So the Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier, obviously
we did our Thunderbolts review last week in our
spoiler talk. We both really enjoyed Thunderbolts
Deadline is reporting that they are eyeing him
to do the first X -Men movie in the MCU immediate
thoughts Yes, yes, I think because of how well
he handled all the mental health aspects and
all those like deep kind of like interpersonal
relationship stuff in Thunderbolts Because of
how X -Men is written I think that shows somebody
who can really get like that triangle between
Scott and Jean and Logan and and like the the
relationship between rogue and give like you
have to be able to do interpersonal relationships
really really well to do an X -Men movie, right?
So Love the idea. We like this idea. I Like it.
It's early talks according to Deadline and unknown
where they stand in the deal -making process,
but It looks like he's near the top of the list
To do this and I think that his showing with
Thunderbolts gave Kevin Feige a lot of faith
That he could do it so Alright next quick hit.
This one's kind of sadder, right? it looks like
Matt Reeves may be stepping down as the director
for Batman 2 Right. He did a great job with the
Batman one There's been some reporting in Deadline
in the Hollywood Reporter that he's been having
him or somebody in his life Very vague has been
having some health issues. Hence why the Batman
2 keeps getting delayed It looks like the Production
Weekly is showing that he's still the screenwriter
on it, but that he may have stepped away as the
director first question Does this give you? more
worried that they're just going to scrap this
project? Well, no, I think they're going to push
on regardless, because I think the numbers behind
the Batman were really good. I know. Seven hundred
sixty five million dollar gross on like one hundred
and twenty million dollar budget. Solid. So and
that the the Penguin show that took place right
after the Batman, that was a critical and commercial
success for them on Max. I just don't know who
they get if Matt Reeves has to step away. That's
gonna be James Gunn has got a real he's gonna
have a real tough time replacing Matt Reeves
Yeah, I agree You know I At the end of the day
right like Him or his family like he he should
prioritize family over like creating another
Batman movie. I totally get that I totally do
Hopefully everything is okay in his life. Um,
but yeah, I mean, this, this is part of like,
uh, I don't know part of living, you know, trying
to solve problems and figure this shit out. It's
going to be interesting. I hope they don't fuck
it up, but, but no, like overall, like if, if
he needs to like focus on his family and stuff,
I hope he does. Yeah. I would hate for someone
to be like, oh yeah. Like I, I don't know. I
didn't go to a funeral. or I got a divorce just
so I can make another Batman movie, right? Yeah,
no, absolutely. But I won. I don't think it's
going to be canceled because like you said, The
Penguin Show. Dear God, that was so well done.
I loved every aspect of the first movie. It's
great. Penguin was great. Yeah, solid. All right.
Next quick hit topic. They obviously spoiled
the title stuff regarding Thunderbolts and what
the asterisk means. They did it very quickly
after the movie came out. Did they reveal that
publicly too soon? They only waited until like
Monday to spoil it. Did they? Yeah. Yeah. We
obviously saw it on preview night, so we knew.
But there was a lot of conversation early this
week online about whether they should have waited
a few more days to to give away that spoiler.
I me personally, I think it was a very smart
marketing move because I think it so one you
keep sitting in the talk. Right. So you had your
opening weekend, which was hopefully really good
and really big. Right. And then how do you make
sure you keep people coming in? It's like, hey,
those of you that maybe aren't comic book nerds
like this isn't such a random, weird group of
people. These are the new avengers. Yeah, like
you should go watch it and it probably I it probably
worked on some degree like people were like,
oh shit These are the avengers like I do have
to go see this movie now. I don't know I think
it was smart Okay, um next one We found out earlier
this week that GTA 6 is not coming out this year,
much to the happiness of many game publishers.
It's going to be landing in May of 2026. They
released a new trailer that looks amazing that
apparently was recorded only on a standard PS5,
not even a Pro. First off, are you surprised
that GTA 6 is being delayed again? And it will
be 12 years. From GTA 5 to GTA 6 almost 13 and
and and do you think the weights going to be
worth it? Something I've not looked into too
much I did see a headline that was like think
something like 60 to 80 percent of gaming PCs
will not be able to play I'm buying it for my
ps5 already decided But are you surprised about
the delay I Not not really a Game that's been
in the works for 12 years that has cost more
to make than Some countries GDP. Yeah. Yeah,
like I There it doesn't know it doesn't surprise
me when when you have that much riding on one
game that you've already invested so much in
you're going to have to one make sure every little
thing is as Correct as you possibly can And also
just like in general if you're pushing out like
a PC game shit's always evolving in PC right
like you have to keep up with the time so I Don't
know it doesn't surprise me Okay. I think that's
going to do it for quick hits. So just a few
quick topics to chat about really, really fast.
Hope you all enjoyed that.