Super 8, J.J. Abrams’ most personal film to date, celebrated its 10-year anniversary earlier this month. To celebrate the milestone, I caught up with nearly everyone involved with the production (including Abrams himself) for a special retrospective on the coming-of-age film that tips its hat to the iconic Spielberg/Amblin movies of yore.

Now that we’re a decade on from the project’s release, I asked Abrams if he had any interest in revisiting the world of Super 8 in any capacity — whether it be in the form of a direct sequel or something only tangentially connected (à la the producer’s anthological Cloverfield universe).

“I don't think so — that movie feels like a beginning, middle, and end to me,” Abrams said. And you really can’t blame him for feeling that way. Super 8 works best as a standalone tale of love, loss, aliens, and most importantly, filmmaking.

With that said, I couldn’t help but ask some of the cast members where they’d like to see their characters as adults if “Super 9” (it definitely wouldn’t be called that) was to become a reality. After all, there is most definitely is a precedent for a group of friends reuniting as adults after going through a shared supernatural experience as kids.

Stephen King established the ground rules with the Losers Club in It — a novel that’s helped fuel the recent boom of ‘80s nostalgia (projects like Stranger Things owe as much to King as they do to Spielberg and even Super 8, which was ahead of the retro curve by a good six years).

“Before he [Abrams] finished his sentence, I would say, ‘Whatever you wanna do, I’m in.’ I would absolutely do that,” Joel Courtney, who played Super 8’s doe-eyed protagonist, Joe Lamb, tells me. “For Joe…I would just want to see him continuing to grow. Mostly just having a relationship with his father and for his sake, I hope Alice [Elle Fanning’s character] is in there somewhere. Some sort of relationship. Or maybe they broke up and she got with Charles. Who knows?”

“I think I’d be amazing to get the gang back together,” adds Riley Griffiths, who played Joe’s best friend, Charles Kaznyk. “I would hope to see Charles still doing his thing! Maybe making a professional version of The Case and bringing Martin back as the lead once again. I think that would be hilarious. The whole incident no doubt left a profound impression on his life and I would assume his filmmaking would reflect that. It would be fun too see if his bossiness has carried over/became problematic in his adult life and to watch him work through that.”

Gabriel Basso, who portrayed the nebbishy Martin, says he’d “like to see him be more comfortable with his own weakness and character.”

“Just because he was sort of quiet and freaked out a lot and got punked a lot,” the actor continues. “I think it’d be cool if he came back and he was just the same guy, but his weaknesses [wouldn’t be] as glaring. He’d have that gnarly scar from when the tank blew up the house and he’d know there were aliens. So his understanding of putting his life in context of what it is wouldn’t bother him that much. I just think it’d be cool to see someone who’s like, ‘Yeah, f*** you, I know aliens exist.’ He sort of has a trump card on anyone giving him crap about his glasses or whatever.”

And what of the group’s resident pyromaniac, Cary — played by Ryan Lee? “I’m in. I would never tell J.J. ‘No,’” Lee says. “I would love to see Cary with all of his fingers still intact. I would love to maybe see that he got a haircut. And yeah, maybe Cary settled down and went the more traditional route. Not so sustainable with all the fireworks.”