The Weekly Planet - 533 Blade Troubles & Immaculate, Abigail, Sting

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

Weclome back everyone! This week we talk the timeline of Blade's development, the passing of Donald Sutherland, Batman potentially losing its director, a trailer for The Penguin, the cast of Batman: Caped Crusader, the Watchman animated movies being R-Rated, details of Jordan Peele's next movie, Street Fighter loses its directors, the MCU X-Men line-up plus brief reviews of Immaculte, Sting and Abigail. Thanks for listening!New video game let's play and it's X-Men Arcade! Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show including video game let's plays, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.Please be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start05:19 RIP Donald Sutherland09:25 Batman: The Brave & The Bold Director12:44 The Penguin Series Trailer16:01 Batman: Caped Crusader Cast19:21 Watchman Series is R-Rated (Dong?)23:46 New Jordan Peele Movie Release Date25:06 Street Fighter Movies Loses Directors27:53 The Acolyte's Latest Canon Controversy36:41 X-Men Live Action Team Roster39:36 Blade Can't Cut Through Development Hell50:43 Sting Movie Review (Only Minor Spoilers)58:42 Abigail Movie Review (Spoilers 01:02:22 to 01:05:53)01:05:53 Immaculate Movie Review (Spoilers 01:08:23 to 01:14:14)01:14:14 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:21:28 Letters, It's Time For LettersJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownMaso's Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/nickmaseauThe Weekly Planet Twitter ► https://twitter.com/theweeklyplanetThe Weekly Planet TikTok ►https://www.tiktok.com/@weeklyplanetpodThe Weekly Planet Clips Channel on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyplanetclipsPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesTWP iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetTWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2QbmwGj Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Yorgos Lanthimos, the Academy Award nominated director of Poor Things and The Favorite, comes Kinds of Kindness, a darkly hilarious and unpredictable film that critics are calling mind-bendingly brilliant. Featuring an all-star cast led by Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Willem Dafoe. Kinds of Kindness is a wild ride that will leave audiences discussing the experience long after it's over. Don't miss Kinds if you live in London, England. Especially if you live in London, England in September this year. That's true, especially if you live in London, England in September this year and you're a big fan of the podcast Plumbing the Death Star and the podcast The Weekly Planet.

But you really, really like those podcasts, but you don't like Nick Mason or Joel Zammatt. That's right because there's going to be two live shows at the London Podcast Festival on the 13th at 9.30pm we've got Plumbing the Death Star. With James. That's right I'll be there. With no Joel Zammatt. No Joel Zammatt. Yeah Joel Zammatt is not coming, James is coming.

Yes. We cannot stress that enough. And then on the 14th of September at 9.30pm, as part of the London Podcast Festival, there'll be a live episode of The Weekly Planet. Exactly. And Vic Mason will not be there. But I'll be there, Jackson Bailey. And so will I, Joel Dersha.

That's right, because I will not stand on stage by myself. I, in fact, insist that that's not how the show goes. So, those two shows are happening as part of the London Podcast Festival at King's Place. That was the 13th of September for Plumbing the Death Star, 14th of September for The Weekly Planet. Tickets are on sale now. We'll see you there, hopefully. We'll see you there. Oh, and there's going to be some other shows in the UK as well.

They'll be announced very, very soon. There'll be more. shows in the UK as well. They'll be announced very, very soon. There'll be more. The Weekly Planet. The Weekly Planet. Welcome back everybody to another episode of The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday with me as always. It's my co-host Nick Mason trying to replicate the success of me opening a can, but he can't do it because he's bought a bottle by mistake.

Hear that? Hear that? Yeah, I hear it. It's victory. It's a moral victory. Moral victory. Wow. Yeah. Well, you dropped it on the ground. How's that feel?

How's your moral victory? Feels morally very good. Well, I'm glad. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. I'm honestly happy for you. I'm happy for you.

It's great to be here. Yeah, man. And I'm happy for you. I know you might have heard up, Tom. And I forgive you. Oh, what? Yeah, that's right. For the stuff I did. Yeah, for your behaviours. OK, thanks top. And I forgive you. Oh what? Yeah, that's right.

For the stuff I did. Yeah, for your behaviors. Okay, thanks man. You're welcome. That actually does mean a lot and makes me feel good about myself. Are you going to forgive me? No. Oh, good.

I'm assuming you didn't. Guess what? I'm the bad boy of this podcast now. People might have heard up top. Unforgiven. And you're unforgiven too. Might have heard up top that me and a couple of the SansPants guys were going to the UK later in this year.

Hopefully that ad ran. I hope it did. Nick Mason won't be there, unfortunately. Because I hate people from the UK, people in SansPants, the other members of the Weekly Planet podcast. And flying. Those four things. In that order?

Depends on the day. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. But look, tickets will be available for that on Thursday. And there's going to be some other shows that we're figuring out as well around the UK. If you are interested, it's kind of going to be a blend of like the weekly planet and plumbing the Death Star.

And that's the idea essentially. Is it untested? Yes. Will it work? I don't know, to be honest. I don't know. Come and find out, I guess. But no, we're really looking forward to it. Plumbing the planet. That's what they'll call it.

The fracking tour. You're going around the world to ruin it. It's not a bad idea, Mason. Pretty good. Yeah. Well, I wish you luck in all your endeavours. Thank you. I don't know how this is going to work while I'm away. We'll figure it out, won't we? We're going to figure it out. Sure. Or we'll just stop. Yeah, we'll stop. We'll take a few weeks off and then never pick it back up again. Classic podcast behavior.

Mason, what we could do is we could just rerun some old stuff and see if anybody notices. Not a bad idea, actually. Right. Did you hear the news of the week? I mean, what you could do, I think, is you could break down the news of the week and I'll tell you if I've heard of any of these things. I can do that for you. Okay, great.

I'm going to leave a pause after each one and I'll tell you if I've heard of any of these things. I can do that for you. Okay, great. I'm going to leave a pause after each one and I'll tell you if I've heard of it. Okay, so this is just a list of things and then we're going to go into more depth though. This isn't just, this isn't- Okay, this isn't the news. This isn't, this isn't, I mean, I mean, to some degree, this is the level of insight you get from us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You say a bit of news and then I say whether I've heard of it,

but afterwards I think we'll expand on each one. Definitely. In the order in which you presented them here. And at the end, and then at the end after that, we're doing this high school essay style. Yeah. At the end, I'm going to summarize it all. Okay, great. Wow.

Yeah. That'd be amazing. Yeah. Donald Sutherland passed away. I had heard about that. And that's sad. Maybe the Batman, Brave and the Bold directors left? That's, I had not heard of that.

Okay, maybe. Oh, maybe. Trailers for That's I had not heard of that. Okay, maybe. Oh, maybe. Trailers for the Penguin. I have heard of that. A sort of teaser trailer and cast list for Batman Caped Crusader. I had heard of that. The Watchmen, whether or not we're going to see Dr. Manhattan's DONG. You heard that?

I hadn't heard of that. Jordan Peele's next project gets a release date. Oh, I hadn't heard of that, but I'm looking forward to that. Street Fighter doesn't have a director at the moment anymore. It did have a director. Two directors now it doesn't. Oh, I hadn't heard of that. Have you heard of this big The Aqualite controversy this week? Because a banana-headed guy was born in the wrong year.

I have heard of that. Did you hear that, the rumor of the new X-Men reboot team in the MCU? No, I hadn't heard of that. Wow. Did you read a big article about Blade and how Blade fell apart? The the rumor of the new x-men reboot team in the MCU. No wow Did you read a big article about blade and how blade fell apart? I had heard of that and read it on the train on the way over that's right and That's pretty much it. We were gonna do a couple of horror movies and maybe we will or But we might save it for another week depending on how we're going and how we're feeling Alright, alright then. Alright.

Timecode's below. Collin's who edits this. He's made sure of that, doesn't he? Thank you, Collin's. Thank you, big time. So Donald Sutherland has passed away at age 88. He was battling a long illness, apparently, of which we do not know what it was. And we shan't be investigating further.

No. I mean, 88. Incredible innings. Been around forever. Some of the movies and stuff that he's done not exclusively the dirty dozen That's right the original mash movie. Yeah, he's hot. He's the original Hawkeye. He's the original Hawkeye Invasion of the body snatchers not the Daniel Craig one right the first one okay one that people remember The movie JFK. Yeah, he's the he's X. He's the guy who breaks it all down. How did he do it?

Is that movie accurate? Like do you look at it now and go, no, that's not true. There was a moment where a man's eyes turned completely black. What? You see, because he's pure evil. I don't think that really happened. You don't think that really happened? I don't think people are capable of doing that.

I don't think. Okay, okay. And of course, most recently, for the younger among us, like us, the Hunger Games trilogy, he was original President Snow so not only was the original Hawkeye who was original President Snow and original Invasion of the Body Snatchers guy before Daniel Craig. The original Snatcho who's the antagonist of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Jack Snatcho yeah that's right he's also I think the best Mr. Bennett in Pride and Prejudice in the early 2000s version.

The Keira Knightley guy from Succession. I think he's good in that one. Okay. I'm not going to fight you on that, Mason. You could arm wrestle over it though, if you want. No, no, no. Okay, fair enough. So, Kiefer Sutherland, who of course is his son, had this statement.

He said, with heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film never daunted by a role, good, bad, or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved and no one can ever ask for more than that. A life well lived. Some have said the best actor to have never been nominated for an Oscar. He was never, really? Never.

God. Yeah. I think he was nominated and won some Golden Globe Awards. Sure. But never an Oscar, which is bizarre. I guess he's not like, he's not a flashy kind of celebrity guy. Yeah, exactly. So maybe that's got something to do with it.

He's never like causing a ruckus. He's never causing a ruckus. Or strutting a red carpet. Yeah, that's true. But I mean, like such an incredible like, you know, evil turn in the Hunger Games movies, obviously. It was Jack Snatcho. He was an anti war activist in the in the 70s. He was on the NSA is like watch list through some of the 70s.

Nice image Jane Fonda. Nice. Speaking of he's in a movie called Clute, which is from from the early 70s. And it's a sort of a psychological thriller mystery. It's got him and Jane Fonda in it. Right. Okay. All right. There's a guy named Clute. Clute?

Yeah. Jack Clute? It might be Jack Clute or John Clute. Get a Clute. Is that what they say? Yeah. Yeah. Get a goddamn Clute.

It's time for me to put sunglasses on to get a Clute. Okay. I was thinking I've never seen the great train robbery. Oh yeah, he's in that as well with Sean Connery. Yeah. That's a good one. So I think pretty much, I think everything else here that's mentioned I've seen. So I check that out this week.

Also unrelated, but somewhat related. I think it's interesting that Kiefer Sutherland, you know, it's a family dynasty of acting, but Kiefer Sutherland is not just doing a Donald Sutherland impression. No. Like, credit to Kiefer Sutherland. He's doing his own thing. Whereas a lot of people in this situation. Yeah, I just like the I'll just do I'll just do what my dad does.

Who are you going to name specifically? Brooklyn Beckham. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Somebody can't play soccer. So he's just an empty headed dude walking around. And he can take bad photographs. Look, I don't know anything about him. Maybe he's delightful. This Brooklyn backer.

Maybe he's delightful. You know Becker. Maybe he's delightful. You know? But if I had to choose whose art I prefer, Donald Sutherland or Brooklyn Becker, I'm gonna have to assess all of Brooklyn Becker's photography. What are you calling him? Brooklyn Becker? What's his name? Brooklyn Beckham.

Beckham. Whatever his name is. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. But I'd probably pick Donald Sutherland if I'm honest. Yeah, same I think. Okay, cool. Yeah, I think Donald Sutherland's legacy of acting is better.

Yeah. In that it exists. Yeah, absolutely. All right, let's move it along Mason. Okay. Andy Machete, who people might know as director of the It franchise, the newer one. That's right, and he directed The Flash, the movie The Flash. Yeah, he did direct the movie The Flash, which had its one year anniversary this week, last

week. Congratulations. Yeah. How are you feeling? Not every movie makes it to the one year anniversary of existing. Why would that be, do you think? Because it never comes out? Maybe it never comes out, or they never made it, or all copies were destroyed.

Is this something you've revisited in your private life? The movie The Flash. I'm going to revisit The Flash flash or even just the Batman scene I mean we in the pasta reading we time travel saying we did a commentary. We did that's true. Besides that. No Like I said, it's it's it to me It was like the equivalent of when you're a kid and you find a comic book in a you know Yeah, super market or something and you read it and you go. I don't I hate this I don't really understand what's happening, it was kind of cool I guess yeah for me

it was the equivalent it cost 250 to 300 I did didn't it yeah yeah to me it was the equivalent of watching a bad movie oh yeah that's how I feel about it look I don't even think it's Andy machetes fault I don't know whose fault that was honestly it just was it was a big disaster fault was it that if all these famous people were like this is the best movie I've ever seen yeah that's a good question actually Stephen King was, this is the best movie I've ever seen. Yeah, that's a good question, actually. Stephen King was like, this is the best movie I've ever seen. Come on, man.

And I've seen it chapter one and two. And all my haunted car movies. I've seen all of them. There's more than one haunted car. Maybe. There might be some sequels. Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's Christine and there's Vampire Knight Rider. Oh my God.

The teeth come out of the lights, right? Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah, cool man. Anyway, by all official accounts, it seems that Andy Machete is still the director of Batman the Brave and the Bold. There's two Batman movies currently in production. One is the Batman part two. That's right.

Which we'll talk about next. And the other is Batman the Brave and the Bold, which is Batman and Damien Wayne. There's going to be a new Batman. It's in the DCU timeline. And it was confirmed very early on that Andy Machete was going to do that. But via the Hot Mic podcast, John Roker said that he's actually left but the studio hasn't made it official. I could see them after the flash being like, this might not be the guy. Even if he didn't do it, somebody's got to take responsibility. But again, I think it I think perhaps the the Batman the Brave and the Bold was his reward for finishing the Flash and enduring and slogging through and copping all the...

I mean, there's a lot that happened. But does that backfire because people were like, well, there's no way I'm watching this new Batman movie. But then again... Does anyone know who directed that? Well, exactly. But does anybody? Batman movies generally are a guaranteed hit. Yeah, that's right. You know, so I'm guessing they're like, well, this new one will do fine. And thank you for finishing.

They also want it to be good, I guess. And I think if it's if it's unknown whether, you know, if they think that he can't do it, then, you know, so see, there's a new cinematographer and it's Brooklyn Becker. Well, when I went to the Becker. They said terrific. Yeah. Look, I'm sorry I misspoke one time in my life. God, I'm not sorry. We didn't do anything. That's right.

I'm I'm filled with glee because I can get you forever with it now. I'll get you for my speech on your wedding day. Don't do it Mason. I'm going to get you with it. Don't do it please. Your next wedding. Don't do it. Trailers ahoy. Do you see this?

What's this? It's for the penguin. Oh I saw the trailer for the penguin. Penguin finally got a trailer. Not finally, we already have one. We've got to tell you this. Finally got a second trailer. Second trailer finally.

Took them long enough didn't it? This one gives us more into the inside of what happened to the world in The Batman after the Batman. Except directly after. Most of the city is underwater because of the big flood that happened. Who knows what Batman's up to. I think he is gonna show up in it. They've mentioned. Yeah what's gonna happen is it's gonna be you know 10 to 12 episodes of the Penguin building his criminal empire on that on the ashes of the you know The recently destroyed Gotham City and at the end Batman's just gonna shove and karate shot him in the neck It's driving to jail. You're going to jail. That's right crimes. That's right. I saw it. Yeah

I've been watching the whole time So it's really about what you've done is actually against the law So it's really about... What you've done is actually against the law. Hey Batman, I didn't know. I'm sorry. I think you did know. I'm sorry. You knew.

Yeah, I knew. You shouldn't have admitted that, just that. So it's mob family stuff. Yeah, sure. So what's his name? Falcone's Dead, who was played by John Turturro? Turturro, Mr. Tartutes. But his daughters around.

That's right. Played by Brecklin Booklar? Was it? Yeah, Brecklin Booklar. Yeah, that's right. What's her name? Kristen Malotti. That's right.

That's correct. So people vying for power about what's left of Gotham and running about. Do you think we're going to get it? They're not running about, they're sloshing about. Because Gotham is still underwater, it seems. Yeah, that's right. Do you think he's going to make bank on some sort of drainage project? Maybe he will. I think so. Yeah. running about the sloshing about his got him is still underwater it seems do you think he's gonna make bank on some sort of drainage project maybe he will I think so yeah I think I mean it looks great yeah I mean he's so good as the

penguin it's it's a great like the makeup and everything yeah it's a might say it looks difficult to do as well I recall am I recalling correctly that originally he was just gonna be looking like Colin Farrell for the movie and then they just did a makeup test I feel like there was maybe some concept art for that Yeah, that was regular idea and then then Colin Farrell and the makeup guys were like, let's do a weird one and it worked Yeah, it really I mean unrecognizable you wouldn't know and here's is something and I think perhaps we're forgetting about and was absent from the trailer When are you gonna get one of those umbrellas? Yeah.

You think it's an essential element to the Penguin? I kind of think it is. Well, it's been raining or there's been water. That's true. Yeah. So you might need one. Maybe we tease throughout the series like, oh, it looks like it's going to rain.

I better get my umbrella. No, it's fine. It's fine. Now I'll leave. I'll go out. Do you think this is going to go that way in terms of like umbrella with a with a knife in it we had a stuff We'd have a better weird a Batman these stuff. I think umbrella with a knife in it is maybe what about The material sheds off it and he's an explicably a helicopter. Yeah

Yeah, sure. Yeah, you think it's gonna do all I think I think so. Yeah. I don't know what kind of universe this is I still not I'm still not ruling out that they're gonna just fold this into the DCU be like this is the this is our Batman Actually, we thought of this. Yeah Mine James Gunn. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, but we'll see I guess Well speaking of Batman, there was a teaser for I'm stealing this at gun pointed say two ends. Oh, yeah, that's good I think so. Did he say two ends? Yeah. I mean, you wouldn't know otherwise.

Yeah, that's right. Unless he went gun. Batman, Cap Crusader, you saw this teaser? Yes. It was more of a vibe than any kind of... It was a vibe, but you have a cast list there. I do. So...

This is the big reveal. This is a new Batman voice actor. Big shoes to fill. Yep. It's been Kevin Conroy on a lot of stuff. It's been other people but it has been Kevin Conrad But does anybody remember anything anyone other than Kevin Conrad? No, that's right Hamish link later is playing him. He was most recently. He's done a bunch of things but Midnight Mass Oh, yes plays the priest in that I really like him. I think it seems like he's a very good choice

Like his work a lot. There is there are shades of Kevin Conroy in it, but it also is Batman. So the shades of Batman in it. I think a lot of people also who have voiced Batman in the last few years have probably grown up listening to or at least, you know, spent some time listening to Kevin Conroy. Oh, definitely. Yeah, absolutely. So they're going gonna be influenced. Yeah. So there is a big cast list, but the confirmed ones are Batman as mentioned. Harley

Quinn is Jamie Chung. Two-Face is Diedrich Bader, who has played Batman before actually. He's a fun Batman. He's the brave and the bold Batman. That's right. Yeah. And Catwoman is Christina Rickey. That's right. Yeah, and our catwoman is Christina Ricky Excuse me I Miss me twice in my life and I'm tired. I've been sleeping. Yep. Is that not good enough for you? You have been sleeping Oh Interesting reach reach you. Okay, is that right? Yes Who people might know from no not just reaching not reachy reachy. She's not married to herself

You don't think so. I don't think soy Reachy. She's not married to herself. You don't think so? I don't think so. I think it's important to be married to yourself. You gotta love yourself first, Mason. Right. That's why you gotta have a ceremony just for yourself initially. If RuPaul has taught us nothing else, it's that and also that fracking thing.

Which you've taken a good use for your tour. I have, absolutely. Yeah. What have we got here? So here's some other names that are in it. John DiMaggio. That's He's Bender. He's Bender. Mimi Driver's So here's some other names that are in it. John DiMaggio. That's his bander. His bander. Mimi Driver's in it. McKenna Grace is in it.

Excuse me, who's in it? Mimi Driver is in it. I'm making notes. Shut up Mason. I'm putting all this in. Mimi Driver. McKenna Grace. Toby Stephens. Good names here. They are good names. I mean, they are attached to famous people, but they're just good names on their own.

This is good names in general. There's a confirmed list of some of the villains we know are getting. Penguin, Clayface, Firebug and Gentleman Ghost. The Gentleman Ghost? Is it Gentleman Ghost again? I don't remember. He's a guy and he's got a top app but you can't see him because he's invincible. Is invincible.

That's right. I'll let that slide because that's the kind of person I am. And I did that on purpose. Nah, I'm letting it slide. I'm letting it slide. I've decided. This is out August 1st. That's coming up, isn't it? How are you feeling about this? They're talking about it that it's this version of Batman where they're doing things that they couldn't do in the original animated series. Bigger ears, for example. Bigger ears is one of the things. Yeah, I'm feeling good about it. Yeah. Sometimes when you take kind of the restrictions off something, it doesn't make it better. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I don't know. I don't necessarily know what that means. I can be more violence. Does it mean like darker storylines? Does it mean bigger is yes. What else does it mean? I don't know yet. That's right. Looking forward to it though. And oh, but yeah, it's all yeah, it's Bruce Tim and JJ Abrams is producing and also is

involved. I can't remember. Batman. Yeah, Batman's in it. He's got big ears. Now we talked about the Watchmen animated double movies that are coming out. There was an animated trailer last week or the week before whenever it was. You'd hope so.

You'd hope it wouldn't be live action. No, you don't need that. We already did it. It's just the original Watchmen movie trailer, but it'll be animated. Trust us. We've done it. Yeah. We couldn't get it back from the chemist. We couldn't get the prints back from the chemist. So we just knocked this out.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we we were like, what's the deal with this in terms of how far are they going to take it violence wise? Yeah. Will we see Dr. Manhattan's penis and you said no I remember you saying distinctly nice I don't think I said distinctly yes okay I demand that we say it anyway it's now rated R for violent content and some graphic nudity graphic nudity graphic nudity what do you think about that Mason that's cool we're gonna see it you don't know for sure yeah we we are. You know we are. I reckon maybe all the other characters are nude but not Dr. Manhattan.

Oh my god they're flipping it. That's right. I love that actually. Because he's removed from humanity so he's just doing what they're not doing? Correct. Okay great. I've seen a few tweets. And Rorschach keeps changing color and shape all the time. You should get that looked at. I know. He won't, but he should. Yeah. He won't, but he should. Yeah. If it changes color and shape. Especially rapidly.

Yeah, you should go to a doctor. That's a sign of something, I think. Agreed. So I saw a few tweets, and look, it's not many, but there's people being like, oh, they're cashing in on the Zaksnider name by doing a Watchmen thing. They get rid of him, but how typical, like he didn't invent or write Watchmen. I would also say that people don't even associate that movie necessarily or Watchmen in general

with Zack Snyder, do they? Like is that, what's the general? I know. I think they do. Public. I think the general, I know. I mean, that's a normal person, Mason. Well, they're not going to say Alan Moore cuz he took his name off the credits I just well, this is the brand of watchman. Yeah, like Zack Snyder. You think I think Maybe they are doing this. Yeah, I'm mad now Yeah, I would say like generally speaking it is you know, it's cool. It's cool I mean even us like, you know famous as acts haters, we would say that it's not a bad version. I don't think you know, and I think I think the fact that I think the fact that he was so limited in that he couldn't change so enough because if if he changed too much, it wouldn't make any sense. out the squid exactly that's right she shouldn't have done by a ray should have been a squid should have been a squid yeah I don't yeah well maybe they are

maybe this is all a big con it's right Zack Snyder's it's not happy about it do you think I think he's perfectly happy with what he's doing now rebel moon three renaming them rebel moon movies oh yeah yeah in preparation for rebel moon three do you think that's gonna. Are they waiting for the directors cuts to come out to see how they do numbers? Well, it's all about numbers. It could be junk. But if it does numbers, it doesn't matter. It just feels weird to have two movies as a sci-fi fantasy epic and not three, doesn't it? Even though it doesn't, you know, it doesn't really matter But if I don't know if he's if he's following the Star Wars blueprint, which itself was following the Zack Snyder blueprint Yeah, you this should be three shouldn't they at least but don't you think also that at the end of that movie?

It feels like there's gonna be more than all the years talked about it It doesn't even feel like it should only be two Well, then it should be like and the princess is alive and we're gonna rescue the princess because she's like that's not one movie's worth of stuff. I don't know. I'm gonna get his this is my name on a trench run. This is my guess. He wants six movies. Yeah, because it's because that's a Star Wars trilogy, but twice as much and twice as good. Wow. So I reckon I reckon Star Wars. I reckon he's negotiated this in advance and there's gonna be at least two more. I mean they can delay and push back until someone eventually jumps ship. Even if he has locked in six, I think they'd be a way out of that.

Absolutely. Well I mean it would be use some of their unlimited venture capital money to pay him out. Just bury him in money. Yeah, just bury him in money. How about this, Zach? We give you $200 million to not make another one. And then you go away. You just go away.

Go to Tubi. Jordan Peele's next project is dated, it said 10-23-26, which doesn't make any sense. No, the 10th of the 23rd month. What do you mean? Doesn't make any sense. 23rd month 10th of the 23rd month. What do you mean? Doesn't make any sense. That's the second year of I don't know. What does this mean to you? Great question, James, but I think. Enjoy your drink? Yeah, I am. I think. Did I ask you at an inopportune time? No, that was the perfect time. Okay, great. I think that we're examining this from an Australia centric lens here. But if we were to look

at it in the American way, which we can do, it's coming out on the 23rd of October. Oh, that's what they've done. That's right. In 2026. Yes. Now, are you interested? Well, wait, wait, just wait. I'm interested generally, if that's the question I'm asking him in things. Is what it's about and what it's called. What details remain under wraps at this time? An official title for the film along with casting information has not yet been announced. So nothing. We've got nothing.

No, there's a date. Thanks for nothing, Jordan Peele. There's a date. Do you not want that? It's two, even a bit years. What's a significant thing that's happened on the 23rd of October, I wonder? Do you think that's a clue? No.

Great. Sorry, just no, Mason. I don't think so. Sorry about that. But how about this? Street Fighter News. Do you know there's a Street Fighter movie happening? No.

Danny and Michael, Philip Pau. I don't know enough about them. They're the Racka Racka guys. To know whether or not you've mispronounced that. They'll let us know. So I can't make fun of you for it. It's the talk to the hand guys if people don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Talk to me, sorry. Talk to my hand. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Have a chat with this hand. Yes. So they moved on to this project afterwards. If you've seen any of their YouTube channel, they've done, they do a lot of stunt work. There's a little bit of like stunt work in that in in talk to this hand for me. But you don't really get a sense of the stuff that they have been doing on YouTube. It's people flying around and through tables and walls and chaos.

So it seems like a good fit for Street Fighter. But apparently they've they're no longer working on the project due to scheduling. I know that they've rack a racket off whoa that's right they've got another thing on they're doing another low-budget kind of horror movie I know that and yeah I don't know talk to the but to say cool to talk to the man is it Jim Carrey yeah you've talked to Jim Carrey brought him back out of retirement but just his bus yep yeah right well Well, they scanned it for the Sonic movies and now that's available for purchase. Oh wow. I can get it? Yeah, it's like an Adobe Premiere asset. Asset, as it were. You just purchase it and you've got his talking bus.

You can make it bigger or smaller or you know, jiggly or what have you, you know. Yeah. Easy. Now because it's the first Street Fighter movie, it's just called Street Fighter. And you feel about that. You know, they're not calling it Street Fighter movie, it's just called Street Fighter. And you feel about that. You know, they're not calling it Street Fighter 2. Sure. Which is the one that people like. They like that game. They do.

It's curious. Or you know, you call it something like Street Fighter 2 Turbo Edition or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. That's what I would call it. Did you get bums on seats? I think this is a mistake. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyway, I don't know. Anyway, so someone else is going to do it. And which I guess I'm interested in depending on who's I like the idea of those guys doing it. I think that would have been, it could have been something really interesting. But yeah, and it still might be. I mean, I guess that last one, you know, Street Fighter, the Chun-Li one. Oh, I forgot about that one.

That's Street Fighter 2. Well, I can't call it Street Fighter 2 because that, you know, there was a Street Fighter 2. That's true. That was technically Street Fighter 2. I'd have to call it Street Fighter 3. Yeah. I guess it depends on the cast and again it's like Mortal Kombat it's difficult who's your point of view character. Yeah. You know do you make it Ryu because he's the main. You think you make it Ryu and Ken right? Yeah I don't think so. But you would have thought. They made a Chun-Li movie Chun Li movies and probably not gonna aim at that. That's right

The second time around. Yeah, I don't know. Was it a good move making guy all the lead of that original No, but that's what Van Damme wanted. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's a fun movie from memory. It's a silly that second one. No boring Really boring. Correct. Yeah. All right that Oh my God. More news. The Acolyte episode four. Let's get into this discourse. Okay. Something I love. Okay.

Talking about this show that I feel nothing for. Mason, you've been keeping up. No, I haven't. Mason. I watched the first two. You've missed a few episodes. I've missed at least a few episodes, I think. Yeah.

Because there was a- I'm not caught up on The Boys either. I know there was a new episode, but I haven't got around to it. I was watching three horror movies. Because you said said let's do an episode where we do a recap of three recent horror movies. We still might do. So I was watching Abigail at 3am last night. Oh my god, really?

You need better time management. I know. Did you like it? Yeah, it's pretty good. Of the three movies I watched, I reckon it was my second favorite. Oh Like the spider one the most. Yes. Did you really? Yeah. Oh Okay, here we go the acolyte episode 4 so etc all that discourse about the show and whatever Generally just generally insert whatever I can't believe this person did a thing Yeah, or didn't do a thing. I couldn't do a thing or could do a thing

I'm at the end the Sith guy floats down. I'm gonna spoil it. Okay, and he's a spooky Sith guy. Okay, and who is it? It's Jason from the good place almost 100% certainly because I say right That is a spoiler. I guess I'm guessing I don't actually know that but he he was off He was off screen so far. far This is genuinely the upper tier of of the acolyte discourse. I think it's Star Wars discourse internally So there's a guy and he comes down. I think he's got the guy It is from the good place from the good place I think because Jason from the good place was was not there

He was off screen. Okay, and then this guy the same height turned up. Oh, yeah, and I think it's him Okay sure. All right, but it's a height, turned up. And I think it's him. I'm pretty sure. Alright. But it's a mystery. Sure. But it's not. Okay.

Because it's him. Right. Anyway, and then just before a big Sith battle where all the Jedi light up their lightsabers, the Sith guy. Different colors? No, maybe. Green and yellow? Yeah, maybe yellow.

I don't know. And Jason from the Good Place, allegedly, shoots the ground with like a, he does a big push, a force push. Nice. Nice or I'm outraged. You shouldn't be able to do that. Maybe. But then, and then the episode ends.

That's how it ends. Okay, but was that the, that's not the... No, that's not the thing. I'm just saying that's how the episode ended. It's paced like absolute shit. I don't know what they were thinking. We were talking about this Pride of H record that what do they expect? Like you produced nothing but garbage for like six years and then...

I just made some good stuff in there. I maintained it. Yeah, Andor. The first and probably second season of The Mandalorian is good. That bit where Obi-Wan was crying and his mate had a big gash in his face and he's like, you fucking did this. I'll have that bit where Obi-Wan was crying and his mate had his big gash in his face. He's like you fucking did this Oh, yeah, like that bit. Oh, yeah nice. Throw rocks at him. He threw a bunch of rocks at me. Yes of course. He's like stop throwing rocks at me. And then I think Obi-Wan Kenobi threw some rocks back maybe? Yeah, no Obi-Wan Kenobi was throwing the rocks and Darth Vader was like I'll kill you and Obi-Wan's like I'm leaving Come and get me. That's right. But you won't. You're a coward. I'm getting my rocks off,

he said. And people are like, that's perfect. Actually, that's classic. That is what he would say because he's in my mind. He's a cool guy. Anyway, so Key Adimundi turned out. Do you know who that is? I know. Look, I only know this. If you'd asked me a couple of days ago, I would have said absolutely not. But he is one of the Jedi masters in the prequels, right? Yeah. And he's got a mustache and a really tall cone head. He's got a banana-shaped head. He's one of the cone heads.

Yeah. He died in Order 66, or the clone troopers shot him, because he's probably one of the dumber Jedi. Interesting. Is that from Wookiepedia? He's probably one of the dumber Jedi. That's saying something. Do you mean dumber looking or dumb in terms of his like strategy?

I'll say both. I'll say both may say. Okay. Anyway, so it's apparently breaks with can or breaks with Sith, not Sith canon, breaks with Legends canon because- Okay, because so, but he is alive in the in the Acolyte time. Yeah, but he's not supposed to be. Well, it doesn't, I'll talk about it. So Screen Man said that Key Adi Mundy's age was never specified in the movies, but in the Star Wars Episode I Insider's Guide, a computer program released on CD-ROM by LucasFilm in 1999, can take the character profile of really, he was 60 years old when he first

met Anakin Skywalker, which would mean that he couldn't, but for now he's like 140 or something. And he's got like a brown mustache. Who cares? It's like the most inc. And he's got like a brown mustache. Who cares? It's like the most inconsequential character of all time. There's so many things that are going on with the show, which I feel like are bigger problems. So to be clear, there wasn't a scene in one of the prequel movies where somebody says his age specifically.

No, it was on a CD-ROM. A CD-ROM. Yeah. First of all, good luck putting that into a computer now. The computer will eat it. Yeah, that's right. So basically this is a slap in the face to Cannon because of this terrible mistake. Because somebody decided it would be more convenient for him to be an extra hundred

years old or whatever. Yeah, I was going to say people sometimes, they enjoy that people show up. I think that's what they were going for here. They're like, oh, people will be like, we need a people show up. Yeah, we need a people show up guy. In the writers room, like, we need a people show up. Who's left in the people show up box. Yeah, but also like, if it's in a show that I think people are enjoying or that is better,

people don't care. Like, they change stuff like this all the time and or Sage is wrong. Like he's supposed to be like 22 or something. They messed around with it. It's all it doesn't make any sense. But who cares? Because the show is like incredible. But if they're going to mess with Mr. Mundy.

Yeah. Yeah. Marty Mundy. Yeah. And the other bit of canon that breaks is because he was around when the Sith apparently have shown up Okay, and he's got two famous quotes from the prequel. So here we go. Bloody hell. It's the Sith. No Oh, he doesn't say that bloody hell. Who's that? Oh the Sith. Huh? I didn't think oh no. Yeah, all right I'm in the fan. Wow. I'm too young for this to be happening. I've bail. I'm barely 60 old

I'm barely 60 years old. I'm barely 60 years old. I'm Not even on the property ladder Well, this sucks, yeah young whippersnapper in the city here, yep Yeah, go ahead. Give us give us your actual the Phantom Menace He said impossible the Sith have been extinct for a millennium and then attack of the clones He said he's a political idealist not a murderer about dooku But this also speaks to me that this guy is a moron. Well, they're all, aren't they all?

Yeah, he's saying things that are wrong. But if he was around for this thing that happened, I think this Sith guy is going to wipe out a bunch of them, or they're going to make it so that it's still a secret. At the end, they're not going to be like, and everybody knows the Sith are bad. Do you think this is going to be a Mr Mr Magoo situation where he won't be looking? He'll be looking the other way as the Sith show up and wipe it out.

There might be a splinter Jedi group that's what he thinks it is which is probably what it'll end up being. Isn't so much of the especially the prequel stuff the Jedi being presented with like really obvious evidence they're being evil and being like I don't believe that because I've read in a book that there isn't any. So you're a stupid Qui-gon Jinn. Yeah, this is basically the start of that. I don't know. I don't honestly like it doesn't even matter that it's the least exciting thing that's ever happened.

Like this guy even being in this show. It's just, I saw him and I went oh yes I think that might be that guy or it's his dad or do they even have kids I don't know who cares and that's all I thought about it let's think about other things oh yeah think about how a cool the show was in general that's what I was thinking about that's cool yeah yeah yeah so anyway that's where we're at with this um he cares with star Star Wars, generally. He sucks. He's a nothing character. Wow. He gives a shit.

Have you considered how tall his head is? Yeah. How do you think they do that? Put him back to tall head. How do they do it? Yep. I don't know. How do you think they do it?

I know you've probably got an answer. You're asking me, but you actually... I think what they do is they do that thing, you know, how there's sometimes a school project where you make a volcano and a volcano's out the top. Paper mache. Paper mache. I think they do that without the volcano thing.

Okay. Or twist. They do put the volcano thing in there. So he's going to erupt. It's part of his species. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're like, when's this guy going to erupt? Wow.

I would like to say that actually. Yeah. Yeah. He's also the attack on the Wookiees guy. What about the droid attack on the Wookiees? He's that guy. I don't know what that is. It's a meme.

Where like they're sitting in the council on episode three and he goes, what about the droid attack on the Wookiees? And Yoda's guy. I don't know what that is. It's a meme. Where like they're sitting in the council on episode 3 and he goes what about the droid attack on the Wookiees and Yoda's like yeah I'll tell that one. Yeah. Good meme. Again he was a guy who got Yoda sent away during the big Jedi purge. Again he's a complete dumbass and whether he's here or not is completely inconsequential, nascent. Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Anyway I'm gonna keep watching it and having opinions on it. That's true. Because I have to. Sure.

This is my Daniel Richmond who has a 77.6% accuracy in terms of scoops. Not bad. According to Marvel Studio spoilers Reddit. Apparently Michael Leslie was recently tapped to write the X-Men MCU reboot. Interesting, okay. And his pitch. Who's that? Who's Michael Leslie?

That's a great question. Isn't it though? I'm glad you asked because I was actually looking to Google something right now. I was like, God, I wish I could Google something. You're Googling fingers of Richard. Just anything. Just anything at all. He did Macbeth 2015, which we recently talked about because the director of that did Assassin's

Creed. Oh yeah. The Hunger Games the president snow is blonde nice You wrote the pigeon tunnel Right now to see three. Where all these pigeons coming from? I think it might be cut to black titles the pigeon tunnel Should we seal up the pigeon tunnel? Yep. I think we should Should we seal up the pigeon tunnel? Yep, I think we should You wrote Assassin's Creed 2016. That's a bad movie. But here's the thing as well, you can't necessarily blame the wrong... No, it was Michael Fassbender's. We figured it out. Michael Fassbender was the problem.

Yeah, that's right. You can't blame a bad movie just on the people who wrote it because a lot of the time a lot of changes get made and they get blamed. It says here he wrote Hamlet, which is an upcoming film. Didn't Hamlet already come out? Did somebody already write Hamlet? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Anyway, his pitch to Marvel was the same character roster in X-Men 97. Right. Which is probably a smart move, I guess. Yeah. Which would mean Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Wolverine, Gambit, Beast, Rougue and Morph? And Morph?

You put Morph in it? You put Morph in there, yeah. Make Morph a big player. Yeah, there you go. And you give him really bad early 90s Morphing abilities. Yeah, man. You know? Morphing abilities.

So I guess it wouldn't mean that it's the same universe. It would mean people like that show and it's the popular team that people know, we've speculated that they're probably going to go back to the original one from like the original comic. But this makes probably makes more sense, actually, because that's the X-Men team and line up and show that people remember. Exactly. And it's still going. And people like it now. So yeah, and I guess then you can then you end up casting Bishop cable, etc. All the time

travelling guys. All the goddamn time travelling guys. I'm your son or I'm your father or whatever. All those X-Men stories. Is that the one guy? Yes. I'm your son or I'm your father. I've forgotten. I went through a time tunnel. I've forgotten everything. I would love to go through a time tunnel. Well, that's wonderful. Or a pigeon tunnel. But I don't think you have to introduce those a time tunnel. Well that's wonderful. Or a pigeon tunnel. But I don't think you have to introduce those guys at all. In fact, they will eventually, don't you think?

Maybe. They're gonna do it. I think they're just gonna do all the classic storylines if they get around to it. And maybe they'll just jump straight to Dark Phoenix again. We can only hope. Uh, Mason. Yes, go on. From your ghost lent the most the Academy Award nominated director of poor things and the favorite comes kinds of kindness.

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Mate, you're thinking of some of the other Blade movies but not the third one. I'm thinking of probably a different movie that they made and produced and released without any difficulty. That they Blade. Yeah. No. That they Blade. No.

That they Blade. That's why I teach her. The article is titled. What's the airstrike rate? Hollywood Reporter. It says 100 million. Percent. Yeah.

Huh. Which is possible. I'm not going. Percent. Yeah. Huh. Which is possible. I'm not going to elaborate though. Scribes, no, what's it called? No. Blade. No, listen. Okay.

The article is titled, Why Blade Can't Cut Through Development Hell. Oh. He's got that sword. Blunt blade. He's got that sword. So this is the end of the article, but I just thought it'd be a nice thing to start with. Why don't you become an editor of the Hollywood Reporter?

I will if they ask me. In fall of 2022, Beau DeMaior, who created X-Men 97, takes his own stab described it as a period piece. In April of 2023, with a writer's strike looming Marvel shells out for True Detective creator Nick Pizzolatto to write. He worked with Blade, the Bl Blade Sir Ali on the season three of that series. In fall of 2023, after losing the director,

Basim Tariq Marvel taps Michael Starberry to write a new script with a new director, Jan Damange. In fall of 2023, the studio hires Michael Green, known for well-received genre movies like Logan and Blade Runner 2049. And then summer- Logan, Logan 2049 and Blade Runner 2049 and in Summer 2024 with Dumanj exiting as director, Marvel brings in studio mainstay Eric Pearson who has pushed scripts for

Thor Ragnarok, Black Widow and Fantastic Four over the finish line. So that's the Blade timeline as we record, as we speak. That's not all Mason Mason. Oh, well, I mean, a couple of weeks ago, I think, Marshal Ali's lawyer released a statement that was like, boy, this has been going for a while. And your lawyer doesn't just accidentally let that slip. No, absolutely not. That feels very much like a statement of, we're going to say this to lay the groundwork for the guy quitting. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah. Which I think that's where this is going. So. Because he's, Marshal Ali, two time Oscar winner. And then for like five years. Yep. Hasn't done a ton of stuff. Like he seems to be, he did that.

He did the season of True Detective. He was, he's in the Spider-Verse movies. He's Prowler. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Aaron Davis. Yep. Um but like in terms of live action stuff or doing big movies, he's kind of waiting it seems. He's in Alita Battle Angel maybe. Is he? I don't know. Okay then. Is he? He is yeah. Yes. He's Vector. I love Vector. Yeah. He had little glasses I think. Much

like Blade sometimes. The latest setback, of course, was that Losted's director, as mentioned, and they're currently looking for somebody else. Sources say that both Marvel and Demange, the director, grew frustrated with Blade's prolonged development process, and also Mahashala Ali is said to be increasingly frustrated. Now, I've heard from a fairly reliable reliable source who I would not name, that he does have a lot of sway on this project because he was the one also who went to Marvel initially. And he won those two Oscars. He won the Oscars and was like, I want to do this character.

Yeah, this article. It would be my black pants. Yeah, that's exactly what this article says. Yeah. So he's allowed to, he can veto things he wants to make. I mean, he's also a very talented person and he knows what works and what doesn't. So I think he probably does have a lot of demands for this because he wants, as mentioned to be his Black Panther, he wants to make it good. He doesn't want to just push out a whatever script.

Okay, but Mr. Ali, if he considered, what if we made it bad? We made it quick and we made it bad. Yeah, you could be in it still. Is that something you're interested in? Yeah. So he apparently handpicked the second director after the first director left. Yeah. And at that point, Blade was in pre-production and about two months from principal photography. That was in September of 2022. But then Marvel came to believe that Tariq was not the best fit for the project according to the sources, who was the first director. They then presented him with a list of directors and he conducted his own search which found the director Demanche who just left. So that's how we got to where I said that in a very confusing way, but that's basically what happened. As mentioned here,

yeah, he's exercising an inordinate amount of influence over the project as the star, in few ways that other Marvel actors have before. Again, the idea, the initial idea to bring Blade back comes from him. He pushed for it. That's right. Yeah. He was already in, he was already a Netflix Marvel character.

He was in Luke Cage. Luke Cage. Yeah. But that was obviously before Oscars, et cetera. So it also got shut down again due to the writers and actors strike. And as a result of that, they lost a number of actors, including Delroy Lindo and Aaron Pierre. That also apparently doesn't happen often where they just kind of wipe out a bunch of

the cast. It also got more writers at this point as well. So that was- More writers is always a good thing. Definitely. Ali's attorney, Shelby Wiser, told THR in a recent interview, the deal was in 2019 and they still haven't shot it, which is pretty much the craziest thing in my professional experience.

Whoa. Do you think that was an accident, Mason? You mentioned that might have been an accident. I think he probably accidentally slipped up and said that. Yeah. They just said, do you have any thoughts on anything? And he said, my client's going to quit. My client's going to quit Blade.

Oh no, I shouldn't have said that. Is this on the record? It is. Oh no, I didn't say, could you take that off the record? I'm such a bad lawyer. Yeah, that's all in there basically. So even Wesley Snipes have chimed in. Did you see that?

He said, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy. He wrote Blade, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy. They wrote Sniped. Sniped, Sniped on X. That's good. That's good. Apparently also a big part of it was that there wasn't enough attention paid into it, said one insider. What's that mean?

Well, it was the casualty of the Too Much era. So remember they were doing a million shows and a million movies. So it was just like, oh, this one's kind of a given that this will work and we've got a great creative team, I guess, and nobody was really focused on it. Nobody said, hey, can you start work on that? They just hired the creative team and they said, we'll give you an email. It was the perfect, for a lot of them was the perfect setup. It's like that anti-work situation where they assigned them and didn't ask them

to do any work. So they were just in there for six months. We're just assuming this is going to be great. Kevin, did you ask them to start writing and casting and building sets and stuff? Oh no. Oh for God, I'm such a bad Kevin Feige. I'm going to get fired. You're a good Kevin Feige, Kevin Feige. I guess I'm all right. Apparently all this explains why the storyline keeps shifting time periods. So the original one that was going to shoot last year was set in the 1920s according to

sources and that one featured Mia Goth as a vampire villain named Lilith who wanted the blood of Blade's daughter. She's still attached apparently and Maxine is coming out soon or X3 whatever it's called. X-Men 3 is that right? What? This is in the X trilogy. Yeah Maxine is the out soon. Yeah. X3, whatever it's called. X-Men 3, is that right? What? This is in the X trilogy. Yeah, Maxine is. X3.

Yeah, X and Pearl. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw recently some people went to see a screening of Pearl, but then it turned out to be actually a screening, like an advanced screening for Maxine. Wow. And some people were like, I had this thought and it was... What if you hadn't seen?

It was confirmed by some of the people in the audience who tweeted about it who were like I wanted to see pearl. I'd seen I've lost I've heard this in the first one. I should watch them For another iteration under Tariq Marvel built a massive train set, but they never used it It might be passed on to a different Disney production. Yeah, okay Maybe the X-Men reboot when they just do in the train again. I do dark phoenix again They've decided to refocus on what worked in that movie, which was a spinning train. I did enjoy the spinning train

Yeah, I don't care what anybody says. I did enjoy that you can't convince me. Otherwise. I won't yeah good Apparently this new take on blade is set in the present day. We built this train, but could you use the train lighter? I guess we can use the train later? I guess we can use the train later. No, we can't chuck it in the bin, throw away the train. Yeah, throw it away, man. It's unclear how many millions Marvel has spent on Blade, counting the development and pre-production costs,

but it's not stopping now. Marvel has learned in recent years that it does not pay to be rushed into production, and the studio prides itself on having a high development production ratio, something that eludes most other companies. The new plan calls for a pay to be rushed into production, and the studio prides itself on having a high development to production ratio, something that alludes most other companies. The new plan calls for a script to be written over the summer, and then get a director.

So that's what you want. That's great. You need those things, don't you? Yeah, I would say at a minimum, yeah. Yeah, so I don't know. Oh, and a big train? Yeah, well I mean, they've got one. Oh, they've got the big train.

They've already got one. Okay, that's perfect. They could build a second big train. Yeah, well I mean they've got one. Oh they've got the big train. They've already got one. Okay that's perfect. They could build a second big train. Yeah and they can crash them together. I think you should throw out the first big train. And they get Mr. Beast involved. We bought the train from Blade! We're gonna crash it into someone's house!

They don't know! But it's alright, we bought the house from under them. They don't even own the house anymore. Oh man, I think he's gonna leave. Yeah of course he's gonna leave. house around them. They don't even own the house anymore. Oh man, I think he's got to leave. Yeah, I don't think he's going to sit around for this. Yeah, which is a shame. But again, like he's 50 now and they're talking Midnight Suns and whatever apparently Wesley Snipes might be in the new Deadpool movie. They might even just go back to him for a while. Also isn't TV Blade maybe in the last Deadpool and Wolverine trailer? Oh yeah he might be.

Um what's Onyx? That's the rumour. Yeah so that would be fun. If somebody says points to him Deadpool and says that's TV Blade. Yeah. Would you like that? Would that make you laugh? Yeah yeah. That would make Mason laugh and that's what the movie's aiming for. I'd go ha! In the cinema really loudly. TV Blade! The show I haven't seen, I assume. Have you seen it? TV Blade?

No. Yeah, me neither. Anyway, people have also been asking when are we going to do our Blade Caramana garbage for Blade 2 and 3 because we already did one. We did the first one when Blade was announced. Sorry, it was Sticky Fingers was the guy who played Blade. Is he in a rough group called Onyx? He is. God, you're very good. Even when you're wrong, you're right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah,

we'll get to the Blade Caravan of Garbage when they get to it. That's right. This isn't our fault. We're ready to go. I've seen ready for years. I've seen those movies heaps. When the hell did we make that one either? That either? When did we make it, Mason? Let me check. Let me go to my YouTube. That was in August of 2019.

That's five years ago we made that video. Oh, we filmed, we've recorded one. For the first one. Did we? Yeah, it was that long ago. Half a decade ago. Wow. We'll come back to it though, won't we?

Some of the great lost media, James. I was going, ugh, blade. Blade. Pretty cool sword blade. Pretty good. Pretty good sword blade. Shame if something would have happened to it. Remember the bit where somebody else grabs the blade and then a blade comes out of it? Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Alright, so we're gonna do three horror movies. We might just do the one. What do you reckon? All right. And do you think Mason, let's do the one about the big spider. Yes. So this is a movie called Sting. So we yeah, so we watched three horror movies. I watched them in this order.

I watched Sting. Yep. I watched Immaculate and I watched Abigail. Yeah. What do you think about that? I think that's a great order of movies. I think it was a great order for movies and I'll tell you for why. Because I think that's a great order of movies. I think it was a great order for movies and I'll tell you for why. Because I think Sting is a sort of a great sort of re-entry into horror movies. You haven't seen one for a while. Yeah. Because it was quite a good natured horror movie. Yes.

It wasn't like, well in this one we're going to really ask some questions about the nature of evil or whatever. It was like, what if a spider got really big? Well that would be bad. But what if Australian national treasure Noni Hazelhurst were there? Well, that would be good. That would be good I was gonna ask you what the story was but you've explained it. What if a spider got big? It's a spider from space. Yeah, it comes from space. It looks exactly like a redback spider It does which is a strap but it's also set in in New York or something

Well, here's the thing what's interesting as well If you hadn't if this movie hadn't spoiled itself by saying, this is a movie created by Screen Australia for Australia in Australia, I'd be like, this is American. This is American. So this is, this is a movie filmed in Australia with predominantly Australian actors. A lot of them have had credits in America. Yeah.

But, but it's all, so it's, I but it's all so it's I think it's all Australians Yeah, and it's but it's set in New York City, baby. Yeah, I mean there's like a couple of shots of outside Yeah, but not really and so it's set in a sort of a somewhat rundown apartment block very Latest evil dead. Yeah. Yeah, but a bit less kind of gross and well see that's the thing It's not like mean or cruel this movie. It's not like gross and... Well, see, that's the thing. It's not mean or cruel, this movie. It's not like...

Yeah, it's not like... It's just there's a big spider. Yeah, and it's not evil. Like it's a... So a tiny little kind of asteroid comes from space, presumably, and crashes through a window and lands in this apartment building and a little girl who's she was in Furiosa yes her main pastime is sort of crawling through the vents of this apartment building yep she finds a little spider and she decides she's gonna she's gonna put it in a jar and feed

it and see how it goes anyway it turns out it's gonna be a big spider and it's gonna try and eat everybody that's right right. That's the deal. Yeah so this is, I had to look up a name again but it's a Lila Brown who plays young Furiosa in the movie Furiosa. Now we didn't talk about this because I don't think we knew at the time. We were like, you know where I'm going with this, you and I were both like, it's weird that they got a little kid who looks so much like Anya Taylor-Joy, she's got the big far apart eyes and everything. So apparently that's a lot of face replacement. Yeah, she doesn't look like her at all.

No, it's alright. Pretty good work there. Yeah, that's right. This isn't, I don't know what the budget of this, but it's on streaming at the moment, but it's only made like 1.7 million at the box office. But I think it's kind of like a, it feels like Gremlins-esque, I guess, is a bit of a Gremlins kind of thing. Yeah, I felt it quite Gremlins esque a little bit remember

I mean, you know in terms of spiders if you remember that old film arachnophobia, which might have been a Disney film Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah, I would say the budget is quite low, but they've they've you know, they've used it quite cannily. Yes The director of this you might know his name is the Kiara Roach Turner He did you know the Wormwood series Like apocalyptic kind of zombie sort of mad. Oh, all right. Okay. Yeah Movie so this is kind of this is a more kind of mainstream. I guess Uh-huh. Yeah, sort of project, but I would say and again, I do not have any children So it's it's it's hard for me to say for reals, but vaguely remember being a child.

Yeah. I reckon if you had kids that were maybe the same age as the girl in this movie, they're like 12, 13, something like that. You could probably show them this. Yeah. Like I want to watch a horror movie. You could show them this because it's not, there's a couple of gory kills in it, but it's not too violent or yeah, like mean or anything like that.

And it's not really something that can happen to you. Correct. Yeah. It's not like a person bursting into your room and choking you to death or whatever. Which can happen to you. That can definitely happen and you should prepare for it at any moment. We have so many locks on the studio door. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. Also, because going into this, I didn't even, I hadn't even seen a poster or anything like that. So I didn't know what kind of spider it was going to be. Oh, okay. It's quite a friendly spider. I mean, it's a murderous spider. Initially it's a pretty friendly spider to some.

My least favorite type of spider is the ones that are like big and furry. But they're not even poisonous. That's true. Slash venomous. But this is quite a, this is quite a spindly spider. This is my least favorite kind of spider because these are the dangerous ones like like a red but it's like it is it's a giant redback which is an incredibly poisonous spider in a straw

I can have seen one in my life maybe they're not they're not around much maybe two maybe three well so that giant Oh, yeah got it through my apartment. Yes. Yeah Hmm was busy. Yeah, I didn't have time for it. Yeah So so this is not a spider that you find scary then correct? Yeah So you don't the furry ones even though those ones generally yeah, like the arachnophobia spider. It's like a type of tarantula or whatever It's not I guess I'm not scared of them. I'm just gross. Yeah, cuz it's like I'm not gross No, they're gross Like you know sometimes you go to a like a zoo enclosure or something like that No, like you want to put a spider on you. I'll be like no because I would swat it

Yeah, like I couldn't help myself if you look they're not then it's not poisonous. He's a friendly guy I'd be like Slap it and they'd be like that was expensive. We got it from Africa. I'd be like, well, I've stepped on it now. What are you going to do about it? I didn't like it. What about snakes? I got a lot of parties now where like kids parties where they'll bring out like a giant snake or whatever.

I'm indifferent to snakes. Yeah. I've never been like, who wants to put the snake on them? And like, I don't know. I'm not. I'm not. I'm indifferent to snakes. It's like the acolyte of animals.

It's like, so I'm like, no, I don't want a snake on me. But I would. I would do it. If someone's like, do it, I'd be like, all right, put a snake on me. I'm snake agnostic. Okay. Anyway, so as far as this movie goes, yeah, if you didn't tell me it was an Australian movie, I probably wouldn't have...

I think everybody's accent cracks maybe once. Sure, okay. But I would say generally, like all the roles in this everybody's pretty good you know you've got the you've got the the the mom and there's a new stepdad and Albie Mitchell uh yeah Ryan core very good very good ensemble I thought you get you get a couple of kind of you got a kind of an eccentric exterminator guy oh he's fun you've got a kind of an eccentric exterminator guy. Oh, he's fun. Jermaine Fowler, yeah. You've got a kind of upstairs neighbor weirdo. Yep. Who gives, you know, delivers some exposition on spiders.

Yeah. Good. God, that spider. And Noni Hazelhurst is there. Noni Hazelhurst, yeah. Or my host of Play School. That's right. And also Better Homes and Gardens.

She was married to John Jarrett, who people might know from the... Wolf Creek movies. Wolf Creek movies. Yeah. God. What else do we say in terms of, did we spoil some stuff or? There's not really a lot to spoil. I mean, it's a big spider and it stalks the... You know what? I wish it was bigger.

It gets big, but it's probably... What's it as big as, would you say? I would say it's as, like the body of it would be as big as like a German Shepherd, maybe. Okay, yeah. I don't reckon it's even that big. Okay. Not to you know. Not to brag. Not to brag but you've conceived of bigger spiders than this in your mind. Definitely. Yeah yeah. I mean if you ever see like eight-legged freaks that's like yeah that's a bloody spider. James I reckon we have time to knock out a few more. Okay we can do a few more. Why not? Again, I thought it was best movie.

I don't think it was great, necessarily. It's a giant spider movie. It is a giant spider movie. It's also, a lot of it is practical as well, it seems. I would say, yeah, good, good, good solid movie for kids, good concept. And yeah, it's nice to see an Australian movie. They make an Australian movie. I like Australian movie too.

What about this movie? Do you want to do Abigail? Let's talk about Abigail. So with Abigail, they's talk about Abigail. So with Abigail, they kidnap a girl. They. It's a heist crew. It's got Dan Stevens.

Very stereotypical heist crew. You've got a computer guy who's a girl, if you can believe it. You've got a driver, you've got a sniper. You've got a dumb guy. Melissa Barrera is there. You've got a driver. You got a sniper. You got a dumb guy You got a dumb guy Melissa Barrera is there Kevin Durant Kevin Durant is there That's right Dan Stevens and they've all been tasked with with a kidnapping a girl and holding it for ransom in a in a spooky mansion Yeah for 24 hours until I get the money and if you've seen the trailer what you know, yes minus spoiler

It's a Dracula girl. Okay, he's a big vampire. Uh-huh big vampire. It's a minor spoiler. It's a Dracula girl. Oh, okay. She's a big vampire. Not a big vampire. She's a girl vampire. She's a little vampire. Yes, that's right. And the whole thing is just a trap for them. Well, yeah. I mean, it's a...

I mean, it is one of those movies that spoils the premise of the movie within the trailer. Yeah. But there you have it. Not our fault. No. Your fault. The little girl's great. It's Alicia Weir who also played Matilda in the Matilda movie recently.

That's right, yes. She's a lot of fun in this. And I would say I looked up a little bit of behind the scenes afterwards because she's doing a lot of dancing. She's doing a lot of running along banisters and stuff like that. And a lot of that is real. Like they put her in the harness. Yeah.

So she can... I mean, it's the way to make it look the best. Yeah. You know? Yeah, so it becomes this... I was like, God, this reminds me of Ready, Ready or Not, and it's the director of Ready, Ready or Not, so that makes a lot of sense. Well, it is the same kind of, you know, locked in a big mansion kind of situation, except

in the... Bags of blood exploding kind of... Yeah, except in Ready or Not, it's one woman versus a family of lunatics and in this it's it's one tiny lunatic versus a Team of people who are not prepared for a time I don't know lunatics they're also lunatics a lot in like I like that it does even though it's it's the real world I guess it's a lot of the vampire law stuff is in it Mmm you know and there's other stuff that you don't necessarily see as much where it's like if you get bitten, they can marionette you. That kind of mind control Dracula powers and etc.

I think it's gory but it's not like... It's bloody. Yeah, it's bloody. I would say that's probably more accurate. So much blood. It's not really... Remember the amount of blood in the movie Ready or Not? It's about that.

About that much. It's not so much... It's not torture-porny, it's just like heads explode kind of, if that even happens. But it's like that kind of thing. It does have all sort of the hallmarks of those previous directors. Oh yeah, definitely. There's a lot of blood, there's characters who are awful but still somewhat likable yes absolutely so it's done okay at the box office actually maybe not because

that a budget of 28 million dollars and it made 42 so not it not a huge return but it's probably doing all right on streaming so yeah it's probably hasn't made us money back in cinemas sorry if you're one of the creators of the movie Abigail and you're listening to this right now waiting for an update. We've just learned, you've just learned with us that it's done okay, I guess. Yeah, it's also, it's pretty tight, like in terms of runtime. That's what I like about these horror movies. Yeah.

Quick. Absolutely. I would also say the mansion elements of it, because it is kind of, it's a bit werewolf by night, that latest thing. Yeah. A bit Resident Evil yeah mansion like no secret panels and indoors and secrets and who's behind what and Giancarlo Esposito is behind a lot. He's in it as well but he's in it start if you were wondering if he just shows up at the end well he does but he's

also in it earlier isn't he Mason? God we're good at describing how movies go. I completely agree. Spoilers I guess. I'm gonna say best movie ever again. It's like one of a light and breezy one. It is more It's more action comedy. I feel than a maybe yeah, okay It's more it's more an action horror than a like, uh, you know what I mean? Yeah, but I wonder if that's because I knew what the twist was going in like I knew she was gonna be a little vampire girl So I'm just waiting for her to explode. I'm like, this is going to be good kind of thing. And they build to that quite interestingly. But I think if had I not known, there would have been more tension because I'd be wondering

how this is going to unfold. That being said, you got a little girl in one of these movies. Of course she's going to turn into a monster. Absolutely. It's also like, it's not that she is a vampire girl. She's also been a vampire girl for a while. So she has the mind of like an adult, but the acting ability of an actor. So she can pretend to be scared and whatever, and basically to lure people in before she goes full vampire on everybody. Yeah, but I think again, I think it did do a very good job of like Setting up a bunch of characters, you know who deserve to die Yeah for the most part and then just knocking them off in a really satisfying way. Absolutely

So I guess more twists in it Dan Stevens becomes a Dracula. That's right, which he loves loves it Yeah, and Literal Dracula is in this but it's Matthew good and he goes hello Dracula. And literal Dracula is in this. But it's Matthew Goode. And he goes, hello! Did Ready or Not have like a, who was the devil in that? Remember the devil shows up at the end? Oh like in a painting or whatever? Nobody shows up because he's the guy that made the... Yeah. I know there's like a wink from like a ghost shows up at the end. Oh okay, right, right. Or something. I don't think this is as good as Ready or Not. Interesting. I think I enjoyed Ready or not more. But I think also

like going into ready or not I didn't really know. Well ready or not also is a fresher premise I think. The idea of, I mean we even saw this on Dracula on a plane. If you remember correctly like so, which is you know terrorists take over a plane but they're unaware that one of the women on the plane is also a Dracula. And she tears through them and it's fun. That I think, you know, by its nature, if you're going to have this sort of thing, I think there's some tropes you have to run through and ready or not is different in that it is not a premise that I'd encountered before. Yeah.

You weren't ready or not for it. I wasn't ready or not for it. Yeah. But anyway, then Melissa Burrow gets away everybody else gets smushed. Yes, but she uh, Dracula lets her go That's nice of Dracula because he normally doesn't do that. Does he and he's a bad dad. That's right But a good Dracula is yes, he loves his work. I guess I enjoyed the twist that the the everybody in the the mansion they're there because they've wronged the mob boss in some way and they all live in fear of this mob boss is kind of legendary

invisible sort of heavy hitter you know killer who's knocked off so many people in the past and can you know get in a room you get in a room go up into a fifth story building and then it turns out it's just his daughter because she is you know murderous yeah and trying to get his attention yeah yeah um i wonder if they'll do another one of these i think there's room in the abigail cinematic universe absolutely for more dracula dracula children running but i also like that they all know who like what a vampire is yeah they're not it's not a universe where they're like what's happening what's a. It's not a universe where they're like, what's happening? What's a vampire?

What's a Dracula? They know. They know because they live in this world. Yeah. But well, this world doesn't have a Dracula. That we know about. That we know about. Should we do a macula?

Let's knock it off real quick. I thought this was fine. I liked it. I think the backstory to this to me is more interesting than the movie. Okay. So we've maybe mentioned this in past but... Directed by Michael Mohan. Some years ago, Sydney Sweeney auditioned for a version of this.

This is like maybe 10 years ago. And it ended up not getting produced because they couldn't find the funding for it. But then now that she's had success in movies and TV shows and etc, she came on as a producer. Really much drove the whole thing. And she got it going. And so she's had success in movies and TV shows and etc. She came on as a producer and she got it going. And so she's she's the star of this. And so she is a she plays a woman who has decided to join the the nunnery, the nunhood, the Italian nunhood. Yeah.

Only to find a bit of a dark underbelly. Yep. I really want to go into spoilers for this. So it's very much. Well, there's a new one. Are we in spoilers for it yet? Okay, it can be. It's the omen of like, there's an, it's called immaculate because there's an apparent immaculate conception, which happens to her. So it's perceived and she's told that it is this, it's this miracle of God. It's the second coming of Jesus and all of these things. And like, for me, I'm like, Oh, is this just going to be like in terms of the omen where it's, it's, Oh no, this is a satanic cult and this is, this is not

really, um, spoilers. No, but I was going to say, it's funny you mentioned that because as I understand it, the movie, the first omen also came out quite recently and I don't know anything about it, but as I understand it, a lot of the plot elements, there's a certain amount of crossover. And I think that's maybe why I'm critical of this. Because to me, it feels like whenever you do a movie in this arena, there are only certain, there are a lot of plot elements that cross over and repeat over and over and over again. Because you kind of have to?

You kind of have to because it's like, okay, well, what if you go and you, it's okay, what's a religious organization, but it's kind of like a cult, but everybody's supposed to be good, but maybe some of them are bad. And maybe it's all about Jesus, but what about the Antichrist? Like it's kind of, all the themes sort of and plot elements sort of overlap over and over again. I'm like, I don't know if I've seen, like, I think the story behind the production of this is interesting, but I feel like this movie is nothing I haven't seen before. Okay seen, I think the story behind the production of this is interesting,

but I feel like this movie is nothing I haven't seen before. Okay, so I thought it was. We'll have to do some spoilers though for why. Just quickly, we will do spoilers right after this, but the budget is $9 million. God, when are we going to get to the spoilers? We're going to get there. One of these two idiots is going to get to the hottest spoilers. I can't wait.

The budget is $9 million. The box office return was $27 million. So this one's done done pretty well Um, so what I liked about it is that if there's no supernatural element to it Sure, I thought it was gonna go a certain way But I thought there is an element that I feel through me for a loop a little bit the power of well talk about it Spoilers. Yeah. Well, we're in it. No, we're in spoilers now. Yeah Well, I'm not gonna say best movie. I liked it a lot. I really enjoyed this. I think it was a good cast I like the I like I like the the old Italian nuns. I liked it a lot. I really enjoyed this. I think it was a good cast. I liked the old Italian nuns.

I liked that Australian, the young Australian nun who's just like, oh, oh, oh. Hey, Sydney Sweeney, welcome and also shut up. Yeah, I think so. Basically what it is, Dave, what the church has done all this particular sec, they've found one of the nails which was used to nail Jesus to the cross 2000 or so years ago. This is a rough timeline. Don't want to get into the semantics of it, Mason. And they got some DNA from that and have been using that DNA to try and bring upon the second coming of Christ using DNA and cloning techniques. And so they've been

doing this for a while and Sydney Sweeney is the latest person they have done this to. But it's always gone badly and always like weird to form things for various reasons. And I think a big part of that is because their science is not good. If you look at like their facility. They just did. They just they've got one of those they've got one of those ridged boards that use to wash your clothes in a river and they just throw in DNA. Yeah, it really does feel like that. So like, no wonder it's not working. Like this, like this is just, these are, you know, these are people who, not only are they like got a twisted sense of like morality and even the idea that you would

attempt to do this is insane in itself, but they also don't have the scientific know-how to do this in any, in any realistic way that could work. And it doesn't work because the big controversial part of many things in this is at the end, she does give birth and you don't see the baby but you hear it kind of... That sounds pretty rough. Yeah, you hear it like breathing and struggling and she picks up a rock and like kills the baby. Because she's given birth to a designer dog. Basically, yeah.

She's given birth to one of those pugs that whistles while it walks. Look at the holes in it. And the wind blows through it. Like a block of cheese mason. And that's how it ends. But it's, I mean, that's also like could be considered like an act of mercy because none of these birds have ever been successful. Also, there's a very good chance that what they're doing here is not Jesus. It could be just a nail that they found. Sure. And who knows? Did they even get DNA off it? What are they even doing?

Maybe they got DNA of the guy who nailed it on there. Maybe, you know. I mean it wouldn't even, the science doesn't even support, you just couldn't do it. You know? So that's what I liked about it. Classic The Church. Yeah, but it was kind of a broader commentary on bodily autonomy. Yeah, exactly. And the church telling you what to do and

giving over your autonomy to a... Put your faith in... A thing. Yeah. But again, I've seen all that. Yeah, no, I understand that. In real life, in the real church. Well, we did grow up in those. That's right. But yeah, so that's what I did enjoy. That's what you think. It wasn't this all-powerful- That's what James thunk.

It wasn't this all-powerful- That's been our segment, that's what James thunked. It wasn't like this billion dollar operation. Sure, right. It was this backdoor kind of basement. Not even like cult I guess. Yeah. That's what I liked about it. All of these though I would recommend for different reasons. If you have any more recommendations for horror movies get an email. Because as you know Mason, I don't need to tell you this, but we're approaching the spookiest time of the year.

And I'm not just talking about tax time, which it is in Australia, by the way. Get your taxes in. Nice too, isn't it? Yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome. So yeah, I know it's good. It's good just, they don't even be horror movies. I think we should do this every now and then have just be like, here's movies that we can't

do a whole episode on. We'll just quickly. That's a good point. Actually. If you know what we bad boys fall, that's if you've got, if you're out there and you like a certain genre, if you like Garfield movies and you think we should watch a bunch of Garfield movies, let us know, or if there's a genre, you know, horror or what have you, it can just be three movies also just send us three movies and say, you should watch these three movies.

And if we've got a slow week, what should we do next week? I did have something. There is a Quiet Place movie coming out. It's the prequel. Quiet Place Origins. You can be a bit loud now. Until the spider. Spiders from space.

Yeah man, that's good. Let us know. Or again, if there's more horror movies that you think we should check out. Yeah, tell them. The spider. Yeah. Spiders? From space? Mm-hmm. Yeah, man, that's good. Yeah. Let us know. Or again, if there's more horror movies that you think we should check out, as a horror

movie aficionado, if you listen to this and you're like, I can't believe you watched those three and not my favorite movie. We did watch your favorite movie. We just didn't like it. That's why we're not talking about it. That's right. We saw it. Yeah, we saw it.

Yeah. So yeah, Next Week Quiet Place and then other things Mason big weekend for oh my god horizon and American Saga chapter 1 is out on the 4th of July Yeah, yeah, we're so excited. Yeah, that's right. Great Kevin Costner left a very successful TV series and his wife to make this movie. We got a respect. We got a respect it We got a salute it. We've got to respect it. We've got to salute it. We do. All right, should we move it along? We should move along.

I was just going to say, Inside Out's had a big weekend. Oh yeah, we are. I think we're going to have a guest on to talk about that in a few weeks. If we can line it up. If we get the dates. Don't mention this. I did mention this, didn't I? You did mention that.

Yeah, yeah. That's right. But maybe we won't. See how it goes. All right, great. All right. What it's time for? It's time for what we're't. See how it goes. Alright, great. Alright, what it's time for? It's time for what we're reading. What we're going to read. I'm doing the thing. We just talked about all the things we've been watching and doing.

I know right. You'd think we wouldn't have enough time. You'd think that. I've done some things. But I've had enough time to watch a movie that's now free on streaming and a YouTube essay. Is that the one about the James Rolfe? Yes, it is. Very interesting stuff. We've been fans of folding ideas here on the Wiki Planet. Unless he turns on us.

Well, he might turn on us. I don't think we're interesting enough. I don't think we're interesting enough. I'm hoping so. We haven't said anything controversial enough, I don't think. Or been big enough. And we've never said anything other than we churn out content on a weekly basis We've never been like we're making a big statement actually about art

I'm making big statements about art. Really? What is it? Do you like it through? I don't like it that much. That's Well, it's not coming through because it seems like you'd love But yeah The latest release from, because I skipped the last thing he did I think, which was one about stocks and GameStop. I watched some of that and I was like, I cannot make head nor tail of that. But recently on our Caravan of Garbage for the movie Assassin's Creed, we did mention James Rolfe, the Angry Video Game Nerd. And this is a video about his life and legacy.

His life and legacy and whether or not he's a filmmaker and whether anybody in YouTube is a filmmaker really. I mean I am. Well, we know. We know. We can tell. Thanks, man. You can tell. I'm the soul of a filmmaker. It's all a sweeping establishing shots in the Caravans of Garbage, you know?

When you do 10 things you may have missed in this movie and it's all a sweeping establishing shots in the caravans of garbage, you know Yeah, when you do ten things you may have missed in this movie and it's just Beautiful horizon akin to the movie horizon. Thank you. Yeah I think it's it's interesting because it also delves into like his Autobiography and his history of filmmaking and how he sees himself an artist and and what has kind of happened in the people Who's who around it? I wouldn't say it's not it's not an attack on him like the dog Walker one is very kind of like happened and the people who are around him. I wouldn't say it's not an attack on him. The Doug Walker one was very kind of like, that feels more kind of, I don't know. That one's not even strictly an attack either. It's just a criticism. It's a bewilderment of what he did. Especially his wall video, yes. Which again, I maintain the guy who owns the Nostalgia Critic IP made

him do it. Yeah, I think he's a guy who probably just goes along and goes, yeah, I'll talk about Rugrats or whatever. Whatever he's doing. I don't know. Yeah. But this one I think is because I think similar to Dan Olson, like the James Roff, James Roff as a person, I do find like very interesting. Yeah, like how. Like how he started and how he prioritizes things. And also I think, and they get into this of how people, there's a particular sect of fandom that just absolutely hates him. Because it's the same or slightly different than it used to be,

than the angry video game nerd. But I think we've said this before, I don't think it's not, the new stuff isn't that different than the stuff he's been doing for like decades now at this point. And look, I'm only an occasional Angry Video Game Nerd watcher, but I also find that I like, I'm more inclined to watch maybe one of his videos about an old monster movie or something like that than I am to watch his, you know, because he's really reached the, he's, he's really reached the end of making angry video game nerd videos about really old generation games, like there's only a few left and which is why he only does one like every month or every couple of months now. Because also like that also generation of gaming has, like it's been mined to death.

Yeah. And nostalgia has moved forward. Yeah. So the things that are now nostalgic for things that are around when like he first started, it's a different. But I think, you know, the video hits on, I think an important point, which is that so much of YouTube criticism and YouTube criticism as entertainment wouldn't exist without James Rock.

Totally. Yeah. Yeah. So it's his fault. I mean, we'd still exist. Yeah. We would have independently done this. We would have thought of it.

We would have thought of this probably before him. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he'll be all right as well. All right. I think. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, I've seen that movie that have you seen the angry video?

And it is baffling that like he didn't just do like something closer to what like he was going for like this bigger thing. Like bringing all these other players and extra characters and scenarios where it's like it doesn't have to be like this necessarily. And interesting. Anyway, seems all right. Yeah. Seems like a nice enough guy. I also watched the movie Anatomy of a Fall.

Oh, that's good. The French legal drama. I enjoyed it a lot. Yeah. Is it somewhat in English sometimes? Yes, it is. Yeah. Thank God.

Yeah. Oh my God, Mason. English sometimes yes it is yeah thank God yeah oh my god Mason because it is it's it's it's it's French but some of the characters are you know German or Swiss or what have you so sometimes they just need a universal language to communicate or speak nine languages yeah so but it's just easiest to do English as we know yeah but it's it's very good very interesting all right cool I don't have a much I don't have much to say about it because nobody shoots a laser. Oh, not even at the end?

At the end somebody does shoot a laser. Okay cool, I thought they would have made it because why would they even release it otherwise? That's exactly right. I've been watching Colin from Accounts. Oh yeah, our friend Broden Kelly is in an episode of that. He is, season two is, which I'm not up to yet. That's on bonge.com.

That's on bonge. So basically it's these two people that meet. Harriet, played by Harriet Dyer and Patrick Bramall, who are, I believe they're together in real life and they wrote and created this series and they adopt this dog, which one of them hits with a car, who they name Colin from Accounts. And then it's kind of their relationship. I thought he was Colin from Accounts. No, he's not. His name's Gordon. Wow.

Yeah, his name's Gordon. His name's Gordon C Gordon crap it's a joke in the thing and whatever I love how you're explaining all these jokes thanks I really enjoy it it's really fun and funny and like I'd seen it and be like oh yeah whatever like I know this is probably not something I'll be interested in but it's really great there's kind of shades of a bit of um what's that Phoebe Waller bridge show whatever there's a bit of fleabag and it's a bit of it's a bit of, what's that, Phoebe Waller-Bridge show, whatever it is. There's a bit of Fleabag in it. That's my prize. It's a bit of Secret Life of Us, which is a throwback to like Australian. Is there any shades of Noni Hazlehurst?

There's not, not that I can see. Some faces that you might recognise. Broden Kelly. I'm not up to that episode yet. It's one of Kamau Nonjiani's favourite shows at the moment as well. Really? He did like a panel. He hosted a panel about it.

But yeah, it's Colin from Macau. And it's always good that Australian streaming services are actually making something in Australia. Yeah, you know, they're using all the oral all our hard earned money that they've stolen from us. Yep. To make something decent. Like Mad Max, the recent Mad Max. They used 100 million dollars of Australia taxpayer money to make Furiosa. People ask him, what do we think about it? Good. I don't care. Yeah. They've done much worse things without, and more money without.

And continue to do so, yes. Yeah. I'm okay with it. Yeah. I can't believe they would, I can't believe they would give money to a private corporation to do such a thing. I know. They've never just forked money hand over fist.

Billions. To their mates. To do nothing. Yep. Wow. Alright, should we do some letters? I think we should do letters. And in preparation for that, I'll do the letters theme.

That's great. It is great, isn't it? Yes. And I'm great? I didn't say that. The classic one was, letters, oh letters, we love you, some letters, they're only a day my way. Letters, oh letters, we love you, some letters, they're only a day away. We're gonna hear right now, we're gonna do letters.

That was great, but you're not great. Now if you wanna reach the show, hashtag... I like your honesty, I respect it. Hashtag Weekly Planet Pod on Twitter, or simply weeklyplanetpodatgmail.com. That's right. Mason, you got any gmail.coms? Yeah, here's an email from Ben. Ben? And this is how you do it as a listener on the podcast. This is how we do it. I've got a botched tattoo and I blame you guys, not really.

All right. Hey mates, I meant to send this a while back but I kept forgetting. A tattoo artist that is mates with me was moving away from my hometown of Newcastle, England to your neck of the woods down under. Oh, yeah. Okay. I'd not got a tattoo from her yet and really wanted one. I saw she was offering up a knuckles from Sonic Design and I decided it was the perfect

opportunity to pay homage to the pod by getting the knuckles iconic catchphrase, having a kid in a sandwich tattooed alongside it. Yes. Turned out the artist had never heard of an echidna and just winged it on the spelling and now I have heaven in cheetah sandwich tattooed on my leg. Well I do wholeheartedly blame you boys for this blunder. Don't worry, I think the misspelling is really funny and love the extra reinforcement it gives to the already impenetrable reference.

Anyway, whilst I'm here, I just thought I'd say love the pot and appreciate all you guys do been listening since I stumbled upon episode four when I was 13. I'm 24 now and all my bones ache. Cheers for all the last boys. There it is. Wow. Yeah, good stuff. That's amazing.

Pretty good. I love that's a good tattoo. Not bad. Don't you think? Yeah. It's good. Very monochrome. Have an Enchida sandwich.

You can explain that to people. You can explain it to people. Yeah could explain it to people, yeah. Yeah. Just forward this email. I mean, you're only going to be explaining it to people in shorts weather. Yeah. Because that looks like a shorts tattoo. Well, it's above the knee tattoo.

It's above the knee tattoo, yeah. It would be, wouldn't it? And I can reply, glad you enjoyed it. Oh yeah, you should do it. I will later. Right, you won't. It's from AJ Valante. Anyway, thank you for do it. I will later. Right, you won't. It's from AJ Volante. Anyway, thank you for doing that.

Yeah. It's beautiful, I think. We asked and you did it. That's right. We're asking everyone out there to get a tattoo. Let's see how this goes, James. We're asking everybody to get a themed weekly planet tattoo. Agreed.

AJ Volante on his Twitter, hashtag weeklyplanapod says, kind of want to see James and Mason cover twin films Oh, you're like a like a volcano slash. That's exactly right. It's gonna say volcano deep impact. That's not right volcano Yeah, both movies with a similar premise of that act as playing twins I know I just want to I just want to hear James and Mason talk about Tom Lee Jones It's been old forever since when when watching volcano he was old in volcano. That's right. Deep impact Armageddon. Yes.

What are the others? There are others. Others. There are others. White House down, president, president attack. Yep. That's right. Is that the other one?

Yep. Olympus F. Hallard. Attack of the big president. Yeah, I would do that at some point. There was a bunch of those in the 90s and it kind of still happens occasionally, doesn't it? So yeah, absolutely. I'm into it, Mason.

That's right. What else do you have? I'll tell you, James. What else do you know? Ah, okay. This is from Benjo. Benjo, way to go. Hello from the Philippines.

Hello. Hey, James and Maceo. This is Benjo from Manila. Long time listener, first time writer, and I just wanted to share appreciation and love for you guys and this pod. You guys have gotten me through so many bad days and hella boring work weeks. Also, I just wanted to share that the weekly planet car accident curse is still alive and kicking. The other week I was listening to the pod while driving as I normally do

when a tricycle rams into me on the highway no less. A tricycle? Luckily no one was hurt, but it did give me a little chuckle experiencing the course first hand, curse first hand rather. Thank you for keeping spirits up and making me laugh more than I should. Tricycle. Does he mean one of those motorcycles? Like a three wheeled motorbikes?

Like a yeah. Yeah. What does it mean? Does he mean a child on a tricycle? That's a great question. Isn't it though? But nobody was hurt? Says nobody was hurt.

Except a child it says. A child was killed. That's bad actually. Yeah. I don't like that. I don't like it. I'll be the first to say it. I'm stepping out. Well, I don't like that. I don't like it. I'll be, I'll be the first to say it. I'm stepping out. Um, well, I'm glad you're okay. And presumably nobody was killed. All

right. Should I go to, should I have got another one? You should have got another one. Okay. This one's from CW sitcom era extra. It's been over 10 years with the pod, YouTube and big sandwich. You got us for murder. Depends on the of a murder Always knew why I like James a good murder I always knew I liked James I like James I've mad respect for somebody rants about on their own part about municipal BS But Mason I didn't know why I liked Mason until today. Thanks to the homestar runner reference I love homestar. Oh, do you name another reference strong bad? Very good. Welcome. Very good coach Z Yeah, man. God that from a different era as well. Homsar. Homsar yeah. If you hate Homsar so much why don't you kill him? Then they invented the character Homsar. Great stuff. Thank you CW sitcom extra. That's right.

This is a quick last one, made from Tom Pert. Tom with T-H-O-M says, any chance I can get a big birthday shout out for my buddy Connor Webb on the next episode of the Weekly Punna podcast. It comes out on his birthday the 23rd. Love your stuff boys. Are you happy to give Connor Webb a birthday shout out? I'll allow it. Okay. Are you going to do it or are you going to allow me to do it?

I'll allow you to do it. Happy birthday. To Tom? No, to Connor Webb. allow you to do it happy birthday to Tom? No to Connor Webb. Oh, well, I'm saying happy birthday to Tom for whatever Tom's but I'm saying in future Yeah, cuz maybe Connor is what if he dies before his next birthday still counts? No, it doesn't you're dead You don't get a birthday. Oh, wow. That's what God said to me this morning You haven't had a lot of sleep. Have you thought about that? me this morning. You haven't had a lot of sleep have you? It's not about that. Got any more? I got two more emails. This one's from Rosie. Rosie? Speaking of shout outs. Hello

my boyfriend's been a long time supporter of this podcast. Prove it. I feel like it's the soundtrack of my life lol. Oh ok then. We have been going through a really rough time lately and the podcast has been something that provides him a lot of daily comfort and joy. Oh thank you. I know this may be cheeky and I don't come, I don aim to come across as rude, but I feel I feel it would bring him immense joy if you're able to say hello to him or something on one of your podcasts, please. His name is Richard. Hello, Richard. He's on the Patreon, I believe. Hello, Patreon. I give you more details about his favorite films, but there are too many to count and he collects props and memorabilia from almost every film he can. I don't think she knows this. I love him beyond words, can

describe and I want to try and bring some joy to our lives during this period. It would mean the world to him. Do you reckon she doesn't know any of his movies? There's so many. I couldn't even name one. He collects a bunch of crap, I don't know. From movies or about movies. I don't know. I hear you sometimes. That's us. That's us. Well, I hope you're doing alright. And happy birthday. That's what this was. You're welcome. Yeah. Happy birthday, Tom and Tom. No Mason. Wait, is his name Tom also? Maybe. That's what I thought. Yeah. Um, yeah, I hope

you're doing all right. Um, I hope this helps in some minor way, I guess. Yeah. I hope he hears this also. That's right. Do you think? Yeah. Yeah. So otherwise, what are we doing? I hope he never hears it. I hope he's like, I'm turning another leaf. I've never listened to this garbage ever again. Oh, you want him to move forward. I'm getting up early and I'm going for a run every day. Good on you, mate. That's right.

Bloody good on you. Getting out there. And thank you for the kind email. Rosie? That's right. I knew it. And here's one more email from Moody Cheese. Oh no, not a Moody Cheese.

Says you've got mail from a mail carrier. Oh. Hi guys, I just listened to your most recent episode and wanted to give a shout out to the Outer Juicer because I was literally delivering Amazon packages and mail while you were reading their five star review. It's tough out there for us mail carriers, especially in the summer. I'm not sure where in the world the Outer Juicer is from, but thank you James and Mason for single handedly keeping the United States Postal Service running by keeping me entertained.

You're doing an important job for the good people of my town. Oh, you're very welcome. Well, very welcome Moody Cheese. God, it's good to make a difference, isn't it? I think so too. Yeah. In a way, we're the real heroes. And the real postman.

That's correct. Yes. That's right. Wouldn't happen otherwise. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Is that the show? That's the whole show.

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Yeah. If you dare to do such a thing. That's right. We dare you. We double dog dare you. It's a physical challenge. Then James will read it out on the podcast, maybe, probably. I probably will. This one is from Vanna Wok, who says, I think I like it.

I put these bad boys on when it's bedtime, but I find I've pretty much put on their pod at all hours. Decent AM listen before work. Good dog walking noise. I didn't realize it until scrolling through to find an episode one day, but I've listened to every single episode of the show. Beside the cabin of garbage, because those are extra icing on the cake. All that being said, I don't know if I like James and Mesa, I don't know if I like this

podcast. I don't know if I like them either. I might be a masochist? Misogynist? Yeah, I might be a misogynist, but I like this podcast. Give me another 10 years and I'll let you know. Thank you so much. This one's from littleboy113 who says, bloody brilliant.

Great, but I'm tired so I won't write an essay about how great it is, but just trust me, five stars. You're very welcome. Two great reviews. Folks, if you want to get into contact with us, you can go to weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com. You can go to the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates Facebook group or the Weekly Planet Podcast subreddit and Discord for fun, civil chats about podcasts and pop culture. Thank you to Fidel and Sarabi and Maisie for all their moderation and for doing

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game no no but it's still fun there's big sentinels and they go hello and magnetos there and he goes hello sure absolutely that is how those are the things two things that happen in that game. That's right. Yeah. Thank you to The Brute and The Basilisk and Rackham for all the musical themes. Go to Tpublic.com, search for The Weekly Planet.

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How easy is that, I reckon? Yeah, it's probably the easiest thing you'll ever do. I always say there's a mug and a pillow, but I don't know if there is. You're a mug. Yeah? And you're a pillar of the community. Thank you. Soft.

Yep. Pointless. Yep. Flip it over. Angry man punch you. Angry man punch me. Yeah. I don't want that.

But I guess if I'm going to be a pillar of the community, that's one of my responsibilities. Yeah. Cool. Anything else? Next week? Quiet Place? Quiet Place. Quiet Place, Devon. Yeah. You looking forward to it Next week, Quiet Place. Quiet Place. Yeah. Looking forward to it?

Yeah, kind of. It's got some, it's got a bit of Yongo in it and it's got... Joseph Quinn. Yeah, that's right. Should be good. He's in X-Men or something. He's in X-Men, Mason. Yeah, I know. Or whatever. Sure. Or whatever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is Krasinski directing this one? I don't believe so. Interesting. Because he just directed If. What if your mates were real or whatever? Yeah. Did that do well? I think it did super well.

You liked it, didn't you? I've not seen it. I think it's up for your alley. You busy this week? Go and see it. I'm so busy. Take a trip to the cinema. Treat yourself to John Krasinski's If.

I think I'm going to see El Chimera. Oh, okay. What's that about? I don't know, but it's got one of the guys from Challenges in it. El Chimera. Yes. Yeah, El Chimera. Oh, okay. What's that about? I don't know, but it's got one of the guys from Challenges in it. Alchimera. Yes. Yeah, Alchimera. Yeah.

All right. Cool. All right. We'll see you guys next week. Alchimera. Night.