Towelite Talk

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The boys are back for another geek fest this episode brought to you by the power of alcohol. I'm not sure if that's better or worse for the episode but we're letting you enjoy it regardless!

Notes:

***Steve Ditko passes away at age 90

VALIANT

• Maria Melnik (American Gods) to write Faith script for SONY
• Bloodshot movie to start filming aug

Marvel

• Ant-Man/Wasp $160m ww, 76 dom
• Sam Jackson & Clark Greg de-aged 25 yrs and filming ended for Cap Marvel

DC

Seamus Dever cast as Trigon in Titans

• Birds of Prey filming starts soon
  • Wants diversity in the cast

Commercial

EE

TV

• Halo greenlit by Showtime for 2019
• Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow) joins Watchmen
• Aliens TV show?
• Netflix CGI Ultraman Anime
• Netflix Castlevania S2 this October

Movies

• Idris Elba to join F&F spinoff?
• John Wick Parabellum
• Gundam movie coming from Legendary
• Child’s Play reboot
  • Nothing to do with Don mancini and Brad Dourif
• Alan Taylor Sopranos prequel ‘The Many Saints of Newark’

Comics

• Ascender coming from Dustin Ngyuen and Jeff Lemire
• Boom putting out more firefly comics

SW

• Keri Russell to join ep 9?

POP

• LEGO Ideas Voltron. Aug 1. $180
• DC Collectibles Justice League animated

Closing

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Chris and Casey are pretty fired up this week with the amount of geeky news that they're ready to share with all of you. Things get HEATED and we're happy to have you join us on this weird and wild episode. 

Towelite Talk Ep.#94

Valiant

• Toby Kebbel as Axe in Bloodshot

Marvel

• Disney buys Fox for 71B+
• Spider-Man: Far From Home?
• The Eternals to explore the history of the MCU
• Antman & wasp early reactions positive, funny
• Silk movie from Sony
• Jared Leto as Morbius for Sony

DC

• Reeves Batman to be younger. Movie is a reboot but set in DCCU?
• First look at Kristen Wiig in WW84
• Big announcement from DC Universe later today
• Wan to produce and write first episode of Swamp Thing
• Walmart “Giant-Size” 100 pg collections. BMB & King to write exclusive stories

Commercial

EE

TV

• CBS & Alex Kurtzman to produce more shows in the Star Trek universe. Rumors of Patrick Stewart returning
• Child’s Play teaser
• Nightbreed SYFY
• Jeremy Irons cast in lead role for Watchmen
• LA Finest series order  from Charter Communications

Movie

• New Predator trailer
• JC tweeted he’s working on halloween score
• Steven S Deknight signs multi-year deal with Netflix
• Alien Fan-Films incoming

Video games

• new Telltale engine coming soon
• PlayStation Hits
• ToeJam and Earl return Fall 2018 in ‘Back in the Groove’ adult swim and HumaNature studios

SW

• A Star Wars story films on hold
• Obi Wan ep9?

POP

• SDCC HT Anakin
• HT Arkham Origins Deathstroke
• ⅙ Bloodshot from TBLeague
• Mezco Summer exclusives

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There's a new Halloween movie out this year and the trailer looks awesome! Not only that, the geek world has exploded with Marvel, DC, TV and everything else in-between news! Listen as Chris and Casey rant their weekly rants on this brand new episode!

Intro

Valiant

• Bloodshot details
• Valiant Beyond

Marvel

• Woody Harrelson rumored as Carnage
• Silver and Black removed from SONY schedule
• Iron Fist moves to Dec
• Cloak and dagger premiere
• The Return of Wolverine is on September. New powers, claws can heat up…

DC

1. Birds of Prey to probably feature Black Canary & Huntress. Penguin as possible villain.
2. Leto Joker film
3. Wally leaving after premiere of Legends and not going to Flash

Commercial

EE

TV

• Locke & Key Netflix
• She-Ra Netflix aug 1
• Venture Bros back this summer
• New Flintstones and scooby doo announced
• GOT prequel to be set “1000’s of years before…Golden age of heroes…true origin of the white walkers
• Stranger things prequel book
• James McAvoy and Clarke Peters join His Dark Materials for BBC directed by Tom Hooper

Movies

• The Crow fails again
• Val Kilmer to return to Top Gun, Kenny Loggins to write new Danger Zone
• Addams family animated film coming next year
• Lego movie 2, HTTYD 3, bumblebee, Wreck it Ralph 2, spider-verse, predator,  & halloween trailers
• Incredibles 2 reviews
• Matthew Vaughn to reboot KickAss? Expand Kingsman world

Video games

• Bethesda teases Fallout 76. Online Survival RPG?
• DMC5? Capcom registers domain name
• RDR2 craziness

SW

• Solo 2nd weekend sales. To lose 50 mil?
• Kelly Marie Tran bullying
• Score Last Shot?

Music Break

POP

• Dr Aphra SDCC
• NECA SDCC Presale
• MEGO returns! 8” figures and more. Reveal on 6/16

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 Chris and Casey get Kessel Deep in the newest episode of the podcast as they review Solo: A Star Wars Story!

Show Notes:

Holiday weekend sales
$103 million

Characters
Han
Chewie
Lando
L3
Q’ira
Beckett
Val
Rio
Enfys Nest
Dryden Vos
Muppets/creatures

Commercial

Soundtrack
John Powell
How to Train your Dragon
John Williams - The Adventures of Han

References/Easter eggs

What Happens Next?

Rank All the Films

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We may be a little behind on the podcast this week but we guarantee it's worth the wait for all of the geeky goodness that awaits those delicate earholes of yours. Get ready!

Intro

• A Call for Writers
• Nickel City Comic Con review

Valiant

• Bloodshot Casting

Marvel

• Cloak and Dagger 2hr premiere 6/7 on FreeForm
• Michael Keaton back as Vulture and Jake Gyllenhall as Mysterio in homecoming 2
• Infinity war on digital july 31st, bluray august 14th
• • Preorders up now on target and best buy (steelbook)
• Bp2 news
• Comcast outbid?

DC

• SHAZAM! Costume first official poster
• Pennyworth picked up by EPIX. Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller
• • No mans land and Zero Year in final gotham season
• Batwoman and Gotham City to be featured in next year’s CW xover
• CW fall new lineup days
• Krypton season 2
• DC superhero girls getting a makeover

Commercial

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TV

• Thundercats Roar
• Amazon renews The Expanse
• Watchmen HBO series to take place after the original story with original characters. Lindelof wrote letter.

Movies

• John Wick 3 castings and release date (5/17/19)
• • Bond 25
• Lego movie 2 ‘The Second Part’  2/2019
• Toho planning it’s own shared universe
• Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters
• Idris Elba to Star/produce/direct Hunchback of ND for Netflix
• Mark Millar teases new movie coming to Netflix soon
• • Joe carnahan would like to be
• Michael bay and ryan reynolds netflix deal - six underground, cost over 100 million

Video games

• Xbox reveals adapters for players with disabilities
• COD BLOPS 4: BLACKOUT
• PS5 (prob) won’t be announced for another 3 yrs

SW

• Solo this weekend
• Galaxies Edge to open next summer at Disneyland. Late fall for World
• James Mangold to write & direct Boba Fett movie

POP

• Logan Mezco one:12 collective
• Figuarts tease
• Premiere Collection of Deadpool statues from DST
• • Partnering with Gamestop
• Solo hot toys
• The Toys That Made Us pt2 and Funko movie “The Story of Fun” outing Netflix if you’re looking for something to watch this holiday weekend

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Chris and Casey are shocked and chagrined that they've been on the podcast for 90 episodes! That's pretty fantastic and because of it, they celebrate with talking geeky pop culture. Wait, that's what they do EVERY episode? Oh that's right, well enjoy another round of it! 

Episode Notes:

Marvel

• Matthew & Ryan Firpo to pen Eternals movie
  • Introduced in 1976 by legendary comic book creator Jack Kirby, the Eternals are super-powered evolutionary offshoot of humanity.
• Agents of Shield renewed for 6th season summer 2019
• Ms Marvel coming to MCU
• Deadpool 2 reviews

DC

• RIP Margot Kidder
• Doom Patrol on DC Universe
• First look at Outsiders from YJ
• Gotham S5 is the last

Commercial

EE

TV

• G. Del Tori’s 10 After Midnight Netflix
• Deadly Class first look

Movies

• Bohemian Rhapsody trailer
• Snake Eyes movie in the works
• Zombieland 2 - maybe 10/2019
• Chris Evans joins Neill Blomkamp’s Greenland
• Milla Jovovich in Monster Hunter movie
• Escape Plan 2

Video Games

• Sony ends production of physical VITA games
• Rage 2

Star Wars

• Favreau show is post Rotj 7 years
• Han solo reviews
  • Jonathan kasdan reveals Anthony Daniels is a wookie in Solo
• Lando spin-off?

POP

• Deadpool 2 hot toys
• Funko 5 Star - new line

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When the phone booth of time travel rings, you step inside and answer that call! Chris and Casey strap on their most excellent guitars and write the most epic podcast of all time in this brand new episode! 

Show Notes

Marvel

• Avengers $
• *SPOILAGE* Russo’s: Gamora ALIVE in soul stone. “Soul World”, Hulk too tired to come out, Adam Warlock is a Gunn thing
• Luke Cage s2 trailer
• Annette O’Toole and Corbin Benson join Punisher S2 as wealthy Schultz family
• Annette Benning as Carol Danvers mom

DC

• LEGO Aquaman movie “Rage of Atlantis”
• RockSteady Superman game
• IDW Batman TAS boardgame ‘Gotham Under Siege”
• DC Comics streaming service named ‘DC Universe’
• Swamp thing tv series
• Birds of Prey may be an R-Rated girl gang movie http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/944471-birds-of-prey-movie-girl-gang

Commercial

EE

• The Predator teaser
• James Cameron AMC show
• Rambo 5 with Stallone?
• Jamie Foxx up for Spawn
• New Tenacious D film in October
• Comcast throws in bid for 21st Fox
• Ricky and Morty 70 more episodes
• Bill and ted 3 happening

SW

• Solo reviews out
• Chewbacca to finally get his own theme music

POP

• Mezco One:12 Netflix Punisher

Closing

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Chris and Casey get INFINITY GAUNTLET DEEP into Avengers Infinity War in this episodes. Spoilers fly like fists from fighting foes! It's truly an episode to hear! 

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 Casey and Chris go geek-deep in the latest episode of the podcast. They laugh, they cry, and do a lot of debating on the DCEU, MCU, and other acronyms relating to all things geekly!

Valiant

• Ninjak Vs The Valiant Universe debuts 4/21 on Comicbook.com and then each day after through 4/26

Marvel

• MCU Thanos gets his own origins novel Thanos: Titan Consumed by author Barry Lyga. Due out 11/20
• The next avengers movie won’t have a title for a while
• Titan Books will collaborate with Marvel and Insomniac Games to publish two tie-in books for Insomniac’s upcoming Spider-Man, the first of which will be Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover, a prequel to the events of the game. Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover will hit shelves on Aug. 21, 2018, just a few weeks before the release of the game itself on Playstation 4 on Sept. 7. Spider-Man: The Art of the Game will follow on Sept. 11.
• Deadpool tickets on sale 4/19 (today)
• • New trailer dropped
• Cable to have “four movie arc”

DC

• Injustice He-Man crossover
• Action comics 1000 out now!
• Cathy Yan to direct Birds of Prey
• Spielberg to direct Blackhawk. Screenplay by David Koepp
• • First appearing in DC Comics in 1941, the Blackhawks are a small team of World War II-era ace pilots of diverse nationalities who fight tyranny

Commercial

EE

Movies

• Incredibles 2 trailer
• How to train your dragon 3 - the hidden world due out 3/1/19
• MASK coming to the big screen
• Jason clarke starring in pet cemetary reboot
• James McAvoy and Bill Hader in talks for It2
• Domhnall Gleeson in The Kitchen adaptation
• Gabriel Luna in Terminator
• Mad Max sequels delayed due to lawsuit

TV

• Netflix now bigger than SONY, WB, FOX
• Cary Elwes and Jake Busey join ST3 as the Mayor and a Reporter
• Glow back june 29th
• Ian Somerhalder starring in netflix V-Wars
• Deadly Class series ordered at SyFy

Video Games

• God of War out 4/20

SW

• Poe comic to address your TLJ questions.
• • Synopsis: Where were SNAP WEXLEY, JESSIKA PAVA and the rest of BLACK SQUADRON during the events of THE LAST JEDI?
    Fighting for the very survival of THE RESISTANCE, of course.
    Now, at last, their story can be told…
    This July starting in Poe Dameron #29
• Solo: Last Shot by Daniel Jose Older is out now
• Victoria Mahoney as 2nd unit director on episode 9

“Now it’s time for the Pursuit of Plastic!”

POP

• NECA The Fog Captain Blake 8” Packaging (Cavity Colors)
• Mezco One:12 Jason voorhees & Blade
• Sideshow The Terminator – Premium Format Rebel Terminator Mythos Statue.
• • Preorders today(Thur)  $575/$560

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Chris and Casey have been on a little hiatus but this week they're back to drop some geekly knowledge. Solo, Black Panther, InHumans and more on this episode of the podcast!

Show Notes:

Marvel

• BP passes titanic
• • Blu-ray details announced
• Luke Cage showrunner expresses interest in HFH
• Infinity War tracking for $200m opening

DC

• Christina Hodson (Bumblebee) to write Batgirl
• Nicholas Cage wants to be the Joker
• Doomsday Clock and Metal sit on top of the March sales chart. https://www.cbr.com/march-2018-comic-book-sales-charts/2/
• DC Nation reaches 1 mil preorders (@ 25 cents) AC 1000 is at 500k (as of Sunday)
• Catwoman ongoing
• YJ S3 has finished recording
• Y: The Last Man pilot coming to FX
• Colton Haynes Arrow S7 regular
• Supergirl S3 ends on June 15th

Commercial

EE

• Karl Urban joins The Boys as Billy Butcher
• LOTR show to cost a billion $$?!
• A new The Lord the Rings book The Fall of Gondolin, edited by J.R.R. Tolkien’s son Christopher Tolkien, will be released later this year.
• GTAV has made more money than any movie, book, or game ever. $6 billion
• Michael Ironside is back as Sam Fisher
• IDW Rise of the TMNT comic to debut before show
• Toy Story 4 set for 6/21/19
• Star Trek Discovery adds Anson Mounts (Black Bolt from InHumans) as Cpt Pike
• Comicbook.com bought by CBS
• Ninjak vs The Valiant premiering on CB.com
  
  

SW

• Solo final trailer

POP

• Solo figures (Hasbro, Bandai, etc)
• Amazing Yamaguchi Revoltech Batman
• Hot toys infinity gauntlet
• DST PacRim 2

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