The Weekly Planet - 36 Star Wars Spin-Off's We Want To See

Episode Date: June 2, 2014

This week we discuss some new casting for The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Marvel damaging The Fantastic Four brand and Ant-man.Plus Star Wars spin-offs we want to see, with your inclusions! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Happy first day of winter also. Thank you. First day of summer for everybody in our northern hemisphere. Lucky ducks. I hate summer. I hate it. Do you? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I think we talked about that during summer. We sweltered away. Every day, yeah. Every day. Just every day I'd just call you and be like, why? Why? This is your fault somehow.

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alright Ed winter winter I just hate you know what I hate I hate all seasons I think yeah fair enough

spring you get the you know that's maybe we're not going to do that okay we're here for the news Mason We're here for comic book style news And reviews Yep

Josh Brolin You may have heard Has been cast As the voice of Thanos Oh There you go In Guardians of the Galaxy first And then Age of Ultron

So he's going to make an appearance In Age of Ultron Interesting Yeah That's a bit spoilery Yes Great Sorry No that's fine It was in the official Announcement-o Okay So he's going to make an appearance in Age of Ultron. Interesting. Yeah. That's a bit spoilery. Yes. Great. Sorry.

No, that's fine. It was in the official announcement-o. Okay, yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. So maybe he'll do a bit of mo-cap or whatever, but as far as we know, it's just voice. I'd like to see him do them, like to put some Brolin-esque kind of features on Thanos. Yeah, yeah. That'd work, don't you think?

And also, you want to see him with the ping-pong balls, right? Yes, I do. In a ping-pong ball suit. Just looking all undignified. Nobody looks good in that. Nobody. Be like, oh, I've been in Oscar-nominated movies. Why is this happening?

Yeah, yeah. So I guess, because I think we talked about it before, apparently he's in a big floaty chair in Guardians of the Galaxy. And I don't know how he'd fit into Age of Ultron, though. Maybe he'd turn up to steal an Infinity Gem at some point. Yeah, maybe, yeah. While everybody's indisposed. Yeah, sure, okay.

Absolutely. It's sitting in a picnic basket. Yes. Tony Stark's like, I'll just leave it in this picnic basket. It'll be fine. And then, yoink. Gone. Yoink.

Yeah. Thanos is the one, he's the bear who wears the tie, right? That's the one. That's the one, yeah. He's got the little bear with him yeah the little bear with him absolutely

well he's no stranger to comic book movies though he was of course Jonah Hex he was Jonah Hex that's it no he was gonna say he was up for the role

of Batman instead he took Jonah Hex he did yeah good for him stole that picnic basket he sure did I was gonna say

he was in History of Violence but that wasn't him that was Viggo Mortensen correct yeah so there you go. Good casting decision. I'm happy with it. Absolutely.

Not so good for the guy who played him in the post-credits Avengers scene. But, you know, what are the odds? That was just a big guy who was walking past the studio at the time, right? Surely. I guess, yeah. It's all swings and roundabouts, you know. It's all ups and downs for Hollywood. All right.

Bleeding Cool have reported, Mason, you're familiar with Bleeding Cool, that Marvel are intending to put the Fantastic Four comics on hiatus. So including the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe. So they'll still appear, but in other runs.

Oh, interesting. Like the Inhumans and the Avengers and things like that. And apparently, the reason behind this is that, well,

they pretty much promote 20th Century Fox's films with X-Men comics and Fantastic Four comics. Right, okay. So they're like, we're going to put a halt on it for a few years, damage the brand or whatever. Great. And then maybe if they get the rights back, maybe they'll, or when the movies kind of

fade away. Wow, that's interesting. Yeah. Because there've been some really good Fantastic Four storylines in the last couple of years. Sure. People love that ultimate Fantastic Four as well, don't they? Yeah. People read it sometimes, don't they?

I guess. Yeah, yeah. Cool. But yeah, that's quite bizarre. Okay, but all right. If that's their strategy. Sure. I mean, or because they can...

I mean, it sounds like a bit of bloody big business over the magic of creativity, if you ask me. How many magical stories do the Fantastic Four still have to say you know who knows so many amazing genres I wonder what Stan Lee

has to say about this he's probably excited or not excited I bet he's excited or unaware yeah that's probably it yeah but yeah well

because as we know they can indefinitely make X-Men and Fantastic Four movies until they decide not to correct so I guess that's... Until the profits run out.

Yes. And then they'll let them have it again. They'll make a TV show. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I guess Marvel is trying to kill their profits as quickly as possible. Yeah. That's wow, alright. Bit cynical.

Bit cynical. But hey, swings and roundabouts. Speaking of Stan Lee, somebody pointed me to a crack thing that apparently this might be a... The theory is that Stan Lee is the Watcher. Oh, yeah. Who sent that? Might have been Boons. Was it a friend of the show, Cameron Boons?

Might have been Boons. Yeah. Boons had a good theory about the X-Men. We can't talk about that, though. We can't talk about that. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Good point.

It's too spoilery. We'll wait a couple of weeks, then we'll... Thanks, Boons. Yeah. But, yeah, that he is Uatu the Watcher. Yeah. it's too spoilery we'll wait a couple of weeks then we'll thanks Boons yeah but yeah that he's Uatu the Watcher yeah

he's observing because he observes but he never interferes that's a really good point but also he's quite oblivious in a lot of cases isn't there a bit where he's gonna fall

he saves like a kid from a falling rubble in one of the Spider-Man movies or something oh yeah maybe alright cool good

great theory though yep so yeah yeah i was aaron at mcfazza okay thank you aaron yeah mcfazza good name yeah all right uh now we know that uh of course edgar wright has departed ant-man boo yeah boo indeed well apparently it wasn't he wasn't happy because they made some script changes on him and whatever and you know the thing behind it is why would they hire edgar wright why would they hire edgar wright if they're not going to use edgar wright yeah exactly it's kind of you hire edgar wright to make an edgar wright film you don't hire him to there's a name to put out a movie do you know what i mean because i wouldn't say he's he's not incredibly well known no but he makes a specific style of film he's not incredibly

well known and a lot of his like a lot of things with his name attached haven't necessarily gone that well. No. Like Scott Pilgrim. Yeah. Didn't do well at all as far as I know. No,

didn't. Because, and that was one of those films where it was released in America and it wasn't particularly popular and then I think they delayed the release around the world. Ah,

So everybody else just downloaded the Tarrant. Yep. Absolutely. And then by the time it actually got to, say here, everybody had seen it already.

Yep. So. That's exactly it. Yeah. So yeah, you don't, you don't, you, yeah exactly,. Everybody had seen it already. Yeah, that's exactly it. So yeah, you don't... Yeah, exactly, you're hiring Edgar Wright because you want an Edgar Wright-style story. Yeah. That's weird.

Apparently not. They made some revisions behind his back and whatnot, which is strange, since he has been on board since 2006, but now that it's due out next July, so it's like a bit over a year away, they're frantically scrabbling for a... Scrambling? Scrabbling. They're playing Scrabble to get a new director who the winner gets the you know

the movie it's a new upcoming director triple word score i hate scrabble mostly because i can't read or spell so you know yep it's tough for me um adam mckay he directed uh anchor man yep he was in talks but he's officially dropped out. He said on Twitter, he's like, yeah, I've got some other stuff I want to do, so I'm not really interested. I think he would have done an okay job. Wouldn't that have slid too far into comedy? Yeah, you're right. Did he direct, what was the basketball one?

Semi-pro. Yeah. I think he did, yeah. That wasn't very good, though, was it? I didn't enjoy it. Did you see Anchorman 2? No. I expected very little from it, so I was like, yeah, this is alright.

It was way better than I thought it would be. Because on the one hand, if Adam McKay directed it, it may fall too far into kind of self-parody and just comedy as opposed to superhero films. But Semi-Pro was essentially a basketball film with a couple of jokes in it. So, mixed bag, ultimately, right? Sure. Yeah, yeah. Well, what was I going to say about him?

Yeah, I'd imagine a lot of the action sequences are already mapped out. I would say it's pretty much ready to go aside from the actual filming. So I'd say they just need somebody to kind of guide it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And at this point, I don't think they really... Not that they don't care who, but just get whoever.

Would you say that the humour of Joss Whedon is quite similar to Edgar Wright? Yeah, I would say so. So that's interesting, isn't it? Yeah. Because I would have said the only reason they would want to make script changes is perhaps to make it more Whedonesque, because he sort of set the tone with the Avengers. Yeah, yeah.

So I don't know. Maybe they're taking it in a new direction. Who's to say? Remains to be seen. But anyway, we've got a couple of other names we've got Rawson Marshall Thurber

he did We Are The Millers you're just saying syllables yes I am are you having a stroke I am he did We Are The Millers or We're The Millers

I didn't say that one but I saw the bit where a guy gets bitten on the balls by a spider fantastic yep I heard that was

not that good in the movie Abbey Rad's like, we need more balls biting. More balls biting in our films. It's a Jason Sudeikis. I like that guy. But,

and the other one was Ruben Fleischer who did Zombieland. Okay. So I think out of those two, I'd rather the Zombieland guy. Yep. But hey,

remains to be seen. I'm still really bummed about this. Me too. Yeah. Maybe it's a funny April Fool's joke. It's pretty funny. Yeah, I know, right? They got us.

New Daredevil though, Mason. Okay. For the Netflix 13 series episode of Daredevil due out next year at some point. Uh-huh. Charlie Cox. You familiar with Charlie Cox? Is he in Boardwalk Empire?

He is in Boardwalk Empire. There's a beautiful picture of him smiling. Oh, he is beautiful. Look at that hair. Okay. He was up... I don't watch Boardwalk Empire? He is in Boardwalk Empire. There's a beautiful picture of him smiling. Oh, he is beautiful. Look at that hair. Okay. He was up... I don't watch Boardwalk Empire. Do you watch Boardwalk Empire?

I have in the past, but I've dropped off a little. Okay. Because there's too many other shiny things. There are a lot of shiny things, aren't there? On the television. Yeah. He's also... What I know him from most, though, is Stardust.

Have you seen Stardust? Yeah, okay. Matthew Vaughn Stardust, who did... Is he the protagonist in Stardust? He is. With the long hair. With the long hair, yeah. Oh, he is a beautiful man

with a beautiful mind presumably that's it because at the start he's got kind of that bowl haircut and then Robert De Niro gives him the beautiful hair

that's right that's a fantastic movie many movies have tried to Princess Bride the Princess Bride since the Princess Bride that's the closest it's come

since then if you haven't seen it go and see it and also there's a blonde guy in it who is kind of like his equivalent. It's not equivalent. He's kind of a minor antagonist in it. And it's Henry Cavill.

There you go. In a blonde wig and a little tweedly moustache. There you go, yeah. So, yeah. Side note, I was dressed as the Dread Pirate Roberts for most of last night. Were you really? No context. Doesn't matter.

Just at home? Yep. Cleaning the house? Pretty much. That's how I do it. That's how I'm comfortable. Doesn't matter. Just at home. Yep. Cleaning the house. Pretty much. That's how I do it. That's how I'm comfortable. So, yeah. I mean, a lot of people were aiming for, well, they wanted a guy from Dexter.

Oh, yeah. I think he would have been really good, but maybe they thought they want someone younger to get the kids in, you know? Yeah, yeah. Because he's like 42. And he's quite Ben Affleck. So, maybe it's too similar. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, yeah, yeah. Fair enough. I'm excited for this Daredevil series, though. Yeah. I'm super pumped. Yeah. Pumped. Maybe they'll get Edgar similar. Yeah, yeah. Fair enough. I'm excited for this Daredevil series though. I'm super pumped. Yeah. Pumped. I hope they'll get Edgar Wright.

Ooh, maybe. Let's just have a drink. We've earned it. First day of winter drinking an eggnog. Yeah. It's not eggnog. It says egg flip. We talked about this.

It's the same thing. Eggnog is bullshit. I don't know why anybody drinks it. You've crossed the line. Anyway, continue. Last bit of news. Anyone positive about that dead evil? Me too.

And it remains to be seen who will get cast for the other three series as well. Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Probably us. Yeah, wouldn't that be good? You'd make a great Luke Cage. Thank you. Cliffhanger is getting a reboot. Oh! That's my John Lithgow.

Anyway, that's interesting. Who's going to be the star? I have no idea. I feel like it's going to be one of those things where they'll get a minor action hero guy. You know, like they kind of got Colin Farrell for Total Recall. Yeah, okay. Or whatever.

Would they get Colin Farrell? What if they get Colin Farrell again? Sure, why not? Or maybe they'll Carl Urban it, because he did Dread. Yeah, okay. And Stallone did the other Dread. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. Like, who cares?

What if they get Michael Caine? Because Michael Caine did Get Carter, and then Stallone did that reboot of Get Carter. Flip the switch. Flip the switch. Love it. Yep. Yeah, yeah. Well, I thought there was another rock climbing movie.

Do you remember Vertical Limit with Chris O'Donnell? Absolutely, I did, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That was the spiritual sequel in many ways, because that was was another rock climbing movie. Do you remember Vertical Limit with Chris O'Donnell? Absolutely, I did. That was the spiritual sequel in many ways because that was also about climbing a mountain. That film was so terrible and I think we saw that film together. We did. Australians generally are quite reserved at the cinema, but it was one of those movies that's so bad

that people just started heckling and people just applaud the heckles. It was pretty great wasn't it yeah go check it out don't and the other one

is Roland Emmerich or Emmerich I don't even know how to say that one whatever the guy does 2012 and Independence Day and the world is being frozen

help us Jake Gyllenhaal all those ones yeah sure what's that one called Day After Tomorrow where they outrun the cold I haven't seen it but I've seen that scene

where they outrun the cold in the corridor the cold's chasing them sure i remember that yeah uh he's rebooting stargate he did the original stargate you know he's gonna make it again a trilogy was there a stargate 2 there was oh they're gonna make it a trilogy okay yeah like a new trilogy has he forgotten the millions of stargate series that happened in between the movie and now apparently Apparently, yes. Because they were pretty good. Well, yeah, I've seen bits and pieces of what I've seen.

It's good. It's got Richard Dean Anderson. Correct. It's got Not James Spader. Yep, it's got that guy. Yeah. It's all of that. I saw him at a convention.

This was a couple of years ago. Yeah. When I went to conventions. James Spader or Not James Spader? Not the Not James Spader guy. Yeah. And he's very nice and charming and he's a cool guy and he's got a lot of funny stories. Does he wear glasses in real life no cool uh and it was good

the experience was fun because like most like he was had a kind of a q a session and most people like you know oh you know what uh do you guys play pranks on the set and blah blah blah you know that kind of thing and you have lots of funny stories about richard den anderson whatever and but there are a couple of people who cannot distinguish between him and his character. And they're like, so when you were in the wormhole, you escaped and there was the gods and they were going to do... Then how did you escape? What did you do? And you're like...

And somebody would ask a really long involved question about, you know, how they escaped the situation when clearly the Stargate couldn't be dialed to a certain location and blah, blah, blah. And he'd just be like, good? It was pretty great. Why would he know? No, exactly.

I mean, he had a lot of... I think as a sci-fi series actor, you have to pick up a lot of these things in your arms a lot of the time. But yeah. Man. You've got limits. There's levels of fandom, isn't there?

There really is, yeah. There certainly is, yeah. So, I mean, I think the reason they're doing this, though, is because you're getting Guardians of the Galaxy, we're getting a Stargate. Not Stargate, we're getting Star Wars and whatever. They're talking about... Are we getting Star Wars? Are we getting new Star Wars?

Believe it, Mason. Wow. I didn't think I would have heard about that. You'd think that. And we're getting a new Farscape as well. I think people are thinking this is the time to... I thought for an instant there you were going to say we're getting a new farscape as well i think people are thinking this is the time to i thought for an instant there you you were gonna say we're getting new far side like new far side cartoon imagine from gary larson that'd be pretty good is he dead don't know yeah i like the one where the cow's there it's it's a scenario that's

that's kind of familiar to the real world but it plays out in the animal kingdom you've seen that one yeah absolutely that's a good one, isn't it? That is a good guy. Will you rise with the sun to help change mental health care forever? Join the Sunrise Challenge to raise funds for CAMH, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, to support life-saving progress in mental health care. From May 27th to 31st, people across Canada will rise together and show those living with mental illness and addiction that they're not alone.

Help CAMH build a future where no one is left behind. So, who will you rise for? Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca. All right, well, Mason, speaking of Star Wars, which you, well, this is news to you, so this is, sorry for springing this on you. Last week, we talked about talking about new Star Wars stories that we want to see.

Yeah. Not specifically spin-off movies, but mostly spin-off movies. Absolutely, yeah. I've got a list here of things that I want to see. And following on from that, I've got a list of things that people... Things that I want to see. You've got it in my mind. That's right.

And you learnt them somehow. That people have written in and said, Look, I really want to see this,'ve got it in my mind and you learnt them somehow. That people have written in and said, look, I really want to see this, this and this I've got. So we'll do ours, not because they're more important. Who's got a podcast? Well, some people wrote in and I'm like... Who else has a podcast? Good question.

Everybody. All of our listeners have a podcast at this point. Everyone we know. Yeah, yeah. Because some of the ones got sent in, I was like, oh, fuck, I should have said that one. point. Everyone we know. Yep. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because some of the ones got sent in. I was like, oh, fuck. I should have said that one.

That's a good one. You can claim them as your own. I know. You can just send an angry email back like, oh, yeah, I thought of that one, idiots. Yeah. But you don't

because you've got honour. That's right. I do. Do you want me to kick it off or do you want me to kick it off? Yeah, kick it off because my iPad has just stopped loading for a second.

Oh, good. I blame your Wi-Fi, to be honest. How dare you? My Wi-Fi is the best in all the land. Yeah, I've talked, because my iPad has just stopped loading for a second. Oh, good. I blame your Wi-Fi, to be honest. How dare you. My Wi-Fi is the best in all the land. Yeah, I've talked about this one before, so I just want to get this one out of the way. So I'm sorry for always bringing it up. But I want to see a Shadows of the Empire movie.

Okay. Which, for those people who don't know, and I'm sorry for talking about this again, so I'll keep this brief. It's a book that came out in the mid-90s. It's written by Steve Perry, and it's set between Star Wars Episode 5 and 6. So Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. So you've got Han Solo, Frozen and Carbonite. You've got Luke, Leia, Chewie, Lando

and another guy called Dash Rendar who is effectively Han Solo. Was it Steve Perry? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Steve Perry's a musician though, right? Yeah. Hang on. Let me check. I think you're. Steve Perry's a musician, though, right? Yeah. Hang on. Let me check. I think you're thinking of Timothy Zahn.

But he did the Thrawn trilogy. Ah, okay. Maybe you're right, then. Hang on. Let me check. Yeah, Steve Perry's the lead singer of Journey. He's got many skills. Yeah, written by Steve Perry. All right, fine.

In your fucking face. He's multi-talented. I don't think it's the same guy. Let me it is definitely the same guy right it doesn't look like the same perry also the lead singer of the cherry poppin daddies so a lot of strings to his bow that guy let's assume it's the same guy okay it's the lead singer of journey and he also writes star wars novels or he did until I cancelled the Expanded Universe. Now he's probably disillusioned. So, yeah, basically it involves a criminal organisation

called the Black Sun. I think it might be called the Black Sun. I read it a long time ago. But I used to read it every year for, like, many, many years. And a guy called Xizor, or Xizor, however you want to pronounce it, X-I-Z-O-R, I think it's pronounced. He's like this reptilian alien guy who's got these kind of pheromone powers

that he can seduce sexy women, or just regular women, but he doesn't do that because, you know. A bit weird. Yeah. So basically, it's Luke and Leia and Chewie and Lando going to the Black Sun to help to find Han Solo to get him back from Boba Fett before he can deliver him to Jabba's Palace. And even though you know how this stuff, a lot of it plays out, it talks about the aftermath

of how Luke's psychologically damaged after having his hand cut off by Vader. Spoiler alert for all this, by the way. And I mean, that movie's incredibly old and whatever. And how he's adjusting to his new prosthesis, you know, his hand and whatever. And it's got a whole lot of familiar characters what I find with the the Expanded Universe

it's set after Luke Skywalker's robot hand that's a new character that's right we've learned to love yeah what I find with a lot of the

Expanded Universe it's set after the the movies is that they introduce a whole lot of characters that you can't mentally picture right

or you don't know who they are or what they've done before because you haven't read all the other books so if you read one that's set like even five ten years down the line there's a whole lot of people that you just don't know right but this one it's it feels like a star wars movie within a set between the star wars movie and i remember george lucas said at the time oh if i could have made this at the time i would have or whatever which is bullshit because it's a marketing thing or whatever but yeah that was a big deal at the time um because there was a tie-in tie-in video games and there was a soundtrack released and a whole lot of action figures and whatever and that

was very much to test the waters to see whether people were interested in the new star wars trilogy which they were and then they weren't oh boy and how so yeah look i think it's got it's got a really interesting luke skywalker because when he becomes a Jedi and whatever and he's all kind of, he's got it all together. He's less interesting, do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he becomes more of a background character. Yeah, that's it. Which is good, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, that's it. So, look, you couldn't really make it properly because you'd have to either recast everybody or do it with CGI or do the digital facelift, which is terrible. We talk about that all the time yeah but uh it's a story that i'd love to see even maybe in animated form or you could even do it you could set a movie in that time and not have the main characters in it

yeah you could have like boba fett escaping bounty hunters because part of that story as well because there was a tie-in there's a whole lot of merchandise that ties in for star wars merchandise believe it this is just me but this episode is just me being incredulous at really obvious things. Star Wars merchandise? Like a lunchbox? Lunchbox. There's a tie in comics by Dark Horse, I assume. And some of them follow Boba Fett going across the galaxy

and all these other bounty hunters are converging on him to get Han Solo. Right. Because he's worth so much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As a doorstop, if nothing else. That's right, exactly. So it's great. And it's, you know,

it ties into a whole lot of other stuff. Like there's the Tales of the Bounty Hunter books. And I'll talk about that probably a bit later. Yeah. And yeah, it's a story that I really want to see that I will never see. But you know what, James? Don't stop believing.

Don't stop believing. Were you waiting for me to... I'm going to be late. Yeah, exactly. I'm pretty much not... You're waiting for me to take a breath. Yep. I've not been listening for the last couple of minutes.

Just waiting for you to say that. And then, bam, I'm in. So, yeah. Have you read that book? Uh, no, I thought about it, a lot of times,

but I never got around to it. Look, if you're not a Star Wars, if you're not a big Star Wars fan, like, more of a casual fan, it's the best Star Wars book to read. Yeah,

yeah. Because you recognise everybody. Yeah. You know, it's like, Luke Skywalker's grandson, and he's got a robot clone of himself. And there's a lot of, there's like a Luke Jr. and all that.

And you're really confused as to who's who. Jason Solo, yeah. Yeah. But I do, he's a very striking design. I do remember that character, Prince Sheezor. Yeah, yeah. Very, okay, that would definitely work well. That's it.

He's a Follain. Oh. I know too much about Star Wars. Yeah. I should preface this whole thing by saying this is like the first thing I really found out a lot about. Like, I liked Ninja Turtles and Voltron, and whatever but star wars was the first thing where i got really kind of really into it and from that like i've kind of went into reading other comics and

and movies and whatever but this is what probably what started everything for me which is bad or good i don't know no it's good do you. When was the last time you re-read these? Do you think they'll hold up to scrutiny? Four years ago, maybe. Okay, well, that's all right. Yeah, yeah. I went to get the audio book, but it's only a condensed version. Oh, okay. So I'm like, ah.

Not worth it. Nah. So, yeah. Cool. There you go. Yeah. Best film ever. You can't.

That's not. No. No? Don't try to shoehorn that in. You got one? How about, and somebody on Twitter, and I'll find it, somebody on Twitter suggested this, and I agree with this wholeheartedly, the Dark Forces saga. Absolutely.

I got that one too. Video game? Yeah, yeah. Was it from Nathan F.? Probably. Because he sent an email. It might be a different guy. Let me tell you.

It was Evan Davis. Okay, cool. So it got it from a couple of people. Yeah, this a different guy. Let me tell you. It was Evan Davis. Okay, cool. So it got it from a couple of people. Yeah, this is actually one I had down as well. Well. On my own accord. You obviously love those Dark Forces games. I do love the Dark Forces games.

Jedi Knight. Yep. Dark Forces. Was there another one? It was Dark Forces, Dark Forces 2, Jedi Knight. And then there was Jedi Outcasts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or Jedi Academy.

I can't remember what order they were in. But they're all good. Yeah, they're all good. And we get a Han Solo-esque character. Yeah. He's sort of a blend. And I think that was probably the plan from the outset. He's sort of a blend of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker.

Yeah. Well, he starts off as not a Jedi in the first game. Correct, yes. And then he evolves into that in the second game. But towards the end, somebody's like, oh, the Force is strong within this one, kind of thing. Oh, that's right. They always are.

There's very few people in the Star Wars universe where the Force is not strong within them, have you noticed? Yeah. It's pretty much... They kind of seem to distinguish someone being pretty good and lucky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Compared to... You'd feel like you got pretty short shrift in the Star Wars universe

if you weren't strong in the Force. Yeah. You'd be like, goddammit, everybody else can do that. Then again, you could just... Everybody else can pull down a Star Destroyer out of orbit. Why can't I do it? You could always just inject yourself with midichlorians. Oh, that's a good point.

Yeah, heaps of midichlorians right in there. It's fine. Yeah, it was... What can we talk about? Well... Katan was his name, yeah? What I think's really interesting about him, and you just touched on this,

was that a lot of the Jedi's we see, and this includes Luke Skywalker, they're boring, generic, androgynous monk men. Correct. And they're not all men, or even human, but that's the way they come across. It's weird that Star Wars set this tone of, like, if you're a Jedi, you wear the weird brown and beige robes. And it doesn't make sense. And Red Letter Media pointed this out.

Because Obi-Wan wears that when he's hiding on Tatooine. Because he lives in the desert. Why would that be the official Jedi robe? Right. And then he goes out and he wears that when he's hiding. Right. It's ridiculous. And that's a massive oversight.

Yeah, yeah. I like the idea that just wear what you want. Yeah. Smart casual. Smart casual. Yeah, exactly. Nice polo shirt. Yeah, yeah wear what you want. Yeah. Smart casual. Smart casual, yeah, exactly. Nice polo shirts. Yeah, yeah.

And some chinos. Yeah. So, yeah. Also, why is his name just Ben Kenobi? Look. Why change it? I guess you would be looking for somebody who changed his name a whole bunch. Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah. So you'd be like, no one's that stupid. Right, exactly, yeah. Anyway, Jedi Knight. But he's quite, he's nuanced and he kind of, he has a character arc. That's it.

And he falls to the dark side and then he comes back. He comes back. Also, what I would like, it's good because we could see Luke Skywalker as an older, we could have Mark Hamill, we'd have to de-age him

a little bit. Yeah, yeah. But we could have him as the mentor figure in the background because he does meet and train with Kyle. He does.

And I think Kyle becomes a Jedi council member as well. Yeah,. And I think Kyle becomes a Jedi council member as well. Yeah. I think Nathan said he is. And what I would also like about it is because it would be kind of a sidequel. Yeah. It would be set because it's set, the first one's set just before episode four. Yeah. And then sort of

just after. Yeah. And then I think Jedi Knight is set just after Return of Jedi. Yeah. So it would be good in that I do like a sidequel. I do like seeing what's I think Jedi Knight is set just after Return of the Jedi. Yeah, it is. So it would be good in that. I do like a side pull. I do like seeing what's happening behind the scenes kind of thing.

Also, I would like to see the production design. Like they'd have to 70s it up, I think. Totally. Early 80s it up. Yeah. Because if you recall, the prequels were super awful. But what I did enjoy about them is that, especially towards episode three, the production design, they sort of acknowledged that it was, we were moving from this.

It was melding into. It was melding into the main ones. Yeah. Like the sets and stuff started becoming more 70s. Yeah. Yeah. Which I thought was quite fun. Agreed.

Yeah. That'll be really good. Totally. Yeah. So, yeah. What I also liked about him though. Also, sweet force lightning yeah

name a good guy who can do force lightning you can't just him mate I think Luke can do it in the books but it's green what?

doesn't make any sense no sense at all right so yeah but I also like about him you could I want to talk about the Force Unleashed games

in the same kind of vein as this you remember the Force Unleashed games absolutely they're not great games but the first kind of vein as this. Do you remember the Force Unleashed games? Absolutely. They're not great games. No. But the first one in particular has a really good story and a really good character. His name's Galan Melek or Galan Merak or something.

I can't remember his name. The guy who plays him has been in Smallville or whatever. He's a big Star Wars fan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's great in those games. It's all mo-capped and whatever. Did they deliberately do that or did they rip him off? No, no.

They got him. Oh, okay. Right, good. And like the actual actor. Right, right, right. And like the actual actor. Right, right, right. I can't remember his name. Someone's screaming at me. But he's great.

But you can still use him as well because the Dark Forces, not Dark Forces, the Force Unleashed game, the first one is set before Episode 4. Yep. And Darth Vader's got, have you played it? Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, you know, Darth Vader's got this secret apprentice and he has this journey from the dark side to the light side or whatever.

apprentice and he has this journey from the dark side to the to the light side or whatever but the good thing about him and kyle katan is they're not at times good or evil like you can just kind of be a neutral-ish jedi you can be a human being yeah that's right sometimes god does good things and sometimes does bad things that's right why do you have to be the worst guy ever the best guy ever why can't you make that call at the time and i know it's the thing that the power seduces you or whatever but why can't you just be a guy who could just kind of keep it in check right exactly yeah so i think that's what's good about those characters but also i don't like those games because it's just like hitting you hitting someone with a glowing stick yeah exactly there's no slicing and dicing in the second one they do it more but it's not done well yeah those games are

such wasted potential hey side note because i, because I looked up Dark Forces, because it's been a long time between drinks, me and Dark Forces. So I looked it up on the Star Wars wiki. Yeah. And over here, it's got recent wiki activity, like all the stuff people are editing and whatever. Top one, unidentified Bakuran astromech droid.

So we're talking about fandom. Somebody's like, there's a whole page on this unidentified droid. Astromech droid. We should do an episode on him. Yeah, boy. Man. Yep. Astromech of the R2-D2 ones.

Yes, exactly, yeah. We're good at Star Wars. Absolutely. It's the one in Star Wars at Jedi Knight Jedi Academy. So it all comes together. It all comes together. Unidentified Astromech droid. You know what's really interesting about those games as well?

The second one in particular, Dark Forces 2, that was the first time they'd filmed anything Star Wars live action since the movies. The first time there was a live action lightsaber. Yeah, yeah. Because all those cut scenes are... And I remember the... Real people. I remember the time that just blown me away.

Yeah, absolutely. That they'd actually gone and filmed more Star Wars. The game probably doesn't hold up as well as I remember it, but I played that game to death. Yeah, yeah. I could still play that game and maybe be okay at it. The multiplayer was fun.

It was, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. Great weapons. Mm-hmm. Yeah. There we go. Anything else you want to say about those things? No.

Okay. Yeah. This next one is actually from my brother recommended this. Uh-huh. My younger brother. Oh, well. Who just... Ugh.

He's more of a Star Wars guy. That's true. Than probably even me, I would say. But he recommended something, and I never heard of this to me. Yesterday I messaged him. Is it possible he's made it up? No, I checked. I double checked it.

It's called Wraith Squadron. And it's about this kind of ragtag group, this team that Wedge Antilles... That's the best kind of team, a ragtag group this team that Wedge Antilles that's the best kind of team a ragtag team that Wedge Antilles puts together you've heard of Wedge Antilles he's the only pilot

to survive all Star Wars movies by the way they asked to get that actor back and he's actually the uncle of Ewan McGregor that's a true story what true story

that's great he's like this British actor and he's like they're too hard to get him back for episode 3 he's like come back and play 3 or 7

3 sorry no both but initially they asked him to come back to three because um there's a guy called antilles who's i can't believe i know this that r2d2 i can believe you know this who's r2d2's droid and they mentioned that in star wars episode four it's like our mass our last master was captain antilles right no relation but they're like do you want to come back and play this guy and he's like well they're not related. Yeah. And no, because I hate Star Wars.

Right. He even recommended to Ewan McGregor not to do it because he's like, it'll ruin your career. Wow, okay. And then anyway,

they asked... P.S. Ewan, can I borrow some money once you do these? And so they asked him back for episode seven recently to reprise Wedge Antilles

and he's like, no, not a chance. Wow. So yeah, you must really hate Star Wars. Yeah, well, they offered him a really low amount of money. That's probably it. If you were Wedge Antilles, that's the actor's name.

He legally changed his name to Wedge Antilles. How much money would you want to go back to? $100,000. Okay, yeah. That's reasonable. That's fair, isn't it? That's definitely fair, yeah. Yeah.

Because you wouldn't be a main character. No. But but anyway so he puts together this squadron called the wraith squadron and it's i would have called it the wedge squadron sure makes more sense yeah yeah yeah as i said it's the wedges the wedges yeah it's good it's a group of uh misfits um so but they've all got specific skills and And so they're not... Nunchuck skills. Bo staff skills. Escape artist skills. Pretty much, yeah.

All of which are useless in a staff fight. But here's the thing, though. The combination of their skills amount to a really good team. It's kind of like the Moneyball of X-Wing teams. Do you know what I mean? Can you give me a different reference than Moneyball? Moneyball, they get a whole lot of different baseball players with specific skills and they put them together.

So you're... Are you saying Ocean's Eleven of... Sure, fine. It's the fucking Ocean's Eleven. The Moneyball. Moneyball made money and was Oscars. No. I don't know.

Yeah. So it's the Moneyball of X-Wing. Great. Sure. But also, they're a land-based team. So after they do a bombing run or whatever, they can then land their craft and do a ground-based mission, which no other team can do. So it's interesting from that perspective.

There's a particular story that I was reading about where they take over an Imperial ship and they pose as the crew for a period of time and whatever. It's really, really good. It's part of that X-Wing book series. I think it's like book number five or something like that. I'll probably check it out or I'll forget. That sounds like fun.

Actually, that sounds really good. Yeah. And if we're talking, when you're saying there's going to be a Star Wars film, then there's going to be a spin-off, then there's going to be a Star Wars film. Okay. Yes. That would be an excellent spin-off, I think. Agreed.

Because that's a fun romp. Yes, it is. And it doesn't have to... I feel with the Star Wars, the main ones are going to have to be all tied into the same continuity and there's going to be a big overarching story and whatever so it'd be nice to have

some fun unrelated kind of things absolutely yeah yeah well I'm glad you're on board yep absolutely thanks yeah

and thank you to my brother for messaging me after I messaged him sure that's family alright sure is you got one

Hank can we talk about... What about Tales of the Bounty Hunters? Yeah, absolutely. See, that's another... If we're talking about kind of fun... I love my fun romps. You know that. I know you love a fun romp.

But I think that would... Tales of the Bounty Hunters, was that a series of unconnected short stories? No. Some of them were connected. Some of them weren't. They were basically... They were all set around Empire Strikes Back

when they're going to find the Millennium Falcon. Because basically, for those who don't know, if you've watched Empire Strikes Back, which every person on the planet has, there's a scene where Darth Vader assembles a group of bounty hunters, and I know all of them by name, and I shouldn't, and he's like, go and get the Han Solo. Don't kill anybody.

Right. You sons of bitches, out there and and and each of those guys has a story and some of them is like they all touch on that time period bosk ig88 all of those ones but uh they're all set like before and after or whatever some of them they go into their backstory i know boba fett's they do a little bit and i think boba fett's even goes well into the future oh yeah like yeah. Like after the Sarlacc. Another benefit of the Dark Forces story is we'd see Kyle Katarn fight Boba Fett. Yes.

So that would be good. That would be amazing. Because that's the Han Solo versus Boba Fett fight we never saw. No. Because ultimately in Return of the Jedi, he just hits him with a stick or whatever. Accidentally. Yeah. That's what I love about that character.

He wasn't... They built him up as this... I think fans built him up more than the movies did. Absolutely. And then he just accidentally flies into a thing. Yeah. But yeah, speaking of... That's a movie I'd like to see.

Boba Fett accidentally flies into a whole bunch of things. So what about... Because he's never been good at anything. You know what? It'd be like a Mr. Magoo kind of situation. It's finally revealed that Boba Fett is a terrible bounty hunter. Because in the movies, there's been a lot of expanded universe stuff where he's the best bounty hunter. He's amazing.

And that's what he's known for. And he can't be stopped. He fights Vader and all sorts of stuff. All that is non-canon now. So I say we reboot him. And we make it like he's actually... He's an Inspector and all sorts of stuff. All that is non-canon now. So I say we reboot him. And we make it like he's actually... He's an Inspector Gadget kind of character. Where he's terrible at his job.

But he always bumbles into winning out somehow. How good would that be? That would be amazing. Yeah. Absolutely. And he's got like a... He's got like a weird droid sidekick that's always fixing everything for him. Wacky droid sidekick?

Probably wacky. Oh, you mean like Brain from Expected Gadgets? Exactly, yeah. He's going through and maybe he's about to walk up a pit and he puts a board across it or whatever. Love it. Yeah, what about the Tales of the Bounty Hunters appeals to you, Mason? Bounty Hunters? Yeah.

And no, less the Force. Yeah. I reckon because these new ones are going to be Force heavy, right? There's no way out of this, right? Because that's what they've got over other sci-fi franchises, the Force So let's make those ones

Force heavy and the side movies not Force heavy Let's make those ones, Prophecies and Council Meetings and Purple's Midichlorians and strong in the Force. And the other ones is just like dudes who look terrible kicking the shit out of each other. Exactly, yeah. Absolutely.

Great book, by the way, people. You should read that, even though it's probably non-canon now. Does it all tie together in the end? Sort of. There's a couple of them now I'd recommend. Probably the best one, other than the Boba Fett one. I mean, if you've got the book book you might as well read all of them sure yeah yeah

don't just tear out the pages of the ones that James doesn't recommend some are better than others but the IG-88 one is really good so you wouldn't think that because he just looks like a metal broom in the movie but he's got a great backstory so yeah that also ties into

there's another one called Tales of the Mos Eisley Canteen. Oh, yeah. Where we reveal all the backstories of every character in there. Like the guy who got his arm cut off. Exactly. Yeah. And it's not... That one's all about mind transfer and stuff.

Really? It's not a good book. Okay. That part isn't, anyway. There are some great stories within that. The Bounty Hunters one's definitely more interesting. Yeah, yeah. But, like, who cares what the band's backstory is?

Do you know what I mean? That's true. I mean, they wrote that great song. Yep. These would kind of work, I think, maybe, you know, Marvel does the one-shots. Yeah. And they release them on DVD.

Yeah. Add those on. Add a tale of the Bounty Hunter after every song. That's a great idea. Yeah. We're full of great ideas. Sure are. Yeah.

So, yeah, my brother also made the suggestion, if you're going to do one like that, you make it like a Sin City style movie. Yeah, yeah. With a whole lot of interconnected stories coming together. Like the movie Sin City. Correct. Probably Sin City 2. Electric Sin City.

Aloo. That's the one, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I struggle with that. But... Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. i struggle with that but um yeah yeah i think that's a great idea yeah my brother's got two good ideas huh a first and second time for everything that's it do you want it ready for another one uh yeah give me another one all right now i know a lot of people are saying a boba fett film and it's pretty much confirmed right and i thought of this

idea but then i went to this i went onto this channel the other day called emergency awesome it's like a big youtube channel this guy called charlie talks about a bunch of this idea but then I went onto this I went onto this channel the other day called Emergency Awesome it's like a big YouTube channel this guy called Charlie talks about a bunch of stuff but and then he had this exact idea so okay right

I maybe I subconsciously ripped it off or maybe nobody has an original idea on the internet that's a good point but basically

his idea except for all the people who had the actual original idea yeah his idea or my idea because I'm claiming it

do you remember the game 1313? The one that was cancelled? Yeah. That was going to be a Boba Fett game. It was like, you are a bounty hunter or just a guy at the start. But then it was gradually revealed that it was going to be a Boba Fett game. And they cancelled it.

And I think maybe the reason they cancelled this game was because it told a Boba Fett story that they wanted to tell in the movies. Interesting. Maybe it's a coincidence because they blanket axed everything. They did, yeah. Which is weird because people love Star Wars video games. There was a Darth Maul game they were working on and a whole bunch of other stuff. But basically this game, what it was, you chase a bounty into the depths of Coruscant. Which is the all very it's the

all city yeah uh world which was introduced in the expanded universe and then george lucas stole it great well i stole it it's his isn't it but it's not referenced in any of the films it's like the yeah it's the center of the universe it's where everything happens but coruscant and this is touched upon in there there's a hand solo trilogy of books as well prequel books which are quite good but anyway the coruscant is made up of layers and the deeper you go the worse it is like it would be so we've only really seen the shiny kind of surface but it just gets grimy and grimy more dangerous and whatever as you go down it's got this real seedy underworld so having a boba fett story where he goes down maybe like a dread styled style movie yeah yeah but with Boba Fett

but don't and then at the end finds his jetpack straight out right that's how it would go obviously right there's no way it wouldn't end like that

exactly that's a great idea yeah and the idea is also for that character he lives by a certain code like he does kill whoever a lot of the time

but he won't kill like particularly strenuously applied to code no he won't kill women or children or attack anybody for no reason and things like that so because he does have that Mandalorian code or whatever and like we talked about before if you're going to do a Boba Fett spin off movie

you wouldn't make it the Boba Fett character from the prequels you take somebody floated thisquels you take somebody floated this idea already you get somebody to kill that guy and take his armor because a boba fett that you don't know the backstory is way better exactly one that you do but how much basis of that is is is that just a rumor is that just wishful thinking on people's parts with all of that what i just said yeah or just that last bit. Or just that last bit? Just the last bit. I think that was a rumour, yeah, from memory.

Okay. So it's just people saying, hey, wouldn't it be great if the movie Boba Fett was killed? It probably is. Because it sounds great. Yeah. But I mean, that being said, after Iron Man 3 came out, people were like, wouldn't it be great if the Mandarinarin wasn't that guy the mandarin was another guy who was you know enraged that ben kingsley had taken over his oh okay and then

marvel got wind of that i assume and got you know they were like well we've got to get people back on board with this and then they made all hail the king which was essentially exactly that not a coincidence yeah especially because there was a deleted scene at the end of Iron Man 3 where he explodes. He takes the drug and he explodes. Huh. Like the Extremis or Extremis, whatever it's called. So yeah. No, that was definitely an after.

So, fingers crossed, Lucasfilm gets wind of the fact that everybody wants movie Boba Fett to die and be replaced by another Boba Fett. Yeah, exactly. I would love to see that. Me too. You don't need to take his helmet off. Or you do, briefly. Who cares? And it's Sylvester Stallone. Yeah. Or. I would love to see that. Me too. You don't need to take his helmet off or you do, briefly. Who cares?

And it's Sylvester Stallone or Michael Caine. It doesn't matter. But yeah, I'd also like to see, maybe work this in, have a bounty hunter, specifically him, fight a Sith.

It doesn't work because it doesn't tie into anything else. But I'd like to see the best bounty hunter go up against a Sith warrior. Not a Jedi, because we've seen that against a sith warrior not a jedi because we've seen that yeah that the episode two is not a good movie but one of the best bits is when obi-wan fights janga fett yeah in the rain that's a great sequence yeah it's pretty good but

uh yeah i'd love to see that so yeah if they're gonna make it make that movie and maybe i'm right maybe it was cancelled for that specific reason so because they were going to make a similar movie or maybe I'm wrong and who cares somebody mentioned a couple of weeks back the Cracked article we reference Cracked a lot

because Cracked is the font of all ideas you know two Jedi fighting each other and then the lightsaber blades clash together

why not just switch your blade off have it pass through and then fire it up again then cut it in half. Then cut them in half. A lot of people have mentioned that to me.

First of all, maybe there's like a spin-up time, like you switch it off, it takes a while to fire it back up again. Okay. I had another point, though. If you both have Jedi powers, why don't you just switch the other guy's lightsaber off? Right? Maybe you're always consciously making sure that doesn't happen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe there's a whole lot of things going on in the Jedi battle that we don't see. That's probably true, yeah. I want inner monologue of a Jedi battle then.

Yeah, yeah. Keep your mind off, don't let him press the button to turn it off. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. We mentioned last week, talking about inner monologues,

we mentioned last week that the next X-Men movie is going to be set in the 80s. Yes. Somebody, it's on Twitter so I've lost it forever but they meant they were like this next movie i hope it's people it's a lot of people just saying their what their powers are oh yeah i saw that that is the that is the ultimate 80s x-men thing to do right yeah yeah

say your powers as you do it you know another thing about lightsabers are, when you drop them, they turn off. Yeah. I don't know why that is. Probably be real awkward. Like, what if you drop one and it's still lit up and it's just spinning around on the, you know, it's spinning around like a game of spin the bottle and it's chopping people's legs off.

You don't want that. Just falling through floors. Falling through gantries. Yeah, yeah. Don't want that. No, not at all. So, yeah. You got another one?

No. Cool. I've got another one. Okay, yeah. Absolutely. No, not at all. So yeah, you got another one? No. Cool. I've got another one. Okay, good. I was going to say. I might think of one at which point I'll just yell it. Sure, yeah, go for it.

People have floated this idea before. Oh, actually, what I would like is it's set after the Return of the Jedi and it's just ghost Obi-Wan Kenobi and ghost Anakin Skywalker and they solve mysteries. As ghosts, right? Because what else are they doing? Return of the Jedi and it's just Ghost Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ghost Anakin Skywalker and they like solve mysteries as ghosts right

because what else are they doing good point yeah ghost mysteries or regular mysteries probably a combination of both

good yeah that would make a great TV show I think so yeah do they reference things in the past have they got like

a Dean Sam Winchester relationship I think maybe they've got I reckon it'd be a father like a maybe a Winchester relationship I think maybe they've got I reckon it'd be a father like a like a maybe a father-son relationship

okay but it's Alec Guinness Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen Anakin for no reason don't explain it no don't explain it

well that sounds amazing I know right and that ties me into my next spin-off which is and people have

talked about it before is it Luke Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker's severed hands solve mysteries And that ties me into my next spinoff, which is... And people have talked about it before. Is it Luke Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker's severed hands solve mysteries? Just scurrying around like the Addams Family? Yep. Sure. No, it's an Obi-Wan story. Okay.

It's set on Tatooine after Episode 3. Yep. And you make it like... Have you ever seen the movie Unforgiven? Yes. With Clint Eastwood? Yep. It's basically...

That's the movie for those who haven't seen it. It's what happens when you slick gunslinger kind of hero cowboy like in A Fistful of Dollars, which Clint Eastwood plays. What happens when that guy gets old and retires? And so you'd make it like this kind of broken down, you know, mid-50s kind of Jedi living on this shithole planet. Right. Right, looking after a kid of the guy who he thinks that he killed,

or maybe he doesn't think that he killed. Well, looking after that... He maimed, certainly. He knows he maimed him. Yeah, quite badly. Knowing that all this other turmoil was happening in the galaxy, most of which you caused,

because you could have stepped in at any point and stopped that. And maybe he, in this process, he goes up against a crime lord, like a Jabba the Hutt kind of local crime lord. Or that guy with the wings on his back. Sure. Wingsy Snoutor. Watto. No, Wingsy Snoutor.

Wingsy Snoutor. Yeah, absolutely. So, like, you know, you open it in a bar or whatever and he's just being pushed around and whatever and he's not reacting and it slowly builds to where he gets his confidence back and he gets involved in this local conflict and whatever, he doesn't want to get involved.

He's like, look, I've got this other job. I've got to look after this kid. I haven't got time. This other shit's not important or whatever. Maybe he's got a little kid sidekick. Not really. Don't do that. There's also a comic,

and I've talked about this before, that's set at this time where Darth Maul comes after him with robotic legs. You could throw that in for whatever reason because it would be amazing. Yeah, yeah. And it basically builds to...

Because you know what? At the start of episode four, he's very brazen about whipping out his lightsaber in the bar, which he shouldn't be if he's hiding. But it must get to the point where he's like, now's the time to step up. Yeah, yeah.'m gonna get back into action so the movie builds to that where he's not afraid or ashamed of being a jedi yep and he'll just cut a guy's arm off in a bar because who cares that's right that sounds pretty what what is we forget i guess

is that each of these films is set on a planet like there's a whole planet of stories yeah like he could be anywhere on tatooine he could probably you know i mean it's all desert it's all shit yeah exactly yeah yeah there's a whole lot of stuff probably other terrible bars and moisture farms and whatever you know moisture farm why would anybody live on that planet i don't know probably the moisture i guess all that sweet sweet I don't know. Probably the moisture. Yeah, I guess. All that sweet, sweet moisture. I mean, I guess the benefit of owning a moisture farm is you can just fire them all up and then just sit in the middle and get real moist. It's fun.

And then drink some sweet blue milk. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So there you go. Would you say that? Yeah, I'd say that. Good. Would I?

It feels a little bit Gotham. Yeah. Prequel TV series, maybe. Wouldn't you? I mean, the prequels aren't good. We've talked say that. Good. Would I? It feels a little bit Gotham. Yeah. Prequel TV series, maybe? Okay. Wouldn't you... I mean, the prequels aren't good. We've talked about that. What?

Yes. What? The prequels aren't... I'm doing the character again. The prequels are good? What? Like, you... But there are elements that are good.

And one of them, even though he's given fuck all to do... Wingsy Snoutor. Wingsy Snoutor. Now, is Obi-Wan Kenobi. Yeah. And it's particularly the casting. Even though a lot of the time they talk about the adventures that they've had and you don't see them.

We need to see them. He's like, remember the time. We've got to do a bit of a pickle, didn't we? Anakin. Shut up. You know I'm a real dad. Is that your spinoff movie you're talking spit off yeah yeah i would love that ghost i want also i want old obi-wan kenobi in this ghost detective series he wears like a sherlock holmes

hat definitely not explained not explained yeah good so yeah uh but he's the best part of that and he's talked about he'd be like yeah i come i'd back. So that should be a movie that they should make. Yeah, cool. All right. You could also get Owen Blars to come back. And Joel Edgerton played him. He's a great Australian actor. Oh, yeah, absolutely. For now.

For now. Until he messes up. Then he's not. Yeah, I got one more before we can talk about the... Listener suggestions. Listener suggestions. Let me just take a drink of water. Okay, cool. I'm out of nog it's very disappointing

all right people have talked about a darth vader spin-off movie right have they yes okay sure just in in rumors all right okay whatever nothing great if nothing um complete people talking about maybe a one where he goes and hunts down various jedi or whatever okay which would be cool to say which would be a little bit um force unleashed yeah true okay there complete. We were talking about maybe one where he goes and hunts down various Jedi or whatever. Okay, yeah. Which would be cool to see. Which would be a little bit Force Unleashed. Yeah, true. Okay, yeah.

There you go. But in this one that I want to see, it's a particular story I want adapted. I want adapted. This is worked into what we read and what we're going to read theme song. I'm doing the theme. What are we reading today? Did it just happen? It probably did.

Okay, good. So yeah, consider that as part of this. Okay. But basically this story is called, it's a relatively recent one, it's called Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison. And it's by Hayden Black. That sounds very, like a kid's book from the 80s. It does, yes. Like a Trixie Belden or whatever.

Party boys go on a holiday? Darth Vader, whatever thing that you said? Ghost prisons. There we go. Yeah. It's by Hayden Blackman, who again wrote The Force Unleashed. Is he related to Hayden Christensen? Yes.

Okay. They're brothers. Great. Different last names, same first name. Yeah, that's how they do it in the Hayden family. You know it. But it's a series of... It's a graphic novel.

Or a series of... A comic run. There's a whole lot of Darth Vader comics that are running at the moment. And I think this is the best one. And basically it starts with... It's after the formation of the Empire, right? Yep. So the Emperor's all new and whatever.

And Darth Vader's still hunting Jedi and consolidating their power and bloody blah. And anyway, during this time, there's an attempt, a coup, if you will, where some Imperial officers try to take over the Empire. They're like, the guy who's in charge is sick of losing a whole lot of different recruits for this cause that he doesn't believe in anymore, this Galactic Empire. So they make an assassin. Ideally, what he should have done is maybe train them so they could hit something

you know better training would have helped look at yourself mate put some more money into that eh you make a good point yeah yeah yeah so basically

they make an assassination attempt on the emperor as well as Darth Vader and they kill a whole lot of you know grand moffs sure yeah who run the who run everything and whatever

and to save the emperor's life there's a recruit teams up with Darth Vader and they kill a whole lot of grand moffs who run everything and whatever. And to save the Emperor's life, there's a recruit, teams up with Darth Vader, this kind of scarred, armless recruit, who this horrible accident happened to him when he was a child, and they have to go to this place called the Ghost Prison, which is a hidden Jedi... It's where Obi-Wan and future Anakin Skywalker are hanging out. That's right, yeah. In this prison.

And they are... You've got us into another situation again, Anakin. Shut up, Dad! I mean, Obi-Wan! Yeah. But, so it's this, it's forgotten prison because Darth Vader suspected that he captured a whole lot of political prisoners when he was Anakin Skywalker. Right.

And he delivered them to the council and he's like, hey, there's a guy, what are you going to do with him? And they're like, don't worry about it. Right, right, right. Get out of here. And so he's like, I want to know where this is going. You're doing something with him. Tell me what you're doing. So Darth Vader finds out that they've been sending him

to this remote hidden prison, which is even, you can't even contact it with the Force for whatever reason. Sure, yeah. For whatever contrived reason. Probably midichlorians. Yeah, midichlorians. So they have to go and find this hidden prison

because it's got a whole lot of facilities that will help the Emperor because he's been injured in this whole thing. And there's a whole lot of prisoners there that Anakin Skywalker put in there that they are then going to use to take back the Empire. And it's a fantastic story. It's grim as fuck.

Okay. For a Star Wars story, I should say. But it's really, really good. And if you haven't read it, check out Darth Vader and the Hardy Boys. Also Darth Vader

and the Ghost Prison by Hayden Blackman. So yeah. Would you say that? Yeah, I'd definitely say that, yeah. Good. Yeah, yeah. I like the idea.

We get Darth Vader as a main character, which is interesting. Yeah, that's it. Oh, actually, he's not the main. There's another guy who's like the main, main character. Yeah, he's pretty, for all extensive purposes, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I like the idea... We get Darth Vader as a main character, which is interesting. Yeah, that's it. Oh, actually, he's not the main... There's another guy who's like the main, main character. Yeah, he's pretty... For all extensive purposes, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I like the Darth Vader that's set between... Even though the prequels make zero sense of why he becomes evil, I'm interested in the Darth Vader between Episode 3 and Episode 4, because he's still a young man. Right, yeah. He's just really messed up. Yeah, yeah. And he made some terrible choices that he has to live with, because he killed some kids and whatever. Right, yeah. He's just really messed up. Yeah, yeah. And he, you know, he made some terrible choices that he has to live with.

Because he killed some kids and whatever. Boy, sure he did. And choked his wife. Yep. To death or something. So, yeah. That's everything that I want to see. But there's more.

So, maybe we'll do another one of these at another point. Yeah, good, good. Sounds good. But I've got some listener suggestions, Mason. Okay, I'm ready. Before I get to that. Yes. There's been some rumoured, I would say even pretty much confirmed solo stories, I mean spin-off movies that we're going to see.

Okay. Right? So this is Hasbro announced their toy line up for the next six years. Oh, okay, right. That'll do it, yep. And this is what they're... Hasbro make a toy line up for Star Wars? They do.

And they're pretty good, I guess. Yep. Star Wars Rebels, which is the new series that they're making at the moment. It's an animated kids show, whatever. 2014. 2015, The Toy Lines, Star Wars Episode 7. 2016 is Star Wars Boba Fett. So that's probably a Boba Fett spin-off.

2017 is another episode, Episode 8. 2018 is the Star Wars Han Solo movie. Sure, yep. Which is probably a prequel. Yeah. I'd imagine. You don't want to see old Harrison Ford. Oh, do you though?

I don't know. Maybe. Let's see how he goes in the new one. Let's see how he, if he's not dead, if they don't kill him off in the new one. If they went with Harrison Ford's hatred of Star Wars. Grumpy Gramps Harrison Ford. Grumpy Gramps Harrison Ford. That would be fun.

Like, if they were like, look, he hates this. Let's build something around the fact that he hates it. Gramps Harrison Ford. That would be fun. Like, if they were like, look, he hates this. Let's build something around the fact that he hates it. That would be amazing. That would be amazing. Yeah. He doesn't want to put up with anything. He doesn't want to hear about magic or prophecies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he has to fight Boba Fett. At the end, old Harrison Ford head solo fights Boba Fett. That'd be pretty good. That'd be pretty good. All right, yeah, sure, I'll say that. Like a grumpy old man kind of thing? Yeah. That situation?

Like Unforgiven? Like Unforgiven, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. With Han Solo. All right. And then Episode 9? Episode 9.

And the last one is called Star Wars Red 5. Oh, there's one everyone after. Yeah. Oh. And Red 5 for those- That was Luke Skywalker's? That was Luke Skywalker's call sign when he attacks the Death Star. Yeah.

So I'm assuming it's an x-wing squadron kind of ish move so maybe you could do that star wars wraith one that i mentioned earlier that i thought of by myself without my brother's help the record states you didn't you needed help for that okay cool yeah there's also been rumors of another one there's uh they were talking about uh a young yoda one that's terrible right really. No one wants to see a bloody... Unless it starts with him talking normally and then he receives a blow to the head at some point. I'd watch that.

Yeah, yeah. Because I know the best thing about Yoda, aside from just make him a puppet and not lightsaber everybody, is that you don't know where he's from, you don't know what species he is. Well, initially, now we kind of know what he is. And the point of him is that he's not this amazing,

or that he is this great warrior or whatever. He's tiny, but he can do these amazing things because you don't have to be a super handsome, tall, athletic guy or whatever to be a hero. That's the point. I don't want to see Yoda Chronicles or whatever. I don't need to see it. Remember that Windows Yoda game? It's like a top-downicles. No, that's right. I don't need to see it. Remember that Windows Yoda game?

It's like a top-down perspective. Yeah, I remember that. Was it called Yoda Chronicles? Let's assume it was called Yoda Chronicles. Yoda Chronicles. Another one was... No, he's not going to do this because he's doing Justice League and Batman v Superman. Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice.

Zack Snyder was going to do... Oh, they're talking about a Severn Samurai-style Jedi movie. Okay. That would be cool. Yeah, yeah. And you have Jedi that aren't all weird monk men. That's true. You get a variety.

You get the cynical one. You get the cowboy one. You get the clown one. You get the astronaut one. One's an astronaut. One's a fireman. One's a duck. Not explained.

Not explained. Why would you? Alien duck. So there you go. So that's what we've got to look forward to. one's a fireman one's a duck not explained not explained why would you alien duck so there you go so that's what we've got to look forward to and that's interesting because that would take it

full circle because Star Wars originally was based on a samurai film yeah that's right Hidden Fortress Hidden Fortress yeah Takeshi's Castle

Takeshi's Castle yep just a lot of people just running in big foam pillars and falling into water yep that's it alright here's some listener requests Mason friends of the show Just running in big foam pillars and falling into water. Yep, that's it.

All right, here's some listener requests, Mason. Ready? Friends of the show. So we should pass these along? Absolutely. Okay. Yes. And we don't really have to because Lucas is listening. You know he is.

Yeah. Intently. We hate you. You're a dickhead. I know. He's all right. But he gets a lot of hate. We'll never become the pod race announcers.

Somebody suggested on Twitter that we should be the pod race. I saw that, yeah. The two-headed pod race announcer. Thank you for that. I would love to be that. Me too. We've burned way too many bridges, assuming anyone is listening to this, which they are not. That's right.

Look, George Lucas gets a lot of hate. A lot of it justified. But he's done a lot of good things for movies, I guess, probably. Right? And he gave a lot of money to charity. Yeah, that's right. Exactly. And he just, he needs a filter.

Yeah, yeah. He needs someone to go, let's back this up and let's, you know, we can tweak this or whatever. That's what he needs. All right. List the suggestions. Like anybody, though. Yeah.

Yeah. Like anybody. Yeah. List the suggestions. We're great. Yeah. We haven't had any silly ideas. Never.

Bring on the ghosts. Solve the detectives. We're great. We haven't had any silly ideas. Never. Bring on the ghosts. Solve the detectives. Force detectives. Trevor Miles says, A movie based on the game Republic Commando, set between episodes 6 and 7. Do you remember that game? I think it was on the Xbox.

I do remember that, yeah. I always wanted to play it, but I didn't have an Xbox, so I couldn't play it. It's a first-person shooter where you're clone commandos. Oh, yeah, okay. How amazing would that be?

Pretty good. As a game, or a movie, or neither or either. Correct. So, yeah. Thank you, Trevor. How about a Band of Brothers-style

TV series set in the Empire? That would be awesome! I know, right? Yeah. Do you set it on Hoth? There's a lot of sitting around on Hoth until they get attacked.

Yeah, yeah. Then it lasted like 10 minutes. Oh, no, I meant more in the sense of like it's the Imperialoth until they get attacked. Yeah, yeah. Then it lasted like 10 minutes. Oh, no, I meant more in the sense of like it's the Imperial forces. Oh, okay. Yeah, sure. Or both sides.

Both sides. Both sides. Yeah, like the wire. Pitted against each other. Any good character usually from the Empire eventually switches sides in the Spanish universe. Han Solo was an Imperial officer. Oh, yeah.

That's where he gets his boots from. Sweet boots. Still wears them. Great. They're a good fit. Yeah. He's worn them in, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Matthew E. says, and we talked about this as well, love to see one that focuses on... A friend of mine, a side note. Yeah. You can probably edit this out, but a friend of mine,

she wanted to stretch out some boots. She got some boots, but they were a little, they had a little stretching out. Oh, yeah, yeah. And she was told that you put, like, alcohol, like, you can stretch them out with, like, isopropyl alcohol,

like rubbing alcohol. So she, like, soaked her socks in alcohol and put them on and then... No. I think she got a little drunk. Oh, really? It's pretty funny. I thought you were going to say

she got some horrible foot infection or something. No, no, I mean, not yet. It was a couple of days ago, so probably. Great. Yeah, yeah. You can, what is it? If you rub garlic on a baby's feet, you can smell it on its breath, apparently? Yeah, I think so, yeah.

Because they're real thin babies or whatever? Yeah. I don't know how babies work. Anyway, I think she got a little dry. Good. That works, huh? Evidently. I'm going to check that out.

Yeah. Yeah. Right now. Okay, anyway, sorry. A little show like that. Boots. Yeah, Matthew E says, one that focuses specifically on bounty hunters. He's like, yeah, sure, Boba Fett, one that focuses specifically on bounty hunters.

He's like, yeah, sure, Boba Fett, but there's other ones from the Clone Wars shows like Cad Bane. He talks about Dengar and Bosk and 4LOM, all those ones that we talked about before. So kind of like a spaghetti western in the Star Wars universe. I'd like to see an astromech bounty hunter. Oh, yeah, that'd be cool. Just now that I'm thinking about it. Yeah, sure. What kind of gadgets would he have? Like a flyy gadget.

You'd have a flyy gadget. A shooty gadget. Like a little wheel flyy gadget. A shooty gadget. Like a little wheel. Like a little computer-y gadget. Yep. That'd be good. That would be good. What I would...

No, you know what would be great? There's actually a guy inside him. Yeah, no. Like it's revealed. I would say like... And this would be very R2-D2-C3PO, but basically... It's an astromech and he's been reprogrammed as a bounty hunter. Yep.

And he's got like a protocol droid that been reprogrammed as a bounty hunter. Yep. And he's got like a protocol droid that follows him around that translates all his threats. That would be amazing. Yeah. I'd watch that. I'd go for that. So he'd be like full of like tough guy cliches or whatever and catchphrases or whatever. And the protocol droid would have to translate for him.

That is amazing. We're putting you on ice, but it would be like... That's amazing. Wade Rees, as far as Star Wars ideas you'd like to see, he'd like to see Mason's idea of a Death Star heist taking place during Episode 4. Do you remember when you brought that up? Yeah, yeah, vaguely. I say a lot of stuff, though.

Sure. That would be good, yeah, yeah. Because there's a lot of surface area in that Death Star there is you know there's probably heaps of good stuff

in there probably proton torpedoes that you can steal yep maybe they're just there to bust someone out that they kind of do that yeah yeah

exactly yeah yeah because there's all sorts of stuff going on in the Death Star it's the size of a small moon yeah yeah

it's not a space station or it is a space station whatever they determined in the movie correct so yeah that would be, that would be great. That would be great. They bust in on the Death Star in the, what is it, the Jedi Force Unleashed game.

Yeah, yeah. That ends on the Death Star. Cool. And he, like, smashes Darth Vader's helmet off. It's pretty cool. Ooh. Yeah, yeah, it's great. Also, I'd like some, you know what I'd like?

Some consistency in Force powers. What's the roof on that? Do you know what I mean? What's the limit? Well, you can bring down a Star Destroyer, as we've discussed. Yeah, but... Pull it out of orbit. But why is he pulling Star Destroyers out of the sky

and Luke Skywalker's struggling to lift a rock or whatever? It's about believing in yourself. Yeah, sure. So he believed he could do that. That, by the way, is one of the worst sections of any video game ever. Because it takes forever to do. It's so bad. They mustn't have playtested that. Yep. That, by the way, is one of the worst sections of any video game ever. Because it takes forever to do. It's so bad. They mustn't have playtested that.

Not at all. Looks great on the cover of the game. Yeah, yeah. Shit section. Jamie Duncan says, Jar Jar faces up against Darth Malgus during a time rift. I'm assuming he's like

one of the first Darth people. Uh-huh. I didn't mention the Knights of the Old Republic games I've never played them a lot of people have written in about those as well

but I'll get to that and then it calls for other supporting and then he calls for help from other horrible CGI characters like Dexter from the diner you remember Dexter

the four armed thing or whatever Dexter Jetster Dexter Jetster and the chubby guy from Naboo great and then he's tragically killed and cloned the end thing or whatever. Dexter Jetster. Dexter Jetster and the chubby guy from Naboo. Great. And then he's

tragically killed and cloned. The end. I love it. I want an all CGI wacky characters movie as well. Yeah, yeah.

Matthew Wigger says students at Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Academy. Since Luke needs to build the ranks fast I'm thinking there'd be young adults rather than children.

Something like Chronicle but more fun and no found footage. It's Darth Malgus. Oh, I know him. Yep. Yeah, he is in that thing. I've seen a footage of that guy.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, just at the 7-Eleven. Great. But yeah, what do you think of that? Yeah, Jedi Academy, cool. So you could bring in a Kyle Katarn, but they wouldn't be kids, would they? He'd get people who had lived their lives,

who have force potential, who he then brings into the fold. There'd be a young hothead. There'd be a nerd. There'd be a cowboy. There'd be an astronaut. There'd be a duck. There'd be a duck.

I like the sound of that, yeah. Me too. Jamie Garden says, best Star Wars spinoff imaginable. The Star Wars Holiday Special 2, Jar Jar jar and the ewoks electric boogaloo film gold you've seen the star wars no i haven't i should really i haven't watched the whole thing it's it's as bad as they say wow it's impossibly bad yeah like it's and they're celebrating some sort of holocaust life day alien yeah it's like alien wookie christmas right okay good yeah it's like alien Wookiee Christmas or something. Right, okay, okay, good. It's baffling that it exists. Princess Leia sings a song about Life Day to the tune of the Star Wars theme. A day that brings the promise

How about it's a sequel and it's another group of people. It's maybe one, you know what it is. It's Han Solo's been trapped in another Star Wars Day situation. Yeah. And then some sort of Imperial insurgents attack. And then a die hard. That would be amazing. Right?

Broken down old Han Solo? Yes. Absolutely. Then that would be very... Because he's tired of being there. And he's like, oh, this is the worst. That would be great. So it's just set in like a building.

Yeah. Oh, man. Maybe in Coruscant? Yes. Yeah. I'm all for that. Wow. We've found some positivity in the Star Wars Christmas special.

Star Wars Die Hard. Amazing. Seamus Cain says. That's a great name, by the way. It is, isn't it? The first Jedi movie. Who he was and how he came to- Quick side note

your initial screen name for this thing was Seamus Sunday that's right because I think it was I think it's Irish for James or something so I just went

I'll just do that there you go yeah I'm pretty cool aren't I no no you are you're cool you're a cool guy

Seamus Cates is the first Jedi movie who he was and how he came to learn all that cool force stuff and build his lightsaber and then maybe in the sequel you could see him train someone who becomes the first Sith.

Boom. Good. Nice. Do you reckon they'll bring back the Sith in the new Star Wars? No. They probably will. Yeah. Heaps.

Heaps. Dan Miles says, Star Wars story I'd love to see, but this is one he doesn't want to see. No Boba Fett. And he makes a good point here. Yep. Even though we talked about how much we'd like to see that.

I never understood the love for him. He was just a guy in coloured armour. Might as well be a stormtrooper. Good point. Because a lot of the love for him, as we mentioned, it comes from the fans building up their expectations of him. Because in it, as I said, he fights Darth Vader and he travels across the galaxy

and he's got a gadget for everything. He's like the Batman of Star Wars or whatever. Yeah, so I can absolutely see his point. But we never see him being... No, that's what I'm saying. In the Expanded Universe you do, but in the movies you don't see him do any. Ultimately, he could be a stormtrooper because... Just a stormtrooper with a jetpack.

Yeah. Well, he is. He's a clone. Yeah, but he puts on that jet pack and then he just flies into the mouth of a Sarlacc. So ultimately that's what, if you gave a Stormtrooper a jet pack, that's what they'd do. They'd be so inept they'd fly into the mouth of a giant monster creature.

Right? And that's exactly what he did. So you're right. He is just a Stormtrooper. He's probably weirdly coloured because he fell through like a spray paint aisle of a mall. And he lit up his flamethrower and then all the paint cans exploded. That's why he's green.

Really good point. You and Dan should write that movie. I think so. You and Dan Miles. Jesse Wheeler says, and this is one that I wish I'd thought of, I'd love to see some sort of martial arts in the movie. There's a lack of kicks and punches to the face in Star Wars movies. I think it'd be cool to see some kind of The Raid-style fighting with Jedi Kung Fu.

Yeah, yeah, okay. And since Game of Thrones is incredibly popular, maybe like a medieval Star Wars because he wants to see a lightsaber joust. Oh! That would be awesome. Yeah. So we don't, you're right, we don't, they're supposed to be incredibly well-trained fighters. Yeah. We don't really see a lot of, we see the occasional awesome. Yeah. So we don't, you're right, they're supposed to be incredibly well-trained fighters,

but we don't really see a lot of, we see the occasional kick, like there'll be a block and then somebody will kick somebody off a balcony or something. There's one bit in episode one and where Darth Maul's fighting Qui-Gon and it happens in a split second. I remember the time blowing my mind

because I'd never seen it before. They kind of go shoulder to shoulder. Qui-Gon kind of blocks him and then he just fist backhands him like across the head. It's amazing. Like it's a split second. Just clubs him.

And Liam Neeson is giant. So you know that would hurt. Right, right, right. So yeah, more of that. Yeah, absolutely. I suppose there's kind of a... Star Wars is weird because there's a lot of weird...

There's a lot of limb chopping off. Yeah. But other than that, it's not particularly visceral. No. Like there's a lot of limb chopping off. But other than that, it's not particularly visceral. No. There's really not all... They say it seals the wound. Exactly, yeah. There's very rarely any blood. Even though in Episode 4 you see him cut off his arm and there's blood.

Right, right, right. Whatever, that's the only time. Yeah, yeah. But there's very little actual... Like, you know, you'll watch a martial arts film and somebody will... You know, their head will smack into a wall and you really feel that crunch yeah

that wet kind of crunch thud crunch kind of thing you never see anything like that you don't you're right

in a weird universe where people are getting all their limbs chopped off and falling into lava it's quite yeah yeah

that was pretty visceral yeah yeah yeah but I mean but that's right at the end yeah you're right I mean across the whole across the whole movie but the problem is

with this kind of stuff and I'll talk about this I know you know what I'll talk the whole across the whole movie but the problem is with this kind of stuff and I'll talk about this I know you know what I'll talk about it a bit later doesn't matter or there's a couple ideas down yeah yeah

but yeah great idea Jesse love it Daxon you know Daxon he had the Spider-Man cosplay yeah absolutely he tweeted me a while back

I don't know that's not how you say it but he tweeted me right that's how I'm going to say it he said can I be the official he tweeted you he tweeted me he said can I be the official Spider-Man of the podcast

yes yes done so I didn't reply at the time it was one of those things where it gets so banked up and I'm like I'm never going to find that tweet again

but yes you are Daxon you're the official Spider-Man yeah even above the actual Spider-Man yep above Andrew Garfield above Tobey Maguire

certainly he wants to see a proper adaptation of the first Knights of the Republic game the story is solid and the characters are complex

it's the perfect material I played that game for hours until I did literally every side mission which if you're unfamiliar with the game

it's got more side missions than you can shake a lightsaber at and I can shake it a lot just fucking shaking it stop shaking the lightsaber it'd also be cool

if you could add a sound effect in there so it makes it sound like you're shaking a lightsaber okay good okay cool it'd also be cool to see... If you could add a sound effect in there so it makes it sound like you're shaking the lights over. Okay, good. Okay, cool. It would also be cool to see a Rogue Squadron movie with a team of X-Wing fighters doing missions and maybe led by a young Luke.

Also, a movie where Boba Fett slaughters Gungans. Sure. Okay, yeah, cool. Just work that into a movie somewhere. Yeah, yeah. Maybe like the final sequence of Rambo, the most recent Rambo film. Yeah.

And he's just on like a mounted gun and he's just riddling with bullets. That would be great. Maybe just open with that. Yeah, sure. But then never explain it. Never go back. Never rescue them. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Jack Sheen, he's sending a few good ideas, some of which we mentioned. But the one, we talked about this before, the main one, I think, is the Death Troopers storybook, which is basically, as he mentions, it's star wars with zombies awesome so yeah he said they'd have to change parts of it uh the plot but regardless it would be amazing it would be amazing like a hand solo it's a hand solo kind of chew back a story with the zombies have you read it no but you've mentioned a lot sure but the thing is though they'll never ever ever ever make that ever really well it's owned by disney they're not gonna make a star wars zombie movie are they

oh even with the avengers and whatever they you only take them so far yeah and again you're right that visceral thing yeah you can't have anybody chomp somebody's neck right that's exactly it good point so yeah all right back there you go We've done it, Mason. We did it. Every Star Wars story you could possibly imagine. And even some you couldn't even imagine, we imagined them. How good are we? So, yeah. Pretty cool.

We might do another one of these down the line. Absolutely, yeah. I mean, there's plenty more ideas people are going to keep sending in. That's it. Some of those are great. I enjoyed those a lot. I know, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, well, good. Some are great. That's what I'm saying. Sure. Look, what was I going to say? I a lot. I know, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, well, good. Some are great. That's what I'm saying. Sure. Look, what was I going to say? I'm sorry if I've missed yours as well. I try to put in as many as I can. Sometimes I miss emails as well.

Like, I'll get them late and then I don't check them or whatever. Exactly. And then you find them weeks later and you're like, well, the longer I wait on this, the weirder it's going to get. I have a lot of those backed up. That's it. So, yeah, again, I've said this before. I cannot, you know, include everything in everyone

and reply to everybody, unfortunately. But Mason can, so. Oh, yeah, good point. At Wikipedia Brown. Thanks, buddy. Yeah. It's time for Mason. For real this time, what we read and what we're going to read.

Theme song. Don't stop believing. Hold on to that feeling. Thanks, Steve Perry. No worries. Have you got something? What are we going to read? I don't.

Cool. Tell me yours, and I'm going to read that, the one you were talking about earlier, the Ghost Prison one. Yeah, it's good. It's awesome. I'm on board with that. Yeah, definitely. Now, if you're looking for a good Boba Fett...

Oh, I haven't. Last week I said I was going to watch Penny Dreadful. I haven't watched it yet. Me neither. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. A spin-off one assumes There's no time cap on when we're going to read it That's true

When we're going to read Could any time we're going to read Now Mason if you're looking for a good Boba Fett backstory There's a story called Star Wars Episode 2 Attack of the Clones Are you familiar with that? It tells the story of a young Episode 2? Star Wars Episode 2?

Yeah, it's really good. Great. It's probably the best story ever told in literary history. No, for reals. Aside from the Ghost Prison one I mentioned... Yeah, yeah. There's Game Trailers. Are you familiar with them?

Yep. They're a website, a video game website. Uh-huh. And they do these retrospective videos. This is something a bit different I'm recommending today. I like to branch out. Sure. Sometimes I think of ideas that not even I imagine.

Multimedia. Yeah. So yeah, they did this series of episodes in 2008 leading up to The Force Unleashed coming out. They go through every Star Wars game that's ever been made. Yep. It's broken up into sections into multiple episodes but they've also got one video there that goes for 3 hours, 18 minutes and 8 seconds. It's massive.

Have you watched that? I've watched it in parts. Right. Yeah. I was actually just watching a little bit of it this morning. But the good thing is you can skip to the games that you're interested in because you've got your early Atari days. It never ceases.

Technology. I know. It's a big part of the video. No, but I mean it's broken up. Oh, okay. You can a great part of the video. No, but I mean, it's broken up. Oh, okay, right. You can see the sections and the chapters. So if you Google GT Retrospectives full episode Star Wars, and the first result says 18 minutes and 8 seconds, but it's cut off. It actually, the first result should say 3 hours, 18 minutes and 8 seconds, just because

I double checked this to make sure. So yeah, like if you want to skip over the early Atari games games and whatever you can obviously like have a look at what sure yeah yeah but like there's a whole lot of ones that i'm not really interested in like there's they go through all the prequel ones and there's some okay prequel games that i remember remember playing pod racer pod i had pod racer great yeah but um i won a nintendo 64 when i was a kid did you know that no yeah i won it from a radio station. They gave me Podracer with it. Great.

Do you want to know how I won it? Yes. This is embarrassing. Yeah, well then definitely. I did a C-3PO impersonation. Can you do it now? No. No, you can though.

I'm a robot. Look at me, I'm gold. No, that's a fake impression. He's just British. Tell you what, no pressure, but if you want to do it at the end, it's fine. Okay, fine. Okay. okay man there is a lot of pressure i've never done it since and it wasn't good but i beat the other guy i tell you that much that was um before episode one came out or whatever and the idea was that the radio show

was going to get all the people because they were doing one every night and get everybody together and they were going to record like a star Wars parody using all those people, including me. Right, okay. But it never happened. Thank Christ. That's disappointing, yeah. I am so happy. I'm so relieved. I'm so disappointed that didn't happen because then it would be on YouTube now.

Yeah. And, oh. Oh, man. How amazing would that have been? Great. So, yeah. History of Star Wars games. If you like Star Wars or anything.

I sort of do sometimes. Absolutely check it out. Intermitt like star wars yeah well this has made me like star wars a little bit sure you know what the only thing that's going to ruin that is watching a star wars film after this well it's a rich universe mason sure it's like the tron universe it's better to think about than watch correct so yeah check it out. Game trailers, retrospectives, GT retrospectives, full episodes,

Star Wars. I want to do a Star Wars games episode. Any other ones stand out for you? The X-Wing games and the TIE Fighter games. I loved X-Wing

versus TIE Fighter. Yeah. Actually, just TIE Fighter was good too. Just TIE Fighter. Because it went X-Wing first

and then they kind of refined it and then they made TIE Fighter and then they made X-Wing versus TIE Fighter and then they made Sam and Max Hit the Road. But that might have been before. Yeah. Remember that one? Wasn't a they made TIE Fighter. Yeah. And then they made X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. I think so, yeah. And then they made Sam & Max Hit The Road.

But that might have been before. Yeah. Remember that one? Wasn't a direct spin-off, though. No. Sam & Max Hit The Road. Yeah. Any other ones that you...

I'm probably not upset on this. The Super... Actually, the old NES and Super Nintendo... You got your Super Star Wars and you got that one. Yeah, those were great. Those were incredible. One of them, the Nintendo one, is where Darth Vader turns into a scorpion. I don't remember that.

Yeah. Yeah. James Rolfe, the Angry Video Game Nerd, actually. He's got a really good episode on Star Wars games. But they were really good. Yeah. You were all different characters. You have to retrieve a lightsaber.

The Super Star Wars, Super Empire, Super Jedi ones were just really, really good. I don't understand why they can't do another Jedi game like Jedi Outcast or Jedi Knight. Just get that lightsaber combat right. Oh, they don't have the rights to the term Jedi anymore, so they're not allowed. LucasArts lost it. Okay. So in the next couple of Star Wars games... Fox owned it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're not allowed to say Jedi anymore. Okay. Can we say it on the show? They're going to say midichlorian cadets from this point forward in all the new Star Wars movies. All right. Got a few letters this week, Mason. Okay.

Kent DJ Collapse Oki. Long name. Great name. He gets anxious while driving, he says. He does a lot of driving because his girlfriend lives quite a while away. He said this podcast helps. It's like having two people in a car with him. Watch out for that tree!

I hope you didn't kill him just then. Me too. Oh, good. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but a few weeks ago he travelled five hours to see his girlfriend.

When he got into town they went to a small locally owned comic book themed restaurant called Supper Heroes. And we were there. How did that happen? I know, weird, right?

It was his second time there but they must have changed the menus. Supper Heroes, that's a good side pun name. That's it. He started laughing his ass off, and he immediately knew what he was ordering. And he sent us in a picture of the Forget About It Burger.

Yeah! He said, so if for some bizarre reason you find yourself in the deep south of the US, I'll take you guys to this amazing restaurant, probably. Absolutely. I would love that. That sounds great. Never been to the States. We should go.

Okay, good. What are you doing tomorrow? Going to the States. Oh, I got work, so. Yeah, and I only have one ticket, too, so. Okay, cool. But yes, is this shout-out worthy? Ah, yes.

Shout-out. If not for me, then Supper Heroes. I think it deserves a shout-out. New York style. Forget about it. Yeah, you know it. Yeah. Hey, Supper Heroes. I think it deserves a shout out. New York style. Forget about it. Yeah. You ready? Yeah.

Hey, Supper Heroes. Forget about it. Your burger's pretty good. Don't forget about it, actually. That wasn't worthy of the burger, I feel. Oh, well. Do you want to do it? No, I'm good.

Okay. Billy Arundel says, Mason. Yep. I'm in Canada. Right. Shout out. Okay. Move on. Look, we've all done stuff, mate. We've I'm in Canada. Great, shout out. Okay, move on.

Look, we've all done stuff, mate. We've all been in place. Okay? No, continue. Sorry. He says he's not used to bats at his house. More so wild mooses or moose or mice. Moose-eye.

Moose-eye. Arctic foxes. Moose-a-leanies. Arctic foxes and that kind of thing. So he handled it the best way he could. So he got a bat in the house, right? He decided to start it with a lacrosse stick and then scoop it up and that kind of thing. So he handled it the best way he could. So he got a bat in the house, right? He decided to stun it with a lacrosse stick and then scoop it up and return to the wild. That's foolproof.

Yeah. In many ways. That is also Batman's only weakness. Hit him with a lacrosse stick. Instead, he accidentally beat the life out of it with one swing. I like to think the impact of the wall. You like to think that it was the impact of the wall that did it. Look, either way, you'd kill that bat. Yeah. He said stun? Stun the life out the wall. You like to think that it was the impact of the wall that did it. Look, either way, you'd kill that bat.

Yeah. You said stun? Stun the life out of it. Does that mean dead? The life out of it. Yes. It sounds like... Let's assume he didn't.

Okay, good. Let's assume that the bat was fine and it went to live on a farm. And they had a beer together. Yeah, great. Yeah. You wonder how Bruce Wayne

could stay so calm with the bats. That's a really good point a really good point yeah it'd be really hard to work on the bat computer we just get swarms of bats just it takes a lot of valium it probably does so i'll ask you two as australians despite being in the south or whatever with fewer crazy animals how much you have handled it um i've had this happen to me i did it with a washing basket uh-huh oh yeah good call yeah yeah just kind of put place it over the top yeah yeah you don't need to beat the life out of an animal yeah we do have a lot of giant spiders we do oh i'll beat the life out of them yeah yeah no i'll um i'll put it like a bowl over them yeah like a big dessert bowl or whatever yeah okay like an ice cream then you've got a delicious dessert yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah yeah ice cream

container slip of paper, you know. And then I'm like, then I really anxiously walk to the door and then I just sort of panic and throw the whole thing outside. I've got this habit. I think it comes down, comes from my mum.

If I do catch a giant spider, we say mum here as well. It's probably a bit weird, isn't it? And giant spider. And giant spider? Giant spooder is what they say. Oh, okay, roof and roof yeah exactly yeah okay yeah so like i i'll get one in a jar and i'll have to keep it in that jar until i show somebody be like look at this fucking spider look at me it is and then i get rid of it yeah because i have to prove that there

so yeah um but he said have you had a similar situation with, like, other animals even? Have you been attacked by anything? When I was a young lad, I was in, I think it was, it might have been Thailand or something like that. Sure. It's all vague. Yeah. Beyond a certain couple of years. Somewhere weird. Somewhere weird.

And it was like, I was with my parents and we went to some sort of, like, a place where it's just monkeys. It's like a monkey habitat. So, there's a lot of monkeys. sort of like a place where it's just monkeys. It's like a monkey habitat. So there's a lot of monkeys. And then I was like, I paused briefly along this trail to like look at something or take a photo or something like that. And my parents just moved on.

And then I stopped taking the photo or whatever and I looked around and realized I'm surrounded by angry monkeys. And I'm like, oh, what do I do? Because I'm like nine or ten or something. I'm like, what do I do? Is the idea, do I not look them in the eye or I do look them in the eye? That's right. Bare your teeth.

Don't bare your teeth. What's going on? And they're all surrounding me. And I didn't have any more bananas to give them or whatever. And another tourist walks past and they lean in and they're like, they're going to kill you. Or something. And I'm like, no. And I just ran away.

It's pretty great. They didn't kill you? No. Oh, that's good. I used to... There was a lot of snakes when I lived up north. I've talked about the crocodiles or whatever. So I'd go running.

You never go running at dawn and dusk. First of all, don't run at dawn because that'd be ridiculous. Yeah, yeah. Stay in bed. But like whenever I'd run, like as it was getting dark, you'd always come across at least one snake. Right. Just lying in the middle of the road.

And one of the time, like forever nearly, not forever, but it happened enough that, I don't know, once a month you'd nearly step on a very poisonous snake. And this one time I remember there was a snake in the middle of the path. I'm like, is that dead? Because I just got there. And they're like, no, it's not dead. Don't touch it. And I'm like, I don't know, man.

So I picked up a rock. Yep. This is like two years ago, by the way. And I just dropped this rock in the middle of this snake. And it's like, ah! Like, it rears up. Like, fuck it, Al. Let's get out of here. For all I I know that snake is still pinned under that rock

so it was a big rock yes no I think he got away probably yeah definitely ducks though I've been attacked by ducks on three separate occasions and this stems back to when I was a child right when I was a baby when you were a Sith apprentice that's right

you kept getting attacked by those duck Jedi? Please don't judge me for this story, by the way, people who are listening. I'm going to. When I was six, I went to a park and there was a lake, right? And there was like some ducks in this lake and there was like a beer bottle next to the lake and you're a kid, you like throwing things. Yeah, boy do you. So I picked up this beer bottle and I threw it and I wasn't aiming for it.

Right. And I hit this duck in the middle of the back. Yep. And it just went under and it didn't come up. Wow. Or it may have come up somewhere far away or whatever. I suspect it probably went through like an underwater tunnel and it came up in another pond.

So you're in the clear. I hope so. And I felt terrible and I still feel terrible. But since then, I've been attacked by ducks on three separate occasions. You think they can smell it on you? Yes. Yeah. I do.

The smell of duck murder. I love animals. Not so much that I won't smash a spider in half. Yeah, yeah. Or kill a duck with a bottle. Just glass of duck. Anyway, so when I was, I don't know, maybe 14 or 15, I had a school assignment. We had to go to a local wildlifey thing and collect some water samples and take some

photos of nature or whatever. And I go into these kind of reeds and there's this duck lying there and it's got these whole lot of baby ducks around it. And it's got one... I'm with my dad, by the way, who's got the camera. It's got one wing kind of splayed out over the baby ducks and it's got this real glassy eye. And it looks like it's dead. I'm like, oh, this duck's dead and it's left its kids or whatever.

So I kind of come in closer. And as I get close, out of the corner of my eye, like top left, I see this shadow just block the sun. And it must have been the other duck in the family. Daddy duck. Just bear down on me and just start like pecking the shit out of me. Uh-huh. And so I'm ducking and running.

You're ducking and running. Ducking and running. Yeah. And then I get away and I finally look up and the duck's waddling away. They're all alive, by the way. That duck was faking it or I just misread that situation. A carefully laid duck trap. That's right.

And I look up and my dad is like a hundred metres away laughing his ass off. So he totally predicted this was going to happen and he'd already gone. He'd see some duck scenarios in his time. Some duck ambushes. Yeah, that's it. He grew up on a farm, he knows. So I've never been attacked by anything really terrible except ducks. Just ducks.

So many ducks. Ducks again and again. Yeah. So, yeah. Oh, one more shout out, Mason. Yeah. Mega. Give me the thing.

Okay. There we go. It's the one with the cursor is going. Okay. He wanted a birthday shout out and a name pronounced. I'm going to say Meganitri. All right. Which is a super cool name.

It is. It's his birthday today, the 31st of May, which was yesterday. It's the first today for us. It's the first. We missed it. Happy birthday and shout cool name. It is. It's his birthday today, the 31st of May, which was yesterday. It's the first today for us. It's the first. We missed it. Happy birthday and shout outs. He got me. I think it'll be hilarious to hear you guys attempt to say my name.

I'm going to say Magnitri Putri. I'm just... I disagree. Email back in and let us know if I got that right. And let me know if I got it right as well. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

Yeah. You called him Muggles. That's weird. That's it. Thank you. I think that's a show, Mason. That's fantastic. we did it again we did

thanks for all the listener suggestions man brilliant got some good stuff I don't know what we're doing next week so I would have said listener suggestions for next week but I don't know what we're doing so anyway

just suggest some stuff just whatever anything you want that's it the brute and the basilisk suggest some stuff we should do with our lives buy some shares or something

you know yeah don't have any shares no I think I used to maybe I don't know doesn't matter the. I think I used to, maybe. I don't know.

It doesn't matter. The Brute and the Basilisk. For our wonderful thanks to all of you every week. Thank you very much. Also, just a quick heads up. Today, Mason, so I ought to be up by now. I'm putting up, I put up a video on why Spider-Man is broken. The film series.

Uh-huh. And why X-Men is great. Ooh. I think it's a good video. Yeah. So check it out on YouTube.com slash MrSundayMovies. Yeah. And find me on Twitter at MrSundayMovies. Find Mason on Twitter.

At Wikipedia Brown. Also email the show, Weekly Planet Pod on Facebook, email, and Twitter. The best place to do it is probably email though. Gmail. Gmail. Oh, sorry, yeah. Weekly Planet Pod, Gmail. Got something there to shout out or promote?

No, I was just looking at your YouTube page. I haven't put it up yet. Okay, never mind. Yeah, but I will. It'll be up by now. Yep. It's a real classic. It's a real humdinger.

It did. Oh, and thank you to those people who watched my Easter egg video. Yeah, yeah. A lot of sites picked it up. Cool. It's got like 130,000 views or something. I'm really annoyed. Well, not annoyed.

It's great. Fantastic. Got a lot of new subscribers from it, but I made a few errors in it. Okay, right. So you're going to get a lot of emails. It's great. Fantastic. Got a lot of new subscribers from it, but I made a few errors in it. Okay, right. So you're going to get a lot of umar. Yeah, yeah. Well, I said, instead of Azazel, I said Azriel. Oh, no.

And then the first person who said it, it was real cool about a camera who it was. He's like, it's pronounced this. I'm like, oh, fuck. I'm never going to hear the end of this. So everyone's like, you idiot. You don't know anything about it. So, yeah. I wish it was one of my videos I put more thought into. To be fair, you know some things about something.

That's true. So don't let them get you down, mate. No, no, it's fine. Most people are great. Who am I kidding? You focus on the bad because I'm a negative person. Correct. But like other things like, what was it?

A lot of these aren't Easter eggs or whatever, which is true. So if I don't include at the end like certain characters return for example yep then someone will go well what about the bit where so-and-so returned even though I know it's not an Easter egg right you got to

put in every reference or whatever because otherwise people are like what about this you know God yeah win Mason you cannot but I'm pretty happy who wants to win

though you know it's just important you play the game the YouTube video game sure is yep thanks everyone yeah thanks everyone alright

good one have a good week see you guys see you next week bye now you can have these almonds because you had

a good show yeah victory almonds Mason had a bowl of almonds that I gave him before we started and he made a promise

not to not to eat the almonds even though I'm out of nog they're still pretty good can I have an almond no nevermind can I have an almond no you son of a bitch and he made a promise not to eat the almonds. Even though I'm out of nog, they're still pretty good. Can I have an almond? No, never mind. Can I have an almond?

No. You son of a bitch.