August 12, 2024 • 48 mins
Ready to experience some interdimensional fun? We've got you covered in this jam-packed episode of Multiverse Tonight! Ever wondered how a Hollywood star handles a serious health diagnosis? Find out as we share an exclusive update on Daisy Ridley’s health journey. Then, get into the Halloween spirit with some chilling serial tales that promise to give you the perfect spooky vibes. Legal expert Andrew Torres from Lawn Chaos dishes out the latest insights, and we pay a heartfelt tribute to the late, great actress Patty Yasuki, whose influence touched many hearts.
But that’s not all! This episode takes you on a whirlwind tour of the biggest announcements from D23. Expect the unexpected with exclusive Simpsons content on Disney+, a Toy Story 5 reveal, and an intriguing Marvel collaboration in Fortnite. We also explore exciting new live-action adaptations of beloved classics like Lilo and Stitch and Snow White, as well as fresh chapters in the Frozen, Incredibles, and Avatar franchises. Plus, dive into the upcoming Star Wars Skeleton Crew and other exciting series such as Moana 2, Zootopia 2, and a new LEGO Star Wars multiverse show. Marvel fans, hold onto your hats—there’s a boatload of news including Oscar Isaac’s return in What If? and a TVMA Marvel Zombies series.
Shifting gears to the legal drama, we unpack Gina Carano's lawsuit against Disney with Law And Chaos' Andrew Torrez ( https://www.lawandchaospod.com/podcast ) guiding us through the complexities. We'll examine her claims of wrongful termination and political discrimination, the unknowns in her contract, and the broader implications for employment law. In our celeb news segment, learn about the closure of Cartoon Network's site and its integration into Warner Bros Animation, exciting casting news for Alex Proyas' sci-fi satire "RUR", and the return of General Mills' Monster Cereals. Plus, celebrate the acquisition of "The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" and the rescheduled re-release of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar." Tune in for an episode overflowing with the latest in geeky news and heartfelt tributes!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Tonight what went down at D23, daisy Ridley health
update, some spooky serial, alegal update from Lawn Chaos'
Andrew Torres, and, remember,actress Patty Yasuki.
All that and more on thisedition of Multiverse tonight.
Comic books, sci-fi fantasy andmore sci-fi fantasy and more.
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If you're looking for a roundupof geeky news, you're in the
right place.
This is Multiverse Tonight.
And here's your host, thomasTownley.
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Well, hello everyone, andwelcome to episode 221 of
Multiverse Tonight.
I'm, of course, your host,thomas Townley.
Welcome to 21 of MultiverseTonight.
I'm, of course, your host,thomas Townley.
And well, we've gotten a bit ofearly fall weather the past few
days Been, you know, temperatein the 80s, of course, with the
humidity that you know pushesthe feel-like temperature into
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the 90s, but still was nice.
Had some rain.
This past weekend Took a longtrip up to Kansas City to a bit
of a family reunion.
I got what I wanted out of it.
I saw my brothers, I saw mysisters, I got to experience a
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long trip in my EV, which wasn'tthat bad.
Again, it's one of those thingsif you plan ahead, take your
time, it's not a bad way to go.
Of course, some might agree ordisagree Now I don't have a lot
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to go up front here.
So we have some news from D23.
So I put that all together inone segment.
So let us go to the D23 news.
And D23 news begins with DisneyPlus getting Simpsons
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exclusives.
Now, while Fox will show mostof the new season, simpsons
execs producers said at the D23showcase that some episodes from
the show's 36th season will airexclusively on Disney Plus.
The episodes include aChristmas one titled O Come, all
Ye Faithful on December 17th,and the stream will also get an
exclusive Halloween-themed shortin October.
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Fortnite's new Marvel collabwill be nothing less than
fabulous.
During the Horizons DisneyExperiences panel at D23, kevin
Feige announced that Marvel'snext collab will, unsurprisingly
, revolve around Doctor Doom,but the most surprising thing
about the event's trailer is thenumber of X-Men who popped up.
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Toy Story 5 will come out insummer of 2026, and this time
the boys are taking on tabletcomputers as they try to figure
out how to get their new kidaway from the tablet.
Good luck.
It might be a short movie.
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There was also shown alive-action Lilo and Stitch
movie that's out next summer, aswell as a live-action Snow
White, agatha All Along willcome out on September 18th with
a two-episode premiere.
Star Wars Skeleton Crew, whichlooks like the Goonies in space,
will see Jude Law play a cleverforce user and will be out on
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December 3rd.
Frozen 3 will debut sometime in2027 and will be followed up by
a subsequent film.
There's also Incredibles 3 inthe works.
Also, pixar's Elio, which wasslated to debut next March, will
instead be hitting theaterssometime next summer.
After spending two filmsknocking around Riley's Waking
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Mind, disney is taking theInside Out franchise to Disney+
and a new show called DreamProductions.
This will be out next year andit will be about how dreams are,
kind of sort of like movies.
After the Way of Water.
James Cameron's Avatarfranchise is turning up the fire
.
Next December, james Cameron,zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington
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announced that Avatar Fire andAsh will hit theaters on
December 19th 2025.
They also revealed a new titlecard that makes it look like
Pandora will be engulfed inflames.
So, based on the Californiawildfires, I guess Moana 2 comes
out November 27th and it lookslike Moana is trying to
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reconnect the islands acrossOceania and we get to see little
coconut guys too.
Also coming out is Zootopia 2,which will be released November
26, 2025, as well as LEGO StarWars Rebuild the Galaxy, which
opens up the multiverse ofpossibilities with a multiverse
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type of show.
They showed the first trailerat D23, and it actually makes
the premise seem like the raremodern Star Wars Luke Skywalker
story that might liven up thefranchise where it premieres on
September 13th.
Yes, we get to see Darth JarJar Kind of cool Also returning.
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Oscar Isaac is returning to theMCU.
The actor is set to reprise hisrole as Mark Spector, aka Moon
Knight, in the upcoming seasonof Marvel's what If?
Voicing the Fist of Khonshu forthe fan-favorite series.
Also, marvel Zombies will be aTVMA four-episode event series
and X-Men 97 will see yellow andblack costumes based on the
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Grant Morrison run, with Dangerbeing the villain of the season.
In addition to Danger, theteaser that they gave out gave
fans first looks at X-Men likeHavoc and Polaris and, if the
end of season one is anyindication, apocalypse will also
have a substantial role in thesecond season.
That could also be how we getGambit back, as he was turned
into one of the Apocalypsehorsemen in the second season.
That could also be how we getGambit back, as he was turned
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into one of the apocalypsehorsemen in the comics at one
point, but I guess we'll justhave to wait and see.
Also in the news, nine InchNails is back and will be doing
the score for Tron Ares.
On other music news, a stageadaptation of Disney's Hercules
is headed to London's West Endnext year, marking the last
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outing for a Disney live theaterrun.
Also, you probably never sawthis one coming.
Freakier Friday, the sequel toFreaky Fridays, will star Jamie
Lee Kerf and Lindsay Lohan andwill hit theaters in 2025.
The film picks up years afterTess, played by Curtis, and Anna
, played by Lohan, and will hittheaters in 2025.
The film picks up years afterTess, played by Curtis, and Anna
, played by Lohan, underwent anidentity crisis.
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Now Anna has a daughter and herown soon-to-be stepdaughter.
As they navigate the myriadchallenges that come with two
families' merge, tess and Annadiscover that lightning might
indeed strike twice.
According to the description,production is currently underway
and the current release windowis 2025.
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Harrison Ford, john Williams andFrank Oz were given Disney
Legends awards.
The full class of honoreesincludes Oscar winning costume
designer Colleen Atwood, blackPanther star and Oscar nominee,
angela Bassett, the first blackDisney tour guide.
Martha Blanding, panther starand Oscar nominee, angela
Bassett, the first Black Disneytour guide.
Martha Blanding, tv and filmicon, oscar winner James L
Brooks, avatar mastermind andOscar winner James Cameron,
freaky Friday star and Oscarwinner Jamie Lee Curtis, grammy
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winner and Hannah Montana starMiley Cyrus, comic book artist
Steve Ditko, animator Mark Henn,emmy-winning TV host Kelly Ripa
and Disney Imagineer executiveJoe Rode.
The ceremony will stream onDisney Plus in the USA and
Canada.
Also, in park news, the companyfinally confirmed that a
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long-rumored villain's land iscoming to Disney World's Magic
Kingdom Park.
This land will be home to thevillains that you know and those
that you loathe, with meansthat, happily ever after, might
feel like a distant dream Quote.
It will have two major newattractions dining, shopping and
so much more fiendish fun foryou to explore.
This is storytelling on a grandscale that only Disney can
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deliver.
So be prepared, you poorunfortunate souls.
It's going to be a fearless newvision for what a Disney
experience can be.
In the other park news AvengersCampus Expansion We'll see new
attractions like Avengers,infinity Defense and Stark
Flight Labs coming to Disney'sCalifornia Adventure.
There'll be new themed landsMonsters Inc Land and Avatar.
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The Way of the Water Land areamong the newest additions to
the various theme parks and theDisney Cruise Line will be
getting four new ships joiningthe fleet between 2027 and 2031,
featuring new shows likeHercules and the Tale of Moana 2
.
Also, disney is teaming up withEpic Games to feature new
online universe featuringcharacters from Disney, pixar,
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star Wars and Marvel Studios.
Exciting times for Disney fans.
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Now let's go on to the DC Newswith the film formerly known as
Superman Legacy.
Superman Gunn's reboot is veryinspired by all-star Superman,
according to James Gunn himself,who has shared Superman's comic
book influences on social media.
And just in time for the newfilm to hit theaters on July 11,
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2025, dc will be releasing theSuperman box set, a four-graphic
novel box set that collectssome of Superman's greatest and
most influential tales.
The set, which retails for $85,will be scheduled for release
on June 24th 2025.
It will include soft covereditions of all-star Superman by
Grant Morrison and Frankquietly, superman for all
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seasons by Batman alongHalloween's, jeff Loeb and Tim
sale.
Whatever happened to the man oftomorrow, a tale of Superman's
last adventure by Watchmanwriter Alan Moore and artists
Kurt Swan.
And the definitive DC taleKingdom Come by Mark Waid and
Alex Ross, one of the best comicbook stories ever told,
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according to the WashingtonExaminer.
The publisher released asimilar box set for the comics
that inspired Matt Reeves' 2022Batman the Batman, which
contained Batman Year One,batman Along, halloween and
Batman Ego.
Also available from DC is arecently reprinted new edition
of the 12-issue AbsoluteAll-Star Superman.
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The new deluxe hardcoveredition of Supergirl, woman of
Tomorrow, apparel and thefirst-to-market Superman movie
merchandise is available forpurchase and pre-order.
And now let's go on to the StarWars news.
Roger Roger.
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In Star Wars news, daisy Ridleyopened up about her recent
health scare and revealed thatshe has been diagnosed with
Graves' disease.
Last year, the star of the Riseof Skywalker said in a new
interview that she had initiallyattributed the symptoms of the
disease to playing a stressfulrole in Magpie.
Quote I thought well, I've justbeen played a really stressful
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role.
Presumably that's why I feelpoorly, she told Women's Health
in a recent interview.
Now, magpie was a psychologicalthriller and she starred
alongside Shahzad Latif andMatilda Lutz.
Ridley said that some of hersymptoms included a racing heart
rate, weight loss and fatigue.
The doctor told Ridley thatGraves was feeling tired but
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weird.
Quote.
It was funny.
I was like oh, I just thought Iwas annoyed at the world, but
turns out everything isfunctioning so quickly you can't
chill out.
Unquote.
Being diagnosed with Graves'disease led Ridley to make some
dietary changes and gogluten-free, adding quote I am
not super strict about it, butgenerally cutting down on gluten
makes me feel better.
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Unquote.
I've always been healthconscious and now I'm trying to
be more well-being conscious,she added.
Now Ridley also noted that itis important to listen to what
your body is saying, saying thatyou should read the stats about
women being undiagnosed orunderdiagnosed, and sort of
coming to terms with saying I'mreally actually don't feel good
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not going.
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
It's just normalized to notfeel good Now.
Other noble celebrities whohave been diagnosed with Graves'
disease include Wendy Williamsand Missy Elliott.
Now let's go on to the Marvelnews, and Marvel News is also
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out of D23.
Come on, it's all out of D23.
This weekend, the first voyageof Daredevil Born Again was
shown to fans, and they gottheir first look at the revival
of Marvel's most popular shows.
As was teased in set photossnapped during filming, white
Tiger will be appearing in theseries.
Now little is known about thecharacter's involvement in the
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show or how big a role he'llhave, although the footage seems
to tease that Matt Murdock willact as White Tiger's attorney
at some point through the seriesDaredevil Born Again is
expected to be released onDisney Plus starting March 2025.
Now let's go on to thatinterview and we're back to
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discuss Gina Carano's lawsuitagainst Disney.
Now there has been an updaterecently.
A couple weeks ago, disney losttheir first round bid to
dismiss the suit, so it's goingto trial and so, of course, I
have to bring in someone to sortof set the table, tell us what
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we need to know, and that wouldbe Andrew Torres of the Law and
Chaos podcast.
Welcome, andrew.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Thomas, thanks for having me back on.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's no problem.
You know you're a great guestand people like hearing what you
say.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, I appreciate the kind words.
Gina Carano fans may notappreciate what I have to say
this time around.
You know, look, I thought shewas great in, you know, the
first Deadpool movie.
So you know, it's not personal,it's just.
You know she went a littleright wing crazy and you know
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this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yes so.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So should I, yeah, set the landscape?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, set the landscape.
Not 16th century Tuscany oranything.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Too bad.
No, again, sort of on the heelsof her success.
As you know, one of thesupporting actors in Deadpool
she was Angel Dust and then shehad a recurring guest role.
And then she had a recurringguest role, seven appearances on
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Star Trek, star Trek, on StarWars, the Mandalorian, as as
Cara Dune, and and at that sametime, this was 2020 that the
second season of the Mandalorianwas airing Gina Carano decided
that she was going to kind ofdrink all of the right wing
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Kool-Aid, and so, you know, andit started with, of course, the
things that you know, botherthese folks, which are, you know
, having to use pronouns, andthe the, the far right, has one
joke.
So Gina Carano took to Twitterand was like my pronouns are
beep bop boop.
So Gina Carano took to Twitterand was like my pronouns are
beep bop boop.
And you know how could anybodypossibly think that?
That's, you know, anti-trans,anti-lgbtq, plus.
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And Disney sat back and didnothing for a very, very long
time as she continued toescalate.
She posted, you know, sort ofcrazy truth or stuff about the
2020 election, and you know, I'mjust saying we have to
investigate all the votes, andyou know, and again, right, you
sort of get this sense of.
You know, you're stretching therubber band.
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You're stretching the rubberband.
And then, finally, you know,she went on Instagram and said
Jews were beaten in the streets,not by Nazi soldiers, but by
their neighbors, even bychildren, how?
And then you, you know.
And then a bunch of other stuff.
And how is that any differentfrom hating someone for their
political views?
Um, and disney was was notamused by that right and at that
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point.
Uh, you know through she.
She worked for the, for thelucasfilm uh subsidiary of
disney, and the president oflucfilm and a Disney rep came
out and said look, she was neveran employee, right, she was
always a contractor and she willbe a contractor for us no
longer, right.
And then Gina filed a lawsuitalleging three counts.
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Two are based on discriminationon political activity and one
is based on discrimination onthe basis of sex.
And here and we could talkabout that a little bit, but I
think it's important to sort oftalk about the different
inflection points that come outin litigation, right?
So I've been trying cases forover 25 years and what happens
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when a plaintiff sues is there'san early period in which you
can file what are calleddispositive motions, and they
mean exactly what it sounds likeright, like if that motion is
granted, it disposes of thelitigation in its entirety.
So a motion to dismiss is oneof those things and it's the way
to get out quick and cheap.
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Dismiss is one of those thingsthat she said were true.
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That still does not amount to acompensable injury as a matter
of California law, and thereason that you have to do that
is because, if there's any doubtover what she said is true or
not with respect to materialfacts, then the court says, well
, look like maybe she's wrong,but we're going to go to a
period called discovery andwe're going to let her prove up
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those claims.
Right, and and that's what itmeans to you know, have your day
in court.
Right that, yes, even if it'ssuper far-fetched.
If there's any kind ofreasonable construction of your
facts being true the way theysaid they are, then you're
entitled to assume that they'retrue, before the defendant can
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say look, we're not going tocourt at all.
This is just, you know,complete and utter nonsense.
And you might.
You might recognize some of thethings that we talked about,
right, like, such as whether shehas a contract with Disney
Lucasfilm, what that contractsays, right, whether she abides.
Those are all facts.
So those were not things thatDisney could rely on.
And instead, what Disney saidwas assuming that we fired you
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for political behavior.
We have a First Amendment rightto do that.
And three weeks ago the courtcame back and said we're not
sure that you've met thatthreshold, disney, right,
because one of the things youhave to do in order to assert a
First Amendment defense is youhave to say that I'm engaged in,
in this case in associationalconduct.
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Right, that that think aboutthis from from Disney's
perspective.
What they're saying is we arerepresented by the folks who are
our actors, and their speechessentially becomes our speech.
And so when their speech is atodds with the kind of speech
that we as a company want toengage in, then we have a right,
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a first amendment right todisassociate ourselves from that
kind of expression.
And the court said maybe, butwe don't know that you've proven
that as a matter of law yet,disney.
So we're going to let her goforward and we're going to let
the case proceed to thediscovery phase and give her the
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opportunity to prove no, youdon't really have those sorts of
associational values.
Now, I don't think that that'sgoing to be a hard lift for
Disney to engage in.
Right To say, hey, we arerepresented by the actors who
feature in our films.
Right, and you can think aboutthat in any sort of number of
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ways, right, like if you had thelead actor from a movie
wandering around trashing yourmovie.
Disney would probably say we nolonger want to be affiliated
with someone that's like yeah,don't go see the steaming pile
of hot garbage that we just putout right.
So the question is right is thebucket of speech that Gina
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Carano engaged in, is that thekind of thing that that Disney
has a right to disassociateitself from?
So that's sort of where we arein terms of the legal landscape.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Okay, now, uh, so she goes.
Next is discovery, right.
So they have to basically openup their doors, show, show them
what they've got, and she has toshow them what she's got, right
.
So they have to basically openup their doors, show, show them
what they've got, and she has toshow them what she's got, right
.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So, so, yes, and this is going to be very one sided
Right, like that.
Most of the public, most of theevidence that Disney wants from
Gina Carano are the thingsshe's already done in public,
right?
So her public posts on socialmedia, they're entitled to
drafts, they're entitled to, youknow, correspondence, that sort
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of thing.
But basically what happens isyou serve several different
kinds of documents, but the twoprimary ones are requests for
production of documents, right,give me all your emails that say
X, right, and what goes alongwith that are requests to depose
material witnesses, right, andso typically what you do is you
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ask for the documents first, andthere are others, but this is
what you're going to see kind ofin the news, right, you're
going to see, I'm sure herlawyers have already served
those discovery requests onDisney.
They do not have to be filedwith the court.
So we don't know what they say.
We won't know what they sayunless and until the documents
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show up at a deposition and then, depending on what the
protocols are with respect tothat deposition, we may or may
not get it.
They may or may not be leaked,they they may or may not be
leaked.
There may or may not be aconfidentiality order that you
know protects the production ofcertain documents and things.
But she's going to, she's goingto ask Disney hey, I want all of
this correspondence and I wantto to depose under oath certain
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Disney witnesses.
And we know, for example, shewants to depose Pedro Pascal,
right, her, the, the, the starof, of, of, of the Mandalorian.
And you could ask, right, thereis a doctrine called the apex
doctrine, which, which is againkind of what it sounds like it.
It basically says if you areseeking to depose a high ranking
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official right Within a company, depose a high ranking official
right within a company, andthere is somebody who equally
has that evidence, uh, who isnot that high ranking person,
then you should get it from theother person instead, right?
So so she's also, you know,sought to depose the ceo of
lucasfilm and some other highranking disney execs, and so
there will be a battle back andforth about what do you want
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from this witness, and you knowcan, can we go to that trouble
to date, right, her, hercomplaints to the thing that you
would think were the thingsthat you would think that Pedro
Pascal has an opportunity toweigh in on, seem to be, seem to
me to fall into really twocategories, right, the first is
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to be able to discuss what GinaCarano was like as an employee.
Right, what it was like workingwith her on the set.
And again the evidence appearsto be that she was a pleasure to
work with, right, a joy to workwith in terms of, you know,
actually filming and, you know,getting the production done.
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And that is relevant to MsCarano's lawsuit, because the
more she can say I fulfilled allthese other criteria that are
important for bringing someoneback as as an actor, the more
she can say so it was solelyright.
My political expression, forwhich you know I was, I was
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terminated.
And then the second thing is,again I mentioned, that her
lawsuit asserts has two causesof action with respect to
political activity and a thirdwith respect to sex
discrimination.
That's really a subsidiary.
What she alleges in that thirdcause of action is Disney has
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had lots of male co-stars whohave also engaged in political
speech and have also said stuffon social media and have also
referenced the Holocaust.
But you fired me and you didn'tfire them.
And so that fundamental factualinquiry is going to come down
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to does a company have a rightnot to associate itself with
public speech by its employees,which it finds counterproductive
, at odds with its corporatevalues.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Exactly Now.
According to the most recentupdate, the attorneys proposed a
start date of September 29th2025.
Yeah, that's the trial dateyeah, and the trial is expected
to last one week.
So between now and then,they're going to be getting
their witnesses together,getting your documents together.
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They have, you know, a year tofigure this out, right?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
And this is.
This is a fairly typicalschedule and, again, a week long
trial is, by by large,commercial litigation standards.
A short trial Is, by large,commercial litigation standards,
a short trial.
I do not think this case isgoing to trial the procedure
that happens.
You have to pick a date and putit on the calendar, because the
court then uses that to backout all of the other dates.
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So if the trial is in September, then what you would have is
probably a discovery cutoff inJuly and you would have a
summary judgment motionsdeadline in August and that both
sides here are going to gatherup all of their evidence and
then prepare and file competingmotions for summary judgment.
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And let me talk a little bitabout the distinction between
those two.
Right, because I talked about amotion to dismiss, comes at the
very, very beginning, in whichthere are no facts in dispute
and you, as the party resistingthe motion to dismiss, right, as
the plaintiff, are entitled toall of the inferences and all of
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the asserted facts that youclaim in your complaint to be
resolved in your favor.
So example I give all the timeis right.
You sue me for trespass, right,and you say I jumped over your
fence and you know, was on yourproperty on September 1st 2023.
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And if I go to move to dismissand say, no, I was never there,
right?
But the court's going to say,well, look, that's what
discovery is for.
Prove it, right, like, maybeyou've got off my footprint in
your front yard, maybe you have,you know, a ring doorbell and
you have video camera footage,who knows?
Then we have discovery and thenwe exchange all of our
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information and suppose none ofthat comes about.
Right, there's no footprint,there's no video, there's no
testimony.
And I introduce a flight stubthat shows I was actually the
time you claim I was in youryard, I was on a plane, right?
Well then, we're not going totrial, right?
I'm going to move for summaryjudgment and I say all of the
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evidence is now in and there isno material, there's no genuine
dispute as to any material fact,right, nothing that could make
a difference with respect toyour claim.
There's no evidence to supportthe fact that I was ever on your
property and the only evidencethere is and maybe it's
equivocal you can say, well, thestub is torn, but it doesn't
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matter If you've got zeroevidence that says I was ever on
your property and I have someevidence that suggests that I
was not, then I'm going to winon summary judgment, and I
suspect so.
There are a lot of things hereagain that we don't know right.
We don't know what the contractbetween Disney and Ms Carano
looked like, right?
We don't know.
If we don't know what thecontract between disney and ms
carano looked like, right?
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We don't know if she was anemployee, as she contends, or a
contractor, as disney contends.
We don't know.
Promises and assurances weremade to her that the contract
may contain.
It is, it is Not something thatDisney has yet previewed, so
possibly it doesn't.
But frequently contracts willcontain a morals clause, right?
(30:06):
We'll say, hey, if you engagein X type of behavior, then we
have the right to terminate thiscontract.
Right, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
So in other words, a real Mickey Mouse clause.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Exactly.
So look, all of that is goingto come up against the way that
this argument is being pitchedin media, right, and that is
Elon Musk is bankrolling thislawsuit, right, and has publicly
said, yeah, I'll fund and I'llpay whatever, and there was
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nothing Disney can do that canmake this expensive enough for
Elon Musk to even notice it.
Right?
I mean, there just aren't thatmany issues in dispute.
There's not an infinite amountof lawyering you can do on a
case like this.
Do on, you know, a case likethis.
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So now I will tell you that youknow Gina Carano has engaged in
some high profile celebritylawyers.
She has Eugene Volokh of theVolokh conspiracy, who's written
some frankly crazy stuff inconnection with this case.
So you know they're throwing asmuch money as they can at both
sides.
But you know, for Elon Musk,you know that's not, it's not
even couch change level money,right?
(31:30):
So he's doing it to make apublic statement that says you
know woke companies are outthere discriminating against
conservatives, and you knowwe're going to win and fight
back, and, and that's not thelaw.
You know we're going to win andfight back and and that's not
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the law, right?
And this is the thing that Isaid the first time I came on
the show and and I flagged atthe time that you know it was
going to be hard to win on amotion to political activity,
right.
And so let's describe kind ofwhat that means.
That means your employer can'tsay I'm firing you because
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you've left to go attend aKamala Harris rally, right, I'm
firing you because you've saidyou're going to vote, right,
like I'm firing you because youare engaged in political action
and they can't write a contractthat says in order to be a
Disney Imagineer, you must agreenot to vote.
No, you can't do that.
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That's discrimination on thebasis of a protected activity,
your civil right to vote.
Your employer can't force youto give that up.
That's very different fromsaying we're going to fire you
if you spread dangerousmisinformation and nonsense that
reflects poorly on the company,even if, right, that what the
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company thinks reflects badly onit happens to be to skew highly
, highly on one side of thepolitical spectrum.
Right.
And again, you know Disney isgoing to be aided here by the
fact that there is a coterie,particularly in California, of
anti-vax far left Democrats,right, going, going back 40, 50
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years, right.
So they're going to be able tosay like it's not exclusively
right wing political opinions.
It certainly correlates highlywith the fact that you know,
gina Carano got maga pilled andstarted spouting off crazy stuff
.
But but you know again, justkind of ask yourself at that
fundamental level this for mynewsletter at lawandchaospodcom.
(33:49):
I began with the idea ofsuppose I applied to write for
the National Review or theFederalist or something like
that.
Right, then you would expect aright-wing magazine to say you
know what, we're sure you're aterrific writer, Mr Torres, but
we're not that interested inassociating ourselves with your
point of view.
That doesn't reflect well on usas the federalist, and you know
(34:10):
, quite frankly, I'm all forthat.
Right like that.
They are entitled to not beaffiliated with my crazy
left-wing views.
And and the question is, iswhat's you know?
Is the sauce that's good forthe goose good for the gander,
right?
Is it the case that you areactually going to convince a
court of law that there shouldbe affirmative action for
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conservative actors in Hollywood?
And I continue to be asskeptical as anyone can be of
that proposition.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All right, as skeptical as anyone can be of
that proposition, all right,well, and uh, I think, uh, we've
kind of exhausted the the thetalk for now, unlike, you know,
the right-wing blogosphere whichkeeps, you know, touting that
oh this is a great thing.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh oh, it's like it's just going to the next phase,
folks thing, oh, oh, it's likeit's just going to the next
phase, folks, yeah, and and, andyou know, as, as we mentioned
before, right, this is now elonmusk versus disney, these two
people that are not going to bedeterred by the cost of of
litigation.
Now, look, if there are trulyembarrassing documents that are
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out there, right, I could see asituation in which, you know,
disney wants to settle thisearly, as opposed to heading to
a motion for summary judgment inwhich its documents, which will
be on the public docket, right,this is a federal lawsuit, so
anybody with a pacer login oryou know who goes to court
listener will be able to haveaccess to to those pleadings.
(35:44):
They will be all over the press, and if there's something that
you know looks embarrassing,then, uh, you could see reasons
why, why disney might, uh feelcompelled to settle.
That being said, I don't knowhow that will interface in the
in the interest between ginacarano, who does not appear to
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be gainfully employed at themoment, uh, and and elon musk,
who would like to use her forfor pr, right?
So you know, I mean, she wentfrom, uh, you know, being in the
deadpool franchise to doing,you know, daily caller kind of
indie films for the far right,and that's a pretty big drop off
(36:27):
.
So you know, I don't know.
I would not be surprised I'venever surprised when civil
litigation settles.
I would not be surprised ifthis settles, but I would be
surprised if it goes to trial.
Would be surprised if it goesto trial and I would be, um,
whatever the level is above that, uh, if that were to somehow
(36:48):
result in a, uh, in a, in aplaintiff's verdict.
So that that's, that's my,those are my predictions yeah
and uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
By her imdb it does look like she's not gainfully
employed since 2022.
Her last name was my son hunter.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
That piece of I have, I have seen it, so you don't
have to, uh, and you should not.
She plays a secret serviceagent tailing hunter biden and
you know, remember when hunterbiden it was super important
that, like the republicansproved that he was on crack for
I.
I don't know reasons that that,but somehow it doesn't seem as
(37:25):
important to them anymore.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Oh, yeah, well, anyway, when there's more
developments, I'd love to, ofcourse, have you back, but I
love coming on the show.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
In the meantime, I'll let you promote the Law and
Chaos podcast In the meantime,I'll let you promote the Law and
Chaos podcast.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yep, we do two podcast episodes a week.
They drop on Tuesdays andFridays and we do written
content twice a week, that isMonday and Wednesday.
That is myself and Liz Dye.
Who is amazing, and it islawandchaospodcom, so just head
on over and check it out.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
All right, folks.
Well, thank you, andrew Torres,for coming on today, and you'll
see me right back here in thischair in a couple of seconds in
a different T-shirt.
But we'll see Andrew later.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Thank you, take care.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
You too.
Andrew Torres is always.
(38:40):
He's been my guest twice nowand he does excellent.
You just have to start him on asubject and he takes it from
there.
That's something I really like.
Anyway, cartoon Network'sofficial website has been shut
(39:01):
down and now directs to the Macstreaming service instead.
Cartoon Network was once home tosome of the most notable
animated series releases, andthat's been shifting in the last
few years, especially Now.
The closing of Cartoon NetworkStudios prompted fans to wonder
if the network would be shutdown entirely, and it's been
made clear that Warner BrosDiscovery is still shuffling
(39:21):
around their Cartoon Networkprojects among Warner Bros
animation as a whole.
So watch this space for futuredevelopments.
Agents of SHIELD actressMallory Jansen and Emmy and Tony
winner Anthony LaPaglia areboarding Alex Proyas' upcoming
sci-fi satire RUR oppositeLindsay Ferris.
Sci-fi satire RUR oppositeLindsay Ferris Cameras roll on
(39:43):
October 21st in Sydney,australia.
Proyas penned the screenplay,which was based on an adaptation
of Carl Capic's famous sciencefiction play RUR, rossum's
Universal Robots, published in1920.
Rur follows Helena, played byJansen, who visits the alien
factory of Rossum's UniversalRobots to emancipate the robots
from capitalist exploitation,with catastrophic results.
(40:08):
As we head towards the end ofsummer, halloween fans are
starting to see a number ofsigns that signal the imminent
approach, with one of the majorskinfires being the rebirth of
General Mills monster cereals instores nationwide Now.
This means General Mills is notonly bringing back those
staples for the season, butfinding new ways to celebrate
Halloween as well, seeing thisyear as the iconic mascots are
(40:31):
getting animal companions.
In addition to there being fourindividual cereals honoring
four icons, there's also amashup that brings them all
together into one bowl.
Monster cereals are hittingshelves nationwide now.
According to a press release,halloween's Haas Hunters are
back, and this year they'rejoined by their one-of-a-kind
scary sidekicks.
(40:51):
For the first time ever, thebeloved nostalgic monster cereal
characters Count Charcula,boo-berry Franken-Berry and
Carmela Creeper are accompaniedby their frightful friend pets
to bring more festive fun to theHalloween season.
Just like you, the monsters arealso obsessed with their pets,
and this year each classiccereal includes specialty
marshmallows shaped like each ofthe characters' Frightful
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Friends.
More information on eachsidekick is available below
Frightful Friends.
It's a spooky pet party.
The monsters' cereals you knowand love are joined by their
scary sidekicks.
Monster flavors are nowpet-shaped marshmallows, from
spiders to snakes.
Monster's creepy charactercritter friends are here to add
(41:33):
more mischief to Halloween.
Count Chocula has Igor thespider Chocolate classic cereal
bits mixed with spider shapedmarshmallows.
Igor is Count Chocula's loyalguard, spider and sidekick.
Frankenberry has Beanie the Batthe Berry Delicious cereal will
be joined by bat-shapedmarshmallows In honor of Beanie
Frankenberry's best bud, who hasa wicked sense of humor, and
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wonky sonar.
Booberry, with Meowberry theCat the Berry cereal
incorporates cat-shapedmarshmallows.
When Meow Berry disappears,there's now a ghost of a chance
of finding her.
And Carmelo Creeper has Scratchthe Snake.
The new cereal of the crewcombines caramel apple cereal
with snake-shaped marshmallows.
Scratch has serious attitudeand crazy good rhythm, making
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him the perfect partner in crimefor the edgy zombie DJ.
Keep your eyes out for monstercereals which are hitting
shelves now nationwide.
Shoot me, catch-up.
Entertainment has acquired theNorth American rights to Warner
Bros animations.
The Day the Earth Blew Up, aLooney Tunes movie from GFN
Animation, which handlesworldwide distribution sales.
(42:38):
The sci-fi comedy adventurefollows the adventures of Daffy
Duck and Porky Pig will bereleased nationwide A date has
yet to be confirmed.
The film directed by PeteBreiningart.
The film stars two Emmyaward-winning Eric Baza,
reprising his role as Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig, will uncover a
(42:59):
sinister alien plot whileworking at the local bubblegum
factory.
Together with Petunia Pig, theunlikely heroes embark on a
high-stakes mission to fight offzombies and aliens and deliver
all the gags and visualsrecognized by Looney Tunes fans.
Christopher Nolan'sInterstellar will be re-released
in honor of its 10thanniversary.
However, the sci-fi epic isflying back to theaters slightly
(43:21):
behind schedule.
The Paramount Pictures film wasslated to return on September
27th, but will now land twomonths later, on December 6th.
It will be released in 70mmIMAX prints as well as digital.
The theatrical release waspushed back to line with the
home entertainment relaunch.
According to knowledgeableindividuals, warner Bros
Pictures is co-producing themovie with Paramount on the
(43:42):
revival Studio sources.
Knowledgeable individualsWarner Bros Pictures is a
co-produced movie working withParamount on the revival Studio.
Sources are displaying a rumorthat 70mm prints were destroyed.
Paramount claims that itarchived more copies of the
movie than most other pictures.
However, because of the filmexperience, wear and tear while
playing on the big screen.
It's not uncommon for some ofthem to become unusable after
their theatrical runs.
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Interstellar premiered inNovember of 2014 and generated
$731 million at the box office.
And finally, tonight, pattyIsocki, best known for her roles
in Beef and Star Trek NextGeneration, passed away
peacefully on August 5th,surrounded by friends and family
(44:26):
, after a long battle withcancer.
She was 70 years old, losAngeles native.
Yusaki, born and raised inGardenia and Inglewood,
graduated from UCLA with honorsin theater.
She started her career at EastWest Players, where she worked
with the company's co-founder,japanese-american icon Meiko,
(44:48):
for six years on stage, on staffand on board, performing in
over a dozen shows.
Her major theater debut was inRon Howard's 19th-century comedy
Gang Ho as Yumiki, a relocatedJapanese wife trying desperately
to Americanize.
She reprised her role in thefollow-up ABC comedy series
(45:08):
spawned by the movie.
For her next movie, the 1988the Wash, she played and
received an Independent SpiritAward supporting actress
nomination.
Her resume also includes thefilms Drop Dead, gorgeous, Blind
Spot and Road to Galveston anda slew of guest star appearances
on shows such as the Closer,grey's, anatomy Bones, flash
(45:30):
Forward, the Unit and Cold Case.
Her last TV role before herdeath was one of the highest
profile ones in her career, asshe was a series regular on
Netflix's acclaimed late limitedseries Beef, playing George's
mother.
She also played nurse AlyssaAgawa turned Dr Agawa on Star
(45:51):
Trek the Next Generation, a roleshe reprised on Star Trek
Generations.
Spending three decades, hertheater work includes stints at
the New York-Mexico RepertoryTheater, american Southwest
Theater, los Angeles TheaterCenter, san Diego Repertory
Theater, manhattan Theater Club,south Coast Repertory Theater
and the Westwood Playhouse.
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Yasuki was preceded in death byher parents, michael and Jean,
and her sister, businessexecutive Irene Inoue.
She was survivor siblings Lisa,linda Hayashi and Steve Yasuki,
(46:33):
a large extent family ofnephews and nieces and a family
of friends and colleagues,including Fritz and Jonathan Del
Arco.
A memorial will be held at theEastside Players in Louvre
Flowers.
The family requested that acontribution be made to the
theater company.
Again, patty Yusuti was 70years old, and that brings us to
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Tonight what went down at D23, daisy Ridley health
update, some spooky serial, alegal update from Lawn Chaos'
Andrew Torres, and, remember,actress Patty Yasuki.
All that and more on thisedition of Multiverse tonight.
Comic books, sci-fi fantasy andmore sci-fi fantasy and more.
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If you're looking for a roundupof geeky news, you're in the
right place.
This is Multiverse Tonight.
And here's your host, thomasTownley.
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Well, hello everyone, andwelcome to episode 221 of
Multiverse Tonight.
I'm, of course, your host,thomas Townley.
Welcome to 21 of MultiverseTonight.
I'm, of course, your host,thomas Townley.
And well, we've gotten a bit ofearly fall weather the past few
days Been, you know, temperatein the 80s, of course, with the
humidity that you know pushesthe feel-like temperature into
(01:18):
the 90s, but still was nice.
Had some rain.
This past weekend Took a longtrip up to Kansas City to a bit
of a family reunion.
I got what I wanted out of it.
I saw my brothers, I saw mysisters, I got to experience a
(01:40):
long trip in my EV, which wasn'tthat bad.
Again, it's one of those thingsif you plan ahead, take your
time, it's not a bad way to go.
Of course, some might agree ordisagree Now I don't have a lot
(02:02):
to go up front here.
So we have some news from D23.
So I put that all together inone segment.
So let us go to the D23 news.
And D23 news begins with DisneyPlus getting Simpsons
(02:24):
exclusives.
Now, while Fox will show mostof the new season, simpsons
execs producers said at the D23showcase that some episodes from
the show's 36th season will airexclusively on Disney Plus.
The episodes include aChristmas one titled O Come, all
Ye Faithful on December 17th,and the stream will also get an
exclusive Halloween-themed shortin October.
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Fortnite's new Marvel collabwill be nothing less than
fabulous.
During the Horizons DisneyExperiences panel at D23, kevin
Feige announced that Marvel'snext collab will, unsurprisingly
, revolve around Doctor Doom,but the most surprising thing
about the event's trailer is thenumber of X-Men who popped up.
(03:08):
Toy Story 5 will come out insummer of 2026, and this time
the boys are taking on tabletcomputers as they try to figure
out how to get their new kidaway from the tablet.
Good luck.
It might be a short movie.
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There was also shown alive-action Lilo and Stitch
movie that's out next summer, aswell as a live-action Snow
White, agatha All Along willcome out on September 18th with
a two-episode premiere.
Star Wars Skeleton Crew, whichlooks like the Goonies in space,
will see Jude Law play a cleverforce user and will be out on
(03:49):
December 3rd.
Frozen 3 will debut sometime in2027 and will be followed up by
a subsequent film.
There's also Incredibles 3 inthe works.
Also, pixar's Elio, which wasslated to debut next March, will
instead be hitting theaterssometime next summer.
After spending two filmsknocking around Riley's Waking
(04:11):
Mind, disney is taking theInside Out franchise to Disney+
and a new show called DreamProductions.
This will be out next year andit will be about how dreams are,
kind of sort of like movies.
After the Way of Water.
James Cameron's Avatarfranchise is turning up the fire
.
Next December, james Cameron,zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington
(04:32):
announced that Avatar Fire andAsh will hit theaters on
December 19th 2025.
They also revealed a new titlecard that makes it look like
Pandora will be engulfed inflames.
So, based on the Californiawildfires, I guess Moana 2 comes
out November 27th and it lookslike Moana is trying to
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reconnect the islands acrossOceania and we get to see little
coconut guys too.
Also coming out is Zootopia 2,which will be released November
26, 2025, as well as LEGO StarWars Rebuild the Galaxy, which
opens up the multiverse ofpossibilities with a multiverse
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type of show.
They showed the first trailerat D23, and it actually makes
the premise seem like the raremodern Star Wars Luke Skywalker
story that might liven up thefranchise where it premieres on
September 13th.
Yes, we get to see Darth JarJar Kind of cool Also returning.
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Oscar Isaac is returning to theMCU.
The actor is set to reprise hisrole as Mark Spector, aka Moon
Knight, in the upcoming seasonof Marvel's what If?
Voicing the Fist of Khonshu forthe fan-favorite series.
Also, marvel Zombies will be aTVMA four-episode event series
and X-Men 97 will see yellow andblack costumes based on the
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Grant Morrison run, with Dangerbeing the villain of the season.
In addition to Danger, theteaser that they gave out gave
fans first looks at X-Men likeHavoc and Polaris and, if the
end of season one is anyindication, apocalypse will also
have a substantial role in thesecond season.
That could also be how we getGambit back, as he was turned
into one of the Apocalypsehorsemen in the second season.
That could also be how we getGambit back, as he was turned
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into one of the apocalypsehorsemen in the comics at one
point, but I guess we'll justhave to wait and see.
Also in the news, nine InchNails is back and will be doing
the score for Tron Ares.
On other music news, a stageadaptation of Disney's Hercules
is headed to London's West Endnext year, marking the last
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outing for a Disney live theaterrun.
Also, you probably never sawthis one coming.
Freakier Friday, the sequel toFreaky Fridays, will star Jamie
Lee Kerf and Lindsay Lohan andwill hit theaters in 2025.
The film picks up years afterTess, played by Curtis, and Anna
, played by Lohan, and will hittheaters in 2025.
The film picks up years afterTess, played by Curtis, and Anna
, played by Lohan, underwent anidentity crisis.
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Now Anna has a daughter and herown soon-to-be stepdaughter.
As they navigate the myriadchallenges that come with two
families' merge, tess and Annadiscover that lightning might
indeed strike twice.
According to the description,production is currently underway
and the current release windowis 2025.
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Harrison Ford, john Williams andFrank Oz were given Disney
Legends awards.
The full class of honoreesincludes Oscar winning costume
designer Colleen Atwood, blackPanther star and Oscar nominee,
angela Bassett, the first blackDisney tour guide.
Martha Blanding, panther starand Oscar nominee, angela
Bassett, the first Black Disneytour guide.
Martha Blanding, tv and filmicon, oscar winner James L
Brooks, avatar mastermind andOscar winner James Cameron,
freaky Friday star and Oscarwinner Jamie Lee Curtis, grammy
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winner and Hannah Montana starMiley Cyrus, comic book artist
Steve Ditko, animator Mark Henn,emmy-winning TV host Kelly Ripa
and Disney Imagineer executiveJoe Rode.
The ceremony will stream onDisney Plus in the USA and
Canada.
Also, in park news, the companyfinally confirmed that a
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long-rumored villain's land iscoming to Disney World's Magic
Kingdom Park.
This land will be home to thevillains that you know and those
that you loathe, with meansthat, happily ever after, might
feel like a distant dream Quote.
It will have two major newattractions dining, shopping and
so much more fiendish fun foryou to explore.
This is storytelling on a grandscale that only Disney can
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deliver.
So be prepared, you poorunfortunate souls.
It's going to be a fearless newvision for what a Disney
experience can be.
In the other park news AvengersCampus Expansion We'll see new
attractions like Avengers,infinity Defense and Stark
Flight Labs coming to Disney'sCalifornia Adventure.
There'll be new themed landsMonsters Inc Land and Avatar.
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The Way of the Water Land areamong the newest additions to
the various theme parks and theDisney Cruise Line will be
getting four new ships joiningthe fleet between 2027 and 2031,
featuring new shows likeHercules and the Tale of Moana 2
.
Also, disney is teaming up withEpic Games to feature new
online universe featuringcharacters from Disney, pixar,
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star Wars and Marvel Studios.
Exciting times for Disney fans.
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Now let's go on to the DC Newswith the film formerly known as
Superman Legacy.
Superman Gunn's reboot is veryinspired by all-star Superman,
according to James Gunn himself,who has shared Superman's comic
book influences on social media.
And just in time for the newfilm to hit theaters on July 11,
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2025, dc will be releasing theSuperman box set, a four-graphic
novel box set that collectssome of Superman's greatest and
most influential tales.
The set, which retails for $85,will be scheduled for release
on June 24th 2025.
It will include soft covereditions of all-star Superman by
Grant Morrison and Frankquietly, superman for all
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seasons by Batman alongHalloween's, jeff Loeb and Tim
sale.
Whatever happened to the man oftomorrow, a tale of Superman's
last adventure by Watchmanwriter Alan Moore and artists
Kurt Swan.
And the definitive DC taleKingdom Come by Mark Waid and
Alex Ross, one of the best comicbook stories ever told,
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according to the WashingtonExaminer.
The publisher released asimilar box set for the comics
that inspired Matt Reeves' 2022Batman the Batman, which
contained Batman Year One,batman Along, halloween and
Batman Ego.
Also available from DC is arecently reprinted new edition
of the 12-issue AbsoluteAll-Star Superman.
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The new deluxe hardcoveredition of Supergirl, woman of
Tomorrow, apparel and thefirst-to-market Superman movie
merchandise is available forpurchase and pre-order.
And now let's go on to the StarWars news.
Roger Roger.
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In Star Wars news, daisy Ridleyopened up about her recent
health scare and revealed thatshe has been diagnosed with
Graves' disease.
Last year, the star of the Riseof Skywalker said in a new
interview that she had initiallyattributed the symptoms of the
disease to playing a stressfulrole in Magpie.
Quote I thought well, I've justbeen played a really stressful
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role.
Presumably that's why I feelpoorly, she told Women's Health
in a recent interview.
Now, magpie was a psychologicalthriller and she starred
alongside Shahzad Latif andMatilda Lutz.
Ridley said that some of hersymptoms included a racing heart
rate, weight loss and fatigue.
The doctor told Ridley thatGraves was feeling tired but
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weird.
Quote.
It was funny.
I was like oh, I just thought Iwas annoyed at the world, but
turns out everything isfunctioning so quickly you can't
chill out.
Unquote.
Being diagnosed with Graves'disease led Ridley to make some
dietary changes and gogluten-free, adding quote I am
not super strict about it, butgenerally cutting down on gluten
makes me feel better.
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Unquote.
I've always been healthconscious and now I'm trying to
be more well-being conscious,she added.
Now Ridley also noted that itis important to listen to what
your body is saying, saying thatyou should read the stats about
women being undiagnosed orunderdiagnosed, and sort of
coming to terms with saying I'mreally actually don't feel good
(13:02):
not going.
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
It's just normalized to notfeel good Now.
Other noble celebrities whohave been diagnosed with Graves'
disease include Wendy Williamsand Missy Elliott.
Now let's go on to the Marvelnews, and Marvel News is also
(13:34):
out of D23.
Come on, it's all out of D23.
This weekend, the first voyageof Daredevil Born Again was
shown to fans, and they gottheir first look at the revival
of Marvel's most popular shows.
As was teased in set photossnapped during filming, white
Tiger will be appearing in theseries.
Now little is known about thecharacter's involvement in the
(13:55):
show or how big a role he'llhave, although the footage seems
to tease that Matt Murdock willact as White Tiger's attorney
at some point through the seriesDaredevil Born Again is
expected to be released onDisney Plus starting March 2025.
Now let's go on to thatinterview and we're back to
(14:15):
discuss Gina Carano's lawsuitagainst Disney.
Now there has been an updaterecently.
A couple weeks ago, disney losttheir first round bid to
dismiss the suit, so it's goingto trial and so, of course, I
have to bring in someone to sortof set the table, tell us what
(14:40):
we need to know, and that wouldbe Andrew Torres of the Law and
Chaos podcast.
Welcome, andrew.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Thomas, thanks for having me back on.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's no problem.
You know you're a great guestand people like hearing what you
say.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, I appreciate the kind words.
Gina Carano fans may notappreciate what I have to say
this time around.
You know, look, I thought shewas great in, you know, the
first Deadpool movie.
So you know, it's not personal,it's just.
You know she went a littleright wing crazy and you know
(15:13):
this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yes so.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So should I, yeah, set the landscape?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, set the landscape.
Not 16th century Tuscany oranything.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Too bad.
No, again, sort of on the heelsof her success.
As you know, one of thesupporting actors in Deadpool
she was Angel Dust and then shehad a recurring guest role.
And then she had a recurringguest role, seven appearances on
(15:46):
Star Trek, star Trek, on StarWars, the Mandalorian, as as
Cara Dune, and and at that sametime, this was 2020 that the
second season of the Mandalorianwas airing Gina Carano decided
that she was going to kind ofdrink all of the right wing
(16:07):
Kool-Aid, and so, you know, andit started with, of course, the
things that you know, botherthese folks, which are, you know
, having to use pronouns, andthe the, the far right, has one
joke.
So Gina Carano took to Twitterand was like my pronouns are
beep bop boop.
So Gina Carano took to Twitterand was like my pronouns are
beep bop boop.
And you know how could anybodypossibly think that?
That's, you know, anti-trans,anti-lgbtq, plus.
(16:30):
And Disney sat back and didnothing for a very, very long
time as she continued toescalate.
She posted, you know, sort ofcrazy truth or stuff about the
2020 election, and you know, I'mjust saying we have to
investigate all the votes, andyou know, and again, right, you
sort of get this sense of.
You know, you're stretching therubber band.
(16:50):
You're stretching the rubberband.
And then, finally, you know,she went on Instagram and said
Jews were beaten in the streets,not by Nazi soldiers, but by
their neighbors, even bychildren, how?
And then you, you know.
And then a bunch of other stuff.
And how is that any differentfrom hating someone for their
political views?
Um, and disney was was notamused by that right and at that
(17:12):
point.
Uh, you know through she.
She worked for the, for thelucasfilm uh subsidiary of
disney, and the president oflucfilm and a Disney rep came
out and said look, she was neveran employee, right, she was
always a contractor and she willbe a contractor for us no
longer, right.
And then Gina filed a lawsuitalleging three counts.
(17:38):
Two are based on discriminationon political activity and one
is based on discrimination onthe basis of sex.
And here and we could talkabout that a little bit, but I
think it's important to sort oftalk about the different
inflection points that come outin litigation, right?
So I've been trying cases forover 25 years and what happens
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when a plaintiff sues is there'san early period in which you
can file what are calleddispositive motions, and they
mean exactly what it sounds likeright, like if that motion is
granted, it disposes of thelitigation in its entirety.
So a motion to dismiss is oneof those things and it's the way
to get out quick and cheap.
(18:22):
Dismiss is one of those thingsthat she said were true.
(18:45):
That still does not amount to acompensable injury as a matter
of California law, and thereason that you have to do that
is because, if there's any doubtover what she said is true or
not with respect to materialfacts, then the court says, well
, look like maybe she's wrong,but we're going to go to a
period called discovery andwe're going to let her prove up
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those claims.
Right, and and that's what itmeans to you know, have your day
in court.
Right that, yes, even if it'ssuper far-fetched.
If there's any kind ofreasonable construction of your
facts being true the way theysaid they are, then you're
entitled to assume that they'retrue, before the defendant can
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say look, we're not going tocourt at all.
This is just, you know,complete and utter nonsense.
And you might.
You might recognize some of thethings that we talked about,
right, like, such as whether shehas a contract with Disney
Lucasfilm, what that contractsays, right, whether she abides.
Those are all facts.
So those were not things thatDisney could rely on.
And instead, what Disney saidwas assuming that we fired you
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for political behavior.
We have a First Amendment rightto do that.
And three weeks ago the courtcame back and said we're not
sure that you've met thatthreshold, disney, right,
because one of the things youhave to do in order to assert a
First Amendment defense is youhave to say that I'm engaged in,
in this case in associationalconduct.
(20:15):
Right, that that think aboutthis from from Disney's
perspective.
What they're saying is we arerepresented by the folks who are
our actors, and their speechessentially becomes our speech.
And so when their speech is atodds with the kind of speech
that we as a company want toengage in, then we have a right,
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a first amendment right todisassociate ourselves from that
kind of expression.
And the court said maybe, butwe don't know that you've proven
that as a matter of law yet,disney.
So we're going to let her goforward and we're going to let
the case proceed to thediscovery phase and give her the
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opportunity to prove no, youdon't really have those sorts of
associational values.
Now, I don't think that that'sgoing to be a hard lift for
Disney to engage in.
Right To say, hey, we arerepresented by the actors who
feature in our films.
Right, and you can think aboutthat in any sort of number of
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ways, right, like if you had thelead actor from a movie
wandering around trashing yourmovie.
Disney would probably say we nolonger want to be affiliated
with someone that's like yeah,don't go see the steaming pile
of hot garbage that we just putout right.
So the question is right is thebucket of speech that Gina
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Carano engaged in, is that thekind of thing that that Disney
has a right to disassociateitself from?
So that's sort of where we arein terms of the legal landscape.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Okay, now, uh, so she goes.
Next is discovery, right.
So they have to basically openup their doors, show, show them
what they've got, and she has toshow them what she's got, right
.
So they have to basically openup their doors, show, show them
what they've got, and she has toshow them what she's got, right
.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So, so, yes, and this is going to be very one sided
Right, like that.
Most of the public, most of theevidence that Disney wants from
Gina Carano are the thingsshe's already done in public,
right?
So her public posts on socialmedia, they're entitled to
drafts, they're entitled to, youknow, correspondence, that sort
(22:27):
of thing.
But basically what happens isyou serve several different
kinds of documents, but the twoprimary ones are requests for
production of documents, right,give me all your emails that say
X, right, and what goes alongwith that are requests to depose
material witnesses, right, andso typically what you do is you
(22:53):
ask for the documents first, andthere are others, but this is
what you're going to see kind ofin the news, right, you're
going to see, I'm sure herlawyers have already served
those discovery requests onDisney.
They do not have to be filedwith the court.
So we don't know what they say.
We won't know what they sayunless and until the documents
(23:14):
show up at a deposition and then, depending on what the
protocols are with respect tothat deposition, we may or may
not get it.
They may or may not be leaked,they they may or may not be
leaked.
There may or may not be aconfidentiality order that you
know protects the production ofcertain documents and things.
But she's going to, she's goingto ask Disney hey, I want all of
this correspondence and I wantto to depose under oath certain
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Disney witnesses.
And we know, for example, shewants to depose Pedro Pascal,
right, her, the, the, the starof, of, of, of the Mandalorian.
And you could ask, right, thereis a doctrine called the apex
doctrine, which, which is againkind of what it sounds like it.
It basically says if you areseeking to depose a high ranking
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official right Within a company, depose a high ranking official
right within a company, andthere is somebody who equally
has that evidence, uh, who isnot that high ranking person,
then you should get it from theother person instead, right?
So so she's also, you know,sought to depose the ceo of
lucasfilm and some other highranking disney execs, and so
there will be a battle back andforth about what do you want
(24:22):
from this witness, and you knowcan, can we go to that trouble
to date, right, her, hercomplaints to the thing that you
would think were the thingsthat you would think that Pedro
Pascal has an opportunity toweigh in on, seem to be, seem to
me to fall into really twocategories, right, the first is
(24:44):
to be able to discuss what GinaCarano was like as an employee.
Right, what it was like workingwith her on the set.
And again the evidence appearsto be that she was a pleasure to
work with, right, a joy to workwith in terms of, you know,
actually filming and, you know,getting the production done.
(25:06):
And that is relevant to MsCarano's lawsuit, because the
more she can say I fulfilled allthese other criteria that are
important for bringing someoneback as as an actor, the more
she can say so it was solelyright.
My political expression, forwhich you know I was, I was
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terminated.
And then the second thing is,again I mentioned, that her
lawsuit asserts has two causesof action with respect to
political activity and a thirdwith respect to sex
discrimination.
That's really a subsidiary.
What she alleges in that thirdcause of action is Disney has
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had lots of male co-stars whohave also engaged in political
speech and have also said stuffon social media and have also
referenced the Holocaust.
But you fired me and you didn'tfire them.
And so that fundamental factualinquiry is going to come down
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to does a company have a rightnot to associate itself with
public speech by its employees,which it finds counterproductive
, at odds with its corporatevalues.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Exactly Now.
According to the most recentupdate, the attorneys proposed a
start date of September 29th2025.
Yeah, that's the trial dateyeah, and the trial is expected
to last one week.
So between now and then,they're going to be getting
their witnesses together,getting your documents together.
(26:48):
They have, you know, a year tofigure this out, right?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
And this is.
This is a fairly typicalschedule and, again, a week long
trial is, by by large,commercial litigation standards.
A short trial Is, by large,commercial litigation standards,
a short trial.
I do not think this case isgoing to trial the procedure
that happens.
You have to pick a date and putit on the calendar, because the
court then uses that to backout all of the other dates.
(27:14):
So if the trial is in September, then what you would have is
probably a discovery cutoff inJuly and you would have a
summary judgment motionsdeadline in August and that both
sides here are going to gatherup all of their evidence and
then prepare and file competingmotions for summary judgment.
(27:35):
And let me talk a little bitabout the distinction between
those two.
Right, because I talked about amotion to dismiss, comes at the
very, very beginning, in whichthere are no facts in dispute
and you, as the party resistingthe motion to dismiss, right, as
the plaintiff, are entitled toall of the inferences and all of
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the asserted facts that youclaim in your complaint to be
resolved in your favor.
So example I give all the timeis right.
You sue me for trespass, right,and you say I jumped over your
fence and you know, was on yourproperty on September 1st 2023.
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And if I go to move to dismissand say, no, I was never there,
right?
But the court's going to say,well, look, that's what
discovery is for.
Prove it, right, like, maybeyou've got off my footprint in
your front yard, maybe you have,you know, a ring doorbell and
you have video camera footage,who knows?
Then we have discovery and thenwe exchange all of our
(28:38):
information and suppose none ofthat comes about.
Right, there's no footprint,there's no video, there's no
testimony.
And I introduce a flight stubthat shows I was actually the
time you claim I was in youryard, I was on a plane, right?
Well then, we're not going totrial, right?
I'm going to move for summaryjudgment and I say all of the
(29:01):
evidence is now in and there isno material, there's no genuine
dispute as to any material fact,right, nothing that could make
a difference with respect toyour claim.
There's no evidence to supportthe fact that I was ever on your
property and the only evidencethere is and maybe it's
equivocal you can say, well, thestub is torn, but it doesn't
(29:23):
matter If you've got zeroevidence that says I was ever on
your property and I have someevidence that suggests that I
was not, then I'm going to winon summary judgment, and I
suspect so.
There are a lot of things hereagain that we don't know right.
We don't know what the contractbetween Disney and Ms Carano
looked like, right?
We don't know.
If we don't know what thecontract between disney and ms
carano looked like, right?
(29:44):
We don't know if she was anemployee, as she contends, or a
contractor, as disney contends.
We don't know.
Promises and assurances weremade to her that the contract
may contain.
It is, it is Not something thatDisney has yet previewed, so
possibly it doesn't.
But frequently contracts willcontain a morals clause, right?
(30:06):
We'll say, hey, if you engagein X type of behavior, then we
have the right to terminate thiscontract.
Right, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
So in other words, a real Mickey Mouse clause.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Exactly.
So look, all of that is goingto come up against the way that
this argument is being pitchedin media, right, and that is
Elon Musk is bankrolling thislawsuit, right, and has publicly
said, yeah, I'll fund and I'llpay whatever, and there was
(30:42):
nothing Disney can do that canmake this expensive enough for
Elon Musk to even notice it.
Right?
I mean, there just aren't thatmany issues in dispute.
There's not an infinite amountof lawyering you can do on a
case like this.
Do on, you know, a case likethis.
(31:07):
So now I will tell you that youknow Gina Carano has engaged in
some high profile celebritylawyers.
She has Eugene Volokh of theVolokh conspiracy, who's written
some frankly crazy stuff inconnection with this case.
So you know they're throwing asmuch money as they can at both
sides.
But you know, for Elon Musk,you know that's not, it's not
even couch change level money,right?
(31:30):
So he's doing it to make apublic statement that says you
know woke companies are outthere discriminating against
conservatives, and you knowwe're going to win and fight
back, and, and that's not thelaw.
You know we're going to win andfight back and and that's not
(31:51):
the law, right?
And this is the thing that Isaid the first time I came on
the show and and I flagged atthe time that you know it was
going to be hard to win on amotion to political activity,
right.
And so let's describe kind ofwhat that means.
That means your employer can'tsay I'm firing you because
(32:11):
you've left to go attend aKamala Harris rally, right, I'm
firing you because you've saidyou're going to vote, right,
like I'm firing you because youare engaged in political action
and they can't write a contractthat says in order to be a
Disney Imagineer, you must agreenot to vote.
No, you can't do that.
(32:34):
That's discrimination on thebasis of a protected activity,
your civil right to vote.
Your employer can't force youto give that up.
That's very different fromsaying we're going to fire you
if you spread dangerousmisinformation and nonsense that
reflects poorly on the company,even if, right, that what the
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company thinks reflects badly onit happens to be to skew highly
, highly on one side of thepolitical spectrum.
Right.
And again, you know Disney isgoing to be aided here by the
fact that there is a coterie,particularly in California, of
anti-vax far left Democrats,right, going, going back 40, 50
(33:18):
years, right.
So they're going to be able tosay like it's not exclusively
right wing political opinions.
It certainly correlates highlywith the fact that you know,
gina Carano got maga pilled andstarted spouting off crazy stuff
.
But but you know again, justkind of ask yourself at that
fundamental level this for mynewsletter at lawandchaospodcom.
(33:49):
I began with the idea ofsuppose I applied to write for
the National Review or theFederalist or something like
that.
Right, then you would expect aright-wing magazine to say you
know what, we're sure you're aterrific writer, Mr Torres, but
we're not that interested inassociating ourselves with your
point of view.
That doesn't reflect well on usas the federalist, and you know
(34:10):
, quite frankly, I'm all forthat.
Right like that.
They are entitled to not beaffiliated with my crazy
left-wing views.
And and the question is, iswhat's you know?
Is the sauce that's good forthe goose good for the gander,
right?
Is it the case that you areactually going to convince a
court of law that there shouldbe affirmative action for
(34:33):
conservative actors in Hollywood?
And I continue to be asskeptical as anyone can be of
that proposition.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All right, as skeptical as anyone can be of
that proposition, all right,well, and uh, I think, uh, we've
kind of exhausted the the thetalk for now, unlike, you know,
the right-wing blogosphere whichkeeps, you know, touting that
oh this is a great thing.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh oh, it's like it's just going to the next phase,
folks thing, oh, oh, it's likeit's just going to the next
phase, folks, yeah, and and, andyou know, as, as we mentioned
before, right, this is now elonmusk versus disney, these two
people that are not going to bedeterred by the cost of of
litigation.
Now, look, if there are trulyembarrassing documents that are
(35:21):
out there, right, I could see asituation in which, you know,
disney wants to settle thisearly, as opposed to heading to
a motion for summary judgment inwhich its documents, which will
be on the public docket, right,this is a federal lawsuit, so
anybody with a pacer login oryou know who goes to court
listener will be able to haveaccess to to those pleadings.
(35:44):
They will be all over the press, and if there's something that
you know looks embarrassing,then, uh, you could see reasons
why, why disney might, uh feelcompelled to settle.
That being said, I don't knowhow that will interface in the
in the interest between ginacarano, who does not appear to
(36:05):
be gainfully employed at themoment, uh, and and elon musk,
who would like to use her forfor pr, right?
So you know, I mean, she wentfrom, uh, you know, being in the
deadpool franchise to doing,you know, daily caller kind of
indie films for the far right,and that's a pretty big drop off
(36:27):
.
So you know, I don't know.
I would not be surprised I'venever surprised when civil
litigation settles.
I would not be surprised ifthis settles, but I would be
surprised if it goes to trial.
Would be surprised if it goesto trial and I would be, um,
whatever the level is above that, uh, if that were to somehow
(36:48):
result in a, uh, in a, in aplaintiff's verdict.
So that that's, that's my,those are my predictions yeah
and uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
By her imdb it does look like she's not gainfully
employed since 2022.
Her last name was my son hunter.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
That piece of I have, I have seen it, so you don't
have to, uh, and you should not.
She plays a secret serviceagent tailing hunter biden and
you know, remember when hunterbiden it was super important
that, like the republicansproved that he was on crack for
I.
I don't know reasons that that,but somehow it doesn't seem as
(37:25):
important to them anymore.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Oh, yeah, well, anyway, when there's more
developments, I'd love to, ofcourse, have you back, but I
love coming on the show.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
In the meantime, I'll let you promote the Law and
Chaos podcast In the meantime,I'll let you promote the Law and
Chaos podcast.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yep, we do two podcast episodes a week.
They drop on Tuesdays andFridays and we do written
content twice a week, that isMonday and Wednesday.
That is myself and Liz Dye.
Who is amazing, and it islawandchaospodcom, so just head
on over and check it out.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
All right, folks.
Well, thank you, andrew Torres,for coming on today, and you'll
see me right back here in thischair in a couple of seconds in
a different T-shirt.
But we'll see Andrew later.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Thank you, take care.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
You too.
Andrew Torres is always.
(38:40):
He's been my guest twice nowand he does excellent.
You just have to start him on asubject and he takes it from
there.
That's something I really like.
Anyway, cartoon Network'sofficial website has been shut
(39:01):
down and now directs to the Macstreaming service instead.
Cartoon Network was once home tosome of the most notable
animated series releases, andthat's been shifting in the last
few years, especially Now.
The closing of Cartoon NetworkStudios prompted fans to wonder
if the network would be shutdown entirely, and it's been
made clear that Warner BrosDiscovery is still shuffling
(39:21):
around their Cartoon Networkprojects among Warner Bros
animation as a whole.
So watch this space for futuredevelopments.
Agents of SHIELD actressMallory Jansen and Emmy and Tony
winner Anthony LaPaglia areboarding Alex Proyas' upcoming
sci-fi satire RUR oppositeLindsay Ferris.
Sci-fi satire RUR oppositeLindsay Ferris Cameras roll on
(39:43):
October 21st in Sydney,australia.
Proyas penned the screenplay,which was based on an adaptation
of Carl Capic's famous sciencefiction play RUR, rossum's
Universal Robots, published in1920.
Rur follows Helena, played byJansen, who visits the alien
factory of Rossum's UniversalRobots to emancipate the robots
from capitalist exploitation,with catastrophic results.
(40:08):
As we head towards the end ofsummer, halloween fans are
starting to see a number ofsigns that signal the imminent
approach, with one of the majorskinfires being the rebirth of
General Mills monster cereals instores nationwide Now.
This means General Mills is notonly bringing back those
staples for the season, butfinding new ways to celebrate
Halloween as well, seeing thisyear as the iconic mascots are
(40:31):
getting animal companions.
In addition to there being fourindividual cereals honoring
four icons, there's also amashup that brings them all
together into one bowl.
Monster cereals are hittingshelves nationwide now.
According to a press release,halloween's Haas Hunters are
back, and this year they'rejoined by their one-of-a-kind
scary sidekicks.
(40:51):
For the first time ever, thebeloved nostalgic monster cereal
characters Count Charcula,boo-berry Franken-Berry and
Carmela Creeper are accompaniedby their frightful friend pets
to bring more festive fun to theHalloween season.
Just like you, the monsters arealso obsessed with their pets,
and this year each classiccereal includes specialty
marshmallows shaped like each ofthe characters' Frightful
(41:13):
Friends.
More information on eachsidekick is available below
Frightful Friends.
It's a spooky pet party.
The monsters' cereals you knowand love are joined by their
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Monster flavors are nowpet-shaped marshmallows, from
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Monster's creepy charactercritter friends are here to add
(41:33):
more mischief to Halloween.
Count Chocula has Igor thespider Chocolate classic cereal
bits mixed with spider shapedmarshmallows.
Igor is Count Chocula's loyalguard, spider and sidekick.
Frankenberry has Beanie the Batthe Berry Delicious cereal will
be joined by bat-shapedmarshmallows In honor of Beanie
Frankenberry's best bud, who hasa wicked sense of humor, and
(41:54):
wonky sonar.
Booberry, with Meowberry theCat the Berry cereal
incorporates cat-shapedmarshmallows.
When Meow Berry disappears,there's now a ghost of a chance
of finding her.
And Carmelo Creeper has Scratchthe Snake.
The new cereal of the crewcombines caramel apple cereal
with snake-shaped marshmallows.
Scratch has serious attitudeand crazy good rhythm, making
(42:16):
him the perfect partner in crimefor the edgy zombie DJ.
Keep your eyes out for monstercereals which are hitting
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Shoot me, catch-up.
Entertainment has acquired theNorth American rights to Warner
Bros animations.
The Day the Earth Blew Up, aLooney Tunes movie from GFN
Animation, which handlesworldwide distribution sales.
(42:38):
The sci-fi comedy adventurefollows the adventures of Daffy
Duck and Porky Pig will bereleased nationwide A date has
yet to be confirmed.
The film directed by PeteBreiningart.
The film stars two Emmyaward-winning Eric Baza,
reprising his role as Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig, will uncover a
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sinister alien plot whileworking at the local bubblegum
factory.
Together with Petunia Pig, theunlikely heroes embark on a
high-stakes mission to fight offzombies and aliens and deliver
all the gags and visualsrecognized by Looney Tunes fans.
Christopher Nolan'sInterstellar will be re-released
in honor of its 10thanniversary.
However, the sci-fi epic isflying back to theaters slightly
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behind schedule.
The Paramount Pictures film wasslated to return on September
27th, but will now land twomonths later, on December 6th.
It will be released in 70mmIMAX prints as well as digital.
The theatrical release waspushed back to line with the
home entertainment relaunch.
According to knowledgeableindividuals, warner Bros
Pictures is co-producing themovie with Paramount on the
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revival Studio sources.
Knowledgeable individualsWarner Bros Pictures is a
co-produced movie working withParamount on the revival Studio.
Sources are displaying a rumorthat 70mm prints were destroyed.
Paramount claims that itarchived more copies of the
movie than most other pictures.
However, because of the filmexperience, wear and tear while
playing on the big screen.
It's not uncommon for some ofthem to become unusable after
their theatrical runs.
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Interstellar premiered inNovember of 2014 and generated
$731 million at the box office.
And finally, tonight, pattyIsocki, best known for her roles
in Beef and Star Trek NextGeneration, passed away
peacefully on August 5th,surrounded by friends and family
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, after a long battle withcancer.
She was 70 years old, losAngeles native.
Yusaki, born and raised inGardenia and Inglewood,
graduated from UCLA with honorsin theater.
She started her career at EastWest Players, where she worked
with the company's co-founder,japanese-american icon Meiko,
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for six years on stage, on staffand on board, performing in
over a dozen shows.
Her major theater debut was inRon Howard's 19th-century comedy
Gang Ho as Yumiki, a relocatedJapanese wife trying desperately
to Americanize.
She reprised her role in thefollow-up ABC comedy series
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spawned by the movie.
For her next movie, the 1988the Wash, she played and
received an Independent SpiritAward supporting actress
nomination.
Her resume also includes thefilms Drop Dead, gorgeous, Blind
Spot and Road to Galveston anda slew of guest star appearances
on shows such as the Closer,grey's, anatomy Bones, flash
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Forward, the Unit and Cold Case.
Her last TV role before herdeath was one of the highest
profile ones in her career, asshe was a series regular on
Netflix's acclaimed late limitedseries Beef, playing George's
mother.
She also played nurse AlyssaAgawa turned Dr Agawa on Star
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Trek the Next Generation, a roleshe reprised on Star Trek
Generations.
Spending three decades, hertheater work includes stints at
the New York-Mexico RepertoryTheater, american Southwest
Theater, los Angeles TheaterCenter, san Diego Repertory
Theater, manhattan Theater Club,south Coast Repertory Theater
and the Westwood Playhouse.
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Yasuki was preceded in death byher parents, michael and Jean,
and her sister, businessexecutive Irene Inoue.
She was survivor siblings Lisa,linda Hayashi and Steve Yasuki,
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a large extent family ofnephews and nieces and a family
of friends and colleagues,including Fritz and Jonathan Del
Arco.
A memorial will be held at theEastside Players in Louvre
Flowers.
The family requested that acontribution be made to the
theater company.
Again, patty Yusuti was 70years old, and that brings us to
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