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Episode Date: September 10, 2025

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Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Kind of Funny Gamescast for September 10th, 20, 25. I'm Marjorie recording, and I'm joined by Blessing Addy Yo-Yo-Yea Jr. Good day, Roger. Snowbike, Mike. Yo, this is the crew. This is the crew right here. And finishing out this amazing crew, somebody we never really see on the Kind of Funny Gamescast.

Nobody gets seen. One, Nick Scarpino. Thank you, Roger. Thank you for saying that. And, hey, great intro. Good intros. People don't understand how hard. People don't understand how hard the intro.

are for this. You don't nail it, and then we just, if you screw it up for one second, we're going to pounce on you. Oh, yeah. Like, you are. I didn't say me. You're a lame duck. I just, I just went around and I've crushed it. I skipped him so that I could get to you last.

That was what you should have done. I just don't, I just don't believe you. I just don't believe you. I don't believe. I don't believe he's being earnest and honest. He's being earnest and honest. You guys are making up time. Roger yelled at me before the podcast because I was watching TikTok.

Yeah, he's blaring TikToks. I'm over-stimulated. I don't know what's happening. How are you overstimulated? thing about a TikTok and it made sense and then Mike said oh the best is the one where the lady said mom you don't understand because Shaq hit on me in a club

and I didn't go you haven't lived a life until that can we talk about that? And then I go this is how stupid I am I'm like just shut up Nick just stay just stay silent because obviously you don't understand the reference but it's probably something everyone's talked about nine times and like you're just dumb and you're just old and then you waited the perfect amount of time you're like

Mike what the fuck does that mean? I don't know what that means the new TikTok trend is when parents tell you been there done that. And then you hit him with something outrageous that you know your parents wouldn't have done. I see. It's like mom and dad,

you weren't in the club getting lit off the don't at 4 a.m. like I was. Getting hit on my shack. And you said no when you asked you to go home with them. Okay. That makes sense. I don't know. Well,

I mean, everybody's got this. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I love the algorithm. I feel like there are. Let me find one of the bits on my algorithm.

You're going to like this. Okay. Have you seen the Cats Eye Gap ad? It's really good. The Cats Eye Gap ad? Yeah, of course. It's an ad. Yeah, it's all over my algorithm.

Okay. Well, just the dance. They're doing the dance. Okay, okay, okay. You know about Katzai? No, I don't know about this. Show me the ad. We'll talk about it later.

Will we? Well, not on this episode. Oh, just in general. Okay. Katzai is like, it's a girl group created by the K-pop connections and everything. There was a K-pop Academy, which is on Netflix, which is like a kind of like a reality show where they brought a bunch of. I think Snowback Mike would last in the K-op Academy. Oh, really?

You would go to the ending. Are you watching K-pop? No. The newest one? No. They had the spice girl sound. All of them? No, just a couple of them.

There's like a line. It's like just one. It was just scary spice. Is one destiny child, all of destiny child? No. Beyonce shows up. He can't be like, oh yeah. That's all.

She was the child. You know, children. She was the child. It's like the one made it. She was the one. That's just Beyonce. Godly. Have you seen K-pop Demon Hunter? Okay, Mike's is not your name. I thought he's talking to Nick.

No, why would he ask me that question? When you look away. Blessing knows. This fucking spades is out to see if chat's talking shit about him. Maybe you need to stop watching TikTok. Mike doesn't care about you to turn off. You're still in TikTok way. He's asking a question. Mike doesn't know I exist.

Think he's on the fucking. No, man. I would bet. Oh, my God. God, I would bet every start of my God, change it back. We're getting back on rails. We're getting back on rail. I have not seen K-pop, whatever the fuck he did.

He said there. I was like, man, why would he ask Nick that? Like, no way, Nick was a wild thing. You know, Roger mentioned K-pop Academy. Mike mentioned K-pop. So I was trying to keep the K-pop thing going because K-pop Demon Hunter is a movie. And it could become a video game. It could be, oh, it was Netflix games.

Well, I just like, think to myself was like, that's a winning IP. That's a movie. Just in your head. Just in your head. What's in your head. You said it. It was like a thing that was teasing. I could say anything to be a video game.

He's trying to bring it back to your situation. I was about to bring it back because my next sentence was going to be in this episode's about movies. And this motherfucker is like, oh, it'll go be a video game. This is my fault. I thought there was a fucking breaking news or something. It's a movie video game podcast. And I was going to bring it back to Roger. I feel like this is my fault.

I really do. It really is because I- it's 100% my fault. I introed this episode and you start doing the thing. I'm like, I'm mad about this. I'm mad. Actually, no, you all did it. You all did it to yourself. We didn't do anything.

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as YouTube's super chats. We, you know, yeah, send us in your thoughts on whatever TikToks you're talking about what movies you think should be a video game and what video games you think should be a movie. I like it. Mike looks like he's deep and thought.

Has the Bachelor or Bachelorette ever made a video game? Yeah, like Survivor made a video game. Bachelor Bachelorette. I guarantee you there's a Bachelor we video game. I'm pretty sure. Or mobile. I'm sure they're right. I'm sure there is. We'll look into that later.

Well, Housekeeper for you, we're an 11-person business all about live talk shows. KFD was about some Nintendo direct predictions. Did you have some good ones? Oh, we had some great ones. It was actually a really fantastic conversation. Oh, okay. I'm excited to hear that one. After this, Nick and Mike are playing? Rainbow Six.

Rainbow Six Siege with maybe a special appearance in Dune. Because I have to say goodbye to a very good friend today. And it's disheartening for me, but, you know, it's a circle of life. Life moves on. And we have to give something back to the desert today. So we might do that in a special or a special ceremony today. That's awesome.

Are you just going to sign into Andy's account and drop all the shit and then just give it to you guys because he's not playing anymore? No, what I'm going to do is that, well, you don't have to wait and see. Okay. You'll have to wait. Okay, everybody, a little tease right there after this episode. If you're kind of funny, remember, today you get two Greg Waysa.

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The Somme. I love that he's going by that now. Today we're brought to you by Shady Raisin Factor, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's get into topic of the show. Tots, dot, dot, stots, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. Every video, game, movie that is coming out from now until the end of time, I guess,

that we know of, right? Like, this is... Until two days from now, when they announce a new one. Yes, of course. This is the genesis of this entire episode that reveals like every week. There's an announcement on Kind of Funny Games Daily

of a new video game movie, adaptation, what have you. I prep KFD every single day. Yes. And like clockwork, every week, variety has an article. The Hollywood Reporter has an article. There's one, maybe Esquire, has an article. That is, video game movie announced. And it's happening more and more.

It's accelerated. And I wanted to have a conversation because there are a few things to talk about. One, are there too many video game movies happening? Two, which of these video game movies happening actually need to happen? I think that's the big thing is when we look at this long list, I'm like, you can cut this, you can cut this. And I actually, I think it would be a fun conversation to actually get deep into the full list

and be like, all right, what's worth staying and what's worth being like this video game movie doesn't need to exist? Yes, I have a list of over probably three dozen. It feels like a lot. Definitely over two dozen video game movies that have been announced by official sources, not just rumored, announced that is actually happening or at least in some type of pre-production or production. We're going to go through them in order from soonest to all the way down to TBA and whatever it is. Can I ask a question?

I didn't get that doc. Can I get eyes on that doc? How did we get here? What are you looking at, Mike? I got deep into The Bachelor because I was starting to figure out the video game for the Bachelor. You know about the new Bachelorette, right? Oh, sure. The Mormon.

Oh, she's a Mormon. Well, she was from the Mormon wives. How do they bang in this spot in the hot tub? The whole TikTok scandal. Wow. Well, they're already banging now. Okay. Yeah, the top has been popped on that one.

Wow. Crazy. Crazy. I just sent it to you. Thank you. My question is, what was the movie or movies that led us down this route of real game movies being the new thing? Or being the current thing?

One was actually good. Let's say at the same time. Am I taking the same one you're thinking? Three, two. One, Detective Pikachu. Oh. What?

Tomb Raider. All nine versions of it. Roger says Sonic. I said Detective Pikachu. Nick said Mario. Mike said Tomb Raider. I'm going to go to Resident Evil Dash. I think Sonic is probably the right one.

Yeah, I think so. The reason I say Sonic is just because it's the most successful out of them. It's been three of them. Yes. And three of them before, what was it? Three of them before we get a sequel to the Batman or whatever it is. Like three of them within like four. years of each other.

Sonic's the perfect movie too because, and this is no disrespect. I don't mean, I don't mean this is like a, oh, let's all jump on each other here. But like Sonic is a lower stakes movie. So the fact that it produced and people like it, they can do different stuff with it. That is a perfect way to kick off the video game movie, like, you know, genre, basically. And re-advitalize that. And they figured it out through so much adversity of like the idea that the movie is announced. It's like, okay, cool.

I'm excited for that Sonic movie. Finally, the fans are excited. They show the trailer and it's an abomination song. Yeah, and they have to redo the Sonic. And then they redo it. And then that movie is extraordinarily successful. Pandemic happens. They still get one out within a few years, the sequel. And then they do a third one.

It's insane. It's insane. The clip that they're producing these and how they've just kind of stayed the same quality, which is, you know, okay to good, which is a solid home run, I guess. And I'm excited for one person, one person only, James Marsden. Because he's finally found his footing as the John. to Sonic's Garfield. Yes.

If you know what I mean. That's all he is in this movie, right? Yeah, he's done this a few times though with CGI characters. That in the movie Hoppa. I think his movie Hopper? It was with the CGIBunny where he's just like the real person

with the CGI thing. So I think that's just kind of his That's just kind of huge. They're trying to make a space jam? No. I'm thinking like, like, thinking of album the Chipmunks. Like you know what I mean?

Like there's a CGI. Yeah. That's what space sham did. No. You're saying a real person with a CGI bunny. Well, like the CGI is supposed to be like in real life, like Sonic. Okay.

So it's not, it's not, it's not Roger Rabbit. Yeah, but they go to MJ's house. Huh? They went to MJ's house, Michael Jordan's house. In what? Just in, uh, space jam. What did he talking? They went to the real world.

They did. If you don't remember, they did. And it changed everything. Let's have a conversation about what didn't help. You're just saying facts about the movie space shit. Just like, Mike is, the real world. Mike is deep in his death.

He's, look at a hot, facts right now. What is happening? This was a mistake. To bring it back, though, to Hops and then back to the movie conversation, right? I want to talk about Detective Pikachu for a second, because I think I think Detective Pikachu kind of worked in conjunction with the Sonic movie to, I think, usher in this big wave as well. Because, you know, Sonic came out early 2020. I remember because that was when I first joined the KF, and we had the review where we were all dressed in the body suits that I try to forget. And that also was. February, 2020. The year prior in like

May is when the Detective Pikachu movie came out. And according to the Google AI that I never trust, Detective Pikachu was considered a commercial success grossing over $433 million worldwide. It was like, I think the highest grossing, yeah, according to this, it became the highest grossing video game

movie in North America at its release. And so like you saw rapid success kind of back to back there. And I think since then, yeah, I think the Sonic sequels have added a lot to it. of the other video games successes that come to mind in the last five years? Five years?

Yeah, video and movies. Movie sets? I mean, the Mario movie was big. Mario movie. Yes, that's another great one. Minecraft. Minecraft is huge. Mycraft might be the top dog right now, right? Didn't it gross a bill? Yeah, it's one of the biggest movies of this year. Never not bet on Jack Black. Yeah. That's what I'll say.

Other than Boerlands. The Jack Blackamoa connection and the fact that people's brains are just fucking dead right now and they just want to sit in theaters and have blinking lights hit their face? Did you see it? Yes, I did.

Was it good? Yeah, it was pretty good. Okay. Fun time. I took that back there. Yeah, exactly. I was directed by... I must watch it on a plane.

Yeah, I think you would genuinely get a kick out of it. I'm gonna love this movie, all that? Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna eat those words, are I? It's directed by the person that did Napoleon Diamond. So it has, it has that slants, like, that kind of like, a small town-esque, weird comedy in the beginning of it. And then it goes full on Minecraft.

Yeah, it's an interesting one because, like, my, Jack Black, specifically, should get into the Jack Black, but all really quick. You got to talk about Jack Black. Because he is the common factor. And he's come around in terms of his popularity and success right now. He's almost like the Sandler, where Sandler was huge in a certain time period. It's called the Sandman. Okay, the Sandman.

The Sandler. He was super huge in the 90s, early 2000s, right? And then people grow up with him. And then kids now are seeing fucking, grew up with grownups, the movie. And then now they're adults. What are you? Mike, where are you? You're not here. Jack Black.

It's like, does Jumangee count in this? Because they're video game applied. Like, that's a good point. What are you laughing about? Oh, that's not like a- No, that's not a good point. Jumanji, the new Jumanji is a video game movie. It is not, because it's not based on a property.

Yes, but it's a video game. We're talking about Jack Black. But it's a movie. In the new Jumangi movie, yes, it's a copy of a video game. They play. And then they get some. When did pixels come out? Ooh, it's a good call.

It's a good call. It's 2015, 2016. Somewhere around there? 2015? 2015? Okay, okay. That's a video game movie. But I hear what you're saying.

I hear what you're saying. I don't think Jack Black ever quite went away like Adam Sandler did, but he was also not... But now he has the nostalgia of like a gen alpha, a Gen Z of people... No, but see, I would disagree with you in that. And I hear what you're saying. And I agree with you Adam Sandler, right? Adam Sandler kind of owned the 90s for dumb, goofy, silly comedy, went away for a little while and then actually revitalized his career by doing really, really good work.

He'd always done sort of some dramatic roles, but like uncutely... Gems is a legit incredible movie and I think his connection with the Safty brothers is like fucking great right funny people is a great movie as well the connection from John Appetow so he's he's got it but recently coming back into that nostalgia for Happy Gilmore too it's so much fun stepping back into that but Sandler's evolved over the years Jack Black has just sort of been Jack Black in various stages of beard sure throughout the last 20 years but he smartly moved away from actually no he really hasn't moved away from the Jack Black 1.0.

He's just Jack Black. For as long as I remember Jack Black, Jack Black has been Jack Black. But I think... He's School of Rock. That's what I think. School of Rock. Nacho Libre. Yeah. Kung Fu Panda. Huge. And I think this era happened to need a

Jack Black. You know what I mean? Like somebody who is larger than life and animated and goofy and can go over the top in a way that like will fit a Mario movie and a Borderlands movie. What else was he in?

Was he in another one? Minecraft, too. Minecraft, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Dave, who's the Minecraft and Borderlands? Yeah, dude, he's making a lot of money.

He's got points in the back end on these movies and he's, he's bawling out. But I, yeah, I mean, I just think A, he's, he's fun to watch, obviously, and I think he's just a bank. I think people are now, it makes sense. You see the guy from Kung Fu Papana. You see the guy from school where I got, oh, that's going to make sense. And then, if I'm being real, though, I think the thing that really kind of set this whole thing off was the Peaches song.

Once we went peaches, we were like, oh, we're taking this Mario property. And we're, he's putting his little twist on it in this thing. Because who the fuck cared about Bowser going to get to this? You don't care, right? Yeah, it's just kind of a blank canvas. It has a blank canvas. He's a peaches, peaches. And everyone's like, oh, okay, we're actually infusing the right amount of personality

this, which was, again, to the sonic discussion, was a risk. That's a huge risk for Nintendo to allow something like that to happen. And it paid off. And now he's going to be going to start going to go on. They're going to have a Bowser movie at some point. I mean, that's the reason why we have, you know, what's called Jim Carrey in the Sonic movies. Exactly, right? It's to kind of add this otherworldly, like this outside, like, comedy, sense of humor into this world of Sonic.

I want to shout out a couple more things, right? Yeah, tell me. Sony. They've, like, made a division that is focused on video game movies. When I say Sony, I mean PlayStation production specifically. And so you have- Is that who's doing The Last of Us? Yes. The Last of Us, Uncharted movie, which came out right, right?

Now it's fine. But I think The Last of Us is another thing, even though it's on the TV side, that I would a tribute to like, oh shit, this, I think made waves as far as video game adaptation. I think the biggest thing I think they're ignoring is just the importance of IP. Right? In order to get a movie made in Hollywood in 2025, you need to be attached to some form of IP. It has to be a known quantity. It has to be a known quantity.

There are very few original ideas that go out there and makes it. Exactly. And that's where we're going to go here when we talk about these games. We have a lot of games to go. It's like literally every single thing on your list that has a two after it. Exactly. Well, too, and then also we have a lot of games that are being picked up that are smaller games. Some games haven't even come out yet that have movie deals that are in pre-production stages

because I believe that this is the easiest way to get a movie made right now is to look at an IP-Sick. This is a video game. This has X amount of wish lists. This has hype behind it, which I totally understand, but this is kind of a business strategy and that's the reason why we're seeing this pop off so much because comic book movies were so huge for the last 10, 15 years. And then now they're kind of getting a little bit of a dip. we need more things to fill in these movie theaters and video games are able to fill in that

that fold. Yeah. And this has been sort of a tried and true way of doing things for a long time in Hollywood, except take out video games put in books, right? There are so many, if you follow anything about that, like Reese Witherspoon has made a fortune starting a company that just literally hits up people that are writing books and is like, hey, we want the rights to that. Before you even put pen to paper, if you wrote anything and you have another project coming out, there are all these, all these celebrities are like, oh, I'm a bank. In A Ingleable Star and I need good material. I buy that from you.

And then you cut them in. And we're going to get into this, right? But like Clear Obscure, that movie was announced before the game came out. It's a TV show, I believe. No. I believe. It's starring Charlie Day and it's called The Daredevil. Reborn.

What are we doing? Charlie Day? Charlie Day. Charlie Cox. Mike, where were you on that one? Get out of the Bats of Duffy. Oh, it is a film. Okay.

So I didn't add that one. Okay, okay. I was about to say, I was like, there's no way you're doing a clear of Scare TV show. You're right. You're right. So I didn't add that one. But that was announced, I'm pretty sure before that game came out, which I think was another one of like, oh, that's where we're at now when it comes to IP. And I think specifically video game IP.

I could see that one being one though that like I don't, there's not, there's not a huge risk involved in being like, oh, we've got, we've secured the rights to a show. We're making a show. And then if the game dies or it doesn't do well, just drop this. It's not going to happen. Oh, we're not going to do this. That's, that's been happening for a very, very long time as well. So I think the rules for this are pretty simple. we're just going to go through all these

and there's a lot of them, we don't have to do it for every single one, but if you feel compelled to just say valid or salad aka valid, you mean this is going to be good you're excited for this one or salad we can drop this, this doesn't need to be made or you think it's going to be bad. It's all encompass both of them, you know, encompass a few different things

but I think that's the easiest way to go about this. So let's just start off in order, chronological order. There was supposed to be another movie coming out before this one, but that one got pushed. We'll talk about about the second. Five nights at Freddy's two, December 5th, 25, of course, is the sequel to the movie that came out, 2022. 2020.

That was also a Peacock Day and Date streamer as well as going into theaters, and it did really amazing in theaters, even though people could go watch it on Peacock that same day. So the fact that this is getting a sequel so fast, they fast-tracked it, they made it happen. There seems to be a lot of excitement behind Blumhouse and their production of this. I'm going to go, I think this is valid. Is this one of those things where we have to give an answer? You don't have to, but I personally, this is going to be valid. This is not only going to scratch that itch for the Five Nets of Freddy's fans, it's going

to do fucking insane numbers. You see Conjuring over here doing crazy numbers. I don't go to fuck about Five Nights of Freddy, but I'll say valid just because I know it's a good idea. Yeah. Like, based off the success of the first one. I'll say valid. I like that they're doing weird stuff like this.

Yeah. It doesn't speak to me. Yeah. I saw the trailer for the first one. I'm like, I never need to watch this. But I guarantee if I do, I'll have a good time with it. So I'll say valid for that. Yeah, this one's going to get the sonic treatment where they're going to push

out about three movies in like four years. They're already on track for that here with the sequel, and I'm sure we'll get a trilogy, if not more, and they will just pump these out. There's a crazy audience for that. We know that the younger generation grew up with Five Nights of Freddy's, and really, it

doesn't matter what age you are now. If you grew up with that, you're going back to that. If you are on the outside, you probably have no idea what this is. You don't care for this at all, but there's some sort of insane fan base for this. And yeah, I watch this one on TikTok. Did you like it? Yeah. I mean, I don't remember anything about it.

Yeah. Going on to the next one, another horror movie. This is from in January 2026. This is Return to Silent Hill. Director Christoph Gans, who is the director of the original Silent Hill movie. He's back and basically doing his version of Silent Hill 2. I look at this trailer. Bear if you want to pull it up or if we even do a movie. I'm hesitant. I'm hesitant. Bring in any movie trailer right now. Totally fair. This doesn't look great to me. I'm just going to put a hot salad on this one. It doesn't look great to me and it doesn't excite me.

It doesn't feel like we're getting the full resident evil treatment as we're going to get in the next few years. We talked about it on a games daily and I remember looking at some of the CG and it looked worse than some of the CG from the original Silent Hill movie from 20 years ago. I mean, this looks like a game. It looks like a bad game. This is a salad that I think should be a valid in the sense that like, as I'm watching the trailer here, it looks. bad but like I think the idea of a silent hill movie is a good idea that's something that I think should be great but I think with what we've been shown yeah this is salad I'm gonna say kale salad on this one it's cold kale kale it's cold and there's not enough dressing you can put on

this to make it palatable I'm in line with all of you guys as the recent silent hill fanboy I've can't get enough silent hill and oddly enough when I watch that trailer I'm immediately turned off and go I don't want to watch any of that there is something in there, as Blessing said, that, like, you could find some movie gold and make something out of Silent Hill. But when you look at that one, it's like, well, that's not it. So back to the drawing board. I've already mentioned it, so we'll talk about it right here. I believe this is rumored or at least slated right now for just general 2026. Resident Evil, directed by Zach Craigor over at the creator of weapons, director of weapons and barbarian. I am so unbelievably

hyped for this movie. This is probably the number one movie out of all this entire. list that I'm the most excited excited for. He's saying all the right things. If you kind of go through the little interviews that he's had, he talks about how he wants us to be within the video game universe, but he is not going to use any of the video game characters. This is going to be its own original

story, and the way that he describes it is really exciting. He's just like, this is a very simple story. This is not like barbarian. This is not like weapons. I am doing this just so I can do crazy things with the camera and the story. The idea is that it's a character that goes from one area to another area and goes down the depths of

hell, which is the way that he describes a lot of Resident Evil games that he loves. You go from one area to another and just go down just layers of hell. And that's what he wants to kind of do for this one. So everything he's saying sounds good to me. Of course, we don't have like a full cast. We don't have any of that. But he's very excited about it. This guy is literally the hottest

director in Hollywood right now. The fact that he's choosing to do a Resident Evil movie does not seem like a cash grab. It seems like this guy is genuinely in love with the franchise. So I am all for it. It's totally valid. I love this guy's come up as well. If people aren't familiar, he's one of the dudes from white as kids you know.

Yeah. And so it's just funny to see him, like, start off in, like, a really good comedy troop from, like, 15 years ago. And now he's legit, like, one of the most asked for directors right now in the horror scenes. I'm going to give this a super valid. So I'm adding that to my own personal. Wow. A super valid.

Yeah, I didn't realize this was the same. Yeah, the same director is Barbarian in those movies that you listed. Love Barbarian. And also, I always love when directors and, are like, hey, we're going to put this in the universe, but we're going to tell a different story than this universe. I think oftentimes video game universes are better explored than just retelling the same story that you might have had through the campaign.

I think that's why we love Fallout so much is that, hey, this takes place in the video game universe, but we're doing the fallout thing in a separate thing. That way we can tell our own story and have original characters and do cool stuff. Light connections. You can get those Easter eggs and all that stuff. And so, yeah, this sounds really cool. Yeah, I'm just happy he's got a vision for it because so many of these movies, you just get like, it's like AI puts it together.

They just get a bunch of people and they throw it out and they should just get something out ASAP And the fact that no disrespect to The team that made the 19 other Resident Evil movies that came up before this We'll talk about the director in a little bit Oh yeah, what's his name? Paul W.S. Anderson.

Paul W.S. Anderson, yeah, who was married to Milojovich for a hot second? Yeah. Maybe they're in divorce now. Yeah, I love those movies. They will always be near and dear to my heart But they are not good. So having someone coming with a vision Who has a clear pedigree of making awesome stuff like this

Like I haven't seen weapons yet a barbarian was a fucking moment. So, yeah, that's cool. I'm going to give this a super valid as well. Can I steal that? So you can steal it, yeah. Steal that. Super valid.

The super valid patented by Blessing Nick. Yeah, from 2002 to 2016, Resident Evil movies were my shit. Those were the ultimate video game adaptations of like, which finally happening, and this is all I could ever ask for. They were awful when you look back on them now. But like, it was some of the first times you could ever look at it and go, wow, video game, I love this. Now it's a movie.

this is amazing. And so the idea of exploring more Resident Evil, zombies will never go out of style as much as we try to make them go out of style. Zombies are always fun. It's a great universe. I can't wait. Coming up with a movie that actually has a date,

but was delayed, it was supposed to come out, I think literally next month. Mortal Kombat 2 is now slated for May 15th, 2026. This is the Carl Urban Helms thing? He's playing Johnny Cage. He's playing Johnny Cage with an American accent.

I'll go with this. I'm going to like this. This is valid. This is going to be super valid. Terrible and so fun. I'm not going to give it the super. Valid. I'm just going to give it a valid. I'm just going to give it a valid. I lost that trailer. I'm like, this looks awful. No. It looks off. I hated. After the trailer?

I hated the first Mortal Kombat movie, the new reboot one. I love the original one because it's awful and it's super champion. It's just garbage. None of them are good, yeah. But this, but this newest one that they released during COVID or whatever was just... I didn't like that one either. It was awful. It was atrocious and it was just like not even fun. It was not even a fun movie.

I don't think it was awful. I watched this. I just watched this trailer and I'm like, the CGI looks shit. I don't like this accent they're going for. It just doesn't work for me. So, yeah, I don't think this is going to be a good movie. But it's going to do really well, though. I don't think it's going to do really well.

Oh, I think it is because the movie did like 100 million views like this trailer. That's why they delayed it. It's because they're like, oh, no, movies don't really do well in October. We're moving it to like the summer movie season. So they're like hella confident. And Warner Brothers is like kind of on a hot streak right now. So I don't doubt it. I hear everything you're saying and everything you're saying is absolutely valid and you're 100% correct.

But for the sake of fun, I hope this movie rocks. I hope it rocks. I have a huge Carl Urban fan. The biggest sin on the planet is that he didn't get a Dread 3D2. That movie fucking rocks so hard. And I love him in Star Trek and they're not making any damn Star Trek movies anytime soon. So I hope this does well for him as a vehicle. I hope he's Johnny Cage for the next 30 years until eventually they've got to put a wig on that beautiful head of hair.

Well said. No doubt. I'm going to steal this one from the chat. This will be taco salad, meaning it's going to be bad, but it's going to be a whole lot of fun. It's a whole lot of fun. We're like it salad and name only.

Yes, exactly. I just want Mortal Kombat to be blood sport where it's all about, you know, it's like the tournament and the fighting, but no, it's all about the hijinks outside of it. And that's what the fun is. That's true.

Talking about, I got to talk about Mortal Kombat too. Okay. Yeah, I just want a shout out. I did really like the trailer here. For me, this is a valid, even though I didn't like the first movie. that much. I still do think it was fun. Like I thought it was like a good time. However,

I look at this trailer. I'm like, you, you're, I feel like you're getting rid of the things that I didn't like about the first movie, which really was just Cole Young. Yeah, it was the fucking main character. Yeah. You turn to an armadillo. You're a roll up. I'm like, I don't like this guy. You've gotten rid of that. You replaced him with a charismatic main character. And I think the effects here look cool. I love seeing Newben Smoke. I love seeing the Katana and Jade being played by Homegirl that we love from The Last Was Two, right? Like, like I'm in on this, on this. I like this.

Well, talking about another all-star cast for a fighting movie over here. That's Street Fighter, which is October 16th, 2026. You did a whole game's gas about this blessing. Yes, where Tim Getty's convinced me that this isn't going to be solid, that this is actually going to be valid. And a big part of that, I highly recommend people go listen to that games cast was Tim was comparing it strongly to the Peacock or to the Twisted Metal Show on Peacock because it turns out similar people working on this movie, right?

I think the director might be the same director is Twist the Metal, but you can double check me on that. He worked on Eric Andre's show as well. Yes. And so I think you have that. You have an energy where when I think about Street Fighter, I don't think about the story. Nobody can tell you the story to Street Fighter.

It's just people fighting. And you look at the characters and it's like, okay, you got the goofy nature, you got the fucking over-the-top castings. You have Cody Rose is playing as Gile. You got Roman Raines as Akuma. You got fucking ridiculous shit going on here. You got 50 cent playing Ballrog.

Like, I think this is going to be fun. Is it going to be the best movie? No. No. It's probably going to be a seven. but I think this is going to be a very fun set of it. This is definitely going to be valid, though. I'm going to get this all light valid.

See, this is the type of camp that I like, and I think they're going to go over the top with it all. And like, I just, when I look at the Mortal Kombat 2 trailer, I know they're going over the top, but like not even as much as I want them to. This is going to go the whole goofy colors. It's going to be insane. It's going to be part comedy,

mostly comedy, I feel like in my mind, with over-the-top action. Yeah, this is definitely a valid, but I think it's going to be kind of a mixed bag when it comes to some of the people that are looking for different things. Nick, I never watched the 1994. street fighter.

Jean-Claude Van Damned. Yeah, what happened with that? Can you give me a rundown of like, was that fun to watch? Was that good? Like, where, because like that's clearly going to be the vibes heading into this one, right? Well, here's the thing. If, if that's what they go for, I could be, I could be convinced

to watch this film. But no, the 1994 version of this movie was not what anyone wanted at the time. Starting off, they were like, let's cast Jean-Claude Van Damme, who wasn't even that big of a star. At this point, this was like, his star was sort of declined at this point.

And then they were like, you know who would make the best M. Bison? You know, make the best villain ever? The most contemporary, most popular actor of our time. Of course, Raul Julia, who you know from. Absolutely nothing. Exactly. Nobody ever, but he's a great actor. And I had one from the Adams family, of course.

He played Gomez Adams in the first two films that were the Barry Sondiffel classics. But everyone was like, that's a weird pull, dude. How come not like a bigger name action actor? It was so weird. Also, John Claude Van Dan didn't even try to do. He just kept his accent the entire time. And he's playing guile. The most American soldier you could buy.

And he's like, my mama to go on. My name is Chance Boudreau. You're like, dude, whatever. Having said that, I, I, this movie does not, I don't care about this at all. It's too many W.W.E. stars. It's too many. There's two people. It's too many.

It's got a wild cast, though, man. It's got, I mean, also, isn't that what you want? You literally have people that are like, Here's my, here's my, here's my wrong. Who is the person that I is going to bring me to this film and who I'm going to go on the adventure with, right? Because the only person that, like, I always think of, I think of, I think of, who are the two main characters street fighter? Who would you say, like, these are the two characters, Ken and Rio, right? Why?

Because they came from the original Street Fighter, right? They were the two, and Street Fighter two in the video, they were the ones. The first two characters to see is cool. One was in the Red Gea, one was in the White Gee. Yeah. Awesome, right? Noah Centineo is playing, Ken? sure

yeah yeah I like him he's ripped though he's ripped ripped ripped he got cool um I don't act like you're not impressed

by abs I know you are I love abs I mean David Dash Malton is in this is Mbison that's good casting I like him he put polka dot man of course I'm pretty sure I have like a really good track record

his name's cogie Rio is definitely gonna be the main character Andrew Koji Andrew Koji let me all look up some of his previous stuff I mean you know 50 cent was 50 years old exactly that's why that's why it's 50 cents that's yeah that's what they call them

50 when he was 4'9 it was 4.9. All right. Get out. All right. He was in snake eyes. Oh, that's he. In bullet train.

Bullet train. But he wasn't the main character. He's like an action. No, he was. Was he? Pretty sure he was. In snake eyes? Yeah.

I'm like fairly sure he was snake eyes. All right, let's go around the table. Maybe not. No, he was not. Valid, valid. Oh, thank. You Storm Shadow. He plays Storm Shadow.

Yeah. Nick, what are you thinking? I will say taco salad on this one. I think it's going to be terrible. and fun and we're going to forget about it. Yeah, it's another taco salad just because of the cast. I love that. I'm going to steal taco salad.

I'm going to say, yeah, Taco salad, actually. Scroll down, who was the character? The main character was a big actor in this. Oh, yeah, main character was Harry something. It's the guy, I want to say it's the guy from... Henry Golding. No, it's the guy from Crazy Rush Agents, right? I just haven't seen that.

And I love John M.C.M.C.C. And, oh, my God. Yeah, Crazy Rich. And he was in The Gentleman. He was great in that. And last Christmas, which is my favorite Christmas movie right now. Joey, get on it. If you haven't watched it. You got to watch it. Next movie, the Super Mario Brothers movie two. This is also rumored to be called Super Mario World, I believe. Awesome. April 3rd, 2026.

Who wants to take a bet right now that the third one's going to be called Galaxy? Oh, I hope. You hope. I mean, easy valid. You have a little star, a little star in the first one, right? Luma? Yeah, Luma. He took a little...

Yeah, I think they gave teases. Even Pete dropped a line in the first one, too, of like, there's galaxies out there. Yeah, I think that's an easy valid. This is going to be an easy valid. Easy valid. Yeah, the last one was good. Last one was really good. love the first one. I kind of wanted, I kind of wanted to

hate the first one. Because I kind of want, there's something about me that, I guess a kid who grew up in the 90s who never saw a good video game movie that just wants the world to burn. I want all these to die so that people can just play your video games and stop expecting them to be movies. But this movie was good. Yeah, and I'll say this is going to be valid, of course. It's a perfect plane movie. If you're in a dog.

So is Minecraft. It's shocking. I didn't watch it on the plane. You should go on a plane trip right now. Go watch Minecraft. Let's go. Let's go to go to L.A. And then there's enough time to watch the movie. half and half. I see you're good. Mikey. I'm just waiting on that Seth Rogan Donkey Kong movie. Yeah. Because that Seth Rogan, Donkey Kong,

with that laugh is going to make me smile. That's going to be so good. It does it. I love it. You know, I can't wait. Angry Birds 3 is up next. That is January 29th, 2027. A long time since the last one. I'm trying to figure out

when Angry Birds 2 came out. Who's the main character in anger? Who's the main actor? Red, which is Jason Cidacus character? Oh, Siddacus. I like Sadekis. I like Sadekis. The Angry Birds movie, from what I've gathered, I've not watched any of them, pretty

okay when it comes to like animated cartoon kids' movies, kids like it. There's like a cult following of these kids that enjoy this movie. So Josh Gad, okay. I don't know. I don't want to save salad because I'm a fucking adult. I don't watch these movies, so I'm sure it's going to be fine. It's going to be whatever. There's a part of me that wants, again, to watch the world burn.

I want these to die. I want these to stop happening because Angry Birds was such. an annoying brain rot moment for everyone that had a phone that you're like why is this such a big deal that was actually

if you want to talk about where the state of our of our world right now and how we're headed toward a very quick AI driven apocalypse I want to say that I'll go back

you could trace that to Angry Birds that was the start of everyone's not Flappy Bird are you thinking of Flappy Bird I might be thinking of Flapy Bird He's thinking about Flapy Bird I was like wait really Which one's angry birds

Angry Bird is like No no it's angry bird Flavdybird was the one where you had a kick in it. Yeah, yeah, it was a big deal. Angry Bird was useless. You would just go, oh, I didn't get the thing. You're killing it. Oh, I didn't get the thing.

Thanks, Mike. Let's move out to the next one. Hold up, hold up. No, we're not going on. You really have an opinion about Angry Birds. It's like the emojis movie and those certain movies where they get every big name actor to ever come in and all of a sudden you have this mishmatched and incredible lineup. But here's a positive for you.

If you look over here, the Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB rose in number two. so it means it's only getting better, Raj. Wow. I'm going to read it to a zero. For my valid salad. Yeah. Rating. Well, we'll talk more about this because we're already well into over the 30-minute mark

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Sonic the Hedgehog for March 19th, 2027. Spoilers, everybody. We know who's going to be there. Come on. Amy. Mecca or Metal Sonic. Oh, I thought they're going to say Amy

motherfucking Rose. Oh, yeah. Amy motherfucking Rose is going to be there. Yeah. I mean, these only get better and better as they go. It's a valid. What? Yeah.

I like them all about the same. I didn't love three. We talked about this. We already did a screencast. I thought it was fine. I thought it was a good movie. Not enough, not enough shadow.

I like two more than one. Yeah, I think I like three more than two. Although two was really good. Is Kristen Ritter in this movie? Yeah. Wow. Kind of does nothing in it,

but she's there. Okay. I mean, she's in Dexter. She's really good in Dexter. Also, Kristen Ritter. Being there is doing enough. You know what I mean? Shout out Kristen Ritter.

I do know what you mean. Yeah, this is an easy, valid for me. This is a great movie. Yeah, valid for me as well. I'm gonna you know what I'm going to I'm gonna fast on this one because I've never seen a sonic movie

I like fasting I like this yeah so I'm gonna fast on this one until it's time to eat that's solid I feel like you would dislike them but enjoy them you know I feel like you would be like you know what he would love he would love the knuckle show I never saw the knuckle show what yeah oh you who love the knuckle show

it's just mostly about a guy it's mostly about knuckles it mostly about the guy the Adrazzella no who's the other oh dude from the Mindy Kaling show. Yes. Who's the do for Mindy Project? Like, Barron Holdens or whatever.

Yeah, it's just about him wanted to be a better bowler. That's the whole, it's the whole like five episode run. No, not this guy. It's not that guy. It's the other guy. It's kind of like the dumber nurse. Well, I guess he is the dumb nurse. There's him. Yeah.

There's another dumb nurse in Mindy project. Is there really? Yeah. Mike, how about you? He was the one. I actually have not seen these movies. Do you fasting? So I'm going to actually say I'm a picky eater and I refuse to eat.

Oh, wow. Okay. Okay. Adam Pally. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's great in that show. He's a good app. It's a good.

I forgot he was in many projects. I think he was added on later. Yeah. The big one, literally, I think a week later after this movie comes out, March 26, 2027, the legend of Zelda is directed by West Ball, who is the director of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. What else do you do? The Maze Runner movies, I think. He did the Maze Runner movies. Love him.

Yeah, King of the... I like the Maze Runner. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is fucking great. the only time I'll be able to say this and so I'm going to say it. Legend of Zelda, get the fuck out the way. Get out the way of Sonic.

Don't get fucking slammed by Sonic. Doesn't Barrett have enough? Doesn't he have enough? They just released a Switch 2 for him for Christ. He's not looking forward to the Zelda movie. Yeah, no, I'm fucking dreading this movie. This is going to be salad. It's an uphill battle.

It's an uphill battle. I'll say that. Yeah. Similar to how when they decided to make the Halo show, I was like, this is going to be an uphill battle. Yeah. because you have a character that is just not is difficult to put into a live action film.

Yeah. We're going to see how this works out. Yeah, I don't know. I liked Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and what he was able to do with that franchise, but also it's kind of a slam dunk, a bunch of monkeys. Monkeys talk and they shoot guns.

We're on a boat? Were they on a boat? Is that the third one? No, it's the fourth one. He did the fourth one. With a breaking into the armory and stuff. They always break into the irony. Yeah, that's in every movie.

So, yeah. You know, when you work with the apes, we work with the monkeys, it's easy. Oh, this was the one with the lady who was like, okay, yeah, yeah. This was pretty good. No, this was the boat. This is one with the, at the end. Remember, they're like, we could take it over and the apes were living on the big ship? Oh, yes, you're right.

And then the human was like, hey, man, they're pretty good to me, actually. Yeah. So, I don't know. I don't have any confidence, though, in a Legend of Zelda thing from that. I need to see that first trailer or, like, a first look. I know we saw all the pictures of the actors theoretically in their costumes, but that, like, didn't do it for me. I'm going to say salad until proven valid.

Yeah. Mikey? Yeah. Yeah. Are you excited for this next one, though? Eldon Ring. This is directed by Alex Garland, one of the goats. This movie could have the gas.

This is produced by A-24. He recently told a story about how he was so jazzed up about this project that he flew to Japan to talk to from software and try to get this done. And he got it to cured. And this movie is being produced by A-24. Alex Garland is directing. this is a super valid super valid super valid super valid I agree

I list all the things this might say this has motion this has got the juice this has motion this might be it's gotta be this might be I don't know

see I don't know I don't know what's hyperbole okay if I were to say that this could be the next like dune the next like big epic fucking multi part it depends on the budget

what's the budget it could be the next Lord of the Rings I think I was gonna say Lord of the Rings I'm like I don't want want to say too much. Yeah, but it's an epic fantasy adventure. That's why you say.

I think it's going to be, this budget's going to be huge. 824 is in the business right now of trying to compete with these large studios and they're throwing a lot of money around. So George R. R.R. Martin's name is on this. So yes,

you know what? Yeah, but his name was also on the last season of Game of Thrones and that was hot garbage. Yeah, but Game of Thrones is still Game with Thrones. Think about the journey though, Game of Thrones. Yeah.

That's a household name. That's a household name. Season 5. That's what it stopped. Yeah. I'll say this comes down to, obviously I think the creative vision is going to be there. It comes down to how much money they can put behind it.

Because there's a built-in audience for it, for sure. But the thing about Eldon Ring, as a person who plays games and is not into Eldon Ring, it is a hard sell for me to look at this and be like, yeah, I want to be a part of that world for three hours. Yeah. So they're really going to have to come at this from a unique perspective and sell it to mainstream audiences. Because Dune, you have to remember, had a, Dune's been around for a very long time.

Those books were written in the 70s, for Christ's sake, I think. I want to say, yeah, I think the 70s. Jack Craig before we're wrong on that. So you have a fan base that's generational for Dune. And Dune, if I'm being 100% honest, should not have been as big as it was. I'm happy it was, but Blade Runner should have been bigger than Dune.

It makes way more sense. The fact that everyone's Dune and Gooning right now is just the craziest thing that I've ever heard in my time. And I'm excited. They got, but still, let me give you the one sheet on it. Give me the pitch on June.

Hey, there's a planet that's just sand. And people are fighting over his hand. Over the spice. The spice malange. You're lucky Kevin didn't hear that, bro. He would run in here and just let you know. Just let you know everything we're doing.

I'm saying I love it. Don't get me wrong. But it is an obscure thing. As was Lord of the Rings, you have to have a director that really, really, really, really loves it. And having to bring it into the populace. Having Denny come in there and be like,

hey, I'm going to bring my touch, my vision to that world. That goes such a long way. I do not want to see a Dune movie without him directing it. And I think that that's what Al's Garland is bringing us. You can see what. and it's one pincher director.

Yeah, that's why I haven't watched it. I don't want to watch that one. I just see this as the Holy Trinity, right? You got Alex Garland, you got Miyazaki, you got George R.R. Martin. That press run is going to go fucking crazy. I don't know how much George R.R. Martin's going to be attached to this one. Yeah, it's going to be in the trailer. He's not doing the world.

He's not doing any press for this movie. Did George R.R. Martin, let's be, let's have a conversation about this man. I know he didn't do shit, but you got thrown the bag. We don't have too many conversations. That's a dude. He's just, Mike, tell me. He's right around his PT Cruiser cashed checks right now. He doesn't give a shit about anything anymore.

Is this going to give edge of tomorrow vibes of the live, die, repeats? Or do you think we just get one mainline story? Because like, what is this world going to be? What is this movie going to look like? Because when I think of Eldon Ring, I think of dying over and over again and retrying, right? Is it like, are we giving some edge of tomorrow? You're going to get the story of like how we got to where we are at with Eldon Ring. So it's going to be like war.

It's going to be the fucking character. You're going to get the actual like drama that you learn about throughout Eldon Ring actually shown on screen. I think it's also going to be. If he dies comes back. There's going to be a large amount of horror in this movie. This is going to be. It's going to be dark.

It's going to be scary. And I can't imagine the way he's going to shoot the first whatever boss in the video in the video game comparatively into the movie. Like it's going to feel huge. It's going to feel match. It's going to feel scary. It's going to be Redon. It's going to be about Redon and America and all the fucking.

characters that Andy can tell you every single thing about, right? It's going to be those characters that you know the names of God, Rick, all these fucking guys. Am I thinking the right thing? The big one that rides a little horse? Yes, that's Redone. That's Redone. That's Redone. That's got to be in it.

I want to just, I just wanted to have the Green Knight vibes. Have you seen that movie? No, I haven't. I hated Green Night. You didn't like Green Night? I fucking hated that movie. Whoa. I thought it was boring as shit.

Like, I just didn't think it was interesting. Wow. And I like the, and I like Depp Patel's the star. I like Depp Patel. I liked, I think he was a little. A lot of the visual direction. And I could see like that working for like a Zelda thing or even like an elderly thing, but I'll just need more to happen.

Oh, fair. Yeah. The next movie, which is another super valid for me, is Michael Saranowski directing Death Stranding. I am so over the moon with this idea. And you shake your head right now, but this is so exciting for me for multiple reasons. I love. Explain. I love Michael Serenowski and what he brings to this world.

I've not seen the newest The Quiet Place, which I know that's the one that he directed. That's the pre-part one or whatever. Yeah, which I hear is really good. It's really good. I loved his direction when it came to the movie Pig, which you all need to watch. I don't want to spoil it.

That's the Nicholas Cage movie. It's incredible. It's so good. I saw it in theaters. I had a blast of that movie. I thought it was amazing. You live a whole other life, man. I mean, it's just a movie.

I saw a movie in a theater. Wow, he lives a whole of crazy life. He goes out of way. He doesn't have been in these movies. He'd be out here. So many uniccounters. text them all the time. No ever an invite.

I don't get an invite. What did you do last thing? You would fall asleep in that movie theater. Oh yeah. What the pig? Yeah. Me and Nick Cage. We're out.

Yeah. It's not the pig. Nick Cage movie you're thinking it's going to be. No invite that says this guy. And death stranding to me is such an infinite world and a world that you can create so many smaller stories within. And I'm interested to see how he would adapt this. Kojima has said, I don't know.

We'll see how much I believe, Kojima. He said that on hands off on this one. I'm going to let him. Bullshit. kind of cook off, cook on this thing. Bull shit. He's going to be on set. He's going to start saying some stuff.

He's going to try to be involved. But I'm interested to see. Is this going? Is this actually happening? Yes. It's any 24 joint there. This is this smacks with goes. Wasn't there like a metal gear in the works for the longest time?

Yeah, but that was just up in the air. 824 has a good track record of like, hey, we're saying we're doing something. We're doing it. I am interested in this just because I want to see. I don't want them to do an adaptation of a death stranding one. I don't want that. There's so much you can do it. You can do an order.

origin story. You can do an origin story like a quiet place day one with death stranding. You could have the first death stranding happen. I don't want that. I want it. There's so much interesting shit there. You don't want it. You absolutely do. That's a cop out, which you need is just to be punched into this world. Yeah, I agree. That's what you want. Like, if they were smart, they would put you into this world and have the audience be confused in the first 20 minutes of it. And then slowly have, and then by the end of it go, I think I know what that was about, but I'm not quite sure. Like, death straining in a weird way, like a movie of it almost would have to be a little bit like Green Knight where like it would have to be a thing where the whole movie

I'm just looking out I'm like I don't know what the fuck is happening right here because that's the game I shouldn't know what's happening in Destranging until the last 20 minutes why don't think you have to over explain it I mean even the first Des Stranding has enough weird shit going on in that universe that you know what I mean like it's not I don't mean like a full on prequel of like hey this is normal people and then now everything is happening and the first BTs are happening like there's a lot of things to explain through that world just by showing it happening for the first time. I don't know. There's a, there is so much universe here. There's so much characters. There's so much lore here that I think we'd do a disservice to the universe to just be like,

well, we're doing Norman Reed's stuff again. It's like, okay, well, there's a reason that's a video game because you're able to actually physically move this character across a map over the course of 50 hours and have to deal with all the management and everything, like making this, its own movie, its own universe, like the way that Zach Kreger is doing it, where he's connecting it to the world of Resident Evil, but making his own original story is the way to go. I think I were, I believe more in the world of Resident Evil. For me with Death Stranding, I think I like that world

because the setup for the Deaths Training world is so in service of the gameplay of just walking around and connecting communities together. I think the gameplay really sells me on what you're doing with the world because if you can take away the Death Rating gameplay,

no that shit makes sense, right? Like, Death Stranding is such a fucking bonkers like doesn't make sense story. It's a Kojima story. Nothing he writes ever makes sense. It's Kojima unrestricted and unedited. You know what I mean? It's because it's Kojima without anybody to be like, no.

That's why you love it, right? And that's why to do anything to try to, that's why it scares me because to try to put that, like, let's, from my perspective, and I've only played a handful of Kojima games. The narrative in those stories should not work. Those games shouldn't make any sense. They shouldn't be enjoyable, but they are because that is his, that is his artistic vibe, right? That's what he does. That's what he brings into the world. So you can't put that creativity to box.

You got to just let it go bonkers. Yeah. And hope to God that it resonates with mainstream viewers, most of whom, you know, most of whom. like myself are going to watch and go, what the fuck did I just watch? Yeah, I think the struggle I have is like, when I look at the two routes, right? You could remake just the story of Destrating One. I don't want that. You did it in Destrating One anyway, right? Like, it's no one read us already.

I don't need that. And then, yeah, you can then tell a different story in that world. And yeah, I really don't want that either. Yeah, but this is the top level conundrum with every video game to movie, right? This is the exact same thing, reason why people had criticisms of The Last Us were like, it's too much like the game. It's like, well, yeah, that's what you want it, right? but if it's too much like the game, why not just go play the game? Yeah.

That's the problem. Unfortunately, Roger, as you ride or die, I'm salad on this one. Whoa. Ice cold salad. I'm salad from that sweet greens when you didn't let me order the food that I wanted. Damn, you're really cold on this. I just make the Metal Gear.

Just make Metal Gear. Get Oscar Isaac in there. That's all I want. The thing about Metal Gear is that if they did that right, it could be a franchise that, like, lasts forever. Yeah. It could be Star Wars. It could literally be Star Wars.

It could be Mission Impossible. It could be Mission Impossible and Star Wars. I need to say people that would be both of those smashing together. Nobody could, right, because you have so many characters involved in that, and they could build out that cinematic universe very, very easily. And I'm just shot. I'm just, I know that the rights are a nightmare. But man, that's what I'd rather he focused on.

I agree. We got a lot of rapid fire stuff right here. So I'm just going to say them and then you stop me if you want to say anything about it. Okay, you go for it. We got The Sims, which is directed by Kate Herron. She is one of the directors from The Loki Show It could be fun It's also produced by

Margot Robbie's production company So they're trying to do like the Barbie thing Of like oh like I'm stuck in the sim I think that has a lot of potential That could be fun I think that could be fun It's like Jumanji I get sucked into the computer screen And they were also talking about it of like

The head of EA or something like that was like Hey like this is going to have a lot of like Nods to like the lore of the game And like all the things all right Don't do too much All the Easter eggs at the fans love The lore of the game Everybody knows about the goth family

So like they have to have to they're going to do it. I don't know what the goth family. The only thing I know about Sims is drowning people in pools. And they said they're going to have that. They said they're going to have that. Okay. Then I'm in. They literally said exactly that. It's them to remove the letter. So yeah, I think that's going to be, I think that has a possibility to be fun. Bioshok. This is in kind of development hell. It's been going on for a while. The, I believe one of the writers, the directors was working, is working on the long walk. So he was talked, he was asked about this recently. He said that the script is still in the

work. And it's going to, to be an adaptation of the first game. And it's going to be on Netflix? Yes. It's not going to be good. It's going to be salad. It's going to be bad. It's going to be salad.

Netflix does not make good original stuff. This should be the Netflix animation route of like just making the Bioshock anime like we see with all the other ones that are doing great and are fun to watch and give a chance to. That's what I like that. And also they recently, I don't know if it was a rumor confirmed that they cut the budget of the movie.

Like by a lot. The movie was supposed to be like this huge big budget movie and then they cut it. This isn't coming out. We're not seeing this. Sadly enough. This movie needed to come out in 2010 And be a huge budget movie Starring like a notable star

Because the story of Bioshock's amazing And the game's amazing And the world is incredible Yeah it needed to be like It needed to be like 2007 Brendan Fraser You know A mixture of that in like dark city

I feel like that's your definition of like any movie You're like we just gotta have 2005 Rondon Frasier in here We need 2002 Leo DiCaprio Here's what I need okay I need the mummies video game made by naughty dog get BF back in the move that's not what you said earlier

that's what I want no you want Hanger 13 a chance but I really want Nottie Dogg if I want my dream cast who's my who's my guy that I love from Ozark main character Jason Bateson Jason Bainman I want him to play Andrew Ryan oh he'd be good actually he actually as Andrew Ryan yeah I don't know yeah I mean the generic answer would have been Tony Stark's dad that he has that look he has that look When Jason State, not state, what the fuck is his name again?

Jason Bateman. When Jason Bateman is medicine, he's so fucking medicine. You watch the airport movie that came out at this last Christmas? No, but might really want to be to watch. You would love it. You would love it. It's not, it's not, I mean, it's an airplane movie, but like, it's not on airplanes because it's a Netflix movie. You should watch it on an airplane.

No, as a general rule, I don't watch anything as do with airplanes on airplanes. Oh, why not? I just get lost. I just get lost. I just watch Wolf of Wall Street. That's a fun movie. I love Jason Bates. It's so fun.

It's a fun movie. That's the Taryn Edgerton movie? Yes. It's really great. Days gone at TBA. It's announced in 2022. Literally no motion on it since then. Salad.

That's literally not happening. That's the first super salad. Called duty from Paramount, this was announced pretty recently. The skirted Stephen Spielberg, who had an idea for this movie, and they said, no, no, Stephen Spielberg.

We want to do our own thing with Paramount. I think, here's a thing. Yeah. Is it going to be a good movie? Tell me. Probably not. Tell me. I think this is going to lead to a very successful franchise

and is going to end up making a billion dollars eventually. This is going to be valid. 100% with you. I am shocked. I am shocked that they don't have one of these movies coming out every year. From the team that brought you, that's right. Transformers Darker the Moon. Transformers last night. Let's put

Call of Duty in there. Let's get soap. Let's get this. Let's get that guy. Let's get Michael Bay to direct the shit out of this. Let's have it make no sense. And it's just basically American War propaganda. That should be in 2009. That's another Bioschop. That should have happened a decade and a half ago.

It's crazy. Because that would have been billions of dollars by now. They're going to walk into the blacked out SUV all armored up and they're going to pan every character and then they're going to get to ghost with the mask and that

fucking theater is going to explode. They're going to go nuts. And here's the thing. I can't wait. Here's the real question about a Call of Dedy movie. Do you want it to be good? No.

Do you want it to be fine? Well, it depends. It depends. So, okay, I have a few pictures. We talked about this on Kind of Funny Games Daily. I hope one of your pitches involves something that I'm thinking. Okay.

So it's Paramount, right? So just top level and what Paramount... Soon to be Paramount Warner Brothers, probably, because they're probably going to buy Warner Bros. But Paramount is now owned by David Ellison, who is the one of the son of the second richest person in the world, the creator of Oracle.

Actually, he's the richest now. Oh, really? Yeah, he just surpassed. This guy has unlimited money, right? And he's trying to make Paramount into the next big media empire that beats Fox and all this stuff. He wants to make it the number one. So he's looking at all of these franchises.

Paramount. Hey, hey. Hey, he's locked in. And he's trying to, he's trying to court all of these big name talents to make franchises. And my pitch goes two different ways. We either go, Michael Bay. Easiest. It's simple, right?

Or get him out of retirement. What's Chris from McCoy doing? Oh, wow. Where's he going? That's the next series. What is he doing? You give him the fucking bag and then you say, make modern warfare. You have it right in front of you.

Get someone crazy that's going to go on the side of a fucking mountain, do the cliffhanger thing. Boom. You make a billy. You make a billy. I mean, you could make a barely. I want called duty to be mission impossible. He's a mission possible level.

See, I was going to throw out there. Who did Sicario? You're the best. Oh, that's Dennyville Nuve. No, that's not happening. If you want, if you want to fucking go hard on the yard and you want to see a movie that would take over the goddamn world, you'd say, hey, Denny, what's your take on a metal gear movie? He would make that shit. A Sicario style movie movie.

Oh, dude, he's, he's a life-changing movie. Dennyville is the best director of our time. I love that movie. I stand by this. He is going to go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest directors of the fucking

of the 21st century. Yeah. We're good on this one? I want modern warfare, like you said, and then I want blackouts. Like, this is what you do.

This is what you do. Modern warfare, so I'm fucking falling. I don't know why this thing. You do modern warfare. Two years later, modern warfare two, then you say black ops.

And then we just do black ops, black ops, black ops. Here's what you have to. And then you do a World War II? What? You have to make it so utterly confusing for people to realize which one comes before the other one. Yeah.

Because it just has to be the way. And then you do a Call of Duty's movies. You say, fuck it. Let's go. And then 20 years later, you just call it Modern Warfare again. You just call it call it duty again. Just go back to the original title. That's incredible.

It's crazy that was, it's like now it's happening. Yes. They should have happened 10 years ago. They should have happened 20 years ago. They should have already been a thing. Oh, Dan Tractonberg. We got Fricot as well. Let's keep it going.

We have Ghost of Star. Sushima, which is not in development hell, but it's like been announced director, Chad Stelhensky, who is the John Wick guy. He's attached to this. I don't know if this is actually going to end up happening. He's been doing a bunch of shit, but we'll see. I don't think he's the guy that I go to in my head to develop a Japanese, you know, samurai movie, but I mean, it would look cool.

He would do a... What's that FX show that everybody loved recently? Shogun. Shogun. Love that movie. Different. Or love that show. Yeah.

Moving on. this is a movie that has been in development hell for literally my entire life. It feels like Gears of War. David Leach is attached to directing it this time. He is the director of Bullet Train and the Fall Guy. And also, I believe, Deadpool 2. So he has an action background.

I'm going to say, Salad. I don't believe in Gears of War coming out in general, like as a movie. And he's not my first go-to. I would want Alex Garland to direct a Gears of War movie. I want that to be. Alex Garland direct everything. Well, no.

Alex Arnold is generally the perfect person for this because he has... Because of annihilation? Well, he has the alien background with annihilation and movies like it, right? And then he also has, like, the war aspect of it where he would make this like an actual brothers in arms like, like, hey, this is... Well, he also direct the movie Warfare, which is like a super serious, like, they're trying to make an adaptation of what exactly happened in, like, a day in the life in an Iraq. But do people want...

And I hear that, and that pitch is amazing. And that is absolutely the right way to go. but is that what I could easily see the commenters being like, this is not what I want from a Gears of War movie. They want big budget, steroid it out, Batista. I think what they want is the Mad World trailer as a movie. And like, honestly, Zach Snyder is not a bad idea. Like Zach Snyder actually might be the vibe.

It's actually kind of the perfect person. But don't let him write it. Get a writer that writes the story. So it's actually like a story that makes sense. People want to see that like, hey, this is like a serious movie. Like this is something that's like these two people, Dom and Marcus are together and they're bond together. That's a movie

right there. I mean, with E-Day coming out, right? Like, E-Day is the perfect situation. Yeah, and then right up to of course the trailer. But yeah, Roger, for me, it's interesting as the big Xbox guy, it's like, this should have already been a franchise. This is a perfect Netflix animated one. That's

a layup that should have already happened. And then when Batista was just screaming for it, we should have backed it up and made up. But now he and the Rock are like, hey, man, maybe we don't do steroids anymore. Exactly. He's only getting smaller. They're getting smaller now. They're looking good.

He always looks good, though. Batista. Batista's a good looking guy. When he was in Stuber? I love Stuber. Don't get me started. Fuck, Stoever. I hate it Stuber because I wanted Stuber to be so much better than Stubr was.

I'm not going to say what I believe in Stubr. We'll talk about the litter. I saw the trailer. I was like, no, no. We're, yeah, we'll tell the other. Stubrard. We're making a stray animated movie, Anna Perna apparently. This could be amazing.

Yeah, I mean, it's Anna Perna already. So that makes sense. Sure, why not. Cool. Exactly. Like blessed, sure, why not? I don't know about that. Fuck you guys. No, Stray can be one of those

incredible art films. Yeah. Anapurna puts out and everyone goes, Wow, that was amazing. And she could even count me more, but nobody watched it. And Stray was an incredible piece of art. It was. They should make Homeward Bound.

Incredible. Yeah, exactly. It's like, whatever. Horizon Zero Dawn, TBA on everything. No director. We'll see. That was also in development. That was supposed to be a TV show.

The TV show. And then that was supposed to be a Netflix TV show. I mean, Robo Dinosaurs always will hit. that will never go out of style and I think that's where they're going to struggle you got to make that shit look good hell divers TBA as well hell divers could be amazing

What's the movie isn't it Just make a stars This is a Starship Troopers You gotta give it the Starship Troopers But the problem of Starship Troopers Is nobody got Starship Troopers back of the day Everyone thinks it's just this bad movie It's actually kind of genius

Yeah I don't know if you can make Hell Divers I don't think people will get the nuances of Hell divers as a movie these days Uncharted to the sequel of course To the Tom Holland one Are we still doing this? Man, what an awful movie.

It made me so angry watching that movie. And, like, there's a small chance, because the post-credit scene, spoilers to everybody for Uncharted 1 is fucking, they actually put the mustache on Mark Wahlberg. And they come out and kind of looks like Nathan Drake a little bit more. And they're kind of doing like the first story of Uncharted 1, which is already fucked up in the timeline, but whatever. It's like, maybe they bring up, maybe they get a brand new director who's like actually going to make a real Uncharted movie. But who gives a fuck? Just recast it already. just we're done, re-rebooted at this point.

I could not be more with you. And I didn't have a terrible time watching the Unchartered movie. I thought it was serviceable. I love Tom Holland. And as much shit as I give Mark Wahlberg for being Mark Wahlberg, I sometimes enjoy watching him on screen as well. But these two are, they're in this movie and they just feel so shoehorned in. Like we want this to be a thing. I'm like, this is the worst cast movie I've ever seen in my entire life.

I know everyone wanted Mark Wahlberg to be him at first, and they wanted Mark Wahlberg to be him at first. and they wanted to be Max Payne movie and all that stuff but at the same time I'm like what you could not have cast this movie

well the issue was because he was like contractually obligated to be in this movie he's been attached to the uncharted movie that's right he was supposed to be Nathan Drake

for the longest right yeah so they just make him Nathan Drake why didn't they just make him Nathan Drake who I don't want to know who cares

I don't know I don't want to do this I watched it I enjoyed it in the theaters if the second one comes out I'll watch it I'll eat popcorn and watch it just doesn't have

enough sauce you know what I mean it's very much like dry ass burrito It's a drive rito. Yeah. Like you watch Indiana Jones and there's the stables.

You know what I mean? There's this whip. There's this fucking hat. Like that's Indiana Jones. Yeah. Here I'm just like, I need something. Ground me what the Encharted is this year.

This is just a generic action movie. The problem is it's a generic. And again, a great video game, but a generic ripoff of Indiana Jones. That's what it was. That's true. That's what it was.

And so like when you got, they took that, they made the world's best Indiana Jones game when it came when Uncharted came out. And then they're like, well, how do we make a movie out of it? It's like,

You don't. You just make another Indiana Jones movie, but for the love of fucking God, let Harrison Ford die. Stop putting him in the costume, for Christ's sake. I went off on a tangent there. I'm sorry. I agree.

I agree, though. Moving on. We have a bunch of other, oh yeah, we have more sequels. We have Detective Pikachu, too. Cool, yeah. That needs to happen. Yeah, it's crazy that it hasn't happened yet.

We're at the point now where it's like, what happened. This should have happened way sooner. You know what happened? Ryan Reynolds was like, hey, man, I'm a big star again. I don't have to do the voiceover for this one. weird. They should just say Danny Debo. You know what I mean?

That was the whole meme. I know, I remember. We should have been that. Well, yeah, we should be living in that world. We should be franchise. We should be deep in that world.

It didn't make like, the issue was that it underperformed heavily. Well, they also didn't. It made a lot of, it made money, but it like, this was supposed to be a billion dollar movie in the,

it was in the, highest grossing video game movie. Well, I mean, it made, it's in Pokemon movie and it had Ryan Reynolds in it, and it made four, less than,

less than 500 million dollars. Detective Pikachu, make, just a traditional Pokemon. I'm just like, I'm just letting you know. That's the problem. You can't call it Detective Pikachu and be like, oh,

this is going to be the great, like this is going to make billions and billions of billions. Yeah, but it's still, it's Pokemon attached to it. Nintendo's looking at this and like, oh, this is going to be a billion dollar franchise, clearly,

and it's $500 million. See, I wouldn't, I guarantee, we'll see how Zelda does. Yeah. But if Zelda does numbers, then the next movie that's going to be in there,

in there, the next major movie with 200 mil behind, it's going to be a Pokemon movie. It's not going to be a detective Pikachu. this was basically just to be like to test the waters and be like hey there's a mainstream culture would they come out for this and they did to a degree but it is it is a false premise it's a false experiment because who gives a shit no disrespect to everyone

out there I don't care about detective Pikachu I would care about just give me Pikachu yeah no I agree with you he does have to be a detective just give me Ash Katz Now having said all of that as a person who had never played a Pokemon game going into this movie I thoroughly enjoyed this film this film I thought it was a fun movie Smith was great the fucking Pokemon designs of cute The vibe was Mr. Mime, yeah. A fun time.

Let's continue. Okay, now we get into some weird stuff that I want to get into. We have a production company called Picture Start that is making a ton of IP movies. They also made like real movies that you know of. But like they're making a Brats movie. They're making a Naruto movie. But they're also making Sega movies. They're making a Comic Zone movie and Space Channel 5 movie.

Whatever. We'll see if those movies actually come out. That's not happening. And this is where we get into the real meat and potatoes here of this list. I want to talk about a company called Story Kitchen. Story Kitchen is a production company that is seemingly only doing

video game movies and trying to adapt that stuff. If you see a video game movie in the headline, it's most likely, especially if it's an indie game, it's most likely connected to Story Kitchen. So I just want to read out some of the games that they have in development that they have on their website, their official website, that they are

working on and kind of what they're up to. They are known mostly, if you look at their website, the movies that they've actually come out and actually are real things are the Sonic trilogy. They are attached to that. They, that's their claim to fame. So they did the Sonic trilogy,

and now they're like, we want to be the guys that take these games and actually make decent movies out of that. And they've been trying to do this for a while. So they have a first look deal with Raw Fury, which is an indie game publisher. And then they also,

this is the two big ones that seemingly are happening or we're going to happen or seemingly had the biggest news around it. It takes two, which is over at Amazon and MGM Studios. And this is in connection to the Rocks production company. It's being written by the, Sonic movie writers.

There's an incredible quote that I want to read from Joseph Fares, who is the head over at Hayslites, the creators, the studio that created it takes two.

When asked about the movie, he said, quote, Hollywood, there's so much bullshit. I think 90% of the meetings are actually bullshit and 10% of what actually happens. The thing is,

there's a lot of talk, but not a lot of walk. I don't know what's going on. Hopefully something. It would be so cool to get something out of it, but my hopes are not so high. Obviously,

there's a lot of talk, but you have to have the people that get shit done. If I would be really involved in it, it would happen. And he goes on to talk shit about Hollywood and LA and nothing ever happened. So he's not very excited about this movie specifically. And then it's very funny that a few months later after that, split fiction comes out, which is their newest video game.

And that is actually seemingly happening or is being pitched to happen. Director John Chu, who is the director of Wicked, and I believe Crazy Rich Asians, right? Don Ju? Oh, he does so much. Step up to. He's one of my favorite. director. Okay. So yeah, he's over here. His next movie after

Wicked, which is insane, is going to be a split fiction movie. And it's starring Siddy Sweeney. That's the only star that we have attached to it. I don't think this movie's going to be good, right? I don't see this coming out. This is really happening? Apparently, it's Amazon, they have a name. Oh, it's Amazon. No, yeah. That makes sense.

It takes to zero percent interested in that one. Don't even... See, I'm more interested to it takes two. I'm way more interested to it takes two. Goody! Here's the thing. Because it takes two has like the romance like premise to it, which I like a rom-com situation, which I like, I think that's a, that's an easy adaptation. It takes two? It takes two.

I don't know if it's a wrong com. Yeah. A comedy? Yeah. Oh, it takes two is for sure a comedy. Is it? Yeah. Is that part of the kiddie-barry?

Are you thinking about? We just think of a character where you play that you're getting a divorce space? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a very sad, depressing. It comes back to it. Yeah. You shrunk down to a doll. We're splitting hairs.

Let's keep it. I'm sorry. Squirrels come through. Yeah. Fucking terrifying. But split fiction story, in my opinion, is bad. I don't like the story of split fiction whatsoever. I think it's very generic.

It's so generic. What would be amazing is, you know how Hollywood is completely devoid of new ideas? So whenever someone's doing something, like, if you're doing it takes two, like, split movie or whatever, we start developing. I hope that's the next 10 years. Just horrible movies based on video games that take place from, like, the same perspective, but then they split off. Yeah. And you're saying that because people always try to do shit like that.

Yeah. It's never good. It's never good. So yeah, that's where we're out with split fiction. I think one of these is going to happen. I don't think it takes two is happening, but split fiction. I think split fiction has too much motion. Yeah.

You have John Chu on it. You have Sidney, you have Amazon. But here's the thing. John Chu is like one of the most in-demand directors right now. So if he gets something offered a huge franchise, he's leaving this behind. Well, yeah, this happens all the time, though, right? You just get attached to it. He says, yes, they give him a little cash or whatever.

He's like, ma'am. just wait until crazy rich Asians three comes out and don't do it. And then, okay, now we're just going to start reading off all of the franchise. These are all confirmed in production or in pre-production or all on their websites. We're just going to read them out. We're just going to, you don't even have to interject. If you really want to say something we can,

but it's crazy. So we have Dredge, which is TBA. That is a small little indie game that got announced we're making a movie. The House of the Dead, this director Paul W.S. Anderson, so this is his next movie. We got some concept art for that. Just Cause. This one is over at Universal.

director Angel Emmanuel Soto, the director of Blue Beetle, which actually kind of cool. That one's sort of sick. Clear Expedition 33, no motion on that. That was announced before the game came out.

And then we have two more games here that I want to say really quick. Kingsmakers and Spine. Both games that are not out. That already have deals. I know that Spine game. Yeah, that are already... That has a film adaptation announced? That's crazy.

Y'all are doing too much, man. Sleeping Dogs, starring Simuloo. this was in development hell for a while who was attached to it Donnie What's his face? He was in John Yes

He was attached to it He was supposed to be Yeah he was supposed to be Leading it But now he dropped out Now Simuloo is potentially Starring in it I watched that

That fight scene from Itman again The other day The one where he takes out a bunch of people Fucking like punches somebody's chest So fast It looks like it's gonna cave in He's a bad motherfucker So good

Seifu Netflix This is Chad Selhensky's Company is attached to it He's not directing it But his company's attached to it Streets of Rage. Yes.

It's from Lionsgate written by... Streets of Rage is what Street Fighter probably should be. This is written by Derek Hulstad, the writer of John Wick and a lot of their sequels.

I just want to read this really quick because this is maybe like the most like backhanded quote that I've ever read from a news article. So this is how it starts. This is from Variety

Brent Lang. Brent Lang wrote this. Streets of Rage, a popular beat-em-up video game that first hit the scene in the 1990s is getting the big screen treatment. Lionsgate has landed the motion picture rights to the Sega game

and has enlisted Derek Kolstad No Stranger to the World of Broken Bones and Crushed Ribs From his stint writing John Wick And its sequels He will write the film and produce it Apparently fulfilling a childhood ambition In parentheses Mine was to be James Bond

What a weird thing to say I love that This guy, he had a child in ambitions to make a video game movie I wanted to be James Bond So that's actually happening And then a weird one here. Rooner, this is another indie game that came out, has a cool art style. West Ball is also attached to directing this one.

I don't think that's fucking happening. There's no way. There's no way that this guy's going to go over here and make another kingdom of the planet of the apes and legend of Zelda. And now he's going to go back and make a Runa movie. I don't know. That seems like kind of crazy. Shinobi is apparently in works with Sam Hargrave, who is the extraction director. Slime Rancher has a...

Absolutely. movie attach. And also, this is great. Toadjammin Earl is being developed by Amazon and Steph Curry's production. A hundred percent. One thousand percent happening. That'll be a hit. Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. We're back. I'm just going to look at the camera right now. I would love to interview Story Kitchen. I would love to interview anybody that works there, maybe the CEO, whoever can talk to me about these games and these movies and why you're picking these games to be movies. And just what's the kind of the back end of this? Because it is so fascinating because you look at this. They also,

have the Legend of the Tomb Raider TV show that they're doing they produce life is strange as well they have my friend page are on their website but all of these like the only movies that they've produced it seems like are the sonic movies it's so interesting because they're about me page yeah they have toys or us on this oh yes that's that's what i want to say they're making a toys or us movie and a teddy rexman teddy rucksman but by the way teddy rickman i'm in if they make it hardcore horror like if it's fucking chucky yeah i like child's play because look how terrifying that They say they specialize in franchise farming, which I want to know more about what that means. That probably has to do with AI.

That doesn't feel like something. That doesn't seem like something you say out loud. I think you need a couple RTFs graphics cards to do that. Yeah, and they say adapting video games and other non-traditional IPs into film and TV. Then they say they talk about how they launched a 23 and 2 by Sonic the Hedgehog, yada, and then yeah, their whole strategy here is to quote, franchise farm, which I think sounds very negative, right? It has a negative connotation to what I think when you say it out loud like that. I assume if I'm going to be charitable with how they're using it. it right like they probably approach these companies they approach raffiri and go hey we want to help

you maintain and manage and grow these IP and like i think that's cool i think that's a fucking awesome thing i just worry about a lot of these picks because like you're out here trying to make a slime rancher movie yeah sure at that point it just is all about it's not even about the IP the IP is just a tersean horse to get it made right it has to be there has to be a vision to make these movies good and if none of these movies are going to be good and then there's no real fan base for slime rancher people that are going to go into the theaters then like what's the point? That's my thing is like I think the point of IP right is in if I'm being cynical

about it right if I'm being the business brain about it you want IP because there's a built in thing there that yes to some extent works and there's an audience for I know the people that play slime rancher I've heard of slime rancher right but like enough people to make a successful Let me be honest with looking at all of these Same for Ruiner with the exception of sonnet isn't even out How 90% of the movies we just listed

Nobody knows no but yeah They're not going to have any content. The average mainstream audience of America is going to have zero concept for what split fiction is. Yeah. They're not going to know. No. So it's interesting. These are the kind of movie projects that you get off the ground by making them super low budget,

attaching a star, promising everyone the world. And then it comes and it comes to Amazon and goes and I see it 13 years later and go, dude, Rauphiri or Shinobi was the best movie nobody ever saw. Yeah. Yeah. So that is all of the movies Slime Ranger. That are being,

that are in development. That's just some of these are going to be bangers. I say this. Some of these are going to be bangers. You make a, you make a weird ass toe jam and Earl movie.

I have 10 for this. Fucking Seafood. Clear Obscure Expedition 33. Seafood rights itself. Seefu used to make John. I think I think I'm just so. Those are going to be fine. I think I'm just so negative of like this actually happening.

Right? Because we've just heard so many of these things. You know how this goes. You know how this goes. You get the rights for the same thing to do with books. Everyone buys the rights to every single thing for that one moment where fucking Shinobi

you know, a PlayStation 5 Shinobi comes out. Yeah. And It just did. They just released. Yeah. Well, I'm saying it blows up. And they go, oh, we're immediately in development of that because it's already, it's already gone.

All these are just a holding pattern. They're not going to do anything with all this stuff. Thank you so much for hanging out with me. Everybody, this was an adventure. We learned a lot. We learned a lot. And maybe we might talk to Story Kitchen. and figure out what's going on.

Yeah. That would be sick and really great. I'd love to get to know this. Because like, yeah, I have questions both on the side of somebody sound fucking awesome and then why Slym Rancher. Yeah.

Well, everybody, thank you so much for watching this episode of Gamescast. Right after this, Mike and Nick are going to play some Rainbow Six Siege. We'll see you on the next one. Peace out.

You get up in there with this? Oh, maybe. I'll think about it.