The Kristian Harloff Show - BLADE Officially Canceled?! Instead Appearing In Midnight Sons?!

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

On today's episode of The Kristian Harloff Show, we break down a massive new wave of Marvel and DC rumors that could seriously reshape the future of some of the biggest franchises in Hollywood. From shocking reports about Marvel Studios canceling the long-troubled Blade solo movie to claims that Mahershala Ali's Daywalker may instead debut as part of a Midnight Sons team-up, there is a lot to unpack for MCU fans. We also dive into a surprising new direction for The Batman – Part II, where new rumors suggest the sequel could shift focus away from Harvey Dent and instead introduce Gilda Dent as a potential female Two-Face. What would that mean for Matt Reeves' Gotham and the tone of the sequel? On the Marvel side, the Spider-Man: Brand New Day rumor mill is heating up again, with Sadie Sink's name being strongly linked to Jean Grey in the MCU. Could Marvel be setting the stage for the X-Men through Peter Parker's next chapter? Plus, we discuss new Man of Tomorrow rumors, including a mysterious spoiler reference and the possibility of Wonder Woman appearing in the DCU's Superman film. How much of this is setup for the wider DC Universe, and what does it tell us about James Gunn's long-term plan? Kristian Harloff and the crew break down what's real, what's rumor, and what it all means for Marvel and DC fans moving forward.   SPONSORS: RAYCON: Go to https://www.buyraycon.com/kristian to get 20% off sitewide. Thanks to Raycon for sponsoring!

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But it doesn't mean no Blade. It just means a solo movie ain't happening. We'll discuss that. There's some other stuff that will break down, go into, Batman part two might focus more on Gilded Dent, more so than Harvey Dent. What does that mean? Is it rumor a Spider-Man? Man, a tomorrow is going to feature somebody.

Maybe Wonder Woman will discuss myself, Winston A. Marshall. And more. So let's get into it. It's time for capes and cows, Christian Arloff edition, or back and forth, whatever I said. You know what I mean. Bye. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome back to the show. Thanks for being here today on this Friday for capes and cows joining me. As always, and we've been holding down the fort since I've been gone one. What up, what up, what up, what up, what up? What's good, everybody. How you doing? Good Winston A. Marshall right here. And then you also got the great Chris Carr. There she is. But there she is there. instead better. Hey, everybody.

All right. Good to have you all back. Thank you very much for holding down the fort, as I said. It's been wonderful to watch you guys. And now we're going to see what's going to happen. You guys, together, as a team, you've been pretty unstoppable with the questions. You got one Steph Sabraa to be today at 104. All right.

All right. That's a challenge. It's a challenge, but it's definitely something you guys have done in the past. We already have six before the show even started. So that's good. And that's it. So I will say I'm very proud of the audience. Very proud of the audience.

They did it right yesterday. Donkeys in Space was indeed brought up on the hot mic. It was done in a way that was well done. I have to see the first mention of it. I saw the super chat. But Snyder knows me too well and knew right away that it was my doing. however I will say it caught fire yesterday

I saw it popping up on on apps and other things so God bless donkeys in space and appreciate it very much so so there you go Brian Gosling and someone else I don't know who was hilarious I was about to be like what the hell is donkey Brian Gossing and Nevin

Spacey don't just do me a favor if you don't know what it is just pretend because clearly it was something on the show and you just showing that none of you fuckers watch the show. So just don't bring it up. Except I've proven multiple times that I do. You watch the day, sir. You out of anybody, probably watch the most.

This is true. I'll give you your props. But everyone else doesn't. And that's fine. It's not required viewing. I'm just saying. For sure. I just pretend.

Absolutely. But improv training is here. The whole yes and thing. but I also was like, did I miss something in the email? Of course. It's not like I said like something. It's pretty like your ears have to go up. Did you say donkeys in space?

Right. Sure. Chris Carr will be voicing one of the roles in the animated feature, which is very exciting. I'm really excited about it. Yeah. I know. I didn't want to, I'm sorry that I spoiled. I know you're going to post it on Instagram today.

You know, that's fine. That's what we do here. We share. It's true. So donkeys in space. will be the next vehicle for Chris Carr, so look out for it. Okay, so I do want to see, if somebody can give me the first time code, when that was mentioned on Hot Mike, I'll be listening to the show today,

but it was funny. You guys did well. There's a lot to discuss. There, I mean, I don't think any one of us here is going to be surprised with this news. Again, speaking of Jess Snyder about Blade. So let me read this one that came out here. And this one comes. to us from superhero hype.

And here we go. Here's the article. Here's said article. Marvel cancels a solo movie announced in 2019 with a twist. A long sitting Marvel Studios film has received a shocking negative update according to a familiar industry insider. Merchel Ali's Blade movie, which was announced at San Diego Comic Con in 2019 and experienced significant development issues had reportedly been canceled. However, the insider in Schneider, says the Marvel plan to introduce the Carricle in a team-up film. Marshall Ali's Blade solo movie, not happening,

but Midnight Suns is Marshall Ali's solo movie. Reportedly has canceled, according to Jeff Snyder, Snyder told Roka in the last episode of the Hot Mike podcast, this makes me so happy, by the way, on so many different levels. Because it means that there were a lot of people that were looking for scoops for Jeff Snyder

who listened to it, who had to have heard about donkeys in space. So I'm happy about that. So Blade is dead, says Snyder. Roken. Still shocked, asked Snyder if what he said was official, something he heard from sources or just a rumor. Snyder then replied that it was a rumor. He then revealed that Ali's Blade would be introduced in a Midnight Sun's movie. He said, I'm hearing that Blade movie is dead, and now it's a Midnight Sun's movie. He will not be introduced in a solo movie. He'll be introduced in Midnight's Sons. The Night's movie has not officially been confirmed by Marvel as writing. However, Marvel has introduced the core members of the team in several projects.

Blade himself made a voice cameo in the post credits of Eternals. while an alternate version of the character, Blade Night, appeared in Marvel Zombies. Dr. Strange was introduced in the film released in 2016 and played a major role in Avengers Infinity War and Spider-Man No Way Home, while Moon Night was introduced in his solo Disney Plus series released in 2022. Meanwhile, Werewolf by Night, Manthing, and Elsa Bloodstone were introduced into 2022 special presentation, Werewolf by Night. Although fans have not seen All these Blade in live action, they were treated to Wesley Snipes for surprise returned to the role after having played the character. in the Blade trilogy in 2020 and in 2024 as a marine as a writing. It's unclear of Snipes will return in future movies. Okay.

So let's start with the first, and I guess the obvious, Chris. Is this something you saw coming or was an inevitable that this announcement was coming? Or were you surprised you maybe thought they were going to announce another Blade or maybe Hersch-A Lee was the one who's going to leave? Does any of this make sense? All of it makes sense. None of it's surprising. Not a single damn thing.

Fair. And it's upsetting, though, because I really do want a solo blade movie. I really want just Marshall Ali just wreck and shop as blade, which we still theoretically will get in Midnight Suns. But I don't think anyone really is shocked by this news because it's been a longstanding kind of joke almost now of, oh, well, we'll get that before we get a blade movie. I mean, this was announced. Someone literally just wrote, we'll get donkeys in space before we get Blades.

We absolutely will. Coming to a theater near you, we're committed to a theatrical experience for donkeys in space, by the way. I just want to be very clear about that. So I don't think anyone would be shocked by this. That's why this scoop or rumor or whatever seems so real, because this movie has not gone forward in any way, shape, or form. So I would not be surprised.

And also, I mean, I do want to just pause to address. We introduced Blade in a voiceover. Not really. And yes, he is in the Marvel Zombies. thing, not Mahershala, but you know, he is in there. We haven't really introduced this character in the cinematic universe. Right, that voice, you're saying, because that voice essentially could have been anybody, right? It could have been anyone.

If you don't know who that is, you weren't like, that's Braid, you know? Right. So I do think it'll be nice to have a movie theoretically where we do just jump in, here's our team. We maybe have met a couple people, but we meet them in the movie. You know, like most theatrical experiences where you meet your cast as you meet them in the film. I think that can still work. I don't think you have to have the individual movies to happen. for us to go, oh, hey, I get who all these people are. I think you can do a really nice

distinct way to introduce these characters like you would in any well-crafted story of having them come together. Here's their deal. Here's their backstory. Let's have this team happen. And because of a few folks like Bloodstone or whoever, you don't have to spend too much time on their backstory, just a little kind of addressing who they are. So I think Midnight Sense could work. I just, I still don't know if Disney's even going to really fully commit to that. How do you introduce all these supernatural characters where you're still tying up all these other loose ends with your multiverse and all this other stuff. Great point. It's a great point. I think that we still don't really know what the future of

the MCU is. We don't know what Doomsday is going to present. We don't know any of these things. We don't even know if that particular blade was part of this MCU is going to be part of the new one, you know, when they introduce it. So maybe that's what they could do. But Winston, my opinion on this is that, because you've been saying this forever. I remember when we were talking about it in the studio when I was still in L.A. and it just seemed doubtful and more doubtful and more doubtful this was going to happen. And eventually we thought Merchel would leave. I will tell you that if this is indeed the plan, I think this is the right plan

because they can't crack the code. And instead of trying to crack the code, not being able to do it and then keep running into these problems, they go, okay, wait a minute, let's team them up. Let's maybe go off that stuff we introduced. and then if it hits and it's as popular as we hope, then not only can we do a blade spinoff afterwards, we can do more spinoff of characters that we like inside of this. So I think this is the right plan if executed correctly.

I say that you're more likely to find a black guy that doesn't know who Sarah J is than you are of getting a Blade solo film at this point. I honestly think like this is just a dead in the water thing and Wesley Snipes put his curse out there and said there's only ever going to be one played and that's it. And look, I, what I think I get concerned about is specifically Mahershala is just getting older and older and older. And at a certain point, he's more or less, because he's not that far apart in age from Wesley. I want to say they're like, what, 13 years apart at most? Something like that.

Yeah. So there's a point at which, where do you keep him cast in the role? because Blade is both A, supposed to be a vampire, so he doesn't age. And, look, Black don't crack, and Mehersthal looks really good for his age, but at a certain point it will start to show. But B, is he going to be able to do the stunts? Is he going to want to be involved in all of this? So I don't have a problem with them introducing him in Midnight's Sons and going forward,

but I haven't even seen the writing on the wall where Midnight Sons necessarily comes in, again, like you said, because of Doomsday. my thought process is maybe the cut scene at the end of multiverse of madness where you essentially have Cleo come in and go, you've made incursions, we got to go fix this thing. But that feels more akin to dealing with Dooms Day and Secret Wars than it does with putting the Midnight Suns together to go solve stuff. You still need Ghost Rider, if we haven't talked about that yet, and that hasn't come in. And you would need some of the other supernatural beings. So Swamp Thing, you know, potentially magic out of the X-Men. there's a bunch of different characters that you would tap to potentially do that.

So I think the last little part that makes me know that this is nowhere on the horizon anytime soon, you know, I read a different article that was talking about how some of the costumes from supposedly the Blade film got used in sinners, like as far as helping with the vampires. So it's like, because they asked Ryan Kulguer to do Blade at one point and he said he was working on his own thing, right? Yeah, that makes sense. Because I know that that was the thought process for a minute is that both either Jordan, Peel or Ryan Coogler were potentially doing it because you had an untitled vampire film from Ryan Coogler like oh they just haven't announced that yet maybe for the MCU as Blade and then

Jordan Peel because of his horror horror stick and him being a nerd people like oh maybe he's doing it is just they can't figure this out so right and I think that maybe sinners could have been maybe Chris one of the things were like wait a minute we just got Ryan clues at a vampire movie maybe we really pump the brakes for now because we don't want to be compared to that we don't want to do that right now and if we can introduce him later on. And you don't right now at this current time, you don't need that movie today or tomorrow next year. You just don't. You might need it in three years. But right now you don't need it with all the stuff the Avengers coming out and Spider-Man and introducing the X-Men. So maybe this is the right move. Do you think so?

Oh, I think so because there's a very big difference between want and need. I want this movie. I desperately want this movie. But to your point, having it come out around sinners, it would be like, you know, when he had Bugs Life and Ants, where you just go, well, one of these is not good. Right. One of these is great. One of these is excellent. Sorry to anyone who loves ants. I guess.

That's what you're talking about. But, you know, I just, I feel like when you have something like that, that is one of the most fantastic films that has come out in recent years. And you see that and go, yep, that could have been like our vampire movie. And we're kind of struggling narratively with how we're putting our stories together, what's coming out in the edit bay and everything. I think you really need to laser focus in on what kind of vampire story you want to tell that makes sense for your universe. And you are going to have that kind of in the back of your brain. It's inevitable to go, man, that was such a wonderful, specific vampire story. How are we going to do something different, but that people aren't going to go, well, it's no sinners.

Yeah. And it's, okay, what are you going to say? What? What were you going to say? Well, the only one, I needed to correct myself, I'm clearly exhausted. not Swamp Thing, Man Thing. Man Thing is the Marvel version of essentially Swamp Thing. That's the first thing, just a correction.

Before I get flamed on the internet. But I agree, I think that that's the, it's funny how certain genres kind of have like waves, and not that there is like a vampire wave coming one way or the other, but Chris is exactly spot on that sinners, both from a standpoint of a vampire movie, but also a black vampire movie that's going to immediately be compared no matter what.

So I think that it is smart, at this particular point, if you still want to do Blade, just introduce him at some point and maybe in Secret Wars. Like, that might be the best way to go, you know, and then let the Midnight Sun's movie happen. Yeah, because if you start doing just a bunch of vampire movies, after vampire movies, people are just going to say stuff like this. Milk that cheat.

Got a milk that teat. I mean, pretty much. That would be exactly. More or less. More or less. But, Chris, there's somebody who wants to talk to you. Chris, you like that. Jay, I'd be a family.

I'd be my family. You like it? Yeah. You like it. Oh, man. What I liked most was your diction. Thank you. You're great.

Let's say. So while I try to find the lower third, I will tell you guys this. I don't know what's going to happen with Blade. Nobody really knows, but I think this is the move. What say you? Put your thoughts in there. Let us know. We got more stories to talk about.

We got more things to discuss. But before we do, who got themselves some Raycons, if you didn't, you're stupid. No, no, no, I'm just kidding. If you didn't, you should because they're great. And I love them and I use them all the time. Winston was good seeing you on last week. Chris, I know that you tried to come out.

You had some prior plans, but Chris wrote me. We didn't get a chance to catch up. But like I said, I'm going to be in L.A. quite often. So hopefully we got a chance to see you guys. How was the, I was just going to ask how your hangout was and how the Critics Choice Awards were and everything. How was the trip in general? The, well, I went over it on Wednesday if you want to go back and check it out.

The trip itself was kind of not great. But that night was nice to see everybody. Critics Choice, the event itself was. really good, it's good to catch up. There's a couple things that I got to discuss. But overall, it was nice to see everybody on that. Saturday night? Saturday night. That was Saturday. Yeah, it was Saturday. So it was nice to see everybody. And then, you know, then jumping back on a plane real quick is going to be something. I'm still not going to, or the entire family is still not really over the jet lag.

The little one last night, still 10.30 at night, going to bed. And, you know, she last night, it's like 930. She's like, I'm not tired. I go, you're going to. better get tired soon. I'll tell you that because I'm getting tired. And I'm going back and forth with jet lag and it's going to be finally going to end and then it's going to happen again. But I know you guys get a kick out of the little one is still. I don't know where she gets all this stuff from. But like she the other day, she was, she said something in the room. And I said, what did you say? She's like, I said what I said. She goes, good day, sir. And she walks out. Good day, sir. She says.

Bro. Your daughter is, she is something else. I don't know. Yeah, good day, sir. She says. Good day, sir. It was hilarious. All right. You got to beat Steph in order to do it. I said, you get a 104. You got a tie at 104. You're currently at 11. Not bad. As we are 20 minutes into the show and we got some more. Now, the next story is an audible. It wasn't on the show notes. I'm going to bring it up. It does go outside the realm of the comic book movie news. However, it is.

It does involve someone involved in the MCU, and that is Catherine Hawn. Yesterday, we talked about Tangled. And when I was talking to, because they cast the one kid from zombies, they cast another, two unknowns what I thought was good casting and essentially doing the James Gunn thing of get good people for the role for less money. I said you need for the villain, you got to get someone known. You have to. and Steph, to her credit, said, well, what about Catherine Hahn? And I said, Catherine Hahn is a great, you know, overall, you know, she's going to nail the role.

The problem is she's done Agatha and it's kind of similar, so it might not happen. Well, jokes on me because it happened. Catherine Hahn is going to play the villainous mother, Gothel, and Disney's live action tango. I mean, she's perfect for the role. I mean, absolutely perfect for it. but, you know, has she played the role before? I mean, kind of, right? Ish?

I mean, I guess that Agatha kind of came around and had some good moments is where Mother Gothel is a shitbag from front to start. Front to back, front to start. We'll take it. It may have been Mother Gothel all along for Catherine Hahn. As the actress has been cast in Tangle remake, a role Disney fans have long campaign for her to take on. Disney live action tangled recently cast at Young Leeds,

now after Scarlett Johansson dropped out of talks to play Mother Gauth so she could star in the bat in part two. Disney has turned to a fan favorite choice. Wanda Vision Nagatha, a long star, Catherine Hahn. I will say out of the two of them, and I like Scarlett Johansom, I think Catherine Hahn is better suited from Mother Gothel.

Oh, absolutely. Right? The House of Mouse, the House of Mouse, come on, appears eager to make fans happy with Tangle. No great surprise following the backlash of a receive for casting Rachel Zegler as the title character in Snow White. In the end, her performance was, widely praised but sweeping changes made to the story didn't sit well with disney lover

between that and the little mermaid casting backlash we expect this to be a very faithful adaptation han who recently started in the studio alongside sethogan has long been a fan favorite choice to play the wicked stepmother even when johansom was cast there were some grumblings on line that agatha harkness actress hadn't been chosen given her unforgettable rendition of songs like agatha along in the ballad of the witches road it's easy to imagine her doing incredible job with mother knows best tango will be directed by the greatest showman director got to got okay um like i said this is not a necessarily a comic book movie story but i just think to follow it up from yesterday's story and the fact that's agatha

Winston how similar are the roles and does it matter and because the audience really wanted it they gave it to the person who we just said is probably the best person for the role so this is a good thing yeah i think it's a good thing i mean i i i you obviously want to be careful not being typecast, but if Disney wants to just give her, you know, all the money, I also think that it could be an interesting way where you don't, you want to be careful about multiverseing and crossing over too much. There could be something kind of funny about a kind of wink that Agatha has found a new vessel. Like, she's done with the MCU. So now she's on to go torture people in Disney. And that's your crossover. I actually think that that could be really

funny. You know, she's playing a witch in both of them. So why not? I think you could leave it at that. It doesn't have to be anything more than that. You don't need to push it like beyond that. But I think that that's an easy little like head nod to that whole situation and that she's essentially played this role. I think you open yourself up to a world of trouble.

Oh, a thousand percent. But I think it's to be funny. Because not only, wait a minute. Is tangled part of the MCU now? Part one next is like, wait, got it in this and Disney fans would lose their minds. I like where your head's at. I just think that if it was brought up

and I was an executive, I would jump out the window. I mean, how funny would that be at the very end of Tangled? It was Agatha all along. Right. Well, Chris, what do you make of this whole city? Oh, I love it. If you're going to pick not a musical theater actor, because

I know the chat already brought up Patty Lepone who would have killed this part vocally. And if you're not going to bring back Donna Murphy, the original voice, who I think Most people just kind of know her as, you know, Doc Ock's dead wife or from Star Trek Insurrection. I feel like this is the casting that you do. It makes the most sense.

Is it kind of a paint by numbers for Catherine Hahn having played Agatha? Sure. It is. Does that make me want her to see her in the role any less? No. I'm so excited. Like, she's going to have so much fun with this because Mother Gothel is such a good, delicious Disney villain.

And I've joked in the past. I love all of like the new movies. but we have done so much lately in kids movies where it's like, and the real villain is familial trauma or something like that. I hate it. I hate it. And I love, I love kids need to be scared again, okay? 226, we're going to have villains again.

And she's such a good villain because she does such a great job of, you see why Rapunzel thinks that this is what love is and what this is what like familial love should be like it's all she's ever known. And she's a monster. And I feel like Catherine Hahn is. the kind of person who can navigate that dynamic so well. Again, we've seen her do it, but there's so many layers to Gothel that you can really bring forward and she can have a really fun time with. And I think she'll be able to find those ways to differentiate the two. Totally. And look,

so I've seen suggestions of burden up Peters and you mentioned Paddy Lepone. Here's the problem, though, is that the villain, her whole thing is that the hair makes her significantly younger. That's the whole thing. And that's why you get a Catherine Hon or Scarlett Johansson because it's easier. It's easier to age someone up than to age someone down. So that to me is no-brainer, especially when you're going to have this youthful, fake youthful energy and where you know Catherine Hahn is going to do it. And I couldn't agree more that she's going to just annihilate Mother Knows best. This adds that bit of, oh, well, she's in it. And that's really what people are going to be interested. People will want us go.

see tangled because, okay, live action, if you're interested in seeing a live action tangled, you can go see it. But the incentive now becomes the same type of the incentive of, oh, there's a Star Wars movie and Ryan Gosling's in it. That's cool. Well, now it's tangled, and Catherine Hahn is playing the villain. I'm in, because now you're shining a light and putting less pressure on the two leads. There will still be significant pressure on them, but less pressure, because now you have this star who will probably, from everything I've heard about her, She's super generous to her fellow actors. She's a pleasure to be around.

She's going to bring energy to the set. This is, I agree with you, Chris, kind of a no-brainer. Even though my hesitancy yesterday was not because I didn't think she was perfect for the role because she is. It was just because I didn't think it was going to happen because she did it already. But I was wrong. It's kind of the idea of when Ian McKellen was offered Dumbledore and he was like, why? Right. I already played a wizard.

Done. Right. Yeah. And, you know, the. The other question is, now, Catherine Hahn's not going to be significantly cheap. She's going to be cheap, but she's going to be cheaper than Scarlett Johansson. So that, oh, 100% once, 100%. She's got the deals that she has through Jurassic World, her quote, the, like, the Black

Widow movie, all these solo movies, like her quote is significantly higher than Catherine House. No, no, no, I'm not saying that it's not. I mean, Scarlett is, is an, like, I, I would make the argument, because I've bargained this with a friend of mine all the time. I'm actually curious on both of your thoughts of what you consider an A-lister. In my opinion, the A-lister is like a household name that you could say internationally. And they would know who you're talking about.

I don't think Catherine Hahn is that. I agree. She is on the bubble, like just because of the stuff she's done in the last few years. She's very recognizable, but you'd have to say to most people, if you said, not to most people, but there are a lot of people that have you said, Catherine Hahn, there are a significant amount of people that would say, who's that? And you say, oh, well, she was in this. Oh, yeah, I love her. That's usually the conversation.

It doesn't make her an A-Lister versus if you say the name Scarlett Johansson, pretty much anybody on the planet, if they've ever seen a movie before, knows who you're talking about. 100%. I don't disagree with you there at all. But, you know, and I think there's just different descriptions or definitions of A-list or depending on who you're asking. If you're talking about what we just discussed with people walking around on the street, then what you're talking about is 100% accurate. it. If you're talking about when it comes to monetarily, when agents are talking, then there's a different definition for it, you know, because then my client has been this, this, this, this, and this, and has been in this movie and has been in this movie, it has been in, you can, you can put her in a higher tier as in the business aspect, you know what I mean? So, but yes, what you're saying, I agree 100%. And I also think that's why she's going to be less than Scarlett Johansson. And then you help the budget for this film.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. What do you guys think? You think that this is good casting. You know, they should have went outside the box or who gives a flying F? Put your thoughts in there. Let us know. And if you haven't subscribed to the Clips channel, please do so. We've got tons of stuff going on on the Clips channel. We'd love for you guys to head on over there. And speaking of things to join, if you haven't joined as a member, please do that. And Patreon, we have full unedited watch-alongs for the reactions that we're doing. We just, I think that true romance is going to go up right after this with myself and

Ming. You will see a little bit of a delay in reactions over the next couple of days because of my travel schedule and I haven't able to get anybody either digitally or in studio for a little bit. But once next week hits and I get back from my trip, we'll start recording a bit more. and then you're going to see them come out fast and furious because i got Winston coming back in to do some stuff i got chris car finally coming back to do some stuff and that was on me not not her um and then you know uh step coming back oh and i can say this now

by the way because it's public congratulations to step subra who is pregnance oh shit that's so exciting yeah it's on it's on her instagram so i didn't i didn't let it anything out of the bag oh dude that's awesome yeah yeah so um step announced on her Instagram yesterday and it's funny because I when we were um when we were uh off the well off the air and in streamyard there's still you know producers are in there so then luke i don't know if luke was in there but pld he was in there so i had to lay i was speaking in code and i'm like i used to stuff i'm like hey have you talked about your party yet and she's like no i haven't yet but i think i'm going to announce my party today and uh there is indeed uh a new person coming to

the subrah party so um awesome very excited to Steph Sabron and her wonderful husband, Harry. So congratulations to them. And I think that if she should have made that announcement yesterday, she probably would have had 347, she would have gone you guys out of the water. Quick, everybody, send in super chats to congratulate Steph right now. I'll make sure that she gets them.

Yeah, you sure you will. Anyway, so that's- We're going to get the nicest baby shower gift. Ever, ever. Okay. So let's get to the next. story here. Now, this might be a spoiler for people. This is a Spider-Man rumor, brand-new day. No, not really. It's been rumored a thousand times over. So not necessarily.

This is the Spider-Man, brand-new-day rumor. Once again, makes a case for Sadie, saying, playing King Grey. This is back and forth. Gene Gray, Gwen Stacy. Firestarter. Is that right? Is that name? Firestar. Firestar. Firestar. Who cares? The latest, the latest, Spider-Man Brand New Day rumor once again points to Stranger Things star Sadie Sink, making her MCU debut as the all-new, all-different Gene Gray. As the speculation continues to swirl about Sadie Sink's Spider-Man Brand-New Day role, it is clear that Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures are using the mystery to increase interest in the movie. Certainly seems to be working, and we wouldn't bang on the first trailer pulling back the curtain on her character,

or who she's playing will probably will probably will be revealed at some point before the movie swings into theaters, but right now we only have rumors to go. this comes from My Time to Shine, hello, who reveals that Sink wears green and yellow in Spider-Man, brand new day, and his similar powers to Gene Gray. Now that she's being chased by the Department of Damage Control, the insider theorizes that Sink is likely playing the powerful mutant. This obviously raises some big questions,

including what Gene is doing on Earth 1616 and why she's debuting in a Spider-Man movie. Could be that she's stranded in the MCU if her reality is destroyed, but we'd say a far more likely possibility if her being another, of Earth 616 mutants, joining the likes of Namor and Ms. Marvel, after the MCU is rebooted in Avengers Singer Wars, we'd imagine that Sink is sticking around

as Gene alongside the rest of Marvel Studios new X-Men is the current plan. It's a unique move by Kevin Feigey, if that is indeed the plan, but introducing one of the future X-Men in what will likely be a contended for 2026 biggest. Her movie seems pretty smart. It's torture. There's so much speculation, she said.

I feel like there's a new character every week. I tell people, the people I know, I found out through online theories. I got cast. There was speculation online that said Sadie Sink is going to be in the new site. Spider-Man, I was like, I am. Sure enough, two days later, they asked me to do it. Those theories, there's something, there's some truth to them. Oh,

shit balls. Shungi and the legend of the Ten Rings Helmer Destin Daniel Creton directs Spider-Man brand new day from a script by returning Spider-Man franchise with writers Chris McKenna and Eric Somers. All right. I don't know what to believe anymore. I don't know what to believe anymore. Because I

heard that we were getting I heard that we were getting her as Gwen Stacy. So then a lot of stuff of Gene Gray, look, that's stuff that I heard. And then this, if you're asking what I prefer, I actually prefer her to be Gene Gray, because I think she'll stick around more to play Gene Gray. I think she'll be a great Gene Gray.

I actually would also prefer if she was that first scenario that they set up, Chris, And that was her reality was destroyed. She's got to get in there. She somehow has to end. And that allows us, she won't show up in Doomsday, but she will show up in Secret Wars when the rest of the new Avengers or X-Men start to show up.

What do you? Oh, I mean, there's a lot of good options. I also like, because she goes on in that found thing to say, too, like hair color can change in that full thing. I think the internet would lose their minds if we had like a red-headed Gwen Stacy, which is ridiculous. But I do like the idea of her being Jean Grey. And I know I have been on here saying

Gene Gray is one of the characters I do not enjoy as much. I think when she's well done, though, that's the kind of character that I want somebody of Sadie Singh's caliber, her acting caliber, to be playing. I think she could be a really fun, interesting leader for this. I think she could be a really cool member of the X-Ben group. I still kind of think Firestar that would be a really fun deep cut. Because I do like, if we go way back to the beginning of Marvel,

like when the MCU first started, a lot of these characters weren't, to borrow from what we were talking about, before, A-listers. Like, honestly, Iron Man was not a comic book character who a lot of people were like super jazzed about. So I do think the idea of kind of taking characters like a fire star, going back to that like Spider-Man and his amazing friends kind of situation

could be really cool because then you're not beholden to so much of the infrastructure that's already laid out before you. Genuinely, whoever she plays, I think it'll be fine. To me right now, the Gwen's day. one is just the one that seems the least likely, only because the internet and fans can be so ridiculous that I think she would have to dye her hair. Otherwise, people would be like, well, she's not Gwen Stacy. She has used all blonde because. Remember, wigs, wigs are pretty good these days. From, from what, but if she's been on set, though, without one. No, there's been

rumors that she was wearing something. Oh, okay. But I don't know. Like, I, the person that I heard from is pretty spot on. But I will say when I talk to that person again, And I don't know if they were, I don't know if they were trying to, you know, distance himself from it. They were like, oh, no, no, no, I'm not necessarily sure if that was, it's not. Wait a minute. You told me you were pretty damn sure. I'm like, oh, well, it could be.

And I'm like, wait a minute. We sat here and you told me this. And then they were like, no, no, no, it could be, but I'm not sure. And I was like, that seemed to me like making sure in case it went back and it won't. But I don't know. I still think it's possibility. But I do think that I would rather be Jean Grey. if it's going to be, and I'll eat crow.

If it turns out that if it's not going to stay, then my person was wrong. But Winston, it does seem to make sense if they went this particular way, right? I'm actually going to say yes and no. And what I mean by that is it's not to say that she won't potentially be Gene Gray. I actually think because we already got it teased in X-Men 97 and they're liking to try and synergize things, I think she might be Madeline Pryor. I think that we are going to get sinister. I think that will be the first major villain that we're getting.

So I think that we're going to maybe think she's Jean, but in actuality, what we're going to get is a Madeline, and it's going to open up that world because then that gives you an automatic story to start off the X-Men with. And whatever nonsense sinister was up to, especially knowing that in the most recent secret wars, Sinister has his own island of sinister and shit going on. So that's also a possibility to set all of that up.

And I think that that might be now, again, because it is a clone, there's no reason that she can't also be Jean. She would need to be. She'd have to play against herself in that regard. But I think that that is where maybe that is going in that regard. And they've let the Jean Grey shit run around because of that. Yeah. If the quote that I read wasn't said by Sadie Sink,

then I'd probably say, well, you're right. I just think that that name that you just said, it's the first time I've ever heard it. So remember, when we saw XMA 97 and we went to the premiere, it was that third episode where all of a sudden they were like, oh shit, you're not the real one. So it technically is Gene, but it's not, I think, just

story narratively, I think they're doing that to set up sinister. I think if he puts that person in Spider-Man, you can confuse the shit out of people. Well, I mean, again, you would both A, you would have X-Men 97 to lean on, and B, you would right now, I'm Gene, blah, blah, blah, because she thinks she's Gene for the longest time. I just think ultimately that character that we're going to be introduced to will be the clone.

Maybe. Either way, though, it seems like it's going to be in that general X-Men world, and maybe that's the way you start to do it. And remember, I still don't know legally. I think 2026 is when Disney's finally allowed to use the X-Men and not, if they go, you know, you use the X-Men. They use Hugh Jackman. No, no, no, no.

stop it. Stop this. I'm talking about recasting them, you're doing it again, putting them in new roles. You weren't able to do that because Fox had some deal that you weren't allowed to use the X-Men, even when you bought us over again, because of the contracts that the actors had. So if you're going to use Wolverine, you had to use Hugh Jackman. If you were going to use Professor X, you had to use Patrick Stewart. But now I think that's over. I think they're still going to use those people. Obviously, if you see that trailer that dropped, and I think rightfully so. That trailer, by the way, we haven't really discussed it, but that trailer to me did the job that most trailers are supposed to do,

even though it's not necessarily a trailer of these things. These are marketing tools. That marketing tool did the job that the other ones were hoping to do. That one got people excited. That one got people going, ooh, what's this one about? It's almost like what they did well with days of futures past. they're doing now with this and adding it into doomsday. So we're really getting one really good last X-Men movie from the Fox universe

because Deadpool Wolverine doesn't really count. There's a lot of super cameos and things like that. It was Deadpool's story. But they're all going to die. This is it finally because we thought that was going to happen in Deadpool, because of what he says in the trailer. His death comes from us all. A thousand percent of that that and the fact that Scott is very,

very desperately finally using his like full power on purpose. It's over for them. They're getting murked. Everybody. I mean, I think Q Jackman will survive, but everybody else dead. Well,

they, I just feel like the X-Men are like, share on a farewell tour. You know? It just keeps coming back every five years. I know. I think he's dead. I think they're dead.

Okay. So Luke wrote, he's leaning towards, wait, leaning, she's hoping she's hope summers? I thought about that too. The only thing with hope, the only

thing I would say with hope or with Rachel, you're again now talking about kids of like Scott and Jean with hope more so like the Messiah child that cable's raising. You haven't introduced cable. If you haven't introduced Scott and Gene, that's too much to do all that. The only reason why I think that the Madeline angle would

potentially work is because again, Sinister is a direct line to stuff that happens in Secret Wars, which is why I even went down that road and why Marvel, they've let people have their rumors left and right, but they'd be like, sure, she's Gene. I think it's because of that.

I think the reason he bringing up the kid is because of the connection, I guess Doom's going to have with all these kids, these powerful kids, you know, so maybe that's a potential why. I think it'd be a lot simpler. If you don't do clones, don't do kids of, just it's Gene Gray.

Don't give me, don't give me the X-Men 97 angle, because for me, I'm like, wait a minute. I saw that animated thing a while ago. I got to put it together again. And there you said, leave me alone. Just make it, just make it, Gene Gray, introduce that's Gene Gray. She's the new Gene Gray, and let's get into it. And then eventually do that clone story, you know, if you want.

But nonetheless, what do you guys think about Sadie Sink in this one? You think she's Jean Grey? I think she's Gwen Stacy. Think she's somebody completely different. Is she the clone? What is she? Who is she? Or could you not care less?

put your thoughts in there let us know let's switch us over to dc uh now this one could be a potential spoiler but i think everybody's been talking about it anyway that is come on man can't put me can't put me there he put me there perfect man of tomorrow rumored to feature a reference to wonderwoman was she appear i don't know that was a very strangely worded article we have a couple of rumors relating to James Gunn's plans for his Superman follow-up, and it sounds like Man of Tomorrow will indeed feature the DCU debut of Wonder Woman. Over the past couple of weeks, several different scoopers have sent speculation into overdrive

by sharing Man of Tomorrow casting details for a character that sounds a lot like Wonder Woman. And it seems like James Gunn really is in the process of searching for an actress to play a new take of the iconic Amazonian warrior for his Superman follow-up. During this week's episode of The Hot Mike, Jeff Schneider, Backed up co-host John Roker's recent claim that the DC's new Underwoman will be, will indeed be introduced in Man of Tomorrow, and that Gun met with an undisclosed number of actresses about potentially suiting up as Diana before the new year. According to the most recent breakdown, Gunn is looking at every young, hot as in upcoming,

actress for the new female lead in Man of Tomorrow, and whoever ends up playing the role will need to be tall in her 20s and have fighting skills. There's also, no one said also, there's a solo Wonder Woman movie, movie in development. Supergirls writer Anna Nogera is currently working on the script. It seems Gunn is planning to take a page out of Batman v. Superman Donna D. Susset Director, Zach Snyder's playbook by allowing audiences to get familiar with the character in a team-up setting first. Could we also see the DCU's Dark Knight make his debut in Man at Tomorrow? Snyder has heard that Batman will not appear in the movie, but will be referenced.

That would mark the first live action, nod to the Cape Crusader, but Gotham City's protector did briefly appear in the shadows in the animated creature commando series. finally, Snyder has heard that the Teen Titans movie, which Negara was also writing, has hit a snack. We don't have any more to go on just yet. Don't be surprised if it's pushed way down the DCU slate in the next coming. Okay. So when you get to, well, first of all, let me ask you guys this.

Chris is off the hook on this one because she came in later. I will say that if I wish I met Chris Carr seven years ago because I feel she would have been a major, major player in the movie Trivio Chimodo. I think she would have been, I think Chris Carves me out all the time. You would have been such a, first of all, because if your acting ability and everything else, too, you would have been a major, major star in the Shmode-down. But I'm going to let you off the hook here. Winston, where does Jeff Schneider come from? Austin?

No. That's so earnest. Me saying, Jeff Schneider, that. Where does that come from? Boston. It's a great answer, but no. It was like, okay, I'm pretty sure his ass is always at da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I was like, hey, he's from Boston.

Yeah, I thought that that was. Point, point, point-farm. That's just how you, like, announced him during when he would come out. Unbelievable that you guys don't, that Schmowdown competitors and Schmodeon managers don't know this. Roka will get it. I guarantee, I'm going to ask Roka on Monday. He's going to get it. Stop looking at the chat for answers.

they're not going to give it to you. So, so, uh, Roxy didn't get it. Mike Kalnowski didn't get it. This is, the audience,

audience, tell him now who it is. There you go. The audience has now told you. Oh. Oh, he did? Yeah,

it was his main thing. Booker T would come on every week and give his predictions and say, today on the show, we're going to have Jeff Schneider. And he would say it all the time. And it was, I had no idea. Yeah.

That's great. Absolutely no idea. That's genuinely hilarious. I was like, yeah, he from Boston, bro. I don't know. Booker would give his, he would pick the winners every week. And that's when the Patriots were on their tear. Yeah, dude, they were, they were disturbingly good. Yeah, they defended the title. They were 10 and they were like 9 and 0. That was unheard of. I still, I love when people say Shazam was the best team in the world. I say, no, they were not. The Patriots were easily the best team in, you know, in all of this run out easily 100%. Is it, it's funny because I would have, if not them,

I probably would have leaned towards, it was still Schneider though, Snyder and Draco. Well, no, I mean, if you're, the, the, who, what's the face? Shazam had a much better run than the odd couple, even though a couple won the title twice. Shazam, Shazam had a much better run. They defended it a bunch of times.

They beat a lot of quality teams. They were in the conversation, but the Patriots did what no one else could do. The Patriots are my favorite. That's gross. That happened in two different sports. That's disgusting. What? The Patriots and Patriots.

Just dominating. That actually upsets me. They were great. I understood that reference. Anyway, it was a phenomenal, phenomenal run by the two of them. Okay. So let's discuss Man of Tomorrow. Sorry, Wonder Woman.

And this to me, again, another one that makes sense. And I agree by putting her in this movie now because this is the time, especially with all the stuff happening with Netflix, buying them over. They get a little bit more leeway now than had Paramount bottom. But you still got to build and you got to hit and you got to hit hard. So if Man of Tomorrow starts to announce and promote that Wonder Room is going to debut in this, that's going to help a bit.

it's also going to help because it's a sequel to Superman. I don't think you need Batman in this one yet. I mention is good enough if this is indeed true. I still am going to bank on the fact I think Adri Arona Hona is going to be Wonder Woman. I know people are going to do the first thing. Oh, she's not tall enough. She's 5-7.

You put shoes on her. She'll be fine. They also have already said, we don't give a damn about your height crap. And I was like, wow, that's rude. Yeah. She's like 5-7, 5-8. She's going to be Wonder Woman.

I think that it's already happened. I think it's already done. I think she's going to be wonderful. But Winston, this story. What do you think? I mean, I think it's hard to say just because, like, I feel still in a weird void with, like, how the D.C. stuff is going right now,

partially because of the back and forth with the sale of Paramount stuff, but also from the standpoint of like, yes, we've talked about who we're going to cast for, for Wonder Woman potentially and all of this stuff. There was there was talks about apparently because they were talking about, oh my God, what was the name of the Salvation,

right? And peacemaker. Chris helped me because I don't think Christian remember the name. It's salvation. Salvation. Yeah. They're all, the actual role they're looking for is Bartah.

Like I, it's one of those situations where like I think the best choice right now, like you said is, is Arjona, but I just don't, I don't quite know where we're going with all of this, like, at this point. And I, and I think that I am more of the mindset that I really just want them to get Brainiac right. And that's what I'm more focused on than anything, um, is making sure that that Brainiac works and works well, because we've never seen them before. Like, it's not to say that I, I'm not excited about Wonder Woman, but I just, I, we have,

haven't seen Brainiac. So I'm more, how is that going to work is where I'm kind of at, you know? I mean, I mean, I agree with that. I think that, yes, you got to, the main focus has to be the villain and everything that's why the story counts. Sure, but, but the overall thing, Chris, about her joining, I think is the right move because you got to get people excited about the big three here with the, and, and with Batman coming in. You got it, you've, you got to lock everybody in. And I think by mentioning Batman is the way to go. I don't think, and I think you put the shine on Wonder Woman by having her debut, it would be wonderful. There's no world in the society we live in,

the scoop culture that they can hold it. But I would love for them to not announce a damn thing, and you just know she's going to be in it, and you don't know who it is. And when you finally see Wonder Woman, it's the first time on screen, and they tell the media to shut your ass, don't say a thing about who it is

until it releases that day. It's impossible. that that would hold in the same way that I told you guys. And I'm going to also say that I was right and wrong at the same time about our trailer conversation we had with Doomsday about how I ston, because where I was right is it was leaked a thousand billion times. But it wasn't really the trailer. It was marketing tools.

So I agree with you more so now, Chris, that the marketing tools in the way that they did it, yeah, put it out in the theater first and it gets leaked. Who cares? That's what I was saying. I was like, you let it run for the weekend and then the following Monday, Tuesday, whatever, which I think it was. Right, but what I'm saying is it was leaked and when it was a regular trailer, we really thought it was a regular trailer and it wasn't a regular trailer.

It was just marketing tools. I mean, you can do that. Anyway, we digress. Chris, when it comes to all of this, you know, and it comes to the marketing of how they're going to do this, you think that they'd be able to keep it quiet? No way, right? I don't think so. I mean, what are we going to do?

What are we going to do if it's a quiet thing? We've got to talk about this stuff. I know. I think it's inevitable that it'll get leaked out in some way, shape, or form. But I do think that is why it's more of a, let's have a mention of somebody in here. Let's have probably a close set or, I mean, I think that like Wonder Woman making an appearance thing, she's not going to be on the set of this film. She's going to be green screened in or something else. You know, I feel like that's how you have to do things if you want to keep things super, super tight and not let anyone

know what's happening. Because people are always around sets, you know, and taking pictures and doing stuff. People on set also leak this information out. You know, an NDA can only do so much if you are the, you know, protected source of somebody. So I feel like there's, there's no way we won't find out. I'd love for it to be an absolute surprise. That'd be really, really great. This is where I'm always jealous of Logan because he just like, he doesn't watch trailers

and he never watches the shows I'm on. And then so he's like, did you know that this was going to happen in this movie? he lives in bliss. It's beautiful. Right. I love that. I do want to bring up for you, Winston, I think, some of the salvation stuff and Barta, those are going to tie in, I think, to that Scott Free cartoon that is supposedly coming out, which I've gotten to read some sides of. I was coaching some people, and it's pretty good. So I think that'll tie in there. And then lastly, I just wanted to touch on this guys, because it was just like a little drop in the bucket here with all this information.

Teen Titans movie is already in the works. that feels very cart before the horse. Like how can I have the teens before I have Batman and Wonder Woman there? That really threw me for a loop. It was it was some, it was rumored for a while. Okay. Yeah. I think it's just because there's such a huge property, Chris,

as far as like the original Teen Titans cartoon, I don't F what Teen Titans go, but like it clearly had a massive run and all that kind of stuff. Though I did like the movie, the Teen Titans go to the movies was good. I would do some stuff, yeah. But I think it's because on its own it's been able to do pretty well. So.

Well, what do you guys make of it? You like the idea that one room we could show up in this? Or does it stink? Put your thoughts in your, let us know. Okay. So let's stay with D.C. And then we'll get to the questions. I think Winston and Chris might actually win today

by pretty big. already at 77 or stuff. Please, Jesus. So let's go with this one. Staying with D.C. James Gunn talks about Manit Tomorrow future as DC Studios co-CEO, not caring about a best director nomination. Okay.

So James Gunn has teased Manna tomorrow while addressing the uncertainty surrounding his future as DC Studios co-CEO. The filmmaker also emphasizes that he's not sweating, making prestige fair. DC Studios new DCU launched the end of 2024 with Creature Commandos and was followed by Superman Peacemaker Season 2 last year. 2026 promises to be a big test for the franchise as it will be the first time that we get any film

and TV projects, Supergirl, lanterns, playface, without James Gunn at the helm. I think Supergirl kind of seems James Gun adjacent, doesn't it? Ish? Variety recently caught up with the DC Studios co-CEO and filmmaker and asked what made Superman the hardest movie he's directed. He said, with Guardians, you're building a corner of the universe, I felt completely different from everything else Marvel was doing at the time. Here, I was reorienting

something everyone else already thinks that they understand. Strangely, it's the most comic book driven thing I've ever done more than any of my other superhero films. It's hard work, ultimately paid off a Superman received positive views from fans critics and ended 2025 as the year's highest grossing superhero movie. However, Gunn Must Balance being a writer, director, was serving as co-CEO head of a studio alongside Peter Saffron. I don't think it's ever really been done. Even Walt Disney was more of a producer than a director, it's an experiment. Yes, sometimes it probably sounds like madness, especially since I don't make the most conventional films, but I love big spectacle. That's my jam. I originally said no to the job. I didn't want to do

what Kevin Feige does, but once Peter and I realized we'd be doing it together, it became exciting. I still don't know if it's sustainable long term. It's a lot. There just aren't enough hours in the day. It's interesting that he's seemingly having doubts about still serving in that role, and it's not, it's hard not to wonder whether this could be foreshadowing him taking on a different, more creative focus position within the DCU. Regardless of what the future holds in store for Gunn, the one thing he isn't to worry about is prestige filmmaking and a lack of awards recognition. Last month, some industry insiders were shocked that Superman had been completely overlooked

the Golden Globes despite DC Studios mounting a robust FYC campaign. Really? Finally, Gunn was asked what he could reveal about next year's Superman's sequel, Man at Tomorrow at its core. It's about Clark, Lex. I relate to both of them, relate to Lex's ambition, his obsession, minus the murder. And I relate to Superman's belief in people, his Midwestern values are two sides of me. He said, emphasizing his personal connection to the movie's leads. All right. Let's go with this big one first.

And that is the, we'll see if it's going to be sustainable, right? To me, that reads a lot of different ways. The main way I think that it reads, I think he's exhausted. I think he is exhausted. I think that he thought, hey, let me try this and see if I like it. And I don't think he likes it. Not the creative side of it.

I think he likes the creative side of it. I think he likes setting stories. I think he likes having all this. I don't think he likes having the Iron Throne. I don't think he likes it. And I don't blame him. I think that he is going to hold it for as much as he can. I think he will have a larger role in D.C.

I do not think he will want to stay. I don't think he'll up his kind of. contract passed what it was. These were very telling comments to me. I don't think he's being ousted. I think he is going to stick around and be creative and do some stuff and have a larger creative role. But I think that when it comes to the whole thing, I think he's like, I'm good. I think that his wife's probably like, you don't need to do this. Because like he said, it's never been done before. It's a lot. To direct that many things, he's probably stressed out of his gourd and I don't blame the guy. Winston, do you agree?

with me? I mean, yeah, but I, this feels like of his own making. Like that, that's my problem is like I just feel like you were asked to come on as the creative CEO, which meant if you would like to direct a film, sure, but he decided to make Creature Commandos, Peacemaker Season 2, Superman, man of tomorrow, that was a choice. Yeah, but he said he turned it down at first. I just, it's one of those things where I like, I trust him as a creature. but I don't think he went into this with the mindset of, I'm actually taking on this large rule and I should focus on that. It feels almost like, I don't, I'm not being like someone saying be nice.

I'm not being mean. I'm just saying from the standpoint of you were coming in as a figy role. So you should have, in my opinion, pick the one project you want to do and then truly put the team of creatives together and you're the guiding light instead of directly being involved, I'm not saying I don't like what he did, but I would be exhausted. That's a lot.

You're now so far, you've got what? One other director with the film coming out in this first kind of stuff that's happening. So you actively did not delegate the way that you were maybe looked to do that up top and that I would be exhausted to. Wait a minute.

So I agree with, that assessment. I do. However, what I will say, Chris, is I think that that's how James Gunn works, right? He knows, like, he's like, okay, if I take this over, this is what I'm going to do, can I handle it? He's not going to, I'm not going to do anything different. I'm going to do it the way that I know how to do it, and I'm going to do it, and he's done it this way. And I don't, I don't know. So yeah, sure, it's of his own making, but he's like, this is how I, in order for me to do what I need to do and make it successful in my mind, I've got to do it this way. And when I do it this way, I'm not liking it all the way through. So I got to step back. So I don't think what

Winston's saying is wrong. I just don't think like you could have done it any other way because that's how he does it. I don't think that he could have just delegated. I don't think that's who he is. And not that I don't agree that maybe he should have done that, but I don't think that's who he is. I think he needs to have his hands in and he realizes if I can't do it this way and stress me out this much. I'm going to stick around. I'm going to set up the things until like he's like, he's like done what Kathleen Kennedy should have done 10 years ago. It seems like if he does this. But what do you think, Chris? I agree. I feel like he's also at a point of trying to really like champion Peter Saffron because I feel like we just don't talk about Peter Saffron a lot when it

comes to D.C. We really focus it on James Gunn because he is making those creative changes. But there was an article that came out prior to this one with Yahoo Entertainment, this interview. And he He talks in there about how Peter's the best. He does everything I don't do well. He keeps the ship steady, keeps everyone aligned, connects us with Jim Lee and the comic side, and unifies departments that used to operate separately. What we share is a genuine love for these characters. And it's a privilege to help shape how people see them now.

I feel like in the next few months, we're going to have him talking more and more about Peter and having Peter do exactly what Winston was talking about, try to delegate. Can you help me delegate? I cannot do all of this. I cannot make everyone happy, least of all myself. how can I actually start unifying these departments so we have a cohesive vision, but I don't have to have my finger in every pie. You know what I mean?

Totally. And I wonder what it means because Netflix is another thing too, right? Like he's probably also like, I don't look, I've had these bosses and I'm going to have new bosses and I'm going to have new people to answer to. I signed on because by the time his contract ends, the Netflix thing will even have gone through yet. you know, it'll just be going through at that point. They got to go through all the red tape and all that kind of shit that they have to do, Winston. So it's like by the time, do you think, let me ask you this question.

Do you think by the time Netflix is done if this deal goes through, if it's approved, you think guns there when it starts? Yes, I think so. But I do think that there is going to be some pretty big changes. Like I just don't, like I think the starting of this conversation, is probably going to be fully pushed as far as, you know, taking a step back.

I have a feeling it'll be even more so as far as that goes, and he really will kind of fall more in the overarching. And then maybe you get one gun project at most every couple of years. And he really just is not as intricately involved in the creation. of this stuff. Like, I don't blame him.

He's talked about how nothing had him more excited than making a Superman film, Superman being like absolutely one of his favorite characters. He really had all these ideas for it. So I'm not surprised that he put his foot on the gas and wanting to do that. I just think it was that he bit off more that he could chew as far. He was thinking in the mindset of a director in my, in my humble opinion, a director and even producer than an EP and or like studio head. And I think that the mindset is now about to shift. And I think he'll be around for Netflix if he makes that full mental transition.

Fair enough. All right, guys. What say you? James Gunn, he's going to stick around? Yes, no, maybe. Put your thoughts in air. Let us know. All right, here we go, guys.

It's time, the moment of truth. so we've got right now you guys need 104 what I say 104 or 106 I can remember what I said Luke will tell me but I think I think it's 104 it could be 106 but either way you're at 86 right now

before we even start the question so I think you're in good shape I think you're pretty good shape we're so close I know Haskell Blade will return in doggies in space maybe maybe so Nathan Drake 253

Clayface is the One DCU project. You know what? Let me do this. I'm actually excited about, but last night, Jeff said he heard the script wasn't good. Now I'm worried.

I mean, you know, look, Jeff's, I saw Jeff, Jeff came out and was there on Saturday. A really good chat with him. I love catching up with Jeff. He and I are on different pages a lot of times when it comes through creative stuff.

So maybe I like, well, I would like the script if I read it. So I don't know. So, but he also heard that the script wasn't good. He didn't, who did he hear it from? Do you hear from someone who I think sucks? Or do you hear from somebody who I think has a good opinion? I don't know.

I don't know you heard from. So you guys hold merit to that? I've also, I remember so many people saying that secret wars was an incredible script. And then, or secret invasion, excuse me, secret invasion was an incredible script. And then I saw that show and went, is it? No, it's the farts. Maybe they meant the pilot script. I didn't mind the first episode.

If anything, I said, whoa, there's going to be some behind Kilmeria Hill, right? This is about to be fired. And I was like, oh, it wasn't. I'm such a, I'm such a good friend to see him. I mean, she's, I never even showed it to her. You were the best. I know.

I let her out of, I let her out of that one. So, yeah, no. All right. Well, we'll see if that comes to, I got to be honest, man. I think the thing that's the most disappointing about how bad secret invasion was is that storyline in the comics is

so good because it is this like who do you trust? What is happening? And they just botched the hell out of it. Yeah. That's what they say. I didn't see it. The whole way through. Only saw a couple. That was it. I never watch it. Okay. So next one is Angel

Manfredi. There's only ever going to be one blade. He's been right so far. Armada. Ait. Alvoys. Hey, Willie. Donkeys are on Melmac. That's great. Armada, 8YT. I heard that Bob Dylan and Bruno Mars are doing the theme song for donkeys in space. It's pretty incredible. Someone told me, someone told me that actually I'm looking for it, but someone told me that they asked, can't be about donkeys and space in one of his super chats. And then Roka and the rest, do if you guys watch any live streams, no matter what the live stream is, ask a question about don't ask you in space. Whatever live stream is. I don't care. I don't care if it is, whatever, whatever it is. the question about before we get off topic guys can you give us your your thoughts on the upcoming animated um uh soon to be masterpiece donkeys in space can you please and send me the clips i want to

i'll play them i'll play them on the on the show i want to see people like in our space outside of our space anybody you watch anybody you watch it'll make you laugh i promise even if you don't i wasn't going to give a super chat this person give the super chat and ask them what they think about donkeys in space and please send it to me. I really, really hope that other stuff that I watch it somehow breaks through their lexicon. That's what I mean. I'm saying like imagine like on screw face John, who I love. Ask him about it.

Ask anybody like anybody and then send me the time code. I will and Luke and myself and P.L. If there's enough of them, we'll do like a super cut of it and play the whole thing. Get it everywhere. Get it. I do it on Soria. I saw it like people are making donkeys in space trailers. They're everywhere.

It's hilarious. Anyway, Armada saw a long walk last night. Probably not the best time to have seen it with what's going on currently outside, but a really well-made film. It's true. Probably not a good time to watch it. Have you guys seen it? Yeah, I wouldn't.

They made my top 10. Oh, easily. Yeah, easily. Chris, you didn't see it yet. It's not a horror. It's not a hard film. I know. I've read the book.

It's not easy. Oh, you did. I read the story. So I need to watch. it but I wanted to watch it in the comfort of my home. Yeah, it makes it. My daughter just watched, I've just read that book. She's tougher than me though. Yeah. We all know this. No, the older the older one, but she still, still, still both of them probably. It's true. I'm right at 8.YT. Sarah Jay would make her

come back in Avengers Zoom Day. Um, well, I'm not going to get too graphic with that comment. Come back. But if you, you, yeah, it's a little literal. I do you, you know that that's my absolute favorite thing about parks and rec is that, uh, Oh, it's the best one. Ever, ever. Peter, What's up, Peter? To earn goodwill at this point, Disney Plus should maybe do a blade short similar to build hype for Midnight Suns. I mean, maybe. I mean, it's, I think, give it time, though, because they got to get past Spider-Man and the Avengers movies before they start worrying about anything else.

Because of those movies, by the way, we haven't been talking about that. And it won't. But if all three of those movies fail, I think the MCU is done. It's over. Oh, a thousand percent. It's over. But I don't think it. I don't think that there's any world where you can recreate.

and I'm not trying to be a negative Nancy, but there was just too much goodwill going into him. I don't think there's a way that you could ever recreate Infinity War and Endgame. However, you need to get as close as possible. Yeah, agreed. All right, Bunny Bubbles Boila. Love you, Chris Carr.

I love Chris Carr and Sam Tima. Yeah, that's one of the things I'm going to try to do in 2026 is I'm going to try to see if I can do a few, you know, digital, you know, may it get Sam in here, do something with somebody. Ming, I think Ming and Winston on a thing would be great. So we might try to mix a match a couple different times, especially with the potential travel that I'll have to do this year.

A lot of support from Derek on this one. Boom. Thank you, Derek. Bunny Bubbles. Pates is my favorite show on this channel. I understand why. So great. Thank you so much.

Go ahead, Vincent. You can say them? I was just going to say, Derek. I don't know if you know, man. It's really funny because you've all made us feel like we are so special that behind the scenes, all the people that are on the Christian Harleff show or find about who, no, Derek is my daddy.

You're not taking my daddy away from me, goddammit. It's funny because Mike said that too. Oh, sorry, Ray. Big balls will return in Avengers Doomsday. Hell yeah. Derek Johnson. I'm kind of glad that Blade got canceled. I always felt Mahershala was too old for that character,

especially for long-term use. Tell his face. I know, right? That man is so pretty and so talented. Yeah, I think it's just a matter of like it's, it's about how long he wanted to commit. Because he was announced like 2019. Yeah, I was going to say.

Yeah, committing in 2019 for 10 years is one thing. Committing in 2026 to 10 years is another thing. Sure. Yeah. But back then. Derek coming in hot. Derek put in a ton of these. There's a lot there.

Hey, Mr. CJ. Late to the party. just a happy Friday, capes and cows. I wish I knew. Hell yeah, me too. More support from Derek. Lots of support from Derek.

Follows it up with AdVid. Advate, Charmel, one. I just watched weapons film of the year. It's a good one. Very good movie. It's a really good one. Ray, looks like Disney will have to find a different way to apologize

to Ms. Scarlett Johansson with some other movie role. I think they'll be okay. I think we're going to be all right. Bobby Jackson, do you think post-secret Wars Marvel should focus on big movies with four pillars, Avengers, X-Men, Supernatural with Blade, Strange, et cetera, and Spider-Man, or still put out movies like Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four. I think that they should focus on movies with Four Pillars. I think they need to go big, at least for the-

Four Pillars? The big movies, like Avengers, X-Men, like, then they can go Supernatural, Blade, Strange. But, like, you know, people, like bigger characters, known characters and staying away from from the kind of the unknown stuff because the unknown stuff is not delivering right now. No, I get it, but are we calling Dr. Strange? one of the four pillars though yeah he's been in enough he's been in enough movies where and his movies have done well enough he's definitely he's mainstream four pillars 100% if you put him in blade in a movie you're going to elevate it and get more people in there because there's he's inventors

infinity war anybody that really was one of the main stars of one of the biggest movies of all time sure you got a shot to and and one end to even though we you and i did not like number two made a lot of money did very well but that was i i still argue that that was partially because we weren't on our decline yet. Oh, I don't disagree. I don't disagree. Because most of those movies around that time were still making a lot of money. We started to get into danger territory. Sure.

What, Ant Man in the Wasp? Yeah, and you're also following up right after No Way Home, and he was in that as well. But because of that, though, he's got clout still. But to answer Bobby's question, Chris, I think, I think for at least the next couple of years, you got to stay away from the little movies. That's why I think no world do you do a Young Avengers movie. No world. You can do one on Disney Plus, but no

world do you do a Young Avengers movie in the theater right now? You've got to focus on X-Men. You've got to focus on the big movie, Spider-Man, these other ones, and really get the audience back and then start to dive into smaller stuff again. Leopold, Be Staunch. Thanks for the best content on YouTube. Thank you. Also, Raycon for the win. Yes. Put my first pair of open buds on at work today. Treat yourself. Get these now. See? I'm not lying. I'm telling you the truth. I only put stuff on here that I know people are all love. And look, I want them to come back

for the rest. I want them to be on this show all year. And the way that you do that, you, you guys buy a pair and you use my link and they'll come back. Ray, congrats to their Friday's crew for Steph announcement. Yeah, I know you guys got Steph's announcement. Unbelievable. Nathan Drake.

Yeah. I know. Best Animal Attack movie. She got done on the show. That's true. She should have done on the show. Yes, her best animal attack movie that's not Jaws. I love Lake Placid and Ghost in the Dark Anyone see primate this weekend? Was that the scream unseen? Because we were going to go and we had to cancel.

Yeah, I didn't see it because I missed, I was traveling. But does Kujo count? Oh, for sure. Yeah. Cooch is a great one. Cocaine bear. Freaking love to that movie. Oh, dude, cocaine bear is amazing.

So fun. I love cocaine bear. I wasn't a big fan of it, but I understand why people like that. It wasn't a good movie, but I've, I understand why people liked it, but I was, I, I, I I knew we were in trouble when they were handing out drinks to the press to make when when we got there. Like, please drink and like this movie.

Greenie from Oz. You know you're winning a life when your mom, Steph is a Star Wars nerd. Just don't call him Anakin. He may Tina turn to the dark side. May Tina turn? What that means? That's Tina Turner.

I don't know. She liked Tina Turner or something? I'm not sure. Armada. Is Sadie Sink a better actress to Millie Bobby Brown? I think so. I think so, too. I think Millie Bobby Brown is a is a good actress,

but I think she's like a, she's more, it seems like, concentrated on being like a star. Seems like Sadie Sink is seen, was really more into the craft. I don't have any, I don't have any information on that. Just seems like what I, what I see. Yeah. I think really, sorry, go ahead, Chris.

I was just going to say they're also pursuing this career in very different ways with Millie being a producer and going down the business route, whereas Sadie is doing, you know, a ton of theater and indie darlings. So it's two roads have diverged in the woods. I would say that I think that Millie is a good actress for sure, but she reminds me a lot of like a young white version of Carrie Washington. She's doing a lot of lip, uh, recently she has been. Yeah. And Carrie has since like she still does it every now and again, but she's since gotten past that. And the longer she went through scandal,

the longer, the stronger her acting got over those years and she's in a different echelon now. I think Millie's getting there. But I think that's also because with kids, it's kind of hard, and she started very young, and so she kind of took in some habits. And they're slowly starting

to evolve out of her. But for now, she's in her face. Yeah, right. More support from Derr. JC33. Support for pups and cows. Mustard. Let's don't be. Silly. Lemon, that's different. Derek, more support.

Derek. Yoshimitsu 5-5-3-7. I hope the new X-Men doesn't do the love triangle. I love X-Men evolution because they made Logan too old to pursue Gene. Hugh Sadie gives me hope. Well, for now, it depends on who the new Wolverine, though, is. Keep him away from Gene Gray. Yeah, you don't need it right now.

She's messing enough. You got to keep Logan away from everybody. He's a 200-year-old man hitting on. 40-year-old. That is beyond cradle robbing. Yeah. Yeah. Derek Johnson. More support. Thank you, Derek. DX Batman 1. Goats are like mushrooms. If you shoot a duck, I'm scared of toasters. Don't know what that means, but I appreciate it.

Derek. Good, buddy. I like nonsense. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to chastise. Dark Smirk 1. Congrats, Steph. Name that baby Biff. Yes. Have to name him Biff. That's from, that's from donkeys in space. and then yes let's see Luke Star Killer somehow Apparantine

returned in Avengers Domsday. That's right. The dead speak. Yep. Such a silly comment. Yosemitsu 5-5-3-7. Boston. Winston's the best. That was, I mean, such an honest answer. I was reading.

Austin? Nathan Drake, 253. What was the behind the scenes on Draco coming out of spin-sock? You know, I saw you write that before and I had to go back into my memory in order to bring it up. And I remember it what it was. So at the time, And Draco was a heel. And we, we debuted him. He was part of the Lions Den. And it was a retirement match, basically, between Makuga and Finstock. Because they were former teammates. And then they had a beef. And then they challenged these other. I can't remember who challenged who to a retirement match. But Finstock

always had something up his sleeve. So he said, yes, Finstock will. play McCugge in a retirement match. So the match happened, McCugge comes out and Finstock comes out. But then Tom Dagnino walks out with Finstock. And he said, I said Finstock would play. So And Draco was underneath the mask playing as Finstock. And we're like, okay, well, McCugia is going to have to retire for a year. And that was the plan.

That was, we always mentioned how the Andrew Guy thing beating Merle threw things off. This also things. There was no world where we thought Josh McCugge would beat Andraco. And he did. And we had to like hide Finstock from the back and do all this stuff. But it was it was a lot of fun. So that was the behind the scenes of it was just we we were planning on, you know, debuting him that way with the Lionsden. Go pal. I'm strong team, Asia, but they said 20s, ages 33. Whatever. Derek Johnson. If anyone's ever in the mood for a good, bad movie, check out Mad Heidi. as Casra Van Dean as the bad guy. No, it's not a porn for all my fellow gutter residents. I don't know what that is. I don't know what it is.

I don't know what that is. You can't, I don't know where, Derek, I don't know anymore. Derek can throw out the highest class or the fattest ass, I guess. From knowing what he was saying last time. So you never know it, Derek. It is Swiss Mountain Girl Heidi is abducted by the government, by brutal government troops, and must defend herself and fight a war against a cheese-fueled machinery of hate. Wow, it does sound pretty interesting.

The G-Man 8119. Hi, guys, tied up with work projects. I can't hang out today. Here's some support. Catch you guys next week. Much appreciated. Nathan Drake, 253. Brainiac is tall in the comics lore, right?

He's like 6-6. Is that true? Yeah. Oh, okay. He's supposed to be like Clark-sized. Yep, 6-6. Fiona George, 95. Support.

Also, congrats to Steph. Huge support. So stuff. Derek Johnson, I'm a fan of manga, anime, and the movies. I do feel like some of the reason that anime isn't hitting is because you're watching anime where the manga has ended a while ago by the time the anime comes out, misses huge parts. Maybe so. And I think he's referring to our Demon Slayer watching.

And, you know, Winston and I were really into it. We're still trying to figure, I don't know yet. When Winston does come back for doing reactions, are we going to continue with Demon Slayer? would just bite the bullet and do it, but it's just like it was, you know, it's, it puts all the, the, um, pressure on Sam's shoulders because for every, for every reaction we do a demon sayer that eats poop, um, then we then Sam's reactions have to do well. And it's like it just puts too much pressure on her. So, um, we got to find some stuff for Winston to get to, we need some, um, some performance stuff. I'm saying there's some, there's a lot of war movies that Winston hasn't seen. You never,

team platoon right no yeah that's one that i'd love to watch with you for sure um and then yeah we're getting into like my editors Ryan that one too yeah we're gonna watch that one too my my editors my my editors who are uh are based in india um they were very adamant about um about uh some of these india-based movies and um from a reaction and uh i mean i haven't seen r r r i heard i'm gonna do that i'm gonna do that with chris i'm gonna do those with chris um and we're We're going, and there's tons that I, that was, that's one of the few that I have seen. I want to, I want to kind of up my repertoire on what I know. And they've suggested a bunch.

So I'm, I'm going to, we're going to be doing those this year. We'll see. And then Derek also says, solo leveling has this issue. The manga ended over a year ago and the new solo Ragnarok is out, but the anime skips huge sections of the angel missing huge parts of the nuance and emotional beats. I can see that. And then, solo leveling is, is, is, are you doing reactions of solo leveling? No.

it's it is one of the greatest anime's so good it's so fun yeah Derek also says anybody going to Vegas soon check out the David Copperfield show it's amazing and he's still got the charisma charm and swag he did when I was a child was an awesome show that's cool yeah people people love that show heard that and then he also follows it up

One Piece chainsaw man even bleach are still continuing alongside their anime and movie releases Yep I'm looking forward to One Piece The new season Armada 8YT's genius movie pitches Jerry Jones and Terrors unlocked the conformity gate of Stranger Things a little screen life type movie

that'd be hilarious I guess conformity gates over huh I know I was crossing my fingers but I knew it wasn't going to happen the Cali Kid huge thank you Callie Kid look at a huge donation there thank you Kelly Kid what are your top three movies I gave mine

I mean I have a list up right now if you want to see my list but I can I'll certainly go over them again and tell you which ones are are witch but uh how from my top three i had one battle after another roof man f1 also give you sinners those are your top three yeah and then sinners and long walk were the we're the next two or no sinners sinners and sinners sorry sorry sinners and hamnet sinners and hamnet i would have sworn that weapons would have made your top three weapons hit weapons hit um i think it was number six maybe

five or six six or seven i don't remember but uh but either way um yeah one battle because i do rewatch roofman i just love so much i've won sinners long walk um i didn't realize you liked roofman that much as well that's crazy loved the roof man um how about you wins and what was your top three so i i'm hesitant to say because my video drops on monday like i i just got time i've been most people that have been following me on other stuff know that like i've been dealing with both my parents getting very ill to start the year. So I've been a little behind on my scheduling. But my video drops Monday, so I'm hesitant to say.

But I will say a lot of the stuff you mentioned is in my top 10 list. So there's that. Well, you want to you give us one movie out of the top three? I mean, it's so surprise, sinners, as much as I talked about it, I'll give you that. The sinners is definitely in my top three. Where in the top three may surprise you. Right. And Chris, how about yourself?

Oh, my top three, it's all vibes, you guys. is my number one, naked gun, K-pop demon hunters. Nice. It's a good one. Oh, I just deleted that video. I should have shown, I shouldn't deleted it. But I was sitting at the table with the K-pop demon hunters for critics' choice. And I have the video of them when, and I don't know where PLD is in here or not.

But if you could re-upload that, I had it on here yesterday. And it was, I had them when they, the reaction, like, it was right across. They were literally, see right next to me. I had them celebrating. It was pretty good. I am doing a worst of, but I'll give you, I'll give you my, my worst three. I don't mind, I don't mind that if you, if you guys want that one. So, so far, my worst three, uh, were, uh, the electric state.

That was, which was, uh, that was, that was, uh, that was Lily Bobby Brown and Chris Brad and Chris Brad and was those, which made a lot of people nervous about doomsday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I heard it was the absolute force. Yeah. It was really bad. Um, straw. Tyler Perry. straw was awful. And the only reason I watched that one is because I actually auditioned for it. And I was like, let me see what role they had me reading for because it felt like it was an old man.

It was, it was like a 75 year old man. So that did not. That was not funny. And then probably my worst of the worst just because I was expecting so much out of it was him. Oh, yeah. I really liked the acting performances out of Marlon and Tyreek. but it was it was just

garbage. Bad. All right. Well, there you go. Derek then says, see y'all later, couldn't really watch, said to drop some love

for the show before I fly out. Boy, did you. And he left with this, and he took off. So he got you guys way over them. You guys definitely won today here, 114. So you won the week.

Now, what else will we do by the time we get out of here? We shall see. We still have a half an hour left. Joe, for show, you think Doomsday will really be four hours. Yeah, that was the rumors. That was three hours and 40 minutes.

don't I hope it's not that long I can handle 320 I can handle 320 I can handle 320 that's Avatar Lang I can handle that do it then just F me up and make me go to two different movies don't do that I think so I think that's probably the way to go that 340s is make it a trilogy it's it's

doomsday doom's part two in Secret Wars don't do this I'm with you Dean Lewis what's up Dean can't wait for the triple X version of donkeys in Stacy oh my goodness that'll be in clerks four or whatever. Joe for show, Donkeys in Space.

What about donkeys and Dunkin' Donuts? Anyone? I don't know what that is. Yeah, you just have those donkeys smoke a couple of parliaments going to Duncan so they can have

a nice movement. Maybe. I want to see, I'm telling you, please send me video of people asking super chats on other channels about don'tkeys to space.

And it's just one question. Don't spam them. Just say, hey, what are your thoughts on the upcoming movie Donkeys in Space? Hey, what do you think about so-and-so voicing the role

of Biff and donkeys in space? Like, things like that. just so we can and it's almost like the news of flirt and flowers let's have fun with it uh eric henderson 9802 had things to do last night any word of rocca and schneide hug and bombarded with donkeys in space well no they didn't because i asked people not to bombard him because if you bombard them they're going to know that something's up you got to just ask and Snyder caught onto it really quick because he knows me well and he said this smells this smells like a harlop thing he was right but um and that's one of the things I'll put in the Supercut.

Fiona George, support. Thank you for you. Another big one here from the Cali Kid. As performers, what are the performances that stood out for you in 2025? For me, it was Timothy Chalameh, Odessa, ASEAN, Leonor DiCaprio, Chase Infinity, Hugh Jackman. All of those, but they were all overshadowed by Jesse Buckley. Jesse Buckley, to me, was the best performance I've seen in 10 years, maybe more. the best. I think it is an acting class.

What was Jesse Buckley in again? Hamnet. I think an absolute acting seminar. It is something that I just have never been. I had no interest in seeing this point. Even over Sean Penn, because I thought Sean went.

I love Sean Penn. I thought Sean was great. This is something I haven't said this. To me, you saw it, Chris, right? Mm-hmm. So to me, it is as good of a performance. I'm not putting their careers together. I'm talking about the performance alone.

I think it's as good as Daniel DeLewis in There Will Be Blood. I think it's that good. I think that what she does in the end of that movie, not spoiling anything, the range of emotion she goes in within five to 10 minutes in her eyes alone, she goes through every stage without overdoing it. It's brilliant. It's brilliant.

So her, for sure. She's incredible, yeah. Yeah, and she won and she'll win everything. She's going to win, she won critics choice. She's going to win everything. Anybody else beats her? That's the one thing that I think, politically, there's no one I thought was better than her. Wow.

No one. Yeah. But I don't know, what about you guys? Performers that stood out. I mean, same boat. Yeah. Chase Infinity. Timmy, for sure.

And honestly, just because, well, never mind. I was going to say Dwayne because I haven't seen something like that from him, but I would actually say that I thought Emily Blunt still kind of outacted him a little bit. And I loved what he did in there, but she was, she was pissing me off so much. I forgot it was Emily Blunt. I was like, this bitch. And I was like, oh, the smashing machine?

Huh? And smash machine? Yeah, yeah. Here, Chris, here you go. Appeal they put it up there. Check it out. I love that you took the wife. I thought you went by yourself.

No, no, dude. Craig Robinson was singing to her at the table. It's hilarious. I love Craig. Super, super, super nice. Super nice. I was going to laugh for a second. The guy that was standing behind them, I thought Roka was there.

I was like, Roka didn't go. What the hell? No, I'm surprised he didn't go. All right, next one. Corn Emperor, what's up, Corn? Excitement levels for Knights of the Seven Kingdom. So, here's what I can tell you. I'll tell you to change that.

Okay. But I can't say anything else because I'm embargoed. But I've seen five others. That's all I can say. Okay. I'm like cautiously optimistic. just because house the dragon, I fell off where I was like, this is not doing it for me. But this looks so fun and hopeful.

I have a feeling just from trailers and what this is about. Chris, this show is going to be for you. I love egg. I'll die for them already. Yeah. So I can't, that's all I can say. I can't say anything else. CB the legend.

Chris, Harlef, reach out to Campi and Burnett to see why they're so giddy about Doomsday after learning what the movie is. Yeah, they apparently they really got, they have like a whole. whole synopsis on it, right? They're the ones who liked the secret invasion script. I can't trust or love anyone. Oh, were they really? Yeah. Well, there you go.

No shade to them. No shade to them. They read something that looked okay on page, but I'm just saying, I can't trust you love anyone in this industry. Y'all are excited about stuff. I got to see it myself. What's a twist? Joe for show 24, never turned out a happy hour.

Fair. Yeah. Legend of M600. What teams you guys want to win this weekend? take it Winston okay I am hoping the Chargers pull this off because I'm not trying to see the Patriots

actually go back on another run I think the bills will end up doing what they need to do because this is the year you have no Patrick Mahomes you have no Lamar Jackson you have no Joe Burrow you need to handle your business I'm hoping the Niners pulling up set we'll see what happens I love to see the Eagles go bye bye

I'd love to see the Eagles go by-bye. I would love that so, so much. Who else is playing? I think the Rams and Panthers. They think they're depleted. Rams and Panthers? Rams will get the revenge. I'm not scared of the Panthers.

They have a losing record. They have a losing record. They made of the playoffs. They just won their division. Well, there you go. All right. Bytown Billy. I was watching CNBC and they dropped that Skydance will be going after a Comcast Universal. If they are unsuccessful in acquiring Warner Brothers, what are your thoughts on

this? Sending positive vibes. Well, we've been talking about that. It seems inevitable that that's what they, they need to acquire something in order to make this whole thing that their plan makes sense. And they've got really nothing to go after. So I think it's inevitable. The Thanos style. If they're going to go after it, does anybody disagree? Just stop. They can't stop. They can't stop. just stop because it's the two things behind it is both a again the whole problem with all these murders you were undercutting so many goddamn people just because you want IP so you just got a massive library of it you're the way that you're running things as they are just like go like stop this shit

they're going to and it's incredibly frustrating well remember just remember they had a game plan that they thought was a sure thing with you up they they they buy uh you know, Skydance, buys Paramount. And then they're like, okay, let's go. Let's get the UFC. They get the UFC. They're like, then we got Warner Brothers, locked, put in the bag. We got Trump's support.

We're good. And then they got kicked in the ball back. And they were like, what do we do now? You've got to buy something. My problem is, and obviously I know that that's not what we talk about on here, it's been very clear because you can already see how CBS News has already lost a lot of credibility. this still reads more of a political move to try and get the media like the new side of it that it is like we really want to build out the movies because it just the way that it's going just doesn't it's not working so just leave it alone yeah that's that's not going to happen um joe for show do you think midnight suns will be bigger than thunderbolts popularity wise and promo disney does hard to say we don't really know anything about how who's involved anything yeah only because dr strange is there and i think he's a bigger thing than Yelena and Bucky and Red Guardian, but even still, I don't know.

Chris? I think you have the opportunity, kind of like how a lot of people are gravitating towards the idea of Clayface, because it's being presented as body horror. Having a supernatural, like, spooky film in Marvel, I think could give it a little extra oomph for people who don't really care about super, but like stuff that goes bump in the night. Speaking of body horror and what a, and I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but there's some TV show coming out that seems like just like a pure, rip-off of the substance. The beauty.

Like, it seems like a pure, like just rip-off. Like, it doesn't seem like it doesn't seem like they're trying to pretend it. It just seems like my wife who wouldn't, didn't even watch the substance. She just says, what's that? She's a rip-off of that movie, the substance. I was like, it seems like, like, how to, I don't know how people got away with these. Bugs Life and Ants. Confessor T. Just binge-watch fallout. Now I get the hype. that too about about three weeks ago.

I finally was like, oh, the new one's coming out. Maybe I should finally watch the show. And I was like, oh, my God. And now I'm like, this new season's okay. Okay, people dig it so far. So Matt Sarah's got a new episode coming out today. He was raving about it. Really loves what's going on with both fallout season one and two.

He's all cut up too. One is fantastic. So far with two, I'm liking it, but I'm not as hooked as I was with the first season. Yeah. Same, Chris? Yeah. I'm intrigued. But yeah.

Corn Emperor. Chris Carr thoughts on the Stranger Things finale. Love you. Oh, well, Corn Emperor, you can go listen to all of that over on Two Filly Casuals, Patreon, where Amy and I break down the finale. But if you don't want to get that behind a paywall, look, controversial. Overall liked it. Is it perfect?

No. Are there plot holes? Absolutely. Will it go down as one of my favorite seasons? No. But the last 50 minutes of that, the little epilogue they gave me, was beautiful. And I really enjoyed the way the show ended. Um, yeah.

Okay. My only critique, but I still liked it, it was just hilarious. All of a sudden, Joyce just comes out of nowhere. Hair perfectly quaffed. Like she hasn't been in any battle. You effed with the wrong family. I'm like, girl, why? Joyce has never looked fresher.

Yeah. Joyce was well rested and was like, okay, give me an axe. Is it my turn? Yeah. It's Raffes. Caleb McLaughlin as Miles and Sadie is Gwen. easy. Yeah.

So that's not, it's not a bad, it's not a bad idea, but, but yeah. McLaughlin has said that it is his dream role to be Miles Morales, and he has been posting a lot of footage of him doing like run up walls and flips.

Oh man, I get so, but I get so much, like, so I also thought that, um, uh, our boyfriend the penguin. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, and, uh, Renzi Files. I think he,

I think he looks pretty much. The thing is I always, whenever I mentioned, I also mentioned the kid from Cobra Kai, man, because I don't think is Caleb, and not that this is going to matter, but I don't think Caleb is, is Latino at all, is he?

He's not. Right, and that's going to, people are going to get pissed off. You, I, like, the funny thing is, is like,

you, people will because of the connection. I don't think you need to specifically go find a black Puerto Rican. I don't think so either. I think you need to find a Afro Latino. I think it would help you. The bare minimum, whoever doesn't need to speak, needs to speak flawless Spanish because

Miles does it all the time. See, that's the thing, though. I think you are 100% correct. I think that if they depict him as both black and Latino, and he learns the language, it's the same thing as there's many people who've played Italians who are not Italian. who are not Italian. Right. And there's, you get, you get all the time.

You get somebody who's Japanese playing a Chinese character like that happens. So I, I get that. But you can't depict him as not Latino. You have to. So like, that's, that's the only thing I would say is if you're going to do that, it's not just flips, Caleb. You better be, you better be on your du lingo, God damn it.

That owl, that'll be running drills. That's right. Eric Kirby, 5310. White Dog, Best Animal Attack Movie, Winston Hint. I know what that is. I still need to watch. I said I would watch White Dog and do a reaction to that.

CDS 777. Will there be another round of cast announcements for Doomsday? I mean, Winston and I hope so. Because that stream today, 100,000 views that stream. To this day, there's no one. The most amount of views on a live stream plus the fact,

no one will ever beat the super chats on that. It was like 600 or something. That shit was crazy. That was absolutely crazy. Yeah, that's a crazy. So yeah, sure. We'll sit there for five hours like idiots. Corn Emperor.

Need different Batman and Wolverine in 2027 plus question mark 100 for me. I don't know the end part of you. You got you got to over 100 maybe. You guys are 100% for me. I think is what he's saying. Do we need a different actor as Wolverine? I think that's what he's saying. Yeah.

For the DCU, new Batman, DCU and a new Wolverine in a new Wolverine. It's 2027. potentially. I think the new Wolverine will show up in... Now, the secret wars comes out in 2027, right? Yeah. It's supposed to be the year after. Have they started shooting that?

Yeah, I thought they shot them back to back. Did they? I thought that that was what... You could be right. You absolutely could be... That would make the most sense. But we haven't really heard anything about it at all. Yeah, just obviously because Doomsday's coming out. I was just under the impression that they, like, They're probably still shooting, but like they just were, you know.

Wiley, can I be the music supervisor for donkeys in space? You're in. Haunted Peak. When a goldfish here. When a gopfish here. You know, Luke, can you pull that clip? Let's resurface that. Let's bring it back.

Yeah, let's bring it back. All you do is find, what's a shit, little Bobby in the Juice, I think it's called. So just find that you'll find, when a goldfish here is, would be great to, bring back. I'd like to bring that back, nostalgia purposes. CDS 777. Anyone going to D23 this year? I am. Until you said D23, haven't thought about it.

I guess it's this year. Are you guys, has anybody going? No. I wasn't planning on it. No, it won't be. JC 33. Has Winston seen full metal jacket? No way. Nope. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's what to be one of the, we'll start a war, we'll start a war movie watch, you and I.

Montero 863. Hey guys. Am I the only one who thinks they should have done a Nightwing movie instead of a Clayface movie, you get a Batman-type character, two for one. Maybe. That would be interesting. But let's see the movie first. But if you ask that question after Clayface and it's not good, I'm going to probably tell you yes. Yoshimitsu, 5537.

I love the joke of Professor Logan, the art teacher in X2, but they made him in Storm faculty when Scott, Gene Kurt, were students in evolution and it was great. We've talked about this before, where Winston, you weren't crazy about Storm not being a contemporary of genes. They're literally supposed to be sisters. Yeah, we did talk about that. That was my only beef with evolution. I didn't hate it as a kid, but as I got older, I was like,

that doesn't work. All right. Let's say, Jay Morgan 3-977. Hey, Winston, what time did the Cowboys play this weekend? Go birds. Chris, say it too. Just trust me. Those are the Eagles.

See, if you're going to get me, get me with things that actually upset me. Like, Jerry Jones saying stupid shit, like, I want to be the one that retires as, you know, the owner with the most wins. You know, Robert Kraft's got six. I got three, so I got a little ways to go. Boy, you're going to be dead in like five years. You're not getting three Super Bowls in five years. Damn.

Sean McCabe. What's up, Sean? Winston and Chris crushed it last week while you're away, Christian. I don't doubt it. You've got a great team. Send Steph our love. Amazing news, we'll do. Have you seen the trailer for They Will Kill You with Zaza Beats.

Looks really fun. All the best. No, I haven't. It looks good. It looks amazing. Good, good, good. Hide and seek meets get out. is what it looks like.

Yep. Greeny from Oz. Donkeys and Sarah chase personal space. The Kelly Kid, again. This huge, love is the answer. Callie Kid. Always coming in with these power shots.

Thank you, Kelly. Gregory, dopt true. It wasn't good for Rokas Network. They took the money, but were bombarded. They bombarded in the Super Chats? Oh, no. Well, of course they figured it out that if they were getting hit with a million of them.

You know, disrupts it. I love you. First of all. I can guarantee you that if I talk to Roka, and if they got a bunch of super chats that said donkeys in space, I bet you he doesn't care. Yeah, he's happy for the super chats. If you guys put the outlaw rules in every super chat that I got,

I go, apparently he does. So, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle. Andrew Carnes, if Grogu is the one dueling in Starfighter, I'm out. I don't think so. You don't want to be hopping around like Yoda did when he was doing all them backslips? Starfighter. Oh, thank you.

No, thank you. We need to establish a new Jedi order, new badasses, new characters, people that, and I don't want to see Tom Cruise directing Grogu. Kidding me? I don't see Tom Cruise directing like some badass action. That's going to be some fun stuff. Clay Titus. You and Winston should do a Dragon Ball Z reaction with you as a first time watch. It would do really well.

That's what they said about Demon Slayer. they said it would do really well and it ate poops um i'm i like anime but i'm officially scared of it it for the channel it just it just it it cost me a lot of money it really did i had a lot of fun hanging out at winston and watching it but it was it was a it was a financial uh loss real loss gregory dot true support i hope to watch first half right after you you three are the best thank you i miss donkeys and space info is that your show coming up no No, short info, please. Greg, watch yesterday's show with myself and Steph, and you'll, you'll find out where it came from. And essentially was just like, somebody told me to get to the movie news and I said, no.

I said, I won't do that. I said, you don't know me well enough to understand that I don't, I know. They tell me, because we're talking about regular stories and everything, too, and it'll get to the movie news. And I was like, nope. I say, now if I want to talk about donkeys in space, I'll talk about donkeys in space. And that's, and then it just took a life of it's after. Go pal. Fallout season one took me some time to get hooked, but I ultimately binge the whole thing in one weekend.

Season two is slow again, and I haven't been keeping up. I watched the first three episodes of Fallout. Maybe I should try to get back in. Of the first season or this one? First season. It's good. It's fun. You should finish it, man.

It is especially the way that they ended the first season. And I think that's why I'm like, I know you got a build shit, but like, for real guys? Like, come on. All right. Well, let's see. Eclipse 77 Miles Brown over Caleb McLaughlin. for Miles Ross. Miles Brown sinners, right? No, Miles Brown from Blackish.

Oh, I don't know him. I don't think he's really acting in a lot of stuff since. Okay. He does have a dance background, so he'd be able to handle those moves. And I believe he is also Afro-Latino. I believe so. Let me double check. I've met the kid.

He's a really, really nice kid. Oh, yeah, his mom is Filipino and Mexican. There you go. then yeah then that to that point he's also to my knowledge a lot younger than 21 yeah he's 21 yeah yeah because Caleb's what 26 I guess so I think so Paul Hitchcock campia may have good sources but you know he doesn't have good swearing as for fanning your aunts are like mad lips all these specific and poorly assembled I don't know I don't know about his cursing I always just felt like John Krasinski on the office where I'd stare at the camera and be like what oh when the kid when the cursing was happening yeah uh Frank

Why would Marvel think a Midnight Suns movie would work over Blade? Lifelong comic fan and Midnight Suns has never sold well, always gets canceled quick. I think because they think that if you put like an assembly, like a team together first, that you can introduce them and build them through movies that you can get people kind of locked into it. And then if if those hit, then you can spin off solo movies. I think that's probably the thought process behind it, you guys. I think so. I think they're trying to not spread everything.

Also the idea of we need to do more Avengers type things. I think that's the other thing is that this is just magical dark Avengers. Like that's their thought process probably. Yeah. That's fair. All right. A couple left here. Corn Emperor.

Chris Carr, your best to be fair impression, please. Oh, from Letterkenny. To be fair. What's that from? Letter Kenny or Shoresy. So whenever somebody does like a, to be fair, everyone in the group goes, To be fair.

To be fair. To be fair. And now my friend. does it all the time. Good day, sir. Michael D. says Sarah J. is Miles' mom. She is nor black nor Latito. She may have had both of them with her

or inside her at one point. But no, sir. I say no. Please, please. Please. Jay Morgan, have you guys seen the trailer for the death of Robin Hood? Looks gnarly. So Ed Herald keeps sending it to me, wanting me to react to it. And we're too far past

when it came out for me to react to it. going to see it when it comes out. I have heard it looks gnarly. My, I always get similar to what Chris Carr was talking about before with the Disney villains, right? Where, where it's like, the Disney villain is like, oh, you know, there's a reason why Maleficent was so evil because she had a bad experience with a dude. This is the type of stuff. I like Robin Hood as a, as a, as a noble fox. I like him as a, I like him as a good guy. I don't want to see who's actually damaged. It's not true. It's not true. What you really hear about him. He's not really a good guy. It's his legend. He's a dickhead. I don't know if I

love that. I could change my tune after I see it. But I don't know. Do you guys see the trailer for it? I have and it looks very gnarly. It looks like like Eggers doing. Okay. Robin Hood. The Northman doing Robin Hood. But if anyone else could embody a sexually confusing fox guy, it's you Jackman. Come on. Yeah. And who's and who's directing that one again? Oh, gosh. Let me see. Because I think it's someone that I like a lot. Is that true? Michael, oh no. Quiet Place Day 1 director, Michael Sernazka. I like Quiet Day 1st. And he also wrote the screenplay. Yeah. And I like him. I like him as a director.

All right. Gregory Dophtru. Hugs, Chris, Winston, Christian. I'm from Minneapolis. A sadness given everyone a hug, you know. Always good talking to me, friends. Stay safe. Horrible what's going on out there right now. Please stay safe. It's just, I think the crazy thing to me is that this is now two things like this in the same city within like the same like five, six years. Like that's just. When in Oregon last night too.

Yeah. Yeah. It's awful. Yeah. Greg says, okay, I get it. Hashtag justice for donkeys in space ever. Exactly. Yeah.

I think it'll be that'll be a thing for a while. Donkeys and space. Okay. We did it. Caps and Cows is won. Once again, one 32 today. Big, big victory for capes and cows at one. 32. How do you guys feel about stealing money from a pregnant woman?

Isn't that your fault? Yes. That would be the first thing. And then secondly, it was to support her to say congratulations. So give your bonus to her. Absolutely not. I am four. No, Chris Carr says, Winston was like, I have a wedding before. Yeah, Winston was very definitive. Like, no, no, Chris Carr, do you, do you like some sugar in your coffee? No. Would you like to give money to a pregnant woman? No. No. I will get her a nice baby shower present if she invites me to say baby shower, but I... Perfect. All right. But post holidays, we're poor. All right. I know. Understood. All right. Well, tell us where you can find

everything you're doing on your channel. Chris. Oh, two for the casuals. We have a brand new episode out today talking about Firefly and Serenity. So you can go check that out wherever you get your podcast or over on YouTube. If you're interested in voice acting, and you should be because auditions are crazy right now. I had to tend auditions yesterday. I've got some more tomorrow and I've got a booking next week. Yay. But if you want to learn about voiceover, go to speakfriendstudio.com.

Our intro to VO class, a four-week class on that is going to start on February 3rd. So you can go ahead and sign up now. I cap it at eight people. I don't want to teach more people than that at one time. So go ahead over to speakfriendstudio.com or find us on Instagram, SpeakFrend Studio. Winston A. Marshall. Go ahead. I said Winston A. Marshall.

Go ahead. Yeah, yeah. you can find me at the Swaggy Blurderall platforms here on YouTube. Like I said, my best of 25 will be out on Monday. So check that out for sure. I've got some other best of 25, some future of 26 stuff coming to. So I'm excited about that. You've got Spill the Tequila on Tuesdays, myself and John Roker.

You got Blurds in the Hoods, myself in Jay Washington on Wednesdays, here on Fridays with Christian and Chris. Christian and I both also getting back to reactions soon. It sounds like probably not Demon Slayer, but it doesn't mean we won't have a good time. So come and check all of that out. And that's it for right now. Awesome.

And big announcement. Next week, we got Penny Barbara going on the show. No, I'm just kidding. So we are going to be. Sarah Jay? What's that? Sarah Jay. You Sarah Jay?

Yeah, it's right. I'm telling you, dude, when I brought, when Derek brought that up, I really wish I had the video to the day that I brought that up to you that I could have had, like, if I knew where that was, I would have Luke clip it out tomorrow. when you went like this I don't know you were looking down and I said Sergei you went because I think I said

that she was coming in for an interview that's what I did last time to you all right thank you guys appreciated it thank you to Chris thank you to Winston and thank you to you guys the entire week

like I said next on Monday Winston will be back twice as he was this week they'll be back with Roka on Monday the two of them will be hosting the show. Mike and Rox will back on Tuesday. May not have a show on Wednesday, but I'll be back for the Thursday and

Friday show next week. So thanks again. Appreciate you. Apple Podcast, Spotify, anywhere, podcasts are found. Join the Patreon. You haven't done that or become a member today. Thank you so much. Appreciate you. I wish I knew. I do. I really do.