leo, Roger, Lorra & Simon? As usual there are arguments, laughs and some BIG surprises.

We'd like to thank everyone who has listened, rated, subscribed, commented and contributed to the show. We didn't make it to be huge or expect it to be but every message and bit of feedback we've received has made us all feel humble that people have taken the time to listen in a world flooded with noise and distraction. A special thanks to Honey (The Oracle) and, of course, Betsy Pearl, our voice-over girl.

We'll hopefully be back in 2021 and hope you can join us then. In the meantime, you can reach us on Twitter @fantasyreboot or email fatasyreboot@gmail.com

Have a wonderful Christmas. Lots of love from us... The Fantasy Reboot team.

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The show which reimagines your favourite films being remade NOW!

This week, the team are back together in the same room after a Covid-related hiatus. It was really nice to get the band back together, especially to talk about this... The fourth of our CHRISTMAS SPECIALS! Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about the brilliant IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE! The five characters being recast are:

UNCLE BILLY

MR POTTER

MARY

CLARENCE

GEORGE BAILEY

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast and, as usual, we'll have a bucket full of facts and bouquet of bickering.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for HOME ALONE in episode 11... And stick around at the end for uncut hidden extras.

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Production & Music: Simon Smedley

Editing & Extra Sounds: Roger Prior

Voice Over: Betsy Pearl Smedley

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This week, The third of our CHRISTMAS SPECIALS! Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about the brilliant HOME ALONE! The five characters being recast are:

OLD MAN MARLEY

KATE (KEVIN'S MUM)

MARV

HARRY

KEVIIN

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast and, as usual, we'll have a bucket full of facts and bouquet of bickering.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION in episode 10 and voice messages with your suggestions... And stick around at the end for uncut hidden extras.

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Production & Music: Simon Smedley

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This week, The second of our CHRISTMAS SPECIALS! Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about possibly the funniest festive film ever... NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION! The five characters being recast are:

UNCLE LEWIS (Originally played by William Hickey).

AUNT BETHANY (Originally played by Mae Questel).

COUSIN EDDIE (Originally played by Randy QuaId).

ELLEN GRISWOLD (Originally played by Beverly D’Angelo).

CLARK GRISWOLD (Originally played by Chevy Chase).

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast and, as usual, we'll have a bucket full of facts and bouquet of bickering.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for DIE HARD in episode 9 and voice messages with your suggestions... And stick around at the end for uncut hidden extras.

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Production & Music: Simon Smedley

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This week, The first of our CHRISTMAS SPECIALS! Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about the "is it/isn't it?" of Christmas movies (it is)... DIE HARD! The five characters being recast are:

KARL

SGT AL

HOLLY

HANS GRUBER

JOHN MCCLANE

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast and, as usual, we'll have a bucket full of facts and bouquet of bickering.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for THE WIZARD OF OZ in episode 8 and voice messages with your suggestions... And stick around at the end for uncut hidden extras.

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This week, Simon (Birthday Boy, which he might mention once or twice), Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about rebooting the most watched movie of all time... THE WIZARD OF OZ! The five characters being recast are:

WICKED WITCH

COWARDLY LION

TIN MAN

SCARECROW

DOROTHY

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast and, as usual, we'll have a bucket full of facts and bouquet of bickering.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for FOUR WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL in episode 7 and voice messages with your suggestions... And stick around at the end for uncut hidden extras.

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This week, Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about rebooting 'the Star Wars of rom-coms'... FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL! The five characters being recast are:

Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman)

Matthew (John Hannah)

Gareth (Simon Callow)

Carrie (Andie MacDowall)

Charles (Hugh Grant)

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast and, as usual, we'll have a bucket full of facts about the film. There's a bit of argy-bargy over a couple of suggestions, too.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for TOP GUN in episode 6 and voice messages with your suggestions... And stick around at the end for uncut hidden extras.

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This week, Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about rebooting one of the biggest and most iconic films of the 80s... TOP GUN! The five characters being recast are:

Viper (Tom Skerritt)

Goose (Anthony Edwards)

Charlie (Kelly McGillis)

Ice Man (Val Kilmer)

Maverick (Tiny Tom Cruise)

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast and, as usual, we'll have a bucket full of facts about the film.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for GREASE in episode 5 and voice messages with your suggestions... And stick around at the end for uncut hidden extras.

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This week, Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about rebooting the musicalwe all know every word to... GREASE! The five characters being recast are:

Principal McGee

Coach Calhoun

Rizzo

Sandy

Danny

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast and, as usual, we'll have a bucket full of facts about the film.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for The Exorcist in episode 3 and voice messages with your suggestions... And stick around at the end for uncut hidden extras.

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This week, for our HALLOWEEN SPECIAL... Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about rebooting 1973 bar-setting horror... The Exorcist. The five characters being recast are:

Chris MacNeil (Regan's actress mother, originally played by Ellen Burstyn).

Lt. Kinderman (Film loving detective, originally played by Lee J Cobb).

Father Merrin (Long-suffering priest & exorcist, originally played by Max Von Sydow).

Regan (Butter-wouldn't melt girl who turns potty-mouthed demon).

Father Karras (A priest suffering a crisis of faith, originally played by Jason Miller).

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast and, as usual, we'll have a bucket full of facts about the film.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for Forrest Gump in episode 3 and voice messages with your suggestions... And stick around at the end for uncut hidden extras.

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Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about rebooting 1994 epic... Forrest Gump. The five characters being recast are:

Bubba (Forrest's shrimp-loving army friend, originally played by Mykelti Williamson).

Mrs Gump (Forrest's mother, originally played by Sally Field).

Lt. Dan (Forrest's platoon leader and best friend, originally played by Gary Sinise).

Jenny (The unrequited love of Forrest's life, originally played by Robin Wright).

Forrest (Our leading man, originally played by Tom Hanks).

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast and, as usual, we'll have a bucket full of facts about the film.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for Titanic in episode 2 and voice messages with your suggestions.

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Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about rebooting 1997 Oscar behemoth... Titanic. The five characters being recast are:

The larger-than-life (and unsinkable) Molly Brown (originally played by Kathy Bates).

Misogynistic, posh-boy bully (and Rose's squeeze), Cal Hockley (originally played by Billy Zane).

Yarn-spinning, necklace-chucking centenarian, Old Rose (originally played by Gloria Stuart).

Posh-yet-rebellious leading lady, Rose (originally played by Kate Winslet).

Jack-the-lad chancer and would-be-artist, Jack (originally played by Leonardo DiCaprio).

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast.

Plus we'll have the public votes on our choices for Back to the Future in episode 1 and voice messages with your suggestions.

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Simon, Lorra, Leo & Roger fantasise about rebooting Back to the Future. The five characters being recast are:

Marty's dad & über nerd, George McFly (originally played by Crispin Glover).

Marty's fruity mum, Lorraine Baines/McFly (originally played by Lea Thompson).

One of cinema's greatest bullies, Biff Tannen (originally played by Thomas F. Wilson).

Morally dubious tinkerer and inventor, Doc "Emmet" Brown (originally played by Christopher Lloyd).

Skateboarding, life-preserver-sporting leading man, Marty McFly (originally played by Michael J Fox).

The team make their suggestions and narrow it down to their perfect cast.

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Coming soon... Fantasy Reboot Podcast. A bunch of friends and family fantasising about recasting some of cinema's greatest moments... Or, at least, the most popular. We take some of the big screen's most iconic characters, who made the part their own... Then we give it to someone else... But first we have to get past each other.

Like and subscribe to Fantasy Reboot Podcast. Episode one is coming soon!

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Production & Music by Simon Smedley

Editing & Extra Sounds by Roger Prior

Voice Over by Betsy Pearl Smedley

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