The Weekly Planet - 194 D23 & Baby Driver (with Edgar Wright)
Episode Date: July 17, 2017This 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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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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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,
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
J-A-U-M-E
Jom
Jom
Jom
Dugon
Dugon
I'm going to look it up on Google
Yeah, that's fine
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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
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.
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.
Sounds pretty good.
You all for that?
Yeah.
Good.
I have nothing else to say.
What at all?
About that.
Oh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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?
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.
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-
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.
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
hot
news
very good
well done on
bloody news
this week
sometimes I got news
very good
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
like entertainment news
but
Siobhan over at
Serious Issues
had a baby
oh she did have the baby
boy or girl
not a boy
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
is very healthy
and doing well
so
congratulations over there
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 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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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,
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
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
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,
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,
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?
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Andy Garcia?
No.
Al Pacino?
No.
I'm blown it.
It's done.
Was it not Andy Garcia?
Not in that one.
Okay, right.
Yeah.
God damn it.
Carry on then.
Yeah.
Wow.
That was not a bad effort though.
It's admirable.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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-
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
You ready?
Yes.
Corvus Glaive.
Very good.
Proxima Midnight.
Yep.
The Ebony Maw.
Mm-hmm.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
this is where it gets
all magic and dragons
it all
happens
I guess
the benefit is
this season
again because it's the
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
okay
yeah
you know what happens
when monkeys
reach a certain age
they tear your dick off
is that their birthday present
that's
you know they go
they go bad
yep
chimps they reach
a certain age
so and immediately
after that
we've got two letters
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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That's very smart.
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do I have to watch Dunkirk
you gotta say the thing that you normally say yeah Do I have to watch Dunkirk? You've got to say the thing that you normally say.
Yeah.
Do I have to watch Dunkirk?
That's my classic catchphrase.
No, you say more like done jerk.
Oh, okay, right.
That's what you texted me earlier this week.
Yeah, more like dumb jerk.
Yeah.
Dumb jerk, sorry.
It's pretty good.
I'm looking forward to that, actually.
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