Hello, everyone, and welcome to the superhero slate. The show we run down the latest superhero entertainment news. We love TV, movies and superheroes, but not really football. So let's talk it all out. I said we like Super Bowl Mike. I think there was a missed opportunity to say we like Super Bowl, but my name is Chris. My name is Mike. And this week we're prepping our snacks for the Super Bowl trailers because you got to be good. If we had sound effects.
Chris This is where you'd put in the sound effect of Breath of the Wild or tears of the kingdom. Don'ts cooking, losing a plot, a little thinking and sizzling. But we don't do that here. I don't I couldn't even tell you what that sound was if I heard it. So. So we're good. But you got to eat. You got to be good. Like we just said before the show, this is National Cheat Day for all eaters out there. Disney is building this gaming universe and has dropped a pretty penny into it.
We'll talk about that here at the top of the show. The Knuckles trailer punches on the Paramount Plus. And Mike, is this a movie? No, it's a series. It's the series and we'll talk about that. I didn't know it was company. That is fine. What we're going to we're going to discuss the the Sonic franchise a little bit more.
Yeah. And if you're all good little boys and girls last night and happen to live underneath Taylor Swift's private jet flight path, she may have stopped by in the middle of the night and given you an advance preorder of her album under your stocking. It's not. I left it out. I'm checking all the torrent sites, Mike. I can't find a leak anywhere. So, yeah, I just.
I just wanted to talk about the Taylor Swift of it all just for a second, because this is the stuff I love about the Super Bowl in general, because as as I alluded to in our intro, not a big football fan, but I'm a big fanfare fan. That's why I get excited for things like the Olympics. Even though I know nothing about track and field. I get excited about the Super Bowl because of all the other stuff going on around it.
It's just exciting when people all come together, for one thing, and then Taylor Swift is just an extra element that increases is the energy around all of it. So it's just it's exciting. It just makes things a little bit more energetic. And Chris, I got to imagine it's it's popping off over at your house because before we hit record, yeah, you were describing all of the systems and objects you have in play over at your place. And on top of it all, your wife is a Taylor Swift, just a mega fan.
So I just can't imagine the energy that's going to be coming from your finished basement here mere hours ago. And certain details of thing. I don't I don't give a fuck. I'm going to tell you that right now, right at the top of the hour. I'm going to drop the hard off because it's not I don't I don't care. And my wife knows. I don't care. I'm like, anytime she tries to bring up, I'm like, I'm here for the trailers today and I'm here to have people over.
You had your Taylor Swift parties. You can have your listening parties. But but I don't even like sports. But keep it out of this. This is not for it. And so I don't need the updates. And I told her I'm like, just not not today. Today is not the day for it. So I've got that pretty hard because I'm like, I'm not I'm not dealing with it and I don't want all this coming up because we just had a Taylor Swift Party last weekend. I'm like, No, no more for it.
I need a little bit of break. But on the other side of it, you're right. I have that as I make I've got a movie poster TV that is displaying the scores live updated. I should make that. It's pretty rudimentary, but it's pretty cool that someone was able to build that for me within like a day and run it. It sucks that the team colors us here both just red's because all you get is just red across the board. But next to it on the other side of the basement is the the curtain lights that I have.
I've had Spider-Man running like the Atari. Spider-Man kind of running in there for like a week and a half now, two weeks. But now it's flashing between the two teams, logos. Mike, I'll send you a photo video of that later. Get the outside lights ready to go. I've got the TV's loaded with Paramount plus ready to watch the game. Already logged in, checked it out, so we'll be good to go.
And I also said I've got the the one crockpot cooking meatballs upstairs, another one getting ready for Velveeta. And they got the wings thawing out, ready to rock and roll today because I this is I don't care. I'm going to mix it all on the plates. Mike Everything's coming out today for for food. So pretty, pretty excited overall. But yeah, it's been the I would say on the flip side to to your point, the energy is good today because I've been making food mean in the kitchen all day.
So I think that energy is coming through pretty, pretty, pretty good for me. So yeah, well. Yeah, obviously we're expecting trailers at the Super Bowl as Chris alluded to, we were recording this hours before the game starts, so tune in next week on our show to get the rundown of all the trailers. We'll let all of the the immediate hot takes sizzle out and then we'll come in. Triumphant story over. The clothes spoiler to. That. Yes, people have had all the wrong opinions.
And we'll come in and we'll analyze the whole battlefield and ground plan. Everything that happened afterwards. You know, basically, it's a good time to see what floated and what sink. You know, if it's not worth talking about, we're not going to talk about it next week. And I think one thing that we both agreed on, you know, a lot of companies dropped their big game spots before the big game.
I've not seen a lot of that this year, I'm going to be honest, But I've avoided what few I did see kind of coming out. I'm like, I don't need to see Kate McKinnon eating mayonnaise simply because that's like the title of the articles. I'm like, No, no, no, I don't want to see that yet. Let me watch it live when you play it four times to me during the Super Bowl. But that's exciting. But yeah, overall, I'm pretty, pretty good.
Make any let's just say okay that was my topic was the Super Bowl say Super Bowl 5840 Niners versus the chiefs I believe I'm looking at my logos. It looks like that's what they look like over there. So that is going on and we'll talk about that one. There's one guaranteed trailer I think a couple other maybe small teasers, but we'll we'll talk about that later. Mike, you've been watching something and I think you've talked about this before.
I'm pretty sure unless you just finished it for the first time. No, I haven't brought this up. We finally finished watching it this weekend. It's a quick eight episode binge. You could knock it all out in one sitting if you kind of started in the early afternoon and that is Amazon slash free vs jury duty. I swear you brothers, I'd never heard of this show, but I'm pretty sure you've talked about it on the show before. This this show's great, Chris. I think anyone would love it.
This says this has broad, hilarious appeal to it because this is a TV show about a small documentary crew that is getting unprecedented access to film a jury as it as it deliberates a case in a in a in a real courtroom. But the catches every single person involved is an actor except for one single real person on the jury who has no idea that everything is being true and showed around him. It is so funny. It is hilarious.
Everything about it is just so well thought out and fun and it feels like I'm describing like one big gigantic prank show. But that is not the spirit of it. Like a prank show, you're thinking something like punked. This is like the Great British Baking Show of like punked in a way of like where everyone's nice and uplifting.
You know, they try to put the normal person through these obscene scenarios, but they never take it too far because the goal is for this person to not get wise and in a great way to key this into the show, especially since we just briefly mentioned Sonic at the top of the show with Knuckles is James Marsden plays himself in this TV show as an actor who get called, who gets called in for jury duty, and he obviously doesn't want to be there because he's an actor.
He thinks he's going to be a distraction and he plays this this heightened, douchey version of himself. And the great part about it is, is the real person. Like when he first sees when he first sees James and he's like, man, that person, why does that person look familiar? And then they set up the scenario where somebody in the waiting room wants a picture with them, and that confirms that he's famous. So they they strike up kind of like this friendship.
But they're always trying to test it by making James Mars in the do she is person on the planet. So it's just so funny. James Morrison's roles pop up because he's always talking about his work and how famous he is to all of these like jurors. It's so funny. You got to go watch this. It's great. It's it's free because it's on Amazon Free. So there's commercials attached to it. No matter. You pay Amazon that extra like three or four bucks a month, whatever they're trying to get out of you now.
But yeah, go watch jury duty. It's so satisfying. It's so fun. You'll have a great time. And I know I've watched this before, but what was interesting to me when I did it was like this show, obviously, it's it's like it's like, is reality TV essentially right? But like, there's one person who doesn't know is in there, but there's also everything else around it, the scripted. But like they filmed this in 17 days, like it was a very, very small shoot because you can't drag out like a real
like they're not stopping and setting up stuff. Right. Like for a to be on jury duty, you have to be there consistently, right? So to give away, they filmed it in like 17 days. I'm like, that is just wild. Yeah, it's a it's a it's a real high wire act, too, because, you know, if they were only filming for a couple of days and then the guy gets wise, you know, and like, you know, sees like a hidden camera because they know that there's cameras around because of this documentary crew.
But what they don't know is there's so many more hidden cameras. So if he was to stumble across, you know, the real thing, if he if he sees like a script laying around somewhere, you know, the whole the whole thing is kaput. So they they leave a lot of room towards the end of the season to show you a lot of the behind the scenes stuff and how how tricky it was. If you're familiar with the show Parks and Rec, there's a character on that show called Seward's Joe.
He's an actor that works in sanitation. And if you're a fan of Parks and Rec, you can identify this guy from like a mile away because he's so unique looking. He's tall, he has kind of like scraggly facial hair, and he has a kind of a unique looking face. Well, they cast him in this show as one of the jurors, and they found out very early on in the process that the real the real juror loves Parks and Rec. So the second they found that out, they didn't know that ahead of time.
They cut all of them for the I don't remember the actor, but they cut through which Joe's all of his roles. And they moved him to sit on the opposite end of the jury box. And they had to minimize them because like, they they know who this guy is. And we can't feasibly have two actors called for jury duty at the same time. It would just be a little too much. So, yeah, they're they're doing all this behind the scenes to go watch jury duty. It's great. Only eight episodes.
You can like knock it out in probably like 4 hours or something. But yeah, they're half hour if you don't watch. Yeah. You don't like watching the Super Bowl. You know, I'd say that's a good replacement. Yeah. Even if you're not watching this before the Super Bowl, afterwards it's all something. Because, like, if you had not told me about this, someone else has told me about this and talked about it to death last year. And I'm like, I know I'm very familiar with the show.
That's why I'm like, I swear it was you, but maybe it was somebody else. But that's fine, too. Two people recommend it's, you know, it's even better for anyone else. But let's jump in again. If you're listening to us, watch us live on YouTube right now. Don't forget to like and subscribe. That helps us out as a channels to get to more people. So thank you for doing that. But let's jump in.
First and foremost, one of the games I play very frequently is Fortnite and I play this game because, number one, it's free. And two, when I try to get other people to play games and they don't have to spend $70 to play it, they want to play too. So Fortnite is one of those games where you everything is free and you get in that way and then you spend money on skins. But this week Disney has announced I was their earnings. Disney had an earnings call this week, I believe.
Yeah, that was the quarterly earnings. Yes, quarterly earnings call. And they kind of unveiled their stuff. But one of the things is a $1.5 billion investment with epic games to create a new universe, a gaming universe within the Fortnite engine, if you will. And in this trailer you can click here, it takes you.
It shows off properties from Disney such as Frozen, things such as Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars and the biggest thing is Avatar and getting game, getting representation in this as well as its own little standalone property if you get it. It's funny because when you hear like the would you say $1.5 billion acquisition, it sounds investment invested. They did they buy like half of it Is this like a are they like a third owner or something?
And then you're like, no, fortnight's worth like multiple billions over billions of dollars. I think I saw the work up that Disney owns roughly the same amount I think Sony owns and it like just a couple of a percentage but still it's it's more of the state mint that it makes right of like kind of like we're an official partner now it's not like we just happen to have the most popular IP. So we're going to be making licensing deals with Fortnite.
Now it's like, no, we want a piece of the pie because Fortnite seems to have proven itself to be more than just a fly by night game or trend. And it's like, this is like a platform that sticking around. And to me at the end of the trailer, it kind of shows off the different worlds they're building different like standalone islands, and that's how Fortnite has launched this season.
Like there's regular Fortnite, there's Fortnite festival, which is made by harmonics, which is essentially a rock band for Fortnite racing. I forget what it's called, which is a racing game using the cars, kind of like Rocket League, which is also made by Epic and then also Lego Fortnite, where you go huge, huge investment, huge partnership there to get that done in their survival game. But at the end it shows us these islands. So I see you looking at this icy nightmare before Christmas.
I see Avengers. I see it was a big hero six, you know, Marvel, Lucasfilm, ESPN, like everything is in here. And what is cool about this is a couple of things for me, Mike, is one, you know, it's I'm not an NFT person and people who talk to me unless I'm not into it, don't don't get it. But the idea is if you can buy something digital and that persists across multiple digital games, I'm more invested in this right now.
I'm not saying that is necessarily nfts, but if I buy an avatar skin or a marvel skin and I want to travel over to Frozen World in this, I can play those characters together right in this big world. That way I don't have to, you know, get a different skin for every different games or, you know, my my in-app digital purchases are only usable. One place I can use them across multiple instances in Fortnite, if you will.
Yeah. And it seems like the semi permeable barrier between these worlds will have a rules to them because we see the frozen characters. I don't think we're going to be seeing Elsa with a gun anytime soon. Her whole life with like a rocket launcher or sniper rifle. So I think it's like, if you have like a Captain America skin, you can, you know, go visit, you know, Toontown or, you know, whatever they end up making. Right? But it's not going to be the other way around.
And it's pretty it's pretty ingenious, right, of Fortnite whipping up these other rule sets and just like, just different data sets as well. And that's, that's part two. Part two is Fortnite slash epic. It's no longer just the Fortnite battle Royale mode, right? You're not doing Battle Royale. There are other game types, other maps, other things you can do full on games and experiences in there that are not, you know, just shooting people and being the last person remaining.
So that I think is, you know, proving that Fortnite festival Lego in the racing are worked in are viable, has you know I think has sold it to other companies like you don't want to build you don't want to go to a third party to build a game. You want to be a part of that one of the biggest games already existing and take part in it. So to me, again, you know, people like I don't like Fortnite for kids. Well, this isn't regular Fortnite. This is going to be a gaming universe.
You can play with your kids, right? Like you can be like I said, there's ESPN. Maybe they're going to be sports games in here, right? People may make, you know, some sort of a football, baseball, some sort of games. Yeah. So there was a there was a clip on the the trailer of like Lightning McQueen next to some other vehicles that were like jockeying for position. So there could be like a a rocket league or like a racing simulator that there. That is that was a rocket league.
If you look at it you can see Rocket League in the back. But exactly right. Like you're you're you're not limited to shooting anymore. Like you mentioned, there's not just guns. You know, you have you know, powers like, you know, you're playing with Elsa and you can mix in with a marvel character and then you're maybe you're doing an Indiana Jones Temple heist run, Right. More of a puzzler. So to me, this is great.
You know, when companies can can make your purchases carry across different things visually, That's what I'm about. And I'm excited for this. It may not launch for a few years now. This isn't something that like, we're coming out soon. But the investment means that both Disney and Epic see value and here they're looking at the skins, they're looking at the the daily shop purchases right at the end of the day.
But something that I can jump in and play for free, I'm I'm absolutely down for like yeah and then that like again we've always talked about Avatar to be perfect in the Fortnite world or like video game world you know frontiers of Pandora you know, recently came out. So you've seen Avatar here I think would be really really fun along the way as well. But check out that trailer in our show notes. Michael, any other notes you got on that?
Because I'm strongly opinionated for now, because it is the game I play with my friends the most. I don't play the lone, but like I played with friends, so I didn't know if you had any any extra. I mean, I would say it's there's few and far between times where I feel like I need to get on Fortnite and, you know, learn how to play the game and get more familiar with it.
But it's things like this that start to kind of push me back into the fold of just like, well, if I don't have to compete against 12 year olds that you know, have like the best AIDS stick movements in all the land, that would be great. So maybe this gets me back in there. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a I'm excited. So we'll we'll see if you get in there. And then the other thing about Fortnite and I want to mention that for me Swamp is that is the probably the most cross-platform game I've ever seen.
You write Xbox, PlayStation, PC, it's Nintendo Switch, it's on mobile phones, it's on your computers. Any anywhere you want to play Fortnite you can. So that's pretty cool. I think to me, at the end of the day, just if we wanted to hop on and play, we don't have to have the same systems to do it. Yeah, so that's pretty cool. All right, moving on to Disney's announcements, one of the bigger announcements is from a couple of here from Lucasfilm.
The first is The Mandalorian and Grow new movie will be releasing May 22nd, 2026. Mike So we're a little over two years away from it. I was thinking it was going to be a 2025, but if they start later this year, polish it up first and put it in May, May, May in December. Ah, Star Wars month. That seems pretty pretty. Okay, my.
But what do you think? Yeah. I feel like, last week they listened to me on the show and heard my ominous prediction of what if they mess up next year and everybody hates everything they do and they seem to come hard at this quarterly earnings and really threw out some heavy hitters. And I think a weirdly, the most reassuring thing is seeing that year on there. 2026. Right. I feel like the previous regime of Disney would have been like 2026.
No, no, no. End of 2024. We are fitting all of this every every quarter. We're maxing out as as much as we can. So I'm happy to see that. 26 Yeah, and I think that will give them enough time to, again, the TV show, you can have your small things here and there, right? You're more forgiving on a TV show in the way it's produced, making a movie of the scale again, they're going to have to get hopefully they build sets.
They're not using the volume because as you know, for TV productions and movie productions, I think this is going to be a big win for them if it if it goes off. Well, on the flip side, they also announced two other release dates for properties December 18th, 2026, as a proper Star Wars movie. Most likely, the real movie is the guests, right?
Episode ten or whatever they're going to call it down the road because it has been worked on the most and announced the most, followed by December 17th, 2027, which people are guessing is going to be the The First Jedi film from James Mangold or Dave Filoni. This movie in that regard as well. So to me I'm more concerned.
The last time they released two movies in 20, in one year, I mean, in December, I think December May, but maybe December is was I think it was like solo, which is not a bad movie. People just didn't go see it. They were burned out on Star Wars or or, you know, didn't feel it. So do you think two movies in one year is still okay in this regard for Star Wars? Because they're not they're not the same. They're kind of once a TV finisher. One's a real movie.
Yeah, that's the only thing that kind of makes me feel a little bit better about it. Like, we know Filoni is kind of the tip of the spear creatively now for everything Star Wars, but it does kind of distinctly feel like two separate entities, right?
Yeah. You know, you're pulling this creative team from like the Disney Plus side of things and then I'm sure you're going to have your more traditional like movie pipeline, you know, putting together whatever this other, you know, if it's James Mangold or whatever you're putting together. So it seems just more separated. I'm kind of curious. It just makes me thinking, kind of seeing a date kind of written out possibly for the Filoni movie.
Does this mean 2027 is like the end of this Star Wars era, Right? You know, now we can imagine the collector's box set that has all the seasons of like Mando and Boba Fett and Ahsoka. And then it ends off with that one movie like that kind of weirdly feels like a sneaky era that they fit in that we we didn't imagine before. Right? You know, you could do like a mega box set and throw the Clone Wars in there as well.
But that seems like the your cardboard box is getting a little too long for most bookshelves. But yeah, it is kind of weird to think about it as an era all of a sudden it just felt like this weird, like experiment that they were doing that people seem to really like. And now all of a sudden it's like definitive part of Star Wars and seemed like it almost came out of nowhere. Yeah, it's now written, right, you know, but 27 When did when did Disney Plus launch officially? Was it 2019?
Was it it was before the pandemic, Right. Yeah. I want to say let me see. Disney Plus 2019 seems right. Yeah. It officially was October nine, yet November 20, 19. So eight years to really kind of wrap that up. That's pretty good. I mean, that's a that's a solid run, right? You know, there are there are all winners, definitely. But, you know, it's a it's it don't feel good to have it all together. At the end of the day.
I'd still want to follow any boxset, I think I think you've got me sold Mike on this idea. I know I got you. So yeah. And we wrap all of those books and still you're on top of it. Yeah, exactly. I, you know, I did not buy them in those seasons. One and two DVD release, the 4K release that they dropped recently. I did not buy those. I don't know if I need to, but, you know, at the same time I think it's it's cool. But yeah, once those dates are in there, you know you're right.
Like, you know, we're essentially ending an era with two movies and then kicking off another era with with the middle one. So I don't think the first Jedi movie will be the 27. James Mangold is also wrapped up with Swamp Thing in the DCU. So I think I think first JLA is going to be, you know, a big swing, but I don't think it's I think I think you are. You're correct in thinking that as Dave Filoni is movie are 2027.
But it'll be really cool to see that all on Disney plus you know, one big like timeline, like the Filoni timeline. but anyway, the other thing that launched our business yesterday is the Phantom Menace. I was a Phantom is returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary. Mike You know to me, you know, I, I remember the toy craze, The Phantom Menace. Star Wars craze of 1997, right? Yeah. Or was it 1999? 99? Between 99. And I remember that very vividly.
Right. Going to Taco Bell and seeing all the toys and like the data chip, the data pad chips and all the toys, the light sabers, everything. So while, you know, you can watch it on Disney plus I might go to the theater to rewatch The Phantom Menace Mike to get that theatrical Star Wars experience on this one day. Yeah. I mean, for us, we're I mean, we're the generation that looks at the prequels as nostalgia, and it could be positive nostalgia.
It could be negative nostalgia if that's even built into the definition of the word, because we were just we were just kids when we saw them. And we we knew no better that we should have gotten better and I we're always talking about, you know, rose tinted glasses. And it feels like now that we're at the 25th anniversary, people are putting those glasses back on. And I'm seeing like these really endearing thoughts about the prequels come out.
There was like a photo shoot that I saw just the other day of Hayden Christensen, like reprising the photo of him. Well, I guess it wasn't him, but the kid version of an Akin with the Vader shadow, like peeling out behind them and up the wall and I think the only reason is because we have rehabilitated the image of those prequels with everything Dave Filoni has done. Well, all right. With the Clone.
Wars and the contrast that the the the last Star Wars theatrical movie with so bad, anything else can be better than it. Yeah that that's like honestly if you if you really sit with your feelings you know turn all the lights off. Yeah close your eyes and just really think about Star Wars there. I think honestly there's more bad than there is good. Now, some of the good Star Wars is like legendary in filmmaking.
And, you know, it can be held up on its own accord, but that is the truth of Star Wars. It's just more bad than good. Well, there is I mean, hundreds and hundreds of hours of content when you look at it really at the end of the day, and not to mention books and toys and obviously the Christmas special.
But, you know, for me, the families and I was like going to go listen to the the soundtrack again in theaters, The Duel of the Fates in theaters, seeing the reveal of the double play, the lightsaber that you were in and say, The music is it's a maze. Like John Williams just like doesn't miss. And even not John Williams, even when they've brought in other composers, they have such an amazing inspirational source and base the work from like the music in The Mandalorian is amazing as well.
And that's not John Williams, So I can't remember the composer. John Jorgenson something The guy's a Black Panther. Yeah, it's I feel like it's kind of got like a, a sharp j in there or something that's in my recesses. But yeah, there's, there's always something amazing about any given Star Wars property because there's always great visual effects or, you know.
To me, you know, it's I've got my home theater and I would I would gladly watch very high definition at home, but I'm like, is this something about go into the theaters and you know, hey, are they going to release a Darth Maul head popcorn bucket for this? You know, maybe, maybe not. But the last time I did go see it actually in theaters was 2012 when they did the 3D remaster that they were going to do for all the movies. And they canceled it after it was bought by Disney.
But I did watch it 13 years ago, and I just think it'd be so cool to go back again and just just see it in theaters because, yeah. And I also remember, you know, I think in 97, remember when they rereleased the Star Wars remasters with those extra scenes in 97? That I remember going to that too. And there's just something about being in the theater, seeing that huge screen and in Star Wars. So yeah, maybe I will. Maybe I won't go check it out.
It'll be May 3rd, 20, 24th, just in time for May the force be with you. Movie Dinosaurs talking. We have some Marvel topics here for a little bit. First up, Marvel. So on this on this earnings call. Bob Iger Right. And at my on the right Bob has confirmed the Captain America Brave New World and Fantastic Four for 2026. He did not mention blade or thunderbolts but I don't think those have the the keywords, the buzz, the draw as the other two movies do if you say that out loud.
But they they could still be there. They may be delayed. Who knows at this point. What would that put thunderbolts in 2025? Are we saying there's no Marvel movie confirmed for 2025? I'm sorry, this is 25 is stable. 2035. That's why I add so many dates this week. Mike, on this I. Was going to say, man, those those are they built in a lot of reshoots for a brave new world which isn't coming out. Now. Brave New World and it has for next year.
He did not mention blade or Thunderbolts, but you know, those are still on the release calendar for coming out next year with thunderbolts coming soon. It is so wild to see Fantastic Four with a release date. Like I was just I was imagining so much of a different landscape out there for Marvel when the Fantastic Four finally hit that big screen.
But if these kind of rumors bubbling around out there are correct that this is going to be like a period piece in some way, you know, they might not have to root it so much in a current timeline, you know, set the pieces up so the Fantastic Four can, you know, all of a sudden be in like the Avengers Tower or whatever. You know, I'm not saying that's what the tower is there for, right? You know, it could easily be Oscorp But if they do that big also, that was a big like fan theory to back.
I think it was movie Bob that kind of maybe pitched it for the first time or recorded it first for the Internet of like, what if they're like vintage age, like, you know, 1950s or sixties scientists? And then they, you know, they get thrown through some sort of like time hole or. Yeah. Yeah. They're always dealing with science stuff, right? They can be dimensional.
They could be, they could be doing strips in space because Fantastic Four known for their adventures in space, like, you know, there's tons of ways to make it a period piece and bring it forward. But like to me, you know, we have nothing confirmed. Wink, wink. Next topic. But you know, you're like, they are. They are. Bob Iger, Disney. They are leaning on brands and the two brands are leaning on next year. So far, you're not playing Thunderbolts could be there.
That could be great. That could be, you know, good movies. But Captain America as a as a flag, especially with Harrison Ford in it. And then Fantastic Four, right. The people the movie people want to see so hard so to me it's like, yes, we're going to say the movies people want to hear that will be flagged and you'll see articles everywhere. You're not getting a lot of clicks on thunderbolts because nobody nobody knows what thunderbolts is.
You ask your mom, make the art thermometer for this what the thunderbolts are, and she's going to be very confused. I like that. The thermometer? Yeah. Yeah. Barometer is probably what I was looking for. Right. But Blade as well, You know, a lot of people know Blade. Wesley Snipes. No, not Wesley Snipes. We talk about this. We live in this every every week. We know what it is. But the average person probably not picking up on it right there. Like why does Wesley Snipes in another movie?
He hasn't been in it since early 2000. It was awful. So they only done that. But let's talk fantastic forward because SAG has done a a loop. See if you will make a little, little thing there. SAG After a highlight thing for Pedro Pascal, the sheet revealed he is filming Fantastic Four this year. So whoops, I guess this was confirmed. Out of the bag. I mean, it's big casting, right? I mean, Pedro Pascal, he is I mean, he's at the height of his powers.
It sounds like there are new heights in store for him. It makes sense to grab him while you can. He always he already has the relationship with Disney. I'm sure The Last of US part two is going to increase his notoriety even more. Yeah. He won't be under that helmet in Mandalorian movie either. So he's got free time. Yeah. So he's going to. I mean, this is a good this is a good place for him to take his hat and cash some big old fat checks.
Right? Yeah. I mean, you know, overall, I would love to see him be, you know, I can't make a judgment on his Mr. Fantastic yet based on anything I've seen him in. But that doesn't mean as bad. So it does. Yeah, it does make me wonder what approach is he going to bring to the role? You know, I guess it depends on what they want to do with the character over time, But I feel like most I mean, actually, no, Pedro Pascal has been a lot of different characters.
I feel like I'm only encapsulating in the stuff I've seen him in recently, which has been very gruff, like nothing's more aggressive than Joel, Joel and then Tangerine. But he was straight up wacky in Wonder Woman 84 like he has. I think he's got the range to do more than just. What I need him to be. Yeah, I think. I think I just hadn't seen him. Be smart, if that makes sense, right? Wonder Woman, 84 was not a smart role. The increasingly earning was the incredible weight of massive talent.
Well, he was a smart roll up Kingsman two Not a smart role. I believe he has range. I've just not seen him in that scientific person that we need Reed Richards to be right. Like we want someone geeky, someone brainy, someone who is thinking science all the time.
You know, one of one of my favorite lines from the actual comics that led up to the reboot of Secret Wars, which is what the movie would be on, is that, you know, Reed and then his daughter Valeria, they're their goal in that when the world is about to end and is like, he's like, we cannot win anymore. Our goal is to not lose. And that's how he thinks. I think that's a really awesome statement. And how will they probably need to approach this? Reed Richards in in Marvel, right?
We don't have Tony Stark anymore. We need someone super sciencey on that on that regard. So I'm fine with this. This is great. I'm not I'm not knocking it. I just don't know. And I can't I can't put a put my thumb on what it will be like. So I but I'd love to see it when it comes out. Yeah. We're excited. Yes. Moving on. We're going to be in a little minor spoiler territory, Mike. And not nothing. Nothing huge. But Daredevil Born Again is filming.
And when you're filming out in the streets of New York, guess what? You get to see costumes in high rez. So I've got a high rez. Look at Charlie Cox in his daredevil born again suit here on the street. And while we always put a big Asterix scene, people in suits for Marvel Properties, does that mean that's how they'll look in the movies, the skills that he's going back to his red and black suit? Right. The yellow one was for She-Hulk Red black coming back for born Again.
So it always feels like there's a lot of room, like the pants in a sense of like they always seem like really baggy, which is kind of the opposite. You think of superheroes, but when you're filming, like these action scenes, you got to be able to move, which requires costumes different than what you would see in a comic book. But there's a video that you also shared here in our show notes. And like, people are getting really close to this set, man.
This is just like a a nicely filmed, just like video from somebody's phone. It's always on the corner, like a real action scene. Yeah. So in this one, we're going to see Daredevil tackling Bullseye in his bull's eye suit. Now, normally when you think of bull's eye, you think black, White has a big target on his head, right?
In this situation, they're using a more modern bull's eye who actually, I think on the thunderbolts team where he is more of a hitman style look, something you would see maybe I can see in Fisher or hit me in style suit here with this stuff. I like the purple. I think the purple is very contrasty. I like it better in the black and white. It contrasts the daredevil red a little bit here. But that. Yeah, that clip is very, very close. And you can you can check this stuff out here.
I don't think it gives anything away, but I'm very excited that they're telling me this and then moving, moving on, if you will.
Speaking of Marvel's so the Marvel's The Marvels, the movie is now on Disney Plus Mike, I don't It came out this week so if you have not caught the Marvel's in theaters now catch it on Disney Plus with your subscription that you probably have after watching Bluey kids are heading pop over to Marvel Are they also again with us they have the IMAX version remind you most Marvel movies have an IMAX version you can select before you click play.
So if you want to catch the IMAX version of that full screen on your TV, check that out. With this, though every time a new property is added to Disney Plus for Marvel, they always add in an updated timeline so you can go to the playlist, which is one of my favorite features of Disney Plus and see the movies in the orders there. They take place in that order. They're released and right that that's important for some of these movies, at least the ones that are available.
The only movie not available on here is Spider-Man No Way Home. So with that, they now have to play list like they've added the MCU movie timeline, which is just the movies. So for the average viewer, such as most people who probably just want to click, play or check the movies, they can do that. But that both that they also added the MCU complete timeline and this is actually linked to here. So you can see this in here from Marvel officially dot com.
They have added the Netflix shows to this timeline make in their take place in terms of when they were released compared to the other movies because they did cross-check all these releases. So obviously you get Daredevil Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist Defenders and The Punisher in here to watch as well as everything else. So they move things around.
One of the biggest things is here in terms of the timeline, if anyone is interested, is Echo takes place right after we're kind of forever so closer to Hawkeye, not not down the timeline a little bit. And then Loki season two. And what if season two were the most recent because they kind of tie together with the multiverse saga, if you will. Yeah, it is so funny to see the marvels here right after Secret Invasion, because just totally different. Nick Fury is not right, just.
Like it's just absolutely so disjointed. Yeah, absolutely. But you know, for for those people who are like, I, you know, do I if I want to watch things, you know what? I need to catch up on this. This is now this is this is your full release. I'm glad they split it because there's so much stuff, so much TV shows in here. And Mike, you know me. I am I am a person who takes pride in my playlists on Plex thoroughly. So when this came out, guess what?
It screwed up all my playlist for Marvel because I had been doing a complete timeline, an MCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline. Well, you know, when they add in, you know, these Netflix shows, produced shows, which are the Marvel shows now, but they were on Netflix first. What has happened is I cannot add those into the timeline. I have to add them to the place and move them around individually. Each episode. And that's a lot of episodes.
When you look at 13 per season they did on Netflix, but I've compiled it together. I just I just need to start over my new list. This is over ten days straight of Marvel content if you wanted to watch this in a row. So and the movies are under three days alone. So I think this wild to put them in here but great because now you have one home to go check them all out. Yeah, if you will. So but check out that link in here have linked it directly from Marvel dot com in our show notes.
If you want to see that timeline. Moving on to Deadpool, why are we talking about Deadpool Mike Because two things. One, we have a new image promo showing them them suited up from from the team here. I like this artwork style. I don't know about you. The the harsh harsh light on them a little bit. Casting shadows. What do you think? Yeah, I just. It's nice seeing these two characters side by side with those kind of white eyes. Right?
You know, we are just not used to seeing Hugh Jackman in the in the cowl, if you will. So they just. They look. They just look like birds, don't they? Yeah. And you obviously cheeky Deadpool in in Serious Wolverine. I like the wings and the Wolverine outfit like that. The mask really kind of curve up and backwards a little bit. They really really kind of kind of brought those to life really, really well and then, you know do you want.
So obviously it was the it wasn't the Grammys, it was the Saturn Awards. Marvel won an award this this week. Kevin five guys wearing a daredevil our Deadpool hat there and on the back it's got the title. People can see it from a distance, but someone has supposedly got it out. And guess what? They think it's called Mike. And any idea just. Is it just Deadpool and Wolverine? It's Deadpool and friend Deadpool and my friend in Wolverine font, which kind of fits with that.
I think that's pretty funny for Deadpool, right? I think they're being very cheeky with this title, but I think we're going to get the release today during a Super Bowl spot. We're probably going to get a Super Bowl spot. It it seems obvious. And if you're listening to this show, you probably have already seen it and we'll talk about it on next week's show. But I think it might be fun if we want to add a little bit of extra surprise and delight to the show.
Chris, do you have any predictions on the trailer itself? Just any one thing that a listener right now could determine if you are right or wrong right off the bat as they already know? My guess is that this movie is going to start with this trailer is going to be Deadpool just doing something completely mundane like it like we're like he's like it. Like the thing with death was like the first leak was him sitting on a coloring on top of an overpass. Right?
Remember that when that came out and that came out, he's going to be doing some please, something completely mundane that you're like, this is what a normal person would do. But he's doing like a little bit of a Deadpool spin on it. Like he's either like maybe he's pressure watching a house or like doing a car salesman kind of thing. I don't know, just something real everyday, if you will. And the first to kick it off. What do you think?
I think I think the stinger at the end of the trailer is going to be some sort of shot of a collection of other deadpool's like I think for certain we're going to see dog pool and like maybe two other deadpool's as well. And then he'll make some sort of joke about, I don't know, having like an orgy with all of himself or something like that, but that'll be like the shot.
I don't think they'll reveal any extra characters, you know, outside of Wolverine that I'm sure will appear in the movie and it'll be a surprise. But I would be disappointed if the only reveal is Wolverine. Hugh Jackman I feel like that's almost pretty well known because it's been leaked over the Internet. Well, I would say the back half of my trailer is going to be the opposite of yours, where it's not Deadpool variance, it is the cameos they're going to.
They're going to blast us in the face with so many of the cameos that we've reported on for the past year, year and a half, We're going to see so many familiar faces and that's how they're going to sell it to everybody else. Like I could see that happening for sure, but I think it would be in the next trailer because I think this is going to be like, quote unquote, what they call a teaser trailer, which is totally lost all meaning.
But I think the first official trailer will have all of the cameos. And yeah, my guess. See, I think the teaser is the cameos in the first trailers, the plot of the movie. So I'm going to lean. I'm going to give them both are probably going to be wrong because that's how it works on the show. But I'm going to lean the other way. But I think that the rumor is Disney has about a two minute spot for this, up to two and a half minutes.
So we're going to get a full trailer during the show, make it a full length teaser, full length new trailer. It's not going to be a 15 or 30 seconds. Hey, go watch the trailer online because. This is you're listening. And you know, right now you have so much more information than last Sunday morning. Chris and Mike, have you? Boy, did we were we were we wrong? Were we wrong? We were going inside, but that's it. I'm excited for this. This is a high on my list for things to catch today.
So my guess is going to be at the start of the Super Bowl too. Mike They always do the Marvel trailers early on. They're not waiting for halftime for it in the DC world. Only got a little bit of news today because creature commandos is is in the news with Sean Gunn, brother of James Gunn, saying the series will release this fall on the Mac streaming service. And I would take his word on it because he's the brother of James Gunn. Boom in two, he's voicing both G.I.
Robot and Weasel, his character in Suicide Squad in this show. So I think he's got a little bit information that we would not have at the end of it. Yeah, he seems like a not quite a primary source, but genetically related to the primary. Someone who talks to the primary source probably more than anybody else.
Right on the unless you unless you know how to tag him in threads you can get on the James Gunn social media account threads unless you're on Vero with Zack Snyder because like every big director has like their own social media platform at this point. But yeah, I think I think I think well, we'll trust we'll trust what Sean says and tell you guys more when this is more officially revealed. The last two topics here we have our Paramount plus related Mike in the first one is Knuckles.
The six episode event series announced from Paramount. This is probably announced beforehand. I totally miss it. I just saw the trailer for this knuckle show, which is essentially follows knuckles from his reveal in Sonic two and features the returning voice of Idris Elba as Knuckles as he's just trying to maintain life on Earth. I guess it looks like after the second movie. So I did not know this was coming. I did not know they were doing the Knuckles TV show.
As you mentioned, they're filming Sonic three, Shadow of the Hedgehog right now, so it could have easily been part of that and we missed it along the way. Yeah, it seems like this is like I'm just kind of picking up on the story from the trailer. This is kind of like an archetype. I would say that I like. I don't hate when there's like a, there's like a big tough guy that, you know, takes no gruff from anybody which would be knuckles and you pair them up with kind of like a like a whiny baby.
And I don't know who this character is. I don't know if they've been introduced in any other way. In the previous film, but he looks like a whiny, soft baby. And I like the idea of like knuckles toughening him up. It's just it's just funny. It's like a scenario you would never imagine.
Like if somebody described the series to me, like, not only would you guess that there's going to be two live action sonic movies, Knuckles is getting a spinoff where he's just like a roommate and he like, turns the living room and that's like a fighting den. That's exactly how sonic the knuckles the game is, right? It's a game, Carter. It's a game, but you can play another games, then you can play his knuckles in those games.
So this is essentially they're bringing the game idea to life over Paramount Plus. But, you know, I agree with you. You have knuckles who is not who the opposite of sonic who's fast happy go lucky you know really you know he's essentially Goku if you will Sonic is Goku and this is a video we're getting. That's true. You got it right? Yeah. So we're getting the Vegeta show where he's like, No, you know, I'm a warrior. I'm a warrior race. You know, you have to build yourself up.
I'm not going to help you along the way. And that's essentially what he's doing. And then his sidekick is Mr. Satan, if you will. The crybaby is as Mr. Satan along the way. So I've done my Dragon Ball connection for the day. Mike, I feel happy about this, but overall it appears to be a premium event series, right? It looks just as the same as the movie would do. They have obviously the the knuckles model.
They were able again to get the voice actor to return that again, offhand voice actor for the show and it'll probably set up events for for Sonic three along the way as well is it's going to make you want to watch Sonic too, knowing there's more of the stuff coming. I mean, honestly, there's a lot of Sonic dropping in that that jury duty show, so it feels like everything around me is telling me to watch these sonic movies finally. So I really enjoyed.
The first See. Yeah, I think this is something know I know you're big, you watch stuff while you're working out like this might be something to work out. Show or work out movie for you. Yeah, I think. It could make me go faster on the elliptical. Absolutely. You've got kids. Kids are going to get into Sonic one day. You've got to prepare for this. They're everywhere. So. Yeah, I got I got to watch them to make sure that they're that they're suitable for my future.
I don't think you're going to have any worry about that at I think. But yeah, check it out. And this is paramount. Plus you know, obviously that said, the other thing from Paramount plus a drop this week and I was I actually forgot to tell you this, so I thought it would actually have been in the thumbnail instead of knuckles.
And that's Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the first trailer for the show giving us the art style and kind of story style for the show, which is confirming that stylized 2D animation that we'd theorize it would be telling stories about the turtles in school. Yeah, I watched this, almost made the thumbnail, but I was lazy and Photoshop isn't always the best at automatically clipping out 2D animation. It gets confused with some of the solid lines.
It's all of its algorithms are built around like more 3D forms. So I had like a couple ideas but couldn't quite get it to fit. But I think is a good way to just bring in like it feels like Paramount. Plus they're trying, you know, they're putting in their best college try right now. They got the super bowl. I don't know if their contract continues into next year at all, but. Each network has it. CBS has it this year, and that's why it's on Paramount. Okay.
So it's just like, okay, we got Paramount. Plus we got this knuckles trailer. We got tales of the teenage written into Turtles. These were both premiered on the big screen. And we're bringing them to our screen. Halo Season two, I heard was not good. No, I've heard I'm the other way. Halo Season two is way better than the first season wave. I. I heard back about it. That's fine. I've watched it so you can hear all you want.
I want I've watched the first two episodes is way better than the first season's More covenant, more Allie's more into the battles than the first season was. Compared to come back here. Yeah, you get to come back here after you finish it so we can get a definitive ruling.
So. Well, okay, let's continue with with your with your current floating review of like okay, Halo is turning into a franchise for them over that this this could be the moment in history if paramount plus becomes something bigger than what it is now. This could be the starting point of it all because I do like the effort, right? I loved I love Mutant mayhem. So the fact that they're bringing it to the small screen is fun. The trailers had a lot of energy to it.
It seemed like all of the voice cast is returning, which is where almost all of that charm came from. And then add in the unique creative art style from the film that just made it pop up even more. I mean, the 2D animation is A is a bit of a letdown, only because I loved the 3D style they developed for the feature film, but I think they're also doing something creative here with the 2D animation. They're being very loose. It feels like something.
It seemed like every panel is something that a high school kid, you know, would like to call in. They're like college ruled notebook, you know, in between classes. So it still kind of has that fun energy and vibe to it. So I think I'll check this out.
Yeah, I think they're doing two seasons and it feel small series and I think this is there's not a lot of weight on this like I'm going to watch it, but it's not going to deter If I'm like, I don't like the first one, it's not going to turn me from watching the second movie because they're kind of different, right? You mentioned visually different, you know, the ever putting. But I also think if it had done the three, we wouldn't have it this year. We would not be watching.
Tales of the Teenage Ninja Turtles in 3D and getting the movie would just be giving the movie next. So the fact they were able to get the voice actors and turning this around in like a 2D thing to me is pretty cool. I think it's interesting. I hate to bring it back to Fortnite, but Fortnite is doing a Turtles crossover right now, so turtles are huge in Fortnite like that. You can buy all four turtles there. There's a shredder event April and splinter on the map. You can talk to them.
Sonic is back from that like white nineties things that from our childhood right now right from early nineties are getting a huge push on Paramount. Are they leaning into that nostalgia air the 30 the 30 plus year olds right You know early forties. Yeah. You know people are now coming to this because the things I watched as a kid my kids can watch or I can watch with them along the way I'm paramount. Plus I think it's.
So weird to imagine that my child is going to have nostalgia for Avatar, the blue Universe, the blue Alien universe. Not the not the animated Nickelodeon. No, you already. Yeah, well, they might, because the Netflix show might be part of their, you know, the third season. While they're a small child, they can get into. It's just wild. They're going to have their own podcast in the future. They're going to be having the same discussions that we're have. Time is a flat circle.
The only thing that changes is the IP our future children talk about on the microphone. I was going to say graphic fidelity, but Turtles is going back to 2D animation, which is what we want. I mean. We talked offline in our our group chat earlier this week about how James Cameron has more ideas past his original run of Avatar. But know he expects that if that was to come to fruition, he would hand it off to like a different creative team, a different director.
So that means like kids in the future, they'll be talking about like, no, I like the Cameron Avatar stuff better. They'd be like, no, I liked, I don't know. Does does Donald Glover become an old season director? Who does he start directing like the second half of Avatar? Just like what a weird timeline. We yeah, it's it's there's a lot there's a lot going on.
But back to the topic here, I think with all eyes on Paramount plus this today, right, watching the Super Bowl, that is why they're putting their best foot forward right now. Right. That is why they like, hey, we've got stuff coming. We've got eyes watching this. We're gonna have our own commercials on here, our own ads. Go for it. I've actually had it up behind me before we loaded it. Just making sure all everything was signed in.
And they're really pushing Mission Impossible Fallout right now because you can stream it on there, too. So we'll see if we get any you know, hopefully they get some some sign ups and they can, you know, keep it, keep it rolling. I'm just praying their servers hold up. There's going to be so many people attacking those today. I let's let's hope the Deadpool trailer streams smoothly live and to our televisions today.
Exactly I mean they I mean normally it'd just be normal football people watch it but now they've got the Swifties watching Mike that's an extra couple a couple million on there that would not normally be watching the Super Bowl. True, true, true, true. So we'll see. But yeah, so I got to go get the Velveeta cheese in the crock pot. Mike. So I want to get going, working on my snacks for the show. Let's get out of here.
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