This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl say goodbye to Chadwick Boseman, take a look at the High Republic Yoda, and talk about the latest Hollywood production shutdown. THEN, they share their thoughts with a review of the much delayed ’The New Mutants’.

Chadwick Boseman Dies at 43

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Danielle “Dani” Moonstar, a young Cheyenne Native American, escapes the destruction of her reservation during a tornado. Dani’s father William hides her before an unseen entity kills him, leaving her the only survivor. After being knocked unconscious, Dani awakens in a hospital run by Dr. Cecilia Reyes. Reyes comforts Dani, telling her she is a mutant and advises her to remain in the hospital until she learns what her abilities are and controls them.

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Maisie Williams as Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane

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After completing work on the 2014 film The Fault in Our Stars for 20th Century Fox, director Josh Boone created a comic book with his childhood best friend Knate Lee using panels from Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz’s New Mutants comics to illustrate what a potential film trilogy adapting those comics would be like. The pair had been fans of the characters growing up, with Boone calling the stories “really dark, interesting, and different from the typical X-Men stories that we had read”. Boone and Lee took the comic to Simon Kinberg, one of the producers of the X-Men film series, who “really liked it”. In May 2015, Fox finalized a deal to have Boone direct The New Mutants, from a script by himself and Lee, with Kinberg and Lauren Shuler Donner producing. The film was initially intended to expand the universe of the X-Men franchise and take place three years after X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). While working on the first draft of the script, Boone sent it and his ideas for the film to Sienkiewicz, who thought Boone “had