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Geek News on the Radio for May 19th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you don't have anything for you to watch today, right,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: No trailers, No, there's just go watch that Superman trailer again.
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: And if you have your Max HBO.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: If you have that, when you open up the app there,
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: the first thing is says watch the Superman trailer.
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: So if you can watch it on your big TV
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: at home, it's very cool.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: I do have for you the plot of Noah Hawley's
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Alien prequel TV series.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: It's finally gonna come August twelfth.
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: Well, it's debuting.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: So he's the guy who did the has done the
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: Fargo series on TV, Yes, which is great, and he
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: did that also the I can't think of the name
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: of it with Dan Stevens.
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, it was.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: The Legion. Legion. Yeah, it was a X Men show
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: that was so good. Yeah.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: Well here's the plot for his Alien show.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: This takes place two years.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Before the original movie Alien Earth, set in twenty one
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: to ten, follows the life on Earth as it is
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: dominated by the corporate interests of five governing companies, Sound Familiar, Prodigy, Whyland, Utani, Lynch, Dynamic,
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: and Threshold. Each of these five corporations in racing to
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: unlock the key to immortality advancing human longevity through the
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: development of synthetic life and cybernetics.
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, but things heat up when Prodigy's.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: CEO announces that the company has managed to synthesize those
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: two fields and create the very first hybrid form of life. Wendy,
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: played by Sidney Chandler, a human consciousness merged with a
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: synthetic android body.
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, you remember we had a ash and all those guys.
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: This is a human consciousness in one of those bodies. Okay.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Wendy lives in Prodigy City, the company's all encompassing HQ,
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: alongside other hybrids, preparing to usher in a new age
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: for humankind, which Wayland Utani doesn't like so much so,
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: in what can only be described as an extremely hostile
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: corporate takeover, the company intentionally crashes one of its research
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: vehicles into Prodigy City, unleashing its surviving xenomorph passenger on
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: to Wendy, the rest of the hybrids and everyone else
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: now trapped in Prodigy City.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: That sounds cool and series.
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: This is a TV series.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: It will be on FX and Hulu and also Disney
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: Plus August twelfth.
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: I'll watch that, Yes, I can't wait.
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: There's no trailer for it or anything.
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: No trailer yet. They're releasing some images and some teasers
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: and things like that. Not a full trailer yet. What
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: to call Again an Earth? August twelfth, all right.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: Gears of War is very popular game video game, and
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: it's been kicked around the whole idea of a movie.
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: It has been kicked around Hollywood for a while. Well,
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: Gears of War.
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: Now Netflix has grabbed it and they said, we need
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: a good action director because there's.
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: A lot of action. So let's get that guy, that
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: fall guy that was a good movie, a movie, underrated movie.
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: Let's get the director there, David Leech to do that.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: So he is now developing a Gears of War movie
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: for Netflix. So we'll see what happens. Let's see conn
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: The Con Film Festival is happening on now and JJ
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Abrams is there shopping around a project that he wants
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: somebody to pick up. He says he's got Brie Larson
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: involved as well, so he's just walking around with a
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: cup in his hand asking for money.
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: What is it.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: It's a short story called Failsafe, So that means they'll
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: have to add on to it.
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: If it's just a short story.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: Based on a short story by Philip Frakazi about a
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: young boy whose father spends a large amount of time
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: making sure that his mother doesn't kill everyone because she
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: turns into a monster.
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm in no, that's your elevator pitch. Yes, that's
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: the elevator pitch.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: Seems to me he should have no trouble getting his
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: cup full of money while he's there.
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: Hunger Games. They've made six of these movies.
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't realize.
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  Speaker 2: And I haven't seen one of them.
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: You haven't even seen one of them. I've seen one.
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: I saw the first one and it wasn't bad.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: But they're they're doing prequels now, and so they're starting
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: to do some casting. And the latest book is called
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: Sunrise on the Reaping. Okay, and they have found their
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: President Snow.
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: So President Snow was Donald Southern. That was Donald Sutherland.
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: So a young, young version that would have that's what
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: they should what I would have done.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: But you know, when you can get a guy who
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: was nominated for an oscar, why not get Ray Fines?
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, Ray Fines as presidents.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: So there's that and also some other casting that Glenn
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: Close is apparently talking about joining the cast somehow, but anyway,
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: that'll be interesting. I didn't realize they made six of
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: those movies though.
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: The uh.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we call it a reboot or not,
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: but the continuation new version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: has cast Ryan Kira Armstrong from Star Wars Skeleton Crew
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: as the new Slayer, and Sarah Michelle Geller is involved
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: with it. She's the one who broke the news to her,
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: as you.
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: Do on Instagram.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: We got a premiere date for the new Star Trek
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: Strange New Worlds. July seventh is when that will start.
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: I like that one pretty much.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: Do at season three of that, So July seventh is
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: when that will hit. And let's see oh Mickey seventeen,
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: that Robert Battinson movie.
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, where he it's kind of a lived I repeat, yeah.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: A lot of people didn't see this in theaters, but
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: you'll be able to watch it on Max HBO Max.
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: May twenty third is when that will premiere.
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: Max.
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: I have to ask, because you never know. Why can't
• 6:28
  Speaker 3: you just be It's a whole thing anyway.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: A couple of animated films have been pushed back simply
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: because there are a lot of work.
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: Yes they are.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: And one is the Legend of Ang the Last Airbender
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: pushed back to twenty twenty sixth and the one that
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: makes me sad because I really enjoyed Teenage Mutant Ninja
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: Turtles Mutant Mayhem. They're making a sequel to that. It's
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: been pushed back to twenty twenty seven. Weird thing is, though,
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: those kids that voice the Turtles, they're going to be.
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: Going through puberty. Here, it's gonna keep You're not gonna
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: sound it.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.