The Weekly Planet - 599 Frankenstein 2025 & IT: Welcome To Derry

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

It's still the spookiest time of year! We've got new big movie with Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein plus the first couple eps of Stephen King's IT prequel series, Welcome To Derry. There's also more clues for potential Superman villains appearing in Man of Tomorrow, Disney dropping Doctor Who, a Minions movie leak and a new sci-fi film starring Keanu Reeves revealed. Plus trailers for Scream 7, Stranger Things Season 5 and also our all-time favourite segment, One Company Buying Another Company. Thanks for listening!New bonus movie commentary track for PREY! You can listen to the entire back catalogue also available now with let's play videos, exclusive pods, Q&As, ad-free feeds and early access on bigsandwich.coPLEASE be aware timecodes may shift up to a few minutes due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start05:32 Man of Tomorrow Villain Details08:54 The Warner Bros. Sale Latest13:51 Disney Ditching Doctor Who20:40 Minions 3 Movie Leak22:05 Scream 7 Trailer26:11 Stranger Things S5 Trailer31:10 New Keanu Reeves Sci-Fi Movie34:24 Frankenstein Movie Review46:50 Frankenstein Spoiler Segment51:32 IT: Welcome To Derry Ep 1&2 Spoiler Review01:01:14 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:09:22 Letters, It's Time For LettersSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-moviesThe Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, and with me as always is my co-ist, Nick Mason. Okay, Mr. Cool. There he is. Finally, using my birth name. That's right. One my parents gave me.

That's right, not your stage name. James Mr. Sunday movies Clement. Correct. Mason is a big week, isn't it? It's a big week. Things are happening, things are moving and shaking. us apologies if you're getting this a little bit late we're recording after the weekend so no apologies if you got it early somehow oh yeah how'd you do that how did you do that tell us your secrets

send them over yeah but apologies to those who most who didn't um because we're recording after the weekend it's a long weekend in Australia this is actually a doubt for both of us so we're actually doing everybody great favor that's right say so yeah because we have a long weekend when there's a big horse race in Australia I don't know if people are very important very important yep we both like it. We love it. We love what happens to the horses before, during and after the race. That's right. We love all the prize money. We love the gambling aspect of it, obviously. We like putting on a suit and just acting, just acting out and just being awful human beings. Vomiting as much as you can. Just being really agro, but it's okay because we're in a suit.

Classy. Classy stuff. That's right. Yeah. Mason, it's a classy week. It's a bit of a spooky week, isn't it? Because recently, it was the spookiest time of the year. And I'm not just talking about tax time. Halloween. Oh, is that what you meant? That's what I mean often. Not always. We're talking Halloween stuff, including the upcoming Frankenstein movie, which has come to Netflix, because it has been in cinemas.

It's got a limited release. We check that out. And also the first couple episodes of Welcome to Derry, the It prequel, where things in that small town, terrorized by an alien, interdimensional clown, there might not be as they initially same. Stranger Things. We're also talking about that also. Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah. I'm just saying Stranger Things are happening. in the town of Derry. What's going on in Derry? What do you think it is? Probably a gas leak. Yeah, probably. It's probably part of it.

When you think about it, yeah. Most of it could be explained by a gas leak. Do you think it's a gas leak and the clown? Like, it could be both. Oh yeah, 100%. Yeah. It's a gas leak and a demonic clown from another dimension.

God damn, you got to get someone in for that. Take a look at it. What you got here is an intermentional clown. It's not that uncommon. I don't have the past for that. Yeah, I could bring a guy in, but I don't know when he's available next, you know, etc. That'll be 8.

hundred dollars yeah we're just going to hit it with shovels what we need what we'll see what we need to do is I need to get my friends from school I'm going to figure out where they are they're all busy you know they're off off it's a long weekend because the melvin cups on yeah so we're going to get them all together we have to do is you have to get them all together and then you have to surround the clown and you have to say we're not afraid of you anymore clown and then you beat it to death of yeah yeah yeah and then it comes back in 30 years or 40 years or something yeah obviously it's something you could do yourself yeah obviously But do you have a group of close-knit friends?

You were close for a while, then you've sort of, and you had various issues and stuff, and then you split apart? Yeah. And can you all wheel churvels? Are you all available to can you wheel churvells? Mason, in the lead up to that, we've got news. Of course.

I love news. There's time codes below. If you don't want to jump to anything, we're going to talk about the next villain of Man of Tomorrow, the Superman sequel. Oh, yes. We're going to also talk about how, what's going to happen to the DCU,

or specifically what's going to happen to Warner Brothers because there's still movings and shakings about what is going to happen with the sales of Warner Brothers. Who is it going to go to? And how bad is it going to be? Bad, but how bad is it going to be? Depends who it goes to, I guess. Exactly.

Will it restore the Snyderverse? Maybe. No. No. Yeah, definitely. Come on, man. Zach's not posting pictures of the Snyderverse. He's always posting pictures.

Yeah, but he's doing it the most at the moment. And I'm with him. I stand with Henry Cavill, always. Mason, and also, what are we doing? Always, even during Argyle. Did you stand with him during Argyle? Because I think he might be a fair weather friend.

I would say I was a Jason. Like, I'm happy for him. Let's just put it that way. You were happy that he was in the movie Argyll. I'm happy if he's happy. Is he happy about it? I don't think he was happy. I don't think anybody was happy about being in the movie Argyle.

I think maybe some of them had to do it. Otherwise, they'd go to prison for tax evasion or something like that. It was some sort of work release program. Feels like that. We're going to talk about also Doctor Who leaving Disney. Oh. You know about this? Do you know about that?

Yeah. So that's a whole thing. That's a whole thing, Mason. There was also a leaked test screening for Minions 3. Do you know about that? I didn't know about that. I know about it now. Yeah.

So you phrased that poorly. Thank you. If you said, did you know about that before I said it? I would have said no. And I would have looked quite the full. God, you're so pedantic. And that's why you're the best. You said, you said, James, let me finish.

You said, do you know about this? And because you just said it to me, I did know about it. But what if I made that up? What if I said that? And you were like, and I do know. What does that mean? What does that, does that add an element to this? Fool me once, shame on you.

Okay, thanks. Pull me twice, shame on you also. What? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I will take no responsibility for being fooled. I don't think I should be shamed for fooling people. No. We've got trailers for Scream 7 and season 5 of Stranger Things.

That's right. And then, of course, some more good news, because Warner Brothers might make a good movie with Tim Miller and Keanu Reeves. It might happen. It's got a hell of a premise at the very least. Deadpool 1's Tim Miller? Yeah, it's Deadpool. Pull 1. That's right. Yeah.

Next week you're going to be talking Predator Badlands as that's coming out, of course, and maybe a bit of pluribus. Oh, yes. Vince Gilligan's show, which we might check out between now and then. Anyways, this is why Nexus Point News. They say, Man of Tomorrow, the Superman sequel, it's going to feature the villains going to use makeup and prosthetics for the antagonist in order to, and they didn't act with a strong build and stature for this particular role.

People are now saying Brainiac, as always. But we know it's not Dark Side. People are saying Mongol. Could be Mongol. Or Monggal, who's also in the suicide squad. They did that already. Do you still on Brainiac or do you think it might be a Monga or girl or girl? I mean, look, first of all, good for you, Nexus Point News, a website I've never heard of.

That you've broken this news. Yep. That a villain in a DC movie. Big. Big. He needs to be big in stature and needs makeup and pre-exam. prosthetics. Yeah.

Incredible. Sometimes they're not big. Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor, Les Luthor, less Luser. Lex Luthor, less loser. What are we doing? I don't know, man. But I'm willing to sit here in silence until you work it out. It's just a riff that I'm doing by myself.

It's a good riff. Good solo riff. Thank you. I am still going with Brainiac. Yeah, fair enough. Okay, yeah, I'm with you. But it wouldn't surprise me if also James Gap. Oh, you're Avrilavine in this.

Oh, right. With me. Very good. And complicated. I mean, James Gunn also good. could pull like a minor D.C. villain. Of course. Like some interdimensional something, something, space man.

You know, he's known for it. Mr. Mixers Piddlic, but he's big. He's big. Mr. Bigstick, Piddleick. I'm riffing. Nice. That was good. I'm riffed here. I would have gone with Mr. Mixed sticks bigelik. We're riffed here.

We're riffed here. Get out of our way. In a way, oh, in a way, that's, it's the perfect name to put big at any point in it. Yeah, it is. Mr. Mixer's Piddle big. We're riffing. We're riffing. It's not about the destination, it's about the journey, except when the journey's bad. Yeah, that's right.

And then it's not about either. It's about spinning your wheels. I don't know if you saw this also, but the Superman suit is out at the moment from where it's normally kept on display. It's rumoured that it's being used for the Supergirl reshoots. They only got one? I don't know. I think it's a PR thing.

Oh, I see. Like, I'm sure they have more than one, but it's like when the smoke comes out of the Pope's residence or whatever. They've chosen a new Pope, Pope. Pope. We're riffing We're riffing It's good to let people know when we're riffing

I was going to say a new Pope's catering company Oh, okay Yeah Yeah, that's good too We're riffing Yeah, they've chosen new catering company Yeah Yeah, so it's not actually

They've only got the one They take it away to symbolise It's film in time That also have different ones With different levels of wear And whatever They'd be like 20 Yeah

They needed the crisp one Because maybe he's going to a wedding You might be going to a wedding An intergalactic wedding He might be going on So he needs his most crisp costume. That's a clue, isn't it? Yes, it is.

Supergirl, of course, is out. I like to let people know, June 26 of next year, and Man of Tomorrow is. I think he's marrying his cousin? Is he marrying his cousin? Do you think that's allowed on Krypton? Yeah, I would say it probably is allowed on Krypton. Huh. Yeah.

They're weird with Jane Fools and stuff and blood purity. And he's, you know, his dad's weird about stuff, isn't he? Yeah, he's got weird mum and dad this time around, doesn't he? Yeah. So yes, I think that would encourage that. Wow. Unless, of course, they lost the Supergirl suit, so they're just going to put her in the big baggy one.

Yeah, maybe. That'd be good too. And Man of Tomorrow is out July 9th of 2027. Now, we of course talked about last week the Warner Brothers being sold off. Yeah, I mean, that date is then up in the air of it, isn't it? I don't think so, actually, up in the air, Mason. Because Bloomberg is saying that David Allison, who is, of course, behind Paramount, if there's two studios came together and Paramount bought them, they want to keep James Gunn.

Interesting. Yeah. Well, that's what they're saying in public. Yes. You know, obviously, he really wants to restore the Snyderverse. Yeah. This David Ellison. That's all he wants out of it.

Nothing else. We know he's a Snyder, bro. Yeah. You know? We know that. We know. So it still looks like Paramount of the strongest chance of us. We're going to be updating you every week on how this way, which way this is going to go.

It does still look like Paramount is the strongest chance of purchasing WV. Oh, yeah. Warner Brothers are saying, sorry, I think they're still figuring out. They're still bidding and bids are being rejected. It's all a tactic to get the most money, obviously. Bloomberg have said that... All the best products. Yeah.

The best art. Well, I'm glad you said that. Thanks, man. Because here's some update on art. Oh, yes. By Bloomberg. Yes. Media executive Larry Allison plans to use artificial...

Wait. Larry Allison is David Allison's... Brother? Dad. Dad. The one's the other one's dad. Or there might be clones of each other. They might be clones of each other. Yeah.

Might be an Uroboros situation. Yeah, it could be, Mason. They each, the other. one's dad. Do you really want to strictly know who's who? Because I can I do not want to know. Fantastic. Media executive Larry Allison plans to use because Allison's a LinkedIn, whatever we talked about

it last week. They're bad people. Everyone's a bad person in this, I should point out. Including us. Do a lesser degree because we don't wield that much power. But if we could... If we could, we'd be the worst. The media executive, Larry Allison plans to use... The amount of riffing we would be doing, the amount of bad riffing we would do if we had unlimited money and no one

could stop us. This isn't a riff either. No, this isn't a roof. This is truth. Even if no, everybody stopped listening to the podcast. It wouldn't matter. We would burn money just going on here every week, doing the worst riffs you can possibly imagine. And then paying to get our riff in front of it. You know how when you turn the TV on and the ads are louder than the show somehow?

Oh, yeah. We would do that. Our podcast would be louder than every other podcast. Yeah. And we'd insert ourselves into everybody else's podcast as ads. Do you know? The full podcast into somebody else's podcast as an unskippable ad. And we'd be just doing bad riffing because we're rich.

Yeah, that's cool, man. I like doing things that people don't like. So I just want to quickly show you. This is Larry Allison. Okay. We're the same age. That's good. I like that.

That's good for me. No, that makes sense. Yeah, but, and this is his 81-year-old dad. Huh. Huh. That's all. Okay, all right, great. No comment.

Sometimes just people, they look how they look. And the dad owns Oracle systems or whatever? Something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways, media executive Larry Allison plans to use artificial intelligence, Brackets A.I. To produce more films and TV shows for a potentially merged Warner Brothers Discovery and Paramounts. Awful. This is good. Now listen. This would primarily involve I'm willing to listen. I have my position is clear, but I'm willing to change that.

You don't even have all the information yet. You're jumping to conclusions. That's true. This would primarily involve leveraging AI to streamline the production process, cut costs and increase a volume of content produced. Although, I should point out. I love an increased production of content. We don't have enough content. That's the thing. Although, specific details are not yet public. So we don't know how, but this is going to revolutionize streaming output, more output than ever. This is going to be great for the stockholders. Yeah. Also, apparently Paramount Plus, the idea at the moment is to absorb all the Warner Brothers content, but I think that would be probably a mistake to then, I don't know, close HBO Max and have everything go to Paramount

Plus, a service which is far less recognizable. Agreed. But you can always build brands, especially with how much production processes cut costs and increase the volume of content you could do with this So there you go I mean never

Never a true phrase has been spoken True God I love One company buys another company Of the Paramount Paramount Me too Hey everybody

I'm the Paramount Look out I've got so much content for you Climb to the top of the mountain I've got all this content You can never get down But at least we've got Jack Ryan

Yeah they got Jack Ryan probably. Is that Amazon? I don't know. I don't know if we've got... Did I have a look around. People kept asking about Jack Ride. I don't know.

I see what you like. I don't know. We've probably got something similar to Jack Ride. Yeah. Probably. Deadline is saying, though, Netflix streaming service has retained financial advisory firm. Moilus and Co.

Moilus and Co. To explore a potential bit. So even though last week, Netflix was saying we're not interested, they actually are interested and they want to restore the side of it. Well, because as soon as somebody else was interested, they're like, we're interested.

Exactly. So, yeah, that's good. That's great. Let's keep us posted, Mason, on this. Okay. Keep us in a look. I will. Doctor Who News?

Dr. Who News? This is an official announcement from Disney. We'd like to thank... Oh, this is a weekly planet exclusive. Oh, sorry, no. This might be from the BBC. This is from BBC, I apologize. So, for a few years ago, the BBC entered in a deal with Disney to produce Doctor Who episodes

and distribute them on a Disney Plus platform. Yes. They basically dup. the production budget of this. They wanted a global wage. To 10 pounds. 10 pounds, so I got it.

Maybe they can bill the costume for once, you know what I mean? I get it. Instead of wrapping each other in tinfoil or whatever. We'd like to thank Disney Plus for being a terrific global partner, terrific global partners and collaborators over the past two seasons and for the upcoming the war between the land and the sea. That's a Christmas special, I think. The BBC remand-off?

I don't know. I think it's a spin-off. Oh, maybe it is, yeah. The BBC remains fully committed to Doctor Who, which continues to be one of our most loved dramas and we are delighted that Russell T. Davis has a... We're fully committed to Doctor Who? See, it's good because there's plausible deniability there.

Who? I don't know what you're talking about. We are delighted that Russell T. Davis has agreed to write us another spectacular Christmas special of the 2026. That was the one with Billy Piper, I assume. Oh yeah, that's right. They're going to figure it out. He's figuring out as we speak. Yeah.

It's the press release. We can assure fans the doctor is not going anywhere and we will be announcing plans for a next series in due course, which will ensure the TARDIS remains at the heart of the BBC. So the latest Doctor Who season, despite Gizmodo, it averaged $3.2 million, no, they wish. 3.2 million viewers over the course of its eight episodes, down from the already low averages of Gatwa's debut.

Oh, damn. So, yeah, not good. And as a result of this, the budget of Doctor Who will be roughly halved to what it was prior. You think they got to keep the TARD set? Well, you'd think so, right? Well, you'd think so. But also, the BBC, like Australia's ABC, is exactly the kind of company that would make

such a bad deal that there would be a clause in. And it's like, if this merger fails, we get to destroy the TARDIS set. Yeah, nobody gets it. Nobody gets it. And they're like, okay, sure thing. We love that. You know how the ABC created Bluey and then they just, they don't... Gave it away or whatever.

They don't get merchandising rights or whatever. Yeah, good for that. That's fun. Who does get that? The production company that made Bluey, I guess? I don't think so. Who is it then? Me?

Dude. Yeah. Dude. Yeah, I'm going to riff on so many podcasts. Yeah, I mean, I watched the first season of the most recent. I liked it. Yeah, the most recent. There's good episodes in there.

I enjoyed it. I didn't watch the second season, but I understand. I watch some of it, I don't remember. We both have a, I would say, a more than passing familiarity with Doctor Who. Yeah. And so I think the problem with. these last two seasons, is they're too law-heavy? Yeah.

Like, if you don't know anything about Doctor Who, and maybe you're an American and you've got Disney Plus, but you've never seen a Doctor Who, and they're like, this is the British sensation. It's Doctor Who, it's a most incredible sci-fi show you've ever seen, or whatever. It's an institution, it's gone for 100 years or whatever. And then you open it up, and it's got,

there's decades of law, and they're referencing... Splits into two guys. Slits into two guys immediately. And you, you'd be like this so much. Unless you're the exact kind of person who loves getting into the law But that's the thing, again, you can't move the needle in terms of viewership With people who are just Dedicate to one thing

Yeah, you just need you need people to go Oh, this is a fun show Or learning about the doctor as it goes, here it is I think, I think, you know, with the benefit of hindsight And the fact that I didn't make the show So it doesn't matter to me Yeah Probably should have simplified it

Yeah Should have focused on, you know, a real clean reboot and it should have been new adventures that don't relate to anything. Maybe he ends up in a new... Maybe he visits JFK. Maybe he visits JFK. Yeah.

You know? That's all I could think about. Yep. That's all I could... As an idea, I mean, that's great. I mean, that's American. I think he did visit JFK already probably a bunch of times,

but what if he did it again? Look out. Look out. Look out. Let's have a fight on top of those four presidents heads. Mount Rushmore. The doctor of JFK. Yes. They're going to fist fight on the top of Mount Rushmore.

You don't think. that would get people tuned in. You don't think that would get America hot and bothered in a way that's good. Thank you, Doc. How does JFK talk? Yeah, like that. Thank you, Doctor. Thank you for fighting me at the time of Bad Rushmore. Because then he wouldn't be in Dallas. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I'm going to go to another dimension or whatever. Yeah. Where I'm safe. This is really good. Yeah. Well, you're right, though, because some insides have said what was conceived as a plan to marvelize a franchise do not translate into to a big bang and said the partnership has died with the wimper with Disney not even

putting out a statement to market's passing. A doctor who source also said that the show suffered from gut were never fully embracing the role. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. It says there is more, this person says there is more to the role than performing. You've got to be an ambassador for the brand and embrace being this generation, that generation's doctor.

Matt Smith and David Tennant fully understood that responsibility it carried. I don't think... Oh, look who else is they're throwing under the bus. Yeah. They're throwing Peter Petticoldi and Jody Wicca, the first guy. Yeah. And I don't, also, like, you shouldn't have to live this 24-7. No, absolutely not.

You know? And one of the reasons my understanding is shooting up left the show is because he had to keep turning stuff down. Like, yeah, it's all-consuming roles and, you know, brand deals and sponsorships and stuff like that. It's like, well, this is the time he should be taking that sort of stuff. He shouldn't be locked down to this thing that, you know... He did two seasons.

He did two seasons. That's fine. Another well-placed industry source says the Doctor Who became too woke for Trump's USA. And this is a factor in Disney's minds when it came to renewal. Underwriter Davis, a series had cast a transgender actress, features a drag queen, also had a historic gay kiss. And this apparently drew some complaints. It gives a shit. But they're always getting complaints.

Yeah, constantly. But again, I think it's more just... that they... Yeah. You just hit a wall... It's just a wall. It's just a wall of law and you go, nah. The show's been going on for a hundred years.

Yeah. And again, some people will be like, oh, I'm going to go to the wiki and look at this, but most people are going to be like... I'm not going to go anywhere. I won't go anywhere. Exactly. And you can't make me.

Can't make me. Yeah. Anyways, Mason, next bit of news. There's a test screening. Doctor. I parked a car in Harvard yard so we could fight on top of that. That's good. Mount Rushmore.

That's a long way to walk. But he's got a helico. He's got the president of a helicopter. The president's helicopter, shaped like the president's head. That's right. There was a test screening of Minions 3. Why are we doing this? Because someone snuck in a recording device and recorded the entire thing.

Ooh. It's available. It's also just the audio. Great. Do you want this? How do the minions talk? Like black, black, black, right. And they hit each other with different things.

I'm thinking of the Mars attacks, Martians. Yeah, it's not dissimilar, I guess. Yeah. We know it's going to go for about an hour 25. That's great. We know it's out July 1st, 2026. Okay. I don't think this is going to affect anything.

Have you seen a minions movie? Yeah, I've seen probably both of them. Is it mostly visual gags? Yeah, I guess. Okay, so this audio is useless. Yeah, I mean, it's not all visual gags, but, you know, they've got a plot to whatever. It's always happening. Are they ever meeting any president?

Yeah, like all the time, maybe. Yeah, I bet they are. Hello, the minions. Thank you for fist fighting me. Thank you for saving me. You're going to try to name one? Terry? Terry the Minion.

No, I was going to... That's not one called Terry. Jeremy? I'm thinking of Jeremy Allen White. I don't know. You're thinking of the Pearl Jam song, Jeremy. I am, you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Anyway, I just think that's fun. Somebody did that. That is fun, yeah. Now, like, we've got to lock down these test screenings or whatever. And I don't know, how do you stop that from happening? Yeah. I don't know. I was like, who cares?

It's just audio. It's just audio. Mark Ruffalo did it at the Avengers premiere or whatever. What? No? He had his phone live streaming. Oh, okay, that's fun. It was Avengers or Thor.

I can't remember. Travellers, Ahoy, Mason. Punk. Scream 7! Oh, yeah. Scream is back. And he's back on his bullshit. He sure is. Yeah. Do you want a synopsis? I guess. Try and guess which movie this is for.

When a new ghost-faced killer emerges in the quiet town where Sydney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes an ex-target, determined to protect her family, Sydney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all. Well, that's scream seven, but it's the newest one. The newest one. I don't know if her daughter's much in the other ones. I think she was a baby in some other ones.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you just said Sidney Prescott something, something town, she's got to come back. Horrors face her past, whatever. I could have been three of them, three or four of them. That's right. Yeah. This is a different screen movie than before. It seems like the stakes have never been higher.

But it's also not the screen movie they were initially going to make, of course. Well, Melissa Barrera was fired for having opinions. That's right. Supporting the victims of Gaza. She also did that. I feel like if she did that now, that would have been fine. Yeah. I think because she was one of the first celebrity.

She was right in the cusp of, like, the hysteria. And as a result of that, the original director, Christopher Landon, left. And so did General Otega. General Otega. Yeah. But anyway, don't worry about that. Yes. So what they had to do, they had to give Neve Campbell a bunch of money.

Oh, because she wasn't going to come back to him. She wasn't even in the last one. Yeah, because this was going to be the new screamers. Yes. And some of them are still in it. The twins are in it? I don't remember the twins. Uh, Jasmine Savoy, uh, Brown, Mason Gooding.

Fraternal twins. Yes. Girl and boy. Yes, that's right. They're just two people, James. If they're not identical twins, it doesn't count. I agree. Don't allow it.

We don't allow it. Don't allow it. Yeah. So yeah, it's Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox. Uh, the two has mentioned. John McHale plays Courtney Cox's husband. I was originally, I think, going to be Patrick Dempsey because he's in three and they ended up getting married or something. But he dropped out, I think, scheduling conflict.

Yeah. But, I mean, who's to say? Yes. Scheduling conflict or didn't want to be in it or didn't get offered enough money. Yeah, he probably had to fix his beautiful hair. Probably to fix his beautiful hair. Not that you'd even need to.

Or drive a Ferrari or something. He's always doing that on Instagram. He's driving a Ferrari round. He's probably doing a fan convention for Transformers 3. He's like, thanks Ferrari from supplying these sunglasses while I drive this Ferrari. Good on him, I say. This is directed by Kevin Williamson, who wrote

Screams 1, scream 2, scream 4. Screams 1. Yeah, Screams 1. He previously directed teaching Mrs. Tingle. I think he hasn't really directed much since. There was a sort of Scream TV series. Remember that? I think that was unrelated.

No, I don't remember that. This one, Scream. This time the Scream House is an Airbnb. Oh, yes. And you go there to have a real scream because of the Screamhouse. And it's also, this is probably a spoiler. Yes. Skip ahead.

There are time codes below. I can't skip ahead. There are no time codes for me in life. Just jump ahead, Mason. It's going to take you a second. There you go. You didn't jump far enough. The character of the character,

Stu Matcher is probably back. Matthew Lillard. He's in the original scream. He was supposed to be in three. They wrote him out. Columbine happened and some other reasons. And the other scream killer from the first movie was in the last one? Yes, Skeet Ulrich.

But he was a ghost or a memory or whatever. So Matthew Lillard could also be a ghost. No, I think he's alive in it because he got a TV on his face. And he's supposed to come back multiple times. I was sure he was going to be in the last one. But this one makes more sense to bring him back in this one because Neve Campbell's obviously tied to the original one or whatever. And this is a scream like you've never seen before.

He's back on these bullshit. So he's got a scream copter. He's going to fight Neve Campbell on the top of the president's head or whatever. Yeah. Are you looking forward to this? Thank you, Dave Campbell. You can do any voice you want. He's got a voice changer.

He does. Thank you, Dave Campbell, for a guy to be to fight on the top of about Rushmore. It's good to be back in the Scream franchise. We love that. Yep. This is out Feb 27th. Okay. People are boyconing it as well.

For obvious reasons. Makes sense. Which, you know. We'll see what's on that week. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Honestly, if there's anything better. We'll skip it.

Yep. We'll skip it. I am a fan of the franchise, but that was really shitty how that went down. Yeah. Strange a thing season five. Oh, yes. It's the end of all these strange things. Boy, it's been some stranger things in this town.

Yeah. Of dairy. Of dairy, basically. Yeah. This is basically dairy where we're... It is. I mean, homage is so many 80s things. Ghostbusters.

The thing. Poly Pocket, He-Man. Snap bands, hypercolor. Being dehydrated. Absolutely. Having a headache from being dehydrated. Being like, why do I have this headache? From being dehydrated.

Probably. But you don't know. You're just dehydrated. Do you remember when this debuted, Mason? Yes. On July 15th, 2016. I do remember that. And now it's probably a good time.

We got a little advanced screening. We did. We did. This was before it was, you watched a trailer and it looks like the end of the world. It's the end of the event. adventures, etc. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it should also, it's probably a good time to wrap things up.

For one, these take nine years to make every episode. But there was a story that broke very recently that maybe Millie Bobby Brown filed the harassment and bullying claim against David Harbour. There's apparently pages and pages of like accusations and there was like an internal Netflix investigation. That's today. We've learned this today. Oh, yeah, it is.

Yeah. So we don't know any, we don't really know. No. I mean, he's in it at the moment, isn't he? There's a number of things David Harbour. going on. Someone wrote and recorded an entire album in 10 days about how awful he is. So it was me.

You did? It was me. Is it good? Would you say this album you made? No. No. But I did it and that's important. Yeah. It's called David Harbour. Thank you for inviting me to the top of Mount Rushmore to tell you how much you suck. Yep. And here we go. He's probably

got that Hollywood madness people get. Yeah, you were saying that earlier. You think he went Hollywood mad, yeah. Yeah. Because he was like, you know, a working actor for a while and then suddenly he's in everything and I imagine there's no I'm not making excuses obviously but I think I no no that's this no also we don't know we don't know the details of this at all literally just came out but that would be pretty fucked up of like he he knew her when she was like 10 years old yeah and was this like father

figure probably in real life I don't know the extent of their relationship and it gets to this point like that that's pretty fucked up yeah yeah uh luckily though Netflix they've declined comment. What about Netflix? Did they make any comments? I don't know if they commented, actually. Interesting. Why don't you check your fucking,

your book of bullshit that you carry with you? Okay. Hang on a moment. Squelch. Blu-pup, pop, pop, pop, pop. He's looking his fingers and touching the pages. That's so gross.

They declined to comment. Netflix. Oh, yes. But a source said, this is just a source. But people who are just tuning in Netflix is, is just regular. Netflix, but it's zoomed down on people's necks.

That's right. It is a separate service. Yeah, it's different. It's not an option. You got to pay for it. Sure, you can push that weird zoom button on your remote that nobody's ever used. It's not the same. You think it's going to follow the next?

No. Obviously not. You need to pay $15.99 for Netflix. That's right. A Netflix source said it will be a theatrical event. Nothing is going to overshadow this, not even a leading man's private life. That I don't doubt. I think that's what they're going for here

So we haven't really talked about the trailer But, you know, Vecna He's there running around He's running about the 80s Things with the flappy heads They're running up Dem Hills They're running up Dem Hills That's right

Queens who wants to live forever Which would suggest that Henry Cabell's Highlander Is going to be there I can guarantee it He's going to be there He's going to be like mind of I step in And he's got his sword Mason, stop reading for your big book of bullshit

Which is true also We call it that but it's It's always right And I found it in the garden I dug it up from the garden one day And it's just We just call that Because it smells real bad

Yeah it's terrible But it's full of objective truths And sooth sayings and so forth It's never been wrong And it's saying Henry Cavill is in this Yeah And if he's not in it It's because they changed it

He would have beaten it That's right And the last minute Typical Cutting Henry Cavill out Just when he's Yep Just when we need him the most

That's right Yeah I mean It's a good show. I think it's, it has maintained a decent quality over the years. Yeah, overall, I think it's been enjoyable. I forget in between seasons whether I like it or not. This time I'm like, no, I've done this enough to know that I did like this show. Yeah, yeah. And I'll, it'd be interested to see the ending. I don't know how much we're going to talk about it because volume

one comes out. I like how all the teens are just armed with machine guns in this trailer. That's how it goes, man. It's going nuts. It's nearly the 90s, you know? Yeah, that's right. Volume one is November 26th. Then volume two is Christmas. And then the finale is New Year's Eve. So I don't know how much of like the back end of this we're going to talk about because we take a break over Christmas New Year's. But that's what's going on there. It'll certainly make a good segment for what we're reading and what we're going to read.

No doubt. That's right. No doubt. No doubt. Final bit of News Mason. Go on. This is why I had the THR. Warner Brothers in final negotiation to purchase a Tim Miller slash Keanu Reeves sci-fi movie.

They'd done some stuff before. They did some animated things. Do you remember? No. You know, he does that second level or whatever. Oh, sure, yep. He, of course, directed the First Deadpool and other things. It's apparently going to be a blend of the shallows and edge of tomorrow.

The shallows that Blake lively stuck on a rock shark movie. Did you ever see that one? It's pretty good. But the other thing you said. Dej of Tomorrow. Yeah, it's good. It's pretty good. Here's the synopsis.

It centers on a near-do-well smuggler who finds himself in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job. I believe I'm in the middle of a deadly double-cross. Right on, and on President Lincoln's head. dead four places, if Lincoln is one of those, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. It seems likely. Yeah. Lincoln, Taft, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton.

Those are the four faces on memory. Our four presidents. That's right. A deadly double-cross while out of job in the Caribbean or Caribbean, so resulting in him surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries and thirsty sharks alike. He thirsty. He finds himself Thirsty Merks

Yes He next finds himself in a It's a band everybody Don't worry about it He finds himself in a deadly time loop And scrambles to break the cycle I'm in a deadly time loop I'm struggling to do something

Yeah I'm glad I got this Thirsty Merck album To give me company In the summertime etc Yeah sure Other big hits Other big hits Yeah

This sounds really bizarre It does Is it one of those things Where it's mashed up but it's, they got too caught up and then mashed up in this of it. Did you say this is animated or is this live action? No, it seems to be live action. It seems like I'm in live action.

But he wasn't in that movie where it was animated. Remember they painted over him or whatever? Oh, a scanner darkly. Darkly. Darkly. Darkly. Yes. Like Donnie darked though.

We've been scanned so darkedly. Ethan Hawke's here as well, I think. Robert Daddy Jr. is here. He's blonde, I think, in this one maybe. I don't know. I'm blonde. think yeah you're doing the people can't see it but god he's really i'm going for doing some moves i'm doing all sorts of moves uh what do you think it sounds

great yeah yeah sounds like death loop yeah the game death oh yeah you hate a um a mashed up t-shirt yes do you think this is it could be the equivalent of that no you hate back to the future slash no it's not the same with movies yeah because what i i hate the pop culture mashup t-shirt because it's just the one image yeah okay It's like, what if there's... Of it was three images, you'd be like... Yeah, that's incredible. That's incredible.

What if the DeLorean was there and the TARDIS was also there? I don't know, man. You don't know? I don't know. Do they even use the same methods of time travel? Like, do you know what I mean? It doesn't even... I'm with you.

Yeah. Three pictures. That's right. Explain it to me in three pictures. Wow, that's all the news that you can use, Mason. That's terrific. I love that. Close the book.

All right, for now. Frankenstein. Yeah. 2025. Oh. Yeah, this is a movie, isn't it? It's coming to Netflix and you might be like boo, but also it's Guillermo del Toro. So you might be like, hmm.

And also it does get a cinematic release limited somewhat. And so you might be like, hmm, it's over. Yeah. I can't see it. You probably can't. But you can this week. So what we're on Netflix, which is free, isn't it? Yes.

So basically we're going to do a non-spoiler section and then a spoiler section. We'll talk a bit about the movie Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toros. A passion project, would you say? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think about Giamo del Toro. Yes, you do.

Hellboy. Mimic. Pans Labyrinth. That's not. But that's... Halboy 2. Oh. The shape of fish water man.

Oh, yes. Yeah. Fish-like. Are that the mountains of madness, but he'll never do it or maybe he'll do it now. But I'm saying I don't know anything about him, the man. Really? This is his passion project or not. I think it definitely is.

Interesting. Misunderstood monsters. This is like the original. He is a misunderstood monster. This is the og. It is the og, yeah, that's true, yeah. It's true. So this had a budget of $120 million.

It is making some money at the box office, but the last I checked it was about $120,000 because of limited release. And I don't know how they're, one of what the numbers are looking like on this. Anyway, this isn't about money. This is about art. It's about art. And it's about getting venture capitalists to put money into Netflix.

So they can make a bunch of stuff. And with the hope that this will somehow spike the algorithm, so 100 trillion new people will subscribe to Netflix and it won't work. Mason, you are just blessing this podcast with not only knowledge, but love. Thank you. It's my passion project. Yeah. This podcast is my passion project.

Really? And you know that about me. Oh. Yeah, that's right. Good God. Yeah. What do you think the story was? You know, Frankenstein?

I do. I know. I've seen some... Well, he's back. Yeah, that's right. Is this better than I Frankenstein? I haven't seen it, but yes. Is this better than, uh, no.

Yeah, which ones? I Frankestine was the Aaron Eckhart one. I haven't seen it, but it's better than that. Which is the one with Daniel Radcliffe and he's a hunchback. Oh, hunchback Dan. Yeah. Hunchback Dan Rad. Yeah.

There was Frankenstein also a recent monster. Also was included in Creature commandos, yes. Yeah, voice by David Harbour, which people, they might have heard some things recently. Yeah, yeah. Very recently, as we did this episode of the podcast. Yeah, that's right. Some people say he sexually harassed everybody in the booth, even though they weren't there. We don't know that.

He sexually harassed all his castmates, even though they're recorded separately. We don't know that. We don't know that. So what do you think the story was, though? You were saying. Oh, okay. Well. Getting him twice.

Got him. Yeah, come on, man. All right. Well, Victor Frankenstein. Yeah. He was a sad little boy. It was. But his brother's a happy little boy.

Yeah, that's good. But then they grow up. And Victor Frankenstein's like, well, for reasons being that I was a sad little boy. little boy and my brother was a happy little boy. I'm going to make a Frankenstone. That's right. And he does. It's going to be a gooey one. Goowy Frankenstein. It's a gooey movie, Mason.

It's a goo-moo. It's a goo-moo. It's a hashtag goo-moo, folks. It's an old goo-moo. It's an old goo-moo. It's an old gum-moo from a man with a passion. I really like this. I like it too, yeah. It's a shame. It's not going cinematically because it doesn't look like a fucking Netflix movie. No, that's true. Especially not on a big screen. I saw it at

the cinema nova in Carlton which is sort of like it's not an art house cinema but it's a it's a cinema for movie lovers film lovers and when the movie opens you know the trailers end

and then there's the big electrical town the electrical pylons they light up and then it turns it doesn't say Netflix but the end logo comes up you could feel the entire audience go oh I don't know man oh if we made a mistake oh but it's good it's good

it's entertaining I saw ghosted that might have been Apple but I saw it That's right, but it's of that ilk, isn't it? It really is. This isn't an OG go moo, but then it turns out it is for a man with a passion for gumoos. Yeah, as far as you know.

Far as I know. Yeah, I really feel like this is like, this is just right in his wheelhouse, like a misunderstood monster, who's the real monster, etc. There's a lot of people going, who's the real monster? I think someone even says it. Someone says, yeah. Who's the real monster? Is it the big monster that was made?

It's that guy. It's the big monster guy. He's smashing about, isn't he? Do you think it'd be funny? they did a modern version of Frankenstein. It's this movie, but the realization that they come to in the movie that the monster is Frankenstein's monster. It's him.

We figured it out. It's that guy. It's a nine-foot-tall man. He's freaky. He's hitting people. Yuck. Goey. He's too many guys made into one guy.

That's right. Yeah, I mean, it follows... People are saying it's like a faithful adaptation of the novel. And from what I know of the novel, which is not that much, I guess because I haven't read it. But some of it is and some of it isn't. Well, there's a framing device that it's, it opens on a crew of, I want to say, Norwegian sailors maybe.

And they are trapped, their ship is trapped in some Arctic ice. And you might think that's good. But they don't like it. No. Yeah. They're a bunch of winches as far as I'm concerned. That's right. But then they come across Dr. Victor Frankenstein who's out there.

He's like, let me tell you a tale of Frankenstein. You heard about Frankenstein? They're like, we know about it. Do they know about it? They already read it? Yeah, they read it. Okay. Well, that happened to me.

Yeah, yeah. By coincidence. That's right. Yeah. So, Jacob Allorty, I feel like this is where he belongs. He's in the creep zone. Sure. This is where he lives.

Okay. Don't you think? He's not a charmer? I've never seen him in anything else. No, I mean, if you've seen like euphoria, like he's really unplated. I haven't seen it. He's obviously very handsome. He's Elvis in the Priscilla movie, right?

That's a perfect example of somebody in the creep zone. Well, I haven't seen it, but I... I haven't seen it either, but I just meant Elvis himself. Elvis inherently is in the creep zone, yes. Yeah, I mean, he was in Salt Burn. There's a bit of creep zone stuff and that. Probably one of the least creep zone things that he's done. Interesting.

Apparently, he felt very at home in this role. Okay. Do you like the look? For the most part, yeah. Yeah. I mean, he could do it with some bolts in the neck. He doesn't feel like different guys. put together. Do you know what I mean?

Do you think he should? Well, maybe, because he is different guys. You know, he's like 12 different guys. But like the face and it's in parts, but it makes one. Oh, it does look exactly like Jacob Ballardia with some scars. Yeah, but I, but overall I would say I do like the look. I like like the size of him works. Yeah.

Yeah, the performance I think is really good. He, I mean, what's interesting is when we first see the monster, he's all wrapped up in his various cloaks and coats and stuff and he looks sort of enormous. like enormously wide like a fridge but when we see him you know in his creation he is normal human width just very tall just very tall yeah I don't know I think maybe

I would have preferred a design I think where he is more do you remember the dark stalker's video game was all various monsters there's a Frankenstein monster in that I think and he's enormously wide and I kind of like I'm on board with that I think he should I think they should have done something to make him wider oh this guy is wide you're talking like you want him like Batman Arkham Asylum everyone's a big box

Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. God damn, he's white as hell in this. But I mean, you know... I've got a games of these. That's like a one-on-one fighting a... Damn, this shit looks legit. Oh, it's legit. He's fighting a... Frankenstein's fighting a

the mummy Pharaoh-looking kind of guy. Wow. Ferroar Erica, Carus. Yeah, you better believe it. Great. But I mean, otherwise. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, not everything has to look what you think it should look like. Well, it should. Okay, you're probably right. Oscar Isaac, I think, is great as a Victor Frankenstein. Yes. Mia Gott's in this. She loves being in the creep zone. That's true, yeah.

So this is classic for her. But she's, but she's in the creep zone. Yeah. But she's mostly reacting to the creep zone. That's true. She's something of a creep. She's intrigued by the creep zone, would you say? She likes bugs.

She does. So she's on the cusp of the creep zone. Yeah. Doesn't put you in the creep zone, you think? No. Yeah. Well, she's not like pulling them apart and stuff. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah. It's more interested in nature and the beauty of. Christopher Walters plays the Victor Frankenstein's, would you say, benefactor? Yes. In this, a character not in the novel. Ah, he's a gooey bloke. He's a bit gooey.

For various raisins. He's flamboyant and gooey. Yeah. Which is how we all aspire to be. That's true. Some of the stuff I, it's added, that I think works. So Elizabeth has kind of a relationship with Victor's brother and like a pull towards Victor himself. But then like, she's obsessed with the creep sign.

Yeah. And then, but then she leads into like the monster and there's like that love story element, which is that's added. That's not in. Yeah, right. The novel, or some of the movies that I've seen, as far as I can remember. And they skip, the novel does the bride of Frankenstein as well, right? I don't know. Is that right?

I don't know. I don't know. I'm asking you with someone who knows. I don't know. Bride of Frankenstein. I thought that was just a movie thing. I think Frankenstein wants a companion. Yeah, that's a lot of it was.

He wants a companion to be built, but I don't think it's ever actually done in the book, but I don't know. Oh, she's an unfinished creation of Victor Frankenstein. Yeah, in the original book, apparently. According to Google AI, so this is correct. Yeah. Oh, it might be in the second book? There's a second book. It's a rooted in...

By Dean Kuntz? No, there's a subplot of the original thing that it's all kind of based on on whatever. I should have read this. I didn't have time, but I should read more books. It's the original science fiction novel, James, by Mary Shelley. Exactly. Yeah.

What an incredible book. How old was she? She was like 19 when she wrote Frankenstein. Something like that. Yeah. God. I don't know how people do. I don't know how people do.

come up with stuff like new stuff how do that well she probably wasn't staring at her phone all the time it's probably only staring at a phone a couple of hours yeah but most people went staring at their phones at that time and they didn't make a frankestine book you know yeah yeah it's all i'm saying yeah yeah i just think it it does i think this is a movie he's been trying to do for a while as far as i can tell like right and i guess the good thing about frankenstein is that because it's out of copyright oh here we go all the good thing about frankenstein yeah classic you he's big trying to find excuses for frankenstein for i'm not making excuses for the one who's the real monster.

Well, I think he's more of the real monster. This goes out of its way to humanize him. Yes. Whereas the book, like, he is a tragic figure. Yeah. But he is pretty, he does like a bunch of unforgivable stuff in that that they... Right, yeah. He has kind of a tear at the start.

But most of the stuff he does is in reaction to things that are happening to him. He's not actively like trying to kill people. There might be a wacky misunderstanding. So he has to kill him. a bunch of guys. Wolves. Wolves, for example, yes. It's a good example of something that could happen in this movie.

Yes, that's right. Wolverine style healing factor. He does have that. I think that's an interesting thing to put him because when you see him at the start, you see his hand and there's exposed finger bones and like his eyes kind of dug in and whatever. So you think he's more monstrous than he actually is. But because of his healing factor, he, you know, he looks more handsome.

He does look more handsome. which is probably, that's a good way to be. And he's got beautiful long hair. That's true. It's very beautiful. I think, is, can you still catch this in cinemas in this week? Because I think if you, if you run. Yeah.

And would you say it's worth doing so? Yeah, definitely. Especially if, you know, you like this kind of stuff. Also, what I would say is, you know, it is not, it, it moves at the pace of a, like, an old school novel, really. It's a little bit long. And I think if you want to, if you're the kind of person who, who knows, in watching this on Netflix, that you're going to walk around.

You're going to wander. That's a great point, actually. You should commit to the ticket price and do that. I completely agree. Yeah, it seems as if it's still showing this week. Oh. I'm just having to look around. You're welcome, everyone.

Yeah. I mean, that's here. I don't know what other places in the world. Well, if you could Google every other place in the world. Okay, where should I start? Turkey. Turkey? Yeah.

We go on alphabetical. Yep. Okay, great. Fantastic Best movie ever Yeah I agree It's good fun Let's do a little bit of spoilers

Yes Let me think Anything else Any else jumps out of this In terms of spoilers No The montage of him Putting together

The monster It's a real kind of fun Do you know what I mean Like the way it's page It's a bit like that And it's like It's kind of a bit wacky And you seem like

I mean I don't know How do you reanimate a corpse How long did you have to keep Frozen for a long Like Fresh not frozen What's the science of all of this mason there isn't any james there isn't any there isn't any how do they do this they just whack a bunch

of parts together like a bloke together yeah i don't know i mean you know uh the the original they he does a science um uh experiment at the start like a demonstration of reanimating a corpse which is it reminded me of that you know that russian corpse that hellboy drags around that's right it's like that kind of like animatronic or the point in robo cop remake where joel kin is cut into a bunch of bits. Yeah, that's right. It's just a hand. Yeah.

He's all good. Bo, blah, bu. Yeah, so I think all that's pretty goddamn good. Yeah. Looks great. Some really nice looking shots. Spoilers for when, again, this is spoilers. Chris, Wolf, gets the back of his head, like, smashed in completely.

Yeah. That's a gooey moment, if you want to say one. Yeah. It was interesting. So he, funding Victor Frankenstein, apparently, well, not apparently, this is what happens, because he's dying. Yes. And so he wants his brain put into this body, but...

I would have said, mention it earlier. Yeah, maybe. Maybe mention it before you've already installed a brain in the thing and you're about to animate it and it's literally, like, how long do you think a brain surgery takes, Chris? Yeah, exactly. Probably more than the three minutes before the lightning strikes and animates this corpse, you idiot.

You stupid idiot. You stupid idiot. Yeah. Maybe ask some leading questions months prior. Yep. You know, hey, hypothetically. Or just tell him, straight up. Yeah.

This is what I want. Yeah. Wouldn't it be cool? Wouldn't it be cool? Wouldn't you be the best doctor ever? Wouldn't that be good for you? If you put my brain in Jacob Alorty's lanky bod and I could, you know, flail around, fight some wolves. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Also, I know this from the book. There's no closure at the end. Like Victor and his creation, they don't have a moment to be like, I love you and I forgive you. I'm sorry for. In the book, yes. In the book, yeah. I'm sorry for chaining you up and. But in the movie, they definitely do it. They, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, definitely get that moment. Was it entirely earned? Um, I don't know. Yeah.

I guess it's kind of, because it kind of plays out as the movies, as they're retelling the story. Yeah, right. So they kind of get their closure in the retelling of the narrative, I don't know, though. I kind of feel, to me, it kind of felt, I think he should have smashed his head in. I think he should have smashed his head in, and I don't care who we're talking about.

I think somebody's head should have been smashed in. It doesn't matter who. All right then. Yeah. I think either Frankenstein's monster should have smashed Victor Frankenstein. head in with his mighty fist. Yeah, but who's the real monster? Or Victor Frankenstein should have smashed Frankenstein's

head in with a big pneumatic hammer. Yeah. A big, like a giant steampunk style hammer. And who's the real monster? He'd be like, surprise, I put this in my fake leg. Yeah, really? This giant steampunk hammer.

Oh, that bit where his leg gets like torn apart. That's a gooey moment. That's a gooey. It's a gooey moment and a gooey movie. Yeah, I don't know. I kind of feel like they went, I kind of feel like Del Toro went, and I've got to wrap this up in 10 minutes. Yeah.

How but we just say, how but we just, because Frankenstein's, Monsor just shows up and he's like, give me Victor Frankenstein, I'm getting in there. And he gets in there and he's like, well, I'll tell you my story and how nice I am and a cool guy that I am. Yeah, nobody come in. Don't interrupt. And then they're both like, well, actually, I love you, dad. I love your son. Shouldn't have changed you up in that, whatever.

Yeah, but I did for a long time. And Mia Goths, you got shot and whatever happened to her. You remember that, don't you? I do remember that, yeah. This is all in the movie. Yeah. You can check it out. Yeah, you can check it out on Netflix.

It's for free. Yeah. Free Netflix. Cool. Yeah. I wonder what he's doing next. Do you think he's ever going to get to do his Mountains of Madness adaptation?

Maybe, maybe. Maybe Netflix will give him the money to do that. Maybe. Maybe he's like, maybe he's like, I'll do a sure thing. Like everybody knows Frankenstein. This works when you do the Mountains of Madness nonsense. Yeah. I like. I'm just looking at his upcoming stuff and I'm not sure at the moment.

No, don't know yet. I'm sure he's got a bunch of stuff in the works. Yeah. He was in the TV show Barry. I didn't know that. All right, then. There you go. Cool.

Should we move it along? Let's move it along. Let's move it along. Let's move it along to what we're reading. What we're going to read. That's what we're doing. We're doing it now. We're doing it now.

I'm doing nothing. What are we reading today? We both watched. Yes. Did you watch the first two episodes? Yes. They moved an episode of Welcome to Derry forward to Halloween, Spooky's time of the year.

That is spooky. Not tax time. So we're going to do a bit of a look see, a bit of a recap. review, just a brief one, aren't we? I guess, that's true. And we can go on to some other stuff. That's right.

Andy Machete is back. He directed the It movies. He's also directed the movie, The Flash. Yes. Yes. But looking at these, it's clear that he is... He's better than the Flash. Which we already knew.

Yeah. Everybody is better than the Flash. Wow. Everybody in it and around it. Is Ezra Miller better than the Flash? I don't know. I don't know. That I don't know.

Yeah. This also was the third biggest HBO Max's debut. After what? House of Dragon and Last of Us. Oh, House of Dragon and Last of Us. Yeah. Last of Us. Yes.

It's a pretty brutal. I think it's... Yeah. Are we doing spoilers here? What are we doing? We can do that. Yeah. So this is set in the early 1960s.

It's in the same universe as the movies, the reboots. That's right. And, you know, evil happens in the town of Derry. Clearly not just the it entity, but, you know, he's probably pulling those strings, right? It's a gas leak also. There's also a gas leak. If you were someone that it is not targeting, penny-wise, what's your day like?

Like, are you not bothered by this? Are you mostly indifferent? Are you in some kind of fog? Like, are you okay? Do you have a general sense of unease? Or are you just like, whatever? It's a great question. Yeah.

Because this show opens on a kid named Maddie and he's trying to get out of dairy. Yep. And he gets in a car with a fan. He's trying to hitching. hike and he gets in a car with a family and it's a mom and a dad and two kids yep and he very two and then two and then immediately a third kid who's technically a third and fourth kid oh that's true actually good point um but then things almost immediately go off the rails because they're i don't know are they a regular family that gets consumed by demonic energy or are they demons or what's

going on there i think and i don't know i think from what i can stand but for my I can understand, like, the science of Pennywise. I think they are going to get into this in this series. That, well, he's not, like, he's not supernatural. He's, like, an interdimensional alien. Like, he's not a demon. Right. He's like a creature, right?

He's not from hell. Right. He could be from the missed dimension, which we'll talk about or whatever. Not that one specifically. Because they are, everything's connected in the state of king world. I think he can be, like, one physical thing. Yes. And everything else is like a post box.

Yeah, like a post box. It's like a post box where danger mouse lives. That's right. That's a good example. It's a great example. And everything else is like a hallucination. Okay. So he can be...

But I think the baby's real. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like, maybe that's him. Right. And everything else is like... So he's not the whole lot? I don't think he can be. Okay.

Yeah. Well, you're making a lot of assumptions. But if you notice, like, whenever something happens and the whole room encompasses you and you're gooey and you're wet and you're being pulled upon and things are smashing. Oh, my. perfect day off. Yeah, exactly. And then often you'll snap too.

Yeah. And it's all not there. A tropical drink. Yeah, you have a tropical drink. It's gooey. Getting pulled off or whatever. And then you snap two and it's fine. You're in a clean space.

But sometimes there's like a thing buzzing around that can kill you. Okay. And that's him. Right. But everything else is like... You don't think he could possess everybody in that car? I don't know. Okay.

Maybe. Maybe you can. But also, here's the thing as well, though. I think when I was like a teenager, I'd be mad at this sort of thing. I'm like, what's the rules? Yeah. Tell me what the rules are, explain them. I need a scientist to be like, well, he could possess up to six beings at once and blah, blah, blah, blah.

But I'm like, that doesn't really matter. No, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I think so. I think it's better to not explain it. Yeah. Because then the other ways you're going to be like, wait a minute, but in this scene. But it's interesting to think about it.

It is interesting. Are they, were they a real family at any point? Yeah, well, exactly. Because he does take on like, he does take on the look of people that he has killed or interacted with. Because Maddie gets in this car and then these people seem normal initially but then they get increasingly deranged.

And the mum is pregnant and then they all start chanting together and then the mum gives birth instantly and bloodily to a winged baby with two heads. Spoilers. And it's freaky. And then I'm like, boy, be weird if they kill the kids straight away in this show.

And they do. And they do. Well, again, spoilers, but the kids in episode one, how you think are going to be like the new losers club. Yeah. In a way, they are big losers. Yeah. Because they were all murdered in the cinema.

Big time. Yeah. So, you know, I think, although that was like a really interesting kind of twist on, like, oh, this is going to be the crew that. Because they did seem like. Yeah. And some of them will be. Yeah.

Some will come back, I imagine. But also you see their backstories and see their families and you're like, oh, well then. And they're investigating. Yeah. obviously they're going to be, you know, we're going to be seeing more of these people because we've seen so much of the backstory

and then bam, chewed up. Big baby comes out of them. Big baby. I like how the baby comes out of the screen and it's bigger because it came out of a movie screen. I thought it just got bigger. That's stupid. It's been eaten.

That's stupid. It's been eating steaks and milks. Maybe it's been eating steaks and milks. I think it's pretty brutal. I think the special effects are really good. Yep. Yeah, I think there's like an element of like Freddie Kruger to this.

like a few like bedroom sequences which are quite frightening and Freddie Cougar-esque. There's a skin lamp and a birthing sequence which is pretty horrific also. We also get another subplot we've got a couple of bros and they're in the

Air Force and they've come to Derry to work on this completely normal facility where they're doing stuff in Derry. What is going on there? Stranger things stuff. Man, they're doing a stranger things in there don't go in. Yeah. Just to be clear, sir, you're here to participate in the Stranger Things.

We're doing a Stranger Things here. This is a Stranger Thing Zero Origin situation. Something that nobody's talking about the last few weeks is Chad Powers. Oh yeah, I keep getting advertised that. I see a big Billboard ad for it. But I've only said in the trailer, but in the trailer he's like, I'm doing a Mrs. Doubtfire but for football or basketball. I think it's football, yeah. And you're excited about this?

No, I'm not going to watch it. No. It feels like a premise that would work for a movie. Yeah. But they've dragged it out to. six or eight episodes or whatever. Well, that's welcome to Derry, isn't it, Mason? Not really.

I think there's a lot of story here that they're working on. So, yeah, there's this government facility that's trying to, they know something's going on in Dairy. Yeah. And there's been, I saw some speculation that this is a version of Project Arrowhead, which is what they do in the mist. The mist. They open up a portal and then a bunch of terrible stuff comes out.

Great. Yeah. And then it ends well for everyone. Yeah, and the government are trying to, they know there's some kind of fear-based, energy system happening in this town. Like Monsters Inc. Like Monsters Inc.

And they don't know what it is. And I thought, oh, maybe there's like, maybe they're looking to like the crashed meteor or a spaceship. Yeah, maybe that's what they're looking for.

Is that how Pennywise got here? Yeah, he came via meteor. Yeah. Through a portal. I don't know. And there's a turtle. Turtle stuff.

I don't think that, I don't know if they're going to win this. There's a turtle in this. His nemesis is a turtle. It's a turtle. It's a turtle. It's a turtle. The universe is on the back of the water?

Yeah, it might be. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think that's all really interesting. And one of the people who work there is a young scatman Crothers who... Zibba-da-bap-da-pap. Correct. Who's in The Shining.

Yes, right. He's Dick Halloran in The Shining and also Dr. Sleep. Yeah. Yeah. And so that, I mean, all the stuff, people, I mean, people know this, but all the, a lot of Stephen King's stuff is, like, connected. Like, it's all the one universe. Through the dark tower. Through the dark tower and whatever and so on.

But that's how it's explained in one of his books. Through the dark tower. There's a dark tower. Yeah, there was a movie, Idris Alba or whatever. Yeah, it was one of my favorite. But I also like that there's a guy that they've brought to this town who has no fear. So what does... And we've seen that like with Pennywise, if you don't fear him, then...

You can beat him up with a crowbar. He can still kill you. Yeah. But he's a harder time. Yeah. He'd have to turn it on a big spider or whatever. Yeah. You know?

Yeah. But if you brought a shoddy, yeah. What's a big spider going to do nothing? In the original movie, they like tip the spider over and they pull all its guts out. Do you remember? Yeah. And that's pretty good. But I think also this setting in like the 1960s where it's, it's supposed to be, oh, this is like a, this is a place where racism no longer exists, you know, well, it's supposed to be that.

I'm sorry, it's obviously not that, but it's, but this is a town where, like, there is, like, clearly racism or indifference and kids are mean. And then on top of that also, like, there's a clant. It's like a killer clown. It's just like, like, layers of terrible. Yeah. But I don't even think that, like, you know, because there's, they haven't really dealt with. too much into the race stuff and then they will further on

but I think there's just people are under this fog of like they don't care do you know what I mean like they're just they're indifferent to everything whether good or bad they're just like I don't know

whatever yeah yeah cool I like it I like it too I think it's good I think it's good and I hope it stays good because otherwise I'll have to change my opinion yuck I don't want that

are you reading anything else though yeah I don't watch watching around a bunch of stuff What can you tell us? Well, I watch, speaking of horror, I read the first six issues, the six issues that are currently available of The Nice House by the Sea, which is formerly DC... You literally texted me and said, you should do this.

Formerly DC Black Label now, it's DC Vertigo, but it's the sequel to another... What's the deal of that? Rebranding, I don't know. But it's the sequel to the Nice House on the Lake, which is a comic book series we talked about for the Arab podcast, the Big Sandwich Classic Comic Booker Club.

written by James Tini and the 4th, and I'll get the rest of the credits here, but it's a sequel to that. And I shan't be spoiling too much of it, but if you want to read this new one, you should read the first one as well. Do I think I should reread the original one? Yeah, absolutely, yes.

Are there any returning, like, characters and stuff? I shouldn't say, James. You could tell you right now. I shan't be saying, James. You could easily tell me it to be the easiest thing you could do. James Tini in the 4th and artist Alvaro Martinez Bueno. So the first series, a nice house on the lake, is about an eccentric man named Walter,

and he invites 10 of his friends to what is apparently his family's nice house on the lake. It's lovely. And some of the friends he's known since high school, some he's only known for a couple of years, some of whom know each other very well, some are just acquaintances, but he's brought them all there for a specific reason and it might have something to do with the end of the world.

Might. And in the sequel, it's a similar situation. There's an eccentric woman named Max, and she is invited 10 people to a nice house by the sea. Come on, man. So in the first series, all the individuals, they sort of, each of them's kind of an archetype. There's like an author and there's an artist and there's a person of faith and et cetera. And in the first series, they're all kind of like just misfits and they're not successful. necessarily or what have you but in the new house everybody is like the top of their game

like there's a million selling author and there's a musician who's like a taylor swift style super megastar and etc so it's a different it's a different setup okay and you go and we we sort of dive deep into what their deal is and why does that mean they have like a better understanding of what's happening maybe they do james maybe they do yeah but it's very i think it's a very A couple of series, I think they're very compelling. Okay. And I think it's an interesting, because you read the first one. I loved it.

I mean, I think I'm wondering whether I should like wait. Yeah, we'll see that's, so the first... Just so I can just read it all, not because, oh, what if this gets bad? Yeah, but the first, the first series was two blocks of six, and this is the same. So we're halfway through the new season. So, you know, I don't think it'll get cancelled, but you never know. You never know. Oh, okay.

I'm going to check that out eventually or now. That's right. Well, that's everything I've been doing. Oh, I got one more thing. Let's do it. I watched a movie called The Mastermind. I think I mentioned it last week. Let me check this.

It's directed by Kelly Reichart. It's got Josh O'Connor in it. Because he said you were going to go see it. And then I did. Dude, this has got a big Rotten Tomato score, and that to me tells me it's quality. When you say big, do you mean? 91%. Interesting.

Which is the same as the movie big. That's so true, isn't it? So it's set in 1970, and it's a lot of, and it's about... God, it looks it. How do they nail that book? It's the same with Derry. But you've, like, in you seeing it,

like this feels like... Oh, 100%, yeah. Cool. So it's set in 1970, and Josh O'Connor plays a man who is a carpenter. Is he a Brit? No, he's American. He's American?

That's right. Is he Brit? He isn't real life. And he hasn't got a lot of work, but he's married to Alana Heim. They have two kids, two boys. and he doesn't have a lot of work but he doesn't seem that concerned

because he spends a lot of time with him and his family they go to the local art gallery and he's got a big plan secret, just his secret, to get a little crew together and steal four paintings out of the art gallery.

It's interesting. Some would say this movie James is quite ponderous or a little bit and some would say it's very slow. and boring but I thought it was interesting

so Kelly Reichard who directed this I'd say she does like genre stuff but she has a little twist on it and what's interesting about this movie is that the heist is sort of done and dusted within the first half hour maybe and the rest of the movie is just kind of the consequences of it it's kind of like a guy who didn't really plan this out

all the way and now he has to deal with like law enforcement and local crime and his family finding out and the repercussions of that. So it's not like, and he got away with it. No, and it's kind of, it all, you know, this looks really good. The, the, there's probably a bunch of different interpretations,

but to me it felt like a guy who just decided to blow his life up because he's just to feel something. Yeah. Because it's such a, like, it seems to be such, like he was doing well or okay. He's just doing fine. He could just get some more carpentry work, but he's just like, I'm going to do this. Yeah.

And there's like reason, like you sort of learn the reason further up in the movie. Yeah. But it's just interesting. And it just seems like such a dreary life in 1970s small town America. I'm just like, well, yeah, you would. Yeah. You would rob a, you would rob a local art gallery and be like, I don't really care what happens after this. Whatever, man.

Cigarettes are cool. I can just do cigarettes. Cigarettes are cool. Are there cigarettes in it? Yes. Is there cigarette acting? Cigarette and mouth acting. Yes.

It's my favorite type of act. Yes, because of the acting or because of the cigarettes. Both. Wow. That sounds amazing, honestly. Yeah. Give it well. I might check out because I...

But again, I saw that at the Nova. Yeah. So you can't leave. Well, you could leave. What I'm saying is, you know, it's a movie... They won't let me leave. Yeah, that's exactly right. It's a movie we should sort of lock into it.

You know, don't... If you're on your phone, you're going to tune out, probably. You mentioned some of her other movies. Yep. Which are the ones have you seen? So I've seen... I've seen the movie Certain Women, which has Michelle Will Williams and

Laura Dern and Lily Gladstone in it and it's sort of an anthology movie about some women and their lives and sort of how they interact and it's quite funny and there's a movie called First Cow which is a sort of a heist movie but it's set in a cow

yes it's sent in the cow no it's about it's set in the past I think and it's about they're going to take you back to the past exactly okay that's all that's good and it's about a couple of guys We want to steal a cow so they can use the milk

to start a pancake business or something like that? I actually haven't seen that one. Oh, okay, right, yeah. I don't know, man. I don't know, man. Movies are good, aren't they? Sometimes, yeah.

Also, I might see Bugonia this week. Oh, yeah. I've heard good-ish things. I've also heard goodish things, so I'm going to give it a whirl. But I like Yorgas Lanthamos and those other guys. You like him, hang out all the time?

Yeah, hang out all the time with best friends. Yeah? What's his favorite snack? Is it Salary with peanut butter? It's some sort of Eastern European thing. Oh, okay. Salary with Panopin. Exactly, but with an Eastern European twist.

Solana's on the top. That's correct. It's called Ants on a Log. Yeah. Eastern European style. That's right. Great. Those are all good recommendations, Mason.

Great recommendations. You've what a level of class to this show, which it often lacks. Yeah. Because I'm trying to bring it down. You're bringing it up. That's right. So we meet somewhere in the middle. It's competing theories of class and arse.

A-R-S-E. And C-L-A-R-S-E. Correct. Correct. Should we move it along? Let's move it along. What, though? It's letters.

Yeah, it's letters. I said. Whoa, too much of a pause there for me. It's not my fault. It's the Wi-Fi. Oh, are you connects with my Wi-Fi? Yes. You son of a bitch.

That's right. That's not free, you know. It's free for me. Yeah, it is free for you. It's not free for me, though, is what I'm saying. Okay, but it's free for me. For you, it's free. Yeah, yeah.

For me, it's free. And what you don't know is I've secreted dozens of phones in this house and room, and they just play the letters theme on silent all day. Secreted. You have secreted them. Okay. That's right. This is a great segment.

It is a great segment. I agree with you. If you do want to reach the show, you can email Mason at weekly planetpot at gmail.com. That's right. Or every week in the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates Facebook group, there is a thread. Yes. And you can give us your thoughts in there. Give us your thoughts.

Give us your thoughts. It's free. Unless you're using my internet In which case it costs me money Mason So if you do know where James lives Yeah And if you need to know

Let me know and I'll tell you You'll secrete a phone in here for you Just stand outside his house Yeah And connect to his while I'll give you the password Oh my goodness Mason what do you got in terms of letters this week

Here's some emails Okay From Michael Michael I've been watching since middle school Now I'm nearly 30 No We don't have middle school here

No we have school We have primary school And then we have taller school tall school. And then we have little lunch, a big lunch, as we've established. And we have drink taps. Yep. And we have, um... Lunch orders. We have lunch orders. But I don't know about the process, but it's more complicated than what it used to be. I'm well aware, James. Settle down. Settle. I didn't even do anything. I didn't do anything. I mean, the court orders would suggest otherwise. I didn't do anything. All right. Are there any specific storyline, this is about Marvel, I think.

Are there any specific storylines you want to see adapted that haven't been? For me, it's Abnett and Lanning's Nova storyline. The character arc Richard Wright is in that is so perfect for the screen. That's interesting because Nova is one of those characters. They've been talking about that for ages. We thought we were going to, because they had the Nova Corps in Guardians the Galaxy 1 and that hasn't been, we haven't seen nothing. Yeah.

I guess there's some like pretty iconic like X-Men storylines that haven't been adapted. Phoenix saga? You want the Phoenix saga. Again, yeah. I just mean more just like school-based stuff. Your school stuff. It's going on. It doesn't have to be like an end of the first.

fucking universe thing every time, you know, there's a lot of... I would have liked to see Cassandra Nova, the sister of... Prox. Prox. But of course, they did that in Deadpool and Wolverine. Yeah. Just through that character. I mean, they still can.

Yeah, they still can. It's true. But it's a way more impressive story. Like the Grand Morris's new X-Men storyline is way more impressive. That is a... Yeah, that one's good. That one is good. Yeah.

Is that the one with Professor. Staffer ahead? Yeah, Professor Stafford. That's a very good comic. Is that the new X-Men? That's New X-Men? Yeah. What, anything else?

Marvel DC. Bloodshot? Any bloodshot story? I mean, how do you... Well, they've done the definitive bloodshot story where he loses his memory. That's true. He has to do a bloodshot on everybody.

That's right. Guy pisses like you'll never do a bloodshot on me, bloodshot. I'm in control of the bloodshot situation syndrome. That's right. Yeah. And then bloodshot's like, but what if I... What if I fully became bloodshot? What if I figured out?

And Guy Pearce is like, oh, I didn't anticipate that. How did you do that? How did you do it right now? I remembered. I remembered my wife. Or kids. And I got mad. Look, I don't fully remember.

And then I fully embraced being Bloodshot, I think. I think. And I fought a guy, he was a mech. He was a meck man. I don't think that's true. He had like a meck's armsuit. And they tumbled down an elevator shaft or whatever? No, you're thinking of...

The movie Bloodshot, I am. I think of aliens, I think. No, I could show you a fucking video of a right now on my phone. Well, I wouldn't look. I'd look away and you'd waste your own Wi-Fi with that. I've already downloaded it. I'm not going to waste it. It's ready to go.

Anything DC, perhaps? I was just going to say, I like, I mean, the old man-ish universe. I don't like it at all. Really? Because I think like there's some... Like Old Man Logan, old man. No, I mean, we did like... Not just that, there's others.

I know, but I don't like any of it. There's like, you know, there's Hawkeye one, there's like Deadpool, not Deadpool, there's probably Deadpool, there's, there's like a Star Lord one. Yes. Which I like. I think, but do I want to see that necessarily? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah.

I think that's something you do in like 20, 30 years with some of the actors from now. You know. Jack, but he's 90. Yeah. Yeah, great. That's right, exactly. Even though again, they did, old man Logan, sort of, but not really. Yeah, sort of, but not really.

But now, there's plenty of time to do it again. any time to do whatever. I mean, Batman Predator Mason. Oh, hell yeah. We'll never get it. No, we can't. No, we can't?

No. Well, I mean, eventually because eventually there'll be one media company, so. Yeah, that's true. Oh, God, that's going to be good, isn't it? It's going to be good. God, let me think. I feel like there's, I can't think of a specific example, but there's stories of things where I'm like,

oh yeah, you could do like a, you don't have to do a different version of a thing you've already been doing. I think Spider-Man's a good. example of that where like we've got a lot of not always but a similarish spider-man stories there's other things you can do with that you know there's like superior spider-man like that's interesting but i don't know whether they'd kind of go down that road ever yeah but um yeah i don't i don't know do you i think they're going to do this in the next movie but i've never read this comic i've heard it's not great but the avengers versus x-men but then do i really want to see that

i don't know yeah not really do you do you care about especially stop you know what stop versing everybody. Yeah. I would like to see Heroes Battle villains for a change. Dude. I'm sick of, I'm sick of, oh, who's going to be, who's going to Captain American fight Wolverine? I don't want them to team up. I would agree with that.

I'd like them to team up and fight a villain. And then I would perhaps like the villain to escape and fight another day as opposed to getting beheaded or whatever. And then we just never see them again. That's good too. I understand that you can't always get the one actor over and over again. Can't do it. Just recast them. It's fine.

Yeah, the thrill of being like we're making this person fight this person in the MCU, not that interesting anymore. No, it's absolutely not. What if this person meets this person? I don't care. You know what would be good? Ultimate Spider-Man. And you get Andrew Garfield's version.

You do it that way. Do it through him. So it's an older Spider-Man. Well, he is in the... Currently, Ultimate Spider-Man is an older Spider-Man. He gets his powers when he's like 36 or whatever. You're right. I was thinking of previous version.

I was thinking of previous version of Ultimate Spider-Man. Dude, people wonder why comic books are hard to get into. Nobody's wondering that. No. Yeah. I would love that. Yeah. And you could fold it into his universe.

and maybe he never got his powers and then you whatever. And you can get Emma Stone back. You could get Emma Stone back. And your Gorgost Lantham Oscar directed. He's back too. Yeah. He's shaving everyone's heads. Shaving everybody hands on a log. Craft services. Eat the heads on the log. Eat it.

Yeah. That's what I want. There you go. And that brings it like in a lot of his villains in a way that I think is interesting and he knew and his relationship with Harry Osborne and Mysterio's like six different guys. It's great. It's really good. Yeah, he's good. And kids, he's got kids, and I like that. Yeah. That'll be good, actually. They're great.

I don't know, man. I don't know. I've done, do you like... What if the X-Men fought a different X-Man? Oh, my God. What, X-Man versus... Sex-Man? No. Oh, well. No. Don't knock it till you try, brother.

Do you like the direction that any of the Spider-Man movies have gone in the last? The last three. Oh, yeah, I guess. Yeah, they're good. I like it. Are they great? I think the first one's really good. It was a high school one and, you know, it was fun to see.

We talked about three Spider-Man meet for a minute. Yeah, they do meet for a minute. I mean, that's undeniable, isn't it? I mean, that's a cupboard or whatever. But I think the new one could be interesting because it's like, I think, because it's, you know, it's Hulk and it's Punisher and there are other things happening. So I think that, and it's, you know, he doesn't have all the stuff that we've seen in Peter Parker, we might have him necessarily see anymore.

I think that's probably what it is. It's just like, just have him be Spider-Man. Yeah. tired of him having just settled in all the Ironman stuff oh yeah well these Iron Man he died don't worry about it everyone lost their memory it's fine did they

no one remembers Peter Parker or Spider-Man you can do what you can take it in any direction God they better not reboot him again I think they should reboot him again yeah I think they should reboot him yeah well this is from Joshua says in your prey commentary oh yeah big sandwich dot co there's a prey commentary

you mentioned that the new matrix would have been better as a secret sequel and other movies and other movies would copy the formula if successful. So you said in that commentary that Matrix Resurrections.

Resurrections if they marketed it as like a rom-com or something. Something else. Something unrelated. You put Carrie Ann Moss and Keanu Reeves in a movie

directed by Lana Wachowski. You say, we're doing this. Re-teaming, it's fun. And people, a lot of people are like, well, if it's not the Matrix I'm not going to watch it and some people would

and those people would be rewarded. And I think that was sort of the point of Matrix Resurrections. It'd be like, we're not going to serve the people who just want bullet time and shooting and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. And I think that would have, but again, if I were a movie executive, I wouldn't be one for very long because they would find me. You also get, for having too many good ideas. Yeah, exactly.

You'd also get, I guess. X-Men versus X-Men, that'd be good. Don't not because you try it. It's from what I've heard. I don't know. But there's a twist in seeing the first matrix. You don't know what it is, and then it's a revelation, if you will. And you could almost, it's almost like a replication of that.

Oh, it is in a way. Yeah. But anyway, this person, Joshua says, do you think that worked for split being a secret sequel to Unbreakable 15 years later? I didn't really have split on my radar until I read about it being a sequel to Unbreakable. I wish Shock Studios haven't been trying this route more.

I didn't know Split was a sequel until I heard. Yeah, I haven't seen Split at all. Then Bruce Willis is in the post credits and he goes, oh, I'll stop Split or whatever. That's right, because I'm unbreakable. I'm unbreakable. Don't drown me in a puddle in the next movie. Did that work? I feel like that worked, right?

people got people excited did get people excited yeah yeah and it's a pretty solid movie but i guess also the problem there is is that instantly it would go around the internet like it's i feel like in when the first matrix hit in a trillion years ago people word spread in real life yeah there weren't a million clickbait websites and social media and all this sort of stuff to immediately go this is look at this yeah whereas i think if you attempted something like this now like the thing that I suggested. Yeah. I think the day of, it would just go over every...

Do you think, though, but like you said, like it does reward people who... Who could say that were there first, I guess, yeah, uh-huh. But that doesn't... Pedantic know. But that doesn't translate it a big, big... But then does that over time? Does that get people? I mean, Split made $278 million on a $9 million budget.

That's crazy. That's really good. I mean, also that's the thing, though, is that we also exist in an environment. Maybe I think they said this in the commentary. We exist in an environment where... everything is predicated on the first opening weekend. Yeah. So, yeah, maybe it would build to a big, you know, a big box office total if it were allowed

to be in cinemas long enough to do that. But a lot of the time, they're just like, it gets three weeks and then it's out kind of thing. Yeah. One battle after another doing very well, apparently. Yeah, it's his biggest, it's his biggest box office thing ever. I don't know whether it's going to make its money back probably not. What do we care? What do we care?

What do we care? I don't care. No. I don't care. Shut up. Yeah, shut up. Shut up. The budget is between 130, $175 million and it's at $190.

I mean, big budget, yeah, for this kind of movie. But that, I did not think it would make that much money. No, no. Yeah. What's next, Mason? Here's an email from Jesus. Wait, Jesus. What?

Wait, Jesse. What? Their name is Jesus, spelled the normal way. Yeah. I would assume it was Jesus. No. And then they've said at the end, wishing you both the best Jesse from California.

So, I don't know, this is a mystery. California and Jesse. That's right. Hey there, Mason and James. Jesse from California here. I learned something interesting about my parents this year. Was one a carpenter

and the other one, whatever? Yeah. Mary? A Mary? You're just reading from your Bible there. I am. One was a carpenter or one was the, whatever. Whatever.

It was a donkey and I don't know. Three wise men. But anyway, sub-heading here, how nerdy are your parents? So I learned something interesting about my parents this year. When I took them to see the new Superman movie, I found out my mother hates Superman

and believes Batman is a better superhero. She mentioned that in every movie she sees the Superman. He always gets beaten up and barely wins any fight. The conversation went into who's my parents' favorite hero is and my dad picked Toby McGuire Spider-Man and he thinks the other two are not as good. What are some of your parents' favorite superhero movies? Here's something I learned about my parents recently.

They've never seen Star Wars. That tracks. Does it? For your parents. I guess it would track for my parents. They're always reading books. They do read books. But I think it's interesting.

But I think it's... They just missed Star Wars for 50 years. The idea, when we've talked about this as a gag, the person who's never heard of... is unaware of Star Wars. Doesn't know what Star Wars is. I'm like, surely they've seen it once. Yeah.

Because they would have been... Even by accident. Yeah, they were young. They didn't take you to A Star Wars ever? No. No, because when the prequels came out, you were old enough to go yourself. Correct, yes.

Yeah. Yeah, but that's... I'm like, wow, all right. I know my parents have seen Star Wars. My parents are more... They don't care, but... Yeah, my parents are more pop culture clued in, I think, than I would have thought a few years ago.

Like, I had a conversation with them. I'm like, oh, I saw Frankenstein. It's got Jacob Allorty, and they were like, oh, from... Succession? No, he's not in succession. Are your parents more pop culture savvy than I am? Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Honestly, most of my family is probably certainly better at film criticism than I am. I think my sister would be better at film criticism than I am. They have a certain class that you lack. Thank you. Thank you. Or, like, I mentioned the mastermind. And I said Josh O'Connor's in that.

And they were like, oh, you should watch a show called The Dulls, where he's... Far out. He's in that. He's looking at it's an ITV show about this family. It goes to Greece. Damn. No, my parents would never. They do watch a lot of, like, BBC dramas.

And it's like, it's a special detective who's a special man, but maybe he's got a dead wife and he's rude, but he's a hell of a guy. What are they called? Sweater mysteries or something, yeah. So they watch a lot of those. Do they have Britbox? I don't think so. Interesting.

They have ABC. They just raw dog on the ABC. I don't know what they're watching. My parents are nerds, but they're not about the stuff that I like. Yeah, yeah, like trains and trains and my dad likes World War II. He just liked the concept of war. He loves it. Yeah.

Like my mom has very niche and special interests in like certain types of like art and whatever. But whatever. Yeah, whatever. So yeah, I, my mom also collects a bunch of stuff, which I think my brother has the one that you don't like more than me. but they do have that kind of need to like collect and... I think everybody has something. Yeah, but which is different. Yeah.

Like I think everybody has a collector's instinct of some sort. Sure. But sometimes it's just like information. Yeah. But sometimes it's like cars and it's like, well, that's more expensive actually. It is more expensive. What are you, Jay Leno? Yeah, what are you, Jay Leno's garage?

What are you, Jay Leno's garage? What are you, um... David Letterman's Letterman's Letterman jacket collection. Exactly right. Yeah. That's right. What are you, Conan O'Brien's collection of Conan the barbarian figurines? He also has a jacket collection.

Oh, yeah, okay. What are you Jimmy Kimmel and whatever? Whatever? And just whatever. Yeah. What are you Jimmy Fallon and a collection of Fallon over onto your bottom? How many of that could he possibly collect? Don't you think he's had enough?

I reckon one a day. What a day? That's right. Dude, his coxick would be fucked. Well, that's what he likes. He's got it when he goes to the club. meetings he can show everybody a club meeting of people who fall in their bottoms is he the president or is he just in this group he's just in the group so there's a there's a hierarchy yeah jimmy phallad is

in the middle of it i guess is he working his way up or is he happy to just participate why does he have to work his way up james i don't know well that's why it's an ego thing is it might be an ego thing but yeah sometimes you just want to be part of something and you don't want to run it necessarily that's true that's what i'm saying yeah yeah is he laughing or is he like i'm in pain i don't know Because I have Fallon on my bottom yet again. Adam Corolla is a collection of Toyota Corolla. Anyway, let's move on. I tried to think of another late-night host, but I couldn't think of one.

Wow, that's good stuff. Was that your question or mine? That was yours. That was mine. Quentin says, Is there anything you consider nerd homework that you feel you need to get around to? My favorite example of nerd homework is the Wheel of Time Books, which I absolutely adore. nerd homework is off-putting to me

how do you feel about that like coming into like a thing that's exist for decades plus a lot of anime like that is for me I'm very happy to say if a conversation starts with it I haven't seen that what's tell me what's good about what do you like about it that's interesting yeah but like wrestling we've talked about

like I'll never I just never will you know things like that yeah maybe I should branch out more. Maybe I should be like your parents and enjoy culture that you don't even know about or whatever they're doing. Exactly. Secret culture. Parents' culture. Craig Ferguson and his collection of Sarah Ferguson merchandise. Oh, really? Fergie. Fergie? Yeah. All right. I think you collect that. Do you think she knew anything? Yeah. 100%. They still be in prison. Agreed. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. All right. His mom or email James. I think that nerd homework thing speaks

to like, sorry. Sorry, just quickly, that Doctor Who kind of failure. Yeah. Right. Like what you were saying, like decades of just fucking stuff happening. The Americans are just like, no. Yeah. Yeah. Every time I open the app and Doctor Who's been mentioned, it's like, what about the Rani? I don't know, man. We don't know, man.

Yeah, just leave it. We don't know, man. It didn't work. Start again. We're going to start again and Doctor Who's going to travel time and space in a bin, all right? Because they destroyed the set. Yep. Yep.

All right? Yep. He lives in a bin and he's, instead of having a different. outfit every episode, he wears apparel. That's interesting. Yeah. Every time he pops out of the bin, does he have a banana skin on his head? Maybe a banana skin, maybe like a tin of tuna tuna and the lids come off. So it's like a little top hat.

Oftentimes there's a crashing noise and then a cat yowling. Interesting. Sometimes he comes out of the bin and he pulls out a whole fish skeleton out of his mouth. This is cheap too. what you're describing is very simple very simple yeah you know and then the master's there this is budget friendly yeah he's got his own bin yeah that's right his bin's got wheels yeah he's more dangerous and they crash together in an alley they just run at each other in an alley okay what they do pins on the head so they can't see run at each other yeah crash into each other yeah

but they scream for the fate of the universe for the fate of the universe yeah yeah I think that's important. I agree. Let us be the showrunners. Keep this Russell T. Davies out. You think we can't do it? We can do it. We just did it now. We just gave you a free episode. First one's free. Second one is $199 million. Correct. Which is a million

cheaper than what Disney goes. Reasonable. Very reasonable. Yeah. Go on. One more email is from Mitch. Mitch. Hey James and Mayso. I'll be visiting Melbourne this following weekend for the first time ever to go to a concert. I wonder if it's oasis. I wonder if it was

oasis. Also, we've missed your remark because we're Yeah, I didn't go to Oasis, but I did go to Crowe Dead House. Oh, Crown Dead House? Yeah. Didn't go to Ricky Martin? No. Did you? We're the home of culture, Melbourne.

It's true. Namer Culture. Ricky Martin. Perfected it. That's right. Camachino. Perfected it as well. So double perfected.

Laneways. Perfected. Need some work. Yeah, no. Too much graffiti. Wow. Don't like it, Mason. Clean up.

Clean up your act. That's right. Laneways. Yeah. Yeah. Although, we do need filming locations for the the new season of Doctor Who. That's a great point, actually.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn, you're right. Leave it as is for now. The Doctor and the Master can grab a flat white and then create together in bins. Flatwhite's balanced on top of the bin? Yeah. Great. Yeah, that's right.

Go on, though. But I've got a day and a half spare from the time we land into the show. So, uh, we've missed it. Just wondering what comic book pop culture stores you recommend visiting that isn't Zing. What's a good one? Oh, All Star Comics. Yeah, that's a good one. Go to Allstar Comics.

Yeah. It's a good if you like, like, lots of like, collectibles, and stuff as well. Minotaur's good if you want to be like, do you have this? And they're like, no. We're out of stock. They love that.

Yeah. Do you have this comic? We're out of stock of all the comics. Yeah, we don't have anything. We have manga. Yeah. Minotaur would be good for manga, I think. I think so, yeah.

And a statuette. And a statuette. Of a skeleton or whatever. Yes. But the other one, you said, All Star. It's probably, that's more comics, comics.

There was a place called Comics A-R-R-R-Ass, but I don't know where it is now. We'll never know. I've moved it, yeah. Okay. Anyway, do that if you didn't, which you haven't because you've gone now. Does it either maybe? Unless you enjoyed Oasis or Ricky Martin or a cappuccino.

That's right. Or a laneway. Need some work. Mason, this is from Luke? Yes. Does Australia really not have hot dog buns? What? I don't know where you heard that, but that's...

But yes, that's correct. This is one of those things that has occurred because someone is half listening to the pod. Yep. We've said something that is a lie or a joke. Yeah. Or you have... Or you misheard and we said nothing like this. Or you heard it somewhere else.

Or you said, or you... misheard what we actually said, which is actually we have an insane surplus of hot dog vans. We're drowning in them. The hot dog bun guy visits every day and he dumps just a crate load at your door and you're like, we don't have any more room. Come on, man. And he's like, too bad. The government made too many hot dog buns.

We need those, we need hot dog bun and disposable bins, disposing bins. That's right. Yeah. So I don't know where you heard that, Luke probably from us. Probably. But. No, we got them. We got so many.

I got so many. My kids ate them. We got so many hot dog delivery breads. systems. That's right. Yeah, it's crazy actually. Probably got more than you guys. A baker's delight does like a hot dog, like a baked hot dog and like a little roll and it's got some thoughts on or whatever. Oh, is this because

if you go to a sausage sizzle, they give you a sausage and bread. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's true. A sausage in bread is better than a hot dog. Agreed. In my opinion, humbly. Well, here's the look, this feels like ground we cover every few weeks. Dude, but I don't like a standard hot dog. You know, the ones with a pink

skin, they boil them or whatever. Yeah, yeah. Yuck. But like a nice hot dog. Yes. Like any kind of like... Go out of your way. Put a little effort in. Like a, like any kind of like, like a brat worst, anything like that.

That's a good hot. That's a good, you know. Well, like I say brat best. Wow. I maybe technically that's not a hot dog. I don't know. I mean, Germany, you know? Yeah, just like a nice, yeah.

I'm with you. Yeah. There's no one's coming up against you. No one's rubbing you the wrong way here. You're firing up about nothing. You're always going on your little rants. Settle down. I'm furious, James.

James. I won't lie to you, James. I tried to manufacture a furious rant on the scale of your school lunches ran, but it didn't work. I don't have the passion for it. That was a reasonable, it wasn't even a rant. That was me, honestly, at 110% fury. Jesus, Louise's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Watch out everyone. Oh, well. Is that the show? That's the whole show. In the lead up to episode 600 next week? That's right. Can you believe it? And a little special, a little special preview for next week, regular episode. Same show. Same show. We didn't get as far as we have by doing special anything.

It's not an accident that it's the same. Yeah. It's by choice and laziness and design. That's right. Yeah. Mason, wrap us up. Folks,

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