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Supporting Characters Worthy of Spinoffs

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What happens when side characters are more interesting than a movie's main storyline.

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Posted October 26th, 2009, 9:10 AM by Alison Willmore

Ronald Chevalier, the pompous fantasy writer memorably played by Jemaine Clement in “Gentlemen Broncos,” seems so much more interesting that the film’s main storylines that we found ourselves wishing there was a whole movie only devoted to him.

This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at a few other supporting characters we feel deserve their own movie, from a fireman in the midst of an existential crisis to a classic, wisecracking space opera smuggler.

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