The Weekly Planet - Troy - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: July 9, 2026

We continue our epic and cinematic journey towards Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey by taking a look at a second inspiration behind his adaptation. This time it's Troy from 2004 from director Wolfgang Peterson. Loosely based on Homer's Iliad and the story of the Trojan War it pits (pun intended) Brad Pitt's Achilles against Eric Bana's Hector, Orlando Blooms Paris against Brendan Gleeson's Menelaus, a city of stupid people against a horse and a whole lot more. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' 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.

Much like Odysseus himself, Mason. Go on. We're making our way through the Odyssey. No, through... This isn't the Odyssey, James. You Ignoramus. This is the Iliad. You nincompoop.

You Malacca. It's the other one. This is the one with the horse. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's... I mean, honestly, the Odyssey might have a horse in it. I don't know. Well, I know there's a big horse popcorn bucket, so that the very least must be a horse in it.

There's probably a reference. There's probably a sweet reference. There's probably a point where Odysseus is like, boy, remember that time. That I was near that horse, probably. And I was Sean Bean. Yeah. And everyone in the audience can go,

that's an Easter egg! That's right. That's an Easter egg. Yes. A Trojanic. Yeah. Except it's full of blokes instead of chocolate and whatever. I simply wouldn't have fallen for that.

Absolutely not. Straight up, straight up, we're jumping a little bit of a head in the narrative here, but I would simply have not have fallen for that. I would be like, there's guys in that. Or I'd be like, okay, let's bring this into the city walls. But first, let's get 100 of our finest men to do their finest farts into it.

See, that goes, into this clearly empty wooden horse, you know? See how those guys like that. Try and trick us,

we'll trick you. With farts. Pranks and farts. Anyway, this is one of literature's greatest sagas. And you've fixed it. I think I fixed it,

yes. Please leave it like because we're looking at three movies that Christopher Nolan used as inspiration for The Odyssey. He ripped them off.

He ripped them off big time. What's interesting about the one this week is Troy is that he was originally hired by Warner Brothers to direct it. Here's our Christopher Nolan quote of the week. Here it is. I was originally hired by Warner Brothers to direct Troy. Wolfgang, as in Peterson, had developed it,

and so the studio decided not to proceed with his superhero movie, which was Batman versus Superman back then. You probably saw a poster for it in I Am Legend. Oh yeah, that's right. He wanted it back, and at the end of the day, it was a world that I was very interested to explore, So it had been at the back of my mind for a very long time, certain images, particularly. How would I handle the Trojan horse?

Maybe what you did. Sure. Real intellectual, like. Yeah, yeah. Things like that. And as a result of that, Christopher Nolan was offered Batman Begins as a consolation prize. That's a shame for him, isn't it? Yeah, I know.

Wow. Also, surprise to me, this was Wolfgang Peterson. I'm going back into this, I'm like, I'm excited to watch this fine film by Ridley or Tony Scott. Or the guy who directed Russell Crow Boat Gladiator. Absolutely. This is Wolfgang Peterson, who directed In the Line of Fire, Outbreak, Air Force One, The Neverending Story. Not part two, though. No.

Das Boot. Das Boot. Which stands for this boot. The boots. Here it is. What do you think of this? It was a bit arty, you know? Yeah, it was a bit.

So, yeah, Wolfgang Peterson directed this, and it was written by David Beniof, who was, of course, one of the GOT boys. What are the GOTBros? Yeah. He was also offered the chance to direct a gladiator, but turned it down, which is kind of why he ended up doing this. And then it was directed by Ridley or Tony Scott. That's right, exactly. Which is essentially a non-mythical retelling. Yes. Of the Odyssey. No, James. Again, you are acting like a real malacca right now. In a way I am. But you know, I like about this movie? What do you like about it? Well, the number of things. It's a real teeth movie where most people

have real teeth in it. Some real teeth and some real guys in this. You better believe it. There are Awesome clip-on earrings. This is what Amazon Prime X-ray trivia told me that they're like, some of these earrings that the people are wearing are clip-ons, which was not accurate to the time. There's a lot of shit that's not accurate to the time. No, no, it's just the earrings. So, yeah, this is based on the myth.

So a lot of the locations are based around real places, but the scale is bigger of what is historically known for this time. They kind of make it more ancient Egyptian in terms of scale, of temples and whatnot. And also this, you know, they also maybe take some liberties on whether or not the battle of Troy ever took place. Was there a big horse? Or was it just an earthquake? Amazon trivia.

Wow. That's right. Damn. This Amazon trivia sounds like it really took you out of the entire movie. I was always clicking on that x-ray button. Oh, you did it on purpose. It wasn't just giving you pop-up messages. No, no, no, no.

Do you remember that video hits kind of, this is unrelated. Pop-up video, yes. Of course I do. Of course I do. It's like that essentially. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. This was Blind Melon's only video.

in fact they were the band and not the song. Anyway, so the story of this, there's a piece. That little girl exploded. That little girl went on to explode later in life. The girl dresses a bee. She exploded. I didn't know that. That's true. Pop-up video told me.

Oh. So the story of this, yeah, it's basically... How did that wooden horse get inside that place it shouldn't have got in there? They brought it in like a bunch of malaccus. Yeah, they dragged it in. But the story kicks off, of course, because Orlando blooms Paris. Yes. He steals another bloke's wife.

That dog. She's willing, though. She's like, this guy sucks. I'm coming along with it. Well, the other guy was a dog also. Two dogs, yeah. Two dogs. Two dogs fighting over a bone.

Yeah. One is an oily lithe dog. That's right. As in Orlando Blue with his guy linder and his slippery body. And I like that Eric Banner is just a typical older brother who's like, you stupid idiot. I cannot believe you did this. You fucking dummy. You goose.

You duffer. You dag. We're all going to definitely die now, including me, you absolute fucking moron. But I guess you're my brother and I have to do this. Yeah, the one of the most famous, maybe not real wars of all of time, just over some sort of tiff. Yeah, that's right. Embarrassing.

Yeah. And Alando Bloom's, because yeah, he's doing a good deal because he is rescuing this woman. He obviously. That he wants to have. But there's also that element of it. And one of his ideas is to stop this inevitable war is that they're going to run away together and he can hunt deer and rabbit. Mate, you do not have that in you.

What are you talking about? You don't have that dog in you. He's talking about no palace or no servants. Mate, mate. But also a monthly allowance from dad. That's right. That's always coming in. That's being delivered by, you know, a footman on a horse.

So, yeah, as a result of this, also, we've got the character of Achilles, who has to be drawn into this war by a fluffy, mulleted Sean Bean. Also, he loves fighting and killing. He loves fighting and killing. He'll do it for free and for fun. Right. He does not care. I think it's a really great opening for that.

character, it's just Brad Pitt openly insulting a child, not out of character, by being like nobody's going to remember your name, I'm Brad Pitt. That's right. Yeah, I'm going to have a special body part named after me. The back of the leg. The tendon. And he just loves doing a big jump and a stab in the neck. Oh my God. What I mean, you've got to have a signature move. If you want your legend to spread, you've got to have a signature move. Oh yeah. And his is the hop and stab. Hence his name, Achilles Hopp and stab. That's right, yeah. I mean, he looks, he looks fantastic. He looks golden with long hair and lithe, would you say? Yeah, not Lando Bloom live, but he did go through a very strict regime, regiments.

Yeah, yeah, all that chicken and fish. He gave up cigarette smoking and all of that. Do you think everyone went through a regimen? Do you think everybody on this cast went through some sort of amazing regimen? I think Peter O'Toole probably did the 300 workout. Peter O'Toole recently just come off Supergirl, 1984. He took a 20-year hiatus after Supergirl and he's like, I'm back. Great cast in this.

Oh, yeah. An incredible 2004 cast complimentary. Yes. Not only do you get... Garrett Headland. You get Garrett Headland. You get Sean Bean, as mentioned, Brendan Gleeson and Brian Cox. Damn.

Most movies, you'd only get one of those guys. Yeah. All three of those guys? Yeah. You kidding me? Ridiculous. Julian Glover is in this. Donovan from Last Crusade.

Oh, what's he doing here? He's just standing around, being like, oh, don't. He's a GOT boy as well. He is, it's true. Who else is in this? Rose Byrne you mentioned, Diane Kruger, early on in her career. This is her first major role because they wanted an unknown actor for Helen because it's like, it's this unknown beauty that nobody's ever seen before.

They were even thinking about not casting her because they're like, how do we get a woman so beautiful? Exactly. I don't know. Just be like, just get a pretty good looking person. It's fine. Every other actor, you know, the known actor's got, you know, baggage and you'd be like, oh, Pamela Anderson, I've seen her and stuff. Exactly. I saw barbed wire. I've seen VIP, you know.

She's not Helen of Troy. No. VIP couldn't launch a thousand ships. I beg to differ. But carry on. Nathan Jones, who's Rictus Arectus in Fury Road, is in this? As a guy who gets hopped and stabbed. God, he's a big bloke.

He's not involved with being hopped and stabbed. No, absolutely not much. Eric Banner also. The only true Trojan in this entire car. Hey, you are not wrong. Right? I love Eric Bader. His family's Croatia.

Yes. Which is, I looked, James, I looked it up. Croatia is a mere 2,233. kilometers away from Chenacal, which is where Troy... Perfect. Yeah, so that's... He definitely had some family here. Just drive 21 hours and 56 minutes on the E-70.

And you get from Croatia to Turkey. And you know Eric Banner would do that. He loves his car The Beast or whatever? He does. He definitely do it. He'd do it. He's a Saints fan. He'd definitely do it to go and watch the Saints,

lose another grand final. That's right. What I love about the Eric Banner character in this, who I think is the best character in this... Agreed. Is that he's just... He's so just matter of fact. I hate this.

I can't believe I've drawn into it, but I just have to do it. One guy at one point's like, well, I think we're going to win this war because I saw a bird holding a snake and he's like irrelevant. Fucking bullshit. We're going to win this war because I run up to a guy and I stab him right through the chest and then I just sort of wiggle the sword around a bit and then they stab him again with it. That's how you win wars, not with birds and sticks, all right? Well, sticks, yeah.

Yeah, some sticks. Get some sticks ready. The bird was right about that part. So there's a moment here where Orlando Bloom's like, listen, I'm going to solve this war. I got us into this. Allow me Orlando Bloom to get us all out of it. So his father gives him the fancy sword of Troy and goes,

listen, this has got the spirit of Troy in it. And I'm giving it to you. Don't leave it at a bus stop. Or just drop it on the ground in a big fight. Look, also, if I was Orlando, Bloom, I would use the sword that I had always used, the one that I had trained on. Absolutely. Right? It's like when you get somebody else's laptop and you're like, oh, it's the wrong size.

I don't like this. Of course he lost this fight. So it's Paris versus Menelaus. Brendan Gleason's character. Correct. Such a good fight. It is a good fight because... Really pathetic.

Pathetic. And also you're like, okay, well, Orlando Bloom's going to go into this with youth on his side or whatever. But then Gleason's just like, I've got a huge hammer and stuff. I'm just going to wreck you. Like he's got the, like, I thought that was really effective. Like, he's got so much weight behind him and like, the weight of experience, but also like. Physical weight. Big weapons and stuff.

I mean, Eric Banner even tells him, he's like, just run around a bit. Yeah. He'll puff out. And he can't even do that. Eric Banner, I'm just going to interchangeably say whatever their names or characters are. He knows immediately in that fight. He's like, fuck, this guy's cooked. Yeah.

Like, this is over. You are piss week. as we say in Troy. And Croatia. Yeah, you were a piss weak Malaka. So just run around him. Run around him until he gets absolutely puffed. Yeah.

And Brian Cox is just having the absolute time of his life watching this play out. And then he comes cowering back to Eric Banner, older brother stuff, of course. He's like, all right. All right, do the thing where you do the big stab through his chest and wiggle it around and then stab him again. Thanks, big bro.

Yeah. I like how he goes back to how. And he's like, oh my God, I'm such a coward. And she's like, no. No, you were pretty brave, actually. No, you were brave, but I would like a husband who's alive. I would like that. And brave.

Yeah. Also, I reckon that stab through the leg he gets, that'd kill him. Yeah, for sure. In this era? Yeah, definitely. You're kidding me? Absolutely. It's got 10 minutes left.

Yeah. If that. Yeah. And Brad Pitt, who's been in this movie the whole time, because he stormed the beach at the start, Normandy style. He doesn't want to do it. any more stabbing. He's like, I've had enough doing fighting for Brian Cox.

Even though I love stabbing. My mum said, if I come here, I can do so much stabbing and I'll die. I love stabbing so much, I'm going to go. But he's out of the war until, of course, Eric Banner kills Achilles, but it's not really Achilles. That's right. Garrett Headland

had to leave this movie because he had to be in a Tron movie six or seven years after this. And Brad Pitt left the fountain. Yes, he did. to do this. Yes. So Hugh Jackman. Could be the fountain.

He became the fountain. He could explode into flowers. Yeah, that's right. Blump. That's a coin being thrown into Hugh Jackman. Blump. I like that moment where Eric Battershitz himself when he realizes it's not Achilles.

It's like, oh, time of trouble now, aren't I? Well, time to do a big stab into a guy's chest and then wiggle it around a bit. But for mercy this time. That's right, yeah, yeah. Some also theorize ancient historians and people who believe in myth and whatever this is. What about YouTube guys who don't know anything?

What do they think? Like us? This is what we think. Some theorise that Patricklis and Achilles were actually lovers, and that was part of it. I don't think they're necessarily cousins in certain stories or whatever. Kiss and cousins. But also in this era, they could be kissing cousins.

This was an era of people doing that. For sure. Yeah. This was Elvis's time. You know olden times? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, kissing cousins. Yeah.

But that brings us into probably the highlight of the movie. It's Hector versus Achilles. The Achilles is back in the war. That's right. Jump and stab versus just a regular stab. A sturdy bloke. Who's going to win? Plus, Achilles has those cutouts on his shield.

I love that. And it's spinning in the... Love those shields, man. Again, you need that signature move. The choreography in this is so great. It also is those two actually doing it. They rehearsed it all out. But first of all, it's okay to shoot Achilles with arrows when he turns up.

That's fine. That would be fine, wouldn't it? Yeah. Completely acceptable behavior. 100 arrows. You got 100 guys. They were doing those farts earlier. No, later.

Yeah, yeah, later. All right. Maybe they were saving their fives. Yeah, that's right. But just have him shoot 100 arrows from the parapet. Yeah. He'll die. Yeah, absolutely.

Even if you just scratch him a couple of times, he'll get tetanus and he'll die. Definitely. There's a moment just before where Peter O'Toole says, No father has ever had a better son. Sick burn on Orlando Bloom, by the way. That's right. It's true. So, yeah, they had this incredible battle.

So Brad Pitt and Eric Banner, they didn't use stunt doubles for this, but they made a gentleman's agreement to pay for every accidental hit. So $50 for a light blow and $100 for a hard blow. Brad Pitt ended up paying Eric Banner $750 while Eric Banner didn't pay him anything. Also, a little bit unfair given that Brad Pitt has been famous for quite some time at this point. It has a lot of money. And Eric Banner's just done The Castle and Chopper at this point.

Like, what do you? Stupid idea. Come on, Eric Banner. What are you thinking? Of course Brad Pitt's going to hit you a lot. You can afford it. It's lunch for him. But Brad Pitt's really better at hitting women and children than he is grown.

men. That is true. Allegedly. Well, there's also there's multiple... We have to say allegedly. Yeah, there's witness statements and whatever, but yeah. There are allegedly. Do you want to know the real story of this battle though? Yes. So in real story, in mythology, Hector

waits outside the city walls to face Achilles and then Achilles chases him around the city three times before Hector masters his fear and turns to face him. That's fun. It sounds like he just got puffed though. Yeah. Speaking of also, I was going to say, if I were Hector in that situation.

Yeah. I'd be like, hey, all my friends and family up on the, up top of the city wall there. Bit of tools up there. Could you just not look for a bit? I can't fight Achilles if everybody's watching it. Right? I can't. I can't do my...

Turn around. I'll tell you how it goes later. Yeah. Bad. I also think a lot of Achilles' is killing is because he's the only one with good cardio. Yeah, probably. I mean, who else is looking and running like this guy? Nobody, right?

Agreed. He's probably got an ancient. Greek treadmill or something. I don't know. That's right. It's being run by slaves underneath. Also, after he kills him, he tells Peter O'Toole, look, he was the best I fought. Which feels like a humble brag, because even like the best guy that anybody has ever sent at me, I pretty easily dispatched him. That's right.

Yeah. Barely broke a sweat. Of all my Achilles-Killies, he was my favourite Achilles-Killy. Hashtag Achilles-Killy, everybody. Because again, you've got to get the branding in there. Absolutely. And Ben loves hashtags. It's true. We all do. Everyone does and they're not out of date at all. That's right.

They're not an anachronism a la clip on earrings. No, no, no, no, no. Anyway, I just feel like it's worth mentioning the Peter O'Toole. He comes in with some hot kisses for Brad Pitt to be like, giving my son back. Why are you dragging him around for? I don't like that you've done that. Notorious pants man Peter O'Toole, by the way.

That's right. Michael Gambon once described him as a god with bright blonde hair. And Sean Bean was in... The only blonde man in Britain. They called him. That might be true. An unfair advantage. Sean Bean was in awe of people.

Peter O'Toole, he said the first time I met him on set, he was in a robe with a cigarette holder and he said, Sean, how are you doing, dear boy? He was just how I imagined him to be. Me too, actually. Yeah, absolutely. Apparently he didn't like this movie, Peter O'Toole. Yeah, but, you know, British actors, they don't like anything, but they'll be in everything. That's true, yeah. I feel like after this moment, though, after that battle, and sure they had the big horse, the movie kind of, it kind of loses some momentum. Well, that's a historical epic, isn't it? They didn't know how to write in a Nothing. A bunch of idiots.

Oh, then he ran around three times. That was symbolic. Shut up. Have them fight. Like in Hollywood. Yeah, that's right. A beach. Yeah. So the Greeks leave the Troyes. But they leave this giant driftwood horse. Which is probably, you can probably physically see heaving because of all the men breathing inside of it.

It's obvious. God. At least Orlando Bloom has the presence of mind to burn it. Burn it. Also, they were all. sick? You think they have the plague. So what do you... There's no scenario where this is a good idea. Best case scenario

it's full of plague blankets. Also, it looks like shit. Yeah. Yeah. I'd say, and they're like, no, we've got to bring it into one of the gods. Burn it for the gods on the beach. Yeah, that's right. Just leave it. Shoot it with arrows for the gods. You know what? Sort of roll it towards the ocean.

Roll it towards the shoreline and tip it over into the water for the God's. See how that empty horse feels now. They would love that. They would love that. God. So yeah, to all the guys get into the city because some of them are in the horse and whatever. Yeah, sure, sure. Brian Cox gets his comeuppance from Roseburn.

Well deserved. And damn, Achilles gets shot through his Achilles. How ironic. How ironic, probably. Yeah. Fate or destiny also? Probably, yeah. Obviously, you know, the mythological explanation for Achilles is his mother dipped him in Asterix's magic potion. She dipped him by Astrix's magic potion.

She oblixt him. But she held him by his ankle so that's the only part that wasn't covered in magic potion, and that's why he's vulnerable there. But like, in this situation, the story told wouldn't be, oh, yeah, he got shot in his Achilles heel. The only place he's vulnerable. It'd be a normal man got shot like four times in the chest, and that killed him. Because that would kill anyone.

I think the myth, though, started because he pulls out the arrows except for the Achilles one. Oh, I see. Okay. Okay. So forensics afterwards is like, I guess it's that ankle arrow that killed him. Yeah, that's right. I mean, they were doctors of the day. And by doctors, I mean, there are also butchers and probably sold fruit and also, I don't know, probably ran a brothel.

That was how it worked in this era. That's right. Yeah. You want to buy a carpet? I'm a doctor. It's got a dead body in it and I killed him. For medicine. So there's no real magical gods in this story, it seems, right?

It's all just people. Except for the magic of cinema. Sure. There was a lot of that in here. But, like, if Brad Pitt was magic and had a magic ankle, he would have definitely... A ankle. ankle. He would definitely have rolled his ankle prior to this by doing one of his big jumps. Probably, yeah. Because he's got a big

invincible body, but a very obvious weak point. Oh, that's true. And if he landed wrong on, he would just snap his ankle. Yeah. I guess you'd know him on the battlefield because he's wrapped a bunch of blankets and pillows and stuff around his leg. Here comes Achilles. Clunk. Clunk. Anyway, pretty good movie. I think so. It was kind of... Good epic battle sequences.

Yeah, it didn't... How much of that is CG assisted, do you think? A lot of it is real. There is CG extensions. Because there's so many guys. They built the wall of Troy. They built that for real. They got knocked down in a hurricane.

They had to rebuild it. Like a lot of it is practical and real and all of that. They got real armies to show up and wave sticks and whatever. That's cinema. Yeah. Anyways, I know you want to know a lot of behind the scene stuff here, don't you? Absolutely. You know I'm a fan of the X-ray button.

Then good. It's time for Trevoy. Love it. And you might be like, whoa, Troyvia was right there. No, it wasn't. You're right. It wasn't there. I didn't think it was there either.

Good. Brad Pitt only did this movie out of contractual obligation. According to him, he said, I had to do Troy because, I guess I can say this now, I pulled out of another movie, which was the fountain, and then I had to do something for the studio. So I was put in Troy. He said it wasn't painful, but I realized that the way that movie was being told was not how I wanted it to be. Yeah.

And his salary for this movie was $17.5 million. Oh, all right. So he can lose $750. dollars to Eric Banner. Eric Banner could not have afforded to lose that money at this point. Agreed. He'd only just been barely the Hulk. He'd lost so much money on the Beast, on building the Beast.

And then he rolled the Beast, he crashed it. That's right. He did really. Oh, okay. Yeah. Brad Pitt actually also tore his Achilles' left tendon during production. Oh, how ironic. How ironic.

Or fate or whatever. Brian Cox actively pursued this role and he beat out Ben Kingsley. And there's a fun video of him recently where he's talking about this movie and he's He's just like, damn, that Brad Pitt is so hot. He's like, I'm not gay. I'm not gay, just to be clear. But damn. But we were Greeks in the olden times or whatever.

Yeah, whatever I was, yeah. Eric Banner actually recommended Rose Byrne to Wolfgang Peterson. They're both hosies, obviously. Yeah. I mean, she's not Trojan. No, it's fine. She's wherever Burns from. It's probably Irish, I don't know.

Yeah, probably. Yeah. And this was a huge hit. And Warner Brothers had a few plans in mind. One of them was for a science fiction adaptation of The Odyssey in 2008, with Brad Pitt to produce and George Miller to direct. This, of course, never happened. Because George Miller was developing a Justice League movie, which also would never happen.

Oh, that's right, Justice League mortal. Very busy on that. Yeah, but then he did Fury Road eventually. That's an incredible movie. Agreed. And they should make another Mad Max movie. Nobody ever will. But if streamers are giving out $200 to $250 million for whatever.

Yeah, just whatever. Why not $100 million for something? If they're giving out 200 for whatever Just whatever God He'll get it on Tooby I'd love somebody to allow him to do something He's got plans for like one more thing

Yeah One or two more things Yeah, give him that Just let him do Australian government What are you doing? Well, a number of things Oh yeah

They're doing all that stuff they do Oh yeah Okay All right Just flashy up whatever Yeah Maybe the next government Whoever gets elected

Yeah Maybe they can do it. No, we're due for a really racist one. You know that. I do. We've got a slightly less racist one, which means the next one's going to be really racist. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyways, box office, on a budget of $185 million, this made $497.4. Pretty good. Big hit. Big hit. Big movie. Was it big movie?

Big historical epic movie. Yeah. Yeah, again, mixed reception at the time. I remember enjoying it. Yeah, same. I've always enjoyed this movie. And there is a three-hour plus extended cut, which I didn't watch for this because...

Because this one's already two hours and 45 minutes. Well, that, and a lot of people said... And apparently they cut out the Josh Groban song at the end. What? Yeah. Josh Groban? Yeah. He maybe went out with Vanessa Carlton.

I don't know if that's true. I just feel like they came up at the same era. Do you know what I think about this? No. Is it true? That the song... Is it the song A Thousand Miles might be about somebody she went to... Yeah, I think it might be Dennis Reynolds, actually.

She went to Juilliard with someone she was like... Anyway, yeah, it might be Dennis Reynolds. Might be Anthony Mac. Oh, okay. He's Captain American sometimes. That's what I'm saying. Anyways, do you want to hint towards what we're looking at next week? And do you want to see you that early? Yes, and yes, is it gods of Egypt? Yes, it is. As a bit of a joke. We're having a bit of joke. Not a joke real. You know, what is real? And the movie is technically real, if I remember correctly.

Yeah, I can't wait. Yeah, yeah. It's an Alex Proyas classic. But we are going to have to fake some sort of quote where Christopher Nolan says he was somehow inspired by the movie Gods of Egypt. Mason, you're not going to believe how fake that quote's got to be. It's going to be so fake. You can actually say that early a few ways. You can go to big sandwich.com. You can go to patreon.com slash Mr. Sunday movies. We're also doing YouTube memberships here now for early videos.

What does that mean? It means you can sign up if you want and you get bonus videos and you get early videos. And there's stickers and badges and all that stuff. I don't understand any of that. Just the videos, all right? No, I'm in it for the stickers and badges, quite frankly. Well, then they're all there. You can have them.

Have you seen the back of my denim jacket? Yes, Mason. Everybody knows your weird sticky jacket. Good, that's my signature move. I've always thought of that as my Achilles. Sticky Jacket. That's not the only thing that goes on in those places. There's early videos because we do the likes of video game let's plays.

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Are we going to talk about The Odyssey when that comes out? Don't worry about it. No, we're going to. Okay, come on, man. Come on, come on. All right, we'll do it. Okay, we'll do it. Yeah, we'll do it.

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Thank you so much to Ben for the edit. Thank you, Ben. He was really happy he didn't have to see Gods of Egypt and he got to do this. Ah, so it's Lawrence's turn next week. It's Lawrence's turn, yeah. Sorry, Lawrence. You like the big men. It's funny.

They're big men. Big men. They're not that big, but they're sort of big. They're at exactly the funny scale of big. Big men movie. Big men movie. Thanks, everyone. Grab our jammy, guys.

We'll see you next week. Bye.