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0:00 So the Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier, obviously we did our Thunderbolts review last week in our spoiler talk. We both really enjoyed Thunderbolts Deadline is reporting that they are eyeing him to do the first X -Men movie in the MCU immediate thoughts Yes, yes, I think because of how well he handled all the mental health aspects and all those like deep kind of like interpersonal relationship stuff in Thunderbolts Because of how X -Men is written I think that shows somebody who can really get like that triangle between Scott and Jean and Logan and and like the the relationship between rogue and give like you have to be able to do interpersonal relationships really really well to do an X -Men movie, right?

0:47 So Love the idea. We like this idea. I Like it. It's early talks according to Deadline and unknown where they stand in the deal -making process, but It looks like he's near the top of the list To do this and I think that his showing with Thunderbolts gave Kevin Feige a lot of faith That he could do it so Alright next quick hit. This one's kind of sadder, right? it looks like Matt Reeves may be stepping down as the director for Batman 2 Right. He did a great job with the Batman one There's been some reporting in Deadline in the Hollywood Reporter that he's been having him or somebody in his life Very vague has been having some health issues. Hence why the Batman 2 keeps getting delayed It looks like the Production Weekly is showing that he's still the screenwriter on it, but that he may have stepped away as the director first question Does this give you? more worried that they're just going to scrap this project? Well, no, I think they're going to push on regardless, because I think the numbers behind the Batman were really good. I know. Seven hundred sixty five million dollar gross on like one hundred and twenty million dollar budget. Solid. So and that the the Penguin show that took place right

2:20 after the Batman, that was a critical and commercial success for them on Max. I just don't know who they get if Matt Reeves has to step away. That's gonna be James Gunn has got a real he's gonna have a real tough time replacing Matt Reeves Yeah, I agree You know I At the end of the day right like Him or his family like he he should prioritize family over like creating another Batman movie. I totally get that I totally do Hopefully everything is okay in his life. Um, but yeah, I mean, this, this is part of like, uh, I don't know part of living, you know, trying to solve problems and figure this shit out. It's going to be interesting. I hope they don't fuck it up, but, but no, like overall, like if, if he needs to like focus on his family and stuff, I hope he does. Yeah. I would hate for someone to be like, oh yeah. Like I, I don't know. I didn't go to a funeral. or I got a divorce just so I can make another Batman movie, right? Yeah, no, absolutely. But I won. I don't think it's going to be canceled because like you said, The Penguin Show. Dear God, that was so well done.

3:40 I loved every aspect of the first movie. It's great. Penguin was great. Yeah, solid. All right. Next quick hit topic. They obviously spoiled the title stuff regarding Thunderbolts and what the asterisk means. They did it very quickly after the movie came out. Did they reveal that publicly too soon? They only waited until like Monday to spoil it. Did they? Yeah. Yeah. We obviously saw it on preview night, so we knew. But there was a lot of conversation early this week online about whether they should have waited a few more days to to give away that spoiler. I me personally, I think it was a very smart marketing move because I think it so one you keep sitting in the talk. Right. So you had your opening weekend, which was hopefully really good and really big. Right. And then how do you make sure you keep people coming in? It's like, hey, those of you that maybe aren't comic book nerds like this isn't such a random, weird group of people. These are the new avengers. Yeah, like you should go watch it and it probably I it probably worked on some degree like people were like, oh shit These are the avengers like I do have to go see this movie now. I don't know I think it was smart Okay, um next one We found out earlier this week that GTA 6 is not coming out this year, much to the happiness of many game publishers.

5:11 It's going to be landing in May of 2026. They released a new trailer that looks amazing that apparently was recorded only on a standard PS5, not even a Pro. First off, are you surprised that GTA 6 is being delayed again? And it will be 12 years. From GTA 5 to GTA 6 almost 13 and and and do you think the weights going to be worth it? Something I've not looked into too much I did see a headline that was like think something like 60 to 80 percent of gaming PCs will not be able to play I'm buying it for my ps5 already decided But are you surprised about the delay I Not not really a Game that's been in the works for 12 years that has cost more to make than Some countries GDP. Yeah. Yeah, like I There it doesn't know it doesn't surprise me when when you have that much riding on one game that you've already invested so much in you're going to have to one make sure every little thing is as Correct as you possibly can And also just like in general if you're pushing out like

6:42 a PC game shit's always evolving in PC right like you have to keep up with the time so I Don't know it doesn't surprise me Okay. I think that's going to do it for quick hits. So just a few quick topics to chat about really, really fast. Hope you all enjoyed that.