Hello everyone, and welcome to Superhero Slate, This show where we run down the latest superhero entertainment news. We love TV, movies and superheroes, so let's talk it all out. My name is Chris. And my name is Daddy. O. Weird is this show is a kinky episode so far. I like it, but we'll talk about that in a minute. But this week on this episode, we're revisiting the Netflix Daredevil verse. Mike Yeah, slash mandatory now. Yeah, go back. You have to go back and watch that third season.
Yes, I think we both skipped this point. So yeah, we've got homework to do. What if Teases Gundam for season three? Mike Avatar The Last Airbender delivers a great live action trailer, which is scary because boy, do we want that to be good and more. Speaking of Avatar, it is one of the number one animated TV shows which I will absolutely be showing my future child. Yes, that is right. The first child of the superhero slate. Congratulations on the way. Yes, here I am.
I told Mike I've got some champagne. You probably can't hear the bubbles on the microphone, but I've got champagne, too. To Mike a.k.a Danny. Mike on. I think you were. I mean, I thought you were just taking me for a ride, but is that actually champagne you're drinking? Yeah, I am. It's. I'm drinking champagne right here. Well, that's great. It would. Not open. My hands are in pain from trying to open that cork, and it's totally fine. So. Fine. Well, yes.
Congratulations to you and your your lovely wife, who I will maintain I've known longer than you. Still. Yes, that's true. Technically, no longer. But if we're looking at the body of ours. The content, the content between I mean, you it's quite a library. Volume is absolutely one sided in my favor. Absolutely. But for the podcast, what does this mean? I, I guess I'll have a slightly more perspective in the future on children's content.
Yeah. Whenever we kind of talk about these, like, you know, animated properties or like who's watching this stuff? And I was like, well, probably feeding the content, but you're. You're going to be watching a lot more Disney Plus stuff that you didn't watch before. Yeah, like I'm kind of curious, just like is the Bluey Trend going to be gone by the time my child is old enough to be watching? So I don't think they're going to care.
I think once they watch it, they're not going to know if it's live or not. Mike You're going to get the same episode over and over and over again. I am going to be curating all of my child's cartoon, watching and whether they like it or not. Yeah, they'll work their way. As parents out there. How many times did you say that before? You just kind of gave in because that didn't work? yeah, I know. There's probably lots of people rolling their eyes right now.
They love your optimism for sure, but little by little, do you know Chris Felix has a lot of children's content on it that you can maybe get a head start on? right. Yeah. Well, I would have to say the timing is going pretty well here. it looks like our delivery from the stork is going to be sometime around August. So it seems like before my life changes entirely forever.
I seems like I'll be able to get Deadpool three in there, which is nice of Marvel to really only put one big movie on the schedule in the year of, of our child's first birth. So that was very convenient. And then I got to imagine I will be off the show for a little bit, trying to figure out like, how do I keep this thing alive mentally? I was preparing for this as well. I was like, you know, we're going to be recording some weird hours probably starting in August.
And that's perfectly fine because, you know, as as a as a show that's more of a hobby than a job for us. I feel it be pretty pretty a good exercise after ten years of recording to, you know, shake things up a bit, a little bit for both of us. Yeah. Not to mention I would be just down the hall from from the from the baby's room, from the nursery, if you will. So you know how sometimes listeners, you occasionally hear a cat yelling behind Chris and being like the shriek of a child?
Yeah. Or, or, or your wife maybe just yelling in frustration. One of the You never. Know that damn podcast. Yeah, absolutely. But yes, again, congratulations on on everything so well. Well, if you guys know Mike personally, reach out to him. I will. We'll share everything from the show, how you can reach out to him at what life or life rewards risk. I think there's a contact form where they can reach out to. Yeah, maybe a social channel for that. I don't know. I don't know how they get PDF.
There's a PDF you print out, then you sign it and then you're gonna have to get your own stamp. So I can't tell you how to do that. P.O.Box, you have a P.O. box, you have your boxes. well, all right, so let's, let's dive into what you've been doing. Other other than celebrating like a mad man, what else have you been up to? Yeah, what a hard pivot from one of the biggest pieces of news I'll have to announce in my tire life, too. Like. I've been watching some TV.
Yeah, there's a there's a, There's a show on. I guess it's. I don't know if it's a max original at this point in time. I don't remember where it started. That's a show called the other two. It's pretty funny. It's about these two siblings that are struggling in their careers and they're their youngest brother. Just happens to basically be the equivalent of Justin Bieber. So essentially their lives are totally overshadowed by this megastar that lives with them.
But they're all just kind of it's like like a like nonsensical, just like awful people, like floating through the entertainment industry. The only reason I bring it up is because we're watching the final season in season three right now. And there is a really funny guest spot where the mom, the matriarch of the family, is so incredibly famous she can only date like super powerful people. So she's dating seemingly ill and they keep calling him Marvel, seemingly.
And he appears in, I think, the seventh episode of season three. And it's just like really, really funny. So if you just wanted to dive in and watch, like one random episode on Max, it would be a season three episode seven. So there's a whole funny bit about where they make a fake Applebee's on a soundstage. Fucking Applebee's. Why is it always, always come back to Applebee's on the show.
And they hire they hire extras to play all of the other people in the restaurant because they're trying to give somebody like a normal, like birthday dinner. And all of the extras are just saying peas and carrots. Peas and carrots. Peas and carrots. And they're just like, I got to get rid of the peas and carrots. Everyone's raving about them. And then it descent into madness.
It's like, Have you noticed everyone around us is saying peas and carrots, but nobody's eating the peas and carrots, so it's just really funny. So go check that out. But also, I finally got around to watching the latest installment of the Mess Impossible franchise, Dead Reckoning, which I believe is not called Part one anymore. I kept seeing those headlines the other week.
Yeah, they removed the the part from it, part one, and they're still doing a sequel, but they're I think they're going to change the name because, you know, you even had a struggle typing in the name to get this. Yeah I'm just like looking at the word reckoning. And I was like, I looks like I spelled this word wrong. Like, how often do you ever use the word reckoning in your real life? And when you do, how often do you have to write it down as well? Yeah. but in the.
In the non biblical sense I guess. But yes, yes, exactly. Yeah. But the movie's fun. The set pieces are great. The action is always fun. I watch like a big man of Recaps video where he recapped all of the movies up until this one and it's just crazy watching like Tom, Tom Cruise just kind of like rapidly. Tom Cruise.
Like he looks really good for his age, but like, man, when this movie started and he kind of like steps out of the Shadows and his very first scene was like, wow, yeah, he is looking way older compared to some of the other films that I just Speed ran there a couple minutes ago. Yeah, I like I like the Mission Impossible movies again, I think. I think they're very solid.
This one, they actually cut out there was a huge I think was a half hour intro of Tom Cruise De-aged like like reliving that scene that they, I think, essentially distilled down to like maybe 3 minutes. But they filmed like I think 30 minutes of the movie doing that, that they were going to have a big, big opening intro in flashback form from essentially the first Mission Impossible movie. Maybe they'll maybe they'll pull that in for the the sequel.
I mean, this is the first Mission Impossible movie that's like not finished in a way. It's definitely a part one because you don't get the you don't get the satisfying hero scene in the world. By the end, they just kind of completed a really hard mission. The action image action, the set pieces in this, they just keep going. Like every time I'm like, there's a big you.
We've all seen the trailer where he jumps the bike, right and gets into the the parachute and he practice and he did that in self but jumping onto the train. And then there's a whole section with the train, even beyond that that keeps going. So, yeah, I got to imagine the Uncharted Games were referenced in that final train set piece because there's a there's a portion of in one of the Uncharted games where you're doing exactly what that train does and that final act with that clip.
And it was pretty intense to see it kind of filmed in live action. There's the single thing I hate the most about this movie, though, is the personification of a computer program like I can believe. It's easy for me to believe in. I could, you know, go rogue and like, you know, take over the world, you know, computer databases or whatever it's doing. And I can even go to the the leaps and bounds that it almost has, like a personality in a way, and it's like toying with people.
But I hate it when they make it look like an eyeball on a screen because it's just like it's so cheesy to me when so much other part of the film is like kind of, you know, sophisticated in a way. They try to make it, you know, appear realistic, just like the computer didn't need an eyeball. This is it feels like very like nineties cheesy. Well, it's not even that they took 2001 a space odyssey essentially for it is the red how essentially what it looks. Like that but that is much. I know.
That is just a singular like light that's indicated. And that is and that is a robot right. Like he talks to that robot. This one, it doesn't really talk. It has a human, if you will, the human villain, if you will, the the flesh and blood and minion played by I forget his name something Morales. He he was a great actor. He played a very, very smooth villain as the human part of this. So. Absolutely. And what's her name? Hayley Atwell. Obviously, Captain Carter was a huge addition to this.
And also I never remember how to say her name exactly, but Mantis is an A as well as kind of a henchman as well. Yes. A very conflicted one as well. I think she'll be back for. The. POM Klementieff coat. Clementine. That's yeah, Yeah. I think she'll be back. I think most of these people will be back for the next one as well because it sets the stage for, for the sequel.
Yeah. But I think the best thing about the movie, which I don't feel like I recall seeing in previous Mission Impossible movies where there are pretty like funny moments where like, they're actually like doubting themselves are thinking like, God, I'm actually going to be able to do this. Like when Tom Cruise is on the top of that cliff and he's just like, You want me to jump?
I feel like Tom Cruise and every other iteration of Mission Impossible never even would have kind of like, you know, bitched about it. He just would have done it because he's a badass action star. But it's kind of funny bringing in a little bit more humanity, like when they're driving the little Fiat throughout Rome. I thought that was. Pretty. Funny.
And I don't know if it was like a creative decision to make it an electric car, but it had like, no, like vroom vroom to it just sound like a little whiny whining electric motor. So that just add a little bit to the comedic effect. And then Simon Pegg riding shotgun in an auto driving vehicle as well. yeah, yeah. Through the countryside while he was giving Tom Cruise directions. Yeah, I had a really good time when I watched it this summer.
It felt like a pretty solid action film, right, For, for, for that. Like coming off of Top Gun Maverick from Tom Cruise and then to that was two pretty solid hits back to back for me. So I'm excited for the next one. I don't know when we're going to get it, but I know Tom Cruise was mad. You know, this is what we cause we talked about last week or two weeks ago, his him leaving Paramount and going over to Warner Brothers was was this film because he went over budget.
They were like, you can't just make a movie without telling us what you're doing kind of deal. So I don't know when it'll be made. But they also released it a week before Barbie and Oppenheimer, which seems like a he blunder. Well, he you know, he I don't know if you remember, I was talking about this earlier in the year. Tom Cruise was mad that he didn't get enough IMAX time with it because of Oppenheimer's IMAX exclusivity window. So which is going back to IMAX or has been back to IMAX
due to the Academy Award nominations this season. So, yeah, I'm glad you got to watch it. I'm excited. It's like the the one you know, the one thing you can always trust in a Mission Impossible movie is make is that they're going to go rogue in. And guess what they did pretty pretty quickly. I, I actually watched this at the intro a couple of weeks ago where he there's a scene, there's a desert scene which, you know, happens pretty quick.
And then he goes and and there's a where they're talking the government officials are talking about the air raid and it's closing the impassable mission for us, which which I thought was a really fun, fun scene as well. So, yeah, I like I have no fault with the mission. I don't think I'd watch the first one again for like 96. But everything beyond that I think was pretty, pretty solid. Yeah, I would say the franchise never elevates enough to make like fanatics, right?
I don't think there's any like Mission Impossible like superfans out there. I think there's just people out there. There's like, Yeah, Mission Impossible movie. I'll go check it out. Yeah, you're guaranteed a good time if nothing else. So that's a plus. And they always seem that. I mean, I know recently it's been Chris McQuarrie has been doing a lot of. But like, you know, J.J. Abrams was in there they've had a multitude of directors, right. Kind of come in and and work on some of the projects.
So that's been cool. But speaking of 1996, Mike, you know, I always talk about this. I always like to share myself. I've been I have a wish list of old video game consoles I never had as a kid, but I saw and I always wanted. I'm like, one day I want to get one of these when I'm an adult and have my own money. And you know, there's three games on this, a Sega CD, a Sega Saturn and a virtual boy, and somehow I have manifest in all three of those wheeling and dealing trades the past week.
And I don't know how and I don't know why, but I'm going to take it because, you know, it's just it's just great. So I got a virtual boy and I don't know if you've ever had a got to experience a virtual boy in person like or not. I think I think briefly, I remember myself being at a Toys R US back in the day where they had one sitting out, and I got to stick my head in it for a second. Yeah, I was like, wow, everything's red and black. And I think that's the last thing I remember.
Yeah, it truly is. There's only like 13 games in North America that never came out for the virtual boy. They killed it within a year, but it is by far one of the earliest, I guess, consumer offerings for virtual reality that you could ever get or experience because you put it on your head and you see things in three dimensions. And the reason this red and black, they actually tried color, they said, but they couldn't get people to see depth on those screens back then.
Mind you, technology was limited to them with the red and black and everyone remembers the eye, the eye cancer you get from playing virtual boys do the red bike. And so I've got Mario tennis and I'm getting that repaired to a retro video game company that specializes in repairs, modifications, updating, things like that. But I had a really good time playing and I well, I did not know about a virtual play maker. Don't know if you knew this or not. It doesn't have a power cord.
It runs exclusively off batteries in the controller. Wow. that's weird. So like the controller, you hold it down and I think it's six days. You plug it into the controller, kind of like a regular Nintendo or Super Nintendo port, and then it just runs off that. That's how you power the whole thing. So you can literally play it anywhere you want to put up the little kickstand.
It looks like you're, you're doing something. So yeah, I'm very, very, very, very thrilled to add that to the collection and play. Everyone's like, you're just collecting these things. You're never going to play them. Like, No, I'm going to play Mario Tennis. We're going to we're going to play some virtual boy. The one thing I can't do is film, you know, my game play a virtual point because I'm like, What are you going to do just watch me with my head?
The thing the whole time going, Wow or dang. But the other part was you have requests where quest owners we have actual VR headsets, modern VR headsets. You can go to the Side Quest App Store and download a virtual boy emulator if you want to and play play it like that. So if you want to experience it and you don't want to pay for the old hardware that may fail on you, you can put it in your VR headset and give it a go. So turn that. Well, Mike, let's jump into the news a little bit here.
I'm excited for this because I know we just talked about movies that give us excited and like feel like classic blockbusters or action films in theaters. And this is for me is due in part to coming up. But I know you've not had a chance to watch part one yet and totally, totally understand. So we're not going to ruin anything for you. But part two is coming up. The 1st of March and there are early screenings. I woke up to an email this week saying early screening tickets are available.
So in February, Sunday, February 25th, a week or another week, a month from this weekend, I get to go watch this. So if you're interested in getting to see doing part two week, two weeks early, you can go check that out or get your regular tickets when it comes out in normal theater times, I mean. I think it's going to be really difficult for them to find theater space because I can only imagine after Madam Web drops by Valentine's Day, they're just going to like, we need a wider release.
I want all of the screens. People are flocking to see this film. Dakota Johnson's really moving those tickets. Bump dune out. Nobody needs Dune. Yeah, I saw the headline that said Dune two pre-sales are breaking AMC's website. That's not true at all. It was the Madame Web pre-sale tickets that was getting a kick. Can we buy that on Spirit tickets yet? I don't know, Francine. I legitimately look to the other day and I may have been like maybe a day or two too early looking, but I'm curious.
Yeah, I see the times now, but I don't see. Can I. Can I buy it? Maybe. But either way, you know, I would normally agree with you, Mike. I would say, Mike, you're right. You're 100% right. And all your theories and all your your speculations here, however, I'm going to disagree because have you seen the dune two popcorn bucket lids? Because that is what people are going to go in and buy at the movie theaters. I saw those late at night, which meant it was even later at night for you.
And I was like, I think Chris is pretty good about like kind of putting do not Disturb on his phone. So I think I can send these to him without waking him up. And then I would. I would hope that, well. Yeah, I want him to wake up and see these pop with these nightmarish popcorn buckets. Yeah. They, you know, they've made the jokes online. They essentially are Lindsay, go over the top of the popcorn box.
It looks like the sandworms with little like the little mouth, I guess like filters things or whatever. Yeah. Is it like it looks like it was like I think. It was like what Wales has. It would be like it would be like. Villi Yeah. And I think in Wales is it like it's just sort of like a B or something? I don't know, man. But you know, we all know what we're talking about.
It looks like if you seen the same ones and the Sandworms in the Dune commercials, this is what it looks like or it looks like something sexual. One of the two depends on what the Fincher on it. It really doesn't help, too, that it's kind of like flesh colored overall to like the sand, flesh color. The worm is kind of like gray. You have to put your. Hand into the word spot to get the popcorn. Like, you know, it's not even easy access to anything.
Now, mind you, you might turn it upside down and very little would fall out. That's plus. But I mean. Getting now it's going to be some work. I've seen people online that said there's a consumer products person somewhere that's going to get fired. And I say nay, yeah. When is the last time a popcorn bucket has ever made a headline? It made. Mainstream promotions. It made mainstream articles. I saw. And I'm like, my gosh, I feel I feel vindicated in all my collections so far.
So I'm debating on if I want to get the do one or not. Make sure I get to do one. you got you have to get it's like God like I don't know if the bucket underneath it is like cardboard or if it's, you know. Metal. Metal. It kind of looks like it could be metal. So you could definitely reuse it. You could put other useful things inside of there. Yeah. No. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. That's weird, but it's interesting. But I've not seen them single matter where popcorn vessel.
Mike if they if they had one that you know was maybe showed a picture of that one time her mom was in the Amazon forest before she died researching spiders maybe. But you know, we're not going to get any of that here. Why is it the Sony movies get all the good means? So there's that. And they had the morbid time for Morbius, right? Like I'm kind of jealous they get all the good means.
But anyway, Dune part two, very exciting to watch this I'm sure for those people like yourself, Mike, who've not seen the first one and they will have probably dual screenings if you want to see, you know, be in the theaters like 6 hours watching these. The last time I sat in the theater for more than one movie, I was with you in for the Iron Man Marathon. And, well, it sounds cool. Boy, I regretted that. I regretted that immensely after that because. Yeah, it. Is it is intense.
It is something that I like. I am an indoor cat, Mike. I am I live a sedentary lifestyle sometimes, you know, ten years ago, 11 years ago, probably not as much, but like, boy, that was a killer like that. Just right. So the only upside is if you're ever going to do a marathon like that, that's got to have a new movie at the end of it, you got to have something that you're working towards. It's the last movie in the marathon is something you've already seen as you're just wasting your time.
Yeah, I'm into Iron Man, I'm into Avengers and Iron Man three and I think Avengers is a pretty So I like to watch in Avengers, even in theater. That was fun. But the other two, it can take an hour left it but anyway dune coming out get your tickets very very excited for that if you don't want to go to the movie theaters and watch the movie, you can go purchase Iron Man in the Last Kingdom on any digital platform. Now, that came out this week for that.
And I just saw the news Mike today Iron Man in the Last Kingdom is the first DC movie to pass 400 million worldwide since Aquaman one came out. Chris You said it twice and twice in a row now and you have not caught your Freudian slip. no. Iron Man in the Last Kingdom. Really? It's Aquaman. Yeah. Sorry. Absolutely. Aquaman. I would asking now I'm just imagining, like, in what universe could we get an Aquaman and Iron Man crossover?
I'd be kind of fun because Iron Man would have to go out of his way to make, like, a deep sea suit, which I think could look pretty cool. Like that sounds very Saturday morning cartoon. It is. And also, like the the attitude of Iron Man and the attitude of Aquaman.
Like, I would love to see that clash on screen as well because, you know, Aquaman is not he's more bronze and brain and then Iron Man is brains over brawn So I would love to see this team up as well but absolutely sorry Aquaman in the Last kingdom you can buy it on digital platforms and it is the second most successful worldwide movie theater theatrically since Aquaman one and the closest one to come close. Come close. It was actually black.
Adam had 390 million likes. So that's just sad because some of those like, you know, the suicide squad was pretty good, right? Like that deserve to make a lot of money. Now, mind you, came out, what was it when Max was doing the day and date streaming. And things is also like it was pandemic adjacent to so. And but movies like Wonder Woman, 84 did not deserve to make so much money. So I can go both ways but absolutely congratulations.
And if you haven't watched it that now's your chance to do it. But I would say it's probably going to hit Max or Netflix in another two months or so. So if you're not into Aquaman in the last Kingdom, think I'm going to really enunciate this going forward. You can catch the Marvel's The Captain Marvel two sequel to Captain Marvel, sequel to kind of Wandavision sequel to Ms.. Marvel is now also available on digital purchase. This week, came out the same day as well.
And if you don't want to purchase it, I'm not here to dissuade you if it comes to Disney Plus on February 7th as well. So that's around the corner. I feel like a Disney Plus is going to be a lot of people's first viewings of the Marvel. Since you didn't really do a great job with the box office, at least here in the United States. I don't know how it did internationally, but yeah, check it out.
Chris and I both both liked it a step in the right direction overall for Marvel, but not like it's fun. It's a fun movie. Yeah, not a there's not any like huge revelations necessarily happening inside of this movie, but, you know, the cast is fun. There's some fun moments. Yeah, absolutely. It's Iman Vellani steals the show Friday as Ms.. Marvel in this movie. And if you've not seen them, Ms.. Marvel, you can watch this.
And that would probably give you enough juice to go back and watch it to see her in that because she's with them. But absolutely, Disney Plus, this is also I don't have this in the notes here. This is an interesting movie because it is Best Buy is getting rid of their physical media collection. So they're no longer doing steal books. So Walmart has picked up the the steelbook flak for this one and is doing the exclusive steelbook for for the Marvel's.
So can I add that to my my my collection here in about a month as well. Let's get into this we talked to this at the top show. One of our main talking points is Daredevil Born Again is back filming. They are doing a real set us. So the set one of the set photos has confirmed there's a sign the law offices of Murdock Nelson and Page which if you've seen Netflix's daredevil you will know that is the name of the law offices at the end of what, Season two maybe? Well, that's about as far as I got.
I didn't watch three, but, you know, obviously we knew that they were going to have their own law offices. He's a lawyer by day, you know, vigilante by night. But some of the street art confirms what we've talked about several weeks ago is that the character Muse will be the probably the villain for for a lot of this show going on here. And I see that because you can see his name under the the pen signature.
I didn't see that the first time because I'm like, how does this telling me muse But he signed it underneath the the picture. Or it could be you know like we we mentioned it could be also like a partial villain as well. We know that this show, we don't have a definitive live episode count of the series because Vincent D'Onofrio was recently interviewed and he was just like spilling the beans of just like, yeah, the episode count keeps getting messed with you.
I don't really know how many we're at just yet, but I got to imagine if if they originally were slotting for like 18, 18, I can't imagine it get cut by such a factor that it's down to, you know, like nine or ten. So, I mean, we're dealing with like I. Was going to say, 13 to go back to. I mean, if they're pulling someone from the Netflix era and Netflix and 13 episodes, right. Remember, per season. So I can see the minimum going to 13.
However, I still feel they're going to probably be in like that 15 range, probably, with it. But it is fun to see some of this. It makes me, you know, think, you know, this, this artwork just kind of like there's the dollar bill like they keep using the Illuminati symbol there right? Or whatever the pyramid like looking thing on that. And then the, the angry kingpin, which is the, the fiery version there, which I think was some cool contrasting artwork.
So it doesn't like Musa's working for Kingpin, though, right? It's like maybe he might be against him in this in this world. Other news, Wilson Bethel will return as bullseye in the series. Mike Which was a huge shock to me because I didn't think they they pull many more actors out of the show but I've not seen Daredevil season three. So now I have to go watch it in. Yeah, check this out. Really, it really is solidifying itself more as almost a fourth season of Daredevil.
Way more than I thought that they ever would. But I guess they're just moving forward with that idea of like, if it's not broken, don't fix it. You know, if people were liking it on Netflix, let's just keep it going here on Disney. Plus, I wonder if there's any sort I'm curious, what if any, like legal issues that they're that there are with Netflix of like are there things that they can or can't reference because you know, it was originally in the, you know, Netflix version of the show.
You know I think tire Alicia. I'm pretty sure they claimed when they came to Disney plus last year technically Marvel owns the rights to all the content and production Netflix on the distribution rights so we are we are in the clear on everything they can reference going forward. gotcha. That's good to know. Yeah. So I mean, yeah. Do I go back and watch season three or do I just watch the same recap video?
I watched a couple of years ago when I wanted to catch up on what was happening in the Daredevil universe. I don't know. It's very, very addictive to just watch these recaps, so maybe I'll just do that. I was trying to figure out maybe, you know, looking at Metacritic around Rotten Tomatoes, Daredevil, Season three, 97% on the Critic tomato meter. Mike 86% Audience score. So that makes me feel pretty good about watching it on that record. So I don't think I would have a problem going back to it.
So yeah, if you if no one remembers, the gap between Daredevil season two and Season three was The Defenders, which is something we try not to think too much about, but I think like, Daredevil gets his like, like, gets himself, like, blown up. He gets buried under the. Rubble or something, and he ends up in the Hudson River. And that's where. Yeah, well, the they introduced his mother from the comic books, Right? The sister he's picked up by the Catholic Church and brought back there.
And then the there's a character trying to pretending to be Daredevil who we find out is, you know I think bullseye from the trailers. So yeah, this is probably something if I do watch it, that's not something I need to sit and pay attention to the whole time. I can like, yeah, I can get some bite from it and, and move along with that.
But the other part of this is and also know the show will reference the Punisher Netflix series directly similarly to how the Kingpin's past was reference in Echo like, you know, pulling bits and pieces of it from there what they need to. So I didn't watch season two of Punisher either, so boy, do I have some homework to do. Yeah, we got works. I did see that if they are moving forward with Iron Fist, it will not be with Danny Rand but with a different character.
They could bring back what's his name? Dean Jones as Danny Rand, but he will not be the iron fist. He would just be more of a reference character going forward. So I saw like a hot take circulating. I don't know if it was on Twitter or somewhere else, but somebody was trying to say like Finn Jones was not the issue with Iron Fist. He was a good and I just try to stay out of the fray of internet comments. But I wanted to tell them was just like, No, he was bad too. I don't like him back.
And we try not to apply a lot of back, you know, scenes drama. But he also didn't work out or practice any of his martial arts before the show. And and you feel that he if he's the number one martial arts person, he sucked doing it like quite a bit. So yeah, you want to you want to if you can put him in a high level production, you need to, you know, hold him to a higher standard. So we'll do that. But yeah, this is, this is great. This is awesome news.
You can watch this stuff on Disney Plus and it feels like, you know, if you've not watched it now or you have watched it, maybe now's a good time to go back and, you know, revisit some of the the older shows on Netflix or not Netflix, Disney Plus now that we're on Netflix before. So we'll see how much they pull from this kind of going forward.
Another rumored report this weekend is that actress Rachel Weisz and actor Laurence Fishburne will reprise their roles from Black Widow in eight main films in the upcoming Thunderbolts movie as well. I never thought know nothing against nothing against the Black Widow film, but I didn't think Rachel Weisz would come back for anything. I think, Yeah. You know, to me, she holds herself to high end movies like artsy films. Or was it? So I didn't think she'd ever probably come back to Marvel.
But you know, money talks And Laurence Fishburne, he has he's been voicing a character's in Devil Moon, Girl, Devil, Dinosaur, the animated series. Mike. But you need to get familiar with because you're going to need to, you know, with the kids coming up. He's also been doing the if characters as well. So I think he he's a you know I think he'd be game to come back in the in the movie. Did Rachel Weisz play Black Widows, mom? Well, she trained them.
She wasn't her real mom, but they call them mother like they do pretend to be mother and father in the flashbacks. Because her version of the character was in that whatever episode. Right. I don't think she was. I don't think when they like when they go to the when they go to the town with. the, the captain Carter and the Captain Carter. Yeah. It might have been her. I don't know. It might have been, I don't know if it was or not. That's a good question.
It was not her voicing the character, I'm pretty sure. So, but not. A whole lot riding on Thunderbolts. I saw a funny, I guess only funny to me interview where they had they had a joke. I can't remember the actor's name who played the Winter Soldier. Specialist. Right on the Sebastian Stan. That's right. He was kind of doing, I think award season kind of press out there in the world.
And of course he gets asked about like Marvel and he kind of skirts his way around of, of how all these other movies are performing, because I think that was the question. He's like, Yeah, but I'm excited to go back for a thunderbolts. It's going to be great. It's going to be it's going to be a lot of fun and like, boy. Well. I mean, I think, you know, obviously his his last appearance was in Falcon Winter Soldier, which, you know, some people love, some people don't.
And, you know, very, very divided down, down the viewership line there. So, you know, I think when he played I like him when he plays the the true winter soldier. Right. Like from the winter Soldier and Civil War when he was playing that. So, you know, to to humanize him a little bit. Yeah I get he's growing he's got character but like to see him leading a team would be awesome right.
Rather than just being, like, reactionary, like to see him actually taking his his knowledge of fighting and wars and push forward would be great. But this was Rachel Weisz returning. We have Galena returning to this movie, right? Florence Pugh and then Ghost, the character you played. Guess I haven't. John came and I believe is her name will be back in as well. So I think, you know, bringing in characters from their history would be very interesting. And I, I would.
The Red Guardian as well is going to be in there. So I'm excited for thunderbolts other than century make. I'm biased with century, but I'm trying not to be as biased. But this is a very, very exciting I think it's trying to bring all these people back. But you know, we talk about Marvel some. So most of what if season three we got confirmation. We had a teaser a couple of weeks ago, a little video clip, and now we get some images that are might be related to it, I don't know.
But season three, I said I sent one picture to Mike because, boy, does this rustle my jimmies in a good way. They are. They're bringing mech suits into one F and that is just thrilling for me to see these mech suits. I know there's like there's toys for Marvel, like mech warriors or mech something you can get that monster, Like the heroes are Max and the villains are monsters. But like, looking at this, I'm very excited to see what the story is. Is it like a Pacific Rim style story?
What are they fighting here in these suits? Yeah. What? Like, how do you contrive a reason why these heroes need gigantic mechs to begin with? I'm sure it's going to be silly, but I'm here for it. Yeah, they look awesome. What if is where you get silly, though? Like, that's where you want to pull in the things you can't. You can't do this in live action. Yeah. So, you know, obviously we have I'm sure this is Sam Wilson, Captain America.
Based on the color scheme here in the next image we have and then a photon or or Monica rainbow hers looks more maybe like Evangelion a little bit in his looks more like a true Gundam style. So like hers is very sleek and his is more bulky with that. So you can check out that in our show notes. And then the next one is obviously, you know, you know, Anthony Mackie and Monica Rambeau in their respective what if art styles I don't know who the person is behind them.
I think it's just someone who works there. I don't think that's a real superhero to you. It just looks like some do. I was worried it was Bucky, and I'm like, That's not Bucky, is it? It's not Winter Soldier. So but you can check out that in our actions. And the other one was continue, I think was the clip we saw is the Red Guardian in the Winter Soldier.
And this is why I thought maybe it wasn't Bucky, because I'm like, he's right here in this clip with the long hair looking in the glass window. And then also we get to see Red Guardian versus Goliath Again, a voice by Laurence Fishburne here. So I would eye this one. I don't know what this one is about with the Red Guardian, Winter Soldier and Giant Man, but I'm I'm on board for it. It seems to be something that, again, they wouldn't do in the movies along the way.
So maybe like in 1980, like a Cold War era thing. Do you think maybe. Yeah, it could be. So we'll check it out if we get more. Hopefully we will see more of season three of what If? Then we have X-Men 97 and I think it's further along this. So I'm kind of I'm kind of interested to see when this is going to release along the way to talking about person Star Wars, the bad batch. Mike, you haven't watched the show yet, have you? No. Okay, I probably won't. Okay, that's fine.
So this is a continuation of the Clone Wars. I don't know if it was written, but at least conceived by Dave Filoni spinning out the clone Wars and the bad batch are clones with special features like defects. Season three The final season will debut on Disney plus February 21st, and they're going to do weekly releases a couple by weekly leading up to May the fourth. So which there's always a big Star Wars celebration. Meh, may the force be with you also, right?
So they're lining up to have this done right. Literally, I think the week of that coming out. And, you know, obviously this is if you're a fan of the Clone Wars, this is a return to the animation and art style. The final mission, if you will, looks like for the bad batch here, because we don't see them in live action. But I will say one of the parts about this is there's a return from Clone Wars eras.
And if you watch the trailer, you know, this is obviously no spoiler because in the trailer, Mike is the return of a sarge Ventress in this and she has a yellow light saber which is unlike her. yeah. I was clicking through the the trailer here. She has hair that was confusing for me. Yeah. So you've got hair in your service. So some time has passed.
Obviously, she was betrayed by Count Dooku, brought back to life by the death Dathomir witches, which are, you know, a huge part of the upcoming Thrawn thing. But, like, it looks like she's left all that behind and is, you know, wielding a yellow lightsaber. And I don't know if she's fighting the clones or if she's fighting with the clones or whatever. So very cool to see her return back to this, this world.
I don't think she's she's not a Filoni creation as such interest was also one of the guy who did Samurai Jack. I can't think of his name. Tarkovsky. Tarkovsky, yes. So he she debuted in his animated version of the Clone Wars in 2000, I think three or so. Any, any, any, inclination to return to this and watch the whole thing. Now, this wrapped up on it's done or are you just have to do a recap video? Mike Like I was saying earlier, this might be prime recap material to me.
Yeah, I'm excited to see what what it's going to, you know, obviously it's not going to lead in anything in particular, but, you know, with Dave Lenin's higher position as a CEO at Lucasfilm and the I wouldn't say insistence, but like there consistently returning back to this art style for further shows, right? We have this, we have Clone Wars, we have this. We also have Tales from the Jedi that's in the same art style.
Do you think they're going to announce something like a new ongoing series or another mini series similar to Tales of the Jedi kind of going forward? Well, it makes you wonder if that Star Wars what if actually gets off the ground, what visual style that they're going to go with? Yeah, I would love I love to keep this stock going up. I love looking at this stuff. So that is a good question to see if it is tied into Star Wars, what if, which we talked about in last week's episode.
So if you have not listened to last week's episode, tune in and I'll be there. Let's shift gears into Sony and Sony. We we were laughing at him earlier with their Mormon time. And, you know, Madame Webb and how successful that is going to be. Right. We're very excited to all go out, watch it. But one of the things Sony continually hit us out of the park in their Spider-Man universe is their animated projects right into the spider-verse and across the spider-verse, both huge successes, huge wins.
And one of the rumors came out, this is Sony is looking to develop an R-rated movie based on the character Spider Punk from those I guess a second series across the Spider-verse in from Sony Pictures animation. Now, I imagine, Mike, if you will, this is going to be only in the spider punk art style, which was that grungy, was it magazine cutout style thing, kind of look like a people who were in their quote unquote zines back in the day from from the punk rock era.
So is this something that would tickle your interest? I mean. Daniel Kaluuya was a good, good actor for it, too. I mean, amazing. Part of the second Spider-verse movie. It seems like a lot for my eyes to take in an entire feature in that art style, which was very kinetic. There was a lot going on there. I mean, it looked gorgeous, obviously.
I feel like any sort of thing that Sony announces, like spin-off wise or adjacent wise that has like a spider character in it, I'm just like not holding my breath. Like even the first Spider-verse movie that came out, we kept hearing about how they was going to do like a spin off of like Spider-Man, which I think didn't even happen. In a short that a short video for it.
Yeah. Yeah. So it's just like I feel like these ideas pop out there a lot, you know, they've I know this is like live action, but they've been talking about like silk forever now, and I haven't seen anything come to fruition. They had silver and black. That was, that was shut down like the week before they were start to filming. Remember that. Yeah. So yeah, it's, yeah, it seems like anything that is relatively close to looking like a spider character on the big screen never happened.
So I'm just going to file this and I'll believe it when I see it. Yeah. Again, this is rumor. This is not this is not a confirmation from Sony, so I'll put that last. There's a rumor. But if I was to look at across the Spider-verse or any of the Spider-verse movies, I would not have put my money on spider punk to be this. Obviously, he was a great now he was, you know, all against the system that he had that, you know, kind of anarchy vibe going on.
Like I could have I could have more felt like, I mean, hey, we're going to do a Gwen movie or Hey, we're going to Peter B Parker movie, or maybe even in Miles is Universe a prequel to that Spider-Man that was voiced by Chris Pine, right? So I would or maybe even a Miguel, you know, Spider-Man 29 nine film this is not the one I would have picked to do it because it's going to be if they do go through with this and I feel animation has a stronger success rate over Sony than than live action.
Like you mentioned, this is not an easy style and replicates colors black and white. It is changing way more frequently than any of the other characters kind of going on. Also too, like the magic of the spider-verse universes all of the the crossover, the fun mashing of styles and characters.
You know, I'm not saying a writer couldn't write something interesting in that world, but I feel like the audience would be trained going into it, going like, Well, where where's all the other spider people? Where's the universe hopping? You know, where it's like this extra factor that we, you know, been immune to. I come to disagree on that because, you know, that's the sort of what comic books are, right?
The single characters, they can do the one offs with that but this is an R-rated animated film is going to be even harder. Sell, right? Like the animation usually. And usually you make it to get kids to go see it, right? You're going to animation. It's already going to have a lower, you know, audience draw for most animated films and then make it R-rated and put an even bigger barrier up. I think you're going to have a hard time seeing some success on this.
And Sony doesn't do streaming services. They license all their stuff out. So it wouldn't be something to draw people to their Sony branded, you know, Spider-Man streaming service either. So I'm just sure if they do it, great. I'm sure they will do a great job. They've not given me any reason to doubt them in the animated world yet. But of all the things that can be rumor and are picking, you know, stick with Alberto Mato, right? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm pretty sure that was canceled.
They're supposed to come out like two weeks ago. I don't know if you knew that or not. The original release date was like two weeks ago when they announced it, so we didn't get that. But yeah. Anyway, we'll keep you guys press. If this rumor becomes any more of a rumor or closer to reality. Superman I keep Jane's guns just all over the place. Mike With social media debunking things, not debunking things. So, you know. Stern whatever, whether he's doing.
I was even seeing more articles as we were coming in here about this. But James Gunn confirms that J.J. Abrams Superman movie is still a possibility. And I don't know if you remember this movie about being the the the Black Superman movie, origin movie that they were working on years ago at Warner Brothers. So apparently that's still an opportunity, a possibility. He is. James Gunn did say it's unrelated to the Dceu if it did come out and it would be an elseworlds like Joker and the Batman.
Do you do justice? Do you do that after all the hype for this one Superman movie that the entire DCU is writing on? Like. Yeah, it seems weird. Like, like al-Haq. And back to what I said months and months and months ago, like James Gunn just put the phone down and get get to work.
Like, I'm like, I'm not saying it's keeping you from getting your work done, but you're just putting too many mixed, not even mixed messages out there, just like you said, stirring the pot, Like just leave the pot still until it's ready to eat. You know, like like, like we really we really we don't need you popping on social media and giving us updates on casting or whatever. You know, it's not. Just make an official announcement. Like that's what Yeah, like.
The rumors are going to mill around no matter what. Like it is fun every once in a while to see him come in and debunk stuff. But it's just like, dude, like your station is like so above that now. Like, you don't need to worry about all of this. Like, just like, I don't know, go, go to some, like, miraculous, like, island in Fiji and sit in a cabana and light something. So. So here, here is where I, where I sit with this one. I got two things. One, this is not going to happen.
This Superman movie will not happen from J.J. Abrams. At least not, but not anytime the next five years, which is when they give the DCU time to either fail or or succeed, either one is possible. And two, you know, not saying that normal people would see this news, but, you know, average, you know, people of users of social media who don't who fall for those IE movie posters will, like all their favorite actors, are going to be in this new movie next year. Right.
And you ever see those social posts? And it was like, my God, I can't believe it. It takes everything, my being to say no, this is not real cause I hate crushing people's hopes, but I'm like, This is obviously fake. Like, this is not real. Just just do a Google, but like, you're going to confuse people by saying, Yeah, I've got Superman.
And no, we're also doing another Superman, even though they're probably not doing it right like the you tell you on your well you always use Mike's mom as a as a, you know, a reference here. Yeah. Barometer. Yeah. So like, hey, Mike's mom, are you going to go watch James Gunn, Superman or J.J. Abrams? Superman And boy, she's going to be like my favorite cat meme currently where she has ha kind of like people just don't know, right? So don't like mentioned don't.
This is a situation where you don't need to poke it with a steak. Don't even stir the pot. Don't even bring it back to the top. Let it cook at the bottom and then when it's ready, bring it up. It's like when you're reading like a like I feel like it's usually like a rice recipe. It says like, put the lid on and don't lift it up. No matter what you do. Leave that lid on. Just just let it cook till is done. Don't. This is this is very, very early on.
I'm going to read the quote here, if that's okay with you. Yeah, go ahead. So she said so if it comes in and it's great, which I haven't read the script, and if the timing is right, that could absolutely happen, which tells me he does want to do it. That's totally unrelated. It would be an elseworlds tale like Joker. So like even his statement was so noncommittal. I feel like he was just placating other people as well. Like, just so I mean.
I mean, maybe he's doing some like 4D just here with like PR of just like, I don't want to create the headline of like James Gunn Cancels Black movie. Yeah. Which I feel like might be the headline because like, I've seen like, I've seen some of the concept art that people like whipped up of Michael Jordan, like in the Superman costume. It looks awesome. It looks cool. Everyone loves Michael B Jordan, so it would be fun to see it. But it seems like like Warner Brothers hired Gun for a reason.
It's just like, fix this fix they it's broken. Just fix all the stuff. And even if it's not broke trying. To fix it. Just be sexy. Do something good for us like we need a win. Please please get a win for us with Superman. Yeah. Warner Brothers and DC is just like our kitchen explodes. Did all of the plumbing is leaking, the the stove is on fire. And then people are asking me about like, are you going to paint the wall in the garage? Or just like, like leave me alone.
I'm trying to stop the house. The neighbor comes by like, Hey, I noticed your trash cans been out an extra hour longer than it should be. You going to bring that back in kind of deal? Yeah, absolutely. You know what headline can I write about your your garbage can? Yeah. So? So it's just. It's just one of those things like, you know, I would have just left it alone, like he. I understand he wants to interact with fans. He wants to keep the spotlight on the DCU. Right.
Like he's doing a good job by keeping it front of mind, like you mentioned. But like this is one of those situations I just, like, not just just ignore it. Let's go to the next one. Just pick out something else and go down that road. But here we are talking about J.J. Abrams Superman movie that became Jurassic Park. Mike I watched Jurassic Park the other day, the original one, because they got about the 4K Blu ray when it was on sale. I loved watching the original Jurassic Park lot.
So good. It is great. You know, after that, it's diminishing returns for me as well that you're not getting anything. So but that first one is just this classic is magical. And there is now Universal is developing a new movie in, the drastic Park franchise, essentially Jurassic Park or seven or Jurassic World for whatever you want to call it at this point. But in that good news, the screenwriter David Caplan, who wrote Jurassic Park, is writing the script.
He wrote the original one, not anything recently on that world. I mean, it's interesting, you know, you're bringing in like the pedigree, at least, of this guy who worked on the original that everyone loves. So maybe we can get something going there. I mean, one thing that maybe some people forget is that the original is based on a book, so you're not really working from source material anymore. I'm not saying this guy can't write stuff that's not based on books.
But the reason I think the story is so strong is it was proven in novel for I will first, you. Know, so Michael Crichton is one of my favorites. I finished the book and movie are nothing like I'll tell you that right now like they are nothing nothing the same at all. So this is one of the situations of the book is the book is good, the movie is good, but they are no, they are not very similar. They actually have two entirely different kind of things going on along the way.
Same with The Lost World, which was a book as well. That movie didn't come out and do very well either. Do it. So yeah, I mean, if we're if if we're looking at maybe because I enjoyed the first Jurassic Jurassic World for what it was, and obviously we both love Jurassic Park, I mean, what are those two films have in common is like it's a theme park where dinosaurs wreak havoc. So like, is there a way to bring that magic back in? I don't know how you I don't know how you stop facts here that to.
Stop all the new movies have the same problem with. They're like, we're blending DNA, we're creating forbidden dinosaurs, right? Like, cut it out, make it magical, make it like the first time again. And I just looked up David Kent, by the way, he wrote Mission Impossible 1996. He did work on The Lost World. Jurassic Park. He wrote he wrote on Spiderman 22 with Tobey Maguire. He's got some good ones in there. He's got some bad ones. I'm not your idea. He wrote the 2017 The Mummy with Tom Cruise.
He wrote Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. With With George. With George Lucas, though. So how do you tell George Lucas? No. On his own property. But, you know, he's got some stuff back and forth here, if you will. But I want to. I want to capture that magic of Jurassic Park. Right. Like it was a smash. It wasn't a huge of the park wasn't open. It was a small scale film. They were trying to sell this majesty than the majesty. Essentially everything.
That movie goes to hell because one guy was greedy, right? The you know, you have the IT guy I can't think was named Newman. You know, he was getting greedy and he wanted to do things for himself and get more money and everything went to hell and people died. So like, how do you return to the majesty slash horror of that first movie? Right. As you mentioned, without having the park, it's no longer an amusement like we've done the amusement park version where it was successful.
How can we go back and harken back to something simpler? Yeah, it's different. Like, do you do you even contemplate the idea of rebooting the universe in any way? Because the one thing that drastic world I think does really successfully is it like they come at it from the angle of like, dinosaurs are boring now. You know, we've successfully brought them back. Kids have seen them, you know, canonically in that world.
They've been on the news, right, running through San Francisco, if I remember correctly, which I only learned recently that all that stuff was actually filmed in downtown Burbank, which I could like, walk to, which is pretty fun. I got I got to rewatch that part. I'm going to need some photos like from the movie and then you in the same spot. Yeah, I should I should do that. So they do a good job of referencing that and then like, well, we're now we're actually at a theme park.
So like, how do you do that setting again, I think the, the only pitch I have and this does not help the story in any way is just like your first three movies were Jurassic Park. The following three movies were Jurassic World. I think you need a new title. Maybe if you're following with like the theme park theme, you could go Jurassic Land, maybe something like that. And then at least you could kind of prime your. Jurassic Universe even bigger.
Like you really got to prime your audience that you're kind of starting a new adventure in a way, I think. I mean, I just I know this isn't Jurassic Park itself, but like, I just want like, a Dino crisis movie, like, and that's kind of you got a little bit of that in Jurassic World, too, when they're in the mansion. But that was intense to have like a full on dinosaur trapped in, like a facility with you. And that's like one of the cooler parts of the first Jurassic Park movie when. The Raptors.
Trying that she's trying to turn and prime all of those fuzes and everything like that so intense so I don't like I said I don't know how you bring this all back into theme parks again, but that seems to be the way to do it. It could be, you know, if they keep in the, you know, in the world and I've not seen I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to be honest, I've not seen Jurassic World two or three,
but I've read their plot points. I understand these movies at the end of Jurassic World three, whatever it's called. Essentially, dinosaurs are out in the world and we just have to live with them, right like that. They are now out in the world as it is. So do you is it like something you mentioned drastically and gave me an idea of like maybe they move them to like, you know, they they find a way to migrate them to Greenland or like Icelanders something, right.
Like, hey, we now have a huge but not a continent, but like enough land where like all the dinosaurs are always here all the time. What, what, what do you do with that? I don't want to do bioengineering anymore, but like, what can you do with those expeditions and incursions or excursions and stuff like that? There maybe, this might be a little bit too. Okay, but what about like, Jurassic University? I don't like I don't like it.
It's like, not Well, now that like dinosaur is are like back in the world, their universe, they're ubiquitous or whatever. We need more dinosaur just experts in the world. So maybe there's like a maybe a university. And that's where you go to like a major in dinosaurs. And then the campus becomes your setting for the movie, right? You know, there's got to be dinosaurs in some aspect.
And then and then so maybe the dinosaurs, I mean, there is kind of like a campus setting in the third Jurassic World movie, but it's kind of more set as like a like an apple like, you know, tech park, Business park. Yeah, I think so. I don't know. That's my that's my pitch. Maybe a university because like, I don't know how you convince the audience that another theme park could still exist after a volcano, right?
Yeah. Yeah. I think that's the theme park is if, if anything, I don't want the theme park to be operational. I think that's the important part, right? Like that's the part of the first one. They're touring it to give a blessing on a theme park so it wasn't operational. Guess what? That that theme park, was it? It went to shit because like, nothing even showed up on it, right? Like they were like, you can't like they didn't see the dinosaurs, the T-Rex didn't show up and John Hammond was all mad.
No one, he got to see the actual being parking operation because they just were working. So, you know, how do you how do you do that? Is it you know, you know, is it scientific? Is it, you know, natural? You're naturalistic art.
It's treated like a Disney where like different countries are opening their own versions of Jurassic Park kind of deal in like like you maybe it's like a Russian Jurassic Park where they skimped on all the the security and like, you know, everything's gone to hell over there. So I don't know. It goes a lot of options. I have the idea. no, I can't. It's basically the pitch is Jurassic Park meets Joe Exotic and Tiger King. God.
You have some sort of a back Woods person who's, like, cobbling together their own legal Jurassic Park. And then. man, that is it. That's how you do it. Nothing smaller scale than small town. So. So the call. Man. Jo Jo Jo Jo. And this has to be a and then like you don't like literally do Joe Exotic but you know you do a type and then the the dinosaur experts, they got to come in and I love it. Okay. I think the, the flipside of this, we go, we're back at Dinosaur Story and we give all that.
We find the way to give all the dinosaurs human personalities and make them super friendly. Yeah, they're talking. They're friendly. Yeah. There's a voice collar you put on them. Now it's magic and then whatever it is, and then the you take away the magic, they revert back to like their, you know, I guess a inhibited dinosaurs else. Like a fairy tale. I know it's a Steven Spielberg movie as well. By the way, we're back. And dinosaurs are produced. Yeah, there you go.
All right. Lastly, Avatar, The Last Airbender has a Netflix live action adaptation coming out, I believe February, late February. And the new trailer. I would say this is like the first trailer for me. The first not a teaser, it's a trailer has released two and a half minutes for this, and while I'm not finished the third book, the third and final season yet, I see scenes in this that are visually the same, kinetically, the same as what I saw in the first season, and that has me excited.
Now. I am not the avatar person. I'm new to this again. I haven't even finish it. You are my go to expert here. Tell me, how do you feel about this? Yeah, I mean, it looks it looks great visually, right? But just I feel like every time I watch anything adapted over at Netflix, I just. I have to be nervous, right? Because like, is this amazing? But nobody watches it and we never get a second season. Is this you know, does this end up being mediocre?
But enough people watch it so they keep it going and I hate it and I don't want to watch it anymore. There's so many scenarios where, like, I'm not happy. So for them to thread the needle, like I'm hoping they just capture the same, like energy and success that they did from one piece. You know, I know traditionally The Last Airbender is an anime, but you're really hooking into very similar audiences. They're so I'm really hoping this works out.
This is the first time you kind of get to see any performances of the characters really, because all that's really been shared on social media has been like pictures and like official like, like. Like studio shots, even, like not nothing in action. Yeah. Yeah. Zuko, he he looks amazing. The energy of the couple of scenes that he's in really fits the character of a brash, you know, youngster just out to prove himself. Katara and Ang, I'm a little bit more cool on.
I don't know if it was maybe just the scenes that they they focused on, but I was like, I feel like these are they don't feel necessarily like the characters I remember from the the animated series, but they can grow into it.
That's the thing that's the great thing is they can always grow into this, you know, if they end up doing like, let's say, you know, if they do like one book per season which who knows, maybe if the show is popular enough and they really start getting into some nitty gritty of the story materials, they could even possibly do two books per season. They could. And even if they only do three. To two seasons per book. Two seasons for both?
Yeah. Okay. Well, whatever they end up doing, right, if they end up going into like a production cycle or something like a stranger, things like these three seasons could last six plus years. So what's nice is all of these characters now have the opportunity to grow into the roles, which I think is pretty interesting and might actually serve better than the original source material because all of the kids kind of perpetually the same age.
And I don't remember the exact time frame of the original animated series, but it seems relatively condensed down to maybe a couple like, you know, Planetary Seasons or maybe a year or two at most. But it is a big epic journey that they go on.
But if it spans out more realistically over a couple of years and the characters grow up, I think that's kind of great because there's a love interest between Katara and Aang that, you know, might seem a little bit more impactful when they're a little bit older because in the like in the animated series, they like end up kissing. And it feels kind of odd because like, these are like kind of children. I'm watching KISS on screen, but obviously the it's an animated show. The audience was for kids.
So, you know, it's really not as weird what you think about it. But I think this is just one of the aspects that could improve live action overall. I think the actor that's playing Sokka is great. He seems like goofy and corny. It almost seems like he could do the voice of the animated character and it would be like a really good duplicate. So there's a lot of really good looking stuff in here. But I, I have to be cautious and I have to guard myself. I mean, I'm the other way.
I don't have, again, a dog in this fight, if you will, but I'm excited to see it. And some look to know from what I've seen recently, it looks the same right then. You know, I see the scenes, the the fighter nations, big ships on on the water. You know, that was a huge thing. What is it? The mask? I don't know the name of the mask, dude. Who? I guess it's like a thief, you know, obviously. Whatever. I don't remember if it's like. I don't remember.
It's like the blue spear it or something like that. But that character doesn't show up in book one until kind of like the second half of the book. So that kind of what makes me think, it's a we are doing the full book here. Yeah. Okay. It also, you know can this obviously there's the the earth binding city with the old guy and his friend from when he was a kid. You know, he's in here forever that has all the the slides and the, you know, the big, you know, earth bending things.
You know, the obviously the it looks for me looks looks true to all the characters. Look at the the ones that the how the big fluffy dude the bison I'm Harper he looks he looks fantastic right like everything in this looks really really good The binding looks, you know phenomenal. This is not what I saw in Lily Twins from the movie version, which I saw without having seen the show. And I was like, Yeah, this is even boring from a movie version. This looks good.
But between this, you know, one piece which, you know, got us on board for a show we've never seen before, and and I'm going to I'm going to put your name again unless you tell me to raise you. You heck, you show you. You have. Hacker. Sure. So you know the success of that kind of coming off of this.
It sounds like Netflix is putting in some of the work for this too to keep it go and so I also know Avatar is getting that resurgence right They have that new animated studio that's working on the other movies in the Avatar universe, the three movies. So hopefully, you know, this this does land and gets everyone the hardcore fans that have been around for almost 20 years.
Mike onboard to to keep watching this and get more to I imagine to me this is me three seasons, maybe four if they want to split the last season in the two kind of along the way. So we'll see more. But yeah, as you know that's obviously you're the year you're the the one who's seen it and live with it and you know needs to keep your guard up so you don't get that. Yes M Night Shyamalan movie again along the way Don't. Hurt me again Hollywood yeah.
So we'll we'll we'll see how we keep you guys link to that trailer is in the show notes you can watch the official trailer Mike that's the show for this week We get we got we're going to get off of here. I need to go see who's winning the Super Bowl pre-game thing. So and get ready for my trailer. I'm working on my menu for the next two weeks. I'm gonna try a barbecue meatball.
I'm going to try some of that and then get some wings, and then just oven cook as many wings as I can for everybody to eat on. So excited for that with the bone on, by the way. Not boneless for me, but if you got anything, let me know. But if people know what you're up to, what you're doing, Big Daddy, where can they find. Yep. They can find Big Daddy Making web comics over at Life Rewards Risk, Ecom and Pickled Comics Dotcom. Chris, if people want to catch up with you, where are you?
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