Harry Potter Trailer! Obsession Producers Sues! Secret Wars Casting! - The John Campea Show

0:00Well, greetings and salutations, everybody. Welcome to the best and move relates on the planter at the John Campius show. Kind of from right here in our quaint little studio. I'm, of course, your host, John Campius. And it is an awesome on your privilege as it is every day to have you, our international friends gather around. We talk about our favorite things in the world movies and movie news TV and streaming and all that good stuff. Joining us in the good stuff hasn't had to break out the umbrella yet, but he's out there in Texas where they're getting some rain right now. The great Sean Chandler's here. Sean, how you doing, sir? I'm doing good. Hopefully the rain won't hit us while we're doing the show because whenever that happens, my internet tends to fail. So we'll know what's going to happen. You'll know why. We'll warn you if we start to see water coming down your stairs behind you. Also joining us here today, technical producer of the John Campius show, Jonathan Voico. You know, John, we laughed, but there was a time we worked in a studio where water did consistently come down from the ceiling. I, Sean, I don't know if you knew about

1:03this, but we, we for a while when I was with AMC and later when we were doing the John Campius show, we worked out of a studio in Hollywood called the stream. Great studio, like wonderful studio. So one day though, we, we show up to in Hollywood to go do our show and we walk in and it's on the third floor and it's a swamp. Like it's a swamp and waters pouring through the ceilings and all this kind of stuff and oh, like I'm shocked though, like nut, like no, with water that came in that there wasn't a lot of expensive damage done to the equipment. Water came down everywhere, but where equipment was. So then I spent the morning wrapping everything in plastic. But then we had that happen at the AMC studio as well. Remember, and they had to read right on Dennis, Dennis camera, right on Dennis's stuff. I remember, I mean, I should laugh. That was terrible. I felt horrible for it. It was a big room and of all the spots it was right on his gear. And yeah, they had

2:04to come and tar anyway, guys. Sorry, we're going down. Reminiscence Lane there. Most importantly, of course, you guys are here. Thank you so much for being here and being a part of our show. Here's how today's show is going to go. We're going to start off by talking about a few predetermin topics we got lined up for you guys. Then in the second part of the show, we're going to take your live comments and questions. If you guys have a thought theory, opinion, question or an issue, you'd like me to address, go ahead and fire it on into the super chats. They are open right now, but I will be turning them off at some point as it gets filled up because there's already a lot of super chats in there. But in the meantime, you can't send them in as long as I deem it appropriate to be addressed on the show. We'll address those in the second part of the show. And at one last reminder for everybody, I have put this on social and in the community tab. And I've been mentioning on the show, but one last time the movie meetups that were supposed to be happening this and next week were, of course, canceled. I had a technical issue with the van and I wasn't able to get out on the road. So we had to cancel those. I will reschedule for some point.

3:04But as as of right now, that stretch of the leg has been postponed. All right. With that all down guys, let's get things started here. Shall we? We're going to start off with this. You know, despite the fact that it is very divisive amongst a lot of the MCU fans because a lot of people liked it and a lot of people didn't, I firmly fall on the liked it side. I liked it. Turnles. I thought it turned. It was a really very different kind of MCU movie directed by an Academy Academy Award winning director and then later got nominated for best director again with Hamnet, which we're going to be talking about a little bit later. And I thought she brought a really interesting vision to the returnals. And I liked it. But one of the most interesting things, both people who liked it and maybe didn't like it kind of agree on was near the end when they kind of implied that, well, we already knew who Dan was, but that kid Harrington picking up the sword was about to become our black knight. Of course, also part of that scene was another guy by the name of Mahershal Ali, which was the

4:06voice of blade. But you didn't see him on screen. He just heard his voice. Well, a blade gone. And now it's official while we all suspected it, uh, Kit Harrington is also officially not returning to the MCU. This comes us from the folks who read IGN, who are the following fans of long wanted marvel to announce a midnight suns team up movie and still hold hope that one may materialize eventually, not only could Kit Harrington return without the rest of the eternals, it would also be a neat place to feature Ryan Gosings ghost rider following his introduction and hey, Mahershal Ali's blade could appear there too. We know that's not happening. But for now, at least Harrington has suggested this is not on the cards, talking to movie web, the actor said he wasn't aware of any invitation to rejoin the Marvel universe. I'd love to return Harrington began. I don't think there's any plan to I hate to break it to you. I think he's a wicked character he continues. There's a part of him that whole Ebony blade stuff where the more he kills,

5:08the worse he gets, the more addicted. I think he's such a great parable of addiction. I think he's someone who starts good and goes bad, but we'll see. I don't know if there's any plan. All right. So it sounds basically like Kit Harrington has said, yeah, I mean, we've all suspected it for a while now, but there don't seem to be any plans to bring him back. And I'm okay with that on the one hand, not because I didn't think he was great or would have been great continuing in the role. I do. But you know, the MCU is quite a crowded place. It's about to get a whole lot more crowded with the X men and the 5,000 characters that they bring with them into the fold as well. So that's all going to be a part of it. And so I get it. And I'm okay with it. On the other hand, he does raise a really great point. In the sense that there is such a really rich story to tell with him. Like again, I love the way he put that. The character itself becomes a

6:12great parable of addiction that the more he uses it, the deeper he falls into it, the more control it starts to have over him. And I just think there's a really cool story to be told there. Now on the other hand, guys, I think we would probably all agree if we're studio executives, I don't know that there's a pitch to be made that a black night movie could be a financial success. I don't know if there's a lot of average movie goers out there that are asking for it. I mean, yeah, there weren't a lot of average movie goers asking for Guardians of the Galaxy either. But you know, that's more the exception than the rule. So I'm a little bit torn on it again, Sean, I'm not surprised. I don't think you are either to hear him say this. And I get it. And I understand it. And I don't necessarily disagree with it. But at the same time, a little disappointed to hear about that. Anyway, you hear Kid Harrington saying there's no plans for him to come back. Are you surprised to hear that right move wrong move? What do you think? It's just kind of the confirmation of what we've all known for

7:15a while now that eternal all of the lingering plot threads at the end of that movie are going absolutely nowhere. And this just kind of feels like the frustration of the way that phases 4 and 5 were kind of mismanaged where if you look at phases one through three, every single movie except incredible Hulk got a sequel. An incredible Hulk obviously showed up in Avengers Thor Ragnarok. Well, incredible. I kind of did get a sequel in Captain America, Brave New World. In a way, I suppose. Many years later. Very true. But that sense of where everything they did for a long time very clearly went somewhere. And it felt like even the lesser movies mattered as a bigger piece of the puzzle. And then there was that confusion that came with phases 4 and 5 where so much stuff came out. And it didn't go anywhere. It wasn't followed up. And I'm more on the side that wasn't crazy about eternal. But even this to me is frustrating because it was like I wanted to see where that was going. Like John Snow is black night and he's talking with blade. What's that

8:19about? I want to see that. Oh, we're not getting any of that. And it's that frustration. I just, I would love to have some sort of honest conversation with Kevin Feige where he could explain how some of the stuff played out the way it played out of feeling like they did so many things where how could you even do a sequel to all the things in second seasons to all these shows they launched in phases 4 and 5 because they launched so many new things all at once where it would take you years and years and years to just do a second movie for each of them or second season. I think, you know, the answer to that was like especially with the eternal one was look, Kevin Feige loved that movie. He loved it and he had a lot of belief in it. And Jonathan, you can correct me where I'm wrong here, but I think it made in the neighborhood of I don't even think it cracked one black Adam. Like I don't even think it got to 400 million. I think it was like 300 and something. It might have cracked 400. You might want to double check that. Oh, it did crack. Oh, it beat black Adam. I stand corrected. My apologies.

9:23But you know, that was really the first financially disappointing film for Marvel. And I think that probably had a lot to do. Like, listen, I still amazed that at some point in Marvel 616 universe, a celestial five times bigger than the planet appeared in the sky and said, Oh, by the way, I'm coming back for judgment. And hey, nobody ever mentions it. It just, it's just, I don't know, I never happened just just another Tuesday in the Marvel world of anyway, guys, question is for you. What do you think about this? Kit Harrington is kind of confirmed that there are no plans for him to return much like his off-camera cohort, Marcial Ali. Yeah, the black night will not return in Avengers, Doomsday. So that's kind of unfortunate, but I kind of get it. Whenever you guys think about that, jump down to the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, guys, with that down, let's move on to

10:26this. You know, speaking of Avengers, Doomsday, there is of course another Avengers movie coming just a year later with Avengers secret wars. And yesterday while we were doing the John Campius show, a little bit of casting news dropped as it has been announced by deadline, not confirmed by Marvel, but deadline found out and they decided to spoil it. And they revealed that Avengers secret wars know a jupe. By the way, I, I don't know for 100% for sure if I'm mispronouncing his last name, but I'm going to go to jupe until somebody corrects me. No, a jupe joins the upcoming Marvel Studios movie. This is what they wrote. He looks like a young Orlando Bloom in many ways. Anyway, says this exclusive while Marvel Studios still has a couple of months before it unveils Avengers, Doomsday, the next chapter already is looking to add to its stack cast sources tell deadline that no a jupe has been tapped for a secret role role in Avengers secret wars, which is set to go into production later this year. Marvel had no comment on jupe joining the cast. All right.

11:33So first of all, a couple things, if you're not super familiar with no a jupe, that's understandable. He hasn't, he's young. He's only, I think 21 or something like that. He hasn't been around a lot, but he's already got a pretty impressive resume. As we go down through his stuff, he's got some pretty high profile things. He just did Hugh Jackman's to death of Robin Hood with with Jackman, he was in the night manager. Then we've got the real standout one for me was Hamnet, which guys again, the movie got nominated for best picture. It got nominated for best director. It got a bunch of other things. I know a lot of you guys still haven't seen Hamnet. You really should watch Hamnet. If you like being emotionally moved, the last act of this movie will wreck you. I mean, it's, it's watch Hamnet. Just go watch Hamnet. Anyway, he did Lady in the lake, Dream and Wild, quiet, he was course in the quiet place movies. He was a John Krasinski son in the

12:36quiet place movies. He was in Honeyboy. So he's done a bunch of stuff. By the way, interesting side note that I only learned today for those of you that did watch Hamnet. And he appears in the final act on stage as the actor playing Hamlet. And you're like, Oh my God, he even looks like their son. Well, that's because I only found, I was telling you guys this earlier. I only found this out today. The kid who played Shakespeare's son who dies in the movie is actually Noah's real life little brother. So if you were like me and going like, Holy crap, they even look alike. Well, apparently that was it. I didn't know that. I had no idea. They were real life brothers. So that's pretty interesting that that happened as well. So anyway, so this is obviously going to bring up. And by the way, I thought he was so good in Hamlet. And by the way, he had just finished doing Romeo and Juliet on stage with Sadie Sink. So him and Sadie Sink have already. So whenever you get

13:39somebody who can do Shakespeare and can do stage, that's a huge checkmark in my book. Because you're just talking about a different breed of actor that can do that. So I'm all that's great. The big question that's going to come up for a lot of people is what's the secret role? Who is he playing? I've already seen a lot of speculation online that he's going to play young or slightly older, I should say Franklin Richards. I don't know about that. Only because Noah is already in his 20s, I don't know if they're going to fast forward Franklin that much. Although an argument could be made guys that he could still pass for 15. And I wouldn't necessarily argue against that. He could still pass for 15. But so, but again, Franklin Richards is an option. Some people are thinking a beyonder. I don't think you're,

14:39I don't think you cast him to be a beyonder. Although that is one of the possibilities. But here, I want to throw out this as a possibility. We have been, I know I have and Rob has to, whenever we've talked about secret wars in the comics, for those of you who have read the comic of secret wars, you know how pivotal an anchoring of a character molecule man is. Like, he's the cog, right? Molecule man is the cog. We've all assumed myself included that they are going to swap out molecule man for either a Franklin Richards, a Loki, a century, somebody else that becomes that reality warping power battery that that doom uses, right? What if we've been wrong? What if it's not, they're not swapping out molecule man? What if we literally, what if he's playing molecule man? And we find out that in his earth, they had a molecule man and he used him. So that's an option to,

15:43or he's going to play shopkeeper number three. And, and that's that. Anyway, Sean, you saw this news about Noah, you now joining secret wars. So two questions for you. How do you feel about his casting? And then number two, you got any sort of thoughts about who we could see him playing? Well, I'd kind of tie the two together of I don't have any theories as to his casting because it feels like he's really ascended really quickly. Not obviously as a long resume, but you know, a quiet place. The first one was eight years ago when he was literally a kid and he was in Ford versus Ferrari when he was literally a kid. And so you kind of jump. Like Richard Bales, right? You played, Richard Bales kid. Yeah, Miles. Yeah, Peter Miles. And so you jump forward now and he's an adult and maybe he can still play a teenager, but he's quite a bit older. And then he shows up in Hamnet in a role that's pretty specific that it's like the kind of role where he's playing a part in a play. And so you've got someone that has a long resume at a very young age, but not in the

16:47sense where it makes it really obvious what he could do, what his potential is like you know, he can act, you know, he has the chops. He's being recruited by you biggest franchises as well as Oscar winners for Oscar nominated films, but not in a typecast sort of way. So it's in not in the sense where I have a specific vision for what he would look like. So that's what's exciting to me is that I don't know where this is going. I don't immediately go, oh, he's probably doing this. I just go, they saw talent and they wanted to put him somewhere probably. That's what's happening or like you said, maybe it's some random role that they're reporting like big news and it's not, but that we're getting Marvel casting outside of a big announcement outside of a convention with a character associated with it. In and of itself, that's kind of interesting. And it's being that he did something with Sadie Sink on Broadway recently. That's really interesting. Since she was one of these ones where they did announce her as being cast and we didn't find out who it was until the movie debuted. And so that there's just kind of that little tie. There's just kind of interesting to me, but I don't have

17:49any fan threes yet because I just am not familiar enough of what he would be a good fit for. That's that's a good point. Jonathan, you got any theories right now about who you think we could see him playing? I mean, it might not even be one of those three. I mean, I know you kind of joked with shopkeeper. Yeah, it could be a hundred of the characters. This is a stack. This is going to be a stacked movie. And I mean, you've got different realms that you're going to, well, okay, I'm just assuming if they're going off of like the comic book, you've got different realms to fill. You've also got if they stick with the comic book where the people of Manhattan are actually aware of what happened. I mean, this guy could be playing anybody. So I just, I mean, to me, to all of a sudden have the beyonder pop in just seems kind of odd. I feel like you're going to have an established character. So I feel like if Doom's going to use anyone, it's actually not going to be centuries can be Franklin Richards. But it's just so hard because anything is such speculation at this point that more than likely we're wrong. Whatever we say. Oh, oh, yeah. Oh,

18:51that that much is absolutely true. It's it's 1% any of our guesses 99% somebody else completely. But it's going to be interesting to see where they go with this. All right, guys, question is for you. What do you think about this? No, Joupe has been added to the cast of secret wars. And while not a resume that is very long that a lot of us don't know, dude comes from the stage. He was in Hamnet. He can do Shakespeare. That's all we need to know. This dude's going to kill whatever it is he plays. But who do you think he might be playing? Whatever you guys think, jump down to the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, guys, with that down, let's move on to this. You know, one of the great movie stories of the year and there have been several really great stories this year, everything from the wild success of Spider-Man to like I think we're now at $5 billion dollar films for the year. A lot of very, very good stories. But one of the most

19:57fascinating has to be the story of obsession. This episode is brought to you by TickTack. Lay sub and get your game on because the TickTack line up just got a new teammate. Dr. Pepper TickTack. This new double threat puts two of your favorite flavors into one box of mince and when two iconic flavors come together, the result can only be iconic. Score big. Try Dr. Pepper TickTack today. A little film that cost under $800,000 to make and went on to make over half a billion dollars. Truly one of the most inspiring kind of success stories. But where there is success and where there is money, there is going to be drama. We've already heard not long ago about the fact that one of the, I think it was the cinematographer maybe kind of made some noise about not being paid much money to do it and stuff like that. Well now, apparently one of the producers of obsession

21:00has now filed a lawsuit against one of the production companies and a couple of the other producers claiming that she never got any kind of a payout for doing the movie. As deadline writes, obsession executive producer sews over allegedly being scammed out of promised profits from high grossing horror hit. So apparently she got paid a bonus of $300,000 on a movie that made half a billion dollars. Now the person in question is this executive producer here. Leonora Darby. By the way, this is one of my, one of my aunts names, Leonora, hi, Iint Leo. Leonora Darby is one of the producers. You see they got a bunch of producers listed on the movie. And apparently according to the story, she got promised a lot and was pivotal in getting this movie across the finish line. And they didn't honor any of those deals. Let's actually go over and see what deadline has to say about it. Deadline said this. Leonora Darby claims that she

22:05has been rewarded for saving obsession by two of the films other executive producers ripping her off. This action arises from a seven year pattern of unequal treatment and broken compensation. The reason it's seven years is because she's been working with this production company and these two producers for that long over multiple projects. A seven year pattern of unequal treatment and broken compensation promises by two older male film producers to a younger female producer whose label, labor was material to the growth of their company and who rescued their biggest film, the global hit obsession reads a breach of contract complaint filed on August 28th. The documents as Darby was promised big bucks from one of the highest grossing horror films of all time, but didn't get what she was promised. No one wish willowsinger here, but the long 135 page court filing Darby says T-Shot productions, James Harris and Mark Lane, you might have just saw their name on the producer's list for obsession as well. We're playing her for a while and the

23:07Indian Avarete and Michael Johnson starting a session prove the final straw. Specifically, Darby says that the duo brought her on board at their failing and fledgling company in 2019 with offers of being an equal producer, including with respect to compensation, company direction, project decisions, financial transparency and access to business opportunities. Among those aforementioned opportunities were Lane and Harris's 2024 promise allegedly reneged on at least once that Darby would have received one third 33.33% of the net profits due to T-Shot films on the lead she produced together with direct participation in the applicable collection account management agreements. Okay, so basically the suit alleges that not only did that happen with obsession, but there were multiple productions that this company got involved with that she helped bring to fruition across the finish line on and that there are other productions she's worked on with them that they didn't keep their promises as well. At least that's what's alleged,

24:09but the big one obviously comes to a head with obsession. And there's even a part of this where she says at one point the director of the film got disconnected from it and that she was the one who had to fight to get it back into his hands for the edit to finish the movie and complete the movie and she's the one who got the film across the finish line, all that kind of stuff. Film wakes half a billion dollars. That's not what T-Shop would have got, but they would have got a lot. And she says the only bonus thing she got was $300,000, which is a bonus I would happily take. In case anybody wants to send me something. So, but it comes down, this is where it's going to get sticky. I read, now I haven't read the 135 page filing. I actually think I'm going to do that. I'm a bit of a legal geek, but having read through the article, what was not clear in the article was that all these alleged promises, I don't know if she's got it in writing.

25:15Yeah, it's a problem. What? Now, if somebody says it, that's still legally binding. Like if they took, if they had dinner with her one night and say, we're going to give you one third of whatever our profit share is from the movie, we're going to give you 33.33%. We're going to give you one third. You don't have to have that in writing to be legally binding. That's legally binding. But you have to be able to establish it. That happened. So this lawsuit is probably, again, unless it isn't writing and that's just not mentioned in the article, in which case that's not great reporting. But if it's not in writing, they're going to have to do depositions with all the other staff. They're going to have to get somebody on record testimony saying, yes, we heard them make that promise or whatever. Because if the promise was made, she's owed. If they can't prove that, she's not. But this becomes a big lesson to everybody.

26:17Do not make your deals with a handshake. Get everything in writing. It just avoids a lot of problems. But again, where a lot of big money gets involved, drama gets involved. People start breaking promises when money gets involved. People, you know, start imagining promises when money gets involved. So look, if they did screw her out of this, then I hope she gets everything that she deserves out of it. Because $300,000 bonus sounds nice until you realize she's the one who got the movie across a finish line and then it made half a billion dollars. Anyway, Sean, you had a chance to take a look at this story. I'm going to go out on a limb against you. I haven't read the 135 page actual filing yourself yet. I haven't had a chance to do that. I will at some point. But this is now the second or third time we're hearing some dissatisfaction from people who have worked on obsession about what the ultimate outcome ones, all of it surrounds money. What's your takeaway from it? How does it hit you? And what do you

27:19think's going to happen here? It seems pretty common with a lot of these small budget independently made movies that when they take off and suddenly tens hundreds of millions of dollars are involved, there's almost always a lawsuit where there's a few lawyers involved on the front end, more handshake deals, and then people go, hey, wait a minute, you told me this, where's my money? Another thought I was thinking about, they sold the movie for $16.2 million about a year ago to get distribution. I don't know how that factors into the what percentage the producers actually made out of it. If they sold the film for $16.2 billion or $1 million, and then the studio went on to make $500 million. So as one thought that I have, what the percentage should be actually of, but I tend to think like, what is in writing? And it keeps using the word promised, but not in contract, in writing. And that's just what immediately stuck out to me in the language of what was in the article.

28:19I usually think if a movie takes off like this, the producer should be generous with bonuses for people, but that's just, I think it's good to be compensated people that helped you have a wild success. But what's in writing is what's your legally obligated to do. So that's immediately where my mind goes. By the way, somebody in the live chat, I get it like, uh, Duncan is saying, if she is old, then that's fine. She's old, but $300,000 bonus could change your life greed is not always good. Listen, if you got promised $5 million for your efforts and your work, and then you get a check for $300,000, yeah, the $300,000 is great. But may I propose that you would be singing a different tune if it was you and you and you were told you're going to get one third of what the company makes on this. And if the company made fit like, like it was probably more than $16 million, it could have been in the $50 million range, $75 million, but let's just go with 15. They get paid $15 million.

29:25You're owed five million. It's one thing to Shashi's greedy saying, well, why isn't 300,000 good enough? That's fine. Unless it was you that was promised five million, and then you get less than, you know, uh, much, much, much less, then it becomes a different issue. $5 million technically, then you put those into some dividend bearing investments. You never have to work another day in your life. Oh, dude, you listen, good financial wisdom for everybody. You put $500,000 in some good dividend things. You never have to work again in your life. But, but again, it's, it's, this is all going to come to come down to this. We're, and it's going to be as simple as this. If there were other people who were aware of these promises and they testified to that in deposition, and if you lie in deposition, you go to jail, um, she should have a really strong case to get the money. However, if it was all closed office door one-on-one meetings and

30:27something was said to her and it's nothing, but he said and she said, and there's nothing to back it up. Then she's going to have a very, very difficult time, uh, proving it. So it's going to be interesting to see how this breaks down again. I'm just fascinated whenever you hear about these big, huge hit movies, especially surprise ones with people who aren't used to having that kind of success. That drama usually follows. Anyway, guys, question is for you. What do you think about this? One of the producers on obsession is saying the other producers ripped her off and are trying to ice her out and she's suing them for it. I don't know. Uh, what do you think? Do you think, listen, this is your own fault for not getting it in writing or, or maybe it isn't. It's just not in the reporting. Whatever you guys think, jump down into the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, guys, with that down, let's move on to this. You know, one of my favorite filmmakers, and I think for a lot of you guys too is Danny Boyle. Uh, the guy just has this in every single one

31:34of his movies and he's got a wide range of movies, but in all of them, there is a frantic, kinetic kind of energy that he, whether it's a, um, whether it's a train spotting or whether it's slumdog millionaire or whether it's ours or whether it's whatever, he's just has this ability to bring this frantic, kinetic energy to his projects. Well, he's got a new project coming out called Inc. And it's premiering. I believe today at the Venice film festival, if I'm not mistaken, but the first trailer for Inc. has just come out and it is amazing. It is absolutely amazing. And the cast and it is absolutely fantastic. Uh, this is what they write over at the rap. Danny Boyle's Inc. has dried the British Art Tours latest and adaptation of James Graham's 2017 stage play

32:38about the rebirth of the sun with Jack O'Connell as the paper's news editor Larry Lam and Guy Pierce, who I love, Guy Pierce, as Rupert Murdoch, the Australian mogul that bought and subsequently turned around the failing paper is headed to theaters later this year before a debut on Netflix in early 2027. But with its Venice film, international film festival premiere here, we have a brand new trailer and you can watch it below. And by the way, it's not just Jack and Guy Pierce, Claire Foy is in this. And of course, Claire Foy burst onto international recognition by her portrayal in the first couple of seasons of the crown as the queen. And she's fantastic. And you know, it's really funny, a little bit of a side note here. Claire Foy, after winning tons of awards for being in the queen, and she is a remarkable performer. She was poised to have this career really skyrocket. And it just never did. And I really don't know why because she's phenomenal. But anyway,

33:42she looks great in this. I love these based on true stories. You know, they all take certain levels of creative license for sure. But I still love these based on true stories, kind of thriller movies that ask really interesting questions. You know, the paper was one that did that spotlight was one that did that really well. And you know, guys, watching the trailer for Inc. It raised a really great question that even on small potatoes levels of like little YouTube channels and bloggers that even we've had to ask sometimes is like, you have information. Should you share it? I mean, just because you can share it, should you share it? And obviously in the Inc. It's life or death kind of consequences to those questions. And again, you're talking about a movie about a British newspaper. And yet this trailer thrilled and feels intense. And I cannot

34:51wait to watch this movie. I'll be really interested to see when the reviews start floating out. And they should come out sometime today. I'm guessing. But anyway, Sean, you had a chance to watch the trailer for Inc. What did you think about it? Well, kind of piggybacking on what you said about that energy that Danny Boyle always brings to his project. The first thing I wrote down immediately while watching the trailer was, wow, I love this punk rock aesthetic brought to the newsroom. Where it's just immediately the music choice, the camera work, just the energy. It brings it to life where so often movies about newsrooms are, you know, they're kind of stressed. But there's a properness to them. And this just has that punk rock energy to it that it like immediately like, okay, this is different. I'm tracking along with that, which is also, you know, ties into the theme of the movie of this punk rock aesthetic towards doing news and the dangers of that. Second thought I had of when you release a movie at a film festival in September release it in

35:52December in some degree and then put it in theaters in January feels like they're setting up that Oscar run. Like that specific release schedule is pretty common to do that. And so you think like if the buzz coming out of the screening tonight or the next few days is as good as we're hoping it is, we're looking at their Oscar run campaign starting right now and intentionally putting out this trailer to even get that buzz people talking and then people hear the positive word of mouth and then maybe becomes, you know, that front runner conversation about it. And then likewise the other thing you talked about it, just the general nature of it. I appreciate it that it's kind of playing the fun side of like let's do the the outsider version of the news that's kind of breaking all the rules and then also going, wait a minute, these rules are here for a reason. There are consequences to play and lose with some of these things. You have to have some integrity and there's consequences for your actions. And it ties into all those different angles rather than just kind of romanticizing the news or anything like that. It's like, right, this can be great. It can also be

36:57really dangerous. Yeah, I mean, I, I lament the fact that like a lot of people do that at some point and maybe this is kind of the origin of that, the news stopped being the news and became entertainment. And when the news became entertainment, I think we lost something. By the way, am I the only one who when I see this image from the trailer and from the movie? Is this not the opening scene from the last of us? Yeah, court of sales. Like is this not from the series from season one, the series, it reminds me a lot like that. Anyway, what is the global temperature rises just by? Yeah, just by like three to three degrees. Then we lose. All right, guys, question is for you. What did you think about this trailer for Danny Boyle's new film, Inc? I thought it looked absolutely fantastic. We'll find out how good it actually is because the trailer, the review should be coming out here fairly quickly. Whenever you guys think about it, jump down to the comments section below and let us know

38:01your thoughts. All right, guys, for that down, let's move on to this. You know, I am not and you guys who watch my show know this. I am while I am somebody who does appreciate the Harry Potter movies. Some of them quite a bit. I'm not what you would call a potterhead. I've never nor will I ever read the books. I'm not really deep into the lore all that much. I just appreciate the movies and I like the movies for what they are. But I'm not really a potterhead. But when they announced that they were doing a brand new HBO was doing a brand new potter series where every season was going to be one of the books. Instead of just one, two hour movie, every season was going to be one book. I thought that's interesting. That's interesting. When I then heard the lineup of the showrunners and executive producers they were bringing on board, which are without exaggeration literally the

39:04best of the best in the business right now. I was like, okay, you had my curiosity. Now you have my attention. And then when they put out those first little clips, I thought this feels really good. I mean, I like the feeling this well today. They have put out really their first full trailer, almost two and a half minute trailer for Harry Potter. And as somebody who's not a potterhead, and I don't have a dog in this hunt, holy crap. It looks good. It looks so good. Anyway, this is what the folks over at the Hollywood Reporter had to write. They said this HBO released a new trailer for Harry Potter and the philosopher stone featuring a much more detailed look at the cast and potters first year at Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, Hermione and the core professors all get speaking lines in this new footage, which shows some iconic moments from JK Rowling's first novel, such as Harry, under the sorting hat, the quidditch pitch, and Harry being disc by professor Snape. And you know,

40:06I saw one discussion going on online about it. And one of the things that again, as somebody who hasn't read the books, one of the things that a lot of people were pointing out, apparently who have read the books are saying you could already see in the trailer, some of the things that the movies just never had time to show that were in the books and they kind of dropped them into the trailer here. Again, I just kind of felt the wonder of it. I thought it felt great. I think Jonathan Lithgaugh is going to be a great double door. I mean, I thought that from the day they announced his casting anyway. So I already thought that was a given. So yeah, look, as a non-potterhead, I watched this and I just thought it was great. By the way, some of the few people also mentioning like that Nick Frost look great. Again, Nick Frost was one of those casting guys at the moment they announced that Nick Frost was playing Hagrid. Like it was kind of like when they announced that Patrick Stewart was going to play Professor X. Like it's like the whole world went like,

41:08well, yeah, obviously like that was such a inspired, perfect bit of casting. And so that look evening. Anyway, I watched the trailer today. I watched it about three times. I was swept up by it. I thought it was beautiful. Again, seeing lots of great trailers for bad movies and bad shows. So we'll see how that goes. But you know, it's getting closer. It still feels like this Potter thing, Sean is still something that's like two years away, but it's actually coming out in a couple of months. Like we're going to get Doom three, Doom's day and Harry Potter series all in the same month. Anyway, you had a chance to take a look at the trailer yourself. What did you think about it as a first kind of full trailer out there? The problem I keep running into with this one is when the original set of films are so iconic. And they create the image I have in my head of these characters are the actors from before the world of Hogwarts is the one from those films. There's always this tricky part of we're adapting the exact same book. And so I'm just

42:11my brain is still adjusting to it's a new adaptation. Of course, it's going to be different. So there's a little bit of that with my kind of brain. I'm very much on board with the concept. Like some people, was it too soon? The others are so iconic. They had to trim so much when you're converting these long books in particular, the later books, they'd trim so much out in order to fit them into movies under three hours long. This is the right way to do it. An HBO has a 30 year track record of premium television, the best television for decades now. And that's where it's being adapted. So there's a side to me that's still like my insides are kind of fighting it because it's like it's different from what the images that are in my head already. And at the same time I go, the track record here is really strong. You can just look at the production. It's incredible. It's just as slick and polished as you would expect from HBO. And as they kind of pointed out, you're able to do all the

43:14small things that had to be trimmed out of the movies to fit into the runtime. And you have the time to let the world breathe to play around and explore a little bit more and have childish high jinks at a wizard school. Yeah, I mean, one of the things that really stood out to me guys in watching and I got this sense from the first little tease they put out a few months ago. I can't believe how cinematic it feels. Right. This does not feel like a smaller scale, you know, retelling of Harry Potter. It really does feel enormous in scale. It feels the production looks beautiful. Again, we'll see how it actually turns out the jury's going to be out on that. But that part really got me like just even watching on a little YouTube window, I can't wait to see on the big screen going through the doors into that iconic dining hall, the candles floating in there. You know, I think one of the tricky things for them in this is going to be finding that very delicate balance of capturing that iconography

44:20of the of the films while giving them their own distinct identity all at the same time. And that's going to be the trick and it's going to be hard for them to do it. But I think we're off to a good start. You know, Jonathan, you are you've got a couple of people living in your house. Is Potter a big thing in your house at all? Biggest with me actually. Really? Yeah. Yeah, figure with me. Then then anyone else. I think it's interesting that I don't think I noticed the the theme music from John Williams in this trailer was not in it, right? I did not notice it. Yeah, I had to watch it twice. And I'm like, oh, I was kind of expecting to hear the do do do do do do. You know, and now I don't know if that means it's not going to be in the series at all. Or if they just want to be as original as possible because maybe if you start out with a trailer and you've got that music playing, then immediately you're like, that's not Miss McGonigal, you know, so right? So they

45:22might want to separate it that. This episode is brought to you by TickTack. Lay something, get your game on because the TickTack lineup just got a new teammate. Dr. Pepper TickTack. This new double threat puts two of your favorite flavors into one box of mince. And when two iconic flavors come together, the result can only be iconic. Score big. Try Dr. Pepper TickTack today. Way. But either way, I'm excited for this. I think the first couple of episodes are going to be a little slower because first we have to see him like living at home under the stairs. And he probably doesn't even get to Hogwarts until either the very end of episode one or somewhere in episode two is what I'm thinking because there's a lot of pretext before he even gets there. So I'm wondering too, if HBO never does this, they never release more than one episode at a time. So I think it's going to be a little slow rolling at first, but then it's going to pick up steam. And I think by the time we're done with that, just if the quality is great, by the time we're done with the final episode

46:25of season one, we're going to be like, get us the next one. Get us what was it? Not prisoner of basketball. What was the second one? What was the second one? Chamber of secrets. Give me a chamber of secrets, you know? So I, you know, I remember about a year or so ago, we were talking about this, Jonathan, we were talking on the show about I had mixed feelings because on the one hand, if it's a new iteration, I think everything should be new, right? Including the music, right? Normally speaking, for most things, I think if you're doing a new iteration, it needs to have its own musical thumbprint. But I said that that is as identifiable now that John Williams music is as identifiable with Harry Potter as the lightning scar on his head. Sure. And I said, you know what? I'm usually all four just totally new, but I bet they're going to use somewhere in there. Like maybe it just becomes the Hogwarts theme or something. I think they're going to use

47:29the original music. If they didn't use it in the first trailer, which is where you're really trying to give people that sense of nostalgia, if they didn't use in the first trailer, I'm thinking maybe I was wrong. I'm thinking maybe they don't use that original music. I do hope we get something as stirring as, you know, because you can almost hear like the air like blowing with it. Yeah. Kind of thing. It's just like, so iconic. The one thing is like I think it's kind of funny is because Sean mentioned it and others have mentioned it. You know, we just, the movies aren't old. The movies are the first one's quarter. They're older than you think. Yeah. That's like if a movie came out in the 80s and then they made a series in the teens. Or then you know, when did the first one come out 2001? 2021. 20s. There are people watching this show who weren't born. Yeah. When the first one came out, there are people watching this show who weren't born when that came out and have their own child now. That how like how crazy stats.

48:36Yeah. And like Sean, Draco is is 38 years old. Like Tom Felton, Draco is 38 years old. Those kids are pushing 40. That is how old Harry Potter actually is. They're basically the days. Just the time, but they're essentially the age they were at that time jump at the end of Deathly Hollows too. Yeah. In real life. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, that just reminds me of the greatest get ready to feel old moment we ever had on the show. And this this was a couple of years ago. But talking about like those like Tom Felton is now pushing 40. I remember it was a couple of years ago we brought this up on the show. And we said, guys, happy birthday to oh, what's the name of the actor again who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek? Will Wheaton. Will Wheaton. Happy birthday to Will Wheaton who as of today is now older than Patrick Stewart was when Star Trek, the next generation started. And like I remember the flood of messages I got is like, that can't be true.

49:42It's like, it's true. It's true, guys. We're all getting old. Anyway, guys, question is for you. Something in life that is saying, oh my god, my back hurts now. Question is for you. What do you think about this first full trailer for Harry Potter that is coming out on HB on December? I mean, again, Jury's out on how good or bad the show will be. We'll have to wait to see it. But I thought the trailer was fantastic. I thought it looked really good. It's definitely raised my excitement for the show. Whenever you guys think about that, jump down to the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, guys, with that down, it's time for us to move on to the most important part of our show, which is of course taking your live comments and questions. But before we do, we're going to take a second and bid good afternoon to Sean Chandler. Thanks for being here again, sir. We'll talk to you again next week. Thanks for having me and thanks for making me feel old. Sorry about that. And of course, Jonathan Voiko, Jonathan, we'll talk to

50:47you tomorrow. Oh, yeah, I'm just going to stretch out my arthritis, arthritis, shoulders here a little bit. But I'll see you guys tomorrow. All right, guys, we'll talk to you later. And all right, to the rest of you old folks, let's now get over, shall we, and start taking your comments and questions. And I have turned off the super chats. So we will get over there now, start taking the ones that you guys have sent in. And I'm having a little bit of a technical problem, getting them to come up on screen. Wait a minute. I think we might have it. Yes, we do. I got it all set here now. So let's get things started. And we are starting off today with one coming to us from Justin Davis, who writes one of two regarding yesterday's talk of songs translated to other languages. Jackson Brown has said the Spanish version of Take It Easy translate from I'm looking for a lover that won't blow my cover to I'm looking for a lover who's not religious, not dangerous, who'll eat me like a lobster pink sauce. I have not heard that enough of those of you who missed what we

51:52were talking about. I brought up this question that yesterday that I've always wondered about when we hear people singing popular North American songs in other languages. I remember once hearing this Spanish rendition of the great Canadian rock ballad summer of 69 by Brian Adams. And I remember thinking, but when you sing it in another language, do the lines still rhyme? Or do you change meanings and stuff like that? And ever since then, I've had a lot of our international friends write in and say, oh, no, no, they often change the words around and change the meanings of the songs to make it work. So that was a very interesting thing for me to learn. All right, thanks to that Justin. Will writes, I highly recommend listening to the full cast Harry Potter books on Audible. It's the closest thing to watching a movie without watching a movie. Listen, I'm probably not going to get around to doing that myself after all. We have the new series coming out. But I have rarely seen like as much production go into an audio drama and the like the A list casting

52:57and everything like they did for these audio books. By the way, Kit Harrington, who we mentioned a little bit earlier, he does the voice of the role in the original movies played by Kenneth Brana, the professor at Hogwarts. Well, they just recently announced he's also going to play the character in the live action show too. So that's kind of interesting as well. All right, thanks to that will. Will also writes, when do you think if ever they'll try to put out Kevin Costner Horizons chapter two? I don't think they will. I don't think they will. Yeah, first of all, I, Horizons wasn't that good. I mean, I'm a, I'm a Kevin Costner fan. I don't necessarily think everything he does is gold, but I'm a Kevin Costner fan. Yeah, Horizon was not so good. And it flopped hard. I think if anything, it'll get like straight to to be or something like that. I, I really don't see anybody, any distributor putting big money behind

54:00it to get it out in theaters. And Kevin Costner lost a lot of his personal money on it too. So I, I don't know how urgent he's going to feel about trying to get that one put out either. So my, I might be wrong. I'm just saying my guess is probably never. That's probably my guess. All right. Next up, harsh writes. The New Harry Potter TV series trailer was incredible. It includes so much new footage. That's what I've heard from people that the movies could not show. I was emotional watching it. You know what? Again, I'm not even a Potterhead. And I was kind of getting kind of overwhelmed with it and all that kind of stuff too. It's like I said, especially in that shot where they enter into the dining hall and you just feel the magic of it. You feel the majesty of it. I, again, it's just a trailer and the show may suck, but I thought the trailer was really good. I really enjoyed it. All right. Gerita writes, Hey, John, one US dollar is about 21 check dollars. Is that check? I'm going to guess it's check. Just sending thanks. I only started

55:03watching this year, but love your show. Oh, thank you so much, man. I appreciate that. 2026 has been tough for my family. So to watch someone with your positivity helps take my mind off things. Oh, thank you so much. And you know, I am very, very lucky that we often hear from people who have been going through hard things are going through hard things and right into say that, you know, watching the show is like one of those daily oasis. And to me, that is one of the great things about movies and shows and the art is that movies, great movies and great TV shows. They, you've often heard me say it's not an escape from what's going on in life. It's an oasis. It offers us an opportunity. I know this has been true in my own life as well. It offers us an opportunity to just step away from our issues for a bit. Let our minds relax. Let us let our imaginations be swept away into a great story. And when we come back from it, our problems are still there. But hopefully

56:12we're in a new mindset. We're a little bit more refreshed. We're maybe able to look at things with a little bit of a different perspective. And that's one of the most awesome, beautiful things about the movies and why movies aren't just great. They're important. And I think the same thing extends to communities that talk about movies. So I think not only does watching a great movie do that, I think when you're able to jump into our live chat or some other live form or whatever and talk to other fans about movies and the things you love, I think it does that same thing. And that's why I love what I do. And I feel very lucky to do what I do. And that movies and the community are able to be there for you much like they're there for me when I'm going through the crap, right? So thank you for sharing that man. I really appreciate that. And I'm really glad our show can be that for you. So thanks, man. All right. Next up, Sin Vendetta also sends in a $20 Super Chat. Thank you, Sin Vendetta. And Sin Vendetta wrote, the new Harry Potter trailer was incredible. So many

57:18cool details in here that expand beyond the books that look like it will add so much to the show. Feels like they're nailing this show. Christmas can't come soon enough. Yeah. Now look, again, I do want to be cautious in the sense that I mean, we've all lost count. How many times we've seen great trailers to movies or TV shows only to have the movie or TV show not live up to the promise, right? And that could absolutely happen here. I doubt that's the case because it's HBO. I doubt that's the case because they've got some of the best showrunners and producers in the business today that have worked on some of the most iconic television going today. And it's got great source material. So I think they're going to nail it, but I don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves. But yeah, man, listen, Vendetta is if we're just talking about the trailer, okay, and we're just talking about the trailer. I got to agree, man, I thought it was pretty magical. I thought it looked great. And I say this is a non-potterhead, but I find myself getting pretty

58:20excited to watch it, especially, you know, watching what HBO is doing with lanterns right now, which is superb television. I really can't wait to watch this, man. All right, thanks a lot for that, Vendetta. Appreciate it, man. All right, Thanos writes in anytime I see a legendary director get mad at actors or other films or filmmakers slash companies, and I don't get mad, but something much worse disappointed. Your legends guys, you have class B classy. So obviously what Thanos is referring to is to that story that came out of the puck yesterday that iconic legendary first ballad hall of famer director Ridley Scott had blamed actor Paul Miss Scal for the failings of Gladiator 2 and that he dropped him from his dog stars movie just months after the movie failed because he blamed him. Now, it should be pointed out that Ridley Scott and his reps have put out

59:25a statement denying that that was the case. Puck is standing by their source. They're standing by their source. That is what happened. But again, I think it's only fair to mention that Ridley Scott house come out and denied that. So I mean, I wasn't in the room. The room where it happened. I wasn't in the room. So I'll just say that if the story as being reported by puck is indeed true. If that is what happened, then I am in full agreement with you that it is not just upsetting, but probably worse than that. It's it's disappointing because I mean, who doesn't adore and respect. I mean, yeah, I think he sucked the last 20 years other than the Martian, but he's one of the greatest directors to ever do it. And when you have somebody that you respect that much, you hate being disappointed. But anyway, there's that. All right. Next up Christopher Brickner writes one of two, Cretan admitted that Feige approached him to do doomsday after the Kang pivot. I haven't read

1:00:30that. Are you sure? Do you have a do you have a source for that? Maybe that is the case. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying I have not read that myself. I to to the best of my knowledge, Cretan wasn't still offered to do the next Avengers movie, but whatever. Cretan admitted that Feige approached him to do doomsday after the Kang pivot, but Cretan said he wasn't a good fit. Cretan expected that to be it only for Feige to instead bring up Spider-Man good on Feige for pivoting to another main Marvel property that Cretan would be better suited for. I like it's my understanding that they when they decided to pivot away from Kang, which they had to do because they botched Kang so badly. Like they had botched Kang so badly, he was just not viable to be the next big Avengers bad. It just couldn't do it anymore after the way you ruined him. But that pivot was done already knowing they wanted to go in the direction of the Russo Brothers. Now whether that's true or not true, whatever it is the case, but Feige understood

1:01:31right from Shang Chi, which again, I think is one of Marvel's better films. That they had an incredibly special director that they were working with. And they absolutely wanted to keep him in the house. And if you maybe you're not doing Kang dynasty, but if you can pivot him from that and put him on something like Spider-Man, look what happened. And my God, look, because of Shang Chi and how big Spider-Man is we forget, he's also the guy who did Wonder Man and look how good that turned out too. So yeah, it was very, very bright just to keep him in the house. All right, thanks to that Christopher. All right, Draco writes the Apollo 18 movie turns 15 as of today. Which movie is that? Is that I'm freezing on it? I don't even remember the movie now. All right, next up, uh, we've got Keaton who writes, did you get a chance to see how to train your dragon in concert?

1:02:36I did not. I love the movies in concerts and the score for how to train your dragon is so good, but I did not get a chance to see that in concert. Listening to Test Drive made Grow Men Cry. It's beautiful, man. It's absolutely beautiful. The music is wonderful. Like it's not on the level of Lord of the Rings, per se, but yeah, the music in, oh, that is so good. So good. All right, next up, Thanos writes, rank these. I don't just, you know, I don't do rankings. Unless I, I plan the topics well in advance, I don't do rankings, just so you know, but I'll read this anyway. Rank these long running film franchises from seven to one Marvel Cinematic Universe, phases one through three Fox X Men, monsterverse DCU original Harry Potter films, conjuring universe and Michael Bay Transformers. Well, I mean, I'll put Marvel's, I'll at least say this. I put Marvel's phases one through three at the top and I put the Michael Bay Transformers at the bottom.

1:03:36Despite the fact that I am a defender of the original Michael Bay Transformers movie overall, yeah, that's got to be put on the bottom. All right, next up Keaton writes, I was a big fan of the bear season five. It was really good. And Rick and Morty season nine, did you see either? I am, I'm not a fan of Rick and Morty. I'm one of the only people in my entire circle that does not like Rick and Morty. I tried giving it a shot. Like it had already been on for, I think, I think it was in its third season when I finally decided to give it a shot. And I watched the entire first season and I knew three or four episodes in it wasn't, it didn't work for me. It's and that's funny because that kind of show is usually my kind of show, but it just didn't work for me. All my friends love it. I know many of you guys love it and that's awesome, but I'm not going to lie to you and try to look cool. I'm just going to be honest with you. It never worked for me. So I never watched another episode after I finished. I did promise myself that I would finish out the

1:04:38full first season and I did. But yeah, it just, it just never clicked with me. That's all I never, I don't, I didn't find the jokes funny. There were, there were a couple of moments. There were a couple of moments, but overall, it just didn't click with me, unfortunately, but you know, that happens. But yes, bear season five was a big step up from the last season of the bear, I thought. All right. Next up, yeah, Cobb writes, I'll be 16 in March. Oh, that's awesome. And love movies. Super excited to work at my regal in summer. That's cool. But when thinking what movies are coming, Minecraft to chicken jockey 2.0 July 23rd and I'm terrified advice. Yeah. Oh, yeah, cove. Okay. Yeah, cove. I was lucky in the sense that when I saw the Minecraft movie, which I, I didn't think was that good to be honest with you, but whatever. When I saw the Minecraft movie, I saw it fairly like quite early before the whole chicken jockey popcorn thing started.

1:05:45So I was lucky enough that when I watched the movie, that never happened. But I heard what a nightmare it is. Now, look, I'm of two minds. On the one hand, I love audience reaction in movies. I know there are some people want the audience to always stay quiet, but I love audience react like natural audience reaction, whether it's clapping or cheering or laughing out loud, I'm all for it. Right. I love it. Actually, it's part of the reason I love going to the movies. At the same time, though, you're an ignorant piece of shit. If you start just throwing your popcorn on the ground that somebody else has to come in and clean up and you're, it's already a hard enough job that these theater workers have to do to try to come in and clean up the theater as fast as they can. So the next round of movie fans can come into a theater and enjoy a film. And when you, I'm like, you're going to accidentally drop popcorn. That happens. That happens. But when you purposely are making life much more difficult for the theater employees to do their job,

1:06:49I just think you're human garbage. I got love reaction. I do. But reaction that is literally going to make somebody else's life harder and make their job harder. I think that, I think that makes you a terrible person. So that's just kind of me. So I hope I hope you have a better, more well-behaved audience than a lot of other movie theaters did. All right. Next up, Bob Fulton writes, bring back fireside chats with the review of chapters of the dungeon crawler carl book. That's not going to happen as you work your way through the series. No. So first of all, I am going to bring back fireside chats. But I don't know if you live in California, you know, if you don't, you might not. It has literally been over 103 degrees like every day for weeks and weeks and weeks. So even at night, it's been really, really warm. And I have not felt inspired to go outside and sit by a fire because it's been so hot in Southern California.

1:07:54So fireside chats will return once the weather gets a little bit cooler. But they will not be me going chapter by chapter through a seven-year-old book that nobody cares to watch me talking about. So no, now you'll definitely see me review dungeon crawler carl once it does once the show comes out. But yeah, you will not be seeing me doing fireside chats about a seven-year-old book going, nobody wants to watch me do that. So no, I will not be doing that. But fireside chats, Bob, will return. I just need the, I just need the weather to get a little bit cooler. That's all. All right. Thanks for that, Bob. Next up, Sam Fisher writes, I don't know if you caught it, but in coyote versus acme, the law firm is named after two of the director, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones, and one of the writers, Mike Maltese of the original Looney Tune Short. I did not. I didn't even notice that. I kind of like it. First of all, that's cool that you caught that, Sam. I really like it when movies try to slip in those little tributes. That's pretty cool.

1:08:55But fully, I didn't even catch that at all. I've still only seen the movie once. I want to go back and watch it again. I think I might try to go see it again this week, which is weird because I've got three movies to see tomorrow. I'm going to try to fit in all three. I very rarely do triple headers, but I'm freezing on the name of it, but the new Yaya Abdul-Mateen and Mark Wahlberg movie. I want to see that tomorrow. I want to see on slot tomorrow, and I want to see the uprising tomorrow. I'm going to try to watch all three if I can. I don't know if I'm going to be able to make that. It might have to just be two, but I'm going to try to see if I can get screening all three. Then maybe on the weekend sometime I'll try to get out to watch coyote versus acme again. All right. Next up, Trenton writes, Hey, John, with you having read the leak Doomsday script, which by the way is a misunderstanding of the situation. I did not read any leak script. I had somebody read me in on it. I had somebody totally fill me in on Doomsday long before a leak script, but at any rate, with you having read

1:09:56the leak Doomsday script, I'm curious to get your thoughts for why you read it. Do you typically read leak scripts for a big movie like Doomsday? So yeah, again, it was long before the script got leaked. I had actually a couple of people give me the rundown on the whole story. Now, that means there are still some details that I'm sure I don't know about. Like I know all the major plot beats from the beginning of the movie to the end, a lot of the stuff, all that kind of things. But for example, here's something I don't know. There are some rumors going around, including a fake AI picture, but that doesn't take away from the rumors. There are some rumors going around right now that Elizabeth Olson's Wanda may end up being one of Dooms witches. I don't know if that's true or not. Like I know of the Dooms witches, but I don't know yes or no if one of the if that specific detail, if we see for a split second that it's actually one of them is Wanda. I don't know if that's true

1:10:59or not, right? But at any rate, neither here nor there. Yes, I do often get sent scripts. And yeah, if it's something I'm interested in, I'll read it. The reason being is and the reason why I was fully excited to be read in on what was going on in Doomsday like over a year ago was the fact that spoilers generally don't affect my viewing experience. Like knowing all the major things that happened in Doomsday only made me more excited to watch Doomsday. Again, like I knew the Titanic sinks before I watched Titanic. It didn't all negatively impact my viewing experience of the movie at all. Quite frankly, I think people overexaggerate it. I really do. I really, really do. I think people even well intending well, well, well intention people. I think they way overexaggerate it. That's just my personal feeling on it. But yeah, knowing all that kind

1:12:04of stuff is fine. A story is a story like people who are going to watch Harry Potter. A lot of people are going to watch Harry Potter have already seen the original movies and have already read the books. And yet they're still going to watch the new show. Isn't that crazy? They know everything that happens. And yet, I mean, that's true too when the original Harry Potter movies came out, right? Like they were the most popular books in the world. People who read the books. And yet they were still going to see the movies. Well, clearly knowing what happened didn't take away from their viewing experience. And that's the same thing for me. It doesn't take away from my experience. Because knowing theoretically what's going to happen in the story is totally different than seeing how it gets executed and hearing how the story gets told. So yeah, I do get sent a bunch of scripts. And if it's a movie that really interests me, sometimes I'll read it. Sometimes I don't, just because it takes a while to read a script. And a lot of times people will fill me in on what's

1:13:05going to happen in an upcoming movie. I do not know what happens in secret wars, by the way. I don't know the first thing about what's going to happen in secret wars other than my own theories about what was in the original comic book run. But yes, that's why I do read them or will hear it because it doesn't really affect my viewing experience of a movie. And honestly, I think for most people, it doesn't do it nearly as much as they think it does. But again, that's just me. That's my opinion of it. All right. Next up, let's see. Jorge Guzman writes, after lanterns episode two, is that you Kai Proctor? No idea what that means. Jorge, sorry, man. Next up, final cut by Cresa writes, Hey, John Ryan Reynolds says we'll never get another Deadpool movie. But is it possible that he does a Deadpool special presentation or Disney plus show? They won't do that. That would be far too expensive for something that won't have any financial return. There's just no financial. There's no financial way it makes sense to pay somebody like Ryan Reynolds what you would have

1:14:06to pay a Ryan Reynolds to do a Deadpool special presentation. I unless it's literally just Ryan Reynolds in the Deadpool costume with an iPhone walking around for 30 minutes, which I would watch that too. But yeah, my guess is no. By the way, just keep him right. Ryan never said that we're never going to see Deadpool again. Ryan never said that we're not may not even see him play a big role in a movie. It's just that you're not going to get Deadpool for. You know, that when we see him again, at least this is what he's saying. When we see him again, it's going to be part of he's just going to be another part of an ensemble. And so I think we'll see him again. I just think he's kind of done making Deadpool movies as a whole. So no, I don't think we're going to get I don't think we're going to get a Deadpool. That just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to get a Deadpool special presentation. Good question. I mean, I would watch it. I would

1:15:08watch the hell out of that final cut. All right. Next up, Mr. I writes congrats to adult star Bonnie Blue. She got pregnant after I never mind. Yeah, that's just that's just a stupid thing to write in. Reese Johnson writes, I'm a as a huge fan of the Potter books and films. The thing I'm most interested in are the details and scenes that weren't included in the films. I think for a lot of people who like that's that's the thing ever since they announced that each book was not just going to be a two hour movie. Each book was going to be a full season, probably at minimum like eight hours. And so the question really became for a lot of people. What things like how are they going to do those things that are in the books that never made it in the movies and how are those going to look on the TV screen or on the movie screen. I should say no, I had to write the first time the

1:16:09TV screen and how's that going to play out and we'll find out. All right. Next up, Raoul writes, why aren't comedies popular in the theater anymore? I mean, everything goes in waves, right? Everything moves in waves. So part of the thing was is that you've had a number of comedies come out. It was the same thing that happened with spoof comedies. So spoof comedies for a little while started to become popular. And so all of a sudden, a bunch of people made a glut of these spoof comedies. And they all sucked. And so nobody went to them anymore. And so it kind of killed for the most part the spoof comedy thing. Now recently we just had scary movie 18 or whatever it was came out. But it took a while for them to put out another. We don't see them nearly as much anymore. I think we went through a phase where a lot of comedies that came out just weren't that funny.

1:17:12And so it's more challenging now to pitch a comedy and get a studio to greenlight it because you know, it's going to have to be something that's pretty special to get the audience to come back. But again, everything goes in cycles and in waves and comedies will be popular again at some point though. All right. Next up, we've got cool one, two, four rights. John, I keep hearing enough coming director wants to do a black night movie and has been knocking on Feige's door. Well, every director in the world would love to do a Marvel movie. And I'm sure it's keeps knocking on his door. So doesn't matter. John, oh, sorry. George, he says, John, what are you playing in wow as for the Horde? I used to play back in the day, my main guy, what I played an undead mage in World of Warcraft and what I was playing. But I just recently started playing World of Warcraft classic again for the first time in years. And I am playing for the first time. I'm playing a human in the Alliance.

1:18:16I'm just playing a straight human warrior. I never played a warrior before. So I've been playing a straight up human warrior in World of Warcraft, Crack classic, not the retail version, just classic. And I just got him to level 20. And I'm having a lot of fun playing the game again. I really am. I'm having a lot of fun playing the game again. All right. Next up, we've got Michael Smith writes, coyote versus acme was great. One of my favorite scenes was meeting at 666 scary lane drive, classic Hollywood horror or mystery trope. There were so many, so many great jokes. Like talking about a really good comedy, coyote versus acme. It's just like, forget the nostalgia, the nostalgia is a big part of the movie for sure, which is why it's not going to interest a lot of people because they don't care about loony tunes. But just as a comedy, it's a funny filmman.

1:19:20And yes, 666 scary lane was that whole thing was really good too. All right. Ralph writes MCU elseworlds or other stories have a place. Nah, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think they really just need to keep their focus and attention on what their main cinematic universe is. I often thought MCU should do more elseworld kind of stuff, but I gave up when it became clear they really weren't going to do that. So unfortunately, no, I don't think it has a place. I don't think that's that's a part of Kevin Feige's lexicon. I don't think so. George, you're right. Do you think 90% of characters need to die in doomsday so they have more space for people in secret wars? Not going to address that. So because I don't want to say anything that anybody takes something away from or doesn't. So I just I am not going to address that one, George. Everything movies writes going to see fall to dead points soon this afternoon. Yeah, it comes out this week, hoping it'll be just as tense as the first film. Again, I don't even remember the

1:20:24first film. I also don't like Noah Joupe as an actor at all. So not a fan of him joining secret wars. What is there? I mean, look, it's all subjective. Your opinion is no less valid than mine. But I got to ask what is there not to like? Like he's phenomenal. And he does Shakespeare and he does stage. You have to be a next level actor to be able to do that. Like that, that's just a different breed. So I, I would have to again, it's all subjective. If he doesn't work for you, he doesn't work for you. But I'm like, I like especially when you see him in Hamlet playing Hamlet or in Hamnet playing Hamlet, I'm just like, holy crap, this kid's good. He's so good. And he totally placed that character in quiet place perfectly. I, what is there? I'm just curious. What is there not to like about him? Anyway, I think he's great. You don't. It's all good. It's all art. It all hits us in different ways. All right. I hope you have a good time

1:21:28with Fall 2. That looks really tense. All right. Rachel Knight online writes, how many cars could Bill Scars guard guard? If Bill Scars guard could guard cars? Yep. It's, it's a big question. I'm sure. By the way, by the way, what must it be like to be the incredibly talented Bill Scars guard? And no, you are probably only the third most talented actor in your family. What kind of a family do you need to be in? Where you are as gifted a performer as Bill Scars guard is. And yet you will probably never be looked at as anything, but maybe the third most talented actor in your family. That is a crazy thing. Wrap your head around that. That's a, that is a talent loaded family, my friends. All right. Expand superfan writes, hey, what films do you feel like recommending to us today? Any genre or use it as a way to fan out about a film you like? Oh, it's just off the top of my head.

1:22:31Man, I, I, here's one super old comedy. I was way too young to watch it when I did because it's kind of dirty, little filthy. It's one of the stars is the great Get Dabney Coleman. I actually have written, watched it in years, but I watched it again like 10 years ago and I still found it so funny. It's a, it's a little known comedy very old with Dabney Coleman and it's called Young Doctors in Love. It's a, it's kind of a spoof comedy in some ways, but it's called Young Doctors in Love. I think it has a little nudity in it, which which again, I was too young to watch it when I watched it, but yes, the movie is called Young Doctors in Love. That's the one I'll give a recommendation to good, good one, good one. All right. Frank Casar writes, Greta's magicians nephew

1:23:35is moving 50 years into the future from the book, which would mean line which in the wardrobe would take place either in the 90s or 2000s. I think that actually could be cool. It's interesting because the background of line which in the wardrobe, I believe is World War II. So if they're actually moving the setting up, that's interesting. Like I absolutely believe you need to move characters cultural settings because you know Batman made his first appearance in Detective Comics in 1939. You can't say Bruce Wayne is 118 years old, right? You can't do that. This comes up with our magneto debate all the time. You we can't say that Bruce was born in 19, let's say 1908. You can't say Bruce was born in 1908 anymore, right? It's 2026. For Batman to work and make sense,

1:24:36you have to say you have to change that part of him, right? You keep all the essential stuff. You have to change that part of him because if you're moving the entire time frame of the entire background that the story of line which in the wardrobe takes place, you can do that. It's going to be really interesting if they do it those to see what type of setting they drop that in. All right. Next up, the millennial bar, right? Hey, John, just watch Tony and Man, what an experience. If you watch it yet, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I have not and apparently nobody has. It looks great. I really do want to see it, but I mean with everything else going, I just have a chance to go see it and I've now there's three new movies out this week that I need to go see tomorrow. So I don't even have a chance to watch it now. So I'm probably not going to watch Tony until it comes out on home streaming because I've missed my opportunity to review it. So I'm probably going to have to put that one on the back burner for now. There's a lot of movies coming out in September that I have to spend my time at the movie theater at. So I have not, but I've heard it's great and I am looking forward to watching it. I just missed my window to do so.

1:25:38All right. Next up, the Fergus writes, like, like his wildwood is rated PG 13. Yeah, we talked about that yesterday. Is anybody surprised? Like in the trailer, we see that a child dies. There's a kidnapping. There's death. There's battles. I mean, I don't think anybody thought after watching that trailer. I don't think anybody suspected that was going to be a PG movie. I mean, that's clearly a PG 13. That was clearly a PG 13. All right. X-Men's superfan writes, I find a way to help you explain the Magneto stuff in the original run Wonder Woman fights the Second World War. But since they had to change it so she can meet the rest of the league. Yeah, that's one way doing it. I mean, that that's true. She she they weren't fighting. I mean, she she wasn't fighting off Nazis. Again, I just don't hear I am always flabbergasted. To me, I find it just ridiculous.

1:26:38Look, first of all, like, and I probably won't go along on this, but Magneto's origin story being connected to the Holocaust was never a part of his origin. That wasn't introduced. They changed his background and that that part of it wasn't introduced till 1981, not till 1981. And they even changed it away from that later on and then later on brought it back again. I mean, they they've done a lot. It's so there's no sacred cow when it comes to the origins of Magneto. But like the Batman example, you if you're doing Magneto today, you can't have the Holocaust be a part of it because that would make Magneto 98 years old or 100 years old or however old, right? You can't do that much like Batman. You have to change things about him as the further we go in time because that origin doesn't make sense anymore. What is important about Magneto's origin

1:27:40is not the Holocaust to the character. It's that he lived through and witnessed horrible human atrocities that directly impacted him. So we have to change the time period. You have to because it's 2026 now. So now what's important to stay true to those foundational concepts of the character instead of the Holocaust, you have to make him and you can still say he's a Jewish kid. You have to put him into another one of the unfortunately ample examples of terrible human atrocities that turns his heart against humanity. That is a very easy fix that doesn't change anything about the character. The disrespect I see people showing the Magneto character by saying, just give him another mutant power. Just say he's like a highlander. Just say he's got to just add

1:28:42to his pie. Just say he's got a power, something he's never had. Just give him another super power that says he ages slowly. That way the Holocaust can still be a part of it. It's like you're fundamentally changing the character then. That is so disrespectful. You're not just changing a detail about his past. You're fundamentally now altering what the Magneto character is. That's nonsense. It's ridiculous. And it's a much more drastic thing to do for what? To maintain a historical detail about him that is not going to come into play for the rest of the story. Again, to me, it's just utterly ridiculous to see, no, no, you got to keep keep the Holocaust. No, you don't. You really don't. So and you don't change. It's like it's like saying with Batman, no, you got to keep it that he started his career as Batman in 1939. But yeah, but that doesn't make sense. That doesn't make sense. He'd be like 118 years old today. Well, say Batman's a vampire. Yeah, just say he's a vampire. So wait a

1:29:50minute. You want to totally change and fundamentally change who and what Bruce Wayne is just so you can keep the detail that he was doing Batman things in 1939. You think that is more important than just fundamentally changing who and what the character is. Like it makes no sense to me. So yes, trying to give meg need or a power that he does not have of slow aging makes as much sense as making Bruce an actual vampire. So you can still say he was Batman in 1939. It makes no sense. It's ridiculous and should not be entertained. Anyway, let's see. Next, Joey Libertore writes, the days of actors becoming box office draws are dead. Well, it's been dead for 15 years. But what about directors is Christopher Nolan becoming the first ever box office draw director? Oh, first no, no. Alfred Hitchcock was definitely the name. Like people would go to the movies because it was a new Alfred

1:30:55Hitchcock movie. People would go see a new Stevens not not anymore, but people would go see a new Steven Spielberg film because it was a Steven Spielberg film. Christopher Nolan is not by any stretch of the imagination. The first director to become a draw. It's it's been ample in history. It's been ample in film history. But you can make the argument that he's one of only a couple still today. He's one of only just a couple still today. And by the way, I mean, well, there won't be a lot of people that rush out to see a movie strictly because Leonardo DiCaprio's in it or because George Clooney's in it or because Denzel Washington is in it or what have you. There are a lot of people who will go to a movie because the film seems like it has legitimacy because those actors in it like while it's true today and has been truthful like

1:31:5915 years with with a few minor exceptions. The reality though is that people are more likely to go see a movie. If there are actors in it, they recognize. Then if there's a movie coming out with nobody in it, they recognize. Yes, once in a while, you'll get the one and a million exception like obsession where nobody really recognized any of the actors in obsession, yet it made half a billion dollars. But that's a very, very rare exception. Having an actor in it, that's that's like a Jake Jell-in-Hall or somebody like a John Washington or having somebody like, you know, like that. It at least makes the movie seem credible to the viewer and they may go see it because the movie has credibility if not just to see the star themselves. You know what I'm saying? But anyway, yeah, Christopher Nolan is definitely one of those today, but he's absolutely not the first. He's absolutely not the first. All right. Next up,

1:33:04Millennial Barred Rights and the Potter trailer is fired. I'm fired. I'm sold on this snake. I'm, listen, again, I was talking about it because of Jube. The dude is a decorated stage actor. He's going to kill it as snake, man. He's going to absolutely kill it as snake. I mean, rights. Hamlet will return in Avengers Seeker Wars. Apparently, that's what we're getting. Rachel Knight online rights. Whenever I hear about obsession these days, I just remember the family guy clip where Stewie wants his money from Brian. That, by the way, is one of the greatest family guy moments in history. If you guys haven't seen it, look it up on YouTube or something. It is absolutely one of the greatest moments in family guy history. Where's my money? I'm getting real tired of you avoiding me, man. Where's my money? And he's pulled out the flame thrower and beat him with golf clubs. It is one of the funniest damn things that family guys have ever done. Go look it up. If just look up family guys, Stewie,

1:34:07where's my money on YouTube? And you should be able to find the clip. It's seriously one of the funniest things I've ever seen on there. And all right, guys, that will do it for today's installment of the John Campius Show. Thank you so much for being here and making our little show part of your day. Big special thank you to the thousands of you guys in the live chat. Thank you so much for being here and participating in the show. Not just watching it by being in the live chat and all that kind of stuff. You're actually participating in the show as well. So thank you for your participation. And of course, a big thank you to all you guys who send to the super chats. Number one, because he gave us great fun things to talk about. But number two, you supported this channel as you did it and all of us involved with the show. Thank you guys so very much for your support. Hey guys, don't forget to come on back and join us again tomorrow. It should be I believe if I'm not mistaken me Jonathan. And of course, our great friend Chris Parker from 3C films will be in here with us tomorrow. We'll look forward to seeing you joining us as well. That'll do it for me for now, guys. My name is John Campia. And until next time, my friends. Bye bye.