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Geek News on the Radio for January 20th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I have had a couple of people ask me,
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  Speaker 2: carry on, Geek News, are you going to cover this
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  Speaker 2: whole Neil Gamon situation? Oh? Okay, And my answer is
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  Speaker 2: I won't get into it now, I'll let you do it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's out there, it's out there, and it's a disturbing read.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, New York Magazine, I think is the New
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  Speaker 1: York Magazine? Is google it? Neil Gaman controversy. How about that?
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  Speaker 2: It's it's depressing you. If you're a big fan, well a,
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  Speaker 2: you probably already know. But if you don't know, don't
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  Speaker 2: don't just don't look. All right, let's see now I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna do some spoilers for this next story here. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's about Alien Romulus. If you haven't seen Alien Romulus yet,
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  Speaker 2: tune away.
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  Speaker 1: For a few minutes. Okay, I'll go out. Okay. Now.
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  Speaker 2: In the film, the crew encounters an android named Rook
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  Speaker 2: who is aboard the Romulus. He has an allegiance to
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  Speaker 2: the evil Corporation Wayland Utani. Rooke looks exactly like Ash
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  Speaker 2: Yeah played by Ian Holme in the original Alien because
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  Speaker 2: he is the same make and model as Ash and
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  Speaker 2: Holme is dead Holm passed away in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they used technology with the permission of his widow.
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  Speaker 2: The director and his team recreated Holme's likeness with a
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  Speaker 2: combination of practical effects, visual effects, and onset acting. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: it turns out, and this is when I saw it.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't look right. It just didn't look good.
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  Speaker 2: And Alvarez, yeah, the director, he said he wasn't happy
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  Speaker 2: with how the effect looked either. He says, we just
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  Speaker 2: we ran out of time in post production to get
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  Speaker 2: it right. I wasn't one hundred percent happy with some
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  Speaker 2: of the shots where you could feel a bit more
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  Speaker 2: of the CG intervention. And that was the problem I
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  Speaker 2: had with it, that the CG was so bad, he says.
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  Speaker 2: So for people that react negatively, I don't blame them. Now,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that Alvarez and his team went back to the
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  Speaker 2: shots for the home release and improved them, he explained
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  Speaker 2: to Empire Magazine, he says, we fixed it.
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  Speaker 1: We made it better for the release. Right now.
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  Speaker 2: I convinced the studio we needed to spend a little
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  Speaker 2: money and make sure we give the companies that were
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  Speaker 2: involved in making it the proper time to finish it
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  Speaker 2: and do it right, it's much better now. There isn't
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  Speaker 2: a video comparing the two yet. I'm sure there will
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  Speaker 2: be online. But according to Alvarez, the new effect on
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  Speaker 2: the home release was achieved by leaning more into the
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  Speaker 2: physical side of the creation instead of the digital, which
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  Speaker 2: was the opposite when we saw it in the theaters.
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  Speaker 2: Animatronic puppeteer Seae Mahan actually did this animatronic of Ian
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  Speaker 2: Holme based on a head cast from Lord of the Rings,
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  Speaker 2: the only one in existence, and we did that for
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  Speaker 2: the home release, revert a lot more to the puppet,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it looks way better.
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  Speaker 1: So will you watch and report back?
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  Speaker 2: I will watch it again and report back because I
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  Speaker 2: was not happy with how it looked the first time.
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  Speaker 1: I went, oh, that's a good idea, but it just
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  Speaker 1: looks bad.
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  Speaker 2: We got some casting for Supergirl, the Supergirl movie. We're
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  Speaker 2: adding David Crumholtz and Emily Beacham as Supergirl's parents. So
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  Speaker 2: you can look that up for you if you'd like
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  Speaker 2: more casting. This this Anaconda movie that is going forward.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now is this a remake?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a remake or reboot. Let's
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  Speaker 2: take a look here, but it's Jack Black and Paul Rudd.
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  Speaker 2: They were production is underway and they are in the movie. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they've just now added Tannedaway Newton and Silo's Steve's On,
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  Speaker 2: or as I know him, Bad Ape a joining the
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  Speaker 2: new Anaconda movie. Whether it's a sequel or just a reboot,
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  Speaker 2: none of the stories that I've been able to find
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  Speaker 2: are saying for sure.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just about a big snake. Yeah, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Steve's On is really good in Silo.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, it's a reimagining of the nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 2: seven action horror film, so it's a remake. So it's
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  Speaker 2: a remake. Yeah, okay, Yeah, that'sil is pretty good. I
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  Speaker 2: watched the finished season two. Yes, Steve's is really good
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  Speaker 2: in a Bad Ape. He's just playing bad Ape. Really,
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  Speaker 2: it's the same kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of character I and Anaconda I really like. Isn't that
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  Speaker 1: the one that John Boyd gets at? He gets at
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  Speaker 1: he gets that by the Big Snake. Yeah, I root
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  Speaker 1: for the snake in that movie. I'm rooting for the
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  Speaker 1: snake in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, except for Paul Rutta. You
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  Speaker 2: can choke on Jack Black, Paul rut Al up and
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  Speaker 2: finally this and this is just for a certain number
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  Speaker 2: of people because I'm low on stories today. Dan Slott,
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  Speaker 2: who's the Eisner winning writer guiding force for Spider Man
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  Speaker 2: for the past fifteen years. Okay, so much influence on
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  Speaker 2: Spider Man that he inspired, that he helped work on
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  Speaker 2: these Spider Verse movies. And he's called in to consult
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  Speaker 2: in the Spider Man movies. You know from Marvel's MCU.
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  Speaker 2: He knows his stuff, he knows his Spider Man. He
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  Speaker 2: is jumping ship to d C. He has been signed.
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  Speaker 2: He has been signed an exclusive contract with Marvel since
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  Speaker 2: the late aughts. He will make his DC debut with
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  Speaker 2: Spider Excuse me, Superman Unlimited, writing the monthly comic that
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  Speaker 2: will be drawn by Rafael Albuquerque. But this is the
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  Speaker 2: first time in the deal. This is a big deal
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  Speaker 2: in the comic industry. Superman Unlimited Number one will be
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  Speaker 2: available at local comic bookstores May twenty first, and he's
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  Speaker 2: also going to apparently be weighing in on some of the.
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  Speaker 1: James Gunn movie decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Dan slot who has written Amazing Spider Man, Fantastic for
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  Speaker 2: Silver Surfer, She Hulk, Avengers, Superior, Spider Man, He's had
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  Speaker 2: influence on all of these characters that have also the
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  Speaker 2: influences bled over into movies and TV shows. So the
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  Speaker 2: fact that he is a jumping ship to go right
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  Speaker 2: for Superman, that's interesting. He says, he's the first and
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  Speaker 2: greatest superhero of all time, and I've been waiting my
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  Speaker 2: whole life to tell stories about him, not just because
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  Speaker 2: of all of his amazing powers.
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  Speaker 1: He has, but because of who he is inside.
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  Speaker 2: If anybody he's a good guy, anybody can make Superman interesting,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be Dan Slot