The Kristian Harloff Show - Dune 2 is delayed until 2024! Is The Marvels next?

Episode Date: August 26, 2023

Join the website here! http://www.thekristianharloff.com Dune 2 was one of the highly anticipated movies of 2023. Now it will be one of the most highly anticipated movies of 2024. The film was pushed back due to the writers and actors strike and the studios unwillingness to compromise on a fair deal. Will other projects like The Marvels follow suit? Who is this Inquisitor in Ahsoka? Ezra? Maul? Someone else? Can the MCU bounce back? BOOM STUDIOS is back with a new Power Rangers! This and more on The Big Thing with Kristian Harloff

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it's a bummer it's funny because well it's not funny it's ironic because i when i did the most anticipated list i had forgotten to put dune on the list for 2023 and it was it was my number two and so if you go back and look at that list it's not in there unfortunately i think i was uh I was predicting the future. It'll be one of my most anticipated 2024. So that stinks. And we'll talk about that. And we'll get into it in general.

But then there's also a lot of questions from you guys. That's what today is. Normally we do the capes and cow. So I said, you know, it's kind of me and my lonesome here today. So fire out the questions. Let's see what we can conjure up what the great audience can do. And you guys send in some great ones. majority in the comic book movie realm

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Yeah. Yeah. It is, it's been a long, fun week. Yesterday's show is crazy. I never understand how, you know, do me a favor. Let me know, like, how this works. I just don't, I just don't understand. Some people tell me they don't get the notifications that YouTube sends the things.

And then sometimes I figure, like, hey, people see a title. They don't really give a crap about it. and they move on to the next thing. Where do you land? Because yesterday's thing was Rebel Moon. Zach Snyder saying that he was going to have a director's cut of Rebel Moon already. But then there was also Big Balls, the Chipmunk is on the thumbnail with his balls on Brett's shoulders. And it did all right.

Fine. Kind of the average. But I was, there's a moment on there that's just when Big Ball shows up. We were crying, laughing. And I just never understand how it works. It's because, be honest with me. You were scrolling through. You said, I don't know.

I'll wait to the Friday episode where he's talking about the comic movies or checked out that Asoka thing. I'll wait until next week on Asoka. I like the UAP show. And Roxy's not on this week, so I skipped it. I got to hear the feedback. Or I didn't get it because the algorithm didn't,

or the YouTube didn't send it to my subscriptions. Comment to tell me, because that helps also. The more you let me know and the comments go in there, I figure it out. We're still going to do the, we did the goofball show yesterday. I think whenever Brett and I are going to be on together, we're going to play that goofball theme,

and God knows what's going to happen. But, you know, it sucks. What did happen, what I knew was going to happen, Dune 2, pushed, stinks. Here's the story. Dune Part 2 is delayed into 2024. Studios really start to panic. This is from Sam Barsanti.

over at a V club and Sammy boy I think it's Sammy boy I don't know Sam will say the alliance So Sam writes The Alliance of motion picture and television producers

hasn't had an especially great week Just yesterday We reported the long-weighted return To the bargaining table With the Writers Guild of America Which is apparently just a scheme To try to force the members Into turning on their union

To make it seem like negotiating committee was simply being obstinate in the face of a good offer from the studios. The WGA even said that instead of a negotiation, the AMPTP returned to the bargain with a lecture about how good their single and only counteroffer was. Like most of the AMPTP moves, it seemed to do a little more than re-energized that striking workers, and now the studios are willfully suffering the consequences of their own refusal to meet the demands of the writers and actors. They depend on so much.

As reported by deadline, Warner Brothers Discovery has officially decided to bump Dune Part 2 from November all the way to March. And not only is it definitely because of the strikes, but it's also definitely a desperation move that shows the studios are nervous. This isn't a movie coming out in a month or even two months. It was coming out in November. It had trailers with the old date attached to Oppenheimer and other big movies this summer. Delaying it now means those trailers were a waste. And it also means the studio doesn't have much faith. the strike's going to be resolved by November.

But that will just make the studio even more desperate to get deals for the writers and actors before March. So while the studio is doing what it can to salvage a potential box office for the movie, because Zendaya and Timothy Salome can't do any promotion for the film while on strike, it is also giving

more leverage to the unions by doing this. Basically, this is proof that the studios are in trouble and they know it. However, the other big Warner Brothers movies, Wanka, Aquaman, and Color Purple, will hold their release dates in December, which could mean that the studio has more faith in ending the strike by then. But deadline also says that exhibitors, the theater owners, have made it

loud and clear that they need movies like air after the COVID closures. So perhaps delaying Dune 2 was the one move the studio felt it could make, while a mass delay would have been more disruptive than it could handle. Yeah, because the theater is going to be in trouble. Either way, all this does is delay the inevitable and treat the symptom but not the cause. The unions aren't going to cave because the movies got delayed, but the studios will have to cave if they keep delaying movies. This is the stubborn kind of greediness behind it, because it's inevitable, man. The unions are not going to cape. They just not. They've been out there now for months. It's like they have been the result. I think that the studios took for granted the resolve of the

writers and the actors, because the ones that are really, I mean, I mean, there are a lot of people that are out there, even the real successful ones, but on the picket lines. But even the ones that are struggling and barely kind of making means end when they're out there, when they're working normally, they're losing money. And I have friends that are writers and rely on their consistency to pay for their families, everything too. And they're struggling, they're hurting, and they have to get other jobs and other things too. They are used to this. They're not going to stop, nor should they. And the studios, it's going to, when they look back in history, the studios are going to be

the ones that are, the fingers are pointed and the people who are in those seats right now, they could have ended this a long time ago, a long time ago, because that's ultimately what that article just said, and I agree with every word, is that they're going to have the cave. it's not the studios were the ones in that you can't remember which one it was but one of the executives saying basically they're just going to bleed the writers out and let them starve and let their family starve and let others that's what and then eventually they'll come to the table with doing what they want that's not happening it's the other way around because they start pushing movies and losing more money and they

can't promote and the actors aren't promoting and they're losing more money and wonder brothers is taking a hit and Disney's taking a hit and all these movies are taking a hit it's exactly right what that article says eventually they're not going to let they might December movies might take a hit and Aquaman might get pushed back and Wanka might get pushed back but they're not going to let it go past March they're not they're going to cave and what they're going to realize is that they should have done this a while ago and just give and you know now you get these reports that there's they're worried that if they cut a deal now with the writers here that

once the writers go on strike in I think the UK that comes up in a year that they're going to ask for the same thing so they want to be careful. It's like just pay them what they deserve. How about that? So either way they're going to it's going to take a massive

massive chunk and it really has out of the economy. And when we were talking about this on the show it was kind of inevitable that Dune was going to be the first one to take the hit because Zazlov is going to be the guy that's got to be

pushing everybody to get to the table and figure it out. But like if you're following along what they said, they basically, the writers were like, oh yeah, let's get to the table, let's do it. And then the studios presented this deal and said, well, this is the deal. You like it, right? Here it is. That's it. Take the

deal. It's a great deal. This is the deal we presented, and this is why you should take that deal that we presented to you guys. So here it is. Like, well, we were told this is a negotiation. Well, it's, it's, it's, it's the deal. Take the deal. That's a good deal. Right? That's why, this is why you should take this deal.

Because all this is, everything we presented here, this is the best deal. Take the deal. And like, well, yeah, but that's not a negotiation. That's just you saying that your deal is so great and that we should take it. And then they, studios went into, look, this is great deal that we had. We, we're happy that they're going to be able to look at this and realize this. a great deal. And they're like, no, that this is not what this is. This is them just

telling us how great their deal is and their deal still sucks. And it's still not addressing the stuff that we need them to address. So it's going nowhere. So you're going to have to cave. The studios are going to have to cave. It's going to have to cave. And it's exactly

what's going to happen because there's no, it's a game at this point. It's all it is. It's a game. And it's like, you know, you've got these people who are on the lines, the picket lines and they're scrapping and fighting for everything. And it's like the age-old story, right? It's like that rocky story almost,

but it's like you think going into it that the scrappy fighters, maybe they have a puncher's chance, but usually the ones with the big tools and all the money, they're going to be able to hold out, they're going to be fine. It doesn't seem like it's going to be that way. They're going to have to change. They're going to have to cave because there's only so many dunes they're going to be able to push.

And once they push Aquaman, I mean, people, someone asked in this Q&A portion soon anyway about how realistic Aquaman is to make. Aquaman 1 made a billion dollars. So that out of the other ones, because Shazam 1 did decent for its budget. And then Shazam 2 ate a big pile of shit. Black Adam really just either almost broke even or just lost a little money, but only did that, in my opinion, because of two things. One, The Rock is a major movie star and because of the promotion of Henry Cavill coming back as Superman. There was no attached thing to it.

There was no previous movie. It was a fairly unknown character that, again, should have been made for a lot less money and could have been way more profitable. in my humble opinion. Blue Beetle, unknown property. I'm still hoping word of mouth helps it out. I think it's a charming little movie. Even though I thought that the, you know, again,

I do think, and I think this is a bigger problem with superhero movies is the generic side of it because I think the superhero side of Blue Beetle is its biggest detriment. But we'll see. And then the Flash, which recognizable character, but had so many other issues

and yeah and coming off of it no one it's not a character that did well in the past is where Aquaman billion dollars for that first movie Jason Momoa a pretty big movie start coming off of Fast X which I can't believe that movie almost

that movie almost cost $400 million dollars orders oh my God this is stupid so stupid anyway so Aquaman to does it have a shot to make a billion dollars? I say no. I say it has no shot whatsoever, but I hope I'm wrong because so many losses,

like so many losses for DC, I mean, that's bad for the brand, regardless if it's part of the new regime or not. It's a lot of, it's a lot of else. So I hope it makes money. I hope at least makes a profit. But it's got some baggage already. It's got Amber Heard. You know, it's got a bunch of reshoots in there that they, and there's always reshoots. There are always reshoots.

It's usually like one or two rounds of reshoots. This has four. And there's a lot of rumors swirling around that it's not good. And there's been rumors before the movies haven't been good, and they turned out to be pretty good. So, who knows? I think of the most famous one is Titanic. The movie did all right.

so it's still possible the movie does well but they they just they can't afford they can't afford to keep pushing movies so I think something's going to happen and you'll hear more of it but it's it is it's a game it's an ego game it's a greed game for the studios and I think that they just need to say

look we got to take the hit we got to take the hit we got to and I know it's going to shape the business differently and know it's going to do this and we got to the streamers we got to We're not, they're not budging. They're not going to budge. They have the, they have the upper hand right now. Make a deal.

Get it over with. Just, I mean, you guys can afford it. Studios can afford it. Find a way. So you don't have, so you have, now, Agar, you have, you have a little, you know, a little, a little, little, a little, little, little, little, a little, sorry. Sorry. Zasloff, Zoloft. It's, it's silly.

make a deal because you cost them the whole I mean this does by the way if you're watching this you don't really give a shit about ah what are the actors and writers that you you're wrong first of all because there's so like it's not just

Chris Pratt and Margot Robbie out there it's it's people who are just background workers and character actors and writers on shows that it's just like a it's a normal job

that they just have to go from one gig to the next and they need the benefits and they need and it's and it's even in general too and again i even saw this in a different light when i heard katie and um and brys dallas howard talking about it when she did it blah blah blah and they don't even someone as successful as bryce dallas howard like there's a lot that come out that comes out of what what they take out of um people's checks for and the more successful the more stuff gets taken out. Agents and fees and taxes and it's

it's the whole thing anyway so I'm glad that they're I think this is going to go in the favor of the writers and the and the actors. I really do from the way the discipline this is due this whole this is why this whole doing thing is relevant obviously but I'm I'm bummed about it coming out in March

and wanted to see it this year and turns out my list for anticipated was right not putting it on there. But how are you guys feeling about it, man? Let me know. Tell me in the comment section. You think this is the right move for,

do you think I'm right that this is basically, or what the article said the same thing, that the studio is going to have to cave. Because there's no world where the writers and the actors are caving now. It's been too long. If they were going to cave, they were going to cave earlier.

They would have caved earlier. It's too long. If you're out there this long, you're in for the long haul. You're going to fight for, the most fair deal that you go, no, no, no, that's the deal we wanted. Maybe it's not exactly what we wanted, but we at least, we wanted that. You got, you can't, you're not going to leave with, oh, man, we really wanted this.

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we also want to get the crew back together as well. And hopefully we can do that soon. Probably be towards the end of the year. But we still get, you know, Mike comes in. And then Roxy's coming in for the UAP show. She won't be, she's away at the moment, but she'll be back. Riley in on the Tuesday shows and Brett's still here and so it's kind of like it's it's mixed it's mixed but I will say on Monday which is awesome is Mary Jettiken from Shmo's No Fans and back in the day in the AMC

movie talk and you guys know her from there if you don't know her she was a producer on my show for a while and and she's fantastic she's not in this business anymore but we're going to actually be talking about the strike and she's she actually works as a as a therapist now. So we're going to talk about how the kind of mental health strains

of the strike and how that is effective and all that stuff. It's a really, it's a pretty fascinating episode, so I hope you join me on Monday. But let's get some of these questions. We've got a few of them. Here's the first one. Okay, this one's from Rocky McFly, 5-8-3-4. What do you think is the better quality wise, the DC-EU or

phase four and five of the MCU? That's a tough one, right? What I've enjoyed more or what I think is better quality? Because I'll be honest. I've enjoyed a lot of the DCEU movies. I've enjoyed the majority of them.

I'm one of the few people that enjoyed Black Adam. I don't think it's a great movie. I think it's a very, I think the majority of DCUs, the DCE's movies that have come out have been fairly generic. But I've enjoyed watching them, right? Love the family story,

the superhero element of Blue Beetle, pretty generic, but I really enjoyed watching it. The Flash. Stand by it. I liked the movie. I liked watching the movie. I thought having Michael Keaton back was awesome. When people tried to do that stupid thing, they do like, yeah, but you like the Flash. Yeah? So what? Fuckface? I liked it. You didn't? Good for you. I liked it. But ate shit in the box office did real bad, real bad. One of the biggest bombs, too. But I enjoyed it. what was the other one Shazam too

thought Zach Levi was the worst problem of the movie the way he was either directed or his choice but he was playing a a 13 year old when he should have been playing an 18 year old but I didn't mind the movie I thought the movie was fine had a fun time watching that movie so I haven't disliked

any of the movies thoroughly disliked Thor The last Thor. The more and more, that's one of those movies that just gets worse and worse

when I think about it. Didn't love Dr. Strange. But again, quality-wise, I think they're better made movies than a lot of the other ones that I've talked about. I don't necessarily know if that's true.

But, I mean, you've got to also include some of the shows, right? But I guess it's phase five, for phase four and five also should include Loki season one, which is great, and Wanda Vision, which is great, quality stuff.

So, I don't know, I think Marvel still has it as far as quality goes overall. And it's also not fair to them because they have so much, there's more to not like. I mean, like She-Hulk and some other things. Well, did you like the first two? I did. I liked the first two episodes very much. And then it got worse.

but yeah and there's a it's just it there's no there's no there's no there's no there's there's no direction to it in my opinion i know some people don't agree with that at all and it doesn't feel like there's much direction to it that's more my problem with the mcc u but quality-wise is something mccg's got them but i don't know i've enjoyed myself watching the dcc movies who knows that's just me all right next one the great wicked art on speaking of wicked art if you guys didn't know this right if you if you like our uap show Wicked Art did this design. UAP, big thing shirt.

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Well, Wicked Art asked this. Say, hey, Christian, I don't know if you know about Rogue from the X-Men comics. Of course, I love Rogue. But one of the things I didn't like from the old X-Men movies was they didn't give her ability to fly and super-strength. True. Do you think when the new X-Men come to the MCU, they will do right by her and give her a full set of powers, or do you think there's a practical reason why they would just give her the power absorption only like they did in the originals? You know, I do think they're going to give her all her powers. I mean, I would like to think they're going to give her all. I think that it was two or three years, excuse me, two or three phases ago, they would have definitely done that.

The reason I say that is because Kevin Feige is a massive X-Men fan. He's a massive fantastic four-fan. but I think that when it comes to the mutant stuff, I think that he really responds to that stuff, and I think he's going to want to, he's a big comic book fan. So I still stand by the idea that Kevin Feigey is stretched so thin, and he's been doing this for so long that who knows where he's, where his attention and where the majority of his energy is going these days.

He was so involved in the beginning of the earlier phases. And it's not to say he's not. I just, I don't know, it feels like his, it's been lacking a little bit. and I know that you guys are tired from me saying this. I know it's a drinking game when I bring it up, and I understand, but I always bring up that moment when Winston and I were at the Thor premiere

and they were interviewing Fikey, and they asked them, well, you know, all these different movies, they always have the different tone, and they always have the spy tone or the John Hughes tone or the horror tone, or what's this? He said, well, this is just a Tycho with Titi movie.

I went, oh, no, nothing against Tyca, but that's like that was never the answer. It was never the answer. And it was like, I just, and that's a, that's a foggy thing too. It's like, there's, like, it just shows that there's, well, there's less of a direction. And we just want the directors to do this and that. And it's like, and I get it. I get the argument for people going, well, don't you want, like, it's great to have

the director have their own voice and they have their own thing. They can have their own voice and still follow the MCU. There's this common misconception that if they're following the MCU plan and they're just going off what the MCU wants, that they can't have their own voice. Well, Ryan Coogler begs to differ. When you look at what Black Panther did and you look at the pitch that he had, also furthering it into furthering the MCU,

that's how you do it. There's other things that stand so, like, Sam Ramey fans love, absolutely love Dr. Strange too. And I think if I was, it's Sam Ramey heads, I should say. if I was a Ramey head, I would love it too. It's such a Ramey movie. It really is. I'm just not a, I've just never been a massive Sam Ramey guy.

And I think that it's more about a Sam Ramey movie than it is a MCU movie. And I think that's clear because they don't even know what the hell they're doing with that Charlie Steron scene. They're just kind of like threw it in there. They didn't, none of them watched or read the scripts to Wanda Vision and all that. It's like there's no, there's no hold to it. So I think that if Fagy gets a hold of the X-Men, and he still, and he does, I still, and I've said this many times over, I think the future passed this whole multiverse thing. And as much as I love multiverses and inner dimensions and all that kind of shit, I love it. I love it more so in the idea that it could be real.

but I think it's actually hurt the and I think once it's over and once the multiverse saga is done with they can just focus on Fantastic Four and X-Men for years, for years and just make X-Men movies a rogue movie, a storm movie, a Wolverine movie,

a Cyclops movie, then make the X-Men movie the same way they did for like the Avengers. Same thing. And Rogue, you can get it more into her history, more into her story, more about all of her powers, and then when they finally come together and they all meet and form the X-Men or whatever, how are they want to do it? But they're probably going to all meet up and stuff before that in Secret Wars. But I do think that if, I think if Fagie has it his way, the way they used to really want

to do it, I think that Rogue would have her powers. Nick Alexander-7618, what DC character would you like to see Blue Beetle interact with? and do you think DC should scrap Aquaman and stick to just the Batman 2 and Joker 2 next year? Well, they can't scrap Aquaman. I mean, the movie costs millions upon millions of dollars to make. I mean, I think it's pushing the two, probably 260 now because of reshoots and everything too.

Who knows how much that movie costs to make? And it's a sequel. That's the tax write off. and to never release it anywhere, they're not going to do that. They're going to release it. They're going to have to release it. And they should release it.

They try to make some money off of it. Even if it's a massive loss, at least they make like $100 million off of it, get something back. Yeah, yeah, you'll make at least $100 million off of it. At the very least. And I still think it's got a shot to do very well. People like Jason Momo.

I like Jason MoMA. I hope it's good. I hope it's a good movie. I'm rooting for it to be a good movie. I just don't know. Because I think part of the, as we were just talking about the MCU, I think the lack of the direction for DCEU hurt it drastically. Nobody really knew what it was.

What was happening? Who was, how it was tying into what? And you do a movie, you do a movie. Go ahead, James Gunn, make the suicide squad and peacemaker over there. And then you go make Aquaman 2. You make Shazam 2. Hey, you over there, you do that movie? And it's like, do they kind of, they kind of link together with what?

I don't know anymore. And so that's one of the reasons too. But no, they shouldn't scrap it. They definitely shouldn't scrap it. And as far as which character I want to see Blue Beetle interact with, I think that once they make them part of the DCU, and it's just, again, I don't understand what, I mean, I guess we'll get more clarity as we get closer,

but James Gunn says that Blue Beetle and High Sammy Reyes is, the character, is part of the DCU, and it seems like Sholo will be part of the DCU, rather. But the movie isn't? Just make the movie part of it. Just make the movie part of it. Because what, they don't want to have the box office failure part of it. And I still, I'm still crossing my fingers at the word of mouth.

I'm very curious to see how this weekend works for that movie. I don't know. I will say, though, I've seen that movie and I've seen Grand Turismo. People are like, all right, I can only see one movie, Christian. Either the two of them, I can only see one, and I want to see a really good movie. What do I see? I'm sending you to Grand Tourismo.

I really like that movie a lot. Again, I really, I liked Blue Beetle, man. I enjoyed it. I had fun watching it. Grand Treasmo was good. I enjoyed Grand Treasmo a lot. Really good movie. I would eventually say one of Neil Bloom Camp's best.

next to District 9. So, yes, but as far as who I'd want him to interact with, if he's in the DCU, and if you're going to do it, if you're going to make the movie part of the canon, I would make, I would do Batman, and especially if it's Jensen's ankles, I would do Batman and he could say something about his uncle,

his uncle could meet him, change his opinion on him, whatever. that would be a good one. So, all right, next one. Victor Garrity, 7158, I hope it's not too personal. Has going through your personal losses and the grief that comes with

changed what fatherhood and family means to you? It's a fantastic question. And it's not too personal. I mean, I appreciate you asking that and starting with that. And I would have obviously not chosen if they don't want to talk about it. But so what he's referring to in general?

Man, over the last, I would say, 2000 and it was 18 2018 18 until shoot this year alone I've had a lot of loss in my life for sure

in 2018 I lost my good buddy John Schnep who a lot of you may or may not know from most of you probably know John from the Collider Days and AMC and he was he was the best he was just such a

wonderful wonderful soul and a very funny guy I loved talking with him. We got along really, really well. We would make each other laugh on the air all of the time. We used to take drives to Comic Con together. And he was just a he was a phenomenal, phenomenal man. And we lost him way too early.

And that was in like July of 2018. About two or three weeks later, I lost my brother at 37 years old, weeks later. So I went through a lot of it. And people always ask this too. And again, from, you know, sometimes, and people still will come in here sometimes and say the things about whether it's the Galaxy's Edge thing or the, uh, or whatever. Maybe, aren't you guys, says you think guys busting his ass for, uh, Star Wars? And I've said many times, people who, you know, some people who didn't really know the, the full extent of it, and I've talked about it since. But like, and I, and this is why I make a big pitch to everybody, especially if you're going through something, you got to talk to people because I let that shit bottle up that that particular year bottle up for a year not talking to anybody and just like I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine and just kind of having that bubble up bubble up and and then you either saw it or you didn't you know I went to work and let it out and you know and pay for it sometimes still in the comments but it is what it is but my point is you got to you you you grow if if either grow you don't inside of that

And then this year, my mom's sister, who I was pretty close with, she passed away. And months earlier, March, my uncle Mark, who was my dad's brother, he passed away March. So it was March and then May. May? Yeah, March and May. So it was like, it was like that. So it just happens. It's part of life.

I've never really prepared for it. But to answer your question, it's like, yeah, you know, I think that I look at, I've, I talk about it actually on the show with Miriam Monday. We recorded it today. And I've just been approaching my life very differently. And I think it's something that comes with the years, you know, the mileage of you all. And you look at things a little differently and you try to take all your life experiences, the good, the bad, the sad, the happy, all. of it. And you try to, you try to do that, and especially when you have kids. So, yeah, I absolutely look at all that stuff and all the mistakes that I've made. And I think that's, that's the thing,

though, too, as I've been looking at things, too. I've been paying attention to everything. All the, like, you can't, like, I have found, like, you would say in the past, oh, man, if I would have done that differently or I wish I wouldn't have done that because that all these things define you all these things and the question is how do you maneuver right and you say what do you would you learn from that as I just mentioned I knew from that thing that stupid thing that happened on the air I knew and still like I said I still get comments about it today if somebody finds like a short you knew the guy that complained about a galaxy's edge it's like you make your own bet I get it but in so of that I said to myself, you know, like, look at that. Like what, and I decided about, I think it was a year,

maybe two years ago that I said, I never really talked about it and I never really talked about the anger that I had, and I never really talked about the sadness that I had for that amount of time. And, you, you know, and I've gotten so many messages from people in general on the good, as much as I mentioned kind of people who want to talk, you know, who want to poke you. There's tons of good, especially on this channel. And one of the ones I've been getting for years is that I listen to you all the time. It puts a smile on my face.

I really enjoy watching it. I'm like, well, those are the type of people that still also need to hear don't keep things bottled up. Talk to people if you can. It's also when I talk about, you know, when we have on BetterHelp who's coming in next week.

Like I talk about people talking to people and not just necessarily people that you can talk to. Just friends, family. whoever because I didn't I didn't and I definitely should have so long answer I hope that I hope that I hope that I hope that answered the question prayer of serenity 14 have you been keeping up with boom studios well it's funny you should ask of course I keep up with boom studios they're on every other week right now as far as a sponsor but I love I always keep my my buddy Ryan is over there and

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go and check it out. Thank you to Boom, as always, for joining us. So we love Boom. Okay, let's go. Next question here. Graham Gillis 7-813. Hey, Christian, long-time sub, thank you. Just love the channel, so thanks. Thank you. See, that's what I'm talking about me. There's a lot of positivity on this channel. Tons of it. Just curious, since you caught up and love the boys TV show. Are you going to watch the boys' spinoff TV show in September called The Boys Gen B? Check out the trailer. Well, I've seen the trailer. I've talked about it. I thought it looked fine. I thought it looked like, It's just, what I was worried about with it was, are they just doing the kind of shock value thing to do it? Because when they did it in season three, it was kind of out of nowhere.

And they've been, they do those moments throughout the entire series. But the trailer for this one really kind of overcooked it, again, for me, could wind up being absolutely amazing. And I'm going to watch it. The answer is yes, I will definitely watch it. I'm invested in this universe. and I also think it's from the way they're teasing it is we could see some of the characters pop up in the boys in this kind of shared universe. So I'll definitely be watching it. The first trailer though, when I saw it, I was like, it's fine.

There are other people who love the trailer and I hope it's fantastic. I'm already in. I would have been in if I didn't watch a trailer because seasons 1 through 3 have already gotten me invested in the world. So I want to see where they go with it. So fingers crossed. All right. Next one. Thank you for the wonderful comment.

It was very kind. Justin Latham, why do you personally think we keep getting meh offerings from the MCU? Guardians 3 was a clear exception. Do you think they should start hiring writers who actually like the source material? It seems to be a huge issue in movie and TV space. When you look at the MCU and shows like The Witcher, the producers seem to not see a reason to stick to the source material and build upon it. But I think we're seeing the fruits of a lack of passion on all kinds of properties these days.

Yes. I think it has a lot to do with the stuff that they're talking about with the strikes, right? It's also how much time you can put into it, how many people that you can do it with, how many projects you want to get out. And I also think by pulling back a little bit, they're putting out too much content. So with that, not only putting out too much content, you're putting a lot of strain on visual effects, people, you're putting a strain on the writers, you're putting a strain on Kevin Feige, you're putting on a strain on too many people, to when you're putting out this much. But that's what happens when a corporation has something like, oh, that's making us money,

we'll put out more of it. They love it. They're going to eat it up. More, more, more, more, more, more, more. And it's like, but that's not what it's about. And I think that that's what I was talking about before where it's like there was a clear cut vision of these things. And yes, there were standalone movies, no doubt about it.

But those standalone movies led to an event. And it built up because, like I've said before, where. there is not a lot of buildup to these characters yet. It's like we saw Shung Chi once. Haven't seen him since. His sequel, we don't even know when his sequel's coming out. He was the closest one to becoming like an all-star. And where is he?

And even in post-credit scenes, where is he? So there's like the build-up hasn't been great. They're trying to build up. They're trying to make all these different all-stars and try to do it, but they don't, they don't, this doesn't seem to be a lot of focus in how they're doing it. And I think it was what I mentioned earlier. They're too focused on having the director come in and going, yeah, do what you want to do. It was the problem that Star Wars had for the first, those, those movies, the new trilogy.

Do what you want to do. It's fine. You do your movie, JJ. And then, Ryan, don't listen to the damn thing he did. Make your own movie. And then, and then, and then, Trvaro, do yours. Oh, you actually are linking back to both those movies? No, we're going to bring JJ in again, and he's just going to negate everything,

and Ryan just did. What? And the MCU is not doing that. They're not negating stuff. But it just seems like they're going over director style more so than they are. Build up these phases. That's where I think the lack comes from. And I will say this.

I do think that there is, if you don't make the movie super special with great, and it's not easy to do, right? so great movies are hard to find. But you've got to have great writing and you've got to have, you can't have the generic stuff. And just to hire the special effects team to do the same, like all these movies,

it's the same thing. It's like, here you go, this is what's going to happen. They're going to, at the very end, there's going to be this big, $90, $100 million, big set piece. The audience will go, and they'll throw popcorn in their face

and that's it, the big bad got taken out by our heroes, yay. And it's like, we're over there. that shit. It's what they do in every single movie now. It's the same. It's the same thing. And obviously there's always a

structure, but make it different. Make it feel different. That's why I love Guardians 3, as you mentioned. Guardians 3 was done very well. I loved Guardians 3. Guardian 3 is one of my favorite Marvel movies. I loved Guardians 3. Definitely my favorite Guardians movie. I know some people, not everyone agrees to me there, but I loved Guardians 3. I want to watch

it again. Okay, next one. Jordan David 6190. What is your most anticipated DCU project announced? You're not going to like the answer because it's probably the easy one. The Superman. I love Superman. Superman's my favorite superhero all time.

And it came from the Christopher Reeve one when I was a kid. Somewhere, I think it's at my dad's house. There's a card that I gave him for Father's Day where I wanted him to, I must have and I wanted him to take me to see Superman 3 with Richard Pryor. And I have that. I have that card somewhere. Anyway, I love Superman.

Always love Superman. And I want to see what, I think it's a great way to start. It's a great way to start your, he's your guy if it's done the right way. So I am, and I think David Corenswett has the right look. I don't know enough about him as an actor that I've been saying.

I think he's got the perfect look, really like Rachel Brosnahan. I still think that we're going to get Nicholas Holt as Lex. And I do hope that they focus more so on Superman. I know that they have Green Lantern and everybody else in the movie. But I hope that they're focusing on a Superman story. James Gunn says that's what it is. But yeah, I'm highly anticipating that one.

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I don't think so. Why would they take Dune's release date in November? Wouldn't they just want to stick to December, Christmas holiday? And then cross your fingers that the strike is done at that point? I don't, is there a rumor that they're going to take that date? I don't think that would be wise. I would say, yeah, because they're not moving there because of anything except the strike. So they would run into the same problem.

They can't have their stars. That's a movie. You want your stars to be out on the circuit. You want the, because I think that that's a movie to me, as I've been mentioning it many times over, this is very similar to me like Blue Beetle and, and like Miss Marvel. This, I'm more interested in seeing how the dynamic of these three actresses are

than I am about the superhero element of it all. I feel like the superhero element, again, is going to be like, eh, I've seen it already. It's how are they going to work together? How, like, their, dynamic, this kind of buddy cop thing. How is that going to play? If that hits, that's going to be the enjoyable thing, at least for me.

That's what it looks like they're really playing off of. You need the three of them on the circuit to sell that. You need them bouncing back and forth, laughing with each other, cracking jokes, because that's what the director said. Now, you know that I'm the one that is always like

because the director said it's a silly. It's a silly movie. I'm not crazy about that. I'm not crazy about that comment because She says it's the only one that's silly. And people are like, didn't you see Thor? Love and Thunder.

That to me was beyond silly. He's silly. So that being said, though, I feel like minus, you know, the Jane story, there wasn't much heart in that Thor movie. I feel people who are what about the Christian Bale thing, it kind of, which is kind of messy.

If they throw some jokes in there and it's like a lovable silly, it's not the tone I'm looking. for, but it could be enjoyable if it works with the three of them. I think Disney needs to move this till next year. I think that everything, unless they, again, doesn't seem like Iger's budging. If you know you're not going to budge and you know you're not going to be able to put, I mean, as that article said in the beginning, that maybe they're just shifting June because they're confident enough that they think Wonka Disney, I mean, Warner Brothers, rather.

that Wanka and Aquaman 2 can still see promotion and can still see, you know, some profit and the strike can be over by then. And maybe at that point, then that's why they're not going to move the Marvel's past into that spot, because why would they move it if they can't have anybody promote it? So no, I don't think they should move it, and I move it up. and I think that if they're not going to budge, they should push it to next year. Michael Gets, 8172. What Marvel movies do you think will end up releasing next year?

My money is on cap four and Deadpool 3. Cap wrap before the strikes and Deadpool was close to finishing when they got shut down. Thunderbolt's definitely moving to 2024. Yeah, I think you mean 2025, right? Thunderbolt's moving to 2025? Because next year is 2024. for. So, Deadpool, yeah, Deadpool's got

a lot of shooting left, though, too, doesn't it? Like, they were shooting when the rider strike, and then they were shot as much as they could, but then they're still going to have to do reshoots. That's going to get moved again. I don't think it's going to come out. Well, June or July,

it just depends on when the strike ends. It just depends. It's too hard to predict. If, you know, if it ends in the end of this year, then, yeah, Yeah, I think that Deadpool can still come out in 2024. But if it pushes into February, March, tons of stuff's going to get pushed.

So, again, hard to say, really hard to say without knowing what the hell's going to go on with the strikes. Mike Morgan, do you think theaters are going to survive next year after this strike? Yeah, I do. I think they're going to survive. I think that what's going to happen is that what we're just talking about here. Theaters are going to have a lot of movies that are getting pushed

from 2023 into 2024, so you're going to, to see a lot of, you're going to see a lot of big money weekends. Now, they could take a little bit of a hit at the end of this year. Some of the big movies that they're really looking forward to, as again, that article stated, like they need some of these movies, the same way that, as they mentioned, that people need air. Theaters need these movies. So they might take a hit this year. Next year, they'll be okay because everything's going to push into 2024. So they're going to see kind of an abundance. At least that's what I thought again for this year, too. I thought There are so many movies coming out this year because of the things getting pushed in from the pandemic from 2021 into 2022 into 2023 that I thought we that I thought June.

I thought June of this month was going to be one of the biggest months in movie history. And boy, was I wrong. Indiana Jones ate it. Flash ate it. Elemental. I don't barely broke even. And then you had, what else do you have? in June. Transformers

did okay, but it wasn't like a major major huge hit. And then the one, what was it? What else came out in June? Something big. I'm not thinking. I'm missing something. You guys can tell me in the comments. But there's something else that came out in June, I think, that did do well. But then July was

the big month. And that was Oppenheimer and Barbie. So, yeah, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to make money. But I do think that the theaters will be an okay. shape next year. Jerry Crowshoe is the constant shifts of rumors of the fantastic forecast going to hinder the movies box office and hype. We went from Krasinski to Adam Driver to whoever it is now. I'm starting to lose hype. Your thoughts? Thanks for all you do. Well, thank you, Jerry. Very kind of you, and thank you for everything you do. Thanks for watching. I think that it's more of an annoyance

than it is losing the overhype because you got to remember this. The movie itself is not coming out for a little bit. And it's a rumor thing. And a lot of it, to be fair, are websites, shows like my own, things that where you hear this thing, you talk about it, you're curious if it's going to work out. Is that person right for the role? And then you guys are like, oh, but they keep talking about. It's this person. It's that person. Who is it already? And you're exhausted with our coverage on it. You're exhausted with articles that are coming out. And then they do cast a movie finally. And then the trailer start to come out. And then the hype starts to come out a little bit more. than you start to realize, okay, now that I know who it is, now I'm a little bit more hype.

So right now, I think you're more annoyed with our coverage on it and which I understand completely than anything else, right? Like, it's just like, even me, when I'm seeing the stuff, I'm like, all right, who is it? It is Adam Driver. It's not Adam Driver. I mean, what's the deal? Who is it? I mean, come on.

The guy's arm goes from here to here. It's got to be somebody. Let's do it. So, yeah, I get it. I get the question. But I don't think it's a, I don't think it's the property itself. I think it's the coverage. Okay.

Next one. Rick Duran. Jeff Snyder made a suggestion of either Jason Sudakis or Bill Hader for Reed Richards on the hot mic last week. I love these ideas, specifically Hater, who showed a shocking dramatic range on Barry. Roka hated both. What are your thoughts on Jeff's take? I don't love the Sudeikis call, and I think that, not that I like Sudecate. I just think it's the same thing. I think he's a little older. I think that you got to look at the next

10 to 12 years of someone playing this character. And I think the same thing with Hater. I think maybe 10 years ago Hater would have been an interesting choice for that role. But I don't like, I'm, I think I'm siding with Roka on this, on this one. I like the balls of the, of the, of the, of the, casting choices. But no, to me, I still think Adam Driver. I think you do whatever you can to try to get Adam Driver. I like that choice. I think it's a good, I think it brings a lot of Moxie to have him and if it is indeed

Vanessa Kirby, to have the two of them, it would be great. Just figure out a way to make the role work for him. And yeah, I like the driver call personally. All right. Brian Kalmas. I saw an article today that point, Brian Kalmas. I saw an article today that pointed out there will be 20. 27 different MCU movies and shows between Captain America appearances.

That seems like a problem. How can we get more invested in Sam Wilson's Captain America if we don't see him? What are your thoughts on what Marvel should be doing differently about seeing characters often enough? That's exactly what I was just talking about. It's exactly what I was talking about with, with Shang-Chi. And you're absolutely right. This is, it's, where's Captain America been? He should, they should be setting him up.

They should have him. I mean, this is not somebody who just got. set up in one movie. The Falcons been around forever. He's one of the linking things to the old phases, and now he's got a massive role. Put him in more stuff. Get us more invested in his position. I couldn't agree more. If you're going to do a connected universe, you've got to connect it. And especially who you're all-stars. Your all-stars are not playing an all-star ball right now. So, yeah, I agree. What can they be doing? I don't know. I really say that it's a matter that this strike is going to, I don't envy them for where they've got to go after this strike because now they've got to try to, they're not going to hit all their dates.

They're not going to hit that plan that they tried to announce when was that a Comic Con. They're not going to hit all that stuff. And they have to also redesign it because shows like Echo and other things, like they're just putting out too much. and they're putting out characters just to put out characters. Like, it's, there's, you got to look at the way that it, what, what story do people I really want to see? And what's the interesting story? Um, and I like the fact that they're holding back. So we'll see.

We'll see how that, how that pans out. But, um, but yeah, I couldn't agree more. I think they got to, they got to have, they got to have Cap do more. Afron Guzman. What's up, man? Best adaptation of a comic film that you've seen. I mean, does the Dark Night count? I guess it does, right?

There's a lot of stuff that comes from a killing joke and said it. Am I wrong? Depends. I mean, that's a really good one. Dread is a great one. But I think Dark Night is one of my favorite comic movies. One of my favorite movies of all the time. So I'd probably have to say Dark Night.

Is that a cop-out answer? Probably is. And finally, now this is not a comic book one, just another one. But I have to address this. Timothy, David Leonard, do you think that Morak is Ezra? All right. So this is from the Asoka series.

So people don't know what that question is referring to. You're not watching Asoka. There is an inquisitor. And I was like, who is this inquisitor? Who is this person? And I looked up the Star Wars definition of who he is. And he or Wikipedia, they're Wikipedia, whatever. And he's an inquisitor that's been running around the joint with, he was running around

with Vader and he's running around with Palpatine. He was hunting down Jedi. He was hunting down people during the, during the wars. And then he was, I guess, recruited by the Dathimir, which Morgan and Balin, and he runs with them now. So everybody's like, well, who the hell is he? You know, because he's got the double-bladed lightsaber and there's so many, it's like, it's like the thing. It's like the Snoke theory. Now it's like, who is this guy? And the stupidest one that I've seen, which would be, which is, let me, let me, let me, let me, me rephrase that. If it is this, it would be the stupidest decision if it is Ezra. If it's Ezra, this show would stink to high heaven because it would make no sense. It would be so dumb.

It would be so dumb on so many different levels. The first is don't turn Ezra bad. Why? You had a chance to do it for five seasons and you teased it so many different times and you almost did it. And then the whole point was his clarity of where he was, what he was able to do, the vision and the fact that he had this kind of serenity from from canaan and everything he was able to accomplish and he relaxed and he sacrificed himself and he got lost with thron out in the outer regions that's part that's that's that's part one part two is speaking off of that the outer regions if ezra was able to find his way back when he was lost then why doesn't you just tell if he is indeed this inquisitor why isn't you just tell that

them where he is. And why do we need a map? Oh, I know where he was. I was just with him. I'll go get you there. So that makes no sense. And it's like the cliche thing of that, the cliche thing of, you know, yeah, the edge returning bad and it just, it wouldn't make any sense. It is to me the absolute one of the worst decisions in television ever if it happens. I mean, it really have to be defined in a way that makes sense.

and that's hard. It would be completely, it would be idiotic, idiotic. The other one I saw that I don't agree with is Darth Mall. Tones I take it to the bank, it's Darth Mall,

double-bladed lightsaber, just makes sense. Look, well, and same reason that I would also, another reason, but I don't think it's Ezra. That definition,

or the explanation of who this person is on the Wikipedia is that he's been running around for a while, chasing them or chasing Jedi rather so that would cross as we're off the list it would also I mean you could say it was well why would mall mall's whole thing and the whole reason that was keeping him alive was his bitter anger and resentment

great Alexa be quiet Alexa shush your face no don't cheer quiet over there sorry um mall's whole thing was that he was that he was angry and he was wanting Kenobi, wanted revenge. That's what kept him going. And then when he finally went after Kenobi and he fought Kenobi and Kenobi killed him, this peace came over him and he realized

it was there was more to, it was like, Obi-on held him. There was this kind of mutual respect. Then he woke up afterwards because, I mean, apparently anybody can get, can, you know, survive from getting hit with a lightsaber, I guess. So he wakes up and then goes,

no, I'm just kidding. I'm not peaceful. I'm still mad. I'm going to leave Kenobi alone and not go find him because he beat me. But now I'm going to hunt down Jedi and I'm put on a mask. And I've got to get Asoka because we had beef once. Again, dopey. The one I do like. And I don't put it past Faloni to do this.

I love the idea of Galen Marr. Star Killer from the games, Sam Witt were finally making his live action appearance as an inquisitor. Because to me, there's a lot less explaining that you have to do and you can set it up as a brand new thing because Darth Mall you've got to explain too much.

For people who've never watched any animation and then you see Darth Mall pop up. If you never saw Solo, you'd be like, wait, wait, Darth Mall, I thought he died in Phantom Menace. Or wait a minute, Darth Mall, I thought he died in, in the rebel wait what? Too much explaining.

Ezra, too much explaining. Why is he inquisitor? Why is the map? Star Killer is one of these things where it's almost what they did with Thrawn. When they took Thrawn and they put him in the rebels for the first time and they changed up a little bit of what they

did in the past from the books and they made it into their cannon. They can change it up and Sam Whitwer, the question has been how long is this guy is it going to be before he's in a live action thing

and if you look at the he had voice credits in this episode the second episode now I don't think that the inquisitor said a damn thing at least I don't think he did but they just credit him in it

they credit Sam Whitworth so I think it's a great reveal for Star Wars kind of hardcore fans and for new ones like, well, who's that? And then they introduce you to him. That's what I'm hoping.

The fourth option is nobody. Just a new, just a guy. Just the inquisitor, he'd take his mask off. Who's that? That's a guy used to be a Jedi and he runs around with him too. He's mysterious and that's it. So, but the first two,

I really, I mean, the Azro, the mall one, I'll be like, that doesn't make much sense. I just don't think he, it would piss me off as much as the Ezra one. Because the Ezra one, it's like, you don't need to make him bad, and you don't need to turn the apprentice good. Those are the two things you know, I really hope it's not coming.

They're turning that apprentice good. Please don't do it. Please don't do it. It's like every single time someone turns good, someone turns bad. You don't need to do it every time. It makes the Vader thing and everything less special. And everybody knew Reeva was going to turn good. everybody knew.

Like, don't, just, just, what, she's going to be fighting, and then she's going to realize that Sabine is good, so she's going to turn on Baylon, and she's going to fight Baylon, and it's like the whole point of it is that when they're really greedy, they want to fight each other. And that's what the beauty, if they are indeed Sith, one to crave the power. And he says to her in this last episode,

she said, what does it mean for us? and he's just like more powers, the immense power. Let her crave the power. Let her think she's going to rule the galaxy. Let her think that she's going to rule with Thrawn. Like that's what I want to see more so than another good turn. It's okay to keep them bad. It's okay.

So let's hope that because I will, you're going to hear me bitch about it. If it turns out that for sure, if that guy, if A, that's Ezra under that mask, stupid decision. if they turn as were bad at all, and then C, if they turn the apprentice good. Those are the three ones that'll be, come on. Anyway, that's the episode here today, guys.

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