The Weekly Planet - 194 D23 & Baby Driver (with Edgar Wright)

Episode Date: July 17, 2017

This week with talk with writer/director Edgar Wright about his latest film Baby Driver. We also get into all things D23 including new The Last Jedi footage, Avengers Infinity War, The Incredibles 2 a...nd more.We also cover the Geostorm trailer for some reason, Gotham by Gaslight, Suicide Squad 2 and another Hot Scoop. HOT SCOOP.Star Wars The Last Jedi D23 Breakdown: https://goo.gl/z1dBqkDo Go On Pod: https://goo.gl/ZzMEvg4:30 Geostorm trailer8:40 X-men: The Next X-men9:47 Suicide Squad 2 director12:46 Gotham By Gaslight animated13:38 Venom movie news14:51 Han Solo HOT SCOOP19:21 007, Kong Skull Island & Serious Issues21:38 Edgar Wright Interview42:29 D23 20171:05:27 Avengers Infinity War Trailer (Homecoming Spoiler 1:08:57 - 1:09:15)1:13:53 Baby Driver Review (1:20:00 to 1:23:10 Spoilers)1:23:39 What We Reading/What We Gonna Read1:27:12 Letters It’s Time For LettersBuy Baby Driver on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2nyq1MQThe Weekly Planet YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHFind our T-Shirts here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Weekly Planet, official podcast of comicbookmovie.com where we talk movies, comics, TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday. With me as always is my co-host Nick Mason. Fair warning listeners, I'm eating a butter menthol. A buttered menthol because of your ongoing cough which you've had for nine or six months it's I didn't even think about it until you pointed out last week you're like haven't you been you've been sick for months and I'm like oh my god I have
Starting point is 00:00:36 so it hasn't been you've got sick and then you got better and then you got sick again you've just been sick the whole time like I think i recover and then i get something else okay which makes me start to think that perhaps i'm allergic to this podcast that's very because i'm fine and then i do the podcast and then i'm sick on the podcast and then i go and i live my life and then i'm fine again you don't you don't think it's the public transport that you work on with people coughing coughing and spluttering their way through winter okay it could be that now i think about it you should have built it up an immunity by now. I've got teachers immunity, Mason, as an education man, as a man who always gives back.
Starting point is 00:01:09 You're immune to education now. That's right, exactly. You'll never learn again. You get sick. You get real sick and then you stop getting sick forever. But I think mine's going to wear off sometime soon. Oh, yeah. Because you don't deal with anyone anymore.
Starting point is 00:01:21 Not anymore. Don't shake any hands. Don't do nothing. Yeah, right. But anyway, Geostorm looks pretty shit, doesn't it? I mean, all the best. I had a plug before we got started.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Sorry, sorry. I mean, it does. Put a pin in that. It definitely does. Our friends over at DoGoOn, during the comedy festival in April, I was on a live episode, which is about the Loch Ness Monster,
Starting point is 00:01:44 which you can get on their On their podcast But also they recorded that On video Yes And you can watch that On YouTube now Yes that's right
Starting point is 00:01:50 So you go to YouTube.com Slash do go on pod Yeah And it's bloody It's bloody right there Also I noticed that Because I did
Starting point is 00:01:56 I watched the whole Look at my weird head I will I watched the whole episode And I noticed When you look at their YouTube channel It actually just says
Starting point is 00:02:02 Do goon pod Which is Which is pretty good. It's pretty good. So go to Doogoon Pod. Go to that for the novelty at the very least. But then, bloody, what's that? It's a good episode.
Starting point is 00:02:13 Yeah. Especially if you love the Loch Ness Monster and otters. That's true. That's a recurring theme in that. Anyway, Geostorm. I've had a change of heart. It's great. Why?
Starting point is 00:02:22 No, actually, it doesn't look great. I mean, it looks like everything we've seen since Twister, doesn't it? Just nothing new. It's Dean Devlin's directorial debut who wrote Independence Day and a bunch of other crap. So he's just been milling around for like 20 years. Yeah. He hasn't directed anything.
Starting point is 00:02:38 No, he's doing Roland Emmerich films. That's amazing. Yeah. But I don't hate Dean Devlin. It's weird that he has never done this before, but this movie was supposed to come out around Batman Superman of last year and it got pushed back. Oh, no. Then apparently they put $15 million into reshoots and it was supposed to come out again, I think, late last year,
Starting point is 00:02:56 then they pushed it back again. I don't even know when it's coming. This year at some point. Well, you can tell that it's a product of a bygone era because it's got... Gerard Butler. It's got Gerard Butler in it. He's not a bygone man yet is he no what was the last thing he punched right london he punched london yeah that's true i was gonna say it was either a london or a white
Starting point is 00:03:15 house down yeah but it was london yeah so but it's the same thing as all of these ones it's like the dad who's got the single dad who's either divorced or his wife's dead yeah and he's the only one who knows the truth of what's going to happen and he tries to tell the government but the government are like why don't you shut up for once in your life but then there's a geo storm and a tidal wave and the statue of liberty bloody falls because you hate you hate disaster you hate disaster movies but this, it seems like they've found a little loophole because there's potentially a villain in this, right? Yeah, I guess there is.
Starting point is 00:03:49 Unless the villain is just like a bug in the computer system. Oh, we should point out the story of this is why are we doing this? Why did I put this in? It's a very obscure choice. He sent me a text and was like, hey, watch the trailer for Geostorm. And I'm like, sounds like an iphone game but all right but it uh i get you know i get a lot of offers for iphone games like freemium iphone games to be like war of battles of tanks or whatever they're like we'll give you like it's quite a lot of money i'm like can't no i can't do it now do it i probably can
Starting point is 00:04:22 appear in an ad with like Pamela Anderson or something or Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's true. And I don't even hate those games. Like I've used them before, but I'd have to play it for a long period of time. And the last one I got was, you have to talk about this for two minutes.
Starting point is 00:04:34 And I'm like, not on your fucking life. Which doesn't sound like a long time until you have to actually do it. And also, I only really kind of talk about stuff that I actually back. You know what I mean? Yeah, right, exactly. I just, anyway, whatever. Anyway, Jair's still nice and good. Anyway, I'm not saying I won't do it.
Starting point is 00:04:50 I probably will at some point. This has a somewhat all-star cast to it. Yeah. Gerard Butler. Andy Garcia. I can't even remember. Yeah, who else? Some random dude.
Starting point is 00:05:01 Oh, what's his name? He's an English guy. He's from across the universe. I don't know his name. Yeah, anyway. Jim Sturgis. That's his name? He's an English guy. He's from across the universe. I don't know his name. Anyway, Jim Sturgis. There you go. Yeah, yeah. Have you ever seen across the universe?
Starting point is 00:05:12 There's a guy in the trailer who points to Gerard Butler and is like, you look a lot older than I thought you'd be. You're an old-looking guy. And I'm like, I thought that guy was Billy Bob Thornton for a second. That guy's such an old-looking young dude. I'm like, are you Billy Bob Thornton? Well, he fits these kind of movies because Billy Bob Thornton for a second. That guy's such an old-looking young dude. I'm like, are you Billy Bob Thornton? Well, he fits these kind of movies because Billy Bob Thornton will stand in a control room
Starting point is 00:05:29 and be like, what's going on here? Wasn't he in Armageddon? He was in Armageddon. That was his job in Armageddon. Nice. Look, this isn't going to be good. We'll probably have to say it though because it'll probably come out around that time
Starting point is 00:05:40 when there's no movies. On the dead zone. We'll be like, we need a topic. What are we going to do? Let's make all of our listeners, our loyal listeners who have backed us through thick and thin, let's make them watch a garbage movie with the bloody, well, let's make them watch the career graveyard of Gerard Butler.
Starting point is 00:05:56 Sounds really good. I like Jerry Butler as well. I quite like him, yeah. You're clearly friends. That's why you call him Jerry Butler. I normally just call him Jerry, but for the sake of the podcast do you go you seem like the kind of guy
Starting point is 00:06:08 who'd be like yes I was having lunch with Jerry Jerry Butler Jerry Butler actor Jerry Butler you know him he's from Gamer
Starting point is 00:06:15 yeah that's right anyway there's some new Cyclops has a new Ed Harris is in the movie oh there you go Abby Cornish Oh she's Australian yeah
Starting point is 00:06:26 She's great Australia's own Go ahead sorry Oh what was the next Cyclops We saw a picture of him He's got a new 90s visor Looks pretty good
Starting point is 00:06:34 I like it Yeah I like it a lot Isn't it weird how In a lot of cases The make or break For us enjoying something Like a film or a TV show Is just a dumb little detail
Starting point is 00:06:43 All I can remember From days of future past Are Cyclops future glasses they were so bad they were everything else is gone it's like they've got a pair of like oakley speed dealer sunglasses got a pair of pinking shears and just cut around the edges like how can we make these dumber i know and yeah it's just but and that exactly you're right that's all i Yeah. Beast had a nice sport coat. Oh, did he? Okay, good. He had a pretty good sport coat.
Starting point is 00:07:07 So was he in full Beast? He was full Beast, yeah. Product placement. What is it again? Prosthetics. Yes. What's wrong with me? Yes.
Starting point is 00:07:16 I mean, look, I've been breaking down trailers all day, Mason. Cut me some slack. How many did you do? Just one. Okay, good. It took long enough. Yeah, right. And it's a Star wars one so you gotta get
Starting point is 00:07:25 it right you gotta get it you can't make any mistakes no you'll be pilloried in the press so i it's sometimes it's quite funny when you make a mistake though just because people get get real pissy i cannot imagine uh they might have a director for suicide squad do you uh jamae wait wasn't it going to be mel Gibson for a minute? No, it was in talks Alright, okay How do you say this name? Is it Jomay? J-A-U-M-E
Starting point is 00:07:48 J-A-U-M-E Jom Jom Jom Dugon Dugon I'm going to look it up on Google Yeah, that's fine
Starting point is 00:07:58 You can do that He looks like he's going to be directing Wait, what's his name? Does he just have one name? J-A-U-M-E Colette Serra Oh Yeah Very good Or Serra name? J-A-U-M-E Colette Sarah. Oh. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:06 Very good. Or Sarah. Sarah. S-E-R-A-I. Oh, I see. Yep, I get it. Yeah. I often look up pronunciations for videos because that's another thing that people are
Starting point is 00:08:14 like, that's not how it's said. How dare you? I've gone to pronouncenames.com. Yeah. And there's a little video. Let's give this a spin. But there's always like three options. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:22 I always find. The following pronunciation is brought to you by Pronouncernames.com. They're getting some sneaky advertising. Call me. Call me. That's very exotic. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:35 Anyway, you might- I got paid $40,000 for that by Pronouncernames.com. Even though I talked over it? Yeah. Okay. No, we get more if you talk over it because it sounds more real oh okay yeah yeah uh you might know him from the shallows no blake lively lively fights a shark i'm not gonna watch that uh i've seen it's okay wait hand to hand no in a boxing ring it's fin
Starting point is 00:08:57 to hand yeah of course how stupid of me of course it is it's fine it's like a uh you know it's like a jaws kind of knock off and and no it's more no it's just sit on like a tiny little rock like 100 meters down the ocean or whatever oh i know what the one you're talking about trailer for it uh non-stop whether i either had to stop or not stop a train or plane okay yeah I think it was a plane. And he also did Unknown with Liam Neeson where he didn't know or he did know who he was. And that's shit. So the big blockbuster director pool for quite a few years has been like they do a real cheap indie film
Starting point is 00:09:40 and then Marvel or whoever sees them goes, okay, we'll grab them. We'll put them in like a $200 million movie. Big time. So now I guess with the addition of Halm, what they're doing now is they're just looking at all the movies that have been made due to some sort of European tax dodge. Like all the Liam Neeson movies and they're like,
Starting point is 00:09:57 okay, we'll get that guy. That sounds pretty good to me. We've probably got some blackmail dirt on him, so let's get him to do it for cheap. I don't think like any of the movies I've seen of his, they don't stand out much. Like I'm not'm not like oh that guy's got a really unique style and i'd love to see his vision for suicide squad also the fact that you can't remember if non-stop is about a train or a plane i mean i haven't seen it so still yeah but if i do remember
Starting point is 00:10:20 the poster it's just liam neeson hanging out of something he's holding a gun and there's just Remember the poster, it's just Liam Neeson hanging out of something. He's holding a gun and there's just speed lines all around him. So maybe he's on a plane, maybe he's on a train, maybe he's on a bus, I don't know. Yeah, maybe he has to stop it or maybe he doesn't. Maybe he has to keep it moving. Yeah, that's right.
Starting point is 00:10:38 We talked about this last week and then it got announced pretty much just after we recorded. It is. The next animated Warner Brothers movie will be, DC movie will be Gotham by Gaslight. Oh, yeah. Which is cool because we were like, wouldn't that be cool if they did like an Elseworld kind of thing? So no, I like the sound of that a lot.
Starting point is 00:10:55 Sounds pretty good. You all for that? Yeah. Good. I have nothing else to say. What at all? About that. Oh.
Starting point is 00:11:02 I've got many other things to say, Mason. Let me tell you about the state of immigration. Oh, no. What have we got here? Working title for Venom, the Venom movie. Yep. Is Antidote. It starts filming in September.
Starting point is 00:11:15 You put a weird pause in the middle there. Is it two words? I drunk some water. No, you said Antidote. No. Antidote. There we go. Okay, I feel better now.
Starting point is 00:11:24 Yeah. Okay. I was like, is there go. Okay, I feel better now. Yeah. I was like, is there a pun in there or is that a... No. Okay. Antidote. Yeah. It's definitely two words, isn't it, Mason? Nope.
Starting point is 00:11:34 Oh. Anyway, apparently she-venom will appear in this movie. Oh, yeah. So they're going to be throwing everything at it. Okay. Tom Hardy's venom, a she-venom, a carnage, all of these things. Oh, carnage is confirmed? Yes.
Starting point is 00:11:47 Confirmed Carnage? I believe so, yeah. Okay, right. I don't know. It's probably just heavily rumoured. Yeah, right. You okay with that? Sure.
Starting point is 00:11:53 I mean, Homecoming was pretty good, so I'm like, yeah, give them the benefit of the doubt on this one. Yes. But you give them, nah, I refuse. I refuse to give them the benefit of any doubt because they've ruined so many things. But we'll see. Look, I'm inclined to agree with you, but I do like that it's sort of set in the MCU
Starting point is 00:12:12 and I think lessons may have been learnt. There you go. But I've been wrong so often. Potentially the wrong lesson. I think if movie studios are good at anything, it's learning the wrong lesson. Yeah, it's true. Like, it's any time, like, whenever Deadpool, you know,
Starting point is 00:12:27 Deadpool becomes popular, they don't go, oh, that's... Because it's a unique character. Yeah, they go, no, it's star-rated action comedies. Just make one of those. Swearing, swearing. Swearing's good. More swearing. That's why we're still getting movies like Geostorm.
Starting point is 00:12:38 That's very true. Yeah. Mason, we've got another hot scoop or lie. Oh, we do, potentially, yeah. But it's from a trusted source. Our famous segment, hot scoop or lie. Yes. It should rhyme.
Starting point is 00:12:51 People have mentioned that. It should be hot scoop or poop. Hot scoop or hot poop. Yeah. Okay, we can do that. That works. Yeah. But we've got an email.
Starting point is 00:13:00 You probably don't want to read out the person's name just in case. Oh, that's right. No, but in this one he said we could. I still don't. Yeah, no, I don't think we should. Oh, that's right. No, but in this one he said we could. I still don't. Yeah, no, I don't think we should. You're right. Maybe his first name? Yeah, why not?
Starting point is 00:13:09 Do you think he wants the fame now? Well, credit where credit's due. Credit's exactly right, yeah. But I don't want anybody to get fired is what I'm saying. This is about the Han Solo movie. That's right. Mason's ready to go. He's geared up.
Starting point is 00:13:19 I'm ready to go. Okay, so this is our friend who reported on the potential leaving of Lord and Miller from the Han Solo solo movie, which happened. And he also told us about the Woody Harrelson prune story. Yes, unconfirmed. Unconfirmed. So he's 50-50 at this point, unless the Woody Harrelson prune story is true, in which case he's 100%. Unless the directors didn't leave, This is an elaborate ruse. Go on.
Starting point is 00:13:46 So he says he has an insight into the mind of Alden Ehrenreich, who's Han Solo, and why he may have ratted on Lord of Miller. I love how it's ratted on. Ratted, right? Yeah. Take this with a grain of salt. Yep. As his source may have just been trying to tell a good story.
Starting point is 00:14:01 I want to be clear about this. We are definitely taking this with a grain of salt. And again, I can't remember which one it was, but we received a hot scoop of hot poop a couple of weeks ago, and then that was reported, I think, like on a website as if it were a true. Yeah. We don't know.
Starting point is 00:14:17 Well, that happened again last week. Yeah. Just, if you're from a website, don't. Just don't do it. Just don't. Just don't do it. Just don't. This doesn't mean anything. So this is, yeah, no, don't. Okay, so this is what we've been told.
Starting point is 00:14:32 This is what our friends are telling us. Yeah. So the crew on Han Solo have been told, like the crew, like the camera guys and the light guys and what have you, have been told to not interact with any of the actors unless the actors interact with the crew first. As it should be. Yes, exactly.
Starting point is 00:14:47 But it says Alden and the rest of the actors don't get on and often during downtime on the set, he goes to his trailer to be by himself while the rest of the actors will go out together. Because he's Han Solo, mate. Well, the source says this is because the rest of the actors are more experienced and can do more improv on the set while Alden does not.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Brutal. Brutal. Brutal, exactly. Look, even if that's true, right? Oh, you've got more, don't you? No, that'll do it. Okay. But even if that's true, I can understand why when you go into a project thinking we're going to do the script, I'm not an improviser, I'm an actor.
Starting point is 00:15:19 Right, that's why I hired him. And he's a good actor as well. I can understand why you would. He's the guy from The Thing. He's the guy from The Thing. The one that I like. Non-stop. Non-stop. No, the other one. The Coen brothers. him. Yeah, and he's a good actor as well. I can understand why you would be. He's the guy from The Thing. He's the guy from The Thing. The one that I like. Non-stop. Non-stop.
Starting point is 00:15:27 No, the other one. The Coen brothers. Yes. Yeah, yeah. I can understand why then you would be put out by, this is not what I signed up for and I'm looking like a fool because I can't improv because that's not his skill set. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Presuming this is true. Sure. But, you know, so I don't know. What do you reckon? He's a rat. Is that what you're saying? I don't know. What do you reckon? He's a rat. Is that what you're saying? I don't know, but that's the thing. I doubt he would have wanted anybody to get fired.
Starting point is 00:15:50 Again, if this is, again, true. Yeah, right. Yeah. It also does seem a little bit like his character arc in that Coen Brothers movie as well. Oh, really? Now that I think about it. So I don't know.
Starting point is 00:16:00 Also, this one is more like an evaluation of somebody's character. I don't think I'm comfortable doing that. Well, that's exactly right. Exactly. We don't know him. I've never seen him in an interview. I don't know anything about him. So there's also a reference to an Instagram post as well.
Starting point is 00:16:13 I think he's no rat. You think he's no rat? I don't think he's a rat. Look, yeah, maybe he expressed some concerns, but I'm sure that happens all the time. Yeah, right. You know what I mean? But he didn't pull the trigger.
Starting point is 00:16:22 Again, even if he did, he didn't fire anybody. And even if he did pull the trigger and fire anybody, he's got that loosey-goosey Han Solo grip. He bloody shot first, mate. That's right. Very good. Han Solo. They mentioned an Instagram post as well on Woody Harrelson's Instagram,
Starting point is 00:16:39 and I just looked it up. It's Woody Harrelson and Jennifer Lawrence and a couple of others who I don't recognize. I should, but one of them is wearing big glasses. And they're like, hey, and he's like standing separately. Oh, I see, right. Because he's Han Solo, Mason. That's exactly right.
Starting point is 00:16:54 He's a cool loner. That's right. He doesn't get along well with others unless he does. That's very true. All right, Mason, now seems like the perfect opportunity, as you mentioned up top. Oh, wait, I have some more news. Oh. Mason, now seems like the perfect opportunity, as you mentioned up top. Oh, wait. I have some more news.
Starting point is 00:17:07 Oh. Well, not necessarily. I just wrote these things down because I thought they were fun. I'm ready. Daniel Craig's back on his Bond. Is he? Yeah. Is that official?
Starting point is 00:17:17 That's official. No. Is it? Probably. I heard it was heavily rumored. Right. And that Nolan might do it. The man who said he'd slit his wrists rather than do another Bond.
Starting point is 00:17:28 He probably said that a day of like, he did 15 days of interviews in a row. Yes, exactly. And people just kept going, when are you going to do another James Bond? That's probably what he was referring to. I'd rather slit my wrists than do another days of this promo press junket kind of thing. Also, the Kong Skull Island YouTube channel put up a video. Yeah. That basically, it's like a timeline of Monarch, which was the company that-
Starting point is 00:17:53 Okay. Like bloody- Like in this new universe, not like in general, not like from all the old films or whatever. No, so the new universe. Yeah, yeah. And it's basically the timeline of all their investigations. The new universe. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:08 And basically, it pretty much confirms if you watch it, like they mention like a cocoon and they mention like a three-headed creature and they mention like a serpent. So like the Godzilla King of the Monsters lineup is apparently Mothra, Rodan, and Ghidorah. Very good. A little hot news. A couple of hot, hot news there. Very good. Mothra Rodan and Ghidorah very good hot hot
Starting point is 00:18:25 hot news very good well done on bloody news this week sometimes I got news very good
Starting point is 00:18:31 oh final piece of news oh look at this guy hey listen you've overstepped yourself no no I'm straight out outside me lane this isn't
Starting point is 00:18:39 like entertainment news but Siobhan over at Serious Issues had a baby oh she did have the baby boy or girl not a boy
Starting point is 00:18:47 not on air which is bad for content that's bad for podcasting it's very bad for podcasting it set us all back that's right but anyway apparently baby Shatterstar
Starting point is 00:18:56 is very healthy and doing well so congratulations over there so hopefully we can get her on to your famous segment as a father
Starting point is 00:19:03 and she can talk about being a father absolutely that's how that works isn't it I'd love to get Siobhan on but I guess that's probably going to rule her out for at least a week So hopefully we can get her on to your famous segment as a father and she can talk about being a father. Absolutely. That's how that works, isn't it? I'd love to get Siobhan on, but I guess that's probably going to rule her out for at least a week. Yeah, absolutely. So we'll give her a call tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:19:11 Yeah, we'll see her tomorrow. We'll tease her. Oh, that's great, man. Good on her. I've never actually met her. Have you met her? No, never. Yeah, there you go.
Starting point is 00:19:17 Maybe she's no good. It's a really good point, actually. That's a great podcast, though. Serious Issues with Andrew Levins, who's been on this podcast before. Yeah, that's right. Yeah yeah definitely worth checking out uh anyway yeah so early this week for some reason we were allowed to talk to edgar wright which was bizarre in so many ways uh but it was great he was it was really nice he was really sick as well yeah and on the i don't know where he is in his in his tour but he's been doing this for at least a month going around
Starting point is 00:19:41 the world kind of promoting the film and And like it's non-stop. Like the movie. Like the movie. Like the train or the plane. The plane. It's non-stop. But in the sense that we were ushered up to a hotel on like the 31st floor and then we were ushered to a place to wait
Starting point is 00:19:59 and then we're ushered to a door because we've not done anything like this before. No. And we're ushered to a door and then they open the door and the and the previous interviewer leaves and as they're leaving we sort of get smooshed in through the other side like so it's it's literally like he has no time like as soon as we finish the interview he clearly was like okay as soon as these guys leave another interview is going to come in and he really needed to go to the toilet he's like i'm gonna go to the loo guys i'm sorry i gotta go so he zipped up like because he had like two seconds so we didn't get a photo no that's fine you know yeah it's um i mean it's a bit rude it's very rude no but he was
Starting point is 00:20:33 like he was great so i guess i'll just edit this this in here uh we start off talking about jumpers oh cool oh yeah that's right yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember. That's where it goes. When that film came out, Jumper. Oh, sure, yeah. I laughed every time as I said, Doug Liman's Jumper. Because it's sweater. Australians, I think, get good at translating across the pond. Like, we know the American one and the British one, and we sort of automatically do it. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:59 Do you want to kick it off? Oh, absolutely. James, we've had some incredible guests on this podcast in the past. Not true. Your wife. Yep. Our friend Ben. past. Not true. Your wife. Yep. Our friend Ben.
Starting point is 00:21:06 Yep. A dog. Yes. But I think by quite a wide margin, this is going to just blow them out of the water. Absolutely. So you know him from a whole bunch of things we love. Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End, Spaced. Now he's got a new movie out. It's a heist.
Starting point is 00:21:19 It's a romp. It's two things that I love. It's called Baby Driver. It's out right now as we speak. It's Mr. Edgar Wright. Edgar Wright, how are you, sir? Thanks for having me. I'm not sure romp.
Starting point is 00:21:29 When there's already got baby in the title, saying romp sounds a bit too much like romper or something. So maybe like saying caper is better than romper. Caper is good. Okay, we can do with that. I'm going to revise it. It's a caper. Yeah, we'll edit that out.
Starting point is 00:21:40 How are you feeling? I have tons of lighters. Yeah. If I'm completely honest. But I did have the amazing experience last night of A, doing a Q&A with Dr. George Miller. We saw that, yeah. The Sydney premiere. But B, him giving me a second opinion on what the doctor said about my tonsillitis.
Starting point is 00:21:57 Because him as a real doctor, it was like a funny thing where he said, he was asking me what the doctor prescribed and he had some of his own thoughts, which was amazing. So I thought, oh, I'm actually literally getting like a sort of second opinion from Dr. George Miller. Do you think he was correct? He's been out of the game for some time. That's true. He's still a doctor. There you go.
Starting point is 00:22:14 Still has a medical license. I'm not going to argue with him. No, absolutely. He knows more about medicine than I do. That is kind of all of us, I'd imagine. Tell me more about Ben and your dog. What's to say? Ben's a guy we know and a dog is a dog that lives in my house.
Starting point is 00:22:31 That's kind of the extent of it. We just wanted a guest we didn't have to purchase from a pet shop and we reached out. Something we always speak about when we speak about an Edgar Wright film is we're always surprised. We always go in and we go, oh, my God, I didn't know he could do long-form kung fu. We didn't know he could do bad boy style action uh we didn't know he could do we didn't know you could do you're in the room now listen you never you never asked did you
Starting point is 00:22:54 my question I guess is where are I surprised we've reached a point where maybe we shouldn't be do you ever surprise yourself when you when you put something together always like trying to challenge yourself but I think also it's that thing where people like, um, you know, always want to put you in a box and always surprised when you have different interests. Like I think with some people like friends of mine who've seen this movie,
Starting point is 00:23:15 uh, sort of taken aback by it. They said, I never knew you were like a gearhead. Sure. I was like, so well, I was in London for like 20 years where I never drove,
Starting point is 00:23:24 you know, I, I never in London for like 20 years where I never drove. I never owned a car in London ever. London's one of those cities where you don't have to drive. No, that's it. It wasn't really until I used to drive when I was like a teenager in the country. And then when I started living part time in the States, you have to drive. Oh, absolutely. But it's a funny thing i remember that back sort of like um it is a funny thing when you're trying to within what you do just
Starting point is 00:23:51 try and be as versatile as possible and also because the movies i make are all like three years apart you know most of the time it's like trying to do like a new subject each time you know sure and is that is that something you you deliberately set out to do or is it just an interest that pops into your head and you might and you think well now i have to do some high-octane chases if you spent three years doing a zombie movie you don't want to spend another two years doing another zombie oh absolutely you had the opportunity i remember you mentioning that you were thinking of doing a sequel to that with the same characters not a zombie movie but a different kind of genre but you've decided no that's a bit too similar you wanted to move away from it was that the idea i think it was that thing that when it seemed like
Starting point is 00:24:28 a fun idea at the time we had this crazy idea of doing a sequel to show the dead where it was like a dice man thing whereby it started the same and then like the problem was different and it was like like started exactly the same but then it kind of had a different problem and then became a different movie. But it was one of those pie-in-the-sky ideas that's sort of cooler to think about than actually do. Oh, sure, yeah. And then when it came to it, it was like,
Starting point is 00:24:55 would we do that or would you want to do something completely different? Yeah, do you want to do Midsommar Murders with... Michael Bay's Midsommar Murders. Yeah, exactly, yeah. What really blew me away about this in particular is how you go from not really doing something like car chases to this extent and then teaching yourself how to do it,
Starting point is 00:25:11 but not just kind of standard. It's some next level car chases. People calling it some of the best stuff, you know, they've seen in like 20 odd years. How is it that you even teach yourself to do something like that is about who you surround yourself with? What's the starting point?
Starting point is 00:25:21 Yeah, I mean, partly like, I mean, it's also the sort of the idea that I had in my head of how i wanted to do it and what i wanted to see and to be honest a lot of it is actually going back to more like old school sort of filmmaking techniques so in a sense you're not really doing anything that like peter yates or william freaking or waterhill haven't done before but you're just doing the latest camera rigs to do it you know and then on top of that i think what is different is also just the use of music as sort of like using music as as uh the complete and utter motivator of every scene um and then on top of that in terms of crew it's like so between my cinematographer and bill pope who shot uh the
Starting point is 00:26:05 matrix in sydney in australia and you know my sort of second unit director and um stunt coordinator darren prescott and the stunt driver jeremy fry and the other stunt coordinator robert nagel between those guys they have worked on born supremacy matrix reloaded drive john wick um right so they've done plenty of car chases mission impossible so it's like taking these guys who like these are the pros yes and like bill pope who i've worked with three times you know he shot the matrix reloaded chase which whatever you think of that movie that's an amazing it's an incredible set of people come away from remembering yeah you know anyway so yeah so so basically just then so that's i you got those people already on kind of deck and then it's like you present them with like this is my idea this is what i want to
Starting point is 00:26:54 do and this is where i have an idea for something which is different than anything i've seen out there does does anyone in at the studio when you say i'm gonna have a movie with with car chasers does somebody say if you want we could just do it all in the computer? You'll never even have to see a car? Nobody said that. I mean, the only time that sort of I saw people kind of like raise their eyebrows a little bit because they weren't expecting it is when I said that I wanted to do all of the actor shots on the roads as well. Yes, right.
Starting point is 00:27:22 Because definitely the sort of of not all movies are like this um but a lot of recent movies kind of go the green screen route just yeah easier or and you use real streets as well sorry that was sorry i'd cut you off use real streets as well like use yeah proper well basically what you do is that you you're shooting the kind of car stuff and then the actors come in and you start mopping it up so sometimes it's on a completely different day i mean that's kind of crazy where you've shot all the stunt stuff with the stunt cars and then you go back on a different day in the same street and have the same continuity cars behind but say on the day where we did the freeway stunt
Starting point is 00:27:59 uh we did this big bit on the i-85 freeway that is in the opening scene. And that's a major thoroughfare in Atlanta. So it was easily the most complicated and expensive day. And we had like 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and that's it. So then the stunt unit are out from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. And at 11 a.m. the actors come in and at 11 a.m. until 2 we get as many shots
Starting point is 00:28:27 with the actors as we can and that's kind of how you do it. So sometimes it's like you're splitting the day. It's like these are all the stunt driver shots and now here are the actor shots
Starting point is 00:28:35 but it's on the same freeway. So it's then the thing is is that it makes it easier for the actors and staff. I think it's something that like for any of the actors especially like a young actor
Starting point is 00:28:43 like Ansel to make it a really experiential experience. That makes sense. It works. To make it like a sort of like a vivid experience for him, then he is reacting like for real at what's happening. Yeah, absolutely. It's like I'm driving, I'm pulling a 180 onto the freeway
Starting point is 00:29:00 and I'm chasing after these cars and it's really happening. I noticed you used a lot of colour in this as well to highlight where people are and where certain cars are that was obviously a conscious decision right yeah i've always done that in all my movies actually with costumes and it was no different with the cars is i'm a big fan if you watch all of them from sean the dead onwards there's always like a color coding to the characters they wear like a color that remains their color and that to me is just i feel like it's a good way of just tracking the action same goes with the cars as well because i don't know if you notice in like i find sometimes in some movies not mentioning any names
Starting point is 00:29:35 the transports of jason bourne but it is a thing where when you get goodies and baddies all wearing black or goodies and baddies with the same black audis yes absolutely get into a problem where it's like i have or people have all got black suvs you do get into a problem of not being able to track anything that's happening it's just glistening bald men crashing into each other bald men and bald men in black and uh yeah it's a it's a funny one i don't really quite so i think with, with this, I sort of really tried to kind of like, in the way that we even shot Atlanta, we, Atlanta is a very leafy city. People even call it like a sort of a city in a forest.
Starting point is 00:30:17 And we very deliberately didn't really show any of that part and had all of the concrete urban built-up areas so the whole film would feel like gray but the characters would pop the red car pops a blue car really pops then costumes really pop and then it's only really without getting too much race only really in the finale the very final scene that you actually get into leafy georgia and you get kind of like a green explosion of like not i literally bring it but um you know oh absolutely uh go ahead did you do well i getting back to the music um i mean there's been a lot of movies
Starting point is 00:30:58 recently that have had great soundtracks but as someone who as a kid really got into sort of ninja tune records and handsome boy bonding school and kid really got into sort of ninja tune records and Handsome Boy Bonding School and Kid Koala, this movie really hit the spot for me personally. I tried to talk on the ninja tunes. People always ask, what songs couldn't you use? Oh, yes. And the truth of the matter is the only songs I couldn't use were not ones because they were too expensive.
Starting point is 00:31:23 They were ones that were just tricky. They had in them that weren't cleared sure right the songs i wanted to use and could not was by the herbalizer yeah great uh-huh and i even got in touch with the herbalizer themselves and they i said where are these samples actually from and when they said one of them said oh this one's from star wars i said okay this is not happening but yeah kawala it's now my third time working with him actually because he did bits of music in Scott Pilgrim and in Shaun of the Dead and I wrote that scene into the script where Baby makes a sort of a mixtape out of found sound.
Starting point is 00:31:58 And I know exactly the person who can do this. That's absolutely right. So did you come, because I guess you're a music fan just as much as a movie fan, did you come from this world of like Ninja Tune and then finding, you know, the samples that came from that, like the old, you know, the bongo band and Kashmir and all these old tracks, or is it somewhere in the middle? A bit of both.
Starting point is 00:32:21 I think sort of like through some of those artists you know um just like um you know i guess there's you know some of the some of the songs in there are like the original rare grooves that are featured in tracks that's right later by everybody from de la soul to dr dre to david holmes to, you know, House of Pain. Sure, sure, yeah. So there's lots of things I sort of wanted to keep wrong-footing the audience where they think, ah, this is the next episode. Oh, no, it's not.
Starting point is 00:32:56 This is David McCallum. Ilya Kyriakin from Man From Uncle fame. There's a great scene right at the start with the Harlem Shuffle and it's so well integrated into the scene. I get the sense, maybe it's just my own bias, that some of these songs have been rattling around in your head for a number of years and you've sort of built a scene around. Is that fair?
Starting point is 00:33:17 Yeah, I mean, quite a few. I'd say when I wrote the first draft of the script, which I started doing like six or seven years ago, I had like 10 of the songs earmark started doing like six or seven years ago I had like 10 of the songs earmarked of what eventually would become 35 songs the 10 of them I had nailed down in terms of I knew what song it was and I basically knew what scene it was right and those were like bell bottoms um Harlem shuffle the damn song neat neat neat neat, neat, the tequila song, the queen song, the focus song, the blur song.
Starting point is 00:33:47 So it's like sort of the big sort of action highlights, like the kind of the numbers. I knew what the scene was and what was going to happen. And then when I was writing the rest of the script, I basically sort of like wrote it where it's like, it's a song per scene. So I got to a scene where I didn't have a song I would
Starting point is 00:34:06 not start writing until I found the right song there you go and then I'd literally go okay so it's a diner scene he's meeting Debra for the first time and it's dreamy
Starting point is 00:34:14 and she walks in and it's like he's imagining he doesn't know whether this is really happening whether it's a dream so he's in a slightly dreamy state okay
Starting point is 00:34:21 I'm gonna find something that's this kind of tone okay how long is this scene going to be? This scene's going to be like two and a half minutes long. Okay, let me look at my songs between two and two and a half minutes. Incredible. So I'd find something that was the right duration.
Starting point is 00:34:33 So what I wouldn't do is think, oh, this track's five minutes long, but the scene's only two and a half minutes, so I just cut it. Yeah, right. Like find the song that's the right length and then write the scene to that song, which is exactly then it's like this Beach Boys instrumental is perfect perfect i love it how is that writing because you do a lot of collaborative writing what you have done how is it when you're writing something by yourself and you don't have somebody to bounce off is that more difficult is it a doubt yeah definitely a more
Starting point is 00:34:56 solitary experience and i think sort of you know without a co-writer in the room when you've written a scene you're always looking for somebody to kind of like validation all the time. Sure, yeah. Whether it's like a sort of a girlfriend or, you know, an agent or your producer or somebody walking past saying, hey, will you read this? You know, so it's funny.
Starting point is 00:35:16 Like my girlfriend at the time when I wrote the first draft, I think she would read literally like, it was like, will you read what I did today? So she read the script in tiny increments like one scene at a time um but then the other thing I did in that process which became incredibly instrumental to the sort of the the finished screenplay was um was interviewing ex-cons oh wow sure so i started in uh i'd done some research before i'd started like writing and then during the process of writing this researcher had had already sort
Starting point is 00:35:55 of done a bunch of phoners with these people and then when um i was actually writing i got in touch with someone so i want to meet some of these guys so that's exactly what i did and then i spoke to them firsthand and by this point i'd already written the outline of the script so it was a great experience to be able to meet these ex-cons and say say i have this idea for this kind of character i wouldn't i wouldn't completely show them my cards so it's an amazing thing of like all the people on that poster over there this is good for radio listens um podcast listens um i would sort of tell these ex-cons i say i have an idea for this character do you know anybody like this and you know one of the best guys actually for that was this guy called joe lawyer who actually
Starting point is 00:36:36 ended up being the script consultant and plays the security guard in the movie as well he's in the post office heist he um you know he'd been in prison for 10 years so if he hadn't done it himself he had met somebody like one of these people right kind of reminds me of this guy and then you'd always get something anecdotal out of it that would be really useful and so i would end up interviewing them and asking them very general questions and then very specific questions all right so there's very specific questions would be would you ever listen to music on the way to a heist and joe lawyer answered at one point and his thing was all about his getaway song afterwards but he said i'd never listen to music on the way to a heist
Starting point is 00:37:16 because i already have enough demons up here making music all right okay i was like oh boy what a line write that down jam. Jamie Foxx says it later. And then the other bit in that section, which is also from a completely different writer, a guy called Rick Moranek, who is a Boston ex-armored car robber and now crime writer. I asked him the same question.
Starting point is 00:37:38 I said, would you ever listen to music on the way to a heist? And he said, no, no, on the way to a heist. He goes, well, you know, there was this one time. You know when anybody says there was this one time that the next bit's going to be gold right absolutely and he said that we're on the way to a job and the radio is on and the radio is playing knocking on heaven's door by guns and roses and one of the guys in the back starts flipping out and saying this song is bad luck and this is a bad omen and this is a jinx
Starting point is 00:38:05 and we should not do this job because we just got hexed so that just so i thought that's amazing incredible and then that became a whole thing about hex songs and then just the final thing on this is that jamie foxx read that bit and he says my hex song is hotel california by the eagles and i said why is that and he said well when I was growing up and playing a lot of pool in Dallas anytime Hotel California would come on the stereo I start losing so hotel California is unlucky that's my heck song so then I wrote that into the script when we did a read-through I wrote that into the script without telling Jamie and then he came upon it and he laughed so that Jamie Foxx's heck song so if you see Jamie Foxx playing
Starting point is 00:38:44 pool please don't play Hotel California by the Eagles on the jukebox thank you and he laughed. So that's Jamie Foxx's hex song. So if you see Jamie Foxx playing Paul, please don't play Hotel California by the Eagles on the jukebox. Thank you so much for this. Unless you're competing against him, you want to shark out.
Starting point is 00:38:53 Definitely do that. Love it. We really appreciate it. Good luck. Well done with this. Good luck with your next project with a baby driver tour. Whatever you got going on.
Starting point is 00:39:01 I appreciate it. Absolute pleasure. Thank you so much. Hope you enjoyed that interview. Yeah. We did because we were there. How do you feel doing that? N appreciate it. Absolute pleasure. Thank you so much. Hope you enjoyed that interview. Yeah. We did because we were there. How did you feel doing that? Nervous.
Starting point is 00:39:08 Yeah, me too. It's not really our thing. It was super nice though. It was super nice. Yeah, I mean, and speaking of, because again, he did have tonsillitis. And our assumption was that at any given moment, they were going to cancel on us. And the fact that he was very sick and still didn't cancel on us. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:24 Very appreciative. us and the fact that he was very sick and still didn't cancel on us yeah very appreciative and we were thinking if uh if anybody out there did like that little interview we hope hopefully at some point we might do some other people other other interviews or we might want to talk to edgar wright again next time he's in town yeah if you wanted maybe to bloody if you're on the twitters if you want to add edgar wright and let him know and just say thanks yeah if you want to just say thanks for having these couple of bloody boys. And maybe at us in and at the Weekly Planet, which is the Raw Collings run. That'd be nice.
Starting point is 00:39:51 Yeah. Just, yeah. So that might, I don't know, because I still feel like people are like, who are you? What's this? There were some student newspapers there, I think, as well. There was like student radio and there was like a couple of like, yeah. Yeah. My one regret though, when we got in, he fist bumped because he was sick.
Starting point is 00:40:07 He was like, I don't know. He didn't want a handshake, yeah. And then as he got up to leave, I went to fist bump and he went to handshake and I went, oh, no. And then you got a fist bump, you couldn't get a handshake. I know. I blew it. I get the sense potentially also his management worded him up that I was sick.
Starting point is 00:40:26 Oh, did you tell him you were sick? No, but look at me. I'm a wreck. But I think they were like, hang on, one of them's sick, so don't shake their hands. Just quietly. Mason, D23 is upon us, both of us. It's been upon us.
Starting point is 00:40:41 It's still happening. It's still on us right now. Well, now I'm feeling the pressure. Because now I have to woo everything. I was going to give you some critical commentary. No. Oh, jeez. All right.
Starting point is 00:40:52 You're in it. Wait, am I allowed to woo Disney stuff? Maybe I shouldn't. Well, it depends. Some things you like and some things you don't. You don't care for animation. You don't care for Pixar. No, I wouldn't say I don't.
Starting point is 00:41:04 You don't care for Disney's diversity. Because there's Incredibles No, I wouldn't say I don't. You don't care for Disney's diversity. Because there's Incredibles 2 news, right? There is Incredibles 2 news. Woo! I'm back on board. That was so loud. Yeah. You can fix that in post, right?
Starting point is 00:41:13 Yeah, probably. Actually, can you move that back just a fraction, just in general? What about that? Yeah, that's better. Nice. You just want to adjust these. Because with new pop filters, you know that. It's a different world.
Starting point is 00:41:24 You wanted to impress Edgar Wright, so you got new pop filters. Well, I needed them because they would have sounded real tinny without the- Yeah, yeah, true. So I got little- No, I get it. You know it. No, I see it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:35 Yeah. All right. What do we got here? I'm going to go through some live action Disney stuff that's coming up. Okay. I know you're a big fan of all of it. That's why I've lumped it all together and we can breeze through it. Okay, good.
Starting point is 00:41:44 You feel with that? Yep. The Lion King. What if I just went, you say everything and I just go, yawn as you talk. There's a very good chance you'll be yawning through this. Okay. The Lion King live action, the only footage they showed, the trailer's a while off. Jon Favreau's doing it.
Starting point is 00:41:59 He did the Jungle Book. He also did Iron Man. He also did Zathura. I know what he did. That's right. He was in Swingers. He was in Swingers. And Made. And Made. He also did Zathura. I know what he did. That's right. He was in Swingers. He was in Swingers. And Made.
Starting point is 00:42:06 And Made. He was so money. But he wasn't sure that he was. But then he was money, baby. Turns out that he was. He was so money, baby. So he came out and they showed... I don't know if you remember the opening of The Lion King.
Starting point is 00:42:19 Sun comes up. Hey! Yeah, I know that bit. That's not it at all. Okay. But yeah. Once again, I haven't seen The Lion King. How have you not?
Starting point is 00:42:27 Doesn't matter. Unbelievable. So basically, the start of The Lion King. I was catching frogs down the swimming hole. I can't believe I have to explain the start of The Lion King. Because this is ridiculous. Because everybody's seen it except you. So just know.
Starting point is 00:42:39 Tables have turned. What's the plot of The Lion King, you son of a bitch? That you're, it's Macbeth. Or Hamlet. i can't remember uh what do we got here so it opens right all the animals converge on pride rock okay simba is getting uh anointed as the as the new king to be uh it's the lion king yeah good everybody gather round you remember it right yeah yeah so they that, but it was all with CGI animals. I thought you were going to say it was with all the actors.
Starting point is 00:43:10 Imagine that. And whoever's playing the bloody baboon. Is it a baboon? It's a baboon, yeah. Has to lift the actor playing Simba. The full-grown adult actor. He's like Donald Glover. Very good.
Starting point is 00:43:25 That'd be so good. I was going to give you some casting news, but you won't care about this. I might care. Okay, Rowan Atkinson played, this is a rumour, he played Zazu, which is a bird. He's like a little assistant bird. He's a toucan or something. Yeah, he's not a toucan, but yes. From the context, I'm aware of many of these things.
Starting point is 00:43:40 So he's back, maybe. Yeah, but no, John Oliver, they reckon, is going to do it. Makes sense. Which I think is a great choice. Mufasa is, John Oliver, they reckon, is going to do it. Makes sense. Which I think is a great choice. Mufasa is still played by James Earl Jones, the Simba we mentioned. And the rumour is this week that Hugh Jackman's Scar,
Starting point is 00:43:51 who Jeremy Irons played in the original, and he's got this amazing song about taking over and stuff and being like, I'm the king, I'm the king. Now, who's Jerry Butler? Who's Jerry Butler going to be? He's baby Simba, but Donald Trump is adult Simba. Yeah, I's Jerry Butler? Who's Jerry Butler going to be? He's baby Simba. But Donald Trump is adult Simba. Okay, I like it.
Starting point is 00:44:08 Very nice. Yeah. He's still relevant. In The Lion King, the musical. Yes. It is. We get it. You're cultured. You've seen a musical.
Starting point is 00:44:15 I've seen a musical. Normally, a lady plays Rafiki, the baboon. But I don't know whether that's going to be the case this time. I see. Who knows? Because I don't think a lady played him in there. What about Timon and Pumbaa? It's Billy on the streets.
Starting point is 00:44:30 Jon Favreau should be one of them, surely. No, Billy. Or Billy Eichner. Yeah, okay. And the other one is, hang on, I can tell you. Is Jon Favreau not going to give himself a role? Could he be Happy Hogan? He could be Happy Hogan.
Starting point is 00:44:44 Hang on, I've got to look this up. Oh, Seth Rogen. Yeah, that's perfect. Okay, right. Yeah, that makes sense. I really like Nathan Lane and the other guy who did it in the other one. Anyway. Look, apparently it looked amazing, but it's a recreation.
Starting point is 00:44:56 And it's not supposed to be the actual trailer. But if it's going to be the same, it's kind of like, why are you doing this? Don't get me wrong. I want to see it. I really want to say it. Sure. Because I love The Lion King. But I just, the only thing it's bringing is new visuals, but it's like shot for shot.
Starting point is 00:45:12 Yeah. Who cares? Exactly. But it's Jon Favreau, so it's probably not going to be just that. There'll probably be a new song that nobody likes. They always seem to do that. They do that beat in The Beast. Right.
Starting point is 00:45:21 Okay. Was it a rap? Was it a Hamilton style rap? I'm seeing Hamilton. Yeah. Because I'm going to the States. Right, okay. Was it a rap? Was it a Hamilton-style rap? I'm seeing Hamilton because I'm going to the States. Did I tell you this? You did. Yeah, Clay got me a ticket. Just a ticket for one.
Starting point is 00:45:32 I've been wanting to see it for ages, and I thought I'll never be able to see it. I'll have to watch some watered-down Australian bullshit production of it. No offence to the Australian musical industry. Wow. Wow. Are you saying that you would not love an Australian version of Hamilton starring Craig McLachlan as Hamilton?
Starting point is 00:45:49 Yeah, I guess I would. The singer of Hey Mona. Everybody look that up. Anyway, enough of the Lion King. Good. Hey Mona. Whoa Mona. It doesn't matter. Anyway. Tim Burton's Dumbo. Bloody
Starting point is 00:46:04 Jimmy Barnes' son would probably be in it. Yeah, he would. Yeah, he's good. Have you ever heard him sing? Yeah. Yeah, he's good. Tim Burton's... I should also point out nearly every musical I've ever seen is Australian.
Starting point is 00:46:15 I've loved most of them. The Boy From Oz. I've never seen that. All right. Yeah, all right. Tim Burton's Dumbo Begins. Oh, that's going to be... I don't think it's called Dumbo Begins. I mean, be I don't think it's called Dumbo Begins
Starting point is 00:46:25 I mean it's I wish it was called Dumbo Begins it starts yeah be with that Tim Burton so he's taking a character and it's unlike
Starting point is 00:46:32 anything else before because he's taking a character who's a little bit odd doesn't quite fit in with the oh yeah the herd of elephants
Starting point is 00:46:40 if that's the correct word and you gotta find yourself but by doing what's unique to you, in which case big flippity-floppy is. He's dark and he's mysterious. He's Tim Burton. He's Tim Burton.
Starting point is 00:46:50 None of me wants to see any of this. Not a single shred of me. Is it going to be live action? Yes. Why do they keep giving him live action Disney movies? Just picture a real elephant flying, but don't think of Operation Dumbo Drop Because that's a different thing That was more of a slow fall
Starting point is 00:47:10 That was a fall more than a fly A controlled fall Like how do you do a How do you do it? How do you create Because it has to look like a real elephant Well he's holding the magic feather That's how he does it
Starting point is 00:47:21 So you've got to suspend disbelief Mason But how's he gonna doesn't i don't know how's he gonna i don't know like how's he gonna express anything well what are they gonna do for the lion king that's the same thing you're right yeah absolutely right yeah man i guess yeah but like caesar for example yep is a monkey or a chimpanzee of a baboon i don't know maybe it's like just don't have any faith in Tim Burton. Yeah, that's probably it, right? Yeah, if I said to you that literally anybody else is doing it, would you have been more impressed?
Starting point is 00:47:51 What role is he going to give to his wife? Are they still a couple? No, they're not together. Okay, and his muse who looks exactly like her? Eva Green. I don't know. What role is Eva Green going to have in this? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:48:02 I have no idea. Probably a raven. I would guess a raven. Yeah, probably, yeah. But there's a lot of real caricatures of races in that movie. I don't know if you remember it. No. The crows?
Starting point is 00:48:13 No. You don't remember? And there's that weird scene where Dumbo gets drunk and it's just a nightmare. Oh, you found my iPad. I was going to say, there's just an iPad down the back of this couch. This episode's been real loose.
Starting point is 00:48:27 You're just using it to cover up a hole in the wall. You've just nailed it in. It doesn't matter. Yeah, the picture on the screen is just of a fresh coat of paint on that wall. Great. Look, again, I think Dumbo was the one that I saw as a kid and I was like, never again. Yeah, I'm not a fan.
Starting point is 00:48:41 I've never been a fan. The other thing that they showed a little bit of was Mary Poppins. You a fan of Mary Poppins? Who's the new Mary Poppins? Is it Eva Green? No, Emily Blunt. It could be Eva Green. Emma Blunt, that's a good choice.
Starting point is 00:48:51 I'm sure we've mentioned it many times. Actually, speaking of musicals I saw, I saw Mary Poppins and it was great in Melbourne. There's a bit where the Dick Van Dyke character does a dance across, like he walks across the thing. There's a bit where Mary Poppins flies over the stage with a machine gun. It deviates slightly from the... Oh, sure, absolutely. Yeah, it was a Tommy walks across the thing. There's a bit where Mary Poppins flies over the stage with a machine gun.
Starting point is 00:49:06 It deviates slightly from the- Oh, sure, absolutely, yeah. Yeah, it was a Tommy gun in the original. Nice. But no, it was really good. And it's also close to the book, but they weren't able to do Mary Poppins movies for years because I can't remember the name, the woman who wrote it.
Starting point is 00:49:18 There's that movie about it with Tom Hanks. Oh, yeah. She hated it. She was like, you really, you took this and you ruined it so no more mary poppins wow because she was always against it so she's dead so thank god yeah now we get more mary poppins nice i'm not a huge mary poppins fan i wasn't as a kid but i really did like the musical so i'm like yeah sure did you love the cheeky reference in guardians of the galaxy too yes i did me too if you go to the mary poppins motion poster like anywhere you see it on
Starting point is 00:49:45 any website or it'd be on youtube every comment is like yondu yondu right yeah so there you go uh this last one it blows my mind here's a question for you yeah are any of these d23 announcements aside from star wars are any of them original? Avengers Infinity War? As in, like, it wasn't based on a prior property at all? Yes. Is Disney producing anything that's original this year? Coco.
Starting point is 00:50:18 There's probably more than that. It's a Pixar movie. Okay, right. Yeah. I'm sure there is because I haven't listed everything here. Okay, sure. Okay. What have we got here? Guy Ritchie's Aladdin.
Starting point is 00:50:28 All right. And they haven't cast an Aladdin yet. They have now. Well, the rumor was that they can't do it. They haven't been able to find somebody. Okay, right. But they did. His name's Mena Massoud.
Starting point is 00:50:39 I don't know who he is. He looks like Aladdin. They didn't get Jake Gyllenhaal. Kudos because I thought they might have. Terrific. Naomi Scott is Jasmine, who you might know as the Pink Ranger from Power Rangers. Oh, yep. Okay.
Starting point is 00:50:51 And Will Smith is the genie. Probably a rapping genie. People floated this on Twitter to us, and I don't have him in front of me. Is he going to do the soundtrack? Are we going to get some fresh Will Smith raps? He would rap, though, right? He'd have to, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:04 Yeah. Do you think he'd write them, though, or do you think he'd just get them? Just refresh my memory. Aladdin's a musical, right? Partly. Yeah, yeah, sure. Okay, good. Good.
Starting point is 00:51:13 Yeah. He just can't wait to be king. I know it. Yeah, that's the one. That's the one. That's what I thought. Hey! It's Aladdin!
Starting point is 00:51:19 Yeah, I remember it. I know. But no, everything about this sounds great except the Guy Ritchie thing. I didn't see King Arthur. I don't know. No, neither did I. Man, they really pushed that. Every time I went to see a movie in the last six months,
Starting point is 00:51:33 there was a King Arthur. And then I guess it just came and went. I guess it did. We had a screening. I don't think maybe I didn't tell you about it. Did I? I don't know. I don't tell you about it. Did I? I don't know. I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:51:45 But again, if Will Smith is going to bring back, Will Smith wraps the plot of the film at the end. Yes. This has got to be it, surely. Yeah, this is your chance. Why would he not wrap just the classic tale of Aladdin? Yeah, that's right. Plucky young youth on a carpet or whatever.
Starting point is 00:52:04 That's right. Whatever the plot of the movie is, he's got some Plucky young youth on a carpet or whatever. Whatever the plot of the movie is, he's got some wishes. It's a good movie, man. And he wishes for a carpet or something. No, it's good. I haven't seen it in a while. The first, yeah, it's good. Good songs. Robin Williams is great.
Starting point is 00:52:16 And look, you can't replicate it. So instead of being like, we'll get Jim Carrey, they've gone a different direction, which is smart. Other people have said get Lin-Manuel Miranda. The Hamilton guy. Which I think also would have been a really good choice. But he hasn't done a lot of live action stuff, so maybe that's why.
Starting point is 00:52:32 Also, he's not really a household name. You know what I mean? People know him and he's well respected. And he also did the music to Moana, which is great. But anyway. Anyway, that's all the live action stuff, Mason. Nice. Now for the animated stuff.
Starting point is 00:52:46 Great. Wreck-It Ralph Breaks the Internet. Showed a bit of that. With his butt? Yes. Have you seen Wreck-It Ralph? No. It's fun.
Starting point is 00:52:55 I trust your opinion. Okay, good. As far as I can bloody throw it. How far could that be? How far? How's your throwing out? Well, it's a concept, isn't it? It's more a concept than an actual thing, so yeah not at all i guess or really far yeah frozen two people have
Starting point is 00:53:11 been hanging out for that uh-huh hot tip mason tangled's better than frozen huh a hot tip about frozen yeah i know that it's my son's favorite movie is tangled he'll watch that all day every day okay yeah uh and i like I mean, I say that now. I've seen it about 50 times this year. Yeah, right. That's just... It's Stockholm Syndrome at this point, surely. No, I think it's good.
Starting point is 00:53:32 I think it's genuinely good. Yeah. But if somebody would... Okay, here's my question. Yeah. If... I find myself stopping and watching scenes. Okay, but hypothetically speaking...
Starting point is 00:53:42 How far could I throw it? If a representative of Disney came over tomorrow and they took the Tangled DVD and they snapped it in half in front of you, would you cry tears of joy? I feel you would. Well, it's digital, but I'd be like, that's my hard drive.
Starting point is 00:53:56 Yeah, right. Or actually, it's on Netflix as well. No, I'd be like, I need that because if there's ever a day in the week where we're just like, Claire and I are both like, we need that because it gets me. If there's ever like a day in the week where we're just like, Claire and I are both like, we need to work. Tangle goes on. And look, I'm not proud of that, Mason.
Starting point is 00:54:10 I'm just not a good parent. And Coco. That's why there's an iPad in every room. That's right. Also, Incredibles 2 is coming mid next year. And the interesting thing about this is it starts exactly where the last one left off. Do you remember the end of the last one? It was a mole, man and if i recall correctly mason which i always do yeah well let me tell you that much that the video game of the incredibles also picked up there oh yeah so this is some sort of parallel universe situation apparently so nice
Starting point is 00:54:41 so disney pixar video games from the mid 2000s 2010s what do you call that decade the tennies the tennies the tennies are no longer canon i know you don't you're probably not a fan of that the tennies are also an award that david tennant gives out every year for people with the biggest hair and strappiest suit exactly the tennies or the grimmest mystery murder all of those things yes yeah He's got so many awards. They're also announcing the new Doctor Who any time. That's right. It could happen any second now.
Starting point is 00:55:09 So we'll keep abreast of that. Who do you think it's going to be? I don't care. You? No. As a fan of the series, it always works out good enough. I guess it would be kind of nice if they went female. But also, if they just pick someone good, that's also fine.
Starting point is 00:55:28 I don't care. Somebody on Facebook, I think, said their tip was it's going to be a younger actor. Like it's going to be a younger, probably a young man because apparently they've been losing audience because the younger audience can't relate to Peter Capaldi because he's too rude. He's too rude. He's too rude.
Starting point is 00:55:45 He's too old. He's a rude dude. Yeah, exactly. But I don't know. Yeah. Do you have a preference? No. I remember you mentioned Gillian Anderson a while back
Starting point is 00:55:52 and I went, oh, that sounds pretty good. Sounds pretty good, right? Yeah. But honestly, I don't care. Yeah. What do we got here? Maybe the lady who's Miss Moneypenny in the new... Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:02 Yeah, she's great. I don't know if she's in the running. I have no idea. Yeah. I saw some names and I'm like... Here's the thing. Literally everybody's in the running... Oh, yeah. Yeah, she's great. I don't know if she's in the running. I have no idea. I saw some names and I'm like... Here's the thing. Literally everybody's in the running at this point. And whenever people are like, Tom Hiddleston, he'd never do it.
Starting point is 00:56:13 Don't even bother. Benedict Cumberbatch, no. He won't do it. He won't do it. You need someone lower than that. Yeah, right. You know what I mean? Exactly.
Starting point is 00:56:20 Yeah. What else we got here? Okay, look. I did a breakdown of The Last Jedi D23. And you had a breakdown also. I had a breakdown doing it. That's on my YouTube channel. I'll link it below.
Starting point is 00:56:31 Feel free to check it out, Mason. Okay. On your own time, obviously. Okay, cool. Time is money here. All right, no, I understand. We need to get through this. Yeah, I get it.
Starting point is 00:56:37 Yeah. Anything that you liked from it because I'm sick of it. Well, there was a nice little send-off. Carrie Fisher had a little. She said it was all about family that was nice i thought um let me think my camel was in it it was wasn't it there was a admiral akbar joke towards the end there he said it's a rap yep because it sounds yep he has a catchphrase that's what you would say at the end of a He has a catchphrase.
Starting point is 00:57:04 That's what you would say at the end of a film shoot. You'd say that. Yes. Yeah. That's good. Admiral Ackbar loves raps. He does, doesn't he? He loves a salad rap. Yeah, he does.
Starting point is 00:57:14 What else? We get some Daisy Ridley and what's his name? Big hair, big ears. Adam Driver. He has a name. I actually really like him as an actor. They're doing some training. He's fighting two guys at once.
Starting point is 00:57:28 She gets hit with like three sticks. She blocks three at once. Could be like the Knights of Ren. Could be. Which would be cool. We don't know whether any of the Knights of Ren are... Could be the three musketeers. They're back.
Starting point is 00:57:39 Yes. I'm referring to the ones from the 90s. Chris O'Donnell, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt. Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen. I did it. You did it all. I think I can do the Man in the Iron Mask one.
Starting point is 00:57:52 Okay, go ahead. Jeremy Irons, Gerard Depardieu. What's his name? Who's D'Artagnan? Quickly. What's his name? He was the devil in the Schwarzenegger devil movie from the 2000s.
Starting point is 00:58:05 Andy Garcia? No. Al Pacino? No. I'm blown it. It's done. Was it not Andy Garcia? Not in that one.
Starting point is 00:58:12 Okay, right. Yeah. God damn it. Carry on then. Yeah. Wow. That was not a bad effort though. It's admirable.
Starting point is 00:58:18 It's pretty good. I can't name the one. That was an admirable effort for the dumbest thing. For one of the dumbest things that we've done on the show. Name all the iterations of the Three Musketeers. From the 90s. From the 90s, yeah, okay. There was one from like three years ago, remember?
Starting point is 00:58:33 It had the kid from Percy Jackson. Yeah. And Orlando Bloom was the villain. Yeah. That's all I could tell you about that one. All right. What were we talking about? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:58:45 What else is there? How long did it take you to do this breakdown? Because clearly afterwards you've just ejected all the information from your head. Well, that's what normally happens. Whenever I kind of do it, I have to go back and watch my old one because I don't remember anything from it. That's right. It's like doing exams.
Starting point is 00:58:59 You do the exam and you're like, never need any of this again. That is exactly what it's like. Oh, wait, another semester happened. Yeah. Look, I do enjoy it, but it is coming to a point where I'm like, maybe I should not do these anymore. Like, genuinely. But also, they do really well and people like them.
Starting point is 00:59:13 I don't know. I'll think about it. I guess it's also my job now, so. Yeah, so bloody get moving. Yeah, get moving on. Get breaking this stuff down, you monkey. We did also, there were some new posters. Did you see those?
Starting point is 00:59:23 No. They're pretty swish. Okay. Do you think this movie's going to suffer from a lack of... What a tremendous breakdown we just did. And then you saw us behind the scenes footage. Well, there's a video below. Yeah, it's a good point.
Starting point is 00:59:36 You can just click on that, I guess. Also talk about some Star Wars theories related to Episode 8. There's some good ones in there. Have you ever heard of Bigger Luke? No. I want to spoil it for people of Bigger Luke? No. I might have spoiled it for people. Bigger Luke. Yes.
Starting point is 00:59:49 Do you want me to tell you? Yes. Okay, so there's a hypothesis that in the Star Wars universe there exists two versions of Luke Skywalker. Oh, yeah, maybe I remember that. One is Luke Prime, one is called Bigger Luke, and they switch scene to scene until their final confrontation in the cave on Dagobah where Luke Prime destroys Bigger Luke.
Starting point is 01:00:06 So that's Bigger Luke in the mask. Right, okay, I get it. Because scene to scene in the first Star Wars movie, there's variations in Mark Hamill's height depending on angles or whether it's a body double or whatever. So that's the theory behind Bigger Luke. And the idea is that one of them is a clone and there's all sorts of hints towards Bigger Luke throughout the trilogy. Incredible. It's pretty great. So I spent a good two to three minutes on Bigger Luke and the idea is that one of them is a clone and there's all sorts of hints towards Bigger Luke throughout the trilogy
Starting point is 01:00:25 it's pretty great so I spent a good two to three minutes on Bigger Luke very good alright what else we got here okay so
Starting point is 01:00:34 do you think this movie will suffer from lack of Harrison Ford in any way do you think Mark Hamill's got the gravitas and the coolness to pull it off
Starting point is 01:00:42 yeah I think he's ready for it yeah and I think again there's there's ready for it. Yeah. And I think, again, there's room for him to, you know, and again, that character's, you know, we know him for decades as being this kind of very earnest character. Yeah. But I think there's room for him to adopt a kind of a bit of,
Starting point is 01:00:57 like a little bit of Yoda kind of. Yeah. You know, a bit of bloody. Toon and Froen. Yeah, a bit of Toon and Froen. Okay, good. It's not the word I'm looking for, but it'll do. Okay, good.
Starting point is 01:01:07 People get what you mean. You know, be a little more playful. Yeah, absolutely. And I think he's been alone on this rock for a while, so the character's probably going to appreciate someone to talk to. Or has he been alone? I mentioned it in my trailer breakdown, Mason. Very good.
Starting point is 01:01:20 Yeah. The other thing is... Also, I maintain, because after the behind the scenes thingamajig, a lot of YouTube accounts put the old teaser back on. Yeah. I maintain that the first thing Luke does, like when Rey arrives on the planet, she hands him the lightsaber and he pushes her off the cliff.
Starting point is 01:01:42 That's the first thing that he does. I'm putting money on that. Yes. To see how she'll react. To see what she does. I reckon he'll dismiss her and be like, ah, get out of here. Because right at the start of the trailer,
Starting point is 01:01:53 she's like, and she wakes up and she's sort of on a cliff edge. And then there's that bit where it's dark and she's in sort of a cave and there's the waters coming up. I reckon he pushes her down the cliff to see what she does and then she has to make her way back up. That's a terrible thing to do. I know. But he's been alone for a long time.
Starting point is 01:02:09 Yes, yeah. And he loves pushing women. He loves pushing. Yes, exactly. What else we got here? Yeah, so, okay. What I was going to say, I mentioned that Harrison Ford thing because I remember when I saw The Force Awakens with Claire, my wife.
Starting point is 01:02:23 Oh, dear. Do you get that joke? No, I get it. I get it. It's Borat. Yeah, it's Borat. It's funny. I get wife. Oh, dear. Do you get that joke? I get it. It's Borat. Yeah, it's Borat. It's funny. I get it.
Starting point is 01:02:28 It's funny. When Harrison Ford entered the Millennium Falcon, she gasped. There you go. Which is like, he's a 70-year-old man. That's true, yeah. Or he would have been a bit older than that at the time. So he's got that kind of effect. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:39 Is anyone gasping at Mark Hamill? Yeah. Okay. Because they're falling down a mountain. Exactly. Okay. I love Mark Hamill. And I think if I ever met Mark Hamill? Yeah. Okay. Because they're falling down a mountain. Exactly. Okay. I love Mark Hamill, and I think if I ever met Mark Hamill,
Starting point is 01:02:48 I'd probably die. I know. Because he'd push me down a mountain. But yeah, I don't know. I'm just curious as to whether the general public will accept it as much as that. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 01:02:59 Sure, sure. He's beloved in the fan community. Yeah. But that being said, it's Luke Skywalker, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. I think people... When was the last time people saw him at the movies? Well, Force Awakens.
Starting point is 01:03:12 Also, the other one... Oh, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Oh, the other one. The Kingsman. Oh, yeah. Maybe I meant as Luke Skywalker. Sure.
Starting point is 01:03:20 1983. Yeah, there we go. 1983, yeah. Yeah. They want to know what he's been up to. They want to know what he's been up to. I want to know what he's been up to, yeah. Yeah, no, people are going to be excited. All right, are you ready for some-
Starting point is 01:03:29 That is my hottest take. People are going to be excited about a Star Wars movie. Really? Yeah, that's right. All right, Mason. Yeah. Are you ready for some Infinity War footage? Description?
Starting point is 01:03:41 Yes. Brace yourself. Well, you said give it a read. I didn't. Okay, well, I can break down the highlights for you if you want. Okay, I'm ready. Yeah. Are there spoilers in this?
Starting point is 01:03:50 Well, it's going to be a trailer we'll probably end up getting towards the end of this year at some point. I doubt we'll be getting it at Comic-Con because they'll probably push all the stuff that's coming out before then, as in Black Panther, as in Thor Ragnarok, before we get to this. But this isn't everything. This is just some things that people saw. Thor hits the windshield of the Milano at the start. The Milano being? Alyssa Milano's car.
Starting point is 01:04:13 That's right. Peter Quill's spaceship. Correct, yeah. Very good, okay. So they bring him inside and Mantis wakes him up and Peter Quill's like, I put your mean faces on. Does he have the hammer or not, I wonder? That's a good question.
Starting point is 01:04:24 I don't know. Well, it depends. You didn't ask, did you? I didn't. I didn't ask the website I was reading. That's right. But I guess they wouldn't really show that because that would spoil what happens.
Starting point is 01:04:34 Spoil the end of Ragnarok, yeah. Ragnarok, yeah. And even if he is carrying the hammer, they could just CGI it out for the trailer. That's true, exactly. But also, he doesn't recognize the Guardians, they don't recognize him. So I'd imagine they'd know who Asgardians are
Starting point is 01:04:46 and they'd probably know who he is. Yeah. Because he's famous. They'd know him by reputation more than anything, yeah. Yeah, that's it. Scarlet Witch cuts a car in... Oh, go on. Wait, unless...
Starting point is 01:04:57 Oh, they would know Asgardians, wouldn't they? Well, they would because at the end of... They would know Asgardians, but they wouldn't know... They would know that the Asgardians, for the most part, live apart from the rest of space well there's also yeah so there's a crossover between uh the collector and until the dark world memories in that that's right yeah so i'd imagine they'd be aware of him yeah absolutely and we also we've floated this before that as guardians are like the amish of the galaxy yeah right people be like what's with this weird society like everybody else is just like this futuristic kind of neon flashing
Starting point is 01:05:25 kind of nightmare, and the Asgardians are all like, we're all kings and whatever. You know what I mean? I'm holding a big, just a giant chicken leg. Look how big the drumstick is. No space food pills for me, thank you. It's all big chicken legs. So another scene is Scarlet Which cuts a car in half
Starting point is 01:05:45 Which kind of reminds me Of Well I didn't see it But it kind of reminds me Of you know That scene in Apocalypse Psylocke cuts the bloody car
Starting point is 01:05:52 Yeah okay right Which reminds me of Another movie Where a car was cut in half Yeah nice Peter Parker's on a school bus And this kind of But it's in space
Starting point is 01:05:59 No It's a regular place Regular school bus Okay right Magic The magic school bus. The magic school bus, yeah. He's on an adventure inside the human body.
Starting point is 01:06:07 Yep. And the hair stands up on his arm because something bad is coming to Earth. Spider sense. Yeah, people like spider sense. I never thought that he didn't have it. Right. It's just, as we talked about, just because his head doesn't flash and it doesn't do a zoom around him doesn't mean that...
Starting point is 01:06:21 But also, and I think that his appearance in Civil War and his appearance in civil war and his appearance in his own movie spider-man homecoming that he's still getting used to his powers yeah and maybe he's it's it's going to take him a while to twig that what he senses is his you know the the feeling he gets and where to move from that is is the spider sense exactly not just the feelings he's getting as he's growing older and becoming a man. Thanos walks through a portal to Earth. Apparently he's real happy.
Starting point is 01:06:48 He's like, great. I love it. What if that were a line? I love this. This is great. You've done a good job, team. He's attacked by Doctor Strange and Star-Lord, which I think is a good combo. I like that combo, yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:05 And Spider-Man swings in in his new suit, so the suit that we saw at the end of Homecoming. Yeah. Spoilers for that, I guess. Then, yeah, so that's the one we're going to be getting, like the Iron Spider, which makes sense. If he's fighting intergalactic threats, you don't want pyjamas.
Starting point is 01:07:19 You want something that you won't get splattered in. Yeah. Even though he's tougher than most. Black Panther's fighting alongside Bucky, which is nice. Pretty good. Because they were enemies. They had some bonding time. That's right.
Starting point is 01:07:30 I guess he's got his arm back. I was just going to say. What if it's just a big chicken leg? Very nice. That's how we do it here. Black Widow has blonde hair. What? And Captain...
Starting point is 01:07:43 Where's the... What? I was just going to say Black Widow's had some good hair and some not so Captain America. Where's the, what? What? I'm just going to say Black Widow's had some good hair and some not so good hair. Where's it going to fall? Where's it going to fall exactly? Apparently it's a little bit shorter as well. Oh yeah, pretty good. And Captain America has a beard.
Starting point is 01:07:54 I'm presuming because they're both in hiding after Civil War. Sure, yeah, yeah. So yeah, that's probably something. They're like, damn our normal disguise of a baseball cap and a leather jacket. It's not going to cut it. What else can we do? Ah, I forgot my aviators. Grow a beard. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:09 I do love that incognito. So good. It's great. It's the best. There's a bit of Thanos grabbing Thor's head like he's going to squish it. Oh, yeah. Because he's enormous. He's like nine feet tall.
Starting point is 01:08:20 He's Josh Brolin mocap. I saw an interview. They were going to say he's Josh Brolin actual height. Did you see Josh Brolin? He's wielding the gauntlet. Yeah, and he's bloodyosh brolin mocap i saw an interview we're gonna say he's josh brolin actual height did you see josh brolin he's wielding the he's wielding the gauntlet yeah and he's bloody ripped as my yeah because he's because he's doing um because he's cable as well yeah right he looks great uh also thanos holds up i don't know this is the description i don't quite understand it thanos holds his hand up and destroys a planet from afar and then throws it at the Avengers. So I don't know what that is.
Starting point is 01:08:47 I want to make of that. So like is it a perspective thing? But because the gauntlet can bend space and time, it's like you can... I think that's what it is. Yeah. I think we see a planet. Yes. And he literally points at the planet and it comes off like it's a cardboard cutout.
Starting point is 01:09:05 Right. And then it's like, if it looks like it's the size of a dinner plate, he just pulls it away and it's the size of a dinner plate. Nice. Yeah, I think that's... Okay. Yeah, I think that's... I mean, I haven't seen it, obviously.
Starting point is 01:09:15 Yeah, but it sounds, doesn't it? The ability to manipulate... It sounds, doesn't it? It does sound. The ability to manipulate all time and space, I feel, you could just chuck it like it's a bowling ball. That's right. People are saying that it was incredible.
Starting point is 01:09:27 It's going to be the biggest movie ever and you'll never forget it. Oh, wow. Yeah, ever. I'll be the judge of that. I've forgotten a lot of good movies. I've forgotten a lot of phone numbers. I've forgotten a lot of birthdates of friends and loved ones. Yep, yep, you have.
Starting point is 01:09:42 Yeah, you missed a lot of funerals of people you knew very well. And murdered. Yeah. Weird. You'd think I'd remember those. One of the reveals, though, that wasn't in the trailer, or maybe it was, I didn't see it. Did you see it?
Starting point is 01:09:53 No. Okay. The Black Order was revealed. Okay. Thanos's children. Yeah, right. Who I know very little about, but I can give you their names. I'm ready.
Starting point is 01:10:02 You ready? Yes. Corvus Glaive. Very good. Proxima Midnight. Yep. The Ebony Maw. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 01:10:11 Black Dwarf. Yep. However, the Black Dwarf has been later renamed as Cull Obsidian. Can't say Dwarf anymore. Oh. But it is a word. Yeah, no, it is a word. You're right.
Starting point is 01:10:23 You know? I'm up there. No, fair enough. It's a controversy that they don't want to... What you're saying is it's political correctness gone mad, is what you're saying. What I'm saying is I don't know anything about this character regardless and I don't care regardless.
Starting point is 01:10:36 That's fair. But if they want to change it, whatever. The other thing is Mark Ruffalo mentioned that... He was asked in an interview, they said, will a Hulkulk movie ever happen and his response was for some reason universal don't know how to play well with marvel and because of that and because they don't want to make money right so as we've talked about before universal owns partial rights to the hulk movie because they made the incredible hulk back in uh
Starting point is 01:11:00 2009 eight nine okay yeah uh eight no it was 8 yeah Kevin Feige was asked and he was like not at the moment but you know never say never but I think they'll just be putting the Hulk in other movies
Starting point is 01:11:11 totally they don't need to make a Hulk solo movie there's no reason they'd need to so hey if they want to you know
Starting point is 01:11:18 if they want to do it like that I don't think Marvel really gives a shit that's true but do you do you want to see a Hulk movie
Starting point is 01:11:22 I'm happy with it I think I like team it. I think... I like team-ups. Exactly. I think we've reached the era where we can just have some team-ups. Team-up some colourful characters. Team-up Star-Lord and Doctor Strange.
Starting point is 01:11:33 Why not? Exactly. Sounds great. It'll probably come around where we'll be like, I'm sick of team-ups. Sick of team-ups. And then we'll go back to these.
Starting point is 01:11:39 Yeah. But at the moment, yeah. I'm sick of team-ups. I want two stories happening on opposite sides of the universe featuring different characters, but they're happening at the same time and they never meet. Correct. That'll do it.
Starting point is 01:11:51 That's what I want. I think we can move on to our next segment, Mason. Okay. It's called Letters. No. It's called What We Reading. Wait. Are we not going to talk about Baby Driver?
Starting point is 01:12:02 Oh, yeah. Let's talk about Baby Driver. I was going to say. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah. Okay. Spoilers or no spoilers? No spoilers.
Starting point is 01:12:08 Can we make this reasonably brief? Yes. Only because I'm tired. You're very tired. Well, that's evident by the fact that you forgot we were going to talk about Baby Driver. I didn't even put it in the notes, which is insane. Yeah, right? Because we met the director.
Starting point is 01:12:22 The director. He was very nice. You may have heard that already in this very podcast. Potentially Sony are listening to this and would hope that we do a review of Baby Driver. I liked it. Me too. I liked it a lot.
Starting point is 01:12:33 Yeah. I think if you go into it thinking this is going to be like an Edgar Wright comedy. If you think it's going to be the next Cornetto movie, it's not. Not at all. Yeah. It's more along the lines of fun heat, I guess.
Starting point is 01:12:44 It is fun heat yeah uh the the boys over at filthy casuals pointed out that it's a lot like a live grand theft auto game oh yeah i'd pay that yeah grand theft auto movie yeah i do you like the radio stations in grand theft auto horrible it's just like look out for all the boners like that's literally that's a grand theft auto radio station. Wow, okay. Yeah, no good. But, I mean, you should probably look out for all the bonus. If you can, yeah, avoid it when possible.
Starting point is 01:13:16 But, no, I think, actually, there is a great kind of Pixar joke in this. The Monsters, Inc. joke. The Monsters, Inc. joke, yeah, which I quite liked. But this is, I mean, I'm not just saying this, like, because, you know, we met him, he was very nice. There's some amazing car chases in this. because, you know, we met him, he was very nice. There's some amazing car chases in this. Yes, there is. Like some of the best. It's in the trailer, but they like a drift WRX, like a Subaru.
Starting point is 01:13:34 Yeah. Which are not known for their. Driftability? Well, maybe they are. But like in between like two stationary objects on a wet road in an alley. It's incredible. It's a great shot. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:46 But also I know going into this that, oh, they would have done that for real. If I saw that in Fast and Furious, I'd be like, eh, because I like those movies, but I don't feel like that I would be impressed because I just think they could have just CGI'd that. Exactly right. But no, there's some great stuff. And I know you didn't mention this,
Starting point is 01:14:02 but a lot of the actors did a lot of their own stunt driving. He did mention that they did a lot of on on set stuff yeah they bring him in for the day and you heard it why am I talking about this it's just happened I was there for us but even people listening like they would have just heard this but that's cool that they didn't have them just sitting in a studio in front of a green screen just being like react and apparently there's a there's a there's a pod that you sort of, the actors get put in and they kind of replicate the motion of the vehicle. Right.
Starting point is 01:14:29 So if they're drifting a car, then they put them in this pod and then they sort of spin the vehicle. Oh, great. They spin the pod like at the same rate and sort of follow the car. Yeah. So everything moves the correct way.
Starting point is 01:14:41 So like the hair moves the correct way and the clothes move the correct way and all the stuff in the car moves the correct way. That goes a long way to make a difference. Doesn't it though, yeah. Because it's the kind of stuff you probably wouldn't notice on the surface, but subconsciously you might be like,
Starting point is 01:14:51 that looks a bit weird. That's why everybody's shaven down in the Fast and Furious. Exactly. That's right. Yeah. But no, this movie for me though, it really comes alive with the car chases
Starting point is 01:15:04 and the cast of characters around the lead. I didn't find the character of Baby Driver that cool, or was I supposed to find him cool? Well, see, we've had this discussion before. I don't think you're supposed to. I wasn't like, what a bloody void of charisma, because that's not it at all. Right, but I think he's just supposed to be.
Starting point is 01:15:22 I don't think he's supposed to be a cool. we're supposed to, he's just supposed to be. I don't think he's supposed to be a cool, like, well, like, I guess because, like, there's a, this movie has a romance in it, and I think it's supposed to be like a 1950s kind of James Dean. Sure, yeah. Like, doomed romance kind of situation. And that's supposed, and that is inherently kind of quite surreal. But I think, and then they're put into a universe that is very real.
Starting point is 01:15:45 Yeah. Well, elements, because it is a slightly heightened reality. Yeah, that's right. And the thing that twigged for me when it was, or the thing that really kind of sunk home, it's not an expression, is it? You get what I mean? You're very tired, it's fine.
Starting point is 01:15:57 Yeah. But you know at the start of the opening sequence where he's dancing and you see that all the things that he's doing is kind of happening behind him, like he's pretending to play the trumpet and then there's a guy behind him playing the trumpet none of that registered but then when he bought the coffee they came in like five seconds and i'm like oh this is a heightened reality because that that never happens you know that
Starting point is 01:16:14 was the moment for me yeah but it's it's but it's not it's very it's very realistic in a lot of ways though in terms of like the way the characters, I guess, interact with each other. Like, maybe not even. I don't know. How would you put it? I don't know where I was going with that. What are we doing? What are we doing?
Starting point is 01:16:33 What are we doing with our lives? I did like the colourful cast of characters he was surrounded in. I really liked Jamie Foxx and John Hammond. I can't remember the name of John Hammond's lady friend, the partner in crime. She was great also. And Kevin Spacey. I mean, he's Kevin Spacey.
Starting point is 01:16:48 What do you want from him, Mason? The best? You got it. Have I ever told you my Kevin Spacey story? You can't say it on the air. Yeah. What else? Let me think.
Starting point is 01:17:00 Music was great. Yes. Good old. It was a great, I feel it was a great mix of sort of like old we've discussed this in the interview i guess a little bit yeah but i didn't do very well at asking the questions but uh you did thank you uh it's it's a good mix of like uh like old school soul classics and old old timey pop music and song like modern day ish songs that sample those right those songs and so there's a lot of there's a lot of fake outs like there's initially you think you know a song's going to
Starting point is 01:17:31 be like it's going to be a house of pains jump around and then it becomes the harlem shuffle which is the song that house of pain sampled yes for that song that kind of thing which i thought was really interesting i don't know it's a bloody but it keeps you on your toes seems intentional mason it was very intentional i mean he said it was, he said it was intentional. He said it was intentional. Yeah, we got it straight from the horse's mouth. Yeah. He's also talking about, and I wanted to ask him more about it, doing a sequel. Yeah, right, because he's not a sequel guy.
Starting point is 01:17:52 He's not a sequel guy. I guess, yeah, the Cornetto trilogy doesn't count. I saw on his Twitter, and I couldn't find it, and I meant to ask him, that they might have gone in like a NASCAR direction. How so? Well, he could be a NASCAR driver. Baby driver. After he got out of jail. I guess so, yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:09 I may have just imagined that. But I wanted to ask him about it. We didn't have time. Well, we got, you probably noticed in the interview, we got the wrap up kind of real quickly. It was just kind of like, 15 minutes are up. Beat it. Yeah. Nerds, they said. That's what they said. Would you say, I think it's one of those things where you should probably go see it.
Starting point is 01:18:27 Oh, yeah, totally. First of all, because it's a new property. Yeah, right. He wrote it himself and directed it himself. Oh, yeah, nice. But we don't get a lot of that. That's very true, yeah. Especially of this quality.
Starting point is 01:18:36 And it's a $30 million movie. There's not a huge budget in it. That's also something we don't get a lot, which is a mid-budget movie. Yeah. You either get the million dollar short film or you get the $200 million blockbuster. You don't really get a lot, which is a mid-budget movie. You either get the million-dollar short film or you get the $200 million blockbuster. You don't really get a lot of stuff in the middle. Which I think is smart, though, also for something like this
Starting point is 01:18:50 because this isn't going to make a billion dollars. It's just not that kind of movie. But it's obviously doing well enough. Critically, it's doing well, and it's also doing some pretty good box office. But at the same time, like all Edgar Wright's other movies, it doesn't look like a $30 million movie. I wouldn't go, this seems cheap and nasty.
Starting point is 01:19:08 You'll notice there's sequences where it's just set in a really bland warehouse or whatever. You know what I mean? Everything about this is kind of vibrant. I don't know whether it's the way he shoots it or his eye for detail, Mason, or the way he puts someone in a rig
Starting point is 01:19:24 and spins them in a circle or whatever. Probably a combination of those. I don't know what it is. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know, his eye for detail, Mason, or the way he puts someone in a rig and spins them in a circle or whatever. Probably a combination of those. I don't know what it is. Yeah. But, yeah, I just think there's also a lot of, like, the mounting tension in this is quite good, like the way that Baby, which is the lead's name, is kind of forced into the situation and it does, you feel the kind of pressure that's upon him.
Starting point is 01:19:42 He just wants to kind of get out and just do literally anything else. We should have probably mentioned what the story's about. Nah, it doesn't matter. That's your job, Mason. Yeah, I know, right? It's my job to ask you. I'm shirking my responsibilities. That's right.
Starting point is 01:19:54 But I felt it did that really well. And the way that the kind of the main villain develops happens naturally and it wasn't who I thought it was going to be. Yeah, okay, sure. Was that the same for you? That same, yeah. Like it kind of zigged and zagged in a way that I didn't think it would. What a good time.
Starting point is 01:20:10 It was just a good, fun film. Yeah, exactly, yeah. It was the thing there. Anyway, I'm going to say best movie ever. Let's do spoilers for like two seconds. I'm also going to say best movie ever. Nice. So spoilers, I didn't 100% buy the fact that Kevin Spacey's character
Starting point is 01:20:24 like turned from the heel to the face in like two seconds. But then I guess if you factor in that, I guess if you sort of factor in that, again, it's this slightly surreal, like I say 1950s James Dean kind of romance, and then it meets this modern day heist film. Like, I guess when he sees baby and the, and Deborah together, something like twigs,
Starting point is 01:20:52 something twigs. And like the magic takes a whole, like individually, he's like, I don't care. You're just a kid and you got a girl who cares kind of thing. This is real. And this is whatever.
Starting point is 01:20:59 But then when he sees them together, he's like, it's kind of magic. Cause you know? Yeah. He was like, I did. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:04 This is, it was, it was something like I had a girl. I fell in love once, yeah. Man, crazy days. Didn't feel long. It was brisk and fun. It was brisk and fun, right? Yeah, and the music was fantastic. Jamie Foxx I particularly enjoyed.
Starting point is 01:21:17 There's a lot of fun in this. But no, I think it's definitely worth checking out if you haven't already because it's been out in most parts of the world for like a month. Right, yeah, we got this one last. But yeah, let me get into it. Pretty great. Mason, it's definitely worth checking out if you haven't already because it's been out in most parts of the world for like a month. Right, yeah, we got this one last. But yeah, let me get into it. Pretty great. Mason, let's do letters.
Starting point is 01:21:30 It's time for letters. Wait, don't we have another segment? No, sorry, what are we reading? We're reading what we've got to read. I am flying this week. No, you are nailing this. I'm doing the thing. I'm doing the thing.
Starting point is 01:21:43 What are we reading today? Tell you what, I'm going to read. Yep. Because it's back, apparently. Game of Thrones is back. Yay, that's what I had. It's on tomorrow. We're back into it, Mason.
Starting point is 01:21:55 No, I'm not. Me and you. No, I'm against it. GOT bros. No, we're not GOT bros. We're not GOT bros. Hashtag GOT bros. Yeah, he's all right.
Starting point is 01:22:03 If you're a GOT bro like Mason, hashtag GOT bros hashtag GOT bros oh jeez alright if you're a GOT bro like Mason hashtag GOT bros back into this bloody this bloody desolate universe this desolate depressing universe
Starting point is 01:22:13 this is where it gets all magic and dragons it all happens I guess the benefit is this season again because it's the
Starting point is 01:22:20 pointy end of Game of Thrones the series most of the people in it are dead now. So I don't have to remember as many names. Just a lot of locations have been destroyed with green fire. A lot of people have had their eyes torn out or been eaten by dogs. I don't have to think about them anymore.
Starting point is 01:22:41 I just have to focus on the five people that are going to live. Wow. Potentially. The two or three people who are gonna live wow the one guy is gonna live well is peter dinklage gonna live i don't know i don't know yeah uh so that's about tomorrow we were talking about and we talked about this with ben from filthy casuals as well doing like a recap thing but we just don't have the well i know i don't have the balls balls to do it yeah i'd love to do it but i just i can't i just can't do it yeah uh anyway hashtag got bros to mason all right no spoilers though have you have you watched or read or done anything this week i haven't had time i watched a bunch i you know i read my comics every week oh actually i'm really enjoying oh there's a darth vader uh comic at the moment yeah right it's three in
Starting point is 01:23:24 and he goes to find his lightsaber crystal. I've talked about this before. Yeah, have you? And the guy he decides to take it from is a guy who's been isolated and only been training. I think I must have talked about this recently. Before Anakin even went into the Order. Oh, sure, right. So when he gets there, he's severely outmatched.
Starting point is 01:23:42 And because he's just Darth Vader, like he's just started. He's not used to his limbs and whatnot. It's great. It's really good. Exactly. He's having all sorts of driver errors in his cyborg bits. Yeah. There's some ransomware on his chest thing.
Starting point is 01:23:59 Exactly, yeah. Have you been reading a thing? No, I haven't had a chance. What should I get into? Don't say Star Wars. Well, you know, Star Wars is quite popular. Let me double check. I'm going to go to my comics and I'll tell you in a sec, Mason.
Starting point is 01:24:12 Okay, please do. No, Doctor Who has not been announced yet. Oh, relief. Yeah. But again, we can't go to bed not knowing who the new Doctor Who is. I absolutely can and I will. Jupiter's Legacy. Oh, yeah, that's Mark Miller. Your old the new Doctor Who is. I absolutely can. Wow. And I will. Jupiter's Legacy. Oh, yeah, that's Mark Miller.
Starting point is 01:24:28 Your best mate, Mark Miller. We're best friends. I quite like that. They just did the wrap-up of that. I've been reading Secret Empire. I've been talking about that quite a bit. What else? God Country.
Starting point is 01:24:41 You've been reading that. It's a good one. I read the first few, but I haven't finished it. That's wrapping up pretty soon, right? I think it has wrapped up. There you go. Yeah. Invincible is great.
Starting point is 01:24:50 I'm not still on that. Yeah. Good stuff, Mason. It's all good stuff. It is all good stuff. Hadrian's Wall. You've been reading that? No, that's the murder mystery set in space.
Starting point is 01:24:59 You should absolutely read that. Okay, right. It's great. Okay. Get into it. Nice. All right, Mason. I hope you like... Letters? Yeah. Do into it. Nice. All right, Mason. I hope you like...
Starting point is 01:25:05 Letters? Yeah. Do you? I do. The classic one was letters, oh letters. We love you, some letters. They're only a day my way. I know they're here right now.
Starting point is 01:25:17 We're going to do letters. I've got a letter. I'm ready. You've got a letter. I've got a tweet. We've all got letters. Actually, I've got a tweet. You've got an email.
Starting point is 01:25:25 I'd imagine. Is that how it goes? Yes. You've got an email. I'd imagine. Is that how it goes? Yes. Do you have an email? Not yet. Okay. If you do want to send an email, it will be read live on this show as Mason finds it. WeeklyPlanetPod at gmail.com.
Starting point is 01:25:36 Just as an administration issue. Go on. When we get sent letters for our letters segment, a lot of people write in the subject line letters so sometimes we're trying to find a thing yeah and they all say letters and so you want an eye-catching headline ideally an eye-catching headline but so if you have a question right eye-catching headline no write a literal eye-catching headline and i don't mean right literal eye-catching headline i feel like I have to cover all these bases. Absolutely. Yeah. So ideally, for example, if you were going to ask us a question about
Starting point is 01:26:12 Edgar Wright's baby driver, perhaps you could write baby driver question in the subject line as opposed to writing letters. I feel this is our fault somehow why is that our fault I don't know that's just poor email etiquette Mason can't put everything on us I mean a lot of things are our fault but I don't think we should bear the brunt of that
Starting point is 01:26:32 alright I'll do a tweet while you're looking through all the letters titled letters this is from Emperor Bailey what are the odds of a surprise beta ray bill in Thor Ragnarok hashtag weekly planet pod I would love that. That's how you get a tweet, by the way. Hashtag Weekly Planet Pod. I don't think, perhaps
Starting point is 01:26:49 not in Thor Ragnarok. Yeah. No, I reckon perhaps not in Thor Ragnarok, because I think the key with Beta Ray Bill is because Beta Ray Bill, the horse-faced alien with the dumbest name in the universe, is that initially he gains his powers because he is worthy enough to pick up
Starting point is 01:27:06 thor's hammer yes he can't really pick up thor's hammer in ragnarok if it's in little bits right so my feeling would be he gets it thor gets his hammer back maybe at the end of ragnarok or at the start of infinity war yeah and then beta ray bill we see him in infinity war i would say he's much more likely to appear in infinity war is it possible he could show up before he's Thor? Oh, he could, yeah. No, that's true. I think if there's a movie that he's going to be in, this is it.
Starting point is 01:27:32 Yeah. I'm not saying he won't turn up in other things, but I feel like if I had to put money on it, this would be it. Maybe he's just a horse-faced alien called Regular Bill. But us Marvel super fans, we know. We've seen fans we know it's a little tip of the hat we go we we nudge our friends in the cinema like who's gonna be you just think that's a regular cyborg super horse-faced alien man but actually you dummy you dumbass how could you not know
Starting point is 01:28:00 uh i've got another tweet here do you want it i? I'm ready. Okay. This is from Loren. Do you think, hashtag weekly planet pod, that's how you reach the show on Twitter. Do you think the Valerian will out-Avatar the Avatar sequels and make them more moot than they already are? Yes. Probably. Already Valerian.
Starting point is 01:28:20 Is that out yet? Is that out? No, there's been some reviews. It's ranging from it's the best thing you've ever seen to a nightmare. Great. Well, at the very least, that sounds memorable. Absolutely. Name a scene in Avatar.
Starting point is 01:28:35 Plants. Good. I mean, you're correct. You're not wrong. The plant scene. Yeah, no, look. Well, there's been a lot of stuff that's kind of come since then that hasn't done well also.
Starting point is 01:28:48 Like I'd compare Avatar to like John Carter. I've literally come across a letter here from Marion Viespoli. Reviews for Valerian and City of Planets have started coming and they range from worst movie of 2017 to the most beautiful visuals I've ever seen in a movie. So here's a question. Would you watch a movie that undoubtedly had the best effects of all time but a terrible story?
Starting point is 01:29:09 Would you think it was a good or bad movie? I would watch it. Yes. But I would hate it. Yeah, same. I feel like a lot of Transformers is that. And I felt the same about Speed Racer. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 01:29:20 Because I put off watching that for a long time. Yeah. Because I'm like what is this movie going to be for me some people love that movie some people love that movie and I
Starting point is 01:29:28 our friends over at the Blank Slate Movie Podcast have talked about Speed Racer right right yeah and that's a good podcast isn't it it's a great podcast
Starting point is 01:29:35 but and as a as a as an achievement it's kind of amazing yeah but as a movie I was bored out of my brains for that.
Starting point is 01:29:46 I just couldn't. There's nothing to it. Is it because it doesn't feel real? It doesn't feel. It's just on that Uncanny Valley level. But also. How's Matthew Fox? There's too many plots happening in it.
Starting point is 01:29:59 There's a monkey in it? There's a monkey. Spritele and Chim Chim are in it. They're always hiding in the trunk of the Mark 5. Are there two monkeys? No, Spritele is the kid. And Chim Chim are in us they're always hiding in the trunk of the Mark 5 are they two monkeys no Spritell is the kid and Chim Chim's his monkey
Starting point is 01:30:07 okay yeah you know what happens when monkeys reach a certain age they tear your dick off is that their birthday present that's
Starting point is 01:30:16 you know they go they go bad yep chimps they reach a certain age so and immediately after that we've got two letters
Starting point is 01:30:21 one from James Young and one from Connor Wilson yeah they both say letters it's time for letters. That's the subject line. So should I click on one of them? Pick one. James Young.
Starting point is 01:30:33 Oh, James is a teacher. He listens to the podcast while he plans lessons. Probably shouldn't. And more than one occasion, I've absentmindedly typed some of your gibberish into PowerPoints I've used in the lesson. He's had to sidestep on the fly. That sounds like a very teacher thing to do.
Starting point is 01:30:47 Yeah, it's a lot of on the fly sidestep. He also grew up in the town that The World's End was filmed in. Oh, right. There you go. Is he just bragging? Is this just a brag? I think so. Have you ever been sucked into watching a TV show
Starting point is 01:30:59 because someone you live with watches it? Yes. I got sucked into watching all 259 episodes of Grey's Anatomy. Good Lord, there's that many episodes of Grey's Anatomy. Apparently, it's still going, I think. Yeah, I got into Sex and the City when I lived with two girls. I mean, that being said, they started it. I didn't live with anybody and I watched every episode of Sex and the City.
Starting point is 01:31:17 Well, that's what happened to me. I just kept watching it. Yeah, what else? Let me think. RuPaul's Drag Race. All right, that's good, isn't it? It's pretty good. Yeah,Paul's Drag Race. All right. That's good, isn't it? It's pretty good.
Starting point is 01:31:26 Yeah. It's pretty good. But my favorite thing to do while watching RuPaul's Drag Race is go, all right, settle down, everybody. Because it's always like, whoo! Everybody's like, whoo! There's always a live finale. And it's always like, everybody, it's RuPaul.
Starting point is 01:31:40 And everybody's like, whoo! And I'm like, all right, settle down. This is a bit much. Come on, guys. And it's like, hey, it's your favorite drag queen from the previous season. Whoo! And I'm like alright settle down this is a bit much come on guys and it's like hey it's this it's your favorite drag queen from the previous season whoo and I'm like come on settle down all right all right we get it's alright come on guys real fans yeah yeah there's been a heap I'm trying to think of those any others that have sprung to me I mean a lot of stuff like
Starting point is 01:31:58 by default you kind of you end up watching you know with your parents but I think because in the in this age where there's 15 devices in my house that I can watch something on, including one that you just found behind the couch. Exactly. You probably didn't even know. I'm going to push the button on it. I'm going to push the home button and see if it still works.
Starting point is 01:32:16 No. No, it's still on. Oh, it's still on. That's a battery. 5%. Beautiful. Yeah. But no, I think it's harder for that to happen, for me at least now.
Starting point is 01:32:27 Like when there's one TV in the house, then yeah, you kind of make a compromise and you're like, well, shit, we have to watch this. I'm sure they'll have more examples of that. Connor Wilson, our second Letters, It's Time for Letters. There's some gold in these ones. Yeah. I've changed my mind. I thought I'd just say It's Time for Letters.
Starting point is 01:32:41 I'm loving them. He just finished watching The Leftovers. I've got to get to that. Yeah, which I watched a few episodes of and then I sort of dropped off a little bit. Yeah, yeah. I should get back to that. Got a few Leftovers, do you, Mason?
Starting point is 01:32:51 Yeah. He says the real secret behind The Leftovers' success was exactly the length that it needed to be. Ah, yeah, yeah. Three seasons, ten episodes each, didn't drag it out. Yeah, absolutely. Do you know any of any other shows that didn't outstay their welcome and ended up being better for it? Every British comedy. Absolutely, yeah. Do you know of any other shows that didn't outstay their welcome and ended up being better for it?
Starting point is 01:33:05 Every British comedy. Absolutely, yeah. I would say that 100%. Yeah. Because they have a certain amount of story they need to tell and they just go, okay, wouldn't it be funny
Starting point is 01:33:14 if Manny did this and Bernard did this and blah, blah, blah. I recently re-watched all those. They're great, right? They're great. But tell all the stories you need to tell. You don't need to do
Starting point is 01:33:24 22, 30-minute episodes and then struggle to go. But at the same time, right right but tell all the stories you need to tell you don't need to do 22 30 minute episodes and then struggle to go but at the same time you know there's there's some you know parks and rec that's parks and rec seinfeld yeah had you know if they hadn't i can't see that's the thing i guess it's a double-edged sword because in a lot of cases if you know seinfeld and larry david didn't have to pump out however many episodes. They probably wouldn't have gone, what's another crazy thing Kramer could do? Yeah, absolutely. Scream the N-word at a comedy club.
Starting point is 01:33:49 Yeah. You know? Was that an episode? No. No, I know. Breaking Bad is a great example of that. Although a lot of people would say that Breaking Bad could have conceivably ended at season four,
Starting point is 01:34:02 like the end of season four. I don't even remember what seasons happened where. Okay, right. Well, season four kind of ends. Like a spoiler alert for Breaking Bad? No. Yeah, okay, go on. Well, season five is sort of where it all sort of breaks bad again.
Starting point is 01:34:21 Yeah. Like four kind of ends. You could definitely leave at four. Right, okay. I of ends. You could definitely leave at four. Right, okay. I would even kind of recommend you leave at four. No, no. I thought the last season was great. And I thought the finale in particular was a lot of fun if you love Nazis.
Starting point is 01:34:35 That's true. I've got a list here. This is at some website. Parks and Rec, Breaking Bad, Six Feet Under. Don't know. MASH. MASH did 11 Don't know. MASH. MASH did 11 seasons. I love MASH.
Starting point is 01:34:48 I'm a big fan, but I don't know whether that's correct. Also, they did After MASH. So, The Sopranos. And that spinoff with Radar. Yeah. Which lasted one episode or something. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which you're a fan of. Would you agree with that?
Starting point is 01:35:05 No, I would say probably the final season of Buffy is completely unnecessary. Okay. What about the final season of Ugly Betty? Because that's on here as well. What? That went for like 10 years, right? Four. So we've looked at all these.
Starting point is 01:35:18 I haven't seen it. And Mad Men went for seven. But I think I'm like on season three of that. I think if I went back, I don't know whether I'd be able to. I like Mad Men. It's just one of those things. I think I moved, so I stopped. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:35:30 It's one of those things. Yeah, right, right. Yeah, I don't know. Anyway. Here's a letter from Lewis Glover. Did you go on bananas today, Matt? Well, I'm getting through a few. This is subject line, Baby Driver.
Starting point is 01:35:40 Okay. Very relevant. Thank you, Lewis Glover. How's he done it? He enjoyed Baby driver a lot uh do you think that a lot of films recently using popular songs as their soundtrack yes is it a movie trend i think it is yeah because it worked so well for guardians of the galaxy but yes well first of all he started writing this a long time ago yeah yeah yeah uh yeah i don't think
Starting point is 01:36:01 it was it wasn't a copying thing but not but not only that, we're just going to get a lot of this but done really badly. Suicide Squad. Yeah, exactly. I think so. Yeah, and I mean, I think Baby Driver does that well. And we spoke about it, I think, in the interview that a lot of the songs in the movie are very, very well integrated
Starting point is 01:36:19 in the sense that, you know, Suicide Squad was just kind of like, well, we need a bouncy song here, so let's put in Eminem or what have you. Yeah, absolutely. A lot of the songs are integrated so well into this movie. It's literally like they'll fire a machine gun to the beat of a song. Yeah, and also in the sense of like, we didn't really have time to talk about it, but I guess in the sense of like, there are some songs where I think if he couldn't have gotten them cleared, it might have changed the whole scope of the movie. Yeah. Or the scope of the movie. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:36:46 Or the plot of the movie in the sense of like, well, if he can't have a scene where a character does this to this song or the song that it's sampled from, if he couldn't get either, he might have had to rewrite another, you know, write another scene. Absolutely. And then the movie could have gone in a completely different direction. But it didn't. It went in the direction that we saw it in. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 01:37:02 Yeah. Let's go through another one of these TV lists. Oh, Blackadder? I think Blackadder we saw it in. Uh-huh. Yeah. Let's go through another one of these TV lists. They put, oh, Blackadder. I think Blackadder did a special in like 97. Yep. I don't think it was terrible though. It was. Was it?
Starting point is 01:37:12 Yeah. Scrubs. Scrubs really dipped in quality. So I think season eight is strong, but like five to seven are no good. I think it's all pretty great except for seven. Right. I think six was very strong. Seven was no good.
Starting point is 01:37:27 Okay. And then eight came back. What about The Office, the UK one? That's the correct length, right? What about the movie? I can't remember it. Oh, have you seen it? The David Brent movie?
Starting point is 01:37:39 Oh, no, I haven't seen it. No, no. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I think that'll do it. Anyway, yep. You know what I did watch? I watched that Netflix show about friends from college or whatever. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 01:37:46 Quite liked it. Great. It was kind of depressing. It was good. All right, that's the show for this week, Mason. Yeah, it is. Let me just check if the Doctor Who's been announced. Okay, if you could.
Starting point is 01:37:55 Let's have a quick gander at this, mate. Oh, my God, it's David Tennant again. I would like that, actually. I like him, yeah. Well, wasn't the premise of the David Tennant Doctor that at one point he regenerated as himself again? Yeah. Because he just loved himself so much?
Starting point is 01:38:10 There was that. And there's also a version of the David Tennant Doctor that's human that lives in another dimension with Billy Piper, which means that they could bring him back in 40 years and he would have aged real time. It's actually smart. That's very smart.
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Starting point is 01:39:57 great and no we haven't seen Planet of the Apes because it's not out here yet yeah also we might talk about Dunkirk a bit next week as well
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Starting point is 01:40:15 Yeah, more like dumb jerk. Yeah. Dumb jerk, sorry. It's pretty good. I'm looking forward to that, actually. Yeah. All right. Thanks for watching.
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