The Kristian Harloff Show - Dave Bautista confirms DC Reboot?!

Episode Date: January 31, 2023

We are possible hours away from the big DC announcement from James Gunn. A new report is out that Guardians star Dave Bautista had a conversation with James Gunn about Bane and in that conversation, Gunn told Bautista he is going to do a full reboot. At least that is what the reports believe. Is Bautista assuming or is this indeed a fact? Avatar the Way of Water becomes the 4th highest grossing film of all time, The Last Of Us puts in an amazing episode. This and more on todays Big Thing with Kristian Harloff. #DCU #JamesGunn #Bautista #avatarthewayofwater  BETTER HELP: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Visit http://www.BetterHelp.com/bigthing today to get 10% off your first month. ATHLETIC GREENS: http://www.athleticgreens.com/bigthing THANKS TO CARBON HEALTH: http://www.carbonhealth.com TICKETS FOR BRETT AND KH doing stand up https://www.flapperscomedy.com/shows/jake-lewis-and-friends/69239/ OUR MERCH STORE IS LIVE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-big-thing-kh-channel?ref_id=27393 AMAZON WISHLIST: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1KPH42T0TP0PG?ref=cm_sw_em_r_un_un_djbxgIW5ZQMMg PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thebigthingshow SCHMOEDOWN ARCHIVE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMovieTriviaSchmoedownArchives Ask Kristian questions for next time! https://facebook.com/harloff OTHER GREAT CONTENT: REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT368qY7sfE0nKE4c04CqGvu TV REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT1LU-t2Z9AD5UJDiWW4pS_E STAR WARS SHOW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT0XmfpbblkF9PY7uO2qhbN6 THE BIG THING PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT3KAwbzDsv6mdR-gwUiydQg FOLLOW KRISTIAN + FIND HIM ON CAMEO https://cameo.com/kristianharloff https://twitter.com/kristianharloff https://facebook.com/harloff https://instagram.com/kristianharloff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to The Big Thing Show. It's me, Christian Harlov. Nice to see you. Nice to have you back. A little later episode today, but you know why. The last of us had a big episode, really big episode. And I did an immediate reaction last night. I did a spoiler review this morning and left that up for a little bit.

And then I said, all right, just hold out for a little bit before we get into the rest of the stories and maybe some other things that are happening. and there are a bunch of other things that are happening in the world of movie news. And the biggest thing is when are we get in this DC announcement? All things are pointing to tomorrow. It looks like we're going to have a big DC announcement by James Gunn. So I'm sure the majority of the coverage will be all of that tomorrow. The question of when it's going to drop. Who knows?

The information might be out there. I don't know. I just see, I look and I check and it looks like everybody. James Gunn seems to be hinting towards it. And there might be some more. I don't know. But I know Avatar is like the number four. The most profitable movie of all time now.

That's out there. Jay Leno keeps getting hurt. What the hell's he doing? Was he using a motorcycle now? It's like 79,000 years old. What the hell's he doing on motorcycles? He's burnt himself up, poor guy. He's got to stop doing that stuff.

And there's other things. There's other things we'll talk about. There's other stories out there in the world of movie news and other stuff that I can get to. I don't know how much time I'm going to take on the other stuff too. So there's a lot to talk about it. And I'm by my lonesome. And I'm excited.

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It's the big thing. We're on Spotify, too, by the way. I don't know if you know that on video. Hell yeah. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to The Big Thing. I think we had a good weekend. January's been so slow, but as far as what I do,

pop culture side of things. Last of us has been a breath of fresh air. Lots to talk about with that show. What they're doing with it, where it's going. And then you got Ant Man right around the corner. probably finally get into Throne Avatar. That movie is a beast, man. Holy moly.

I can't believe how well. I mean, I knew it was going to do well, but that well? I don't know. That's insane how well that movie did. I mean, it really is. All right, what else? What's I going to talk about here today? Oh, before we get into it,

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We have a lot of exciting stuff going on. I tell you. People have been asking me about the, like, the comedy bits that we do on the show, and we had a fun one with Roxy the other day, and I'm going to make a playlist of them. I'm slowly during the weekends, I've been, it's like slow in the weekend. So I upload some of the funny clips and you guys have been giving some great suggestions. I'm going to make a full playlist of all that. So don't worry. Now, right now I think there are at least five or six. I know Black Knight's up there. Santa Claus. Mrs. Garrett, we just put up over

the weekend. Rob Zombie is up there. Those are a few that are up there for sure. We're going to put peg boys up there and there's other ones. So you guys can can take a look and browse around. But there will be a playlist and I'll let you know once the playlist is up. It'll probably be up sooner than later. Let's get to some of this news. Let's start with, let's start with the DC thing, man. James Gunn.

When's it going to happen? When's it going to happen? Seems like it's going to happen pretty soon. There was this big news that the DCU, the DC universe, James Gunn, is going to finally announce what the hell the plan is. Everyone's like, oh, it's going to

happen in January. It's going to happen in January. He's going to do this big thing. And it's going to be a 10-year plan. And so the speculation began. When is it? One day left, January 31st. My guess is that it's probably already happened and that there'll be some reports and whatnot and a big video from Warner Brothers and everything tomorrow, meaning how many mean it's already happened that they've they've told people about it already and it's going to and people and then you're going to see strangely enough tomorrow when it happens there's going to be all these big articles written like the moment it comes out watch we'll see it's my guess um but nonetheless I think it's coming out tomorrow now the question of when tomorrow is another question

so I just said question a couple times because does it happen in the morning Do they want to, you know, steal the cycle for the day? I think that's the best plan. I think you drop it at like eight, nine in the morning. California time, hopefully. Selfish. Realistically, it'll probably drop it like six or seven in the morning. Our time.

But if it did, if it dropped like, you know, let's say nine o'clock. The whole day in this cycle, in the new cycle, that's what people are talking about all day. You can drop whatever trailer you want. want against it, but it's going to be hammered by this big, if I'm any other studio, I'm saying, just stay out of the way. If we're going to release anything, let's just release it on Wednesday. And I think they, I think you have the cycle and you have people talking about it. And you have, you know, a lot of people going over it, finding out what it is. There's reports. And this kind of goes into the whole thing. And hence why I'm titled it this way.

Dave Batista said, he's not playing Bain. This is not going to happen. said he talked to James Gunn and he thinks that he thinks he's going to reboot the whole thing. I guess they spoke together, but Batista told this is from the insider. He said he's talked to James Gunn about playing Bain and it's not happening. He said that James Gunn's going to start from scratch. That's the first time we've ever gotten anything like that specifically. Dave Batista told Insider he's not going to be playing Bain. Actors said he spoke to James Gunn who plans to start from scratch on the DC movies.

And he said, I appreciate that because I don't want to be playing. play a character that I can't bring justice to it. Despite his efforts, Dave Batista has come to the realization he's not going to play DC Comics Bain. That was confirmed, he said, in conversations with Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn, who is now overseeing the DC universe of Warner Brothers. I've had conversations with James about that, but I think the direction that he's leaning in, completely rebooting that whole universe. He's starting from scratch and starting younger and fresher, and I think you need to do that. The actor told Insider over the weekend, I'll press for us upcoming moving knock at the cabin. I'm seeing that tomorrow, by the way. I think

for the DC universe to be revived, you need to start from scratch. And I think you need to start with younger actors, Batista, who's 54, continued. You need to start to plan for the next 15 years, and I don't think you can do that with me, and I understand that. And also, I have to say that I appreciate that because I don't want to play a character that I can't bring justice to. I don't think at this point in my career that I can bring justice to Bain anymore. I just don't know if I can handle that physical part, and I don't think I would have the longevity to play ahead for film, so I just don't know if I'd be that guy. I'll tell you what. I liked Dave Batista, and I still like Dave Batista.

I like him even more after these comments. I mean, you talk about a guy. First of all, you know how tight him and Gunn are. And he's also like, he has said what a lot of people have said about certain actors that have been cast that are a little older. You say how much long, like that's what, I mean, look, he's 54. And I said that I thought Krasinski was too old to play Mr. Fantastic because of that same reason.

You want to have somebody who's going to be in this thing for at least 10 years. And Krasinski's could end up being Batista's age. I think he's by the time, you know, in that 10-year period, I think he's like 44 now. I think maybe a little younger, maybe a little older, but you get my point. I think, though, the biggest story out of this, though, is the soft confirmation that we're getting a reboot?

I mean, the only. reason that I was, because there's a lot of actors that say, ah, they don't, they don't really know. Batista and Gunn are pretty tight, and it looks like they had meetings, and Gunn probably told them, hey, man, I'm just going to start this whole thing over. And it makes more sense now

that maybe they're just going, hey, you know, let's just wrap up, what we got to wrap up with these other movies, do what we have to do, take a hit if we take the hit, and start from scratch. I think that's the right move after the conversations and the decisions that have already been made, I would have liked to see Cavill return.

I would have liked to see another Henry Cavill Manist steel movie. I would have liked to see him get another chance to play the character. I would have liked to see a few other things happen inside of it to where they combined both the old and the new and then transferred into the new. But that's not what happened. Once they decided Cavill was out, to me, you got to get rid of everybody else. because to Cavill, I thought was the best. I thought it was the best out of all.

So if you're getting rid of the best, you got to get rid of everyone else. And I thought Gallagadot was great too. But if you make this move where you're replacing everyone and starting from scratch, it makes the most sense. Not saying you have to swallow it. Not saying you're going to go, you know, if you're a hardcore fan of like the Snyderverse

and you're a hardcore fan of those particular characters and you decide, listen, one's not going to be for me. That's your prerogga. I think that's fair. But I think it's the smartest move, and it's the least confusing move. You might not like it,

but it's the easiest if you're a studio executive or you're a president of this thing who's trying to make it work. It's too confusing to have all these other characters, like, Mamoa might be Aquaman. He might not be. athlete might come back as Batman, he might not. Calcuttaud is, but someone else isn't.

Ezra Miller is, but someone else isn't. And that's the other thing. Ezra Miller, Ezra Miller stays and everybody else is gone. That's going to cause a stink. Call it a day. Call it a day at this point. You have to. It's just too confusing.

If you kept Cavill around, you could have kept both of them around. get both universes and either phased in, phased out, done like another universe and done this thing with the flash and open up different worlds. But that's not the direction that he's going. So, and it seems from the confirmation of, from what Dave Patista says, that's where they're going. But we should find out more tomorrow. But I think this close to the announcement, I think I think you can say that it's getting, I think you can say, I would, before this,

I would have put a reboot at like 40%, maybe 45%. I put it at like 80% now. I put a reboot at like 80% after the comments by Batista. Had it been any other actor that goes in and someone, well, you know, I had a meeting with James Gunn and the first time I kind of met him and it was cool. I think he's going to reboot it though, is what I think.

When it comes to Batista, though, these are like, you know, these are buddies. So he probably told him straight up. This is what I'm doing, man. So not to say he's not going to have some kind of role at all in D.C. It's probably just not going to put being. Especially have that classic comment. Why wouldn't you want to back? What do you guys think?

I'm very curious. You think this is a confirmation that we're getting a reboot? Or do you think, no, doesn't mean that. Just because they're friends of me, and he might just be speculating. He might just be thinking the same thing we do. We don't know if we're getting a reboot yet. I'm very curious to hear your comments and tell me what you think. Now, we're going to get into another story right now,

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A lot of people have been using it lately, and I'm pumped for you. All right, let's get to some other things here. The only one I have to get to is Avatar 2, man. After surpassing Avengers Infinity War early this week, James Cameron's Avatar, the Way of Water, has now surpassed Star Wars the Force Awakens to take the number four position on the all-time worldwide box office chart. Through Friday, the sequel house now pulled in $2.748 billion,

overtaking the JJ Abrams directed sequel trilogy, launcher 2.71 billion. That means that Cameron now has, three of the top four ever globally alongside Avatar number one, Titanic at three, and Endgame is number two. The milestone also means Disney has released three of the five global titles ever. Four, if you include the Fox released first Avatar. Now, you can't do that yet, even though they get the money before. They didn't have it when they released it.

At the rate it's going, Avatar the Way of the Water will top Titanic within the next two weeks. However, a domestic re-release of Titanic could add to that film's total and see two going up against each other. The film is expected to rise avatar that is the way of water is expected to rise 620 million this weekend coming in at 11th place all time passing The Last Jedi which was 620 million worldwide I mean domestic. This is nuts. It really is like I said I love this movie I've seen this movie twice in the theater I'm going to watch it again I don't know not in the theater but I'll watch it again I can't wait for the new one and I thought it would make about one point. point, I think four to one point six billion was my prediction when we were talking about it on

all the various shows that we do here on the channel. I was dead wrong by a lot. Now there are other people who thought it was going to make like three billion, no chance, too hard to do. But holy shit, man, this movie as a juggernaut. Wow, eating the Force Awakins. Nobody would have predicted that. Nobody would have predicted that it was going to be the Force Awakens and become the number four movie of all time. I mean, maybe there were some, but I didn't hear him. What an absolute accomplishment by James Cameron. Three out of the four top movies are all that dude.

Holy crap. I mean, that's insane. That is insane. I mean, that movie is, I mean, you already look at, if it's made a big profit already. and coupling it with the fact that they shot the majority of three, you know, that just shows you how much money that movie has made.

Wow. It's, it's, did you guys, have you seen it yet? Go ahead and comment and let me know if you have and what you thought. And even if you thought, I mean, I think that the reason why I think it did so well, I mean, I think it's a great movie. I mean, it was my number two of the year. I have heard people that don't think it's a great movie. Some people who just think it's fine.

I think it's just like a visual spectacle, right? This part of the question is directly towards people who just thought either it was, eh, or it sucked. This is my question for you if you're watching this right now. Don't you still think, though, it is a theatrical necessity. If you're going to watch it at all and your eyes need to see it, even if you don't love the story, to be able to watch something like that in the theater, that's why the movie made money.

Because if you invest it in the story, you're locked in, you're good to go. If you didn't invest in the story, it's like going on an adventure theme ride for three hours. It's not similar to other theatrical experiences. It's just not. And that's why it made the money that it's made. I happen to love the story and the character work and everything inside of it. But I think that that's why it's done well. because it's able to do both.

And I think it captures everybody's imagination. And the other thing I said, it's also not a superhero movie. It's also outside of the Marvel, D.C. Star Wars thing, it's something else. And I think people want something else in addition to that stuff as well. It doesn't mean like, all that stuff needs to go. No. It just needs we need other things. And talk about other things.

Holy crap, are we getting in a March? This is going over again. March is like insane, man. It's insane. March is going to be, I mean, already I'm trying to, all the movies that I remember seeing. So for this channel, so you guys know, the week of March 1st, I think what I was going to do is

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because she's promoting something else. And of course I will. But I think most likely it'll be that week up. And then you got the Mandalorian on the first of March. Then you got Creed 3. Then you got Scream 6. then you got Dungeons and Dragons or something at the end of it. John Wick, there's so much coming out.

I'm missing something also, but there's like five or six big movies coming out in March. It's nuts. I don't remember a March ever being like this. All right, so you got tons of shit coming out in March. So the next one that I got to get into. And before we do, though, I'll tell you this. I have been very excited and told you about it.

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Oh, man. Tear up, man. Lauren took on the role of the morbid Young Wednesday in the series at just six years old in 1964. She played the character for only two years but became world famous for the role and set a template that later inspired the likes of Christina Ricci for the films and more recently, Gena Ruech, in the Wednesday series. Oh man, John Aston, and it remains the last surviving member of the original cast. Before I go ahead and I want to get my thoughts on both, we also lost TV actress Annie Wershing. She passed away from cancer on Sunday morning in Los Angeles three years after being diagnosed. The Missouri-born actress is very familiar face to genre TV audiences.

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And sometimes you get these stories that, in the case of, like, Betty White, who lived a very long life. And everybody was sad when Betty White died. But she was like 99 years old. So you're like, okay, she lived a long life. It's sad, but she lived a long life. And these women were young. really young and I hate that I hate that I'm and it's it's anytime you hear about these stories especially in our field you want it's not necessarily you can you can go over the impact

that they both had and you look at what's going on with Last of Us right now and the impact that test had that type of character and that character in general and and what she did the role and obviously Lisa for what she did with with Adam's family and setting the stage I just always feel like I know that I don't know I like I just you get through all these different emotions but you wonder if sometimes the family looks and they go but they were so much more than those characters but that's how we know them too so I don't even know what to say when it comes to these things because you just my my heart breaks for their families every time you hear the story and that the story that the two daughters holding their hands it's like oh gosh um yeah man so my my

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So you guys know out there, anyone listening or anyone watching, I have been playing the game after the episode airs. So what I mean is like after episode one, I played up until the point of the events of episode one and then the same thing for episode two. Now, from what everybody tells me in episode three,

it deviates so much that I can play for a while now before it catches up to anything that's about to happen. So, and I usually gave myself about a week in between to do it. I was proud of myself last week because I was able to, I was able to catch up quicker than I thought I would. What else today? Oh, you know what I watched the other day? I'm Roxy, you're proud.

I think that I might, by the time we get to Thursday's episode, I think the answer would be no. But I still watching this show Shrinking with Jason Siegel and Harrison Ford. First episode was pretty good. I enjoyed it on Apple. I wonder if she's watched that or we're going to watch that. So we'll talk. If not, I'll add it to the list. I've been watching 1893, 1883, 1883, 1883, 1883.

I might like 1880. I like 1923 a lot, but I might like 1883 more. And I never thought I would say that. I only watched that because I was like, I like 1923 so much. I'll learn a little bit about the history of the Dutton's. This is probably between the two of those series.

I'm probably going to wind up watching Yellowstone now. But back to Last of Us. Last of Us is just doing next level stuff, this storytelling in this last episode. And this is also something else that I want to bring up here. As I mentioned, the Mandalorian on its way. I really hope.

I know this isn't a, if I was to guess, I can't imagine this is a Faloni-Favreau decision as much as it seems like it's a Disney decision because it looks like a lot of these Marvel shows are the same. This stupid 30, 40-minute thing that they do with their shows, it really disrupts the, it kind of, it's almost like, it defeats the purpose of the television show in general.

I mean, you have enough, you still have enough time to build the character stuff out, but like, you look at Last of Us and look at what Stranger Things did, these longer episodes. Yeah, it's going to cost you a little bit more money. Disney, you can handle it. Oh, but we're hemorrhgin on Disney Plus. Don't make less shows.

It's this 35, 40 minute nonsense. Andor was close to like 50 minutes. Andor was the closest. And I think that's one of the reasons why it was one of the most detailed. Stop with this 35 minute, 40 minute bullshit. Stop. Get it to an hour. Get to an hour and 15 minutes.

You know, let the dialogue play a little bit more. I think if Obi-Wan would have been like an hour and 10 minutes each episode, they would have been significantly better episodes because you would have had more scenes like that scene. When he's sitting, I bring it up all the time, I know. When he's sitting on that, whatever it is, the go-cart stuff, and he's talking to Leah about his brother. And he's like, whoa, we're more of these conversations. And the last of us, I was so shocked.

I'm not going to spoil anything. I was so shocked with how much they were able to fit in to this one episode and tell you so much. I disagree entirely with people. I saw a few people thinking that this was a filler episode. I saw some guy going, oh, you're calling people crazy if they think it's filler? And I'm like, I talk to my friends the same way.

If I was talking about, Brett, I'm like, you think that's filler, you're crazy. You take that offensively, then, dude, you're watching the wrong channel, man. Same thing that people are, like, they don't get the jokes. And I get it. Some of certain channels are for you and certains are not. but like, yeah, I think you're nuts if you thought that was filler. Are you allowed to feel that way?

Of course you are. But I think you're nuts. Yeah, I loved it. I really did. I love what they were doing in that series. Last night's episode was incredible. TV right now, firing all cylinders. And no, last but not least,

it'll be a little bit of a shorter episode today. It was such a busy week, I'm sure. sure this is this weekly busy, right? I think we're going to have the James Gunn stuff tomorrow maybe. We got a knock on the cabin, immediate reaction, and then a review the following day. It's to the council. We got our episode with Roxy and Brett.

I might, by the way. I might, depending on if we get the James Gun announcement tomorrow, which we very well might, I might switch the Wednesday and Thursday episode of Big Thing. I might have Roxy and Brue. Brett on Wednesday, and I might have Mike and Steph for Star Wars stuff on Thursday. I don't know what I'm doing this, but that's why. And then Friday, obviously, Winston and Coy will be back.

And then yeah, man, then we're off to the races. I've seen Ant Man, I think I'm on a week from today. So we're getting ready. We're getting ready. Last thing I wanted to bring up was this, like, I had a, I never was like a massive, like, Jay Leno fan. You know, I was always more of a Letterman guy. But I've had an opportunity to meet Jay a handful of times, and the last time was at Flappers. And he's a very nice guy.

He's a very nice guy. And he was a very, very, he was one of the biggest comedians of all time. And then obviously he got to Tonight Show and all that too. I'm worried about this guy. his luck is not doing good right now. Last month he blew himself up and then he crashed in a motorcycle today. It's like if I was like,

my dad riding around on a motorcycle and it's just, it's over. Stop riding around on motorcycles. Cut it out. Why you tell him to do that? Because he's blowing himself up and crashing on motorcycles. That's why. Same thing Harrison Ford stopped.

flying planes and this guy should stop, stop blowing himself up and crashing into trees. Whatever he's crashed into. He says, he's fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. But I, you know, I just don't, I don't get it. I mean, I do get it. You should say that.

He's, he's, it's his passion. You don't want to give it up. Give it up. I don't know. That's all I got for you today. Shorter episode, but a good episode. I don't know. I don't know if that's, if that's true.

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