Certainly, every major movie has left ideas on the cutting room floor that could stand to fuel an entire spin-off — and history would suggest that more often than not, lost ideas just tend to stay lost. But Bird talks passionately about plots and characters that didn’t ultimately serve the premise of the film’s two chief storylines (Helen’s solo mission and Bob’s domestic drama), yet would have been compelling and worthy new additions to the franchise. (He acknowledges that even the movie’s main villain, the screen-shaming Screenslaver, was a late creation “amid the chaos”; the original story involved a far more intricate artificial intelligence plot.)