Hello everyone and welcome to Superhero Slate, the show we run down the latest superhero entertainment news. We love TV, movies and superheroes. Let's talk it all out. My name is Chris. And my name is Mike. And this week we've got the official Deadpool and Wolverine popcorn bucket. Mike. And it is exactly what someone else this kind of said is going to be. So, yeah, I was surprised I had to I had to kind of look over the posts like, oh, is this or is this a repost? Is is it fake?
Is this what has I, I has really put this in a weird place for everything. So we have to triple check. But it is real and we will talk about it. It's real. There's another one being teased as well. So you know I think every, every movie theater is going to have their own variations on that thing. But we'll, we'll talk about the official one from Marvel, I suppose, Giancarlo Esposito, the ultimate villain, I guess, of every franchise people love for the past year is joining the MCU proper.
And we've got an on set photo and some other stuff we'll talk about with him. James Gunn confirms Deathstroke will be in the DCU. Kind of the hero he he's on social media again. Mike, I know you're surprised and I'm surprised. He responded with an emoji. So people are like, yeah, this is confirmation. So we're going to we're going to look into it. But I would say, is this like our eighth Deathstroke in the past ten years? Well. Maybe it feels like it.
And you got to be careful with those, emoji responses. I think there is literal legal case law out there in the world where, like a contractor or somebody got sued because they sent over a thumbs up emoji, which the client interpret is as like, okay, yes, I'm going to be there and I'm going to do this job for this amount of money that you just sent over.
Whereas the contractor was arguing like, no, I send the thumbs, thumbs up just to let people know I got the message and I read it and they went to court for it. So, yes, the what I'm saying is James Gunn's emojis are legally binding here in the United States, and I'm just going to have to live with that. Threads. The social media made exclusively for James Gunn is where you're going to get this information. Something, other than the Zack Snyder social media video.
So we'll we'll we'll cover that. There's a no, I can't I didn't even think I was going to bring this up, but there's another social media thing floating around for artists right now. I think it's called Cara Cara or Kava Dune. Yeah, I'm kidding. But yeah, but, it's this. I swear this happens like, every other year where half the people I follow just be like, oh, I just made a new account on xyzzy. You can come catch me there now. I probably won't be posting here much and anymore.
And then nobody ever goes. They come back, they come back and it's like nothing ever change. I mean, I do get the due diligence of like whenever there's a new social media app, you know, go grab your handle, you know, just in case, you know, if something blows up, you'll have it locked down.
and they're going to this new one for good reason, because I guess it's being built from the ground up to protect your content from being scraped from are used for eye and scrape because they're using some of those like anti like they're using those like poison pill things, on images. that's like getting baked into the software of the app. So I think all that's really, really cool. But like man, it is.
I feel like I'm past that stage of my life where I can just, like, actively jump onto the next thing and put my heart and soul into it, you know? Well, since since Twitter is officially changed this URL to X now, right? That URL is gone. I don't even go there. I don't even trust sources there anymore. It's devolved. You know, I hear about I have a blue sky handle, but I don't know what to do with the blue sky handle. No, there's a thing called mastodon.
there's, the metaverse, which is supposed to be everything coming together, so I, I don't know either, but it's just nice to be in those, like, real, familiar homes, right? When you get on social media. Like, I know how this app works. I know what to expect here. So, poke me on Facebook. that'll bring back some of it. Yeah. I mean, I definitely don't need to shill or promote for, the met, Mega Corporation. but threads has at least been kind of a nice, somewhat return to what Twitter used to be.
I think people are just more casual when they don't have to attach a post to, like, an image or a story or a video. So you're kind of just getting you're literally you can get the exact same audience that you have on Instagram. I think there's like a button which just like follow everyone that you were on. yeah.
So I will say the one thing I do dislike is that exact thing is that it's a Facebook Instagram thread thing where like, I'm getting threads pushed to me in Instagram or Facebook, like they're all like, I don't want to cross-pollinate these. I want to be on one for a reason. I don't want to see the other ones. But oh, I get that. I mean, from day one, as soon as, Facebook started putting, stories in there, I refused to tap on it.
I was like, I'm never going to look at a story in Facebook, and I refuse to engage with it in any way, because I don't want them. They have the metric that this user tapped on it. I hoped that my protesting would have removed it from the app entirely. But, yeah, it's weird. It just seems like if you were to merge Instagram and threads together, it's literally just Facebook. and so it's weird over there in Metal World.
That's why you should just use the classic, RSS URL and the internet and just get podcast delivered to whatever device you like. I love RSS feeds, they are the quickest way to disseminate information as fast as you need it. So I would agree with that. I, you know, I'm I'm going to let you start off mike here because that actually leads into our first topic somehow, some way. So I'm gonna let you start off with what you've been doing this week.
But also this is like the first time in a while you, you've you've been able to watch things this week. Yes. the, what do we used to call this segment in the pandemic? I don't remember the corn stream. That's right. Yeah, yeah. The corn. Oh, you actually, you're falling back on your, old patterns. It. And in true, crisp fashion, it's nothing new. it's all revisiting things I just haven't watched in forever. It feels like. So, that's. We'll talk about it.
But you you you I assume you're talking, you're gonna talk about Reacher. I'm going to go and. Spoiler. I'm assuming it's a TV series, not the movie, right? Yeah, exactly. This is, to purely benefit my father, who has been talking about the character of Jack Reacher. I feel like for a decade now, ever since they cast the movie with Tom cruise, and he was like, I read those books. That character is supposed to be a gigantic man, and Tom cruise is the opposite of that.
And then he begrudgingly watched the movies and he was like, yeah, they're okay, but it's just not Jack Reacher. so, I do understand his, Not my Reacher. but, my parents were just here for the baby shower a couple weeks ago, and, Reacher popped up again as a topic. I don't remember now. We probably just talked about stuff we were watching. So I was like, you know what I'm going to do? My father, a solid Father's Day, is coming up here soon.
I'm going to sit down and I'm going to watch the first season of Reacher. So I don't know if my wife was begrudgingly accepting her fate that we were watching the first season of Reacher, but we had a pretty good time. I feel like Amazon Prime has this niche of kind of taking, like the CBS nighttime drama and kind of, injecting a little bit more money into it, skilling the episodes back, throwing in a couple curse words and some side nudity.
And they are kind of creating like a juiced up like NCIS or, you know, Law and Order with a little bit of edge, unrated ness to it. like they have like the Boches, they have, something that shows. Yeah, they have D&D shows and they're great. They've done. Shows. And Reacher is the epitome of a D&D show, but it's entertaining because if you've ever kind of watched One Punch Man, Reacher is kind of like a live action one punch man.
He's just this giant mountain of a man who has an extremely, sophisticated set of skills that he learned in the Army. And he's kind of like a Sherlock Holmes with, like, these giant pythons on his, torso. And it's fun just watching the, the creator of the show. Just how do we put this character in situations where he can just fight people and pummel them to the ground? entertaining. And it's a male fantasy TV show. Exactly. That's exactly what it is. But even my wife had a good time watching it.
yeah. Nothing against that. Nothing. Yeah, it's it's almost kind of like a problem solving of just like we have an unstoppable character, but we need to put, hurdles in his way and challenges, or we don't have a story here. so routinely they have to give, like, the thugs that he beat up like crowbars or, you know, big blunt objects that they can even go toe to toe with.
Reacher. And then I kept thinking the whole time, the only thing I knew about the actor that plays Reacher was like, he wants to be Batman someday, and people have been talking about it. So the whole time I've been watching this for a season, I was just like, yeah, he can be Batman. He's huge. Like he would fill out the suit. You could definitely see him go toe to toe with, goons in Gotham.
So I'm going to tell you because I know Alan Ritchson, he he's, he's he's big right now, both literally and figuratively. very huge man. He was Aquaman in Smallville. Yeah. If you remember, I think this is one thing that has drawn my wife to the show. It's like, yeah, is it Aquaman? And then he played the Hawk in, Titans. the. Oh, he was. Hawk of the Hawk and Dove. Yeah. So? So he has a history of that. and then for you, Mike, he actually played Rafael in the Bay Ninja Turtles movies as well.
That's like he is, despite the fact he's built like a football player and a wrestler. He is in all these nerdy things. Wow. I had no idea. Yeah, he was, he was. Raph. Oh, I'm going to have to rewatch those movies now. yeah, but I could definitely see him, being Batman. He even kind of has this, kind of brooding yet kind of charming side that, I think could work well for, like, a Bruce Wayne.
You know, depending on if Gunn wants his, like, Bruce Wayne, like, out in the world, like, doing business stuff. I think he could handle that, too. And, I could just see a lot of the Reacher stuff being brought into the show of. Just like Bruce Wayne walks into a room and he's a giant, and people have to listen to him, and that's scary. but the shows, the show is good. I mean, it's obviously it's not, you know, it's not the best crime drama
I've ever watched. It's not the most, tantalizing mystery I've ever seen solved. But, you know, it's it's it's just good enough to, to wear away, to wear away a weekend. So, Good. How have you. What have you watched? All of it. The two I watched. I watched the whole first season. We we we started watching the second season, which no complaints. It seems to be a very consistent show.
but we also are dabbling in some other things on streaming right now, so it'll probably take a little bit longer to go through season two. So the one thing I do know is because Reacher pops up in all of this up because of like, the roses plated and everything, but I'm doing show notes. However, they have cast an even bigger man than Jack Reacher, and in season three, like, I think the guy's seven foot tall, like literally seven foot tall for for season three. So I'm excited for that to come out.
And you to tell me how big this man really is. This is this is great. This is why I bring stuff up on the show, because I learn new things.
And also you, you were the first person to tell me that it was confirmed for a season three, which is great because now living in a streaming landscape, especially with Netflix, if I'm already invested in a show and watching it, I will not Google if it was renewed, because if it was canceled, the steam for me wanting to finish it will just, evaporate and I'll just I will not finish the rest of the show. So now it sounds like full bore ahead getting ready for season.
Yeah, it's. It's do is doing it's doing great. It's really capturing probably that 45 plus market. dad's he. Is so gigantic. Like I never thought like there just be appeal to just putting the largest person I've seen on screen before and just. Yeah, throwing him in a prison shower and watching him beat people up like it's awesome. It's kind of.
It's it's it's reminiscent of when you see kind of some of the action scenes in any, like, Captain America movie where he just puts his boot to a character and they fly across the room, you know. Well, well, so he's also in fast acts was the last thing I saw him and which. Oh. Is it, did you watch fast? I can remember. Is he, like, a henchman or something in it or. No, he's he's he's he's after Brie Larson's job. He's now like the FBI person. Oh. At the end of the movie.
Okay. Yeah, I can imagine so. So they're like like he he his physical structure. I'm like, yeah, they're going to put him in a fast movie because he's built like every one of those fast movies. They're they're they're muscle cars and muscle jockeys. He is like the he is like the most unknown, superhero comic book, action movie actor out there right now. It's like, maybe this is like him, his agents and his managers. They're just sitting all of the moves in place.
It's like we're getting you out there. Where have you in all of these franchises? And then, you know, maybe he land you get a pan role, and then his career, like he's the next Dwayne The Rock Johnson, you know? Oh yeah, absolutely. I would I wouldn't wish that on anybody. But yeah, maybe maybe he he is you know, the next big American action star. You know Bruce Willis is retired Jason J sits on American. But you know like all those guys like they're getting up there and age right.
He's a young guy. He's got he's got to come in and take over. Well it was funny I mean not to take any anything away from Arnold Schwarzenegger. But we finally sat down and watched, Terminator two Judgment Day. for the first time in a long time last night. And, you know, the when these terminators come back in time, they're naked. there's always a gratuitous shot of them, like standing, watching. A lot of side news.
And I was just like, oh, man, I don't think Arnold at his prime, which you might even considered the Terminator franchise, maybe the prime of his physicality. It's like, I don't think he's bigger than Reacher, which I thought was pretty crazy.
So, I don't know, maybe there's, advancements in the gym that has happened since then, but I. Think I will say you know, my last but this would be like, you know, there's a difference between physical, like screen physicality versus Arnold, who was actually about. Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. So so I'm glad you brought that up because I don't want anyone knocking on my door like annihilating me. Arnold Arnold skipped leg day and we all we all know it, in that regard.
But you know, you bring up you bring up Terminator two and what I've been doing, I'm like, you know, I bought a tube TV several weeks ago, a couple months ago, maybe, a big one. So I plugged in my 360, my Xbox 360. That has those old RGB cables in the back. Right. And, downloaded Plex, which is still available on Xbox 360. Wow. And started rewatching movies I hadn't seen in forever on there while I was working around the house.
And like, it's just something about watching old films on, like a tube. Like when, like when pixels didn't matter, right? Like you didn't have pixels on this, and these movies weren't made with pixels in mind. They were made with film in mind. You were just happy in color. You're just happy it was in color and you could get this TV down into your basement. Yeah, exactly. So I turned on Raiders of the Lost Ark this week. And, one thing I notice, I'm all four movies I'm going to listen.
I'm going to mention here audio mixing. when it's quiet and dialog, it's quiet. When it's actions as loud through the roof exist through all four of these movies. Mike. Like, I'm like, I'm going over there. Like changing the volume on the TV every couple of minutes because I can't hear it or is too loud. You know, it's funny. It's funny that you bring that up because I for some reason, I thought that that was more of a modern problem.
I thought that once everyone went flat screen on, all of the speakers, got, you know, embedded into the back of the television, or they were just wanting consumers to buy soundbars. I thought that was causing the problem of the big kind of gap between quiet and loud. And I feel like I don't remember doing that as a kid. But maybe, yeah, maybe I did, and I just blocked it out. Like I said, we were just happy to be watching TV.
Yeah. I remember, I remember my mom yelled at my dad, turn down the damn TV. and then it'd be way too quiet to hear anything. So he turn it back up, and this is it. Go on forever. So, I mean, nothing. Nothing. Guess it just happens. But Raiders of the Lost Ark. Really fun to watch on there. One of the cool things and I, we. I was talking to the the super fan Jim. He's like, you know he he brought up the thing like you know back then there was CGI, right.
And they had to hide the fishing wire and all the other stuff with the camera. And I was like, yeah, because obviously when you watch this, it's a little blurry because that's what the TVs were kind of back then. So it was fun to watch that. Then I dove into something related. The show My Batman Begins. When's the last time you watch Batman Begins? It's been a while.
Even when the that trilogy was still hot out there and, Blu ray DVD landscape, I would usually just go, no, let's just watch the Joker one. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And Batman Begins is very drastically different than the Dark Knight, right? Like Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan was diving into his first superhero film. It felt comic booky, right? There's a big, big, huge, was it train railway? Like they're building the city for Wayne stuff. He's he's doing the whole thing.
Which Iron Man borrowed a lot of this. He's like, oh, I'm in the tech space with, Morgan Freeman. What's all this stuff? Oh, we made it for, you know, the military, but they didn't want it. It's like, well, I'll take it kind of things. and to see that, to see Liam Neeson as racial ghoul, it really was wild. But I also forgot how much they leaned into the horror. And Batman begins with the Scarecrow as the villain for some of it.
And like, the nightmare stuff, like, you know, the citizen seen Batman with the glowy eyes, or there's a I don't know if you remember when Batman gave the Scarecrow his own medicine, like he was looking at was like he was a black demon. Like they had like a physical black demon in it.
So, I had I had a really good time revisiting Batman Begins because it is very much not the opposite, but very like leans into the fantasy of comic books, whereas The Dark Knight literally just goes the other direction. And I'm like, oh, there's a very much a line down the middle of what Christopher Nolan was doing and then what he wanted to do. with that movie down for that. I was yesterday, to to wrap up the evening, I watched the Rock with Sean Henry and Nicolas Cage and one of the best.
Action movies of my childhood. Exactly. This is the last movie I saw at the drive in theater in our town before they closed it down. I always love the theory that this is a the, an unofficial James Bond sequel, because it lines up when Sean Connery was James Bond, and. I, I've never heard I've never heard that before. I should I should rewatch it with the mind. Yeah. Because essentially he's a British SAS agent who saw some microfilm and got caught on the Canadian government border.
And he's the only person who's ever escaped Alcatraz. So like when you watch it, he gives you all these years and all this stuff, you're like, oh, this like literally if they wanted to say, this is James Bond, you know, Sean Connery, return it. It lines up and it's wild how it does that. but Nicolas Cage, this is a Michael Bay film, right, everyone? and boy, he set himself up for success or failure.
I don't know which one very early on in this movie because I'm like, oh, this is just a very we're going and we're doing action scenes, you know, obviously leaning into a lot of the military stuff. Nicolas Cage, this is where he starts to get a little more unhinged, right? He's popular. He can kind of do what he wants. Sean Connery, he's having fun playing the, you know, the straight faced person in here. it's wild.
And I always forget how long it takes to actually get to the part where they're disarming the missiles. Like there's a whole action scene chase in San Francisco, downtown, where Sean Connery is trying to get away from everybody. And there's, like, a big car chase scene. I forgot how much setup it is for the actual movie. Yeah, also, it's a good time. The prop design, two of that green goo, the jelly balls. yeah.
You know, I feel like there's always some sort of, MacGuffin object, you know, in these action movies. And they're always unforgettable, right? It's like a flash drive or, you know, it's a computer or, you know, some sort of weird microchip, but this is like. No, it's like it's poison. And I feel like usually you'd see that in, like, a canister or syringe or something. And then somebody had the bold idea of like, no goo balls loop.
Yeah. We're, we're going to put those popping jellies that you get at, frozen yogurt places inside. This is a this is a huge boba container. I don't I don't know what's going on here. And then I was always I was always very averse to, needles as a child. So the fact that in order to not die, you have to jam that huge thing into your heart. I was like, oh my God, I'd rather die. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It was. And, you know, it was fun for me to kind of like, look, I was looking up people.
This because this is a movie of like, who's who, right? I'm like, oh my God, it's Michael Biehn from Terminator. Like, you know, it's Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, like obviously Ed Harris, but like every like a bunch of side characters are like real, like people you see later on. Tony Todd he's like the voice. I think he was the voice of venom in Spider-Man two, and he played like the Candy man, right?
He's in there as one of the henchmen, Bokeem Woodbine, who is the shocker in Spider-Man homecoming, is in this movie is one of the people. So like, it's just hard to watch this. Like, oh, these people were just kind of getting rocking and rolling back in, you know, the mid 90s there. and and then right before we came on here, I turned on the original X-Men movie, because I wanted to, to revisit some of that, I guess the, the Golden Age of Superheroes.
Yeah. You wanted to rekindle the Hugh Jackman romance that we all have. Yeah. All these characters who were probably not coming back for Deadpool. But everyone says they're coming back for Deadpool. I wanted to get it, get a look at. Right. You know, yeah. You got, but it's just funny, you know, scene, like. Yeah, this movie just kind of starts off right away with, you know, the mutants being like, they're having the conversation about mutants need to be registered and all this stuff.
Then you get the your baby Hugh Jackman. Right? Just just a young dude compared to the old one we're getting now. it's so fun to see it. Obviously in Mechelen, chewing scenery up as a villain. Like straight villain though. Like he's like, oh, you know, Senator Kelly,
we're going to literally turn you into a mutant with my powers. So, it's just fun to watch what they were playing with back in the early 2000 and kind of see that kick off here, because it did kick off the one of the few music kicked off the acceptance of superhero movies was X-Men. despite the fact we make fun of it now and how cheesy and schlocky this it did, you know, was the first big movie, this blade Spider-Man, right? Kind of kind of did that for us, though.
absolutely. A good time with that. But that kicks us into our first topic here, Mike and I, I was I tied this up perfectly because it's on X-Men. And, actor Bryan Cranston, as you may know from Breaking Bad or maybe the more popular show Malcolm in the middle has met with Kevin Figgy, recently. But I will say, Kevin finally does do meet a lot of generic actor meetings. I don't think every body he meets with is up for a role.
He may just be meeting them to a throw people off or be just, because he has an ability to meet whoever he wants in Hollywood right now. Right? Yeah. That is that is interesting. You bring up a good point. I wonder how many of these meetings are just to, like, throw off, like The Hollywood Reporter. and deadline of, like. Oh, yeah. You want to come in for a meeting? I know you said you never want to be in a superhero movie, but it'd be kind of fun. You know? We'll make sure.
Can I buy? You can buy lunch? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, Bryan Cranston. I feel like it was so weird after finishing Breaking Bad and experiencing, like, honestly, one of the best stories I've ever watched in my entire life. And then the roles that he kind of took after that. I don't really know what motivated a lot of them, but nothing really came close to touching what he was doing.
in Breaking Bad, I mean, I, I just remembered he was in Argyle and I fucking hate that movie, so, I mean, he does seem to always be like a villain now. Well, he might be a good guy. Well, he was it was it was it Jerry and Marge go large. It was the couple that won the lottery money in Michigan recently. he was in that, he was in Godzilla, the 2014 movie. I'm like, I think he's split back and forth between good, bad, characters. Not not not the quality of it, but the he could be good.
But he did previously in an interview say, hey, if you want to be in Marvel, what do you mean? He's like, I'd like to be someone new. And but he and he specifically name Mr. Sinister, which is very much a very close line to his Breaking Bad character. Right? Instead of making meth, he's making mutant powers.
I mean, also, I would be very curious to know if somebody introduced him to the concept of Mr. Sinister or if he read comic books back in the day and was aware of Mr. Sinister because, I mean, I rank Cranston's already awesome. And I feel like if he was already aware of the character just organically on his own, he'd be even cooler than he already is. But I could see, I mean, Mr. Sinister, we all saw kind of him come back into our lives with X-Men 97. So yeah, I mean, he's hot.
They they kept trying to make him happen over at Fox and it never worked. They teased him for years at Fox for years. If they were like, we're going to give you Nathaniel A6 or A6 courts or Mr. Sinister. But they didn't. But you know, this also goes to what he said. He's like, I want to play a character that, you know, you can't compare versions.
He's like, I don't want to be a Commissioner Gordon, because then you'll be like, oh, you're, you know, you're comparing my Commissioner Gordon versus, you know, Gary Oldman's Commissioner Gordon kind of thing. So I was like, that's a fair assessment. You want to take a character and make it your own. And I would love to see him be Mr.. So he could be a good guy. Could he be an Xavier if you put him in X-Men?
Like if, you know, he's had the shaved head look before, and he's not overly, you know, to to up there and age like you wouldn't bring back Oh my gosh, I can't. He was named Picard. but, could could you see him as an Xavier in that role since he's had the had head shaved before? Maybe that's a possibility. To take away his mustache. Obviously, he he can't go to you can't have that. But,
Yeah. Anyway. Well, Bryan Cranston, if anyone out there has ideas of who you'd want to see him play, especially someone new who hasn't been done before, send them our way. We're interested moving into it. Literally. If I had a nickel for every time someone sent me the, first look at the Deadpool and Wolverine popcorn bucket this week, I could buy one with all the nickels I had. This is what we get for constantly talking about popcorn buckets for like, the last year and a half.
And I'm not. And I'm not complaining because I do love it. And I appreciate everyone who sent it to me. trying to be the first, actually, I think it was my wife who got to me before everybody else did. So she's encouraging this by any means. But, you know, Ryan Reynolds slash marvel. I think Ryan Reynolds shared it first. the the look at the popcorn bucket.
And, it is literally, the head is it's Wolverine's head with his mask on, but the head's not open, his mouth is open, and they even gave him a little tongue on it, which, like, it's a, I guess, like the mouth open, but like, it's so anime and chewy looking. It's a gaping mouth with a tongue as well. And the tongue, they even give you a nice closeup of it has like texture to it. So I think there might even be like multiple like levels of granularity to the tongue. And it's it's hilarious.
obviously, I instantly thought about the, the fan made, popcorn buckets that, artist, boss logic made a while back, which was kind of more of a traditional popcorn kind of cartoon with, like little holes on the bottom that were acting as Deadpool and Wolverine's mouths. So you kind of like. Yeah, which makes sense, because it's like a merc with a mouth, and then you eat the popcorn out of it.
but this kind of takes the concepting to a different level of like, this is Deadpool in the video kind of fetishizing the open mouth of Wolverine. And you reach. In, it's got the butter on his face, the butter drip sound in space even. I mean, it is a raunchy video by any means. and it says designed by Deadpool on the side. Like, you know, obviously it's, I, I'm, I usually I feel like I tend to lean like anti-capitalist, like, don't buy worthless plastic that you don't need.
But also, there's another part of my brain that's fighting that loves the idea of now every big kind of action movie that comes to the theater has to encapsulate their entire concept into a single vessel, and I just think that's a really, really funny. And it's going to happen because I think even AMC has stated somewhere officially that like, oh yeah, the Dune popcorn bucket was really, really good for us. Like, this is this is like the revenue streams that we need to like enhance more.
So I don't these popcorn buckets aren't going anywhere. so. But I say. I it's like a fun problem solving thing. In a capitalist world. Also, we can vote with our dollars for the ones we like and the ones we don't like. Yeah. So this is to remember that. So so in this situation, I think, you know, I, I like the idea of it.
This is not one that I think would sit on my shelf very well if I was going to be completely honest, for a popcorn bucket, like, because the Wolverine face is sticking straight up, like, do you turn it on its side and had the face towards you? I think depending on depending on the size of it, because it's kind of hard to tell on the video, kind of the exact dimensions, but I think this would make a hilarious, like bathroom trash can. Oh yeah.
You know something you could put between the wall and the toilet? You know, just think a little tiny. What put a box of Kleenex in it. So you're pulling Kleenex out? Yeah, that'd be funny. but, yeah, this is just. This is great. Yeah. And the other thing is, you know, obviously there's never one popcorn bucket to rule them all. I want to give us another shout out to super fan Jim.
His daughter went to the movies the other night, and they found, the, the generic popcorn buckets, the ones like the paper ones or whatever that you have that have Deadpool, Wolverine on it that we had, like the leaked images on several months ago. So, so those are there. But Regal also was like, oh, you think that's the only popcorn bucket we have? We're going to tease ours.
So I've included our link in our video here, and it kind of looks like a professor X chair, if you will, but at the same time, I don't know because it's a popcorn and drink holder, at the same time. But I think it's I think it's a professor X chair. Mike, what do you think? Well, yeah, I mean, I can't imagine, like, what other iconic chair, you know, exists in this universe at all.
at first I was thrown because the kind of the TVA warning shows up at the end of it, and I was like, they're iconic TVA chairs. I was like, no, it has to be Professor X's chair. But they do go out of their way to not show the front of it. So I'm curious if maybe if, like, dog pool is like sitting on the chair or something like that, you know, because I could see them not showing the whole thing because it's like a teaser.
Obviously, but it seems like they're hiding something in the chair, and it's probably not a whole person because you would be see them, like coming up from behind. So I'm thinking we've seen dodgeball in the trailers on the marketing pretty heavily, or maybe head pool and we've seen a floating head. So something I think is going to be in that chair. My guess is my guess would be dog pool. Yeah. And honestly, I can't you know, that they have not even colored it.
So my guess is it's also going to be colored differently as well. So if it is a Xavier chair with dog pool in it, like it would be yellow when it comes out right at the end of the day. But the fact that it's both a popcorn bucket and a drink thing. Sign me right up. I want to I want a dual purpose thing to have in my lap while I'm watching these movies.
I will say the second thing is I don't have a regal near me, so if anyone has a regal near them and wants to like a brother up, you know all that shout out to me. Well, so if we're talking, you know, AMC and Regal, I would, I would hope maybe one day they'll be a movie, big enough to, have a third popcorn bucket at, like, a Cinemark, you know, what else. Can I. I love this Cinemark is is my my go to theater, so. Absolutely.
I they're probably going to be like, look at the numbers of views we have on this. Who could get us a popcorn bucket in two months? Let's go. Let's get let's get going. We got to get this. Or even if it's out of popcorn, I know they did drinks. Stuff like Ghostbusters had special cups and toppers for that I, I could get down with the special drink thing at Cinemark in a popcorn bucket.
I think one thing that I would like to do, Chris, and maybe I'm pitching this right now on the show, we created a new page on our website where me and you, are constantly in a conversation, ranking the best, popcorn buckets. We don't even have to. We don't have to justify it in any in any, clear a thought out way on the site. But it'd be cool if people there was a page that they could go to and just see the popcorn buckets that have been out there in the world and where we choose to rank them.
Kind of like tier lists of popcorn buckets. Right? Okay. And I think that would be fun. Can you embed those tearless from the websites, the ones that are like s ABCd. Yeah, I think, I think you can but I guess that's the next question. Do we think they need to exist within a tier, or should we make, a true, line in the sand and, and rank them from, like, best? first, second, third?
I think I think tier is fine because like, again, I think if you start ranking them like I think the tiers fine, because obviously you try to rank things like this, you got to update your rankings every once. So I think we just do a tier, just move the tiers around. That's a lot less work for us. So I'm gonna be honest, I this is a lot of work already sounding. And I'm like, let's just do the tier thing. We just move it around as we, we do. Like these are the must haves. These are the goods.
These are the okays. These are the. And this is the. What the hell were they thinking? Hey, I think it's out. Well, guess. Yeah. I mean, I guess before we, roll on and roll away from the popcorn bucket, I will go ahead and say, I mean, everyone's probably going to think, oh, the dune popcorn bucket. That's got to be number one. That's got to. Be it's not number one. I have one. And I don't think it's number one. I think honestly, I don't own it.
I haven't even seen it in person. But I think that, I think the, ghost trap from Ghostbusters is. I have that, that. That is just one that I've seen personally. I, I would put that in my s tier and I will tell you why for two reasons, Mike. One, it comes with a detachable popcorn holder. It's a purple thing that looks like the light coming out of the trap, so you can clean that itself rather than the whole machine.
And then the trap can sit like the little thing, fold over and close up and consider and stuff it and looks like a real ghost trap with rolling wheels and articulating knobs on it. So I absolutely agree with you. And now I would say go ahead. This might have to be maybe a separate tier list, or maybe we just have to kind of totally quarantine this list off to just movie theater popcorn buckets. But we do know that theme parks are heavily invested in the popcorn bucket, legacy.
And, there is, Toyota, Pixar pizza planet truck. Oh, yeah. popcorn bucket. That is a my. Wife would have something that my wife would have some things to say about. the I will, I will say I would, maybe maybe it's just popcorn slash drink vessels because one of my favorite ones is actually from a Disney park. It's Thor's hammer that that folds up, and you put a drink in the top so you don't have the water. Yeah. Maybe drink. Maybe.
In order to make it onto our official superhero slate list, the popcorn bucket, if it's outside of, like, you know, like an AMC or Regal or Cinemark or whatever, it has to be tied directly to a movie franchise. Yeah. so if you're like at Disneyland and there's like a figment popcorn bucket that don't count, like, okay, I don't think that is in the spirit of our guest, so. Well, maybe I maybe if I get a bee in my bonnet here this week, I'll start kind of collecting images for these.
Yeah. If I get some free time this week, Mike I'll start working on that too. Oh, I love this. Yeah I yeah so I, I, I like, I like let's go. Maybe we could just have like a midweek. We're going to. You mean you just get on discord. We're going to talk it out. We're going to do it live on the screen. Share. Yeah. Then we can start loading those assets. But yeah. Awesome. If anyone has some ideas, send my way. Absolutely. Love. Love it. Thank you again for sending over all these popcorn buckets.
Moving on to a topic here that we actually talked about way too much before the show, because we can't believe this, is happening and it's, Captain America Brave New World was going through reshoots minimum 22 days, but they have confirmed, Giancarlo Esposito, Gus Fring himself, whoever he is. And, the boys, I forget what his character's name is in there. he's in, you know, Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian. He is in a marvel movie now. He is filming. Currently, he loves a big gun.
He loves his knives. I've also heard from people on set. He has an ax under one of those, trench coats in there. Mike, who's he playing? I have no idea. I mean, I mean, no one. And I feel like this spins off like a whole nother conversation of, of. I just want to know what's happening to this movie. That's all I want to know.
This is this is the a first for us on the MCU track, where I was just talking about it last week, where we need some sort of, like, highlighted timeline that shows projects that have kind of been infected or trace infected by Bob Chapek, chair, the Disney Corporation. and unfortunately, this movie is one of those and, they are doing their best to fix it. And we've never seen triage like this before.
You know, Kevin Feige has been praised in his career at Marvel for being able to find the movie in the edit, which is one of the things that he does best. And also subsequently makes the, some of the TV offerings not as great on Disney Plus because you can't really do that with TV. You got to plan a lot more ahead of time, a lot more hours of content over there. But this is the first time where it seems like this movie cannot be saved in the editing, because we just need to add more.
You know, when you edit something, you're primarily taking stuff out. You know, I suppose there could be, you know, maybe shots that you thought, well, there's you just can't change the story that much, you know? Yeah. There's minimal reshoots to, to, to to add a little things and. Right. But 22 days of reshoots is not a small task. Adding a, a high value, big name actor in a brand new unknown role that's a huge that's a huge change. Right? We've got another one we're going to talk about here.
They've changed the entire look of an actor who was already in this movie, which, again, according to reports, was was screened last year. Even so, like this, this movie is being retooled entirely. It seems like maybe not from ground up, but like, this is kind of like a Daredevil Reborn scenario, right? But in the film situation, we're like, we've got to spend maybe, maybe 51% of this movie needs redone here, here. And it's like everyone out there has watched a movie before you.
If you don't know of it off the top of your head, you've you felt it. There's a structure to every film that you've watched, and if you start to pull pieces out, you have to put pieces back in. But also make sure they connect. It's like one big puzzle. So I'm just, I, I don't know if we'll ever quite know this. How much of the movie has changed from when it was, you know, originally assembled, but I just desperately like, want to know, like how much is going into this?
It's like, it's such a large scale to. Right. I'm sure things like this have happened with other movies before, but when you have such a high profile project like this, and we know a lot is on the line for Marvel at the moment. right. Yeah. I'm just so curious. You and I would even say this is maybe, maybe one of those movies that requires, like, a documentary leader, right? Like, you know, a year or two after it's out, it's like, hey, you know, how do you know? How do we get to Brave New World?
How do we go from New World order to Brave New World kind of thing? And I would love to I would love to do this, but I don't think it's going to bother me right now. I think this is a lot of work, and they're not going to do a lot of work to make a mid movie at the end of the day. So it sounds like they've got a good idea of what they need to do to retool it. They're coming in and doing a bunch of a bunch of filming.
But you know, the thing I was gonna say here, Esposito, his role, he's not just in this movie, he's apparently also going to appear in the TV series, according to him, possibly even before he shows up in Brave New World. So maybe he'll be in Daredevil Born Again. because, you know, we know they're working on that right now as well. before it comes out. Yeah, I guess that could be a possibility for. one of the characters as well.
You know, the rumors he could not a rumor people are online speculating out the ass on this. so a character named cutthroat who has ties to the Serpent Society, who reported on being in this movie before. And honestly, you know, you brought you've seen you've seen articles, Mike, online. Are they even still in this movie? Right. Why do we need the Serpent Society in this movie? and did they take him out to, to make it better?
Well, one of the things that we're going to talk about is one of the characters is shown up. Actually, we'll just do it now. Diamondback, played by Rosa Salazar. She was on set last, set from last year, two years ago, with blond hair. She's now in with bright pink hair. Mike. The pink is hair I've ever seen in my life. gives Nicki Minaj a run for her money without pink. This is, is is now on set filming in a comic book accurate look because diamond back in the comic books has pink hair.
So I've also included the old link so you guys can compare it to to that in our show notes. because she's still got the arm tattoos. So they really, you know, they're even bringing characters back in, already filmed all their scenes and giving them new scenes with new looks. So it's not just, hey, we did a script rewrite. We also did some visual changes on this movie as well. Right? Like, visually we're changing things to make it better. It's just so crazy.
Just imagine any Marvel movie that you've watched. maybe outside some of the larger ones that just are have tons of characters on them, right? Just imagine any movie and then just plop a new character in it, you know, plop, drag, and drop Carlos Esposito into, Captain America Winter soldier. Right? You know, you like you can't just add a character and put them in a room, right? You can't just, like, have a cutaway shot to him. Like, people have to talk to them.
He has to have conversations with other people. You know, there's action sequences where if he's thrown a knife or thrown an ax, like it's got to hit somebody that's already been cast in the movie, right? So, like, so I'm so curious. I'm going to disagree with you because that's what they did with Hawkeye in the first Thor movie. He was not in that movie. And if you watch like he's just like in, like, one of those little birds nests or whatever sitting up there watching Thor the whole time.
If you go back and watch that movie. Hawkeye was added in post-production. I could see that being. I'm not saying that's a good example, but like, like, like he like they could add him in, but like, you're not going to be adding like, you can't just, to your point, what you're trying to say is they're not gonna put a character in who has dialog, who's talking to them without re filming the other people reacting to that dialog.
Yeah. It just seems like we're going to have a we're just going to have a totally different, movie here. Just makes me nervous. You know? And no, it makes me nervous based on how bad it was before for UN reports. Like, people like, I don't like this. This is not good. It's got, CPec fingerprints all over it. Let's just retool it and do something different. They weren't doing this, and they were just like, oh, we're just going to fix the editing. Then I would be very, very concerned.
But to push it back a whole year and to do this much, I, I'm excited to see what they're doing with it. but the reason we had this is they're filming outside in Atlanta, with the police chasing the Falcon. There's car explosions, Hannigan fight sequences, Carlos Esposito there. So it's not like he's just in on the street being filmed. He's actually doing the action scenes as well with us. So, hopefully we find out who he is.
I mean, once they start, once they start showing set photos, they're like, okay, I guess we're going to have to announce somebody, yeah, sooner or later for the movie. So we'll see if we get anything. we are now officially in June. And you know what happens the month after June? July San Diego Comic-Con is in July. So we'll see if maybe they bring some of the stuff they're like. And D23. Do you know when D23 is, is that this year or is that. Yeah, they have one there.
There's one happening this year. Okay. Is that what month is added. Do you know. guest maybe August. September. Yeah. August 9th in Anaheim. So maybe, I don't know, maybe we'll see if if they maybe save some of this stuff for D23. Yeah. Along the way as well. Good. Be well. Well, now moving on. This is a rumor zone. this is not a hard and fast as we just talked about, but, Thunderbolts.
the rumor is that the the characters Yelena, US agent Ghost, and Taskmaster are sent to eliminate a target in a vault and then realize they are sent there to essentially not make it out die in this vault. so this is where I put the asterisk. Is this the sentry character? Are they going down to kill the sentry and then find out? You know, obviously there's a sentry there, and, he's much stronger than them.
the rumor is also that they team up to bring down Contessa Valentina Liger de Fontaine, otherwise known as Val, going forward. but is she. Would she maybe enlist the sentry as a bodyguard against the team in that situation? So the rumors are, you know, obviously the sentry is going to be on one side of this or the other, but like, it seems to be a little Suicide Squad, if you will, at the top.
Yeah. I'm kind of curious how this movie is going to carve out its own original take on kind of a group of anti-hero slash heroes. because I was also thinking of the last season of The Boys as well, where they find I don't remember the guy's name, but the Captain America, equivalent in the boys universe. as a golden boy. Golden boy.
Maybe that sounds about right, but very kind of similar things happening there with, like, Overpowered Hero that's been locked up and, you know, so yeah, I'm kind of curious how they're going to find their own way, tell their own original story. But, I know you're excited, Chris. Any any news of this show that has the word of the century in it. We're off to? Yeah, yeah, I'm doing that.
I also feel like the more you read about this, the more it feels like this is like maybe a sequel to Black Widow. More than, like, more than, the Winter soldier or The Falcon and the Winter soldier. Right. With everything that's kind of going out, like, sounds like obviously you want to use Florence Pugh. The biggest name actor. Actress in here, you know. So it feels like it could be a Black Widow sequel, especially with Val being there at the end of Black Widow.
So we're going to see what this was like. There's a lot of questions. but they are filming. I'm very excited to kind of see where this kind of goes down to, and, see what, see what goes on, in this movie, as they keep going forward, I guess we'll know more probably we'll probably get they'll probably show some footage at Comic-Con, and they'll have to fight online to see who leaked it for me. So we'll see.
What does that in surprising, rumors reports for me is that a Thor five, is looking to film fall 2025 for a post secret Wars release. So they're now searching for a writer or director, right now. maybe more director than a writer. They probably have some story ideas already, but they're looking to to to do this. and it ties in our next bullet point here. But I was like, why? Why Thor? And two things kind of popped up. Mike. Right. this is the surprising me.
I didn't think they'd do a Thor five, so I'm going to be completely honest. but if you go back and listen to what Bob Iger says, he's returning the returning two characters that are proven right. Marvel, focus on franchises. Thor The Love and Thunder. Despite it being critically not the best Thor movie. as we said, it's fine. It's just a fun little watch. It's nothing serious. compared to Thor, right? Which was much better before it. It made more money domestically.
Thor Love and Thunder than Ragnarok. still over 750 260 million worldwide. Which makes it, you know, the second highest Thor movie. So they probably saw those dollar signs, and especially with merchandise and like Thor is a viable franchise. We just can't have Taika Waititi touch it again. Right. So, I have two thoughts on this, bit of news. First of all, are we really supposed to be getting Secret Wars? before 2025 or at some point in time? No, no, this is filming 2025 to release in like 2027.
So okay. Sorry, sorry, this not releasing 2025 is filming 2025. So they have about a year and a half. We haven't even gotten this Kang Avengers movie yet. Yeah, and I'm sorry. Sorry. That where this is. Sorry. This is. It's going to release Secret Wars. But they had to film it in 25 to do that. And I feel like second is, I feel like, the the MCU is always good at pulling punches for the sake of revealing something bigger later.
I feel like the the the art of the tease in the MCU was palpable in those first couple phases of like, oh, you're not ready for what we teasing? Just get ready. Just get ready. and I feel like now they're like, we need to get people back to the theaters. we need to bring the art of the tease back, and we can't hold some of these characters back anymore.
So I got to imagine that if there's going to be a Thor or Five in that trailer, if we don't see battery Bill already, like, oh, yeah, like, you gotta you gotta invigorate the fan base. You gotta get people who are, you know, more novices of watching this trailer going, what is this weird horse character? This is wild, you know? Oh, yeah, we need you need something like that to invigorate the Thor franchise. Just, you know, a character that we've all been waiting for already.
Yeah, just give it to. Just give us beta Ray bill already. And he has his own hammer, which was called Stormbreaker. Actually, in the comic books. They can't do it now. But, you know, post multiversal, if all the multiverses merge into one, there's one prime universe or whatever they want to call it. You know, having been rebuilt ship with the hammer and being an antagonist to Thor and then friends for the friends that later, you know, once they figure it out.
I think that's a great buddy story, right? Like, I would love to see two hammers go into town and, you know, them fighting for using all their power rather than just, you know, Thor loving that. It's just too silly him talking to that his the acts like being jealous of of near was kind of weird along the way. So, we need to get back to Thor being an action star, being a badass,
and just kind of really showcasing that he is a god right in the universe. So, I created battery Bill, one of my one of my other favorite characters. I enjoy a bit rate Bill on the same note. apparently they have a writer slash script. or at least an early script for a Scarlet Witch movie. And now they're looking for a director for the silliest movies that would release before Secret Wars. So this would be in one of those gaps.
Remember when we saw the timeline years ago and they had some gaps before secret Wars? this would be one of those movies in there. And again, I for Thor, I use the numbers because I don't I don't have enough numbers for Scarlet Witch, but based on the announcement of the vision movie or vision series recently last week and the success of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and people saying we want more Scarlet Witch, WandaVision, this is a character who's viable.
Bring her back one more time, to and then bring her in the Secret Wars, right? Yeah, she's she's great. I just started, rewatching, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, during my workout. So working through it chunk by chunk. And she is just. She's such a a powerful part of that movie. I mean, we had, you know, some complaints of the the character she was playing didn't quite line up with where she ended in WandaVision. So there's still some kind of unanswered questions there.
But still, if you look at it, you know, just on its own. She's great in it. I love her power set. It's visually interesting to see on screen. by the time she has a movie coming out, you know, like you said, we maybe would have a vision show in the in the, in the bucket. We would have an Agatha show in the bucket, you know, more witch stuff that they can kind of, play off on in a feature film.
And she has, you know, has proven she's one of the few characters who has a multiversal variant already, right? From Doctor Strange. when she goes to that universe where the where her kids are still alive, if you will. So, you know, they could pull from multiversal variants that maybe they, the Scarlet Witch is giving them a different. You know, maybe it's not the the MCU version, some other version. So they have a lot of things they could do with it.
But, I think she could be instrumental in setting using her magic to create the planet for Secret Wars. At the end of the day. Yeah, maybe. So, I, I do I don't want to see the after and secret words I think beforehand would be great, but they are looking at these characters who have, viability and, you know, Thor Money maker. Send them out on a good note. Scarlet witch moneymaker. Send her out on a good note. Right. I think that's what you want to have here. And, that's fine with me.
Deathstroke. We talked about at the top of the show. James Gunn has, quote unquote, confirmed plans to have Deathstroke in the DCU by using a winky emoji, on, threads. Yeah. So he has he has winked to us. Please wink if you have plans for Deathstroke. I'm waiting for my boy to shine. For so long. No one's waiting for Deathstroke. Yeah. How much content you have with Deathstroke out there? People like, go watch all of arrow. Arrow was about Deathstroke.
you know, he was, mind you, in the in credits scene of the Snyder first movie was Batman v Superman. but, like, you know, we we've seen Deathstroke out there. But, I mean, Joe Manganiello in the suit looked really, really cool. We never got to see him do anything. I mean, Deathstroke is a really, really cool character. but I wouldn't say, like, I'm dying to see him on the screen. You know? It's weird. It's such a it's such a whiplash, right?
We're talking about this, you know, very late in stage, Marvel storylines and characters, you know, bringing in these obscure people. And then we're shifting drastically over to DC of like, oh, Deathstroke, one of the, like, mainstays of, you know, the DC villains. And we haven't even gotten that on the screen yet. Like the the Marvel equivalent of Deathstroke had was in Marvel a long time ago. So yeah, this is a it's a fun whiplash in my head happening.
Yeah. I think also and I don't know, because I didn't watch Titans, I think he was in Titans as well. the TV show because obviously he, he has a history with Titans. He was the villain of, Teen Titans. Go to the movies, right? Deathstroke play, voiced by. was it Joe Manganiello? No no no no no, it's the comedian from Arrested Development. The brother. Oh, Will. Will Arnett, Will Arnett. so absolutely. He's been around forever. He's a lot of stuff.
But if there is a there's a rumored very heavily rumored live action Teen Titans movie in the works at DCU. This will totally go against Gods and Monsters. the part one. so we'll see if it comes fruition. But if they are working on Teen Titans movie, then my guess is a live action Teen Titans movie would use their traditional villain Deathstroke as, the main villain in that movie. So I don't know, I think, you know, Teen Titans would be interesting if they. I didn't watch Titans.
I don't know if that got any good. Later in this five seasons, but, like, I'd love to love to see them maybe branch out a little bit and some of these other things. Maybe Young Justice, right, instead of Teen Titans along the way. But we'll see also, one of the late additions to I believe it was what's that? Legends of Tomorrow was Booster Gold, played by, Donald Faison. The I pronounce his name like I forgot scrubs.
but, so they're looking to cast Booster Gold for the TV series and the three frontrunners for the role. Rumored to be Dylan Playfair, who's known from, one of the hockey boys from Letterkenny. Fionn Whitehead, known for, Dunkirk in some other movies. And then, Patrick Schwarzenegger, who was recently in Gen V, looks like they're going with just, a mostly young white dude to play Booster Gold with some blond hair. I didn't even know. the guy from Gen V, is he, like, see, like a Schwarzenegger?
Oh, yeah, he has the. Yeah, he's the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh, I had no idea. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Booster Gold, you know, he talked about having Blue Beetle. solo. I, I can't pronounce his last name, Will butcher, but the guy from the movie is going to be in there. The guy called Bush Gold is a character who has essentially what's it called? imposter syndrome.
He's supposedly a superhero from the future, but he just stole a bunch of technology and and time machine and came back, and he's pretending to be a superhero even though he never was one. But he accidentally, I guess, becomes one along the way.
So, but, if you look at Booster Gold, he's just been got a blue and yellow suit, big yellow goggles and some blond hair kind of going on here, I, I don't they've not really, really, truly announced the show, so I have nothing else to go on, but, I mean from other Kenny is. He's pretty funny. I can't see him being this role, but that's just a. I'm, I'm I'm rooting for him just because it's the most out of the box. I never would have thought in the back of my head to go that direction.
So go that direction. Yeah, absolutely. I would love to see that. And especially the Blue Beetle. The actor was relatively unknown as well. So, can I, can I go that route? Lastly, something that's exciting slash sad at the same time. is the final, season of Umbrella Academy. Season four is coming on August 8th, and we have our first trailer for this, and it's in a different universe yet again, because that's how the seasons end and start. And The Umbrella Academy, but they don't seem to really.
The family's all there. Everyone's alive again, but they don't seem to really have their powers or their memory. maybe maybe there's more powers. But I'm excited to watch this show and see how it wraps up. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I watched the I watched the trailer. And this is the downside of the binge model of it's just been so long since I've watched an episode of Umbrella Academy that I forgot how much I love the show. Like I love Umbrella Academy so much.
I, after I watched the trailer, I was watching some related clips, so I rewatched like the footloose, dancing scene, which is just a great encapsulation of the show in general, because you get to see all the characters do their own, kind of like dancing and just the tone of the show. And I mean, Umbrella Academy and The boys are kind of some of the best superhero stuff on television right now, and they're both coming back this year, which makes me very excited.
I'm it's nice to see Umbrella Academy getting a fourth season. They're going to wrap it up. You know, it's coming from the perspective of this is the final season. There's not going to be any sort of like cliffhanger where Netflix can't cancel it. So it's nice that it's going to be a it's going to be a whole complete story, which is something we rarely get.
And I do kind of wonder, I don't know if Netflix is kind of in this position anymore with them trying to kind of curb budgets and maximize profits phase of the company. But I feel like in another version of Netflix, maybe we would have like a spinoff announced by now, you know, of one of these characters because a show so popular. Yeah. Well, the thing is, and I put it here, like they've actually like the the writers are way in and the artists can't name there.
They haven't made any more books, so they're out of books to follow. Like even this one is not based on a comic book. So they're kind of free, free for a minute here. So, absolutely. I'd love to see, you know, I get more content, but I am happy to know that it is a, hey, we told the story we want to tell. We're going to end it on the note, we want to end it.
And we don't have to worry about setting things up for another character, kind of in a different universe, because I would love to see what number five like his his like, since he can time travel and all that stuff. Like I would love to see like, oh hey, here's an episode of how he got to the future and like, lived in a different timeline from the first season. Right? Stuff like that. Because he's like essentially a 60 year old and,
you know, 12 year old's body along the way. But, but I love I love the, I included the logo on our live stream here and they're using, like, you know, orange, green, yellow and red is like the colors like, like kind of like a stoplight kind of thing. And they definitely leaned into that a little bit. that's that's kind of new for them to have different colors in the. Yeah, I think they're, they seem to pick like a pretty strong branding motif every season, which I think is pretty cool.
And they seem to be doing like Metro Subway stops. with this one, I would assume that leans into the idea that if I remember right from the end of the last season, all of the characters have been separated from one another, so they're all going to be living their own unique lives, and they may or may not remember each other. So I'm guessing that this is like a subway map of them trying to come back together and rekindle.
And there's a shot in the trailer, which is just hilarious, where they're all in this, like rickety old black, van. And then there's like, Diego's getting, like, pumped in the front seat. He's happy to have everyone back together. So this is. Yeah. This is great. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I'm excited on Netflix. I'm excited to dive in, check it out, and we'll we'll probably talk about it after that comes out. but that's it, Mike, that that's the show for this.
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