One Shot: Talking SDCC 2025 with Chalice Williams of Reel Movie Junkie

Bonus issue for your ear holes! Today Jong and Michael are talking SDCC 2025 with Chalice Williams of Reel Movie Junkie. Chalice explains her exerpience at this year's event, covering for The Hollywood Reporter, getting to interview the cast of Predator: Badlands, how the Predator is carry Elle Fanning's character around like an upgraded labubu, getting hyped for Project Hail Mary, her thoughts on Ryan Gosling as the star of the Andy Weir adaptation, Mark Hamill taking over The Long Walk panel, what to know about going out to SDCC, studios absent, her favorite activation, what exactly are activations, and more! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh, hello there, Internet's welcome to the Special Comentcast. One shot.
I'm Michael Carroll alongside Jong Lee Jong.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
How are you surprise surprise? I'm good. I had a
meeting that rain long and you almost did this thing
without me, so yeah, I'm happy to be here.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
You came in at the buzzer. I would say you're
very clutch, sir. Also, I don't know I was telling
her beforehand. I don't know if you know the running
bit that Shalise and I have because I don't think
you have met Schalise in person as of yet, and
I don't know that you've done a podcast with Salise

(01:12):
as of yet. So we did you did, okay, so it.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Was man, what what you went Salise went to? Maybe
you were talking about one of the alien movies?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I think so.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't believe I was on there live.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
I don't remember. I almost swear we we've done one before.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
So, but the running bit has been because you've you've
missed the last few that when Schalise has been on
that she thinks you're AI. So she like when we've
gone to the screening, John gonna be here now I
couldn't make it. He's not real. It's like, no, he's real.
I promise. I worked with him for years. I promise
he's real.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, you'll have to find out until next year, right.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
At the wait until next comic Pals. But no, John
is real and he's here. I'm real. I am here. Also,
who's real and here is Salise Williams of Real Movie Junkie. Salise,
Welcome back to the podcast.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Hi guys, Thank you guys so much for having me.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
This is my favorite part is coming back and talking about.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
These things with my own city, my people in my city.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Go Houston. That's what I would say. Absolutely So, Salise,
you had a chance to go to Comic Con this year,
and we'll dive into your experience and kind of some
of the things that you got to do. But first,
as always, I have to remind people you can follow
us online on social media. I'm a producer Mike nine seven.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Five and i'mbout one punch, Salise.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
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Speaker 4 (02:53):
At Hey Shalise h E Y C H A L
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Speaker 1 (03:01):
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ninety two to five Wednesday nights at eight pm. So, Salise,
you had the opportunity to go to Comic Con? Was this?

(03:25):
What number year was this for you? And going?

Speaker 4 (03:28):
This one was number eight? I've been going since twenty
seventeen and I know that we didn't have won during COVID,
So what is that like seventeen eighteen? Yeah, that's that's yeah,
the COVID one didn't count and then they did like
a special comic Con, so I still went to that.
So yeah, this would be number eight for me. Yeah,

(03:50):
and it was very it was It was definitely quite
different than the past.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Why do you say that?

Speaker 3 (03:56):
So?

Speaker 4 (03:57):
I of course, as you guys know, Marvel and DC
did not attend this year. But not only did they
not attend, there was some notable absences from staples that
have been there over the years, one of them being
IMDb Boat, which was really weird because they've been there
every year that I've been going, and typically on IMDb
Boat there's a lot of interviews that happened on the boat.

(04:19):
There's like a little activation where they allow some guests
to go on.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
And have like I.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Don't just drink some food, and it's it's always a
good fun attraction and it's visually.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Visually not being.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
There was was an eye sword because it's always parked
in the back of the marina. But most of all,
with two big panels missing, the big studios, that whole
line of people like camping out and stuff was not there.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
And because of that, that caused people to pour onto
the floor more. And now you're having a lot more
of a crowded floor.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
And the off sites, the activations that people do when
they don't have a badge for the day, or people
who come into the air who simply don't have a
badge at all, a lot of them were a lot
more crowded. And that's all because people are not camped
oututline for these Marvel and Warner Brothers panels.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, so typically people line up at Hall H and
they're waiting for a very long time. But this year,
because Marvel Studios didn't have one DC, I know James
Gunn was there. Did DC not have a presence in
terms of a panel.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
No, Dam's Gunn was there because he was there for
his Peacemaker panel. And what typically happens, which is very
common is Friday is typically like the Warner Brothers Day.
So it's like it opens up at ten am and
it's a panel of like the upcoming Warner Brothers films,
which in the past have included like what Black Adam
and like Superman and all those type of things, Justice League,

(05:46):
and then then Saturday it was like the Marvel Day.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, Marvel will close out the I don't want to
say close out guys.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
I don't want to be that person that disrespect Sunday,
but the convention runs.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
You're about to credit Sunday.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
It just it is what it is, unfortunately, and I
don't really think that there's anything that they can do
about it. But Marvel typically closes out Saturday with around
like the five pm to seven pm slot, and it's
the biggest thing that people wait for all day, but
a lot of people are camped out for it. Sunday unfortunately,
just gets disrespected. They pulled out George Lucas this year
for Sunday and that wasn't enough.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Dang.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
I mean, yeah, typically I think, you know, you have
your opener on Friday, and this goes with Comic Palooza too.
Saturday is your big day. Sunday kind of tends to
die down.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
A little bit.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
You have your big you know, big hitters on Saturday,
and you know, it's almost kind of like, uh, how
the normal weekend is. You know, in some extent when
you're typically doing a normal weekend when you're not married
and have kids, it's Friday night, you go out a
little bit, Saturday night, you really go out in Sunday
nights the day where you kind of like, you know,

(07:01):
recover and get ready for the week. So, I it's
not all too surprising that that's how everything kind of
gets formatted. Uh, it's you know, even with Comic Con.
But what was your favorite part of the weekend.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
My favorite part of the weekend was there's two one
I besides it being Comic Con, I've been excited for
a couple of films, one of them being Project Hell Mary, so.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
I was already on the low.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
I kind of was a little bummed out when I
started when I found out that Marvel and DC weren't
going to be there or had that presence that they
typically do.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
I was a little bummed out because when.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
The press invites started to come out come in for things,
I was like, Okay, I'm putting forth, you know, a
decent chunk of money to go do this and cover this,
and while it is extremely great opportunities, I'm like, where's
the where's the like big star power that were used
to them having in that draw and it wasn't there.
And then when they announced Project hell Mary, I was like,
that's what I'm excited for because I personally am really

(07:56):
excited for that film and was curious what they were
going to show and they did show footage. That was
my favorite panel, my favorite one of my favorite things
they did.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
There was this really cool activation for King of the Hill.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Surprisingly, like I can't believe what I'm saying that it's been
fifteen years since they've been there, but it was a
It was in the back where the IMDb boat typically
is and one thing I do love about being pressed
is not having to stand in line.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
That is a blessing.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
And there was just like this like just walk straight
in and there's like it's set up like the King
of the Hill set and it's just insane to look
at because it's like real life King of the Hill,
Like on set, everything's like wooden, but it's like it
looks like.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
You're looking into the cartoon.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
And they had really good food that they were given out,
like barbecue, and it was set up like alam Omar.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
They let you go there and make a hat.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
They had waters that were like be It looked like
the beer cants at alam on them, but there were waters.
It was just I wish I could have brought some
of those back or they wish they sold.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Them, because that was really cool.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
But the King of the Hill activation and the panel
for Project hell Mary were my favorite.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
And real quick for folks that may not know what
is an activation, Like what is that? Because I hear
that term and I see some different ones, But what
does that mean for folks that go out and see it.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, So essentially an activation is where it kind of
it's an immersive experience.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
I think that's a better the best phrase I could
think of.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
It's an immersive experience that throws you in the middle
of your favorite TV show or movie and you get
to Oftentimes it's very hands on. You sometimes get to
leave a little trinket, but it just it's like a
segment of that project, and like how King of they
all had like their whole backyard barbecue type thing. There
was an Alien FX Alien one where you get to

(09:44):
go through and see like different props and setups and
experience like certain like actual scenes of the film. I
know that one of the other popular ones I think
people were doing was like a Fantastic four one and
now was sponsored by Google. But the term activation, aside
from what it actually is just immersing you in that

(10:05):
film or that TV show, it is a way to
occupy people that don't have a badge. First and foremost,
they shouldn't be allowing people in here don't have badges
at all.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I think it over crowds the area.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
But two another thing to keep in mind, very similar
to Comic Palooza, which is rare. I think people just
buy the whole badge. But in Comic con it's hard
to get badges, and sometimes you can't get a four
day badge, so you may get like Thursday and Saturday,
or you may get like Sunday and Friday, So you
kind of have to occupy your time during those days
where you don't have access to the floor.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
The floor would be of course, all the places where.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
They sell commissions, comic books, all the big stuff that
they do there in the indoors.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
So activations is the way to occupy people's time.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
And that's where, like you were saying earlier, with people
not lining up for hall Age, people are flooding these
activations and then flooding the show floor way more than
they would in the past.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Then absolutely, and I personally and I said this, I
said I was gonna do it a year before, and
I'm going to do it this year. For sure, there's
always there's always a survey that comes out. I dread
seeing people in line, spending their time in line so
long it's sleeping. I've slept out and camped out of
hall Age before, so this is a really full circle moment.

(11:20):
But watching people waste away their time intense and doing
all this just to get access to a presentation, I
just think it's it's a waste of money. I think
it's sad see people have to do that, and I
feel like com Con has to come up with a
better way.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Of doing this. And the best way I could think
of is what they did for Deadpool.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
When Deadpool they did that special presentation, they did like
a raffle, and the raffle was full proof because it
was done online and you couldn't like sell tickets or
you couldn't do anything like that. It's sixty five hundred people,
Like they have to be able to find a way
to where people are not just waiting in line. I
like the idea of knowing, hey, I'm going into this
at this time, I don't want to wait in line,
and then sometimes we are bummed out. People don't get

(12:00):
in and they're wasted their whole day there and it's, uh,
it's and then if people get skipped, like it's just
then it's it's a little it's a little sloppy when
it comes to how they how people are waiting in line,
but they've gotten it down to a t to where
people know what to expect.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
But honestly, if you've.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Never been to comic Con, I don't know how people
figure out what to do, because this is all stuff
you learn over years and then going online into portals
and members teaching you and stuff like, I honestly don't
know what what people do if they've never been before, I.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Don't know what to do. Dorong, do you know what
to do?

Speaker 2 (12:34):
We've never been, and you know, people, you know, stuff
like this gets crazy. But do you I mean, do
you think people most of the people bought passes knowing
that Marvel and DC weren't going to be there, or
do you think they all bought it? Like whenever tickets
got released.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
I there's they Those tickets got released, those badges got released,
and if you're a general attendee, you were able to
buy yours in like November, early December. If you were
a returning attendee, you were able to buy yours in
like October. They announced Marvel and DC not being there
like May, which I do find to be very very unfair.

(13:16):
But at the same like, you go to go, but
you don't just go for those big things. But when
you put this money up, when these people are putting
the money for these hotels, these hotels are not cheap.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Our hotel was we had Margaritaville.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Our hotel was like eighteen hundred bucks for those core nights,
eighteen hundred dollars for the four and families are doing this,
they're they're you know, they're spending the money.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Of course, you know, they they're wanting to go for
the big names. It's Comic Con.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Of course, what bigger names in comic is there versus
other than Marvel and DC, And it just sucks for you.
By the time that they announced that they were not
going to be there, people already bought their hotel and
airfare and badge.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
And can't sell that badge either.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
No, I mean, and I would imagine that you could
get hotel refunds.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
Right, yes, you could get your you could get your hotel. Uh, well,
the way if you enter through the lottery for Comic Con.
One thing I do very much appreciate Comic Con for
is they have a contract with the city where they
have a block of hotels in each location that does
not raise their price. They charge you the standard price,
but you have to go into what we call hotel apocalypse,

(14:24):
where it's like a raffle.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
It's kind of like buying shoes almost.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
You go into this room, it's a waiting room, and
then they start to randomly move you forward, and then
you put your list of twelve hotels that you want
to stay at, and then a week later you get
randomly selected about where you're going to stay based on
a time that you got into that room. When you
do that a week later you owe your deposit of
two nights. That deposit becomes non refundable the closer it

(14:47):
gets to the convention. So by the time Marvel and
DC was announced, there was no ref You were losing
two nights to your hotel.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Oh that's brutal. That's brutal. And I don't know if
you can remember all the way back until twenty seventeen,
but I would imagine like the ticket prices for you know,
hotels and just just you know travel and you know,
spending while you're in San Diego have drastically gone up, right.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'd say so.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
The badge for sure went up a little. The badge,
I know, like for four days was like it used
to be like two fifty. I know, it's like three
twenty now. That for sure is a slight increase there.
I was actually kind of a I was a little
shocked to see comic pollusive prices being damned near the
same as comic cons Honestly, they very much are.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't think it's much of a difference at all.
Criminal it is a hotel.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Wise, I think the hotels that we stay at, the
ones that are close to the convention center, the Margaritaville
is the omni Hilton Marriott. Those hotels naturally are about
two eighty to three hundred, regardless if it's Comic Con
or not. So I think us just wanting to be
that close in proximity to the convention center for the
convenience is really what we're paying for.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Because you could probably get those. There's hotels on.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
There that are like two twenty that are like one
ninety that you could get, but you're further away, so
you're really paying for the convenience. And Comic on there
is nothing there is nothing more important than walking out
of your hotel and being right there in the middle
of gas lamp and being in the midst of everything,
and that right there is one of the reasons why
I will always pay for a downtown hotel badge. Luckily,

(16:23):
as press you don't have to pay for those anymore.
But the families that go there in like fours like
kids badges are still probably like one ninety.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Like it's it's that, it's it's seeing.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
People have to put so much money and then all
of a sudden, Hey, those big names that you go
there for are not going.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
To be there.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, and the last thing on pricing before we you know,
move on. But yeah, me and Michael had this conversation
about box office numbers and why Fantastic four, Superman and
so down, and they talk about fatigue and whatnot, but
we very seldom hear about pricing and how now imax
prices are you know, more than thirty dollars a ticket
in your coming if you're coming with a family, I

(17:02):
would imagine the typical movie buyer is buying two tickets.
So you buy two tickets, that's like, you know, with
the convenience feed, like seventy seventy five dollars. And then
if you're getting any concessions, you're looking at you know,
over one hundred dollars. And then also if you're on
a date, you're probably eating dinner beforehand too, so you're
looking at a night where you can you know, spend
upwards of two hundred dollars. And I just people aren't

(17:24):
doing that anymore, and all your disposable income is becoming
you know, indisposable, right because you're buying groceries and stuff
like that. I would imagine maybe you know, people are
kind of I know, comic Con is a once in
a year kind of thing. But stuff like this will
trickle down to events like this when you know, you know,

(17:47):
when the push comes us up a shove if things
don't get better.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, No, I actually have a video where I'm doing
I haven't put it out yet, but I have a
video where I'm doing a breakdown of the cost it
takes to go there, because it is one of those
things where it does cost. It's a blast, there's so
much Comic Con does have a lot for people to do. Unfortunately,
as I was saying earlier, I really think it comes

(18:11):
down to planning and a lot of these things are
RSVPID well in advance, like you have to know where
to look for all these things. But on your topic,
as far as the movies, I actually did tell Michael
that I thought it was crazy to pay It's twenty
five dollars a ticket right now for Imax.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
I paid out of pocket to.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Go see Mission Impossible without doing press screening because I
wasn't I don't think I was in town for it,
so I refuse to not see Mission Impossible on an
Imax screen. And with the fees and everything, it was
like sixty dollars for two tickets.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Then you're looking at popcorn and drinks.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
I remember looking at my boyfriend and saying, we spent
one hundred and eighty dollars to come to come see
and I don't even like and everybody knows me knows
I don't like Edwards Marquis.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
I don't like Edward's food.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
I don't so I just had to so I had
to get something because I was hungry, and so the
food to me wasn't even good. So I'm like, I'm
paying seventy dollars for And we also got a popcorn bucket.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
That's what it was.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, he did.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh they wait, where'd the leney go? We don't have kids,
but yeah, it was. It was a popcorn bucket. But nonetheless, Yeah.
I on the topic of Superman in Spot and Fantastic Four, though.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
I want to say that while I enjoyed both movies
I'm a huge Marvel girly, the way I enjoyed them
both was very different. I did enjoy Fantastic Four, I
did enjoy Superman more. But I will say, and I
will argue this down, I think Superman was a fomo event.
I think everyone was talking about it. I think people
that don't know crap about superhero movies were like, oh,

(19:37):
I want to go see whatever.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Was talking about or I heard this was good. Oh,
like they wanted to run to see what people were.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Talking about, and it was. You know, it's the first
time that we've seen Superman by himself in a solo
outing since twenty thirteen. It's the new age, new, new
new version of the character. There's a lot of elements there,
and yeah, we're getting that with Fantastic for as well,
but with everything with DC, I think there's there's also

(20:05):
some factors at play there.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yeah, and there's so many people that honestly refuse to
watch it because there were such a Snyder Snyder fans,
and I think that if it wasn't for that, they
probably could have done a lot more numbers, if it
wasn't for people actively avoiding it. Like, hey, I know
a lot of people are like, I'm just gonna wait
for to come on streaming.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
I'm not paying to go see that movie.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
And I'm like, Okay, yeah, Snyder Bros, chill out. I
want to write hooks some of these Snyder bros. But
let's go back to the other thing that you enjoyed
from from comic con and that's Project Hill Mary, which
is I'm very excited for this movie. I was wondering
about the adaptation, and then of course we got our

(20:44):
first teaser not too long ago, a few weeks ago,
and it's like, it looks very much how I pictured
the book. I read through the book, or technically listened
through the book, and it's one of my I think
it might be my favorite book I've I've ever read
or listened to. It's it's up there for me and Jong.
You haven't read the book, correct, No, so this would

(21:08):
be your first experience with it. Chalie, have you read
the book? I don't remember if you said you did
or not.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
I have not, but it's on my list of it
is on my list. I am on this wave ever
since I got into reading. I got into reading like
maybe like three years ago.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
I've found my people. I have essentially when I read
it ends with us.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
I read it ends with us, and then I went
and watched that movie and now I'm like, oh, so
this is how people feel when they went and read
comic books back in the day and got to see
it on the big.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Screen, Like this is what it feels like.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
And you're so judgmental about it, right, like you watch
it like, that's not how they would do, That's not
how So now I've went and looked up this author,
Colleen Hoover, who has a couple of movies that are
coming out of their books.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
So now I'm like, oh, I want to read the
book before the movie.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
And then here comes Stephen King blasting out The Long
Walk The Running Man.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
I'm just like, oh my god, I can't keep up.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
So I am on this wave of reading a book
before it hits theaters, so that one's on the back
burner for me because not until March.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
But I am definitely breezing through The.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Long Walk and The Running Man before the releases in
September and November.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
I can't recommend Project hell Mary enough to folks because
it's one of the best books again, I've ever read,
and it's just an experience, and especially with Andy Weir,
who folks may know or remember The Martian that was
the film with Matt Damon, and I like the movie,
but like the book. Of course, it's the whole books

(22:35):
better than the movie thing because the book encompasses a
lot of time, obviously, and there's a lot of stuff
that happens that you just can't capture in a movie.
And so that's I guess the only concern I have
with Project hell Mary, because again, it's another one where
it's about space travel and stuff takes a long time
and you're not necessarily going to get the exact replica
of that time spent. But based off the first trailer,

(22:58):
it just it looks like an accurate adaptation of it.
Would you what did you learn from the panel and
what'd you would you think of what you saw?

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yeah, so they did the whole Uh I guess what
we call what do we call that screen?

Speaker 3 (23:09):
The two seventy screen?

Speaker 4 (23:11):
I think right where it's like the sides are are
also part of the film.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh, like the screen X kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
They they pulled that out, which I haven't seen them
do that since Warner Brothers presentation of Justice League.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Way back when.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
But they they use that and the audio in that
in that Uh, in that, I guess, Hall is just
so immersive and it looks The trailer looked great.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
I was sold with the trailer because.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
It really it looked like Guardians meets Interstellar and it
looks to be done very well. But they showed us
like four clips, and I wasn't expecting that because the
movie looks finished, like it looks like it's ready to
be released like in a month. But it's you could
tell that they wanted to make the fans of the
It was really clear that they wanted to make fans

(24:00):
of the book happy. And that's always really important because
it's always a big deal when you put out a
book or you put out a movie adaptation and you're
upsetting the fans, it's almost like you could have kept it.
This one seems like they very much are trying to
meet their fans, make the fans happy. Everyone was really
on board with Ryan being cast. I think that they

(24:22):
they look like they took their time with it, like
it doesn't look like a cheesy film. I think it's
going to do really well hopefully they I mean, I
know they have intentions on making it in theaters. I
hope it doesn't do one of those things where it's
like in theaters for like two weeks, three weeks. Like this,
it has some serious potential, especially with it not being
a summer film. It's it's releasing enough enough spring yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Spring time.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah. I think it's like March twenty six or something
of next year.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, and see me and Michael also talked about like
original IP movies that have been coming out, and it's
just it's brutal. You know, the there are exceptions out there,
but you know these movies that come out that don't
really they're not under the Marvel umbrella or the Disney umbrella,
or they're not an action blockbuster or an animated film.

(25:11):
They seem to struggle. And you know, I didn't read
the book, but the trailer makes it look really good.
I've talked to a couple of people that have read
the book and said, you know, like Michael, it's one
of the best books that.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
They've ever read.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
And I really do go on to go watch it,
and I'm hoping, like you said, that it's not a
four week release and youll find it on Netflix or
Apple TV or something like that. That would be that
would be a killer.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
No, it looks like they they look like I'm really
curious about the budget. It looks like they spent a
lot of money on this film. They showed some behind
the scenes footage of like some of the contraptions or
some of the like I guess.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Whatever it is that he's in a space I think
was it a space. He's in a spaceship, right, Yeah,
he's in a spaceship.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, it's like a spaceship, intergalactic spaceship. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, so he's in that.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
And they showed like the behind the scenes, and it's
the way that they ran that whole panel was really
not so much like, hey, we got this movie coming out.
It's more so like, hey, we stayed true to the book.
We think people are gonna love the dynamic between this rock.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
And uh, I don't even know his name. It's a rocky.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah, I think the name Rocky, right, So like they're
like they're talking about this and the trailer doesn't give
away none of that. So you like, I'm pretty sure
we're gonna put out like a more extensive trailer.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
But I didn't even know this.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
Book was about a guy in a rock, Like I
thought this was just like a space trip.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
So like they.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Heavily focused on how they're wanting to make sure this
is a proper adaptation of the book. I cannot stress
enough people definitely go out and read these books these
movies because it's such a different experience when you walk
into a theater and you have your like visual senses
awakened by you know what people have put forth, the
effort they've put forward to bring this to the big screen,

(27:02):
and you've read it and you know the source material,
Like you just feel so much different.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Than anybody in the theater because you've read the book.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, I mean it can enhance, especially like if it's
an accurate adaptation to what you envisioned in your mind.
Because some of the images from the from the trailer
that they did release, it was like, oh, that that's
kind of what I pictured when I was reading through
the book, Like, that's exactly how I would interpret that.
And then of course Ryan Gosling, what do you think

(27:31):
of Ryan Gosling in some of these clips and how
did he how did he feel? I forget the character's name,
but how did he feel? As the start?

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Hez Ryan Gosling is an interesting character for me or
actor for me, because he's so likable and lovable.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
But when y'all have.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
These conversations about all this person plays the same person
in all their movie, it's kind of hard not to like,
it's kind of hard not to look at him in
that manner because him that's really what I saw. I
just saw, like Ryan Gosling. I didn't see like a
character that he was playing. I just saw, I know,
he's like a scientist or like he's a teacher, but
he's a really intelligent scientist. They depicted both sides. They

(28:09):
made it really clear. He's like, hey, look I'm just
a teacher, like I'm not anything special, and then they
threw him into a there was a clip they showed
us where they threw him into like hey, we need
you to figure this out, and that's where we get
to see him be intelligent. But I think I think
his name is gonna draw people. Everyone loves Ryan Gosling.
I think that that's gonna be the biggest draw is
his is his name, and then the people that are

(28:31):
going to see the film because they know the book.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
That's what's gonna draw people to this movie. The trailer
looks good. The trailer is enough to pull people in.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
But I think having him because there's no other big
I mean there's somebody else. Actually it's like one other
big name, is it Kate Blanchett? Maybe it's one other
female in the I know it's a big actress. But
I think they went, really, Hey, we're not gonna throw
too many big actors at this.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
It's like, we want the story to carry.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
We want the story alone to be good enough to
carry the visuals to be good enough to carry to
where we don't need to attach a big names. All
they need is like Brian Gosling, and I think he's
going to be really good. Yeah, he looks like he's
going to put up a really good performance because I
see that there's an emotional piece to this as well.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Which makes sense for the book because majority of it
is his character Ryland. I think is his name Grace,
He's He's it's primarily him in space, like do you
get flashbacks to Earth and so you'll will get other characters,
but it's primarily his experience trying to survive and figure
out what's causing the problem that it is because in

(29:33):
the book, the problem is that our son is dying
slowly and other sons in our Solar system have or
in our universe whatever it is galaxy are dying and
we're trying to figure out what's going on, and they
send him to figure out why one one son is okay,
and that's where you kind of get the story going

(29:55):
and where things kind of develop from there. And if
you've read Indy of Andy War, Indie Weir's books, a
lot of science and math and stuff like that, and
just problems with not necessarily with an antagonist or anything
like that. It's more of just situation problems that you
just run into and there's sometimes the most minuscule thing,

(30:16):
but it causes such a huge problem. And that tension
that he's able to build was just minor, minor things.
It makes it so engaging. That's why I'm very excited
for the movie. And now it interprets all that.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah, so I think it's going to be probably one
of the bigger films next year. There's a lot of
books that are coming out next year that are going
to be films. I think that's gonna be the wave.
I think, like Jong said that that whole it's hard
to put out an original. I think that's why Centers
was such a big deal. It was an original idea. Again,
one of those films. I think a lot of us

(30:49):
were like, I think that if you can grasp people's
fomo and be like, oh, I want to see what
this is about. I'm curious about this movie. I think
that's a big seller at the box office as well.
But yeah, I see me knowing the books that are
coming out into movies, I see that this is the
direction that I think studios are going to take to
avoid superhero fatigue because they were turning out superhero stuff

(31:10):
leaping and right. I really honestly think book adaptations are
gonna be It's a cheat code.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
It's already written just right into the film, you know, like.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
It's it's I think it's I think that's gonna be
the way of going forward for the next like five years.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Another book, and you referenced it already, The Long Walk
by Stephen King. Of course that's being adapted into a film. Jong.
Have you seen the trailer for The Long Walk?

Speaker 2 (31:33):
I have not.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Oh dude, watch it. It looks intense, of course, uh,
starring Mark Hamill. I forget the actor's name, but he
was an alien Romulus. There's a it's a good cast.
But Schalis, what did you learn about The Long Walk?
And and that panel?

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah, so that was one of the panels where they
treat you to a whole scene from the film. So
for product Hell, Mary, they gave us a couple of
clips that were like maybe like two three minutes long,
but this one they gave us a fool the first
twenty two minutes of the film Wow Yeah, which really
like throws you in the mix and like gives you,
you know, now.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Gives the film purpose.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
It looks it looks just as terrifying as I feel
the film's trailer did. It makes you really like okay,
Like at first you're like, okay, well there's gonna be walking,
but it's it's terrifying because it makes you. It really
puts you into their mindset of like, hey, I have
nothing else left to do. I need this money for
whatever reason. I'm gonna, you know, try to win this.

(32:31):
And I can't help but think about the Running Bank.
It's almost like very similar parallel, so where's like people
are trying to win money by doing outlandish things. But yeah,
the twenty minutes look great. Mark Hampbell gives Mark Hampill's
character gives me I turned my body cam footage off.

(32:51):
That's the way he's character, and it was it was
unlike anything I've seen from him that because I just
watched obviously Life of Chuck we saw that recently, and
that was different seeing him in an alcoholic state. So
then there's this it's like his brain just starting to
come out a little bit more as he gets older.
But that was the second most memorable thing about that
panel was the twenty two minutes they showed. The first

(33:13):
most memorable thing is how they're clearly timed about trying
to get to each actor and they get to Mark
Hamill before they can get to a couple other people
and other things, and somehow, some way, God bless his soul,
he goes on a tangent and just starts talking about
his filmography and it gets to the point where it's
like we're like fifteen minutes. He's just going rambling for

(33:34):
like fifteen minutes about him playing the Joker and him
playing Luke Skywalker like, and he's not trying to boastfully
show off his resume.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
It just leads one thing leads.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
To another, and it just doesn't stop, and they don't
know how to stop him so they can talk about
the film and they don't get to They just somehow
he takes a breath, somebody cuts him off and he's like,
all right, so we're gonna go ahead and show these twenty
two minutes, And that was it.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Well, Mark's got out a deep filmography.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
He does, and man, people are in there eating it up.
Of course they love him.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
But at the same time, the panel was for these
new that's a panel full of newcomers, besides the guy
I forget the young man's name that's in the Alien
Romulus as well, but besides him, these are all newcomers
and that was their moment for them to kind of
like talk about their roles. And they didn't really get
to do much and it was kind of like cringe
for a little bit.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
But they throw you.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
These twenty two minutes at does and you kind of
kind of glaze over it.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, it's a young group. I'm looking at the cast now,
Cooper Hoffman, Ben Wang, David Johnson, who is an alien
Romulus Roman, David Johnson. There you go, yeah, David Johnson.
I think he's phenomenal talent, he said, Ben Wang, Yeah,
Ben Wang.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
He was cussing up a storm in these twenty two minutes.
Another one of the characters that was unlike anything that
we see.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
He was just non like. He was cussing a lot.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
And I was like, Okay, they're really making it to
where they don't want him to be the same kid
that we've seen in these other movie That's great.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yeah, he's a karate kid. Yes, love it?

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Something else though, right is it Shane Chy.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
American born Chinese?

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yes, that's where I know him from. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
I like that show a lot. I got to see
that at south By. That was one of those a
very good premiere.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
All Right, I'm gonna be uh, I'm gonna be selfish
here and ask you about the Predator bad Lands interview.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
I was going I was gonna ask if you didn't
go ahead, no you no, no, no, I was just
going to see because I know this is this is
this is our Saturday of the podcast is how was?
How was a Predator? Because I know Michael is dying
to know.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
So Predator was a very interesting thing for me because
I have not seen Pray what I have not seen Prey,
So I am.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
From this podcast.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Yeah, I I haven't seen Prey and this the talk
and the setup for their activation very much makes me
want to go back and watch that before bad Lands
come out. There are about three titles that were at
present at this at this year's Comic Con that had
the most draw and most excitement it was. Predator bad

(36:10):
Lands was number one, tron Aries was number two, and
I think if Project hell Mary has to be number three,
reason being is Project hell Mary is the only time
I've seen the ushers come and try to escort people
out of the press area because they knew they had
more people coming in.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Other than that they were letting people sit there the
whole time. But Predator bad.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
Lands definitely, So essentially it's it's literally just the focus
is on Predator.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
He is I think the protagonist is that what they.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Call him, Yeah, so it's through his viewpoint. And then
el L Fanning, which is the code of Fanning's sister is.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Half a body.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
She is half a body the whole time, so like
she's on his back and she's she's being carried around
him the whole time.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
So my questions to them. I did get a chance
to interview them on that behalf.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Of the Hollywood Reporter, which was really cool because it
was a very small, intimate junket of the trades.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
It was just like IMDb and Variety.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
And and yeah, it wasn't very many outlets there, which
I thought was pretty cool. So because it gives you
we're going based off of just a footage and a trailer.
We don't have a film that we typically get to
see in its entirety before doing the interview, so we
all had very similar questions, like, hey, so, like, are
you on this man's back the whole time because it's
that's a really hard play. And she said, yeah, it's

(37:28):
it's me, but it's it's it's her physically on its back,
but you just see the bottom half.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
You only see the upper half. So she explained to me.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Elle explained that she was on wires and was essentially
having to work off of being attached to him the
whole time. So I associated her with being an accessory.
So I did ask her if she was like a
little laboo boo and she she's like, yeah, essentially I
was with him like the whole time, So it makes
me a really interesting story.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
The director was Dan Dan's name, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Yeah, he's He said that he asked him if he
had every intention on making this once he saw the
massive success and how Pray was received, and he said, yeah,
it was something that he had really wanted to do
from that perspective, and the door, the door was open
for him to get that done. And they took it
way back though, right, Like the timing, I think the time.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Frame is.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Like years years years before anything else we've seen, which
I thought was interesting because she looks futuristic.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know where the where it takes
place in terms of the timeline, because yeah, Ella Fannings
character is a is one of the wail in a
tawy androids that you know, it's sent off in different
places and that's hence how she's able to interact with
this predator where the timeline takes place, though I'm not

(38:48):
one hundred percent sure.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Yeah, And there's not many characters, so like, if this
is a film that you're really interested in seeing, it
is not.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
It seems like it's be real simple to keep up with.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
It seems like it's just these two characters that you're
gonna have to focus on. It doesn't seem like they're
gonna give too much fluff. It doesn't seem to be
attached to anything else at the moment.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
But who knows.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
By the time the film comes out, there there could
be more footage to now show that it aligns with
any other films.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
But the timeframe, I remember that being very vividly.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
Explained was that it doesn't take place anytime recently.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
I do appreciate that. In the trailer there is a
scene where a bunch of skulls are on the Alien
skulls are on a wall or whatever, and one of
the skulls is the Aliens from Independence Day. So I
like that little Oh really yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool.
So tying into that and then you know, well we'll

(39:40):
see how much it ties into what Alien Romulus and
and whatever else they're doing, because I know they're working
on a sequel for Alien Romulus, and then of course
Alien Earth is setting things up, so curious.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
I've heard a lot of good things about Alien Earth
that was that activation that they had there, and I've
heard I've had some press, some press friends that have
seen Alien Earth.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
I don't know when it comes out.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
I was too busy to tackle on taking that assignment,
but I know people have seen it that it's great.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yeah, Reviews started coming out yesterday. We're recording this on
August sixth, and reviews started posting yesterday with pretty high reviews.
It's Rotten Tomato score last I saw was eighty eight percent,
so it's getting good reviews and it comes out next Tuesday,
August twelfth, on FX and Hulu.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Ooh, is it gonna be like individual episodes or like
they're gonna put the whole thing at once.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
I think it's it's individual episodes, so like maybe first
two episodes next week and then week to week from there.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
I love that, And every chance I get to talk
to a showrunner, I tell them, hey, I appreciate you
for not dumping this on because Apple TV does it
week by week and I love that because it.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Keeps it keeps your engagement, it keeps the conversation rolling
around the show.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Imagine people putting in all this work and you dump
it all onto a platform and somebody of knockout in
a day and then they're done.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Talking about it.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Crazy how times us because I think, you know, during
the pandemic, we're all about binging, and you know nowadays
it's like, yeah, I go back to the weekly kind
of kind of thing too, So yeah, I yeah, I
I with you. I prefer the weekly drops and selfishly
because one, once we get one, we get to talk
about it on the podcast every week, and two it

(41:21):
just it makes it more enjoyable. You don't get you know,
typically if you see it on the day releases, you
typically don't get spoilers, just like you know, you'll get
spoilers when you don't want, you know, when if it
all drops, you'll see spoilers everywhere. So this is that's
another thing too.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Yeah, that's why I think the iron Heart way that
they broke.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
That down into three I thought was very very intelligent
of them to do.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Surprising. I was actually quite surprised to see.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
No iron Heart like activation or something.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
I don't know. I felt like Marvel should have had something.
I was shocked.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
I just can't get over the tack they didn't have anything.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
It's that comic con.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
You're you're talking about a show that got their first
ever trailer a month out.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yeah, yeah, that's true, Bud.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah, that the thing was marketed marketably horrible and even
you know isyes of a Conda. It's a surprise drop.
And I watched the first episode yesterday and it's just like,
what are you guys doing. The marketing team over there
at Marvel, what are you doing?

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, we were talking about Yeah, we were talking about
this release that because John didn't realize it moved up
and because it was originally slated for like August twenty seventh,
that's what they were promoting, and then all of a sudden,
it was, oh, it's releasing Friday, August first, And it's
just like, why would you do that when you're pushing
one date and then all of a sudden switch it
to a new date. I never understand that with Disney

(42:41):
Plus because they've this is not the first time that
they've done that. They've done that almost consistently with a
lot of their releases.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Yeah. See, I think I think there's something going on
where there. It's intentional with the way they're doing that.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
You can say it, I I'm not.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
Understanding, Like I'm not understanding the way they're doing and
he's honestly what rolling out The way they're rolling out
these projects of color are really interesting. But then again,
Ryan Coogler is very big about fighting for like the
equality of all of his titles, and I don't know
how he's associated with both of them and letting them
just kind of, I don't know, like take back seat
to the things that they have going on. I mean,

(43:21):
we know we have Fantastic four, but I mean they
got better, almost cussed, they got better rollout for this
little five second clip of Tom Holland for a brand
new Day.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah, and they release ISAAA Conda the same day they
do this, Like it's just.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
What, Yeah, why did y'all like want like these people
in the proper days to like marinate and and be
the topic of conversation.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
I'm not sure what's going on in the back end.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
I feel like eventually something's gonna come out to where
there's like, hey, there's these heated debates or there's these
creative differences. Something's going on in the back end that
hasn't come to light yet. I really think that there's
that that's the only proper explanation. It's the only proper explanation.
It's not fair what Iron Hard had to sift through

(44:06):
to get the visibility that it did, and how long
it took for them to get the conversation around them.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
I'm glad that when the project came out it was
actually good.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
That I am grateful for, because if it came out
and it was bad, then I would give everyone the
right thing, like see, like why would they push promotion
on something that they knew was bad?

Speaker 3 (44:23):
So yeah, this is the same.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Thing, same things happening to wonder Man.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Yeah, like and that one.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
I'm like, please, like that's Wonder Man is very closely
aligned with The Running Man, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Uh, It's it's more along the lines of him Simon Williams,
who is a superhero trying to it's kind of in
the vein of the Studio and oh what was the
other one? Because Kevin Faigey made it a point that
they've held on to the to Wonder Man like it's
been done, but they've sat on it. And now it

(44:58):
looks like they're following a trend that like the Studio
and I forget the other show has done, and it's
more in line of kind of making fun of studios
and how movie studios operate and things like that.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
Yeah, okay, looks like I think be a little bit
more lighthearted. I don't know what they have going on
with their recent and now I'm thinking about it, this
isn't just like Projects of Color, it's anything recent that's
not a film, like is anything coming to Disney Plus
has been treated kind of odd right now, and it
just happens to be Projects of Color because I don't
I mean, there's nothing else that they really have coming

(45:32):
out right, Like, it's just wonder Man, Eyes of Wallknda.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
I can't think of anything else they have.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
The only thing that's and this is kind of a
new thing this morning that's come out is that they
are phasing out the Hulu app. I saw that, and
they are making it to where Hulu If you want
to watch Hulu shows, you have to go to Disney
Plus now and Alien Earth being but I mean, I
don't know Alien Earth being released next week August twelfth.

(46:00):
I don't think that necessarily has a big overlap with
Eyes of a Conda, So I don't know that it
needs to move out of the way for that.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
So they really threw me off with the whole ETHX
being on Hulu being on Disney like, that's a lot.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
It's it's very confusing. And now it's i mean the
streaming stuff, it's it's very I don't know, it's getting
getting worse by the day as we see, it's.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Getting a monop becoming a monopoly like a monopoly.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
It's the conglomerates. It's it's ridiculous. Uh. And then going
back to what y'all were saying earlier about releasing week
to week versus bing binge models, there's also just so
much stuff that if something releases in a binge, I
don't know, I've i've, I have a hard time finishing
it because it's like, well I need to get to
this one or that one. I don't know, Like it's

(46:42):
week to week is easier to manage for me in
my schedule, yeah, I think.

Speaker 4 (46:48):
But I also look like the way conversations go in
terms of like keeping that conversation about that project, it
expands it when you get to do it week to week,
Like I think the best for me, the best one
to describe like that was the Last of Us, because
it was like everyone was online ready to talk about
it when it happened. It also kind of forces you

(47:09):
to watch stuff when it comes out because you're gonna
risk spoilers if you don't. But the binging thing just doesn't. Yeah,
it binging is so disor it disorganizes the community because
people are obviously watching at different times, and like you said,
it gives too much at all it once, And I
just feel like for someone to work so hard on

(47:31):
a project for months and months and months and then
just dump it on the streaming platform at once, I
just it just seems like a slap in the face almost.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yeah. Now with the variety of projects, it's just it's
just so much. I know we have to wrap up
here soon. Any other well, I know you got to
do Toxic Avengers interviews there for I believe the Hollywood Reporter.
How was that experience?

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Yeah, so that was that was cool for me, I think,
I mean respectfully, I can't sit her and act like
I geek out about every actor because I don't, but
I do geek out on behalf of others. And my
boyfriend being a big nerd, I know that he I
know that he watched Game.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
Of Thrones, but he's not a Game of Thrones nerds.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
I'm talking to Peter Dinklish probably would really sit really
well with some of my other friends, but my boyfriend
is a big Lord of the Rings nerd and Star Wars.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
So talking Elijah Wood.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
There's like a part of me that's like, I respect
that your proto, like I get like, I get.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
That, but let's talk about Deep Impact because I love
that movie. Like I I have other films that I
so like.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
Talking to them about this project, there's different there's different
pieces of them there. They're photography I love. But what's
so interesting about Toxic Avenger. Whether people know this or not,
This movie has been made and out for like what
two years. It's been out and tested in audiences, a
premiered at like like a festival. I forget the festival
that it premiered at, but it premiered at the festival

(48:50):
like a year and a half ago and has been
set on for a while. So that was that was
the gist of my conversation, because it's like, how do
y'all react as though something is new all when it's
already been out and previewed and it's been received and
it's been a year and a half later. I did
talk to them in regards about the I think it's
a nineteen eighty four version that they have or nineteen
eighty seven. I think it's eighty four, and asking him like, hey,

(49:13):
how does this kind of like tie to that? And
they were they were big about mentioning how they were
looking to do like their own thing with this one,
but definitely won't stay true to the fans of the original.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
It is very different. It is.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
It was like an R rated red band trailer, which
is been a wats since we've got one of those,
for sure, But.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
The cast is it was very very interesting cast.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
I mean, you got Taylor Page, Peter Dinklic, Elijah Wood, Oh,
Jacob Tremblay.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
Is that his name? You know?

Speaker 1 (49:42):
I think that name? I think so man.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
I could not, for the life of me figure out
where I knew this kid from.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
And I'm having a great interview with him, and I'm like,
I know this guy, Like, where do I know him from?
Couldn't think of it. It wasn't until after interview and
I was wrapping up and I was like, he wasn't
Life with Chuck. He was great Life of Chuck, Like
I love the that I think.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Don't get me wrong, Tom Middleson is great, but the
kids in Life of Chuck stole the show for sure.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Yeah, no, one hundred percent. That's one of my favorite
movies of the year, and that's the kids were like
Tom Middleson, Like you said, Tom Midilson's good, but the
kids really hit you home and especially in the fields.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Yeah, And I just did not.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
I'm sitting there and I have the microphone in his
face and my mind is running like where do you
know him from? What do you cause? I don't watch
teeny bopper stuff like I don't like whenever. I used
to go back whenever Riverdale and uh, Vampire Diaries and
Supernatural and all like, well nothing about nothing wrong about Supernatural, guys.
But but Sunday at Comic Con used to have weight

(50:44):
because those are the shows that closed out Sunday. It
was it was those I guess I can call it
teeny bopper shows. So when I'm watching, I'm looking at
him like he's young. I don't have a young film
that I watch. I don't have any like young show
that I watched like that, And when it hit me,
it hit me the wrong moment because it was too late.
I wish I would have got to tell him, like, hey,
like you were phenomenal in his.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Movie is one of the best movies.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
I'd interview him already next to Mark Hamill, who also took.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Over the interview. Seems like, yeah, I didn't. I didn't
even think to tell him, yeah, you did great in
Life oft Check.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
But I may have mentioned it casually when I talked
to him and interview with Mark Hamill, but it was
it was a Mark Hamill show at that time too.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Jong Are you a fan of any teeny bopper shows?
Right now?

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Right now? Not necessarily. I think when my wife watches
The Summer, I turn pretty I just I gradually, I'll
casually look up and ask questions. But that's about it.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
People love that show. Yeah you're not watching Love Island.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
No, I'm not. I have friends that do and keep
updating us about it. But that's I mean, yeah, I
don't really have too much time for things outside of
my little interests.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
That's how I feel.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
I feel like right now, when I watch movies or shows,
it's work. Like I'm not doing it just for you know,
anytime I'm watching a movie, it's it's essentially for work,
and it doesn't bother me because that's what I enjoy
doing anyway. But it's like I'm watching films and TV
shows through a different lens now that this is a career.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
So have you're saying you watch for work? Have you
watched War of the World's the ice Cube one?

Speaker 4 (52:25):
You know?

Speaker 3 (52:27):
I have not, but nor have I seen any promotion
for it.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
All I know is when I turn on my boyfriend's
TV whatever platform he has, because it's not the same
that I have. I have an LGTV for some reason,
it's a little different, and his platform just has this
big picture picture of ice cube just mugging and it
says like War of the World.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
And I've not I didn't know what that was.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
I thought it was like an old like old thing
that I may missed when it came out. I didn't
know that that was a thing. Yeah, and when he
saw it, he just got instantly upset.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
He was like, what is this? Why are they doing this?
And I like, I don't know. Is it not old?
I don't know what this is. I had not heard
of it.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
No one's pitched me covering it or reviewing it, thank god,
because I didn't see anything good to be said about
it so far when people were talking about But I've
seen people say it's so bad that it's that you
want to see it and you want to be able
to say that you've seen it.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
I haven't seen a zero on Rotten Tomatoes in a while.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
The audience scores at seventeen and the critics scores at
zero with eighteen reviews, So yeah, go watch it.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
I gave it a half star on Letterbox. It's terrible.
It's the worst movie I've ever seen.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
I have.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Show not even a zero star. It's a movie. It's
a movie. It's well, it's a movie, but it's really
a long Amazon Prime ad. So there you go.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Do they deliver packages?

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Literally? John? Literally? There is a key plot point that
depends on someone making an Amazon purchase. Oh no, yeah,
and we're talking about War of the World's aliens are
invading and a key character also an Amazon Prime delivery driver.
Another key ice Cube. No, he's a Department of Homeland Security.

(54:11):
He's behind the desk the entire movie because it's done
in the style of searching the movie with John Chow
from a few years ago. So yeah, there's also a
key point where a character, uh, there's a character that
needs to do something, and to make character do something,
they get him an Amazon gift card.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
So are you serious?

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Yeah? One hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Oh my god, well one, what are you going to
do with that? When the world end?

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Two?

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Two? I almost feel like maybe ice Cube needed the
money and wanted to do as little as possible before uh,
you know, to collect that paycheck.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
Maybe it's yeah, because I don't think he I don't
know that he has anything coming down a pipeline besides
like maybe another Friday movie, but like.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
He was doing. Really my understanding he had a production
company that was doing good. I yeah, I don't. I
don't know that has to be a money a money
grab because.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
It's something, it's something, it's something. So for folks that
want to watch for work, there you go. Uh it's terrible. Uh.
I just had to mention it because I convinced one
of my coworkers to watch it and he was texting
me live updates of this is the worst movie ever.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
Yeah, but see there.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
It's good that they're putting up those things on Amazon sorely,
but that's all gonna go take back seat because football
farts this week, maybe so excited and Amazon Prime does
the Thursday night football games, right or is it Monday?
It's Thursday night, right, Thursday night, Thursday night, Thursday nights.
So that's gonna They're gonna forget all about War of
the World.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
I think everyone's gonna forget about War of the World.
That's gonna do it for this special issue of Comcast.
Thank you all so much for listening, and we appreciate it.
As always. You can follow us on social media. I'm
at Producer mic.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
Nine seven and I'm at one punch Salise.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
Remind the folks where they can find you online and
where they can find your work and all the things
that you do.

Speaker 4 (56:09):
Yeah, so I my socials are hey, shalise h E
y c h A l I c E. I'm heavily
on threads right now. Threads is the most underrated platform.
You can talk movies with people who genuinely enjoying without
seeing the ads that block on Twitter and of.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Course on Instagram, TikTok, all those fun.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Things awesome and you'll be back at some point, I'm sure,
and to really showcase that yeah, Jong is real. So
there you go. That's gonna do it. We will talk
to you guys next week.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
See you hi,