From the Dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Clint.
And I'm Stretch, and this is Prevailing Strange.
Hey guys, this is Pop Culture News with Prevailing
Strange, a segment where we check out the tidbits
that have crossed our feeds, and we have our
first look at some of the trailers that are coming
out this week. Some of the trailers we're going
to check out this week are the new teaser for
Superman, the trailer for Old Guard 2. What else
was there, Clint? It was The Man in My Basement.
Yeah. Black Phone 2 and The Life of Chuck. You
nailed that. Thank you. I try. I'll nail you.
As for news this week, do you have any news this
week? Yes. Here we go. Get ready for screenshots.
Hot off the press. Mate, like we said, you're
not going to hear it here first. So I've been
perusing and we've got a casting from DC Studios.
Right. I'm not overly excited for this. Okay.
A casting for a movie? The character itself.
Okay. I've never really been a fan of his. Like
Clayface. Yeah, okay. From DC. Never really been
excited about it. I just don't know how he fits
and how he is going to be a good villain for
this apparently grounded DC studios. Right. Is
it a Clayface movie or is he a character in somebody
else's? No, it's going to be a solo movie. That's
an interesting choice. Yeah. So Jack O 'Connell
is set to play him. Yep. And I just don't know
why this has been slated. Who are you going to
make? You know, Marvel never did it with the
likes of Sandman. No, but does this come off
the success of the Penguin? I don't know because
he wasn't in the Penguin. I never said he was,
but like, you know, giving the rogue gallery
some fucking screen time? Yeah, maybe. But there's
so many more compelling characters there. I'd
rather see a Poison Ivy solo movie than a Clayface
one. Swamp Thing needs his thing, man. We need
him. Well, Swamp Thing's not a bad guy, though.
Well, any hero, though. He's not really a good
guy. He hates humans. Yeah. He had a TV show.
He's all for the great. Dude, it was good. Was
it? Did you watch it? No, I didn't. Man, it was
so good. Okay. Another one of them shows was
just cancelled too soon. One season, dead. Gone.
Great. Great show. Special effects in that was
schmick, and I really enjoyed it. Yeah, I just
don't like – who's asking for this? Maybe they
think we need something fresh. Maybe they're
worried that we're getting tired with the same
old roster. Maybe. Maybe. Well, Clayface has
never been in any movies. No live action shit,
no. I mean, I'd never thought a Penguin TV show
would hit like it did. Dude, I thoroughly enjoyed
that show, man. I haven't watched it, but I've
heard lots of good things. You need to. That's
something you should give your time to. It's
really good. Okay. Walton Goggins is reportedly
in talks to play M. Bison in the Street Fighter
live action film. Oh, are we getting a Street
Fighter? We are. Well, the Racka Racka Boys were
meant to be doing it. Yeah. Like the Philippo
boys. Yep. And they were meant to be directing
it and they stepped away from it to do something
else. Because they want to focus on talk to me
too. Yep. So they want to do that instead and
A24 greenlit. There's some more A24 news coming.
But yeah, they stepped away from Street Fighter
because they want to do their own. I think they
want to work on their own property, which is
great. Fantastic. With the success that they're
having, like even Stephen King put out the other
day how good of a movie that, what was it? Bring
Her Back. Bring Her Back, yeah. Said how amazing
it was. Dude, that's high praise. I mean, he
does throw his praise around a fair bit though.
Oh, does he? Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, I'd still
be wrapped if I got that. Oh, totally, totally.
Something you'd be extremely excited for. Here
we go. Is it Aquaman? No. There's a new series
of. Street Sharks, bro. Let's go. I did see that.
They're rebooting. Now, we're going to talk about
this later on, but Killer of Killers. Yep. That
animation style is so beautiful. Same with Arcane,
stuff like that. Dude, imagine if they went like
dark with Street Sharks, dude. Yeah, I doubt
it though. It'll be selling toys. Yeah, I think
so too. But let's face the facts, we spend more
money on toys than kids ever will. Make it right
at our men, we will buy them toys. Well, I mean,
you go back to like the 90s and fucking Todd
McFarlane's toys, you know, spawn fucking demons
and shit like that. They were for kids. Meant
to be. Kids ate that shit up. Hell yeah. It's,
you know, you think it's edgy and cool and kids
want to be, you know. Adrian, cool. Ready or
Not 2. I don't know whether you watched the first
one. It had. It's only just wrapped, hasn't it?
Ready or Not. Is that the one with Sam Weaving?
Samara Weaving. Yeah, Samara Weaving. Yeah, it's
just wrapped. The second one. Yeah. So it's.
I watched the first one. I really enjoyed it.
I've heard it's good. I don't know how they're
going to follow it up unless she meets somebody
else, but yeah. It's interesting because when
they did the rap, it was her and that she played
Cassidy Lang in Ant -Man 3. Oh, yes. Yeah. The
recast. The recast, yes. They rapped and Samara
Weaving was wearing the same get -up covered
in blood from the first movie. Nice. So I don't
know. I haven't watched it. I don't know. How
that's going to work out? Nice. Who knows? Marvel
Studios reportedly doing a Hercules solo movie
with Brett Goldstein, which. Oh, man, Hercules
is a funny character. Yeah. And I don't mean
like ha -ha funny, like weird kind of character
in the Marvel kind of comics. Yeah. Not very
serious kind of. I think they play him as a bit
of a. Well, if you watch Love and Thunder, Zeus
isn't a straightforward character. And Brett
Goldstein, he's just an incredible actor. We
all know how good he is. And he's an incredible
writer as well. That's how he initially started
on Ted Lasso. Yeah, well, for anyone that doesn't
know, he's a comedian as well. Yeah. Yeah, he
was in Ted Lasso. He was. As Roy Kent. Roy Kent.
Anyway, so he was a writer. Right, okay. He was
writing. He was only hired to write Ted Lasso.
And then he sent Jason Sudeikis a message. He's
like, dude, I'm really feeling that I could be
Roy Kent. And he goes, so I sent him a three
-minute video of him. And he goes, you know what?
And then he got a message back from. Jason Zagos
goes, you know what, fuck looking for someone
else. Yeah, you can do it. Sick. So I was like,
dude, and that's honestly, Roy Kent is one of
the best characters in that show. Yeah, obviously.
And he crushes it. Yeah. Big news today. Okay.
The man himself, Mel Brooks, has announced Spaceballs
2. I did see that, yeah. 38 years after it was
released with Mr. Rick Moranis, man, coming back.
Nice. That man, if you don't know the story of
Rick Moranis, man, you've got to just do yourself
a favour and Google that bloke. He is just a.
Salt of the earth. Yeah, man. Just a good dude.
And that was just the best news to get this morning
when I woke up and rolled over and looked at
my feed and seen. Very nice. They actually did
a Star Wars scroll. Yep. Which you can look it
up. We can watch it on YouTube if you wanted
to. It's just hilarity. I did see that Bob Pullman
is Bob Pullman? No. Bill Pullman. Bill Pullman's
son who played. The Void. The Void will be. Which
would be, that'd be great, man. Be in Spaceballs,
yeah. Yeah. RIP Bill Pullman. Oh, no, he's still
alive. What am I saying? That's Bill Paxton I'm
saying. Yeah. Some shit that I heard we're going
to see in the next season of Daredevil. So the
season two is rich in characters who are supporting
and challenge Matt in meaningful ways. And take
this with a grain of salt. We're going to have
Foggy Nelson, Karen Page, Stick, Blake Tower,
which is the DA. At least we don't really know.
Colonel Schoonover, the bloke who was his boss
and was actually the big bad in the Netflix series.
Yep, yep. Put your hand on that wall. He had
a Starship Troopers. Brett Mahoney playing the
doctor. Madam Gow. Nobu's coming back. And then.
Other potential allies or characters they're
eyeing, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones,
Echo, Blindspot, Bullseye. And then, yeah, of
course, the Punisher. So, yeah, take that with
a grain of salt, if you will. I did see a picture
of Kristen Ritter. Well, actually did, a Marvel
panel. Oh, did they? Yeah, okay, on the set.
I was going to say with Daredevil himself. Yeah.
And I've forgotten his name, so. So have I. We'll
just call him Matt Murdock. Matt Murdock. Yeah.
James Gunn has revealed that his Wonder Woman
movie is in development. He wants to talk to
Ana de Armas and calm down. I'd be happy with
that. Calm down. Have you seen The Ballerina?
No, I haven't yet. We'll talk about that next
week then. You need to go watch it. Right. She's
sensational in it. She was sensational in. Blade
Runner 2049. She's a great actress. Considering
the fact that her first movie, I think, was with
Keanu Reeves in that knock -knock. Good for a
whole lot of reasons. Holy shit. She couldn't
even speak English. Not really, no. When she
did the interview for it, she learnt the English
off by heart. Bullshit. Yeah, for those particular
lines and then had to learn English after that.
Seeing her in... The Grey Man? Mm -hmm. Did you
watch that? No. Dude, it's just a sex fest, that
movie. Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de
Armas? Yeah. Goddamn. To be a fucking pickle
in between them buns. Jeez and rice. Look, she
is a great actress, can knock it out of the park,
and does action sensational, man. Like, she's
athletic as F. Not Mission Impossible. She was
in one of the James Bonds. Was she? I believe
so, yes. In the last one, I believe. I haven't
seen it yet. What was the last one? Not Quantum
of Solace. Not Time to Kill. No, it would have
been Quantum of Solace. No. No, no. Skyfall?
It would have been Skyfall. Right, okay. No,
she would have been Locked 10. She was in the
last one. I'm going to Google it. Okay. No time
to die in 2021. I said time to die, but I was
close. You said die another day. Oh, did I? That's
another. Dude, she's 40 years old, man. Is she?
40. Yeah, yeah. And, dude, A24 has just announced
that they're giving a 19 -year -old director.
Named Kane Parsons, his directorial debut, and
he's going to be doing a Back Rooms feature.
This could be interesting. I do like the idea
of the Back Rooms. I really, really like it.
And Logan's been – Rain first introduced me to
the Back Rooms videos. And, dude, I was spellbound.
I'm like, wow, what a take. The idea of liminal
spaces is quite interesting to me and, you know,
that kind of deals with that. There's a bloke
on Instagram and it's been debunked, but there
was a bloke on Instagram who was in a city and
he was saying that he's from the future and he's
woke up and he's the only person there and he's
walking around the city and there's no one. And
it was actually a promotional for tourism from
the city. So they'd shut down an area and he'd
go down and people would request him to go to
different parts of the city's shopping centres,
libraries and stuff. And he'd go there and film
and say, look, there's no one here. No one here.
I'm from the future. And it worked, man. It was
one of the best viral campaigns that has been
done. Yeah, right. That's pretty cool. But, yeah,
seeing the back rooms would be pretty cool. I
follow these couple of guys called the Adventure
Twins, and they do a lot of spelunking and stuff
like that, but they also do urban exploring.
Yes. Yes, so they get into these relatively small
towns. So particularly in the northern states,
they don't have their utilities above ground.
So they don't have like their power lines above
ground like that we do here because it's always
warm. They have everything is underground, water,
everything. So in the main parts of town, everybody
has like access to a utilities kind of corridor
underground so people can work on shit. And they're
sneaking in through like. Abandoned buildings
getting into these tunnels that can lead to different
places. Buried back rooms -esque. Yeah, right.
Like old abandoned malls and like prisons and
stuff like that, all accessible by these underground
tunnels. Right. The amount of, this was also
very surprising to me. The amount of abandoned
malls in the US is insane. Yeah. Thank you, Amazon.
Dude. Yeah. Crazy. Such a massive waste of space
and resource. There's so much you could do with
that. Have you seen Sinners yet? Nope. I've been
too busy watching something else. Good. We'll
talk about that later. So I saw this guy was
talking about Sinners and how they've done really
well with campaigning it as it kind of appears
like an action movie, but he's saying it actually
fits more into a musical. In the beats. It's
not full blown like. They break into tap and
they're singing to each other. I'm going to throw
my TV at them. Apparently there's like big kind
of music pieces because it's set in and around
like a. Yeah, like blues and shit. Blues and
shit. Bluegrass and stuff like that. But yeah,
they're not breaking out into song and dance
and big routines and shit. But he kind of said
that like. action movies generally have these
particular beats throughout the movie. It doesn't.
It has beats more like a musical. And like they
said, they've done really well because they kind
of kept that a bit hush -hush. More people went
and seen it, specifically men and stuff. Well,
in saying that, dude, and I'm going to say it
again, Wicked was cool. Wicked was cool, dude.
If I'd heard that Sinners was a musical, I wouldn't
watch it. But it's not a musical in the sense
that. So judgmental. Oh, man, I hate musicals.
They're cringy, man. Yeah, I get it. But the
thing is I can really get into music and songs.
Yeah. But when it's in a movie, in a story, a
narrative, and then they break out into song,
it's so jarring. I don't know why. I just. Did
you watch The Greatest Showman? No. Dude, come
on, man. The Greatest Showman is still, dude,
it's up there. The Greatest Showman. No, it's
just a good movie, dude, even though it's a musical
a lot of the way. There are movies, though, where
they're musical, like Into the Woods back in
the day. Oh, it's so trashy. And it had James
Corden in it, which makes me want to headbutt
a wall. But, yeah, I don't. Something that might
break you into it. Have you ever seen Repo, a
genetic opera? No. It's good. Paris Hilton dies
in it. It's great. Oh, she doesn't die. She gets
her face cut off. Right. Yeah. But it's good.
It's about in the future you finance your organs
if you need an organ replacement. So you put
on finance. If you don't pay your finance, a
Repo man comes and collects them. Okay. And it's
a musical. It's a musical. Genetic rock opera
it's called. And then you've got a grave robber
who goes and he steals this stuff called xydrate
out of the dead bodies. So he's digging up bodies
and he's taking xydrate out of, inject xydrate
into your body and makes you numb. So it's like
a drug. Right. Good movie. I like a good needle
drop in a movie. Yes. It can't be beaten. But.
Not musicals. When they're talking normally and
then break out into song and it's like breaking
the fourth wall? Yeah. Well, Repo doesn't have
any. It has probably three or four spoken lines
in it. The rest, all the lines are sung. Okay.
But it's metal. It's heavy. It's heavy. It's
good. But I was having this conversation with
my client last night and she brought a 17 -year
-old daughter in, a 16 -year -old daughter. And
we're sitting there talking about the importance
of music. And I was like, you can take books
out of the world. You can take movies out of
the world. You can take drawings and paintings
out of the world. You can't take music. Music
is, music is, you can't explain the feeling when
you hear a good song. How about we touch on this
in Sundry? Oh, God. I want to talk about this
later. Oh, yeah, we've got trailers to watch.
Yeah, we've got trailers to watch. So you've
got no more news? No, no more news. Okay. So,
yeah, the new Superman clip has a lot of Shizer
in it. Have you watched it? No. I would never.
I would never. I've seen stills. That's what
I've seen. But I've skipped past them. I'm like,
oh, no. But, yes, so. Apparently, it shows so
much stuff. Well, let's find out. Okay. Superman,
DC Studios. Let's go. Special effects look sensational
already. Superman. Let's move to Twin Towers,
fella. He's going to hold that building up, isn't
he? Like that. Look at him go. Physically impossible.
He's not even touching the ground. The most powerful
being on planet Earth. We finally meet. Now,
as planned, I'll destroy you. And of course,
that reporter you always do interviews with.
Who raised you as a child? I'll kill them too.
Make a move, Big Blue. They chose him. Let them
die. That damn looks so good. Quit messing around.
I'm not messing around. I'm doing important stuff.
Oh, shit. Hey, buddy. Eyes up here. Let's watch
that again. I'm happy, man. I'm so happy. So
we're seeing some interdimensional portals there.
Yeah, I don't know what's going on there. He
was holding a baby. I miss that part. I've seen
a bizarro. Yeah. Well, someone's shooting laser
beams at him. I saw that. There's so many characters
in this movie, man. How long is it? Five hours?
Yeah. I don't know. Dude, that looks good. Lots.
There's so much going on in that. I will reserve
judgment. If all that action that we've seen
in that last two minutes and 16 seconds is all
the action in it, I'm going to throw my popcorn
at the screen. It could possibly be. I'll probably
shit in the bucket first. Joy. But that looked
pretty cool. A humorous Superman. I don't mind
that. We haven't seen one. Not yet, no. Of course,
James Gunn was going to put his stamp on the
humor. The shot of Superman flying. It's a weird
angle. I don't know if I like it or not. Very
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 with Adam Warlock.
But, again, directed by James Gunn. Dude, I liked
it. I liked it. But I've been proven wrong with
the trailer before. No, no. Okay. So that's the
fourth trailer of Superman we've seen. The second
one, the four -minute one, that was the only
one I was like, I'm not watching this movie.
Yeah. All the other ones are like, yep, yep,
yep, yep, yep. So, all right, I'm down. I'm happy
for you. The next one we're going to check out
is The Old Guard 2. The first movie I quite enjoyed.
It'll be interesting to see what happens here
because she lost her powers at the end of the
last one. Well, I did really enjoy the first
one. Coming out of nowhere, I didn't see anything
leading up to it. I didn't read the books. Yeah,
no, neither. But, yeah, all right. So this is
one from two months ago. Do you want to watch
that? I didn't see it. We'll have a quick look
at it. How are you doing? I'm at peace. Didn't
look that peaceful when you were throwing that
guy out the window. Chalice does good action.
Listen, sometimes quick is better than subtle.
For centuries I've watched you fight to protect
humanity While forsaking your own kind I Will
destroy you and everything you stand for with
a power you can't even imagine Who is she She
is the first of the immortals. She knows your
histories, your relationships. I am scared of
what she is capable of. That would be unsettling.
Booker, how do I find her? You and your friends
don't have much time left. Do you think she knows
that I've lost my immortality? The thing that
lives, lives forever. We're playing right into
her hands. I don't have a choice. One day you'll
understand. Every minute. It's a step towards
death. Then you're coming with me. She's got
a sword. How did we miss that two months ago?
I have no idea, my friend. Rated R. Let's go.
Look, seeing Uma Thurman in another action movie
is going to be tits. I'm excited. And Charlize
does good action. I like it. I'm going to watch
it. Thoughts. Question. Yeah. If you were immortal
for centuries and. You lost your mortality, immortality,
and then death was coming for you. Would you
be excited and welcome as an old friend or would
you be scared shitless of it? Surely there's
other compelling kind of elements to this movie.
I don't know. That's a question for you, dipshit.
Oh, for me? Yeah. I don't know. I've never been
immortal. I don't rightfully know. Because I
asked Jack today. We'll talk about your movie
in a second. Okay. Next one? Next one, The Man
in My Basement. The man in my pants. Sure. Oh,
it's got the Willem Dafoe. Yeah, I thought you'd
like it. Okay, so there is... So... Did you watch
that? No. Horrific. Dude. No. Horrific. I know
about the case. Yeah. That bitch deserves to
rot in hell. I think you talked about that a
few weeks ago, didn't you? Okay. So, The Men
In My Basement. Who is releasing it? Do we know?
We'll see. All right. Willem Dafoe. Willem Dafoe.
Mr. Charles Blakey. Mr. Parker. I haven't in
mind to rent your basement for a couple of months.
I'm sorry, mister, this house isn't for sale.
I'm only interested in renting. I'll pay you
$1 ,000 a day for 65 days. Are you okay? The
only thing I ask of you is that you tell no one
of our arrangement. Come on. What do you say?
Do we have a deal? Interesting. That told me
sweet fuck all, but I'm so intrigued. Oh man,
William Dafoe. Dude, I'm intrigued as shit. He
looks at you so honestly and earnestly, but it's
terrifying. That's why. Excuse me. That's why.
Dude, I had the best chicken wrap today. Rach
made the best chicken wrap up. Oh, my God. Like
Greek yogurt. Anyway. So it's going to hit Italy
in a minute. So that there. I really wanted to
see him as the Joker. We needed Willem Dafoe
as the Joker, dude. We really did. We missed
out on such an opportunity. Anyway, what's next,
sir? The Black Phone 2. Now, we're going to see
Uma Thurman's ex -husband in this. And this was
another movie. I'm pretty sure this, again, for
me, came out of nowhere. And the first one was
so good, man. I can't remember. Is this a Stephen
King or is it a Joe Hill, his son? I can't remember.
I think it might have been – do you want me to
Google that now or no? No. I'm not sure. I'll
put it up here. Yeah. Up where? Up here. Where?
About here. I want you to do a thing and – I'll
do it about here. Oh, I'm going to watch now
just so I can see. Okay, Black Phone 2. Let's
go. Miss... Mr. Uma Thurman. I'm sure he's got
a name. Ethan Hawke. That's right. Let's go!
Lane Stanley right up there. Did you hear the
rooster? No. To kill me, yeah. Oh, Alice in Chains.
Let's go. You had a bad dream Hello, Finny. Did
you think our story was over? You're dead. You,
of all people, know that dead is just a word.
Mighty Ducks. He's here. Freddy Krueger shit!
Vengeance is mine. That looks so sick. Yeah.
That looks so sick, dude. And Alice in Chains.
That was good. I'm looking forward to that. I
loved the first one, dude. Yeah, it was good.
Yeah. It was a very Stranger Things feel for
me. But that looks sick. And the last one I'm
going to check out is The Life of Chuck. When
you look up at the night sky, it can tell you
stuff about your future. Have you read the book?
No. Okay, good. It won't lie to you. No, good,
good. It's pure that way. You might see a lot
more than you wanted. But if you have heart,
you have hope. And you have heart in you. Not
a horror. The world, Chuck. Everything you've
ever loved. Everything you see. Every year that
you live, that world will get bigger and brighter.
And more detailed and complex. You fill the whole
thing. It'll be a universe. Massive cast, dude.
Holy Jesus. Isn't that wonderful? Rated R? Oh,
language. One of the things about Stephen King
is as much as I like his horror stuff, it's his
characters' interactions is the biggest thing
I like about his stories. The way that he brings
these characters to life and they feel like they
have their separate identities but they also
feel like when they have a personal kind of connection.
Like they have a connection, man. And I don't
know. That could be special. Dude, that looks
special as F. And when it said the best Stephen
King film ever, mate, I don't know if you've
seen Shawshank Redemption. Holy shit. Yeah, well,
think about the characters in that. And then
you think about the characters in The Green Mile.
Oh, dude. Complex, kind of original. Yeah. Dude,
that's the thing. When I think of Stephen King,
I always think of horror. I don't think of Shawshank.
Yeah. Because to me, Shawshank is just too good
to be Stephen King. But the genius is clearly
there. He's one of the best fucking authors to
ever have lived, in my opinion. He's very prolific.
He can be hit and miss. What about Arnold Hubbard,
dude? Motherfucker never wrote a second draft
in his life. Can you proofread this, guys? No.
Straight to fucking publication. Straight to
print. Oh, shit. That dude, that... I was welling
up. I don't know whether that was just the score
or... I don't know. I know nothing about that
movie, but I want to see it now. Yeah. I'm willing
to. Yeah. Check it out. That's probably one that
I – I don't usually go to the movies for films
like that, but that's something I think I'd go
to because it looked like – the scale of it looked
sensational. The sky, it looks good. I like that,
dude. Thank you for showing me that. No worries.
Appreciate it. You want to wrap this up? Wrap
it up in a tight little bow, sexy man. Ping,
ping. Ping. Oh, shit. Yeah, I can see that. Damn
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