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reading. Let us know. Very good. So what news
do you have for me this week, buddy? Oh, yeah.
It's been quite a good week in geek news. I'm
not going to lie. So first off, we're going to
start with Netflix is developing a berserker
movie based on the comic books. with Keanu Reeves
set to voice. So it'll be an animated movie based
on his series of books, Dude on Punt. Have you
read a Berserker book? I've only ever watched
the original series. No, no, no. Berserker. Oh,
not Berserk. Okay. Not Berserk. Yeah, okay, Berserker.
No, I don't think I have. It's his storyline.
It's his story? Oh, okay. Bro. Give it your time.
I'm not going to, because it's quite spoiler
heavy just letting you know about the book, but
just give it your time, man. Great book series.
If it doesn't come to fruition, it doesn't become
a movie, give it your time, dude. Great book
series. Okay. I'll check that out. Me either.
So the Harry Potter series with HBO. Yep. They
are actually producing scenes that weren't originally
in the book. So they're stepping outside of the
source material. Where the movies were all in
the source material but they trimmed off that.
Cut out a lot. Yeah, we're getting extras. So
is I'll Love writing those scenes? J .K. Rowling?
I don't know. Don't know. But we've seen there's
been some footage of Dumbledore, John Lithgow
on the beach, which is in a scene from. Great
Beard. Yes. Oh, yeah. Great Beard. Would you
mind putting. An image right there. I'll put
it there. Great beard. Looks great. Dude, if
they're giving me more Harry Potter, let's go.
Now, it would have to be J .K. Rowling, wouldn't
it? Writing them scenes. It's still her IP. It
depends on what kind of liberties that she's
given them. She might just have to pass on it,
like give it a tick of approval. Yeah. Well,
we know it's not going to be. scenes add to wokeness.
Probably not. At all. There's going to be the
same amount of diversity that was in the movies
because she's Wayne Gwant. George Clooney gives
us an Ocean's 14 update saying that, yes, they're
coming back for Ocean's 14, the OG cast and all.
Yeah, right. I did see something about a prequel.
As well. Oceans. Could be. But, dude, Oceans
410. Give me more Ocean stuff. But, yeah, George
Clooney, man. I can see you being a fan of heist
movies. I am. I've got another heist movie I've
got to talk about later too. Right. But I'll
watch George Clooney and Brad Pitt and anything.
Dude, Wolves. I haven't watched it. Great show.
It is. It's good, man. It's so good. And it's
them pair hating each other in a loving way all
the way through it. But they don't, yeah, just
the chemistry they've got is insane. Nice. Assassin's
Creed set in post -Civil War America has been
canned amid political concerns in the current
climate. Right. I can see why. Yeah. Division.
That's my new kicks, by the way. That wasn't
me farting. The Smashing Machine is tracking
to be the biggest flop of Dwayne Johnson's career.
Yeah. Yeah. I'm not. Surprised? I'm probably
not going to give that my time. Yeah. It's getting
to the point now where if it's got, it used to
be if The Rock was in it, I thought I was going
to enjoy it. Now it's if The Rock's in it, I'm
going to fucking hate it. Yeah. Just over. Unfortunately,
yeah. Be ruined a good thing because John Cena's
in everything now and I'm having a blast. John
Cena has way more chops than fucking The Rock
does. Oh, bro. Mm -hmm. 100%. So who am I? In
this, like, yeah, we'll save that for rants.
Yes. Okay, so go. So the Boys TV show has produced
a sex toy. Yeah, okay. From Ambrosius the octopus.
The deeps, missus. Yep, there's a dildo. Oh,
that's hot. Jack, me co -worker upstairs, he
came in the other day. He goes, oi, I bought
a one -meter latex tentacle off Timu. I'm like,
what? He goes, yeah. I'm like, what are you going
to use it for? He goes, like, whatever, home
defense, sexual deletion. I'm like, fair enough.
He brought it in. He's like, it's not a metre.
It's still fucking 18 inches. It's fucking like
that of latex. It's heavy, man. If you got hit
with it, it's going to hurt. Your pride as well
as physically. Yes. It's even worse if it sticks
to you and then the poor guy's like. It's just
so depressing. Blade and Moon Knight to be the
leads in a Midnight Suns movie. According to
insider Jeff Snyder, Marvel Studios is rumoured
to be making a Midnight Suns project, which will
feature Mahershala Ali's Blade and Oscar Isaac's
Moon Knight. Please. Yes. Please. Fuck. I need
to see that dude as Blade. So Midnight Suns.
That's Ghost Rider. Ghost Rider. Wolverine. I
think Punisher's been in it too. Punisher? Yeah,
John Barenthal in there too. Goddamn. Yes, sir.
All for it. Fuck yeah. Stranger Things Season
5. Yes. Clocking in at over 60 mil per episode.
It's nuts. Yeah. Well, have you seen that it's
not three episodes? No, they're broken up. It's
12 episodes. In the three arcs or something.
Eight episodes in three arcs and they're all
over an hour and a half long. We're getting some
content. What the hell, dude? Hell yeah. Better
be a good story. Surely. There's going to be
a lot of story in there. Yeah, they've got the
budget and they've got the, well, we've seen
what big budgeted people do with ending a series
a la Game of Thrones. Mm -hmm. Jensen Ackles
says that a scene in The Boy Season 5 shocked
him so much that he had to walk off set. Bring
it on. We've seen some shit in the past. Fuck,
dude. Whatever. Oh, Jesus. This is fucked. So
bad. In the best kind of way, though. Oh, Jesus.
So they're making a Minecraft sequel. Okay. Coming
out in 2027. Well, we knew it would. It made
money. Yeah. That Minecraft truck's just going
to keep backing up, boy. Yeah. That's a shame.
Hopefully this next one just flops just to fucking.
Wow. The first one was shit. It wasn't even a
good movie. Just fucking. What's it meant to
be? It was just to get kids to go, oh, it's squares
on the screen. Yeah, true. Sorry. Cubes on the
screen. As Hocus season two has wrapped filming
with eight new episodes arriving next year on
Disney+. Oh, yeah. Gosh, you look so good as
Ahsoka, man. Look at that. Come the fuck on.
Yeah. Gorgeous. Epic. Works. Remember when everyone
was scared to put these fantastical characters
on the big screen because they're like, oh, it's
not going to translate well to three dimensions.
And then they did it. Hell yeah. And we're like,
why the fuck has this not been a thing the whole
time? 100%. Let's go, sir. Dexter Resurrections
has been renewed for season two. Did see. Did
see that. I wish that we could have the prequel
series as well, though. I love that character
and I love that world. So I honestly believe
that you could have done the prequel and ran
it simultaneously along with. Resurrection. Even
if you staggered it, so you had one in the first
half of the year, one in the second half of the
year, and just kept doing that, there's no –
you're milking that cow for all it's got. Yeah.
You've got two properties running year round.
Well, from all the things I've heard about it,
the prequel was like one of the best installments
of the entire thing. Bro, 100%. Like if I seen
that one where he's in the Alaskan forestry sort
of area, if I could choose that or the prequel,
dude, I would pick the prequel over some of the
seasons that were in the original Dexter. It
is that good and it's that well performed. It
just marries right up to it. Yeah. And it's a
shame that we're not getting more. Fingers crossed.
James Gunn. has confirmed that Alan Tudyk will
play Tim Drake Robin in The Brave and the Bold.
That's a joke. No, he didn't. Oh, God. That was
pretty funny. That was hilarious. I do like how
often he is seen commenting on people's things
on X. He pulls everyone up on an A. Yeah. Where's
everybody reading this? Where are you all getting
this? Like he chops down room in some fears.
But, yeah, that was a joke. It was hilarious.
Speaking of James Gunn, something that we haven't
seen for tonight's episode. It's not really spoilery.
The finale. The finale. So he had previously
in Guardians of the Galaxy's holiday special
mentioned Batman being in the Marvel canon. So
apparently Spider -Man's name gets dropped. in
this latest episode. Well, it's already been
dropped. Has it? Yeah. Was it in the last episode?
Yeah. And he goes, no, no, no, it was when they
went to the alternate dimension and Vigilante's
like, hey, we did the Spider -Man thing. We did
the Spider -Man thing. Fuck, how did I miss that?
What the fuck? Did you miss that? No. How did
I forget that? Oh, okay, yeah. I do remember
that. Yeah, man, Spider -Man is in the DCU. Yeah,
so he's confirmed that, yes, properties exist
in each other's universes. So good. JLAV Marvel,
let's go. Well, I don't think it means the characters
exist. I think it's the comics in each universe,
which is a pretty cool little thing. So cool.
Such a great nod, man. I think James Gunn just
loves property, like comic books, dude. 100%.
Just loves it. And have you heard the way he
speaks about Peacemaker? Like this is my favourite
thing I've ever done. Like this is the best thing
I've ever done. I'm so proud of it and shit.
And you're like, yeah, it's good, man. Considering
he'd done a heap of other superhero movies before
he got into the big stuff. Guardians is almost
a perfect trilogy. 100%. With characters that
no mother effing knew about. No one cared about
them. No one was ever reading a Rocket Raccoon
comic book back in the day. I was, but, you know.
He was not. Don't lie. Dude, one of my favourite
actors at the moment, Dave Dismalchen, says how
much he would love to play Morbius in the MCU.
God damn, he would do that so well, man. What
about Joe Letta? That was a good movie. I liked
it. You didn't even watch it. I know. I'm not
going to either. Did you know? That Steve Agee,
who plays John Economis, was the stand -in for
King Shark in the Suicide Squad. Was he? He was
the one that walked around in the big shark suit.
Look at this suit. Dignity. Where is it? Gone.
Oh, Jesus Christ. That's cold. Chuck Woody Iwuji,
who played. Died in the first season. No, no,
no. Yes, yes, yes. I'm going to bring him back
for Earth X. Yes. Did see that. He was also the
Evolutionary. Is that his name? Yep. In Guardians
3. He has been screaming from the rooftops and
anyone that will listen that he wants to play
the Joker in the DCU. Yeah, right. Dude, I reckon
that'd be sick. He's a great actor. Well, I mean,
the Joker's one of those characters that it doesn't
matter who plays him because we're always going
to get a different version. And it's not like
Batman. Everyone puts on a cow and they're all
kind of very similar. Yeah. Where the Joker can
be fucking anything. Fucking anyone, man. Yeah,
anyone. Exactly. Put your own flavour on it.
Yep. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I think in the New 52 they teased that the Joker
was finally going to get an origin, but then
they did a flip and didn't do it. They said he
was three different people. Yeah. And I'm like,
I love that. That he's still, even to the people
who read comic books, he's still anonymous. No
one knows who the Joker is. I fucking love that.
Yeah, it is one of the cool things that, you
know, a lot of times. Very unique to that character.
Yeah, well, both DC. and Marvel, they always
set out at some point to reveal things about
characters' past and stuff like that. And the
fact that the Joker doesn't have a significant
origin story is cool because of his chaotic self.
Yeah, exactly. Christoph Waltz played an anti
-racist and an ultra -racist in two different
movies and won an Oscar for both. Talent. Oh,
yeah. So much talent. It's confirmed that Null,
Andy Serkis' version, will return in Avengers
Secret Wars. Not only that, they've already announced
that he'll be part of Doctor Doom's villain league.
I don't know much about Null. I know he's a Spider
-Man villain and apparently quite powerful, and
that's as far as I know. As in King Null, the
king of the symbiotes. Null. Yeah. Yeah. So the
Necrosword is his. Oh, right. Okay. Yep. So who
has that now? Well, he got destroyed. Yeah. In
the MCU. Got a wreck on that. They probably will.
Well, it probably won't even be his sword, but
in the comics the Necro sword was Null's. Yeah,
right. Yeah. Yeah, he's only relatively new and
he had a big run not that long ago, past few
years in Spider -Man Venom. Decent. Yeah. Nice.
Cool story. Taylor Sheridan's Special Obsolescence
has finally been greenlit for a season three.
Did you ever have a chance to watch that? I didn't
watch that. Is that with Zoe Saldana? Yeah, no,
I didn't watch it. Dude, mate. So that's Taylor
Sheridan's property as well. Yeah. Okay. I'll
say that did. It's Sicario. Right. Taylor Sheridan
wrote Sicario. Yeah. It's in that same world.
Is it? Yeah, dude. And she's a dude. She is so
brutal. Like, just doesn't give a fuck. We'll
cap a bitch for nothing. She's, yeah, badass.
Fucking look at that dude. Yeah. The Sicario
movies are a force of nature. They're just something
else, man. That first one, that finale, holy
wow. Yeah. Fucking hold on to your seats and
buckle in. That's a fucking wild ride. To have
that and go, yeah, we're going to film this and
carry on like that in such a well -shot scene.
Mm -mm -mm. Hell yeah. Mm -mm -mm. Michael Mann's
Heat sequely is a – sequely? I wasn't going to
pull you up on that, but you pulled yourself
up. Yeah. Michael Mann's Heat sequel officially
moving forward. Leonardo DiCaprio will be starring.
Did you watch Heat? The greatest heist movie
of all time, and I'll stand by it. Yeah, I've
heard good things. It is. I've just never gone
around to it. It's like The Godfather. Never
watched The Godfather. Oh, you're a heathen.
You are a goddamn heathen, Jeremy Hall. Probably.
The real -life inspiration behind Shrek's donkey
passed away today. Oh, no. His name was Perry,
and he was the model for donkey. He passed away.
He's 30 years old. That's fucking old for an
ass. He was still in good shape. Robert Irwin
has joined Zootopia 2 cast and he will play a
koala named Robert Furwin. Dude, have you seen
that kid dance? I've heard that. Sweet Jesus.
God damn. Oh, man, he's too baby face for me.
Yeah, he's 12, bro. Shouldn't be doing that on
TV. Isn't he fucking on for the next Bachelor
fucking TV show? I don't know. I don't know.
I got an idea. But that is my new sir. Beautiful.
You're beautiful. Thank you. We've got a few
trailers to check out now. Yes, sir. First one
is Mercy. Oh, yes. Oh, that popped up on my Facebook
today, but I didn't click on it. Good point.
I'm Chris Pratt. I'm Rebecca Ferguson. You're
going to freak out when you see the trailer for
our new movie, Mercy. God dang, that was lit.
Get me out of this chair. Detective Raven, I'm
Judge Maddox, and this is the Mercy Capital Court,
a judicial system powered by artificial intelligence.
Hold on, just wait. Wait a second. With crime
rates soaring, lawmakers voted for Mercy by acting
as judge, jury, and executioner. Mercy keeps
our city safe. I shouldn't be here. I helped
create the Mercy program. I'm proud to have sent
the first suspect for trial here and I will continue
to send more until the message is received. Detective
Raven, I know precisely who you are. You're before
this court today charged with the murder of your
wife. Oh my god. Your guilt must fall below the
92 % threshold or you will be executed in precisely
90 minutes. I loved my wife. I didn't hurt her.
Detective Raven, the city's municipal cloud is
at your disposal. Every camera, cell phone, and
database. You must gather evidence to exonerate
yourself. If you are innocent, prove it. I need
to find out who killed my wife. It's a classic
part of my passion for this. And it all points
right at you. You don't get the mercy trial unless
you're guilty. I didn't hurt mom. I swear to
God. Show me everyone she had contact with. She
was seeing someone. How's my guilt looking now?
It has risen to 98%. You just provided me with
a strong motive of why you murdered her. Good.
Wow. Thank you for that. Mr. Raven, the clock
is ticking. Tell me what Nick was up to. She
was stressed about work. She said some chemicals
are missing. The estimated street value would
be in excess of $16 million. Do you honestly
think that I killed my wife? Or were you just
programmed wrong? I need to walk the scene. No,
I have something here. This is a terrorist's
handbook. Get out. Get out of there. Mr. Raven,
you're running out of time. What are you going
to do? There's a bomb in that truck. It's in
downtown. This was never about my wife. This
was about me and you. Matthew! Get me out of
here! Dude. I'm going to call the ending. Don't,
because you'll... I don't want to know. That
looks sick. Good concept. Be interesting. It's
kind of like Speed with Minority Report. A little
bit of other things in there for flavour. You
just ruined it. Why? Because I like Minority
Report. So why does it ruin it? Because now it's
trying to be Minority Report. Now I'm going to
hate it on principle. No, I couldn't do that.
I'll watch it. I look sick. Is that one? Mighty
Nein? The Luxon beacon is an old religious relic.
This beacon is a weapon. Some kind of arcane
weapon has crossed our border. War is coming,
and you're our only hope of stopping it. You
got the wrong people. We've got a homeless wizard,
an inebriated goblin. Bottoms up! A shipwrecked
sailor, a cocky ringmaster, a temperamental monk,
and chaos incarnate. You want to be my ****?
Face it, we're nobodies. That's what makes you
so dangerous. They'll never see you coming. Time
to put on a show! Did you actually think you
could escape your path? Shared purpose. Shared
pain. But mostly, shared strength. What do we
do? What we do best. Make terrible choices. We
are here, man! I'm out. This group is f***ing
wild. We are the Mighty Nein. But there's only
six of you. Yes, but six and nine go so well
together. Dude. Hell yeah. I love that shit.
So good. Stop. Chosen rice. What's that one?
The knight in the... Oh. This is the prequel
series to Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones, yeah.
No one asked for it. I was squire to Sir Arlen
of Pennytree since I was a boy. They charged
me to be a good knight, to defend the weak and
the innocent, and I swore that I would. Are you
Baelor Targaryen? Uh, no. Then would you move
the fuck out of the way? Yeah, sorry. What's
your name? Sir Duncan the Tall. Never heard of
him. Do you know every knight in the Seven Kingdoms,
then? The good ones. If you could bring me to
Ashford, I could swipe you some. Rob me, and
I'll hunt you down with dogs. We don't have dogs!
I'll get some. Where? Boy, stop gaping. See for
my horse. I'm not a stable boy, my lord. Not
clever enough. I know I'm just a hedge knight,
but sometimes I think I could be more. Why do
you treat these royal lapdogs like they're your
betters? They are my betters. These men have
a name. Training. What chance do I have? I have
no chance. Falling star brings luck to those
who see it. So the luck is ours alone? I need
to fight honorably. But sometimes I think I buried
my courage alongside the old man. And in every
man there are many men. So be brave. Be just.
Get up! Be tall. I think that looks alright.
Who asked for that? The people who wanted more
when they fucked up the last one. No. You haven't
watched Dragon, have you? Oh, sorry. It's good,
dude. It's good. He says who? I. I don't trust
your judgment anymore. I'll put you under the
bear. One out of ten is terrible. I'd seen the
bear. I hadn't seen the other thing. Exactly.
Okay. What's that one? Shelby Oaks. Oh, dude.
Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Play. Why
didn't you give it to the police? Exactly. I
needed to see it for myself. now missing. She
was last seen in Shelby Oaks. There is a dark
and deeply haunted history in the woods of Shelby
Oaks. My sister isn't the first to go missing.
What's left in Shelby Oaks is death. So let's
go there then. I'm locked. Don't be afraid. You
should be proud of her. Oh, that's a big prize.
Please, baby. Hear me. Jesus. Dude, I keep saying
it. Every trailer we watch is October, November,
December and January. Wild. Wow. We're getting
spoiled for Christmas. See, is this the fact
that since we started this whole thing, we started
watching trailers weekly, did we miss a lot of
stuff? Or we're getting like a resurgence in
cinema. I think we're getting a resurgence, yeah,
in goodness. I think so. I do like how that's
a cross between fan footage and like. Absolutely.
What would you call it? Just fucking normal cinema.
Kind of like what they did with Bring Her Back.
I haven't watched it yet. A little bit of fan
footage in that. That's like the creepier parts
of it. Yeah. Very cool. That terror. Oh, dude.
My palms are getting sweaty. Not in the spaghetti
way. And the last one is Playdate. I think you'll
like this one. Yes. John Cena and Kevin James,
yo. They're trying so hard to connect with him.
I really am. John Cena? I don't know. Alan Richardson.
Alan Richardson, yeah. Name's Jeff. Brian. Outstanding.
Oh, okay. They're friends already. CJ's cool.
He invited me over to his house. Can we go over,
please? Alright, why not? Hell yeah, dude! A
pie. You wanna dance? You guys go on ahead while
I put him out real quick. This is awesome, right?
Give me a hug! No, no hug. The first day my son
meets his new best friend, so did I. All right,
guys, dig in. Your dad's never taken you for
pizza? Jeff's not my dad. He just took me. Let's
go! Hey, stop! Who the hell are you? Who's that
guy? The guy who wants to kill you. Who are they?
They want to kill you, too. Why? Because they
think you know. Know what? Get in, guy! Buckle
in, boys. And just let me do my thing. Look,
they're not after me. They're after CJ. No, no,
no, no! No, no, no, no! You see that? Sick, right?
You already know my name. What's that, Captain
Dickface? Are you guys in, like, a high -speed
chase or something? Second one today. Crazy,
right? That's insane indeed. Wait, you want to
go? You're feeling frisky. I'm so sorry. Now
is this meant to be or is this meant to be? We're
gonna make such a good team. Really? Quit screwing
around. Mamas, due to my deep -seated emotional
issues, I've easily slept with thousands and
thousands of women. How many women have you slept
with, Dad? That's not your business. That's none
of your business. November. That looked pretty
funny. That looks fun as shit. I like those,
you know, come on. Silly, funny movies. Exactly.
Bit of action. See the end. Laughs. Shut up.
I like it. Sounds good. Thanks for joining us,
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