Speaker 1: Thanks for the timestamp, Taylor. Let's get.
Speaker 2: Uh so our next wonderful topic is in a galaxy
far far away. I cannot wait to get into this. Kirkland,
are you looking forward to what we're about to talk about?
Speaker 1: I am so excited and curious about what we're gonna
talk about. I know, like the head hitter, the heavy hitter,
the main name. I guess on what we're about to
talk about, but I know nothing further, so inform me
in the listeners.
Speaker 2: I'm okay, yeah, I'm gonna blow your mind here. So
there's some BETI your scoops that just dropped. And this
is basically touching back on the topic of Ryan Gosling
popping up in a Star Wars movie. We were discussing
this a few news casts ago, and the concept basically
for this is that it's gonna be set five to
six years after episode nine h Ryan Gosling Star Wars
movie will start him and a young male padawan he
is possibly playing a Jedi, and that there's gonna be
a male villain in the film. There are supposed to
be like four major female roles that they're casting for,
but roughly this is kind of just the the scoop
as of now. So I want to get your thoughts
because I mean you're a big Ryan Gosling fan.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, he almost never misses. Yeah, I really do
love Ryan Gosling and he's fantastic. I've seen him in
dramatic roles. I think I prefer him in comedy roles.
I just think it it's more on my wavelength his humor,
like it just gets me more. Like he is great
in drama roles as well, but I just love him
for his his comedic chops. It's weird seeing him tie
to something like Star Wars because it is just such
a big ip and it like an extreme example on
the negative side would be comparing it to something like
how we got Jack Black in Star Wars. And I
love Jack Black, I love Star Wars, but it's like
the two of them together, It's just it's just something
takes me out of the the immersion I think of
that world we have had obviously, like famous actors in
Star Wars, I just think there is certain, yes, certain
actors that take me out of that immersion more than others.
And Ryan Gosling is very much that for me, because
he's just Ryan gosling Man likes. It's gonna be hard
for me not to picture him in these other projects
that I've seen, whether it's Barbie Remember the Titans. You know,
I'm a big defender of that movie. I fucking love
remember the Titans? What else we got? We got? What's
the Love one that he's in with Steve Carrell? Oh?
Speaker 2: Crazy stupid love, crazy stupid love.
Speaker 1: Like I yeah, I love all these projects. Notebook, I guess,
is another class. I was trying to go for niche ones,
but it kind of failed because I started with Barbie.
But yeah, I don't know, it's it's just the idea
of him in this world. I guess. I kind of
had that with Jude Law and he did surprise me.
I actually really liked him in that role. And I
actually didn't just see him as jew Law. I really
liked him in that role. So yeah, I think initially
I'm a little bit stand offish. However, I have been
proven in the past that big actors can hit me
with the immersion. But then there's the Lizzo and Jack
Black combo that that really didn't do it for me.
So I'll try not to judge it until I see it.
It is a beat your Scooper. It's not confirmed or
anything like that, but yeah, I'm open to try it,
but I'm still a little bit stand offish. And just
what you pitched with the him potentially having was it
like his padawan is sorry I missed that. I don't
know exactly, just him and a young padawan.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just gonna say, yeah, a p I Yeah.
Speaker 1: So him and a padawan. I guess they could always
do the thing that like, well, he is actually a
villain character. I don't really want that. He's a good actor.
I'm sure he could do it, but it's because I
align with his comedy side so much more. I think
I would just prefer him in either a scoundrel or
a more jovial type position as opposed to like him
being a menace. But we'll wait and see. You know,
it could be impressive. But yeah, I like the hot goss.
He's good stuff.
Speaker 2: Hot goss. Yeah, I think he landed that right on
the head of the nail him in a Star Wars movie.
He's just he's got that face, that recognizable face, And
you're right, Jude Law was the same scenario, but with
him popping off his Skeleton Crew. He can really detach
him from being Jude Law and embrace him as this character.
And I love that about Jude Law. He does it
so well. So I'm holding on to hope that that's
gonna be the same case when it comes to Ryan Gosling.
The idea that he could be a smuggler or a
scoundrel and he just has a Jedi that's teamed up
with him, a young Padawan. I really like that idea.
I think that's a lot of fun. It makes me
wonder what the context would be because if we're talking
five six years after episode nine, the only Jedi master
is Ray Skywalker. There's no other there's no other Jedi,
maybe obviously Finn, but we don't really know what happens
with Finn after this point in time. There's not really
any comics or narratives that really describe what goes on there,
So we can kind of keep him excluded from this
this kind of narrative for now and just look at Okay,
what is Ray doing. Is she going off training a
new Jedi. I'm assuming she is, because she's got the
sacred texts and she's got the teachings, and she she
has a little bit of knowledge and insight as to
what she's doing, having defeated the Syth and faced off
and redeemed Kylo Wren and so much more and trained
under Leah. So there's a lot that she has to
go off and started the new Jedi Order with. So
if she's got if she's trying, like, I don't think
she's going off and taking kids when they're like two
or three before they experience emotions and taking it into children,
just kidnapping children. Yeah, it wouldn't work because if this
is five to six years after, those kids with the
Padawan's gonna be like eight years old. So then what
kind of a movie are we doing? Are we doing
an eight year old padawan teamed up with a scoundrel
of smuggler or is Ryan Gosling a Jedi Master? Well
that doesn't work because then where did this other Jedi
master come from? Because it's five or six years after
Rise of Skywalker and then we get this whole thing. Well,
if he is a Jedi Master, that are we doing
the thing that Travis hates where it's like, oh Luke
was not the only Jedi. There's actually twenty other Jedi Masters.
Alive at the same time, so it gets a bit
murky and convoluted. So I hope that they tread lately
and they play this well. Like I said, I would
love it if Ryan Gosling was a scoundrel or something.
I think he could play that role really, really well.
He could do it well. His face in the like
the robes of a Jedi, I can't picture it. I
just wouldn't be able to take this seriously. So yeah, yeah,
I agree the oh sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1: No, I was just gonna quickly add initial thoughts. I
feel like they are going to go the route of like, well,
there was more out there, you know, like like you
thought you were alone, but there was more. And I
I'm kinda I'm not like Super Against or Super four
that idea. I just don't want it to always be
the cop out answer that there was more out there,
Like I'm okay with like, oh no, there actually was
more out there that just completely shut them off themselves
off on the force or like some reasoning like that.
There's some great stories of that kind of happening already established,
but I I just don't want that to be like
the that's the easy, get get out of free get
out of jail free card, you know, where it's oh, well,
we didn't really have to tie in why this character
or what they were doing around that era, because they
were just they're just in hiding, or maybe they're just
really far away and they just they're out of the
Imperial uh you know, galactic event like it just yeah, yeah,
just messing.
Speaker 2: I mean it is, and I mean we can definitely
look and see how there are Force users out there,
like Grogu who's opted out from being a Jedi. Maybe
there's other Padawans that survived Kylo Ren's assault on the
Jedi temple that Luke built, and they'll swing that in.
But all I know is just you have snow Can
saying like, oh the last Jedi, Luke Skywalker, so forth
and whatnot. So it's they've set themselves up already, and
if they kind of revoke a little bit of that,
it does get messy and I don't really like it. Now.
I am very curious what they're gonna do for a
male villain in this film. I can't imagine they're touching
Sith at all. I don't think that's even gonna be
a thing. I don't think we're gonna see a dark
Side user or anything like that. I reckon, you're just
gonna get a young padawan dealing with pirates or something
like that. And that being said, sure that's okay. But
as much as Accolyte has its own problems, I know
people are not overly fond of that show. God damn.
Seeing Kimer face off against like five Jedi and just cleanly,
just take them down was one of the smoothest, slickest
things in Star Wars for a long time. Then I
would really like to have a little bit more of that,
with more Scyth and more Jedi facing off. That hard
to do something like that for Fox's sakes, but I
think the hopefully whatever they do, and why they're why
they're casting four major female roles, it's curious as well.
I wonder what they're thinking, what's gonna be be Like
maybe it's like a Van Helsing thing. We're talking about
where we got the Empire Dracula and he's got his
three wives, three major female roles.
Speaker 1: That would be anything close to Van Helsy And I'm down,
let's get to Van Helsing except by Star Wars. Yeah, No,
I'm I am intrigued. By who they're gonna do for
a villain. I feel like it's gonna be some sort
of imperial like loyalist guys, just because we've we've gotten
that before and it seems like the empire is just
such a big thing that for it to just be
completely wiped out because of like a big event, I
feel like it's a lot more believable that they're it. Okay,
the main pillars broken down, but then like the rubble,
like there's still loyalists to that idea of what the
empire is. So I feel like that's a pretty easy
whether you like it or not. I just feel like
it's an easy explanation where like, no, there was actually like.
Speaker 2: A repeat though, because they did that with the first step.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're you're right. It's just like the scale
of these galactic events. It's it's hard for like my
mind to even wrap around just because you know where
we're living right now, We're only on Earth, but like
they have different systems, they have different like not even
just different planets, like different systems and different galt like
just yeah, like the scale of everything. That's where it's
honestly more believable that there is many other factions out
there that are still loyal to the Empire, and I
feel like it's it's a harder pillow swallow for myself
that it's like, no, they're just completely wiped out and
everybody's good now because the Empire is over. So yes,
it's easy to follow that same trend of been there,
done that because of like what you just said that
we have had that already with the First Order and
even even like Mando, right, like like there's there's other
stuff that isn't necessarily were they First Order in Mando
or is it just like.
Speaker 2: Those are imperial remnants that's pre First Order?
Speaker 1: Oh right, I have my Arizon all wrong here. But anyways, anyways,
like many different sub factions and just power hungry, you know,
like like what the like what the I never remember
is mof Is that their title? Moths? Yeah? Yeah, Like
there's just those types of chaps out there that are
nefarious and want just power. Like I just feel like
there's next to infinite amount of those, and even if
they're not affiliated with the Empire or anything like that,
I feel like it could fit a similar type of
role of like a general just yeah, and it could
be a pirate general, like who, like who knows? And yeah,
I do want to see something new, but I also
feel like that is the easiest one to pull from.
But who knows. Maybe we're gonna be completely wrong and
it is something completely new that we haven't seen before,
Like just an interesting new alien villain that has different motives,
almost like a you know your your blue dude. What's
his name?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, the cat Bane.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I was talking with the other one. Oh,
we've already seen Thron, But like just that type of character,
you know, where he's a lot more deep of like
it's it's not just the classic imperial motives, Like there
is more underneath the surface that just makes an interesting character,
not even just a villain. But there's many things they
can do. It's a big galaxy.
Speaker 2: I would love it if they just brought back to the Moidians,
the Trade Federation, just they rise to power those those
That was one of the favorite things that I from
seeing that Star Wars Eclipse trailer. When you see those,
it's like it's a Lucre Hull class ship. That was
like it's the orb and it has like the ring
around it. The thing blows up as kid just get
a few of those in there too. That would just
be just prequel heavy bank on the prequels again, and
I al would just suck her in a lot of fans.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'll be sweet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, But I mean there's so much Legends content
that they could really source from if they wanted to
tackle more into this post Episode nine era. And the
Ryan Gosling movie. Pretty sure that's separate from the Ray
movie because the Ray movie that's her own thing that
she's doing. But I'm getting so convoluted with all these projects.
It's getting tricky kind of keep up with them because
they've announced so many and they keep canceling so many.
But on that note of announcements, we've got the Star
Wars celebrations schedule for twenty twenty five. It'll be taking
place April and basically we got the Mandalorian and Grogu
that'll be on the Friday morning. Actually, sorry, let me
get the specific dates here because I just got what's
happening over the weekend. So it is taking place April
eighteenth to twentieth, and this is in Japan. Nice, so
we have yeah, that Friday morning, we have the Mandalorian
and Grogu and we know, I believe that they've wrapped
up a few things with that movie, and so I
think that they're just they're an ed editing mode right now.
We got and Or Season two on Saturday morning, Ahsoka
on Saturday afternoon, and Star Wars Visions Volume three on
the Sunday. So okay, that's what they've announced the panels for,
and there's gonna be other things sprinkled there in between,
I'm sure. But me and Travis were talking about how,
depending whether or not Kathleen Kennedy is out the door,
based on recent discussions prior this couple weeks ago, they
might not want to announce a lot as she's leaving.
They might want to save some of those announcements and
just have her and her career with you know, Mandalorian
and Grogu and and Or season two and then hey,
oh we got new leadership in taken Over. Here's a
whole bunch of new projects coming in with this person.
Speaker 1: Right Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, So the Star Wars celebrates
it's not an every year thing, right like the last
one you and Travis coverage. Yeah, and that was in Europe, right,
it was in London or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we were up at like three am one it.
Speaker 1: Was the wee hours. Yeah. I remember at work the
next day I was listening to and you guys were energized.
It was good. There was some great announcements, some things
that we'll probably never see, which is unfortunate how that
aged a little bit poorly. But like that was when
they announced the Ray movie, you know, and and they
had like the different just types of projects that were
like talked about whether it was like the different eras,
like the old Republic era stuff, and it was just
a really enticing thing. So it's just it's sad and
funny to look back on it. It's like, you know, back then,
we probably thought we would have some of those projects
out or some more details and whatnot. But I mean, yeah,
I don't really know what to expect from it. Like
you did mention the things that seem like safe announcements.
I don't think it'll be anything too crazy, especially what
you guys kind of mentioned around Kathleen's on our way out.
It's and like it doesn't have to be just wrapped
around her departure that they'd be holding onto things. But
it just seems like also just me as the fan
that doesn't trust anything that they say right now, when
it comes to announcements, it's like, let's not get too crazy.
Let's just release a project and then we can then
we can get excited on just one project at time.
Let's not do the whole slight thing and over promise
under deliver, because that just that just leaves a salty
taste in my mouth and many others.
Speaker 2: It really does, really really does, and they've done that
with so many movies now, because if we don't know
where that mangoled Donna the Jedi movie is at right now.
And yeah, they get to delay the Ray movie a
little bit more, and Man, Laurie and Grogu's not out
till next year. I'm hoping that we get a trailer
or something juicy.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we will, just a shoozer or something if
it's about a year out. If they don't, that would
be extremely concerning, disappointing. But I'm sure they'll scraunch something together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then with end or season two, I'm because
it'll be popping off the a few days after and
so I'm sure they'll bring the cast out on stage
and talk about and then Ahsoka I'm looking forward to
that because we know that the first season ended on
such a big cliffhanger, and they've been little bits of
rumors with season two, so I'm excited to see what
kind of cements out of that and what they're gonna show.
I mean, they haven't done anything on this project aside
from I think just some castings, so I don't know
what it's gonna entail. If they show, hey, here's some
of our concept art, you know, and then show off
some things and ideas, I don't know, but I would
love it if we could just get a little bit
more concrete information on what's going on with that that season,
because I think you should. I know you haven't watched
season one yet of Ahsoka, but you really show it's
freaking awesome and I'm biased, so I.
Speaker 1: Do want to, especially because they do touch on thrown stuff, right,
and that's just such a mystery factor for me. I
know he's no, he's juicy, you know he's blue, you
know he's red eyes. But you get lightsaber battles, let's
go h.
Speaker 2: And Star Wars Visions. You're a big fan of the Visions.
Speaker 1: I love Visions. Yeah, Visions is great, so and then yeah,
it's in Japan. I know a lot of the artists
for that, like the visions because they they they handed
them over to different studios. I know some of them
were from Japan, so I imagine they got some spicy
stuff going on. I feel like that's the animated hub
of the world is in Japan, so I'm hoping for
some juice there. But yeah, I'm sure like the fans
are going to be eating it up. I just feel
like the Japanese people are just are just so into
the Star Wars stuff, so I'm sure it'll they'll be
hyped up. And yeah, crazy time change though, are you
guys committing to the the wee hour monitoring? That depends
what's going on?
Speaker 2: Actually, because that's if I am correct, I think do
do do?
Speaker 1: Do? Do?
Speaker 2: I want to say that it's our Easter weekend April April, Yeah,
April eighteenth. That's good Friday, and so Easter is that
whole weekend. So I will get back because I'm out
of town that whole week and I come back on
the eighteenth. I'll be back very late on the eighteenth,
so I'll probably be missing whatever. Well, no, if the time.
Speaker 1: Change is there, maybe I think like a day ahead
of us.
Speaker 2: So is it like eighteenth, so it would all be
on the seventeenth then, right, because it would be ahead
of time.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm going to Japan. I haven't I
haven't practiced the time change.
Speaker 2: You'll have to teach us when you get back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to teach because this is happening before
I'm going, so you'll know all about that's right. That's right.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So stuff to look forward to. Let's Star
Wars stuff popping off right now, believe it or not,
so we just seek with and Or coming up. I'm
very excited for that. The trailer and the reals they've
been dropping are just so juicy.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is Yeah, Star Wars, I'll always
love it, even if it's like atrocious. I always got
my Star Wars legends or I always have like my
projects that have already been released, video games and such
like that. But it's it's hard to get really excited
for things coming up. But man, and Or that's that
first season. Now that's peak cinema for me, Like I
I fucking love that show so much, so I'm big
expectations going to season two and I really hope that
they deliver. Yeah, well, find out about Andy Serkis's character,
maybe you know, Yeah, did he did he make it?
Did he still swimming? No, he's still swimming. He's at
the bottom of the ocean. Probably cool.
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