From the dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Stretch.
And I'm Clint. And again, this is Prevailing
Strange. G'day guys, this is Pop Culture News
with Prevailing Strange, where we get to talk
about some of the tidbits that have crossed our
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We also get to check out some of the trailers
that have dropped this week. Hello again. Hi,
mate. We had a cock up. Yeah. Nobody's going
to know about this. We'll restart again. It should
just be like you should have B -roll at the end
where it's just us talking. Okay. So what have
you got for me this week, buddy? You're going
first. In pop culture news. I went first today?
Okay. Marvel has scheduled another movie for
2028. This will be the first time that they've
had four movies out in one year since 2021, which
was Black Widow, Eternals, Shang -Chi and Spider
-Man No Way Home. Two of them were good. Yeah.
Do they really need to release four movies in
a year? Well, we don't even know what the other
three movies were going to be. They're slots
for the year. They have pushed one back too,
I think. They've pushed the two Avengers movies
back, but they're 2026 and 2027. So we get another
one in 28. Potentially another Avengers at the
end of the year because it is for the December.
Well, they're going to do what they're going
to do, but have they not learnt? Yeah. Yeah,
time will tell. Have they not learnt? See, the
thing is. The last time, one of them was a Sony
movie just under the Marvel umbrella. It is,
yeah. So it's interesting that it's, well, it's
not going to be a Sony movie. It'll be another
Marvel movie, four Marvel movies, bang, bang,
bang. Yeah, right, okay. Yeah. All right, so,
yeah, right, all right. Well, look, they're going
to do what they're going to do regardless, but
I think they should just ease up. Yeah. Ease
up. Well, I thought they were beginning to ease
up. It sounds like they're easing up on the TV
shows. I agree with that. We need to get back
in the cinema, dude. Last night I was sitting
down watching a movie that we'll talk about later
on, but the ad come up for Sinners. So you can
watch Sinners at home now, and it only just left
the cinema last week. But there's movies like
an Avengers title, like a Superman title. that
you want to see on the big screen. You don't
want to see that on home or your TV, do you?
No. You want to see it as larger than life. Yeah.
And you want to get that chest pumping, you know,
that bass hit. You want to hear that surround
sound. Not everybody's got to say, yeah, get
out and see the movies, kids. I know it's getting
heavy, like, with the pricing and shit, but get
out there. See your favourite movies in the cinema.
Screenshot I got. First screenshot of some. First
hearsay you've got. Brendan Skeller, S -K -L
-E -N -A -R. No idea. Confirmed to film his cameo
as Batman in the DC used Clayface film that begins
filming this year. Right. That was now a very
reputable news outlet. Okay. AF2K25. Right. Fuck,
did you find out who they are? But, yeah, that
was. You're not going to dump a Batman casting
like that. That's going to be big news, dude.
Yeah, I don't even think they'll have a Batman
in that Clayface movie. Until James Gunn shares
it, I'm not going to believe you're Batman casting.
No. There's so many people that can wish and
want all they want. That's true. James Gunn was
interviewed this week saying that he doesn't
want to, whatever Batman he does cast, he doesn't
want a campy, silly. So I think he's alluding
to what kind of DC you were going to have. DC's
always been more serious. And it's always good
to have DC for the series. And then if you want
to have a bit of a laugh and shit, you've got
Yemsi. Yeah. But you can't have a laughy Batman.
You can't have a funny Batman. No. He's just
not, that's not who he is, dude. That's not the
character. And everyone's like. I don't give
a shit what race he is. I don't care. Because
at the end of the day, it's a rich kind of suit.
He doesn't have to be white. He doesn't have
to be black. He doesn't have to be Asian. He
doesn't have to be pink. Be whatever he wants.
But stay true to the character. For obvious reasons,
you couldn't have a black Batman in the 60s,
but now you can. Almost for it, man. The thing
I was kind of worried about when James Gunn was
starting to head the DCU and we're starting to
see bits of it in the Superman trailers is that
particular tone that seems very similar to like
some of the MCU's funnier movies. The strength
of the DCEU before was the fact that it did have
darker tones. Yes. They should have lent more
into that. I don't think they should have went
for more continuity, lent into the darker tones,
leave the bright, poppy stuff to Marvel. Yeah.
Having a Batman that makes jokes just wasn't
– it didn't sit right with me. Ben Affleck was
a kick -ass Batman, dude. He had the build. He
had the look. It was sick. The costume was nailed.
Yeah. But him joking, it's not a thing. No. It's
not a thing, dude. He can be dispassionate. All
you like. But cracking jokes is not Batman isn't
funny, man. No, not at all. He also mentioned
James Gunn I'm talking about. He hasn't 100 %
ruled out Robert Pattinson. Yeah, it has to work.
But he has said it's very, very highly unlikely.
Oh, man, I wouldn't mind seeing Robert Pattinson
against this Superman. Agreed. Because they both
look like younger. Yeah. Yeah, could you imagine
pulling Robert Pattinson's Batman out of Gotham
into this? Yeah. See, I loved Matt Reeves' vision
of Gotham. Oh, yeah. I loved that it was only
two years in for Robert Pattinson. Yeah. I loved
the tone of it. I loved the needle drops in it.
The only thing that confused me was the double
ending. Like, you can end it here, you can end
it here, you can end it here. There were so many
different endings where you could have had it.
Yeah. I didn't like the introduction of the Joker
at the end. No, they could have held off. Hold
off. He didn't have to be there. And the vision
of the Joker they've got is not one of my favourites.
It looks like a leopard Joker to me. Hans Zimmer
has confirmed that he's going to be doing the
score for Dune Messiah, which is a gimme. You
do a Dune movie, you put Hans Zimmer in there.
You do any movie, put Hans Zimmer in there. Hell
yeah. I did see that we got two castings for
Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides' twin children. Jason
Momoa's son will be playing one. Nice. And another,
well, his name is Nakoa Wolf. Nakoa Wolf. Yeah,
Momoa. And Ida Brooke, who I think she was in
that silo. Yeah, right. I haven't watched that
either. Yeah, no, I dig that. I'm fine. There's
still a third Dune coming. It's not Dune Messiah,
but then we get a TV show as well, aren't we?
The TV show's out already? It is out already.
Yeah. Right. And there's a video game too. Yeah,
right. Dude, open world, sick. Everybody. Sand.
Just sand. So much sand. Everybody's going Henry
Cavill's. Ultraman. I don't believe it. I've
got a screen grab here, which has been heavily
edited by AI. Yeah. No, stop it. Mike Flanagan
is directing Clayface. Mike Flanagan is an incredible
director. It's going to be inspired by the Batman
animated series, which is my favourite. animated
series of Batman. Yeah. Yeah, hell yeah. So I'm
all for that. That's another thing James Gunn
was saying, that it's hard to do Batman at the
moment because all the good Batman stories have
been told. Yeah, yeah. Except Court of Owls,
man. Throw it at me. Yep. Let's go. You give
me the Court of Owls, I'll be a happy dude. Oh,
dude, even Matt Reeves could do. Do you think
that needs to be an established Batman though,
not an introductory? Well, yeah, you're probably
right. Same with Hush. You'd have to be an older
Batman as well. Yeah. And I'm pumped for the
Hush storyline one day. God damn, give it to
me. I don't know, some with the black mask maybe.
Mm -hmm. Like keep it that mobster level, street
level because it's early on. Yeah. Give us a
black mask. Yeah. Him and Penguin having a war
on the side sort of thing. Mm -hmm. But, yeah,
dude, if you don't want to do Court of Owls or
anything like that, Matt Reeves would be good
for that. Yeah. You've established already that
there's monsters, dimensions and all that sort
of shit in this one. So keep that Elseworlds.
Yeah. And keep the DCU for itself. Yeah. Put
your monsters in there, your dimensional rifts,
your clay faces. Yeah. Keep your realistic shit
for Matt Reeves. Mm -hmm. We don't have to have
necessarily the flash or anything like that.
Yeah, it'd be nice if they could keep it grounded.
Keep Metas out of it. That'd be sick. Fucking
hell. I did see a picture because they've wrapped
He -Man up this week. Did you see him? I did,
yeah. He looks good. Looks good from the back.
Did you see my little titles and shit that I
put in? Mate, you've nailed it. Crushing it.
Something I couldn't do. Harold and Kumar 4.
I did see that. Yes. Dude, with the original
cast? Yep. Let's go. Hell yeah. I love them guys.
Stoner comedy at the best. Dude, we haven't had
a stoner comedy in a long time. No. No, we haven't.
Remember back in the day, that's all it was?
Yep. Give us more. That's pretty much all I've
got for news -wise besides trailers. They have,
speaking of Clayface, they've cast him, officially
cast him. Tom Rhys Harris. Harys? Harys. I don't
know. I haven't seen him in much, but he looks
quite pretty. Because somebody who's going to
be Clayface is pretty funny. Days of Thunder
2. Officially in the works with Tom Cruise. He's
been talking about wanting to do that for years.
Has he? Yeah. Who's the source for that? Tom
Cruise. Tom Cruise said that. Fucking dick. No,
who's the source for it? Tom Cruise. He said
that? Yeah, he says. He says. Okay. I don't believe
this one. And the funny thing is, the screenshot
that I've got, they've got a picture of Hilary
Duff. Like that. And then they've got that like
that. 90s Rogue. 90s Rogue. So they're saying
that Hilu Duff's on the shortlist for Rogue just
because she's got a hiney. The badonkadonk. Come
on. She's been working out her quads and her
backside though, that's for sure. Subaru. Subaru.
Don't know why I said Subaru. Spider -Man Brand
New Day rumoured to bring in Shang -Chi, Silver
Surfer and the Viper and the black alien suit.
I don't know why. If they've been saying they're
going to be more grounded, they're going to be
more this, they're going to be more that, and
yes, we did see some symbiote get left behind.
Did they say they were going to be street level?
Yeah, because they're going to have like Daredevil
and all that sort of shit and everyone's forgotten
who he is so he's just going back to street.
See, I think it would be a good time to introduce
the symbiote because he's alone at the moment.
Oh, yeah, good point. Kind of have him alienated
from everyone. He's dealing with the symbiote
on his own. Yeah. Do you reckon having Silver
Samurai in there though is going to be decent?
I mean, he's a Wolverine villain essentially.
I don't know if I believe that he'll be in there.
I think that might be fake. But that's my screenshots
for the week, mate. Okay. We've got some trailers
for you guys. Yes. The first one we've got up
is the full -length trailer for The Naked Gun.
Dude, the first one killed it. It signed me up
straight away. And I think Liam Neeson is just
a great comedic actor. I do like that all the
promo stuff looks very reminiscent of the 90s
movie. Even the logo hasn't changed. Naked Gun,
Paramount Pictures. Here we go. Thanks. Once
you kill a man for the vengeance, there's no
going back. The voice in your head sang over
and over. That was awesome. Who are you? Trevon.
Detective Frank Trevon. Thanks. Police squad
has always been the elite of the elite. Hi, Daddy.
It's me, Frank Jr. Love you. Hey, Dad. Boy, do
I miss you. And you, Frank, are the best of the
best. I need a bathroom. I need this room immediately.
There's a line, man. Police business. i love
that there's body cam i'm gonna ruin another
suit over here lieutenant i think someone murdered
my brother please take his chair thank you this
is what i do says you serve 20 years for man's
laughter They're going to shut down police squad
if you do not solve this case. Do this by the
book. Why? Who's going to arrest me? Other cops?
Yes. Is he serious? Is he serious? He's... No.
Seems this driver might be more of a problem
than we thought. Why don't you keep an eye on
him? This oven is disgusting. Oh, the bomb! Rest
assured, I won't stop until I've found justice.
What do you want, little one? Your ass. Nobody
messes. It's the squad. We've upgraded your car
with the most advanced crime -fighting tech.
Drive forward 30 feet. Very smooth. This place
is falling apart. Far out, dude. Come on. That
was pretty funny. Fuck it up. It's so good. I
do like that they seem to have captured the same
kind of feeling from the original. Yes, dude.
Yeah. The cop handing him the coffee, which is
so good. I love stupid jokes. Yeah, not always.
They've got a full right, and that looks pretty
good so far. It's got Seth MacFarlane at the
helm. It's going to do well. Yeah. Sorry, indigestion.
Really? No. I was going to say. Yeah, all right.
So, dude, sign me up for that. I will actually
pay a ticket to go see that. Yeah, I'd probably
see it if I had free time. Yeah. Jesus. All right,
so, Sandy Pictures, I know you did last summer.
Is this a remake? This is a remake, but it's
also got some of the original cast. Right, which
is Final Destination -ish. Because I could have
watched that, dude. And Scream. Scream did it
too. Just for Tony Todd. I respect that, dude.
I haven't watched it. I've heard it's pretty
freaking good, the new Final Destination. Apparently
it brings it around full circle. There's actually
a timeline sketch on it that actually brings
it around. It bookends. So it has some from the
start and then some that will book in the end.
Sort of wraps it up completely. There you go.
Yeah. I don't know how this is going to go. Look.
I liked the original one. I did too. When I was
a kid. I even liked when they put scary movie
did it out. It was like, small dicks like a disability
man. Resonated. See what this looks like. Resonates
so well. It's the sound of the police. Hi. Thanks
for coming. Can you believe our best friends
are getting married? God. Unlocked envelope.
Is that preppy? Cash. A check. Oh, my God. I'm
calling out M1. Everyone, chill out! We don't
tell anybody what happened tonight. We should
go. What does it say? What if someone saw us?
Outside of us, no one knows what happened, right?
Tone change? Yeah. Hello? Yeah, mate, what's
up? Get over here! Wait. Please stop! Someone
is clearly coming after us. I need to start drinking.
The cops are not going to help us. Look at the
jaw on that guy. Damn. That isn't something I
like talking about. Scooby -Doo. You survived
this once. We need your help. You can't run.
You can't hide. Get them before they get you.
Whoever's doing this, it's personal to them.
One of us is hiding something. We are not gonna
die today. What are you waiting for? What are
you waiting for, huh? What are you waiting for?
Now, look. I'll watch it if it gets good reviews.
Okay. I'm not going to pay to see that at all.
Come up with something fresh. They live in America.
Nobody had guns. No one has a gun. Yeah. Go to
Walmart, get a dozen eggs, AK -47. Sorry, AR
-15. Now, if it was based in Australia, it would
be different. If it was based in England, it
would be different. You've got buckets of acid
and maybe a machete. Yeah, look, I'm not seeing
that. The way I see it, with Final Destination,
right, I sort of get that. You've got some sort
of supernatural element. Yeah. So that can be
why you brought back the old cast. Unless that's
the same dude that swerved and missed a completely
different set of fucking teenagers that got the,
why bring in the old people? Yeah, it doesn't
make sense. At all. It doesn't make sense at
all. You survived this once before. What, a bloke
in a slicker with a hook for a hand thingy? I
can't even remember how it ended. There was at
least two of them, wasn't there? Yeah. The original
ones? Three. Three, wasn't it? I think, yeah.
Was one set on, like, in Fiji or something like
that? On an island? Yeah. And it had Jack Black
doing a Jamaican accent. Yeah, I liked that one.
Fuck off. When it came out, I liked it. Go away.
Go away. Okay, here we go with another thing
with that. So, I've lost me fucking point there.
You said Jamaican Jack Black. Sorry. You said
it, not me. Okay. So. I know what you did last
summer. And then the sequel was, I still know
what you did last summer. It was four summers
later. You can't shut up. It's stupid. Entertaining
to watch, the trailer. But, yeah, it's probably
as much as I'm going to watch of it unless, you
know, there's some kind of revelation that it's
fucking fantastic for some fucking reason and
it gets some popularity. I seriously don't see
myself watching that. At all. Hard pass. Hard
pass. Zero stars. So this next one is Cyrus with
Linda Hamilton returning to some sci -fi. Okay,
Sarah Connor, let's go. Brianna Hildebrand. Max
Martini. That's a poor name if I've ever heard
it. Amen, brother. I heard a good joke. I sent
it to you, didn't I? That Anthony Jeselnik joke?
I was at the bar. I'm going to say my favorite
porn star at the end of the bar. Oh, fucking
hell. And play. Here they come. Going high. Roger
that, real sweet. They're on top of us. We can't
stay here. Ooh. See, this is going to be more
intrigued already. So where the hell are we?
Say we get out of here right now. That is good
advice. Who are you? Stay close. Oh, God. What's
wrong? How do we know she's on our side? How
long have you been awake? 13 years. They collected
us first. We're livestock. What are they after?
They're hungry. Hungry. She's kidding, right?
They will wipe out Earth. Why don't we just take
the fight to them? Tell them, Cage. Maybe. Alright,
I'll admit it, I like that. I like that. It's
an alien horror movie, which is a new take on
it, dude, and I'm all for that. I'll watch that.
I'll watch that. It looks fun. Yeah. It doesn't.
It's obviously, yeah, it's not a petty cash grab
for, like, rebooting an old series. Something
different. It might not be the greatest, but
it looks fun. Oh, look, it looks better than
the other thing we just watched. And that's not
relying on nostalgia. It is maybe a little bit
like Sarah Connor fighting aliens again. She
never fought aliens. What are you talking about?
Terminator was an alien, bro. Stop it. No, he
wasn't. He was. There's fucking more reality
than anything else at the moment. Excuse me,
but if America's got anything to live by, he
didn't have a passport, alien. Evicted. Sawyer.
Oh, wow. Call it wrong. Yeah, true. All right.
What's the next one? There's lines, mate. We're
going to try one. Ellington. I haven't heard
anything about it. I've just seen that. Pedro
Pascal's in it. It's on A24. It's also got Emma
Stone. Oh, dude. And a few other people that
I cannot remember off the top of my head. Legit,
dude. Anything that's got A24 on it recently
is I'm jumping on. I'll watch it regardless.
Phoenix. What's his name? I can never say his
first name right. Joaquin. Oh, Joaquin. Joaquin.
Fuck. Joaquin? I don't know. Joaquin, bro. Joaquin.
I'm sorry, Joaquin. And play. Nope. This is a
first look, not a trailer. Jesus, Jeremy. Where
were you on that one? Okay, we'll try this again.
Yeah. Take two. Oh, wow. Let's try that again.
Should we do it? I said we will try this again.
I said we. Yeah, you didn't try it. I am recording
this. Fair warning. Is that really necessary?
These days, yeah. Look. Joe. Six feet. Is that
praying? God bless him. Deep black. And even
worse. Is it worth it? At the cost of being at
war with your neighbors? That's why I'm running
for mayor. God, he's handsome. Mayor Eddington.
Thank you super duper very much. I used to think
that you were some big deal. But I am a much
better human being than you. Who are you talking
to? There's nobody here. Husband? Sheriff? Made
to be. You want things simple and neat. We were
in a fight against evil. These are your streets.
No, they're your streets to be saved. Shut it
down! Shut it down! You know how death works?
Yeah. People are going to be looking here now.
Keep your own office going, but you're going
to run mine. So you vote Joe Cross? Take back
our community? Hell yeah. Save our soul. I challenge
you to a duel. Your pain is not a coincidence.
You are not a coincidence. We are not a coincidence.
to free each other's hearts. Okay. Just pause
it and drag it back, bro. Pause it. Try your
back. I was pausing it, but these change around.
Look, that looked fucking sick. Yeah, no, that
looked good. It's interesting. That looked really
good, dude. It had some names in it. That there,
have you seen Civil War? I haven't yet, no. Dude,
that there reminds me so much of Civil War. Okay.
And it said like a screenshot of America. Dude,
Civil War with what is going on right now. Holy
shit. So that there is frightening for a whole
other reason. Yeah, it's pretty eye -opening.
I will be watching that. Great cast. Holy shit,
good cast. Let's go. The Joker V Mr. Fantastic.
Cross over nobody thought we'd get. Yeah. And
then the Jurassic World. Dinosaurs Rule the Earth
trailer. I haven't seen this one yet, but. Hey,
it changed your mind in the last one we watched.
Did it really? Yeah, it did. Yeah, it did. All
right. All right. Okay. So it's just a monster
movie now regardless. Shh. Quiet. I thought you
were shushing me. I was about to say, shut the
fuck up. Clever girl. Is this a legit dinosaur?
I don't think I've seen this one before. That's
not a legit dinosaur. It's got raptor fucking...
Okay. And wings. Spino! They're my favourite
dinosaurs. What the hell are those? Spinosaurus.
Hey! Good XP there. Probably going to see that
in the cinema just because it's a dinosaur movie.
With some fucked up looking dinosaurs. That obviously
was a concocted. Yeah, look, I'm with you. I
don't know if it's going to blow the socks off
everybody, but I'm going to watch it. I'll give
my $12. $12. My $58. It's pretty hard to say
no to a dinosaur movie. Yeah, man, especially
on a big screen. Especially when they get to
eat people. And I think we have the final trailer
for Superman before it comes out next month.
20 days, man. 20 days. 20 days. Let's go. I was
sent here to help the world be a better place.
That is why I do what I do. He's an intruder
wrapped in a red cape. A god pretending to be
one of us. Superman! Is that Lex Luthor's suit?
It hasn't gone off green enough, it is. You've
gotten a lot of heat on social media lately.
I don't read that stuff. Superman doesn't have
time for selfies. Superman don't text. We crossed
a line to save lives. People were going to die!
Hush. i'll destroy you who raised you as a child
i'll kill them too buckle up you don't need the
world's permission to be who you are i'll watch
you just for that i love the finger quit messing
around i'm not messing around doing important
stuff That's my greatest strength. They chose
him. Let them die. Good luck with that. No matter
what you do to me, loser. Your plans won't work.
No. No. No. No. No. You don't want that silly
dog? No. No. I don't. You can't have him not
listening to you and biting your ankle, but then
him saving the world. No. Just fucking stop it.
He's not going to fight the bad guy when you've
got big bright red shoes that he's going to chew
on. Make up your mind, bro. Yeah. But again,
and I've said it before. Go see it anyway. I'll
see it anyway. All right. You want to wrap us
up, buddy? Do I? Yeah. Oh. That's all for the
news and pop culture this week. If you like,
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