Speaker 1: And we are back. We made it through the ad field.
Speaker 2: Uh, so what what do we got to dive into here?
There was Star Wars celebration this past weekend, lots of
cool stuff, including a new movie.
Speaker 3: Got some details gonna break down.
Speaker 2: Did you see the little teaser they did for Starfighter?
Speaker 4: Dylan? Oh, I didn't know that existed. I'm sorry, I'll
go YouTube that.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, don't, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: It was literally just the logo saying Star Wars, then
Starfighter appeared.
Speaker 3: And Okay, I didn't see that.
Speaker 2: I guess more like a revealed, well very very minor,
an unveiling and unveiling.
Speaker 1: Yesh.
Speaker 2: So what have you heard about about this movie?
Speaker 4: I've heard about what's written here in our notes.
Speaker 3: For the episode.
Speaker 4: That's as far as I'm going with this. So I
don't know, is there any anything anything?
Speaker 1: What do I need to know?
Speaker 3: What do I and the viewers need to know about?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Star Wars Starfighter?
Speaker 2: I feel, well, off the top of my head before
I read what's written down in front of me, I
just think that this is going to be a spiritual
successor of sorts to Star Wars Rogue Squadrons. Yeah, Disney
just wants to get that spaceship Star Wars movie in
to theaters, as his rogue squadron is technically shelve now
we get Starfighters. I just think it's funny that they
just want to get that ship movie out there. But okay, yes,
so the details here because they announced Gosling is officially
on board. He came out on stage at Star Wars celebration.
Speaker 1: He's in this movie.
Speaker 2: And so it looks like it's reportedly going to feature
a boy who is fifteen years of age on a
mission with his uncle, who is supposedly Ryan Gosling, as
they're being pursued by a duo of villains. Now Gosling
and the fifteen year old his nephew are rumored to
be Jedi.
Speaker 1: Discuss.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess you know to flip it right back
on you here. So this is Sean. I always afeard
with Levi or Levy, but that's the director of this.
Speaker 1: One, right, mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Correct, and remind me his previou My god, my computer's
bugging bullet train.
Speaker 1: I know. Wait, did he do bullet Train? He did
Free Guy, Deadpool.
Speaker 4: He did Dead pul Wolverine, Free Guy Adam Project and
Night at the Museum apparently, Wow, Panther.
Speaker 1: David Leech did Bullet Train.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, I always mix those two up.
Speaker 4: I feel like they have very similar careers to me,
because I was thinking that him and Gossling of work
together before, because I was mixing him up with with
the Leechman. But I guess they haven't worked together before.
A fresh pairing. What do you think about? What do
you think about, like this director kind of known for
doing more comedic goofy or things like what do you
think about pairing him with a Star Wars movie, not
just like here we'll give an episode of like Mandalorian
or something like giving him a full on movie like that.
I feel like a bold choice in my mind.
Speaker 1: I'm worried.
Speaker 2: Okay, Star Wars is in a place where we don't
need a lot of excessive comedy. And I defer to
and Or and ors very serious, serious story and it's
it's tense. It's granted it's not for young kids, but
I don't feel like there's a place in Star Wars
where we need to have a lot of oversaturated comedy.
And again I'm not saying show. It had some small,
little comedic beats to it that were very innocent and
it wasn't forced on you really, but it had great
serious moments. It was like a Gooonyes mixed with Stranger
Things what with Star Wars. It was really really nice
and a pleasant surprise, a refresh. But I'm not saying
that this is going to be a comedy centric movie,
but I'm hoping not, even though Gosling has been taking
on a little bit more of those comedic roles as
of late. When you look at Sean's previous projects, Real Steal,
which actually caught me off guard that he did that
has some very small, innocent, humorous moments, but dang, with
Hugh Jackman and that kid actor, with the two of
them combined, there's a lot of really heartfelt, serious moments,
and it's just it's a very triumphant storyline. I really
like it, and it's awesome, And so that tells me,
okay that this director can do a very serious story
when he's backed into that corner.
Speaker 4: Plus see, he did direct some episodes of Stranger Things
as well, so pulling the vibe that you just mentioned.
So yeah, I mean, like, you know, it's it's never
good to like just put a guy in a box
when he has a career as big as this guy.
Obviously he's done a lot of different things, but it
was surprising when I when I read that just in
terms of looking at like his most recent project specifically.
So yeah, it seemed like, I don't know, an odd choice,
but obviously Deadpool Wolverine, like in the Disney family, and
I guess you know, Disney as a whole seemed to
like working with him, and they feel like right now
they're struggling to get a movie off the ground and
into the air like a starfighter, and I feel like
this seems like a great guy to like just get
the job done at this point, put something together quick
and dirty, you know, but like still quality enough for
people to enjoy it. So I guess, like what is.
Speaker 3: The runway here?
Speaker 4: The runway would be that we have Mando movie next year, yes, right,
and then this would be the one after that, or
is that another movie I'm forgetting about in.
Speaker 1: That No, You've you've got to right.
Speaker 2: Mando's coming out in twenty twenty six, and then this
one is releasing May twenty seven, so they're dropping the
December release and we haven't had that happen since Solo
did that.
Speaker 3: Solo was May as well, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: I think it was May. Yeah, it was like spring
early summer release. Yeah, the rest of all been December.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which I'm trying to think, like, does Disney or
does Marvel rather not have like a big thing dropping
in May of twenty twenty seven. I feel like they
always have something in like that May pocket a Venders
Is that kicked more down to the real Secret Wars?
Speaker 2: So Google selling me Secret Wars is May seventh, twenty
twenty seven.
Speaker 4: Okay, so that's that's like pretty much a month away
then at least, so it's not stepping on toes.
Speaker 2: Yes, twenty one days, so that's interesting. That'll be a
good month.
Speaker 3: It'll be it'll be spicy for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I this seems like if you're struggling to get a
movie off the ground, like go with a simpler concept
like character focus, focusing on like a duo of characters
with a duo of villains trying to chase him down
seems solid enough, Like I don't know how much I
guess if like Gossling is not a Jedi, but the
kid is maybe a Jedi, Like, it's not like he
would be training him, I guess. But maybe the kid
will accidentally do some like force powers at some point.
It could be just like a minor little flavor edition
rather than like setting up like, oh, this guy's gonna
be the next Ray or something, right, like, maybe it's
just more kind of a fun little background detail or something.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: The interesting thing here, and I know it says in
the notes, you're like Gosling and the fifteen year old
rumored to be Jedi. I think that some people are speculating, Okay,
Gosling is going to be a Jedi in this movie,
but oh it's okay.
Speaker 4: I thought it was just a kid was a Jedi.
But okay, they're both Jedi.
Speaker 2: I think again the rumor is, okay, they're both it's
Ryan Gosling or it's the kid, like we need confirmation
on that, but I think the main rumors that they're
both Jedi. The thing though about this is this movie
takes place five to six years after Rise of Skywalker. Now,
during Rise of Skywalker, the only Jedi we know of
is Ray. She's the only one, and obviously Finn is
feeling up some of his Jedi powers now too, he's
access to the Force. So I'm wondering, Okay, at what
point in time does this fifteen year old and where
does Gosling, If Gosling is a Jedi, when did he
start his training? Did Ray just bump into his man
and is like forties like, oh, you've got the Force,
I'll train you to become a Jedi And he becomes
a Jedi knight that got quick six years after Rise
of Skywalker.
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem right to me.
Speaker 4: And then I'll say Gossling is not a Jedi. I
think he's I think he is the h He's trying
to keep help this kid. He you know, can't help
him with the Force powers and stuff, but he can
kind of be his guide or help him along, be
the kind of father figure or guardian type figure. I
feel like that would be more more of the situation here,
because I think it'd be risky, Like it'd be weird
to even just get Gauzing in there for like a
one off movie. But like make him a Jedi, because
if you make him a Jedi and he doesn't like
die in this like presumably they want to. They want
to milk him like one of you know, uh Luke's
utter uttered, I butchered.
Speaker 3: That joke, but you know what he's going for.
Speaker 4: I know they would they want to use him over
and over again, but like you know, like put him
in like an episode. Don't put him in this random
movie that's potentially one off.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I think it makes more sense to have
the young kid. You know, if he's this is six
years after Rise of Skywalker, he's fifteen years old. That
means he would have started the training in around like
nine or ten, which fits because I feel like that's
around the time when Anakin was going through his training.
Speaker 1: He was around like nine or ten at that.
Speaker 4: But is the infrastructure there to like train Jedis though?
Speaker 2: I think she absolutely has the infrastructure. I mean, because
she had just the Jedi text she spent like a
long period of time looking in and building our lights saber,
looking into the Force and learning all these things, training under.
Speaker 4: That, she have the infrastructure to like locate potential Jedis.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say yes, I think that she with those
sacred Jedi texts, she probably had the setup and the
details on how to pursue such things.
Speaker 1: Reach out to the force.
Speaker 4: And is it like wanted where they have like this
random looms like typing in names and stuff.
Speaker 1: Like that exactly yea. So for me, I hope that
that's the case.
Speaker 2: And again, I don't think many people are gonna care,
but I'm just a stickler for those kinds of things,
and I think that it would just make sense to have,
you know, a younger Jedi Padawan and have Ray like
because I think that that movie was supposed to be
Ray because we're getting a Ray movie, and I think
that's kind of like meshed to this a little bit.
But Ray was supposed to go back and she was
gonna have I think her own Jedi Council or Jedi
Padawan's whatnot years in the future after a Rise of Skywalker.
Speaker 1: So again that's we'll just have to see how they.
Speaker 2: Time everything up. But that's releasing, as we said twenty
twenty seven for the fiftieth anniversary revenue.
Speaker 1: Hope.
Speaker 2: There are several major actors who have turned down roles
in this movie, which is very interesting. Not sure why,
if it's a lack of interest, if it's a fear
or a busy schedule, whatnot, but most of them are
appearing to be would have been the villains Jody kor Comer,
Jesse Plemons, Mikey Madison, and then we have Greta lee
be A suppose a canteena owner Sarah Snook, who is
the main character's mother.
Speaker 1: What do you think about all these.
Speaker 4: I like every single one of these actors. I think
they're all fantastic. Okay, I love I love Plemings. Do
I want him in Star Wars? Though I feel like
he could fit in Star Wars.
Speaker 3: I don't think I want it.
Speaker 4: I think I want him to do like other things
that I'm more juicing for, But like, I think he
would be a good fit, So I think that's a miss,
especially like he's obviously really good at villains stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean even in.
Speaker 4: Black Mirror it's like Star Trek, you know, Uss Cowisters
like Star Trek theme, and he's like a villain in that.
Speaker 3: So it's like, Okay, that's kind of fitting.
Speaker 4: Maybe played a villain in the Star Trek knockoff thing.
He could definitely play a villain in Star Wars, even
if there are different vibes there, So he would be
a good fit.
Speaker 3: But he turned it down.
Speaker 4: Apparently, So I don't know that that's interesting to me
in terms of like casting, like if they're looking for
that kind of guy, like, I don't know, would you
get like a could you get like a Defoe type
as well? Like is that the vibe we're going for here?
That could be that could be interesting. And then with
Comer and Mikey Madison, like maybe that's the idea, is
that there's like an older older man with like a
young I mean, Jesse Plemmons is like pretty We had
that debate at some point on the cast. I think
when we were doing like Civil War, he's like thirty
or something, or like the early thirties or I don't know.
I don't have to get back into that, but maybe
that would be the dynamic. Here's like older older man,
younger woman kind of combo Mikey Madison, I think hot
off an aura like, yeah, don't go do this random
star Wars, then go do some other cooler, more interesting things.
I'm glad she turned it down with that's the case.
Jody Kor's weird for like a villain. I just maybe
maybe I haven't seen her in a ton of stuff,
to be fair, but to me, she's like does not
give villain energy, So I don't know that would be
a strange choice for me, but you know, maybe it's
gray area, maybe not like just full evil Darth City
as vibes.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe it's just a little bit different.
Speaker 4: And then the other two gretily is I mean, anyone
can be a canteen owner, so, like, you know whatever,
ar Snook is the main character's mother, so I'm guessing
like the kid's mother. I'm guessing the vibe is that
she's like she's died and more maybe like flashbacks or
something like that. Do you think that would be the
energy here?
Speaker 1: I think so, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Why I'd i'd be down to see her. I think
I think it'd be cool.
Speaker 4: I mean I would I could almost see her more
in a villain's role. Just I think the only thing
I've seen her in is Succession, and she's fantastic in
that show, and I've been excited to see her in
other things. I think she'd be a pretty good fit here,
So I hope. I don't know if any one of
these worked out, I think I would maybe pick that one,
to be honest, That or Plemmins of course, but uh yeah,
kind of Honestly, a.
Speaker 3: Weird mix of people uh, for this movie. I'm not
gonna lie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is, it is. It is weird Mikey Madison.
That kind of surprised me. But I think that their
goal was to make the one of the main villains
to be a female of sorts, whatever that is.
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is this is a conversation.
Speaker 2: This is a little bit of aline tangent I was
having with my cousin who were talking about Star Wars
because the Darth Maul show was announced. The animated series
picks up right after the Clone Wars by a year,
and it's supposed to have the origin of Darth Talon
in there, and we were talking about how okay with
Darth Talent. She is a legend Sith that appeared with
Darth Crate two generations after Luke Skywalker, when Kaid Skywalker,
the grandson of Luke, was kicking around and they appeared
and they were really causing a ruckus as the new
Sith Order and whatnot. But so for her being pushed again,
she didn't have any established aforementioned placement in the Cannon.
She's only in legends, but here we have Darth Talent
supposedly her origins in this show, and I'm wondering what
the context is because I feel like, would they do
something like, Okay, Darth Maul has maybe a foreshadow or
a vision or see something regarding the future, because he
was he seemed to be pretty adapt at seeing things
in the future, at least with what we get to
know of him throughout the Clone Wars. So long story short,
we were just conversing about how maybe they allude to
Darth Talent and see her origins and here, and then
she becomes a main character later on maybe and Star
Wars Starfighter or something like that, a Darth Talent appears
as an older, more evil villain that can take on
against the battle against her heroes. I don't know, but
I just thought if they introduced her in the Dark Times,
I feel like she would get caught. There's already so
many inquisitors, and she's not gonna be able to call
herself Darth because Vader would come in and kick her ass.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's just a lot of convoluted in this, but that
was just a food for thought. So Okay, yeah, love it. Yeah,
I think that's in unless you got anything else you
want to.
Speaker 4: Say, Taylor, I feel like, you don't seem very excited
for this. That's the vibe I'm getting from you here.
Speaker 1: I'm not over really, I know.
Speaker 2: I think that's a that's a fair read. I'm not
super super stoked on it, to be honest. What really
has my excitement is Amanda and Grogu. I have a
lot more hype for that, and I have even more
excitement for Asoka season due just because of the things
Dave Filoni was saying. He's saying, you're gonna be getting
an all out Star Wars war. You're gonna have the
New Republic facing off basically against the Imperial Remnant with
Thrawn leading the charge in a much more larger scale.
So you're gonna get two factions clashing. Admiral Ackbar is
supposed to be coming back into this battle too. It's
supposed to be huge, And I think that's just that's
gonna be juicy. That's gonna be so much juice, just everywhere,
all over the floor, out of the container, out of
the picture.
Speaker 1: So I love that.
Speaker 2: As far as the movies go, I don't know, like
I said, Meno and Grogu way up there, do I
want another movie post Rise of Skywalker absolutely because I
think that that timeline and those characters need a lot
more love and care because I think that they got
really hard shaft afterwards when people were just kind of
flacking them and like Rise of Skywalker and whatnot. So
I don't think they got Delta very fair hand a
lot of those.
Speaker 1: Writers and stuff.
Speaker 4: I gotta say, based on what you just told me
about a Soca and what I feel like this movie
is like I feel like they should switch, like Ahsoka
should get promoted to movie status, dump budget all over
that bad boy, Let's get a huge war and then
like this seems like a nice like six episode Disney
plus Nario. Other than Gossling, that's like you know that
you know, you wouldn't put him in like a TV show.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's a he's a movie star kind
of guy.
Speaker 4: But other than that, feel this feels like more of
a I mean, it feels a little I guess similar
to Skeleton Crew from my very outside perspective, So that's fair. Yeah,
but anyway they're doing they're doing this, so that's what
we're getting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's what we're getting.
Speaker 2: I'm honestly, I have more excitement for maybe Donna the
Jedi that takes place like twenty five thousand years before,
and like, just there's just other storylines and I feel
like I would I would prefer like something I want
more high republic. I want something more Sith oriented.
Speaker 1: But we're getting We're reading.
Speaker 2: This and I'm sure I'm going to love it. I
just need to see a little bit more context about
what's going on here. And I worry so heavily about
the fact that Sean is going to make this movie
a bit too overly comedic, and with Ryan Gosling being
in more comedic roles lately, that worries me that he's
going to be spearheading just the comedic aspect of this,
and that just I don't want to see like that cranky,
comedically over the top excessive uncle and then like the
young fifteen year old Jedi padawan trying to keep things together,
and just I don't know, I am getting.
Speaker 1: Weird vibes like Spy Kids, where the kids are with their.
Speaker 2: Uncle Trail or Uncle Machete that was his name or
whatever it is.
Speaker 4: So yeah, this, uh, that kind of humor definitely does
not mesh well with Star Wars. So hopefully that's not
what they do here. I'm sure it won't be. I'm
sure we're over getting over hyped about that, we're overexcited
about them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Cool, cool, Well I think that does it for this
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