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Well, hello to you. We have a nice showing for you.
Guys are going to be going over some April Fool's stuff.
Sam Raimi, some Star Trek news parts, Caribbean and more
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Okay. You ready? Yep.
We re starting off with it's the beginning of April.
And as for a person who shares the news April Fools
days, annoying as hell, it's like, is this real?
It's too funny to cool.
But I thought we'd poke fun at a little bit too.
And we'll go over some of the
video game companies that released April Fool's things and we'll go over them
before we get into that.
Do you remember any of your favorite
April Fools jokes that I've been told in the past?
Not specifically.
I remember growing up our brother Miguel, he would always.
Every year you knew it was April Fools because he was the one
trying to plan something.
And it would be crazy.
Things like, you know, something caught on fire or,
you know, somebody got hurt at work or whatever.
But yeah, nothing too convincing.
I was talking to the parents last night and mom was asking
Dad, like, did they do the April Fools?
Because of course he loves doing them.
And my dad's like, No, thank God he's been busy all day.
April Fools.
My favorite is the Pokémon Company, which they did another one
this year, but they released a new collaboration.
This is all April Fools, a collaboration with like Google Maps.
I think we're releasing this thing.
We can catch Pokémon in anywhere in the world.
The April Fools joke was so popular that they decided like,
we should make a game that actually does this and this will get Pokémon go.
No way.
I don't know why I didn't hear about that before.
That's amazing.
Was first an April Fools joke?
Yeah, I love it.
Okay, we got.
To think of some other good April Fools jokes that companies can be like,
Wait a minute, they actually make a game because of that.
Well, let's take a look at what came out today.
Eric came out this week, so Aegean worked within the window on the branding
to announce a Virtual Boy Pro, which we had a virtual boy for a second.
There is this old school, like early nineties VR.
And when I first woke up, this is the first thing I saw.
And I was like, This doesn't seem right.
There's no camera on the back of this game and what it is.
You strap this switch to your face like two inches from your eyes
and then it's like they show basically becomes the Apple VR, stuff like that.
And I got to say it almost it it was pretty decent.
Vegas yet they're going to put a disclaimer so kids aren't doing that.
I'm sure it's not great for your eyes
if it's not made to be two inches from your face.
Yeah.
As soon as you stop to think about it
and you're like, there's no cameras on the back of the VR,
so they can't do the pass through the door showing and that close to a switch,
they're not high definition enough to actually be functioning.
And yeah, I'll talk about company strikes again and for them to have that
Pokémon Sleep, which kind of tracks your sleep cycles and you're like,
yada, yada, yada, and you saw this one.
Can you explain it to the folks here?
So it's setting up this like tournament that's going to be a Pokémon tournament,
but it's like everybody's, you know, at the same this big arena kind of thing.
And I was kind of getting excited.
Like I was watching it very seriously, like,
I might have to watch this tournament or see, you know, some kind of Pokémon
term, I don't know.
And then once it gets to the end or the end of the trailer or whatever,
you realize it's a Pokémon Sleep tournaments.
Everybody's in these little pods or whatever on stage
kind of thing or whatever, trying to sleep.
And that's like competing about their quality of sleep.
I wasn't sure was like, Is it who can stay asleep the longest?
Do you have to stay in this pod and.
You start. To see long time?
Yeah, trying to make sense of it.
I don't get it, but if you know it's Pokémon, I'm going to watch it anyways.
I tell you, I want to start training.
I thought I could compete.
I think I'd go bust up the snorlax.
I couldn't.
I can't stay asleep if my life depended on it.
That's good.
So some days I'm out like a rock.
Sometimes it's hard to get a sleep.
Once I'm asleep, I'm good.
It's a dog.
If the dog's waking up for the middle night to go to bed
and then might as well get up and get work done.
Yeah. yeah.
Elden Ring so clever on theirs.
So they persevere.
And it's like the intro to a trailer that says Elden Ring expansion as is the norm.
I gather now it's going to expansion
And then you watch the trailer in
Zack doing the zoom in like you'd expect, and then it just gives him again and
again and it keeps expanding.
Then it's just like, you guys are
so good.
People, so excited. Yeah.
Cyberpunk 2077 A massive game
is releasing their
they propose again releasing their game on floppy disk
and it's like 250 floppy disks to get the game available out of the floppies.
That it would be.
But to go along with the April Fool's joke and be funny
if they just made floppy disks that had the logo on it and stuff,
it just sent them out to anybody who, you know, entered a raffle
or something like that. Yeah. All their members would be lose.
You know it would be smart.
I almost wanted
is like a floppy disk that has a USB on it that actually is a real USB drive.
But I don't know, just like the floppy disk is so iconic that look, we use it
still the same button on computers is the floppy disk.
Yeah. I wonder what you can make a floppy disk.
You could have a floppy disk. If I hold your credit cards and stuff.
That'd be cool. It. Yeah.
Yeah. Actually, you know what?
I've seen people make miniature coasters. they uncle.
Bring back floppy disks.
Sega announced that.
I love how they pitched this to me.
They said no more deal since we're bringing they'll bring it out Silky
cartridge little content and they're bringing cartridge video games.
It's like a new invention for cartridges.
And they showed a show like Sega Genesis cartridges
like this is a brand new technology.
You don't have to load anything, right?
Right.
They show the next generation they'll be like, Wait, what?
It's not in the Internet.
Like I can have a physical copy of it that I can keep forever.
And if the internet goes away, I'm still able to play it.
Yeah. Yeah. That's how it used to be.
Razer, who makes, like, everything right in front of me, my mouse,
everything, my keyboard.
So I that announced the Razer cat through Lou.
And I tell you what, if this was real, I might be buying one.
It's basically dark arc arms to go behind your chair
and it's like feeding your Pop-Tarts in this and giving you soda in this end
so that you could focus on gaming the whole time
that thing would sell, for sure.
I'd know. I'd probably be a purchaser myself.
We have the technology, We have the technology.
And lastly, Power world, which is basically a Pokemon clone.
Announce a dating scene where you could try to date your Pokémon
essentially, and got to catch them all and try to date on your Pokémon.
So they have a full trailer
that looks super realistic, like there's a whole new game.
But it was, it was fake.
And I just when you know it's fake, it's good.
But man, it did for me right off the bat with that switch.
VR So it got me good.
You know, anything that comes my way or for me, I've sent you
movie trailers, TV trailers like is this, is this real?
Like, you have to be my filter now
because I just believe whatever comes through in Slate No, no.
You notice these are all clips that are reused from one of the previous movies.
Yeah, they just added a little bit of audio or something.
Yeah. Yeah. My favorite was when you sent me.
I am in four and I'm like, Y'all
and you would know Iron Man four is in development.
And way before our trailer would come out.
We've been talking about it for two years. If that trailer comes out.
I was like, this is the big drop.
Like I heard about it with everybody else for the first time.
Yeah, yeah.
But this the back story in that trailer was like, that's a pretty cool
way to do it, though, where, you know, was
what's his name he created
Hammer
Double a hammer in the or Tony Stark.
Ultron yeah.
Trying to took over and Tony was resurrected through Ultron in a way.
They should bring Ultron back.
He's a fantastic villain and they barely, barely touched the surface of how good
his character can be.
I think he's underutilized.
Which can make it stand.
He's in the first season of What if they get rid of the government?
All right, let's go and get into some of the news here.
We have Happy Gilmore two is they're making the sequel for Christopher
MacDonald, which Shooter McGavin is I want to confirm this
I so I'm assuming because Sandler has a contract
with Netflix, it's going to be a Netflix first movie.
I'm digging this like this is the era of movies where we thrived, right?
This is simple comedy.
It doesn't have to win an Oscar.
We don't expect it to just give me a few chuckles. I'd be happy with that.
What do you think? Yeah, we talked about this last episode too.
Like we've seen plenty of reboots, but we're also now starting to see
more of these late sequels that I think have been pretty much nailing it.
Like, especially if you don't set the bar super high because sequels are usually
not as great and a late sequel is super detached, it is not going to have
the same hate behind it that it would if it came out the year after or whatever.
But, you know, it's it's a classic that we all like.
You know, everybody who likes Adam Sandler movies loves this movie.
So I was like, of course it's going to do decent if not great.
That's it's exciting to see they're, you know, continuing to do that pretty well.
What are the
movies from this area, do you think deserve a sequel?
I'm going to jump in a little, Nicky.
I don't think enough people gave it a shot.
yeah. I love little Nicky was fun. It is. Hilarious.
I mean, almost all of Adam Sandler's movies are.
Of course, he's going to style the movie.
And when you say that, word jumps to my head
like Judge Dredd, it's been redone and stuff like that.
Yeah.
It is demolition, man.
That two year old steal was Shaquille O'Neal.
For.
Real, right? Like, bring that back.
That'd be so slam dunk.
Abby. The it doesn't as we see what could be a reboot.
I'm fine with that.
But, examiner if he does if he's acting any.
More, he's he's not, he's, I mean, he doesn't even need
to be so freaking, stinking rich, but give him a little bit of cameo.
Megatron You see Shaq in the background doing something, I mean, yeah,
that movie was better than people gave him credit for.
for sure. It was
there to make it again.
Now they'd be like, this is just the Iron Man copy.
No, this is before Iron Man.
Yeah, maybe then they were coming out. I mean.
Come on. Wise was before Iron Man.
I know before you people open the Twitters, but they.
Yeah, the.
Sure. Yeah.
A little Nicky I think would be really good.
And then I'm thinking your trip.
Your trip is actually a super good movie.
People maybe don't even know about it because it's kind of like a teen
thing or whatever, but it's a good movie.
But now they would all be parents maybe trying to like, rekindle the fun
and going on a year like, we'll try a weed gummy.
I hear these are weak and it's really strong.
You know, like back in the day, they used to smoke.
Had like a terrible bosses kind of vibes.
But I'm thinking, Yeah, yeah, horrible bosses.
Horrible bosses. Yeah. Yeah.
I think that'd be a guarantee.
Yeah. But Happy Gilmore two.
I'm excited for this.
You know, Adam Sandler's just hitting it
out of the park lately, so I'm down to watch it for sure.
Yeah.
Sam Raimi spoke out about these rumors that were going around.
We talked about ourselves, about Spider-Man four with Tobey Maguire,
and he says that they haven't talked to him at all.
And if they're we haven't talked to him yet, it's not going right now.
But he did say he's open to work with both Tobey and Kirsten Dunst again.
But marvel a a out to but he is on a good working
relationship with Marvel because he did
Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness and he said that he wants to work
on a future Avengers movie,
specifically Secret Wars, and I think he'd be very good for it.
He's a hell of a good director,
John.
At this point.
I think I've done
I don't need Tobey Maguire to come back for Andrew Garfield, for that matter.
Actually, I think I'm fine with like, let's just stick with who we have.
Why? Why keep revisiting the old stuff?
I want to see Miles Morales at some point.
I want to see Silk at some point, and I think Tom Holland is killing it.
And as long as you keep on,
if he keeps wanting to be Spider-Man, we'll let him do his thing.
What do you think?
Yeah, I mean, I don't have any problem with it, though.
If they wanted to have like two separate worlds going on.
yeah, I mean, because like, the whole Sony
divide, also, like venom isn't necessarily oil yet.
Matt might have.
It's in there, but venom isn't necessarily in the Tom Holland.
Spider-Man's Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, there is a tease that there might be bridging over now,
isn't that I think it wants to keep Venom
in a separate universe, have Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield or whatever it,
it could be one of theirs and it'd be kind of contained.
But yeah, I mean I liked him in the Multiverse of Madness.
I think they did a great job with that, but that could be a good hanging point.
Like that could be, you know.
Spider-Man, No Way Home. You talked about other stories.
Yeah. yeah. I'm sorry, Doctor.
Strange, isn't it, though, John?
I don't blame you for getting mixed.
Yes, I think it was.
That was a good way to say bye to the two of them.
Right.
But if the fans want it, I mean, as a fan, I don't think it's necessary also.
But I would watch it if they make something, I'd watch it anyway.
I bet you know, you totally. Me too.
It's not like I'm not going to watch Tobey Maguire return to the role.
I do think he's going to return actually for Secret Wars.
I think kind of the rumors or the easy layup would be you bring back
everything that's ever had Marvel's The Old Blade, Wesley Snipes Blade.
Everybody comes back for Secret Wars.
They sacrifice themselves to reunite the one.
It's kind of a DC crisis crisis on Infinite Earths move
or you make it so there's only one planet after this one one multiverse after this.
And afterwards, that's when you could get a new Iron Man or whatever.
Because like, yeah, he's an Iron Man that was in this universe.
Now he's in ours and everything makes sense.
And that's how Miles Morales joined regular Spider-Man.
Peter Parker I should say.
So, yeah, I think I think we would get one more token word.
I think that's just perfect,
cause I don't even have his own string of movies.
I think they had to be careful about how much superheroes
they bring together, because I know
we've talked about it before, but one, a single superhero movie about,
you know, the struggles and,
you know, the limits of someone's power and their back.
Sort of like you create a value in that hero.
But if you just put a bunch of them together and they all have so much
power, compounded is just it makes them all watered down.
You know, the stand alone Thor movie is great,
builds up who he is and everything, but then you throw him in the middle
of all these other Avengers. He's no longer a god.
He's just one of 20 guys that got to, you know, a good power and ability to fight.
But it kind of brings him down a peg and everybody else now at the same time. So.
Yeah, it also throws off the stakes too, because like when Spider-Man is by himself
and he's, you know,
he feels like a hero that could die or could lose the fight for New York City.
The stakes feel real.
But when a person like a single person dying,
somebody falling off a building, that's no,
you know, he's going to be heartbroken if he doesn't catch them in time.
Yeah.
When he's with The Avengers, it's it might be a million people
that are dying and, you know, a thousand dying in the process is expected.
But the million we need to save. We need to save the city as a whole.
Yeah, and I love the Loki series, but if we look at the Loki series
as an example of how things can get too far,
I mean, every time they prune a branch that's
billions times billions of lives that are gone, right?
It's entire universe. It's gone.
And they were doing that left and right in that series.
And so eventually the series shifted to like, hey, we should stop doing that.
We care about this.
People will find a way for it to work out in comparison
to Spider-Man worried about just that may or something like that.
It's it's tough to balance.
How do you have Spider-Man and Loki stand next to each other in a battle now?
What person has seen trillions of lives come and go?
The other ones worried about saving the neighborhood?
Cat You know, it's. Yeah.
And pruning the branches is still confusing to me because it's like,
are those separate lives or are they just separate possible lives?
Yeah.
I mean, when when somebody makes a different choice
and they go to different reactions, now there's two of them, but are there two
physical beings that one can get killed and the other one survives?
Or are they two different opportunities?
And you make that shift of no, they decided to go left.
They decided to take the blue.
So essentially, if you're going with like the actual multiverse theory,
the idea is every choice that comes up can go one or the other, which then
that choice, you know, branches infinitely, but every infinite multiverse.
And that way, yes, there's different lines for everything would.
Be by going left or right, you create a second entity, a second person.
And the second there's another choice that comes.
If either one of those again, does again infinitely.
Okay, that's the multiverse theory.
Now, as for in Marvel, it's a little bit more finite because it has to be
a nexus event, which is an event big enough to turn it one way or another.
And it's based on a nexus being right?
I believe.
So I'm trying to figure out how it is in the comic books versus
how it is in the series, But I think so, yeah.
Generally a nexus being in the comics is like is a Scarlet witch
somebody who's the same in every universe, no matter what,
because they basically to proceed at all.
It's complicated.
And after she won't be here, it'll be one straight line
and we might have a new argument at that point.
It sounds like by all accounts, it'll be a new Iron Man.
That they talked about, who they might castrate. It.
So yeah, we're talking like 20, 32 kind of thing.
That'll be a little bit.
It's a long time from now.
It's not that long. It'll come up quick.
I mean, nowadays it's crazy.
Like Iron Man came out in 2000. What, eight.
Like, it's so long ago.
That's so it's, it's a little crazy.
There are other franchises that are continuing to expand.
Pirates of the Caribbean is confirmed to be being rebooted.
They want to stay.
It's got Jerry Bruckheimer, stills the producers,
the like that, and they're wanting to stay loyal
to the old franchise, the vibe, the fandom and stuff like that.
But and they were originally trying to use some of the old cast,
specifically Johnny Depp, but they decided there are way
too many hang ups trying to continue with the old cast, especially Johnny Depp.
And it's best to just reboot at all and start anew.
And so it sounds like it's not going to be retelling the Johnny,
the Jack Sparrow storyline.
Anything like that is just going to be more Pirates of the Caribbean.
I'm kind of happy to have this franchise back, frankly.
I like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
They're fun.
I'm a pirate fan.
Me and Daniel both freak out about these movies and watch them together.
Do you think this is a good time to bring back the Pirates of the Caribbean?
Yeah, I think so.
I think it was it was great when, you know,
we watched it before with Johnny Depp and everything
and if they have the chance to bring him
back, I'm sure it would get some views, it would get some attention.
But we've kind of been there, done that.
And so I think it is the time to to restart and not not even have the same,
you know, not the same story, but not even the same vibe.
Like, you know, it needs to be kind of fresh.
I think what's good about, you know, starting with new cast
of somebody is you can broaden it a lot because in his in the old petty
Caribbean movies, he is the star without a doubt.
And it's all about him.
And then everybody else is just kind of a straggler following him around.
But if you rebrand this and start over a little,
you can have a team of people and follow different adventures in different places.
And, you know, every once in a while they come together, they, you know,
cross paths and stuff.
But it doesn't have to be one, you know, person that's leading the whole story.
I think in that first movie, they didn't intend on him being the star.
I think it would be, well. TURNER Right.
Because it's all about him and, you know, finding his true love.
Yeah. Yeah.
But I think Jack Sparrow is so captivating, so cool
that he stole the show.
And then after that, when they were like, here comes sequels of that
to a neat little turner like they did at I think it was Patrick.
Maybe a four is the first one to that will at all.
And it was like, That's fine.
We have Jack Sparrow is still the side character, essentially the Han Solo.
You know, they're going to base everything off for him now.
Now I want to stick with this vibe, but I remember at the time
when it was coming up, there's one point where you were complaining
that there's no stakes because it's a very Disney movie.
And while there's a lot of adventure and swashbuckling,
nobody's getting sliced or stabbed visibly.
Do you think they should stick with that?
Have we or have we matured
to a point where we could start showing that and children be okay?
What do you think?
Yeah, being.
That it's still going to be Disney
and they're not going to change that because it's literally in their park,
so they're not going to rebrand a ride or anything like that.
So I think they're still going to keep it family friendly.
If anything, they might go a little more family friendly.
Really? A little less, Yeah.
You know, maybe the new cast is going to be teenagers
and it's gonna be more Peter Pan esque is what I'm thinking about.
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I don't.
I don't think they'll go darker and more edgy.
It's mainly because it's going to have to be for families with kids.
But I wouldn't be opposed if, like HBO bought the rights
to make their own version as well,
or just made a pirate series that's not related to the ride, you know?
Yeah, Showtime did a pirate series called Black Sails,
which I do need to watch some point that is a very much mature
pirate story, and that might be a good avenue for that.
For this, I kind of compare it to Indiana Jones, right?
In Indiana Jones, we see somebody get shot,
but it's not like blood coming out.
We see people get hit all the time and stuff.
I think that's a good level as long as you know that, you know,
what happened really is this guy died, you know?
Yeah, he fell off a ship in the middle of the ocean was up like that.
As for the casting, I don't want it to be teenagers.
I wanted to stay higher budget.
And right now the rumor, according to Comicbook.com, is Margot Robbie leading.
This was just tap or Barbie. Sorry.
I mean, I love the female lead movies, but I'm afraid they might push that
too far to, you know, the Avatar.
Well, there's been a there's been a handful of bad ones.
Black Blackwood, no Black Widow.
O'Connor forever or.
Now there's something with.
Batman Web.
Webb I can't remember the name of it. Yeah.
I'm thinking of the Ghostbusters reboot before they did Good.
Ghostbusters reboot.
Melissa Yeah, that was just Yeah, yeah.
It's just disappointing.
Like it was just all right. But yeah, so I don't know.
I don't want them to, to overdo it and, and
like I said
before, don't just make a single character the whole story, right?
Broaden it out, have an ensemble.
If you bring in a bunch of no name actors, I think that'll be fine to use this
as an opportunity to build out some new starters for the future.
We see that happen, you know, time and time again
when it's something that's known and it's got some recognition.
So there's is going to be a fan base returning to it.
It's a good time to bring in an actor that you know, has had experience,
is a relatively safe bet but doesn't have a recognizable name yet
because, you know, they'll have some opportunity to be seen in this role.
So, yeah, I want to see an ensemble.
There should be.
And they don't always have to be together like we see in some
some movies and shows,
but I want to see multiple adventures going on at the same time.
And then they kind of cross paths and work together.
Sometimes it'll be fun.
Yeah, you know, I'm thinking about it now.
When the first part of the Caribbean movie
came out, Johnny Depp was very much a different actor.
He wasn't necessarily he was kind of maybe,
well, even Sweeney Todd afterwards, all that, he kind of got a resurgence.
Yeah, Alice in Wonderland afterwards, because Jack Sparrow was a big resurgence
first career for a while there,
but he was doing he's still doing a lot of Tim
Burton stuff, Edward Scissorhands, stuff like that.
I think it's called Murder in the Window or something like that was the one he did
right before Pirates, so not as he was super famous, but not super active.
And then I want to say, well, Turner's character, Orlando Bloom,
was fresh off of Lord of the Rings, so he was really all I know, for one thing.
So I'm trying to think of who do we have?
Like, I think Pedro Pascal is a great actor, but he's big right now.
Maybe. So.
I mean, that's the kind of research
give a researcher to an actor that's maybe a little bit retired
a little out of the like. They do that already.
JAY For Robert Downey Jr or for Iron Man, you know.
Bring back Nicolas Cage.
He's still out there acting everything.
All the time. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
Be good. The OR
he also got a cast to do the role.
You can just pick somebody who would be fun to see
but I'd like to say a little about back when he was in a lot of stuff.
Like that's a great example though, an actor who is a very good actor
and he's just been left to the wayside by society because he's
crazy and, you know, hey, let's maybe give him another shot.
That's a good idea.
He he was with Tom Hardy in
that was that movie.
Their moonshiners.
Lawless. God. Yeah. Yeah. So good.
That's do them together on a pirate ship. There you go.
Real quick, I want to say, if you're going to do a female led pirate
movie, it should be on Ching Shi.
She's a pirate from China.
She had a fleet, I want to say of God.
I think it was like 10,000 ships at one point.
It was the biggest fleet like it took on the Dutch
and it was just powerfully she was so big that when she was ready to retire,
she took her fleet to China and kind of invaded China and told them,
Hey, I want immunity for me and all my men and you're going to make me one of the
like not royalty, but like the ladies of the court
so that I could just retire and peace.
And she did.
And she still she still did smuggling in the background because she was bored.
But like, yeah, she was so she's amazing.
And I remember she like had one husband, didn't care for him, got rid of him,
got another house because she liked him better and just kept rotating husbands.
She's a she's a as scared And I remember it reminds me of,
you know, there was a little bit of the Asian pirates in the original parts
of the Caribbean movies, but they're kind of at the wayside. It's
like they had a huge pirate community, you know, we call the check out.
So I don't know, ten about history and pirates
and so that but what I have heard is that majority of the pirates that,
you know, we tell stories about and see in movies and stuff we're
military hired by the British formed by the British Boer War at some point.
And I don't know who they're fighting, but then after
the war was done, they're like, okay, we're done with you guys.
We don't need you anymore.
And left them, you know, no paid or unpaid whatever, but with no purpose.
They then know like, well, how are we going to survive?
We got baby families back home to feed or whatever.
And so they're like, Well, if you guys aren't
going to continue repairs, then we're going to take from you.
And then they would start reading ships to steal the Queen's gold or whatever
they can get off of them. And it kind of snowballed.
From there, I guess, not just the English, but also the Spaniards.
The most famous pirate, probably Blackbeard.
Edward Teach is his real name.
And he he used to be for the Spaniards army.
And matter of fact, his ship is Queen Anne's Revenge, which is queen.
And from Spain.
And yeah, he was is the story I would love to tell
and we're going to long a pirates now but I love pirates Thomas knows they keep
charge of the pirate stuff
is the fact that when
the United States needed the Navy they hired pirates.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, Puerto Rico.
Worked for money. They.
Okay.
All right, Frank, next, you want to get into Star Trek?
Let's see what kind of hot news we got.
So, as you know, Star Trek Discovery, the final season, Season five,
is going to be airing soon on April 4th.
So we're going to have to say goodbye to Star Trek, Discovery It
I think it was a pretty good show. Would you think about it?
It had a good run, you know, And yeah, I think the
the season two, it was probably one of the best seasons.
It probably is his best season.
And it started Strange New Worlds, which is one of the best Star Trek.
So at least did that.
It was it had a tough job of basically reinventing or resurging
Star Trek at a time when it didn't exist.
Yeah.
And since then, they have some
some drastic choices within the show that kind of took it off the rails.
But overall, it's it's a good Star Trek.
It's a good show to watch.
You guys haven't seen it. Go watch it.
I'm excited to see Season five, though.
I'm kind of sad. It's going to be the final season of it, but it's okay.
It's it'll be good to see anyways.
Frankly.
By the way, if you're going to watch Star Trek
Discovery, you could start in season three.
They jump into the future in that season
and kind of do this off reboot within the show.
So if you want something completely fresh in here.
Yeah, you know.
If you're only going to watch it to watch the next season. Yeah. Yes.
Just watch the season three and four and you won't be.
Don't be too far behind. Yeah.
All right.
So we also got news about Starfleet Academy.
The new show is going to start filming this summer on the.
sorry.
And it's going to take place in the 32nd century.
So that's going to be said yes in the future.
Past Star Trek Discovery.
How do you think that's going to play out?
What do you are you looking forward to that excited?
Well, with Discovery, what happened is they go to the future
and Starfleet is all but dissolved because war is taken away.
I don't want to go to space.
You guys really should watch it. But yeah.
We're going to travel pretty much.
Yeah. Yeah. And so then they bring, they eventually get warp back.
And so starfleet's kind of
reassembling and getting coming, I think again.
So I do like the idea of using Starfleet as a way to kind of introduce
the principles back into the universe.
That was Starfleet from before, because at this time I forgot to call,
but they're the Orian Syndicate or whatever is kind of
Orion is out of control, stuff like that.
So to bring in a new, like, bastion of hope would be good.
I just would rather stick to the timeline.
We already like it.
Let's go back to Kirk days or something.
And supposedly they're doing this so that there's
not too much risk of continuity errors
or overlapping with any other show's making any problems like that.
But I mean, thread the needle in between.
I like the timeline of Star Trek Enterprise where it's right
right after our technology and right at the beginning,
you know, before next generation technology.
Yeah. Or yeah, yeah, I guess next generation.
So yeah, they're at the cusp.
They're developing new technology.
There's, you know, political changes and they, they meet the Vulcans
and there's, you know, so much growth and change at once.
Like that's the best place to have a new show.
That'd be so exciting to see more within that range.
But, you know, I'm sure they'll do great with it still.
It's just going to be far in the future.
So the technology we already thought was high tech, they're going to be past that.
There is some kind of ridiculous technology
in the 32nd century where there's like the adaptive matter and stuff like that.
And yeah.
And they. Could place more transporters.
Yeah, that's annoying.
That's more drive isn't going to be a problem because that's only on discovery
because that's just too strong.
And that was probably one of Discovery's worst problems.
In fact, they gave him such an op move right off the bat.
They can go all the way.
Yeah, teleport to any point in space and, you know, instantly.
Kevin says he wants a series of thunder in the Klingon wars,
which I think is a really good idea, that prior to Pike's Strange New Worlds,
and if we did a Starfleet Academy one, then all son Starfleet.
Not only are you trying to be a bastion of hope, it teaches kids
that you also got to teach them how to fight a war.
Like we're actually talking war right now, Wolf.
But we're talking about big wars
and an endless battle and then setting up a perimeter.
And eventually in the C series, you figure out how to find peace
with the Klingons.
A war type People like that would be interesting to see.
I think through Starfleet you could do that.
You know, another series
that I would love to watch that would never be made, but it would be.
So Go is a series from the perspective of the Borg as they're forming.
So the Borg queens, you know, rise to power pretty much.
And you'll see it from her perspective as her trying to save people
and trying to bring together a community where we can all be at one
piece together and stuff like that.
And she's this kind of white knight hero and then she eventually like season three
whenever she encounters
these, discussing humans that just want to destroy
and take everything for themselves and liberate her, her innocent, you know,
protected children and stuff like that, like pretty cool.
You almost have to really milk up
the prequel part of it, make it to where it's all about humanity
and like trying to better humanity.
And then a sudden, like the last act of this whole things,
the turn like the dinosaurs in Game of Thrones, it's exactly like you realize,
she wants to remove their consciousness or add it to her as quote unquote.
And really she's in control.
I would like for, okay, if we're going to do that, at some point,
we need to make sure to add the was the Omega particle
where they're causally trying to reach that Omega particle as well.
That's that's such a Starfleet.
Stable secular perfection or whatever their in.
Our Yeah. I love Star Trek.
There you go.
Yeah.
So to stay on Star Trek, we also got some updates on the Star Trek
four movie has a new director, Steve Yockey.
Yeah.
He's he's the guy that directed
the flight attendant and so some are all of supernatural,
so at least they have an
experienced director already lined up with it.
One of the action, one of the April Fools things too, was Trek Corps, which is a
Star Trek news website, announced that Star Trek four delayed again.
They're going to go right to Star Trek five because
there's been so many delays for so many different things.
Yeah, they had a different but I will say it was a Shakman.
Alex Jackman, I believe his name is he was the first writer for Star Trek four.
The reason he's no longer writing for that
is he moved over to Marvel and he's doing Fantastic Four and he's already said
like, I'm making Fantastic Four is inspired by Star Trek.
I'm like, You can't sell a movie.
Better to me than saying that right there.
That's the one. For in my life.
Yeah, yeah. So, yeah.
So now start.
I hope this is good.
I mean, I love that Chris Pine crew. What do you think about those movies?
yeah, they've been phenomenal.
I can keep it going.
Yeah, Yeah, I wish they would make it faster.
I don't want, you know, four years or whatever it's been, but we.
Got at least ten, probably ten years, honestly.
Really?
Yeah. yeah.
Since I have to look it up, but I am pretty sure.
But I mean, I like it
just because they're the definitely the light hearted version of Star Trek.
I mean it's, it really is If Beastie Boys surfing on, you know, in space
or whatever kind of thing.
Yeah, it's almost like a Futurama version of Star Trek. But,
you know, it's fine.
It's a good place for people to get into and then they discover more.
That's a great that's a squid got into it.
And I feel like they took,
you know,
the Star Trek that we love and made it
just a little bit more mainstream so that the like you're saying,
the broad audience that isn't used to watching
it can still watch and like it and then we can watch it and like it.
Neither side loves it as much as their own type of movie, but
at least it can kind of bridge the gap, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
And then a smart move and I think maybe Marvel should learned this lesson is
they made it very clear like that's another dimension essentially, you know
like Spock mess things up, don't ask questions is fine.
We can we can murder everybody in that dimension.
You're Kirk, you're Spock are fine. Yeah.
And that's where like, that whole Borg series
as talking about, it's like we don't have to
once we interact with the humans,
we don't have to recreate the scenes from, you know, next generation.
If it's a different dimension, they might even be different humans
that they run into and a different captain that they interact
with or something like that.
But it would be all about the Borg perspective.
You know, I. Tell you, you make the Borg sympathetic.
You make them against the Dominion humans, the TURAN Empire.
The men, you know. And that to me.
Not to me, you know, but the train empire is the Turin.
Terran. Terran Empire.
I'm always happy a little of that.
But like those guys, you love to hate them.
You know?
And Section 31 is starring their empress.
It would be fine. It's pretty good.
And you go, and it could be in one of the realities.
It could be that
the Borg got so much bigger, so much more powerful,
because in one dimension they dominated that empire to an empire
and took all those people,
all those strong fighters and stuff like that into their ranks.
Like I'd be able to just see it, see the Borg expanding and like,
yeah, go Borg eight Sorry, you're actually killing tons of people in the process.
I wonder how many Star Trek fans are tired of that
because I know Kevin's kind of tired of the Borg. I'm not.
I literally my, my PC is decked out.
Borg So I love the Borg and I'm not tired of them, but I know Kevin is.
I wonder if people are kind of tired of that as a villain.
I would be tired of the same story being told about the Borg,
you know, And then it's like,
we one of them with our humanity and technology
they didn't see before or something like that.
It's like, Well, yeah, that's kind of been rinse and repeat.
So that's why I want to see it from their side.
Like, you know, I sympathize with Darth Vader kind of thing or yeah, certain
other villains. It's like Magneto is a great example.
He's, you know,
actually wants to do really good, but he's kind of doing it in a bad way.
So he has to simmer down a little bit.
But you can easily sympathize with a good villain like that.
So like your own stories.
I like how strange New Worlds took the Gorn
and are they change what the going are essentially but
they that's kind of their big bad and it's like okay it's a crazy
almost parasitic animal that's out there that they have to avoid.
And then of course, we know Kirk runs a long one too, but very different looking.
But I do like that they kind of take a familiar name and use that one.
I was pretty good as well.
Yeah. Smart way to plug it in.
So a little more with Section 31 movie
is moving forward in filming.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we found out that the character Rachel
Garrett which was on so she was a captain on Next Generation.
Her character is returning in this movie, but she's going to be playing
the younger version who is played by Casey
Ronny Rooney role.
So that's my bad handwriting. Like,
I don't.
Know if I did spell that right. No, I just didn't.
I wrote a writer so really messy handed.
Daisy's a super good actor, So one thing I like is
if this does well, maybe they can pull her into Parks Universe.
Series.
And something like that, because this, you know,
Michelle Yeoh, I told you almost like, yeah, Michelle Yeoh is coming back.
Plays like what? She's like, so big.
She is big.
But when she was kind of in a lull, she was on Star Trek
and so she still loads the brain a little bit.
And this is good, but it's cause they.
Can keep building up her character, you know, now that she's
justifiable, more expensive, it's like, okay, but you'll get more screentime,
You'll be one of our, you know, top three or four stars in the show.
And we'll kind of wrap the show around you a little more like
I like how they can do that build up a character that you know their
their success is earned in the process of grow.
Yeah and I think that's probably one of the reasons why Section 31
went from a series to a movie, because it's just scheduling now is so rare.
But she's she's back in the pike era now because she did go with they,
she went with discovery into the future but then to the portal back.
It sounds crazy guys, but they explained it well and it should be.
Out of her dimension and out of her time.
At the same she was going to disintegrate or whatever. Yeah.
So if anybody that they establish in this movie
can be brought into Strange New World with Pike and crew.
Yeah. That'd be cool.
That would be smart to kind of plant the seeds of a lot of good characters
and then see which ones really resonate with people and be like, you know,
yeah, we're going to pull them in or,
you know, introduce their transition into this other world or,
you know, joining the crew kind of thing in the end of this movie.
Yeah, be smart.
I'm looking forward to it, man.
I love Star Trek.
I wish we could talk about it more often, but it's hard.
But I know people are already tuned out because they're like, Star Trek.
That's too much to get into. I'm not a fan of it.
Just give it a shot, guys. Yeah.
Unfortunately the news does not come very often about Star two or three sparse.
Well, during Star Trek Day,
which is going to be this summer, I believe it is. It's yeah.
Late summer that days it's amazing
day for Star Trek days at are one.
All right I'm going to shift over to Marvel reveal
the new video game and it's called Marvel rivals
rather than you Me both playing Overwatch and it's basically Marvel's overwatch.
What are your first thoughts on that?
It looks pretty cool.
I love the gameplay style of overwatch, you know, just jump and pick
which character you want
As long as you don't suck too bad like me, then you have a good time.
Otherwise I'm just doing this.
There's running back from the gate over and over again.
Yeah, because I just get down.
But no, it's a win win.
I mean, it's a good game.
If if it's similar to Overwatch, then it's a good game.
Yeah. Fun gameplay and stuff.
And you get to play some of your favorite
superhero characters or Marvel characters, which is a no brainer.
I'm surprised a company like Overwatch doesn't
license their characters and put them on their game like.
Yeah, that almost like that seems like it would make a lot of sense.
Just like, Hey, we're going to start releasing Marvel characters in Overwatch.
Yeah, because you ever watch World so bright and helpful.
It's perfect for Marvel. They adapt.
Yeah, but I'm excited.
I want to try it out. It is really cool.
Some of the characters that we have, Iron Man, Dr.
Strange, they all have different purposes and they've really pushed.
They've been saying in every bit of their marketing 6.6,
which is a really great way of saying, Hey, Overwatch fans,
you know, you're pissed off about Overwatch, We're bringing it back
because Overwatch went to a55 thing.
There's a little inside baseball which means one tank
so me and Squeaks are doing.
We always do two tanks
and it really sucked for one of the tanks go away
and it really changed the dynamics because then somebody is like,
I'm gonna be a tank that does more damage.
That means I'm taking more damage because you're not doing your job well.
Well, they're going to 66 and these two tanks
and well, looking at what we have here.
We already know that that Doctor Strange going to be a support.
He's creating barriers.
He's gonna be able to like maybe reverse time and heal wounds.
Do you think there's anybody in particular
you think is going to be a big tank character?
Maybe like a Hulk?
yeah. I mean, the whole.
Because you're not lined up in there.
Well, we haven't revealed who's playing what roles.
I'm just thinking
of all of the Marvel characters that we know are here who could be.
I think Hulk is pretty good, but.
Iron Man two, I think I mean, he as much as he could be DPS,
he moves fast and stuff like that, but he's definitely very tanky also.
So I mean, you could even put Ironman
in the Hulkbuster if you wanted to was like an ultimate or something.
We go, he just like rampages through and Hulkbuster.
Yeah, I think it would be a good tank as well.
Like he's creating like maybe these would walls and stuff like that.
Yeah, right.
See, Groot is more of a healer, but yeah.
yeah.
Trees is like maybe he's planting something that's healing.
And to make a cocoon.
Around people that they can heal in and stuff.
Yeah.
We have Black Panther, Spider-Man Name or Rocket Raccoon.
Loki One of the things I was pointing out to Thompson
was anybody else mention this?
Loki seems to be able to take the ultimate transform into other players
because we see Loki running around
and he becomes Black Panther, who then uses Ultimate Be a Big Panther.
And it was like, That's cool.
So Loki's tricking people, thinking, making it seem like he's Black Panther.
Yeah, that's fun. That's cool.
So some of the some of the gameplay stuff that we've learned is, yes, 66.
There's going to be synergy amongst the characters.
For example, to the things I've seen so far is
Rocketeer was a jump off the back of GRU and then able to power
each other, basically spin and do a bunch of firing down every direction.
Nice.
Another one is that Hulk shoots some sort of green energy
gamma radiation mixture into Iron Man
and that makes him shoot a gigantic green beam in front of him.
So you're able to team up with your friends
and really kind of become a good duo and stronger as a group.
I really like the duo there.
And then this is Sony driving.
If you hit a wall, the wall comes down.
It's a dynamic environment.
All of that that changes the game so much because throughout the battle, you're,
you know, things are changing around you and that makes it an ever changing game.
You don't you don't know what to expect when you know it's and it makes sense.
We see it in all the Marvel movies.
They go crashing through skyscrapers and stuff like that.
They pick up a car and throw it. Now that car is not where it was.
You know, it's kind of cool that they can add that into the game.
It's NetEase making this thing which is not like a super great
development company.
I'm like man what engine are you guys run and you can have dynamic environments
in a free to play game that's constantly changing.
Yeah that's a that's a big move right there
that's going to be that's a lot of development time on their side.
And it's got you know it's got the Marvel name
so it must have the Disney money behind it, right?
That's true. Yeah. I mean there's got to be right.
But also for NetEase too.
NetEase must have what are you like given a test of like
this is what we could do a proof of concept
they must provide a proof of concept of Marvel and marvel that go for it.
So NetEase must have thought like we can handle this
which is a big shoot for them and this is coming out to PC first
PC only and then I was saying with NetEase they're very mobile friendly.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a mobile version at some point
but PC I'm hoping.
This is I'm open this isn't a low budget like want to be Fortnite competition
kind of thing that's going to aim for getting about a ten year olds
and just quick quick cash grab kind of thing you know.
The sounds of that is very overwatch and maybe valorant
so I could see them try to go for the Valorant gets.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, hopefully it's good.
Hopefully they put the time and money into making it.
But in the big story, the quote unquote story, you know, these games are
there's a story in the background not necessarily being played out.
It's Doctor Doom versus Doctor Doom from 2099 fighting each other.
And you know, one, they're basically pitting,
you know, their armies together at each other.
And then we know at the end that they reveal that Galactica or Galactica.
I keep saying Galactic, that Immortal Collector,
which is the daughter of Galactus, has only been in like two comic books.
Is that somehow going to be pulling the strings behind everything?
So she's super unknown,
but she's very anime and actually one of the heroes.
I can't remember her name, but she's very animated.
So I think their target audience might be the Japanese people.
And NetEase is a Singapore company, so maybe like there
they know that the Asian market's going to be their main market
because their their character design seems to be leaning that way,
which hey more marvel capable.
Yeah that's cool.
All right,
let's wrap this up with the April watch list.
So I'm going to talk a little bit about each of these elements in between,
or it might take you might take doing a Rebel Moon.
Did you watch the first Rebel Moon? I did. Watch the first one. Yeah.
I watched it.
I liked it.
I saw the trailers. I'm super excited about it.
And then reviews started coming out.
People were saying it wasn't so it wasn't as good as they expected and stuff.
Finally, I watched it like a month late.
It was like, No, this is this is pretty good.
Not amazing.
I'd give it like a B-plus, though.
I would watch it again.
I think I was out of B minus on it, though.
I think the visuals are good and the world is really cool.
Yes, I didn't like that.
The story was kind of something we've all seen before
where it's like the Magnificent Seven guys story.
And it was a little muted.
And I saw a ticked off with the
I think it was the director saying that he wants to release.
Do you remember who directed Zack Snyder?
DARKSEID yeah, that's what it was.
He wanted to release his own it
and he's like, I don't want to be known for like
releasing a Zack Snyder cut of everything.
So but you know, you get, you get a script and you have these ideas
and you want to make this movie, and then the producers start cutting them
back and like, Well, hey, we can't do that. We can't show this.
And they, they really can't box you in on what's going to end up on screen.
And I was like, Yeah, that's not what I envisioned.
So it's like, Well, we're going to do it again.
Pretty much.
As he wants to release Zack Snyder, the Snyder cut of that show of that movie.
I would be interested to see what he thought was not worthy,
because when it came to Justice League, I thought he'd didn't it didn't do.
Much about it. Yeah, that's true. That's true.
I the things I didn't like about Justice League was
it was too dark and he just kind of made it more dark.
And so I wonder if he's because it is very muted tones
in Rebel Moon and I think a brighter rebel moon
because this is basically this is the Star Wars movie
you pitched to Star Wars and they said, no,
let's see what Star Wars looking for.
A version of it is where it's not Gray's and Brown's, you know.
And really, I think the story would have been amazing as a Star Wars movie.
Yeah. Yeah.
Either way, we have part two coming April 19th.
So if you guys like it.
Yeah. Yeah. It's to be worth a watch.
Now what?
I'm going to the same before we move on, before we go. To.
Too far.
Also on April 19th, I know you're going to be
watching is working with Wrexham going to be on Hulu the opposite season three now?
And you've told me every time this comes like, my God, you got to watch it.
I have seen I think was at your house or you just
I watched one or two episodes of it.
It's not bad.
It's a good show,
this kind of thing that I'd probably want to watch it
from the beginning to kind of get him involved,
invested in the characters and the town and all that stuff.
You know.
Sometimes when I find a show, Mike is a go for Jonathan,
and sometimes I'll find a show that I'm like, this is good for Jonathan and Susan.
This is really hard. You know, Susan's taste is very particular.
Yeah, because she is afraid by a lot of things, stuff like that.
Anyway, so this one, I'm like, this is good for the both of them,
and it's all far too hard to find stuff like that.
So I really again, welcome to direction.
We've been watching Survivor you know avidly now two together
like that's kind of our goal.
Every week we sit down and watch Survivor, which I love because, you know,
we grew up watching every season of it and she's liking it so much.
I don't know why I never tried to introduce her to it before.
Maybe I have. And she wasn't interested.
But she likes it so much that we were talking about it the other day.
When this season is over, we're going to still continue
watching Survivor every Thursday,
but we're just going to go backwards in seasons and watch the previous seasons
that we haven't seen.
So each year might be able to sit in four seasons
of survivors just watching it once a week.
So that's a good idea.
That's our go to.
But you know, there's more days in than just Thursday, so maybe.
You should see her take on some of the earlier seasons
when the game was quite a bit different, you know?
yeah, It seems like it was so much harder and like, yeah, season.
Three, they were like legit starved and that was a concern.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I like the one when they were in Africa
and had to have them surrounded in like thorn bushes.
It was that season too.
I think it was too. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah.
There's, there's, there's full on lions out there
and so they had to worry about like I meant the survival aspect.
That shouldn't just be that you're hungry, but surviving should be.
I mean you can't torture these people on TV. That's Yeah.
You know, obviously. But that was a problem.
You kind of want to see that there's succeeding
because they're they're working for it so much, They're earning it so much.
And sometimes it's like, well, they're starving.
I get that I can't go for hours without food, but they're going
they are ten days or something,
but you can't feel their hunger as much as you could see, like,
that's a legit lion across the pasture, across the desert or whatever.
Yeah.
Anyways, so not to go too far off on a tangent. No.
So I think that's cool though.
Let me know what you guys start looking at other seasons
because I get the Rick Devins one I'd really suggest to you.
Nice. Actually.
Yeah, but welcome to Wrexham.
I'm going to at least have to have a watch a couple episodes
and see if that could be another one of our go to shows.
Start from the beginning. Yep. Yeah.
So one, one show I'm definitely going to watch because it looks really good.
Is Fall Out You.
It's coming out April 11th on Prime Are you you ready to watch it?
I am.
And I tell you, I like how bright and colorful it is.
I like that take on a post-apocalyptic world.
Yeah, and that's the post-apocalyptic kind of steampunk vibes that it has.
It reminds me so much of BioShock and a lot of other games.
You know, obviously the game that it's based off of, but I love that.
So I hope we see more companies make movies that way.
It's just it just looks cool.
Video game movies in general look so much cooler than, you know,
all the other movies.
I think it's yeah, it's got Walter Goggins in it too.
I was that guy doing it and he's so good and righteous
gemstones, vice principals, he's all kinds of stuff justified.
He's got a really good, natural speaking voice.
And here he's playing an old Western star that's been alive for a few hundred years
after being corroded by nuclear powers or whatever.
Yeah, he's like, decaying. Yeah, he's a ghoul.
And so I'm looking forward to seeing him do his thing.
Yeah. Yeah, he's good.
Well, okay, so what?
I'm probably not going to watch, but I know it's on your list for sure.
Or at least on our website is knuckles.
Are you going to watch that?
The new knuckles?
Okay, so I sat down to watch Sonic too,
because if you remember, we found out that I hadn't watched.
I haven't either.
So I sat down to watch it.
And for some reason of Paramount Plus and I've tried it now on multiple TVs,
the color keeps bouncing around like it's messed up.
So I am going to order this Blu ray.
I'm going to watch this thing before April 26 when this comes out.
And because I mean, that's how you resemble White Knuckles.
It's crazy that I haven't seen this. That's true.
I stare at it, see, just. Elba.
He is amazing.
Yes, he is.
So, you know, I will find a way to watch Sonic, too.
And then I'll be watching this.
Yeah, I'll have to watch these also, because they're easy.
So easy movie I could put on when my son's in the room
and I can't put on Game of Thrones or something like that.
So Art But on Sonic two also, I haven't seen that yet.
And what's have seen Sonic one though, right.
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was, it was good.
And I don't know,
maybe it missed
the release of Sonic two or something that I don't remember when it came out,
but it seems like I would have watched it when it came out because I must.
Have been busy. I know I can't even remember.
I assumed I had seen it.
And then we were discussing like, wait a minute, I don't know that story.
I think a lot of things happened during the pandemic that just that's true.
I'm totally, totally missed. Yeah,
but, yeah, that's
all I got for I mean, we already talked about Star Trek news.
yeah, Star Trek Discovery.
It's a light month, but I'll double down on Fallout for sure.
Welcome to Wrexham, For sure. Yeah.
And of course, getting back to Star Trek, I'm
excited to get back into the new season of Star Trek stuff.
That's good stuff.
On a separate note to hear, they're going to do like a bit
of a reboot of Jurassic Park or the Jurassic movies, I guess,
and they're talking about Scarlett Johansson being the new lead character.
She's amazing.
Yeah, Yeah, I'm down for that.
And we've we've talked a little bit about in the past, but they now are saying
that Scarlett Johansson's going to be leading this.
I think she's a big enough name to run it.
But what story do you tell?
That's the tough part. Yeah. You know.
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, we don't want to see the same thing.
We've talked about this other stuff.
Don't just keep repeating the same old story.
We need something totally fresh.
They have the right, the original screenwriter on this,
so maybe he has an idea. He's been cooking it for a while.
Maybe he's got an idea for something.
But, yeah.
I think I'd kind of like to see something like the Jurassic Park fail.
Jurassic World,
you know, they got out everywhere, and this is like 100 years later.
So she's an adult that was born in a small community
that's surviving amongst dinosaurs.
And then, you know,
something happens there, their communities practically destroyed.
And now she's on the run and she has to try to survive,
you know, in the wild,
not much protection, trying to find a way to, you know, maybe find another tribe
or settle or make peace with dinosaurs and that she can write to actors.
I don't know. We'll see. Yeah. You know, what we need is diner. Toby.
Remember those old picture books for your kids?
Diner Topic of coloring bird on their picture.
my God. I loved them.
It was a world where it was like Middle East,
I think, was the kind of like a human history level.
But it was with dinosaurs the entire time.
man, I remember loving them.
And yeah, so maybe something like
it's gone a few years and now dinosaurs are just integrated into our society 100%.
I don't know where the drama comes in. Like the.
Flintstones and. Stones, essentially.
Yeah.
Okay, Dad, I told you guys, if you're an old millennial like myself,
you'll remember those. Those are classic.
Well, we're going to be See in the Ark, Ark movie, right?
Movie or TV show based on the game Ark.
God, Who knows and has to know.
So disappointed by that franchise now.
really? I am. Vin Diesel got involved.
I think he bought the rights or something like that.
And he's just really Vin Diesel ing things up right now.
So I'm a little he.
Was the best in the various on dinosaur back.
That's been your family show more with the family my dinosaurs
it's the story Ark though is a very good story because the idea is
that you'd wash up on a beach not knowing what's going
on, realizing there's dinosaurs, figuring how they could tame them.
You know, it does become cool.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right.
So, well, well, Scarlett Johansson, this good with this whole new
Jurassic series on down?
I like that we're bringing back to these past
the Pirates of the Caribbean and stuff like that.
Let's just make sure they feel original and they'll be good to go.
Yeah, yeah.
Spend the money and time on some good writers.
All the stuff. Yeah.
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