Every Upcoming Video Game Movie Ranked - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast – "Every Upcoming Video Game Movie Ranked"

Podcast: Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast
Date: September 10, 2025
Hosts: Nick Scarpino, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Roger, SnowBike Mike

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Overview

This episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast assembles the crew—Nick Scarpino, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Roger, and SnowBike Mike—to dive deep into the ever-growing world of video game movie adaptations. The group ranks and debates every announced, in-production, and rumored video game film and series coming down the pipeline through 2027 and beyond. As Hollywood chases the next big franchise after comic books and novels, the panel analyzes which adaptations make sense, which seem unnecessary, and what defines a truly “valid” gaming film.

The hosts bring humor, industry insight, and a healthy dose of skepticism as they take stock of the current “gold rush” of game IP in Hollywood, reflect on why video game adaptations have become so prolific, and ponder the challenges that lie ahead for filmmakers.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Explosion of Video Game Adaptations

• Hollywood’s Shift to Game IP: The crew notes how every week now brings a new video game movie announcement. Adaptations are being fast-tracked, and studios readily greenlight game IP because it’s a shortcut to a “known quantity” and built-in audience.

  “In order to get a movie made in Hollywood in 2025, you need to be attached to some form of IP. ... It has to be a known quantity.” – Nick Scarpino (18:38)

• Why Now?

  • The group credits recent box-office successes: Sonic’s surprise hit, Detective Pikachu’s performance, and the Mario and Minecraft movies have proven the model at various budgets.
  • Comic book movies are declining in cultural cachet, and studios are searching for “the next big thing.”
  • There’s also a “rush” on adapting even indie games and projects not yet released, just for the chance at franchise farming.

• What Kicked Off the Trend?

  • Panelists offer multiple origin points: Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Sonic, Detective Pikachu, and Mario; but agree Sonic represents a major inflection due to its rapid, repeated commercial success and the industry learning curve after the initial disastrous trailer.

    “The reason I say Sonic is just because it’s the most successful out of… There’s been three of them!” – Nick (10:19)

Ranking and Reacting: Upcoming Game-to-Film Adaptations

“Valid or Salad” Segment

The crew invents a rapid-fire rating system:

• Valid: Excited/worthwhile
• Salad: Pointless/bad/shouldn't be made
• Taco Salad: Bad but fun
• Super Valid: Off-the-charts hype

Major, Soonest Projects

• Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Dec 2025)

  • Consensus: Valid
  • The first was a massive hit with a rabid Gen-Z-raised audience. The sequel will “do insane numbers” even if the hosts aren’t personally invested.

    “This is not only going to scratch that itch for the Five Nights at Freddy's fans, it's gonna do fucking insane numbers.” – Nick (21:46)

• Return to Silent Hill (Jan 2026)

  • Consensus: Salad (cold)
  • The trailer looks terrible, CGI is worse than the 2006 film, and it’s a missed opportunity; “should be good, looks bad.”

    “This looks like a game. It looks like a bad game.” – Blessing (23:38)

• Resident Evil (Zach Cregger) (2026)

  • Consensus: Super Valid
  • Big excitement for Barbarian/Weapons director’s take: an original, non-game-character-driven horror story.

    “This is probably the number one movie out of all this entire list that I'm the most excited for.” – Nick (25:27)
    “You can get those Easter eggs… but yeah, this sounds really cool.” – Blessing (26:38)

• Mortal Kombat 2 (May 2026)

  • Consensus: Taco Salad / Valid / Fun
  • The trailer looks trashy, but hopes are high for campy spectacle and Carl Urban as Johnny Cage.

    “This will be taco salad. Meaning it's gonna be bad, but it's gonna be a whole lot of fun.” – Mike (29:42)

• Street Fighter (Oct 2026)

  • Consensus: Taco Salad / Valid
  • Ridiculous WWE-style casting, expected to be over-the-top and goofy.

    “If that's what they go for, I could be convinced to watch this film… too many WWE stars.” – Blessing (33:32)

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2 (“Super Mario World”) (April 2026)

  • Consensus: Valid
  • The first was surprisingly good; general agreement the sequel is a slam dunk, and Donkey Kong spinoffs are anticipated.

    “This can be an easy valid.” – Nick (36:05)

• Angry Birds 3 (Jan 2027)

  • Consensus: Mixed, mostly indifference or Salad
  • “Just for kids,” but some hosts are baffled by its continued existence.

• Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (March 2027)

  • Consensus: Easy Valid
  • Enduring franchise, only getting better.

    “These only get better and better as they go.” – Roger (41:33)

• The Legend of Zelda (Wes Ball) (March 2027)

  • Consensus: Cautious/Salad until proven Valid
  • High risk: “an uphill battle” translating silent, iconic Link; skepticism despite director’s credits.

    “Not looking forward to the Zelda movie… This is gonna be salad.” – Roger (43:52)

• Elden Ring (Alex Garland, A24)

  • Consensus: Super Valid (mania)
  • Garland plus A24 has the panel drooling; likened to “the next Dune.”

    “This movie could have the gas.” – Mike (45:14)
    “Alex Garland, you got Miyazaki, you got George R. R. Martin. That press run is gonna go…” – Roger (48:04)

• Death Stranding (Michael Sarnoski, A24)

  • Consensus: Divided (Valid - Nick; Salad - Blessing/Mike)
  • Concern: Kojima’s stories only work in games; adaptation could backfire unless it leans into the weird.

    “To try to put that creativity in a box… You gotta just let it go bonkers.” – Blessing (54:19)

Rapid-fire: Other Announced Projects

• The Sims (Kate Herron, Margot Robbie prod.):
  Potential for fun, Jumanji vibes—could succeed if it leans into humor and lore nods.
• BioShock (Netflix):
  Development hell, low hopes due to budget cuts and Netflix's usual track record (consensus: Salad).
• Days Gone:
  Zero motion since 2022, likely dead.
• Call of Duty (Paramount):
  “Should have happened years ago… Will make a billion, even if it’s bad.”

  “The theater is going to explode [when Ghost appears].” – Mike (60:05) Dream director pitches: Michael Bay, Christopher McQuarrie, Denis Villeneuve, Dan Trachtenberg.

• Ghost of Tsushima, Gears of War, Stray, Horizon, Helldivers, Uncharted 2, Detective Pikachu 2
  Varied development status; reactions range from excitement (Stray, Ghost of Tsushima) to exasperation (Uncharted 2, Gears).

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“Franchise Farming”: The Indie Gold Rush & B-List Adaptations

• Story Kitchen & Picture Start

  • Production companies are buying up rights to a huge range of games, including many that haven’t even released.
  • Recent partnerships:
    • It Takes Two (Amazon/MGM, The Rock’s studio; but Hayes Light’s Joseph Fares says “90% of Hollywood meetings are bullshit.” [72:40])
    • Upcoming: Split Fiction (John Chu, Sydney Sweeney), Dredge, House of the Dead, Just Cause, Kings Makers, Spine, and even Slime Rancher, Toe Jam & Earl.

• Cynicism About the Model

  • Many of these are “just a holding pattern” or “Trojan horse” strategies to get stuff made; most will never see the light of day.
  • The panel is skeptical these obscure and indie IP adaptations have an audience, labeling much of this “franchise farming.”

    “[Story Kitchen] specializes in franchise farming. Which I want to know more about what that means. …That has a negative connotation.” – Roger (78:56)

• Which Could Surprise?

  • Some believe surprise hits are possible—particularly stylistic adaptations (Sifu, Stray, Toe Jam & Earl—in the hands of the right creatives.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “[Jack Black] is the common factor… He’s just Jack Black in various stages of beard, sure, throughout the last 20 years.” – Blessing (15:35)
• “If you want to talk about where the state of our… world right now and how we’re headed toward a very quick AI-driven apocalypse, I want to say that… you could trace that to Angry Birds.” – Blessing (37:34)
• “You see a video game movie in the headline… if it's an indie game, it's almost certainly connected to Story Kitchen.” – Nick (71:02)
• “They say adapting video games and other non-traditional IPs into film… They specialize in franchise farming. That has a negative connotation.” – Roger (78:58)
• “Let me be honest, looking at all of these… the average mainstream audience is going to have zero concept for what Split Fiction is.” – Blessing (80:32)
• “They get 30 projects, you get the rights… for that one moment when Shinobi… blows up.” – Blessing (81:19)

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Key Timestamps for Major Segments

• Genesis of the Game Movie Boom: (08:13–10:31)
• Sonic, Detective Pikachu, Mario’s impact: (12:38–14:08)
• Jack Black as video game movie king: (14:26–17:34)
• Hollywood business strategies for game movies: (18:38–19:55)
• ‘Valid or Salad’ Segment (rapid-fire rankings start): (21:21–36:08)
• Mario, Angry Birds, Sonic 4, Zelda, Elden Ring, Death Stranding deep-dive: (36:08–55:22)
• Rapid-fire lightning round of adaptations: (55:43–68:26)
• Indie & Obscure IP adaptation gold rush / Story Kitchen: (71:02–80:15)
• Closing skepticism and predictions: (80:32–81:59)

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Overall Tone and Takeaways

• The discussion is lively, irreverent, and brutally honest—balancing excitement for artistic, high-potential adaptations (Elden Ring, Resident Evil, Sonic sequels) with skepticism about Hollywood’s bandwagon mentality.
• The landscape is “insane” both in terms of sheer volume of adaptations and the money/creative effort being poured into it; most will never pan out, and few will be “super valid.”
• There’s a difference between adaptations with real vision and those greenlit only as disposable IP vehicles.
• “We learned a lot!” the hosts joke, but also seem exasperated by the ever-growing list of projects—eager for results but wary of over-saturation.

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Notable Closing Thoughts

• “Some of these are going to be bangers. …But it just feels like most of them will languish in development or become forgettable.” – Roger (81:00)
• “You know how this goes. They get 30 projects, get the rights… All these are just a holding pattern.” – Blessing (81:18)
• The hosts express interest in interviewing Story Kitchen to understand their behind-the-scenes strategy.

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For Listeners Who Haven’t Tuned In

This episode is a smart, funny, and occasionally scathing look at where Hollywood and games collide. Expect hot takes, plenty of movie industry knowledge, and a lot of banter. If you want to know which video game movies to actually anticipate—and which to ignore—this is essential listening (or reading).

Transcript

[Roger]

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[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

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[Nick Scarpino]

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[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

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[Nick Scarpino]

Not available in all states or situations. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the kind of Funny Gamescast for September 10th, 2025. I'm Marge McCorney, and I'm joined by Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr. Good day, Roger. Snow Bike Mike.

[Mike]

Yo. This is the crew.

[Roger]

This is the crew right here.

[Nick Scarpino]

And finishing out this amazing crew. So somebody we never really see on the kind of Funny games cast, nobody gets seen one. Nick Scarpino.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Thank you, Roger. Thank you for saying that. And thank. And hey, great intro. Good intros. People don't understand how hard. People don't understand the hard.

[Mike]

How hard the intros are.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You don't nail it. And then we just. If you screw it up for one second, we're gonna pounce on you.

[Roger]

Oh, yeah, I didn't say you're a lame duck.

[Nick Scarpino]

I just. I just went around and I crushed it. I skipped him so that I can get to you last. That was.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That was what you should have done.

[Nick Scarpino]

I just don't.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I'm.

[Nick Scarpino]

I just don't believe you.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

What don't you believe? I'm being hur.

[Roger]

Being earnest.

[Mike]

And honestly, before the podcast, because I was watching TikTok.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, he's blaring tiktoks. I'm overstimulated. I don't know what's happening. How are you listening?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Said something about a TikTok and it made sense. And then Mike said, oh, the best is the one where the lady said, mom, you don't understand because Shaq hit on me in a club and I didn't go, you haven't lived a life until that happened.

[Roger]

Can we talk about that?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And then I go, this is how stupid I am. I'm like, just shut up, Nick. Just stay. Just stay silent. Because obviously you don't understand the reference, but. But it's probably something everyone's talked about nine times. And, like, you're just dumb and you're just old. And then you waited the perfect amount of time. You're like, mike, what the fuck does that mean?

[Roger]

I don't know what that.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

What does that mean?

[Mike]

That's the new TikTok trend is when parents tell you, been there, done that, and then you hit them with something outrageous that you know your parents wouldn't have done.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I see.

[Mike]

It's like mom and dad. You weren't in the club getting lit off the don at 4:00am Like, I.

[Roger]

Was getting hit on by Shaq. And you said no when he asked you to go home with him.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Okay, that makes sense.

[Roger]

I don't know.

[Mike]

Well, I mean, everybody's got.

[Roger]

I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if I want that on my algorithm. I don't know. Let me find one of the bits on my algorithm. You're gonna like it.

[Nick Scarpino]

Okay.

[Roger]

The Cat's Eye Gap ad.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, of course it's an ad.

[Roger]

Yeah, it's all over my algorithm.

[Nick Scarpino]

Okay. They're doing the games.

[Roger]

Okay, okay, okay. You know about Cat's Eye?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

No, I don't know about this. Show me the ad.

[Roger]

We'll talk about it later.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Welcome.

[Roger]

Will we? Well, not on this episode.

[Nick Scarpino]

Oh, talk about it later. Cat's Eye is like. It's a girl group created by the K Pop connections and everything. There was a K Pop Academy, which is on Netflix, which is like kind of like a reality show where they brought a bunch.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

How long do you think Snow, like Mike would last in the K Pop Academy?

[Nick Scarpino]

Oh, really?

[Mike]

Are you watching?

[Nick Scarpino]

He would go to the ending. He would go to the ending. Huh?

[Mike]

Are you watching K Pop, the newest one?

[Nick Scarpino]

No.

[Mike]

They had the Spice Girl song shoot.

[Nick Scarpino]

All of them?

[Mike]

No, just a couple.

[Roger]

Watch.

[Nick Scarpino]

K Popping is one Destiny Child. All of Destiny Child.

[Roger]

Or if Beyonce shows up, he can't.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Be like, oh, yeah, I saw Destiny Child.

[Mike]

Yeah, she was the child.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You know she was the child.

[Mike]

It's like the one made it, and she was the one.

[Nick Scarpino]

She was the Destiny Child.

[Roger]

Golly. Have you seen K Pop Demon Hunter? Okay, Mike says not you.

[Mike]

I thought he's talking to Nick.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

No. Why would he ask me that question?

[Mike]

Look away.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Blessing knows. Blessing faces out to see if Chat's talking about him.

[Roger]

Maybe.

[Nick Scarpino]

Maybe you need to stop watching Tik Tok whatsoever. You're still. You're still in.

[Roger]

I'm looking direct. He ask you a question? The mic doesn't know I exist.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

No, man, I Would bet. I would. Oh, my God. I would bet every song about Change.

[Nick Scarpino]

It back, change it back.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

We're getting back on real.

[Nick Scarpino]

We're getting back on real.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I have not seen K Pop. Whatever the he did, he said that.

[Mike]

I was like, man, why would he ask Nick that?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Like, no, I was trying to hop off of the K Pop thing.

[Roger]

You know, Roger mentioned K Pop Academy, Mike mentioned K Pop. So I was trying to keep the K Pop thing going because K Pop Demon Hunter is a movie and it.

[Mike]

Could become a video game.

[Roger]

It could be. Oh, it was Netflix games.

[Mike]

Well, I just like think to myself, like, that's a winning IP that could.

[Roger]

Become a movie in your head. You said it like it was like a thing.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That was a transition.

[Nick Scarpino]

I could say anything could be a video game.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Trying to bring it back to your situation.

[Roger]

Not to bring it back. Because my next episode is going to be in. This episode's about movies. And this motherfucker is like, oh, it.

[Nick Scarpino]

Could be a video game.

[Roger]

This is by far some breaking news or something.

[Mike]

Video game podcast.

[Nick Scarpino]

And I was going to bring it back to Roger.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I feel like this is my fault. I really do.

[Nick Scarpino]

It really is. Because it's 100% this, this episode. And you start doing the thing. I'm like, I'm mad about this. I'm mad, actually. No, you all did it. You all did it to yourselves. We didn't do anything.

[Roger]

Jesus Christ.

[Nick Scarpino]

Remember, this is the kind of funny game scouts where each and every weekday we get you, we get together talking about the biggest reviews, previews and tik tok around this table. Video Games Live on YouTube, Twitch podcast services around the globe. If you love. We do. Support us with the kind of funny membership. I don't know why you would, though. I mean, look at this. I don't know what's happening right here on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube Music. To get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. For a chance to be a part of the show, submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats. We, you know. Yeah, send us in your thoughts on whatever tiktoks you're talking about, what movies you think should be a video game and what video games you think should be a movie.

[Roger]

I like it.

[Nick Scarpino]

Mike looks like he's deep.

[Mike]

That's the Bachelor or Bachelorette. Ever made a video game?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, like Survivor.

[Mike]

Made a video game. Bachelor. Bachelor.

[Nick Scarpino]

I guarantee you there's a Bachelor. There's a. There's a Bachelor. Wii video game. I'M pretty sure.

[Mike]

Or mobile.

[Nick Scarpino]

I'm sure there is. I'm sure there is. We'll look into that later. Yeah, well, housekeeper for you. We're an 11 person business all about live talk shows. KFG was about some Nintendo Direct predictions. Did you have some good ones?

[Roger]

Oh, we had some great ones. It was actually a really fantastic conversation.

[Nick Scarpino]

Okay, I'm excited to hear that one after this. Nick and Mike are playing Rainbow six.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Rainbow six Siege with maybe a special appearance for in Dune because I have to say goodbye to a very good friend today and it's, it's, it's disheartening for me. But you know, it's a circle of life. Life moves on and we have to give something back to the desert today. So we might do that in a special for a special ceremony today.

[Nick Scarpino]

We're just gonna sign into Andy's account and drop all the shit and then just give it to you guys because he's not playing anymore.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

No, what I'm gonna do is that. Well, you don't have to wait and see.

[Mike]

Yeah, okay.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You'll have to wait.

[Nick Scarpino]

Okay, a little tease right there. After this episode, if you're a kind of funny member. Today you get two Greg Wayza, you get 17 minutes on if you should start a podcast in 20, 25 and 24 minutes about how Six One Indie is doing amazing work. That's over 30 minutes of content for your Greg Ways today. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The psalm twining Jesus the psalm.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I love that he's going by that now.

[Nick Scarpino]

Today we're brought to you by Shady Rays and Factor. But we'll tell you about that later. For now let's get topic of the show. Every video game movie that is coming out from now until the end of time, I guess that we know of. Right.

[Roger]

Like this is until two days from now when they announce a new one.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes, of course. That's. This is, this is the genesis of this entire episode. Is that feels like every week there's an announcement on kind of Funny Games Daily of a new video game movie adaptation, what have you.

[Roger]

I prep KPD every single day.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes.

[Roger]

And like clockwork, every week Variety has an article, the Hollywood Reporter has an article. There's one, maybe Esquire as an article that is video game movie announced and it's happening more and more. It's accelerated. And I wanted to have a conversation because there are a few things to talk about. One, are there too many video game movies happening?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Two, which of these video game movies happening actually need to happen. I think that's the big thing is when we look at this long list, I'm like, you can cut this, you can cut that, you can cut this. And I actually. I was like, I think it'd be a fun conversation to actually get deep into the full list and be like, all right, what's worth staying and what's worth being like, this video game movie doesn't need to exist.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes, I have a list of over probably three dozen. It feels like. It feels like a lot. Definitely over two dozen video game movies that have been announced by official sources, not just rumored. Announced that it's actually happening, or at least in some type of pre production or production. We're going to go through them in order from soonest to all the way down to TBA and whatever it is.

[Roger]

Can I ask a question?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I need to get that doc. Can I get eyes on that doc?

[Roger]

Thank you. How did we get here?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

What are you looking at, Mike?

[Mike]

I got deep into the Bachelor because I was starting to figure out the video game for the Bachelor. You know about the new Bachelorette, right?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh, sure.

[Mike]

The Mormon.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh, she's a Mormon.

[Mike]

Well, she was from the Mormon wives.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

How do they bang in the spot in the hot tub?

[Mike]

The whole TikTok scandal. Well, they're already banging now.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah. The pop is the top has been popped on that one.

[Roger]

Wow.

[Mike]

Crazy.

[Roger]

Thank you. My question is, what was the movie or movies that led us down this route of video game movies being the new thing?

[Nick Scarpino]

Well.

[Roger]

Or being the current.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Let's say one was actually good.

[Nick Scarpino]

Let's say at the same time.

[Roger]

Am I thinking the same one? You're thinking three, two, one.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

This movie. Oh, what?

[Mike]

Tomb Raider.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

All nine versions of it.

[Roger]

Roger says Sonic. I said Detective Pikachu. Nick said Mario. Mike said Tomb Raider.

[Mike]

I'm gonna go Tomb Raider. Resident Evil Dash.

[Roger]

I think Sonic is probably the right one.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, I think so. The reason I say Sonic is just because it's the most successful out of.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

There's been three of them. Yes.

[Nick Scarpino]

And three of them before. What was it? Three of them before we get a sequel to the Batman. Right. Whatever it is. Like three of them within, like four years of each other.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Sonic's the perfect movie too, because. And this is no disrespect, I don't mean. I don't mean this is like a. Oh, let's all jump on each other here. But like, Sonic is a lower stakes movie. So the fact that it produced and people like it, they can do different stuff with it. That. That is a perfect way to kick off the video game movie France, like, you know, genre, basically, and revitalize that.

[Nick Scarpino]

And they figured it out through so much adversity of, like, the idea that the movie is announced. It's like, okay, cool. I'm excited for that Sonic movie. Finally. The fans are excited. They show the trailer and it's an abomination. Sonic.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And they had to redo the song.

[Nick Scarpino]

And then they redo it. And then that movie is extraordinarily successful. Pandemic happen happens. They still get one out within a few years. A sequel, and then they do a third one.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

It's insane. It's insane.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

The.

[Nick Scarpino]

The clip that they're producing these and how they've just kind of stayed the same quality, which is, you know, okay to good, which is a solid home run, I guess.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And I'm excited for one person, one person only, James Marsden, because he's finally found his footing as the John to Sonic's Garfield.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

If you know, that's all he is in this movie, right?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. He's done this a few times, though, with CGI characters that. In the movie Hop. I think it's Movie Hopper. It was with the CGI bunny where he's just like the real person with the CGI thing. So I think that's just kind of his.

[Roger]

That's his kind of trying to make a Space Jam.

[Nick Scarpino]

No, I'm thinking like. Like thinking of album the Chipmunks. Like, you know, I mean, like, there's a cgi.

[Roger]

Yeah, that's what Space Jam did. No, you're saying a real person with a CGI bunny.

[Nick Scarpino]

Well, like, the CGI is supposed to be like, in real life, like Sonic.

[Roger]

Okay, so it's not.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It's not like Roger Rabbit's house.

[Nick Scarpino]

Huh?

[Mike]

They went to MJ's house. Michael Jordan's house, just in Space Jam.

[Roger]

What are you talking.

[Mike]

They went to the real world.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

They did, Roger. They did.

[Mike]

If you don't remember, they did.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And it changed everything. Let's have a conversation about what didn't help.

[Nick Scarpino]

You're just saying facts about the movie spaceship.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Mike is deep in his. Duffy. Look at the hot facts right now.

[Roger]

This was a mistake to bring it back, though, to Hopps and then back to the movie conversation.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Right.

[Roger]

I want to talk about Detective Pikachu for a second because I think Detective Pikachu kind of worked in conjunction with the Sonic movie to, I think, usher in this big wave as well. Because Sonic came out early 2020. I remember because that was when I first joined KF and we had to review. We were all dressed in the bodysuits that I try to forget. And that was February 2020. The year prior in like May is when the Detective Pikachu movie came out. And according to the Google AI that I never trust, Detective Pikachu was considered a commercial success grossing over 433 million. It was, it was dollars worldwide and it was like, I think the highest grossing. Yeah. According to this, it became the highest grossing video game movie in North America at its release. And so like you saw rapid success kind of back to back there. And I think since then. Yeah, I think the Sonic sequels have added a lot to it. What are the other video game successes that come to mind in the last five years?

[Nick Scarpino]

Five years?

[Roger]

Yeah. Video game movies, movie success.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I mean, the Mario movie was big.

[Roger]

Mario movie, yes.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's another great one.

[Nick Scarpino]

Minecraft.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Minecraft is huge. Minecraft might be the top dog right now, right? Goes to Bill.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, it's one of the. It's one of the biggest movies of this year.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Never, never not bet on Jack Black. Yeah, that's what I'll say. Other than Berlins, the Jack Black Momoa connection and the fact that people's brains are just fucking dead right now.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And they just want to sit in theaters and have blinking lights hit their face. Well, did you see it?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes, I did.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Was it good?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, it was pretty good.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah, back then.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, exactly. It was.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I almost watched it on a plane.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. I think you would generally get a kick out of it.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I love this movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. Those words are directed by the person that did Napoleon Dynamite. So it has like, it has that slant, like that kind of like small town esque weird comedy in the beginning of it. Then it goes full on Minecraft. Yeah, it's. It's an interesting one because like my Jack Black specifically. Let's get into Jack Black. But I'll really.

[Roger]

We got to talk about Jack.

[Nick Scarpino]

We got Jack Black. Jack Black.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Because he, he is the common factor.

[Nick Scarpino]

And he's come around in, in terms of his popularity and success right now. He's almost like the Sandler, where Sandler.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Was huge in a certain period called the Sandman.

[Nick Scarpino]

Okay. The Sandman. The Sandler. He was super huge. He was super huge in the, in the 90s, early 2000s. Right. And then people grow up with him. And then kids now are seeing fucking grew up with grownups the movie. And then now they're adults. What are you laughing at?

[Mike]

Where are you, Jack Black. It's like, does Jumanji count in this? Because that video game, like.

[Nick Scarpino]

That's a good point. What are you laughing about?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Jumanji. The new Jumanji is a video game movie. It is not. It's not based on a property.

[Mike]

Yes, but a video game.

[Roger]

But it's like. It's a video game in the movie. I've not seen it, but it's a movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

New Jumanji movie. Yes, it's a video. It's a copy of a video game they play, and then they get.

[Roger]

So did pixels come out?

[Nick Scarpino]

Oh, it's.

[Roger]

Speaking of Adam Sandler. 2015.

[Nick Scarpino]

2016. Somewhere around there. 2015, 2015.

[Roger]

Okay, okay.

[Nick Scarpino]

It's a video game movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

But I. I hear what you're saying. I hear what you're saying. I don't think Jack Black ever quite went away like Adam Sandler did, but he was also.

[Nick Scarpino]

Now he has the nostalgia of, like, a Gen Alpha, a Gen Z of people.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

No, but see, I would disagree with you in that. And I hear what you're saying.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And I agree with you. Adam Sandler.

[Roger]

Right.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Adam Sandler kind of owned the 90s for dumb, goofy, silly comedy. Went away for a little while and then actually revitalized his career by doing really, really good work. He'd always done sort of some dramatic roles, but, like, Uncut Gems is a legit, incredible movie. And I think his connection with the Safdie brothers is like, fudgeing great. Right? Funny People is a great movie as well, that connection. John Apatow. So he's. He's got it. But recently coming back into that nostalgia for Happy Gilmore, too, It's so much fun stepping back into that. But Sandler's evolved over the years. Jack Black has just sort of been Jack Black in various stages of beard, sure, throughout the last 20 years, but he smartly moved away from. Actually, no, he really hasn't moved away from The Jack Black 1.0. He's just Jack Black.

[Roger]

He's been Jack for as long as I remember. Jack Black. Jack Black has been Jack Black. But I think it's like he's School of Rock.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's what I think. Jack Black.

[Nick Scarpino]

School of Rock. Nacho Libre.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Kung Fu Panda.

[Roger]

Kung Fu Panda.

[Nick Scarpino]

Huge, Huge.

[Roger]

Huge. I think this era happened to need a Jack Black. You know what I mean? Like, somebody who is I. Larger than life and animated and goofy and can go over the top in a way that, like, will fit a Mario movie and a Borderlands movie. What else was he in? Was he in another One Minecraft. Yeah, Minecraft. Thank you, thank you. Minecraft in Borderlands.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah, he's making a lot of money. He's got points in the back end on these movies and he's, he's. He's born out. But I. Yeah, I mean, I just think a. He's. He's fun to watch, obviously. And I think he's just a bank. I think people are. Now it makes sense. You see the guy from Kung Fu Panda, he's the guy from School of Rock. You're like, oh, that's going to make sense. And then if I'm being real, though, I think the thing that really kind of set this whole thing off was the Peaches song. Yeah, we went Peaches. We were like, oh, we're taking this Mario property.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And we're. He's putting his little twist on it in this thing. Because who fuck cared about Bowser going into this? You don't care, right? This is.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, it's just kind of a blank canvas.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Has a blank canvas. And he's a Peaches. Peaches. And everyone's like, oh, okay. Were actually infusing the right amount of personality, which was, again, to the Sonic discussion was a risk. That's a huge risk for Nintendo to allow something like that to happen. And it paid off. And now he's going to get. They're going to have a Bowser movie at some point.

[Nick Scarpino]

I mean, that's the reason why we have, you know what's called Jim Carrey in the Sonic movies, right. Is to kind of add this otherworldly, like this outside, like comedy sense of humor into this world of Sonic.

[Roger]

I want to shout out a couple more things. Right? Yeah, tell me Sony, they've like made a division that is focused on video game. When I say Sony, I mean PlayStation production specifically. And so you have that.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Who's doing the Last of Us?

[Roger]

Yes. The last was Uncharted movie, which came out right now. It's fine. But I think the Last of Us is another thing. Even though it's on the TV side that I would attribute to like, oh, shit. This, I think made waves. As far as video game adaptation, I.

[Nick Scarpino]

Think the biggest thing I think they're ignoring is just the importance of iPad. Right. In order to get a movie made in Hollywood in 2025, you need to be attached to some form of IP.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Has to be a known quantity.

[Nick Scarpino]

It has to be a known quantity.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

There are very few original ideas that go out there and make.

[Nick Scarpino]

Exactly. And that's where we're gonna go here. When we talk about these games. We have a lot of games.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It's like literally every single thing on your list has a two after it.

[Nick Scarpino]

Exactly. Well, two. And then also we have a lot of games that are being picked up that are smaller games that some games haven't even come out yet that have movie deals that are in pre production stages. Because I believe that this is the easiest way to get a movie made right now is to look at an ip. Sick. This is a video game. This has X amount of wish list. This has hype behind it, which I understand, I totally understand. But this is kind of a business strategy and that's the reason why we're seeing this pop off so much. Because comic book movies were so huge, you know, the last 10, 15 years, and then now they're kind of getting a little bit of a dip. And we need more things to fill in these movie theaters. And video games are able to fill in that. That fold.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah. And this is, this has been sort of a tried and true way of doing things for a long time in Hollywood, except take out video games, put in books. Right. There are so many, if you, if you follow anything about that, like, Reese Witherspoon has made a fortune starting a company that just literally hits up people that are writing books. And it's like, hey, we want the rights to that. Before you even put pen to paper, if you wrote anything and you have another project coming out, there are all these. All these celebrities are like, oh, I'm a bankable star and I need good material. I buy that from you. And then you cut a man.

[Roger]

And we're going to get into this. Right? But like, clear, obscure, that movie was announced before the game came out.

[Nick Scarpino]

It's a TV show, I believe.

[Roger]

No, I believe.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

So I look at it, it's starring Charlie Day and it's called the Daredevil Reborn.

[Roger]

What are we doing?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Charlie Day, Charlie Cox. Mike, where were you on that one? Get out of the Bachelor.

[Nick Scarpino]

Oh, it is a film. Okay, so I didn't add that one.

[Roger]

Okay, okay. I was about to say I was like, there's no way you're doing a clear, obscure tv.

[Nick Scarpino]

You're right. You're right, you're right. So I didn't add that one.

[Roger]

But that was announced, I'm pretty sure before that game came out, which I think was another one of like, oh, that's where we're at now when it comes to ip. And I think specifically video game ip.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I could see that one being one though, that like, I, I don't there's not. There's not a huge risk involved in being like, oh, we've got. We've secured the rights to a show. We're making a show, and then if the game dies or doesn't do well, the show is not gonna happen.

[Roger]

Like, oh, we're not gonna do this.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's.

[Nick Scarpino]

That's.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's been happening for a very, very long time as well.

[Nick Scarpino]

So I think the rules for this are pretty simple. We're just gonna go through all these, and there's a lot of them we don't do for every single one. But if you feel compelled to just say valid or salad, AKA valid, you mean this is going to be good, you're excited for this one? Or salad. We can drop this. This doesn't need to be made. Or you think it's going to be bad. It's all encompass. Both of them, you know, encompass a few different things, but I think that's the easiest way to go about this. So let's just start off in order, chronological order. There was supposed to be another movie coming out before this one, but that one got pushed. We'll talk about that in a second. Five Nights at Freddy's 2, December 5, 2025, of course, is the sequel to the movie that came out, 2022.

[Roger]

2023. 2023.

[Nick Scarpino]

That was also a Peacock day and date streamer as well as going into theaters. And it did really amazing in theaters, even though people could go watch it on Peacock that same day. So the fact this is getting a sequel so fast, they fast tracked it. They made it happen. There seems to be a lot of excitement behind Blumhouse and their production of this. I'm gonna go, I think this is valid.

[Roger]

This is one of those things where we have to give an answer.

[Nick Scarpino]

You don't have to, but I personally. This is gonna be valid. This is gonna be. This is not only going to scratch that itch for the Five Nights at Freddy's fans, it's gonna do fucking insane numbers. You see conjuring over here doing crazy numbers.

[Roger]

I don't give a fuck about Five Nights at Freddy, but I'll say valid just because I know it's a good idea.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Like, based off the success of the.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

First one, I'll say. I'll say valid. I like that they're doing weird stuff like this.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I didn't. It doesn't speak to me.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I saw the trailer for the first one. I'm like, I never need to watch this, but I guarantee if I do I'll have a good time with it. So I'll say ballot for that.

[Mike]

Yeah, this one's going to get the sonic treatment where they're going to push out about three movies in, like four years. They're already on track for that here with the sequel, and I'm sure we'll get a trilogy, if not more, and they will just pump these out. There's a crazy audience for that. We know that the younger generation grew up with Five Nights at Freddy's. And really, it doesn't matter what age you are now. If you grew up with that, you're going back to that. If you are on the outside, you probably have no idea what this is. You don't care for this at all. But there's some sort of insane fan base for this. And. Yeah, I watched this one on Tick Tock.

[Roger]

Did you like it?

[Mike]

Yeah. I mean, I don't remember anything about it.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. Going on to the next one. Another horror movie. This is from in January 2026. This is return to Silent Hill. Director Christoph Gans, who is the director of the original Silent Hill movie. He's back and basically doing his version of Silent Hill 2. I look at this trailer, Baron, if you want to pull it up or if we even do.

[Roger]

I'm hesitant.

[Nick Scarpino]

We're hesitant. Bring it.

[Roger]

Any movie trailer right now.

[Nick Scarpino]

Totally fair. I. This doesn't look great to me. I'm just going to put a hot salad on this one. I don't. It doesn't. It doesn't look great to me, and it doesn't excite me. It doesn't feel like we're getting the. The full Resident Evil treatment as we're going to get in the next few years.

[Roger]

We talked about it on a game.

[Nick Scarpino]

Daily, and I remember looking at some.

[Roger]

Of the CG and it looked worse.

[Nick Scarpino]

Than some of the CG from the.

[Roger]

Original Silent Hill movie from 20 years ago.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I mean, this looks like a game. It looks like a bad game.

[Roger]

This is a salad that I think should be a valid. In the sense that, like, the. As I'm watching the trailer here, it looks bad, but, like, I think the idea of a Silent Hill movie is a good idea. That's something that I think should be great, but I think with what we've been shown. Yeah, this is salad.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I'm gonna say kale salad on this one. It's cold. It's cold.

[Nick Scarpino]

And there's not healthy.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

There's not enough dressing you can put on this to make it palatable.

[Mike]

I'm in line with all of you guys as the recent Silent Hill fanboy. I've can't get enough Silent Hill. And oddly enough, when I watch that trailer, I'm immediately turned off and go, I don't want to watch any of that. There is something in there, as Blessing said, that, like, you could find some movie gold and make something out of Silent Hill, but when you look at that one, it's like, well, that's not it. So back to the drawing board.

[Nick Scarpino]

I've already mentioned it, so we'll talk about it right here. I believe this is rumored or at least slated right now for just general 2026 Resident Evil, directed by Zach Krager over at the creator of Weapons, director of Weapons and Barbarian. I am so unbelievably hyped for this movie. This is probably the number one movie out of all this entire list that I'm the most excited for. He's saying all the right things. If you kind of go through the little interviews that he's had, he talks about how he wants us to be within the video game universe, but he is not going to use any of the video game characters. This is going to be its own original story. And the way that he describes it is really exciting. He's just like, this is a very simple story. This is not like Barbarian. This is not like Weapons. I am doing this just so I can do crazy things with the camera and the story. The idea is that it's a character that goes from one. One area to another area and goes down the depths of hell, which is the way that he describes a lot of Resident Evil games that he loves is you go from one area to another and just go down just layers of hell. And that's what he wants to kind of do for this one. So everything he's saying sounds good to me. Of course, we don't have, like, a full cast. We don't have any of that. But he's very excited about it. This guy is literally the hottest director in Hollywood right now. The fact that he's choosing to do a Resident Evil movie does not seem like a cash grab. It seems like this guy is genuinely in love with the franchise. So I am all four totally valid.

[Roger]

I love this guy's come up as well, because if people aren't familiar, he's one of the dudes from Whitest Kids, you know?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. And so it's just funny to see.

[Roger]

Him, like, start off in, like, a really good comedy troupe from, like, 15 years ago, and now he's legit, like, one of the Most asked for directors right now in the horror scenes. I'm gonna give this a super valid.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I'm adding that to my own personal super valid.

[Roger]

Super valid. Yeah. I didn't realize this was the same. Yeah. The same director as Barbarian in the movies that you listed. Love Barbarian. And also, I always love when directors and writers are like, hey, we're gonna put this in the universe, but we're gonna tell a different story within this universe. I think oftentimes, video game universes are better explored than just retelling the same story that you might have had through the campaign. I think that's why we love Fallout so much, is that, hey, this takes place in the video game universe, but we're doing the Fallout thing in a separate thing. That way we can tell our own story and have original characters.

[Nick Scarpino]

Light connections.

[Roger]

Light connections. You can get those Easter eggs and all that stuff.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And.

[Roger]

And so. Yeah, this sounds really cool.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah. I'm just. I'm just happy he's got a vision for it, because so many of these movies, you just. Just get, like. It's like. I puts it together, they just get a bunch of people and they throw it out, and they should just get something out asap. And the fact that. No disrespect to the team that made the 19 other Resident Evil movies that came out before this.

[Nick Scarpino]

We'll talk about the director in a little bit. Oh, yeah, Work on something else.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

What's his name?

[Nick Scarpino]

Paul W.S. anderson.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Paul W.S. anderson. Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Who is.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Who was married to Mila Jovich for a hot second. Maybe they're divorced now. Yeah. I love those movies. They will always be near and dear to my heart, but they are not good. Yeah. So having someone come in with a vision who has a clear pedigree of making awesome stuff like this. Like, I haven't seen Weapons yet, but Barbarian was. You would love weapons a fucking moment. So. Yeah, that's cool. I'm gonna give this a super valid as well.

[Nick Scarpino]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Can I steal that so you can steal it?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, steal that.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Super valid.

[Roger]

Super valid. Patented by Blessed nick.

[Mike]

Yeah. From 2002 to 2016, Resident Evil movies were my. Those were the ultimate video game adaptations of, like, what's finally happening. And this is all I could ever ask for. They were awful. When you look back on them now, but, like, it was some of the first times you could ever look at it and go, wow. Video game. I love this. Now it's a movie. This is amazing. And so the idea of exploring more Resident Evil zombies will never go out of style. As much as we try to make them go out of style, zombies are always fun. It's a great universe.

[Nick Scarpino]

I can't wait coming up with a movie that actually has a date but was delayed. It was supposed to come out, I think, literally next month. Mortal Kombat 2 is now slated for May 15, 2026.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

This is the Carl Urban Helms thing, right? He's playing Johnny Cage.

[Nick Scarpino]

Playing Johnny Cage with an American accent.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I'll go with this. I'll go with this.

[Nick Scarpino]

This.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

This is valid.

[Roger]

Valid.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It's going to be, dude, super valid, terrible, and so fun.

[Roger]

I'm not gonna give it a super valid.

[Nick Scarpino]

I'm just gonna give it a valid salad. I watched that trailer. I'm like, this looks awful. It looks awful.

[Roger]

I hate it after the trailer.

[Nick Scarpino]

I hate Mortal Kombat movie. The new reboot one. I love the. The original one because it's awful and it's super campy and it's just garbage.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

None of them are good.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, but this. But this newest one that they released in. During COVID or whatever was just.

[Roger]

I didn't like that one either.

[Nick Scarpino]

It was awful. It was atrocious, and it was just, like, not even fun. It was not even a fun movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I don't think it was awful by numbers.

[Nick Scarpino]

I just watched this trailer and I'm like, the CGI looks. I don't like this accent they're going for. I just. It just doesn't work for me. So, yeah, I don't think this is going to be a good movie. But it's going to do really well, though.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I don't think it's going to do really well.

[Nick Scarpino]

I think it is because the movie did like 100 million views. Like, this trailer. That's why they delayed it, is because they're like, no, movies don't really do well in October. We're moving it to, like, the summer movie season. So, like, they've. They're like, hella confident, and Warner Brothers is, like, kind of on a hot streak right now, so I don't doubt it.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I. I hear everything you're saying, and everything you're saying is absolutely valid and you're 100% correct. But for the sake of fun, I hope this movie rocks. Yeah, I hope it rock. I'm a huge Carl Urban fan. I. The biggest sin on the planet is that he didn't get a dread 3D2. That movie fucking rocks so hard. And I love him in Star Trek. And they're not making any damn Star Trek movies anytime soon. So I hope this does well for him as a vehicle and I hope he's Johnny Cage for the next 30 years until eventually they got to put a wig on that beautiful head of hair.

[Mike]

Well said. No doubt. I'm gonna steal this one from the chat. This will be taco salad. Meaning it's gonna be bad, but it's gonna be a whole lot of fun.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, it's gonna be a lot messy.

[Mike]

Oh, it's gonna be a whole messy.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Fun where you're like salad and name only.

[Mike]

Yes, exactly. I just want Mortal Kombat to be bloodsport where it's all about, you know, like the tournament and the fighting. But no, it's all about the hijinks outside of it. And that's what the fun.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's true.

[Nick Scarpino]

Talking about, oh, I gotta talk about Mortal Kombat too. Okay.

[Roger]

Yeah. I just want to shout out. I did really like the trailer here. For me, this is a valid. Even though I didn't like the first movie that much, I still do think it was fun. Like, I thought it was like a good time. However I look at this trailer, I'm like, you, you're. I feel like you're getting rid of the things that I didn't like about the first movie, which really was Cole Young.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. It was the fucking main character who.

[Roger]

Was like, this is.

[Nick Scarpino]

This is turn to an armadillo roll up.

[Roger]

I'm like, I don't like this guy. You've gotten rid of that. You replaced him with a charismatic main character. And I think the effects here look cool. I love seeing Noobin Smoke. I love seeing the Katana and Jade being played by Homegirl that we love from the Last of Us too. Right. I, I'm. I'm in on this. On this. I like this.

[Nick Scarpino]

Well, talking about another all star cast for a fighting movie over here, that's street fighter, which is October 16, 2026. You did a whole Gamescast about this blessing.

[Roger]

Yes. Where Tim Geddes convinced me that this isn't going to be solid, that this is actually going to be valid. And a big part of that, I highly recommend people go listen to that Gamescast was Tim was comparing it strongly to the Peacock or to the Twisted Metal show on Peacock because turns out similar people working on this movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

Right.

[Roger]

I think the director might be the same director as Twisted Metal, but you can double check me on that.

[Nick Scarpino]

He worked on Eric Andre's show as well.

[Roger]

Yes. And so I think you have that. You have an energy where. When I think about Street Fighter, I Don't think about the story. Nobody can tell you the story to Street Fighter. It's just people fighting. And you look at the characters and it's like, okay, you got the goofy nature. You got the fucking over the top castings. You have Cody Rhodes playing as guy. You got Roman Reigns as Akuma. You got fucking ridiculous shit going on here. You got 50 Cent playing Balrog. Like, I think this is going to be fun. Is it going to be the best movie? No, no, it's probably going to be a seven, but I think this is going to be a very fun.

[Nick Scarpino]

This is definitely going to be valid.

[Roger]

I'm going to give valid.

[Nick Scarpino]

See, this is the type of camp that I like. And I think they're going to go over top with it all. And like, I just. When I looked at the Mortal Kombat 2 trailer, I know they're going over the top, but like, not as. Not even as much as I want them to. This is gonna go the whole goofy colors. It's gonna be insane. It's gonna be part comedy, mostly comedy. I feel like in my mind, with over the top action. Yeah, this is definitely a valid, but I think it's going to be kind of a mixed bag when it comes to some of the people that are looking for different things.

[Mike]

Nick, I never watched the 1994 Street Fighter.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

The Jean Claude van.

[Mike]

Yeah, what happened with that? Can you give me a rundown of like, was that fun to watch? Was that good, dude, like. Because, like, that's clearly going to be the vibes heading into this one. Right?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Well, here's the thing. If, if. If that's what they go for, I could be. I could be convinced to watch this film. But no, the 1994 version of this movie was not what anyone wanted at the time. Starting off, they were like, let's cast Jean Claude Van Damme, who wasn't even that big of a star at this point. This was like his star was sort of declined at this point. And then they were like, you know, who would make the best M. Bison, you know, make the best villain ever? The most contemporary, most popular actor of our time, of course, Raul Julia, who, you know, from.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Absolutely nothing. Exactly. Nobody ever. But he's a great actor. And I know him from the Adams family. Of course, he played Gomez Adams in the first two films that were the Barry Seinfeld classics. But everyone was like, that's a weird pull, dude. How come not like a bigger name, action actor? It was so weird. And then also John Claude Van Damme didn't even try to do. He just kept his accent the entire time. And he's playing guile, the most American soldier you could buy. And he's like, my mama took one. My name is Chance Boudreau. You're like, dude, whatever. Having said that, I, I, this movie does not. I don't care about this at all. It's too many WWE stars.

[Mike]

All right?

[Roger]

There's two.

[Nick Scarpino]

There's two people.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It's too bad.

[Mike]

It's got a wild cast though, man. It's got.

[Nick Scarpino]

I mean, also, isn't that what you want?

[Roger]

He's got Eric Andre.

[Nick Scarpino]

You literally have people that are like, but here's my.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Who is the person that I is going to, is going to bring me to this film and who I'm going to go on the adventure with. Right. Cuz the only person that, like, I always think of, I think of Street Fighter and I think of who are the two main characters in Street Fighter.

[Nick Scarpino]

Who, who would you say?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Like, these are the two. Ken and Rio.

[Nick Scarpino]

Right.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Why? Because they came from the original Street Fighter right there. The two in Street Fighter 2. In the video, they were the ones.

[Roger]

The first two character slots.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

First two characters you see is cool. One was in the red ge, one was in the whitey.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Awesome, right? Noah Centineo is playing Ken. Sure.

[Roger]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I get. I like him.

[Nick Scarpino]

He's ripped, though.

[Roger]

He's ripped.

[Nick Scarpino]

Ripped. He got cool. Don't act like you're not impressed by abs. I know you are.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I love abs. I mean, David Dash Maltin is in this as M. Bison. That's good casting. I like him. He played poker, I'm pretty sure.

[Roger]

Has, like, a really good track record. His name is Koji.

[Nick Scarpino]

Rio is definitely going to be the main character.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Andrew. Koji.

[Roger]

Andrew. Koji. Let me, I'll look up some of his previous stuff.

[Mike]

I mean, no, 50 Cent was 50 years old.

[Nick Scarpino]

Exactly.

[Roger]

That's why.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's why it's 50 Cent.

[Mike]

That's.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's what they call him when he's 49. It was 4. 9 cents.

[Nick Scarpino]

All right, get out. All right.

[Roger]

He was in Snake Eyes.

[Nick Scarpino]

Bullet Train.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

But he wasn't the main character.

[Roger]

He's like an action. No, he was. Was he pretty sure he was in Snake Eyes? Yeah, I'm like, fairly sure he was Snake Eyes.

[Nick Scarpino]

All right, let's go around the table.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh, maybe not. No, he was not valid.

[Nick Scarpino]

Valid.

[Roger]

Storm Shadow.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

He plays Storm Shadow. Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Nick, what do you think?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I will say taco salad on this one. I think it's going to be terrible and fun and we're going to forget about it.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's another taco salad. Just because of the cast.

[Nick Scarpino]

I love that.

[Roger]

I'm going to steal taco salad. I'm going to say.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah, scroll down. Who was the character? The main character was like a big actor in this.

[Roger]

Oh yeah, main character was Harry something.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It's the guy. I want to say it's the guy.

[Roger]

Henry Golding.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

No, it's the guy from Crazy Rich Asians. Right.

[Roger]

I just haven't seen.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger]

And I love John M. Two movies and.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh my God. Yeah, crazy version. And he was in the Gentleman. He's great in that. And Last Christmas, which is my favorite Christmas movie right now. Joey, get on it. If you haven't watched it, you got to watch it.

[Nick Scarpino]

Next movie, the Super Mario Brothers Movie 2. This is also rumored to be called Super Mario world, I believe. April 3, 2026. Who wants to take.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

A bet right now that the third one's gonna be called Galaxy?

[Roger]

Oh, I hope.

[Nick Scarpino]

You hope. You hope.

[Roger]

I mean easy.

[Nick Scarpino]

You have a little. The star. A little star in the first one, right? He was. Yeah, Luma. He was. He took. Did a little.

[Roger]

Yeah, I think they gave te. He dropped a line in the first one too of like this galaxies out there.

[Nick Scarpino]

So yeah, I think that's an easy valid. This can be an easy valid.

[Roger]

Easy valid.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. Last one was good. Last one was really.

[Roger]

I love the first one.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I wanted. I kind of wanted to hate the first one because I kind of want. There's something about me that is a kid who grew up in the 90s who never saw a good video game movie that just wants the world to burn. I want all these to die so that people would just play your video games and stop expecting them to be movies. But this movie was good.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And I'll say this is going to be valid.

[Nick Scarpino]

Of course it's a perfect plane movie if you're an adult.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

So. So is Minecraft. This is why. Shocking. I didn't watch it on the plane.

[Nick Scarpino]

You should go on a plane trip right now. Go watch Minecraft.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Let's go where you want to go right now.

[Nick Scarpino]

Let's go to LA and then back.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Time to watch the movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

Mikey.

[Mike]

I'm just waiting on that Seth Rogan Donkey Kong movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Cuz that Seth Rogan Donkey Kong with that laugh is going to make me smile. Does it? I love it. You know I can't wait.

[Nick Scarpino]

Angry Birds 3 is up next. That is January 29th, 2027. A long time since the last one. I'm trying to figure out when Angry Birds 2 came out.

[Mike]

2019.

[Nick Scarpino]

The main character in Anger Red, which is Jason Sudeikis character. The Angry Birds movie. From what I've gathered. I've not watched any of them. Pretty okay when it comes to like animated cartoon kids movies. Kids like it. There's like a cult following of these kids that enjoy this movie. So Josh.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Gad.

[Nick Scarpino]

I don't know. I don't want to say salad because I'm a fucking adult. I don't watch these movies. So I'm sure it's going to be fine. It's going to be whatever.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

There's a part of me that wants again to watch the world burn. I want these to die. I want these to stop happening. Because Angry Birds was such an annoying brain rot moment for everyone that had a phone. You're like, why is this such a big deal? That was actually. If you want to talk about where the state of our. Of our world right now and how we're headed toward a very quick AI driven apocalypse, I want to say that I'll. I'll go back. You could trace that to Angry Birds. That was the start of everyone's not Flappy Bird.

[Roger]

Are you thinking of Flappy Bird?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I might be thinking he's thinking of Flappy.

[Roger]

Because the words that came out of your mouth about Angry Bird, I was like, wait, really?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Wait, which one's Angry Birds?

[Roger]

Angry Bird is like, no, no.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Flappy Bird was the one where you had a kick in it.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Was useless. You just go, oh, I didn't get the thing.

[Mike]

You're killing it.

[Nick Scarpino]

It.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh, I didn't get the thing. Thanks, Mike.

[Nick Scarpino]

Let's move on to the next one.

[Mike]

Hold up, hold up.

[Nick Scarpino]

No, we're not going. We have to. You really have an opinion about Angry Birds is.

[Mike]

It's like the Emojis movie and those certain movies where they get every big name actor to ever come in and all of a sudden you have this mishmash and incredible lineup. But here's a positive for you. If you look over here, the rotten tomatoes and IMDb rose in number two. So it means it's only getting better, Rog.

[Nick Scarpino]

Wow.

[Roger]

I'm gonna for my valid salad.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Rating.

[Nick Scarpino]

Well, we'll talk more about this because we're already well into over the 30 minute mark and we have like 75% of this list. This list left. But we'll tell you about more of these games after a word from our sponsors. Movies.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

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[Mike]

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[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

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[Mike]

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[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

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[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

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[Mike]

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[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

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[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

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[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

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[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

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[Nick Scarpino]

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[Roger]

Come on, Amy Mecca or Metal Sonic?

[Nick Scarpino]

Oh, I thought they were gonna say Amy Rose. Yeah, yeah.

[Roger]

I mean these only get better and better as they go. It's a valid. What?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, I. I like Them all about the same. I. I didn't love three. We talked about this. We already did a screencast. I thought it was fine. I thought it was a good movie. Not enough. Not enough shadow.

[Roger]

I like two more than one. Yeah, I think I like three more than two. Although two was really good.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Is Kristen Ritter in this movie?

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Wow.

[Nick Scarpino]

Kind of does nothing in it, but she's there.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Roger]

I mean, she's a Dexter.

[Nick Scarpino]

She's really good in Dexter.

[Roger]

Also. Kristen Ritter being there is doing enough. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I do know what you mean.

[Roger]

Shout out Kristen Ritter.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I do know what you mean.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, this easy. Valid for me. This is gonna be a great movie.

[Roger]

Yeah, valid for me as well.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I'm gonna. You know what? I'm going to. I'm gonna fast on this one because I've never seen a Sonic movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

I like fast. I like this.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah. So I'm gonna fast on this. I like it until it's time to eat.

[Nick Scarpino]

That's solid.

[Roger]

I feel like you would dislike them, but enjoy them.

[Nick Scarpino]

You know what I mean?

[Roger]

I feel like you would be like you.

[Nick Scarpino]

He would, you know, he would love. He would love the knuckle show.

[Roger]

I never saw the knuckle show.

[Nick Scarpino]

What?

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Oh, you who love the knuckle show. It's just mostly about a guy. It's mostly about Knuckles. Mostly about the guy. The.

[Roger]

The Idris. Ella.

[Nick Scarpino]

No. Who's the other?

[Roger]

Oh, dude from the Mindy Kaling show?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes.

[Roger]

Who's the dude from indycling?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, it's just about him wanting to be a. A better bowler. That's the whole. It's the whole like five episode run.

[Roger]

No, not this guy.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It's not that guy.

[Roger]

It's the other guy. Like kind of like the dumber nurse. Well, I guess he.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's him. Yeah.

[Roger]

There's another dumb nurse in Mindy project.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Is there really? Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Mike. How about you?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

He was the one.

[Mike]

I actually have not seen these movies. You're fasting, so I'm gonna actually say I'm a picky eater and I refuse to eat.

[Roger]

Oh, wow.

[Nick Scarpino]

Okay.

[Roger]

Adam Pally.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

He's great.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

He's funny.

[Nick Scarpino]

That's good. It's a good.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I forgot he was in mini project.

[Roger]

I think it was added on later.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, the big one. Literally, I think a week later after this movie comes out. March 26, 2027. The Legend of Zelda is directed by Wes Ball, who is the director of Kingdom of the Planet the Apes. What else do you do? Did something else before that, but the Maze Runner movies. I think he did the Maze Runner movies.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Love them.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. King. King of the King of the Maze Runner. Kingdom of the. Of the Planet of the Apes is great.

[Roger]

This is the only time I'll be able to say this, and so I'm gonna say it. Legend of Zelda. Get the. Out the way. Get out the way of Sonic. Don't get slammed.

[Mike]

Somebody's gotta move.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Doesn't Barrett have enough?

[Mike]

Enough?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Doesn't he have enough?

[Roger]

He hasn't.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

They just released the Switch 2 forms.

[Roger]

Not looking forward to the Zelda movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Roger]

No. I'm dreading this movie. This is gonna be salad.

[Nick Scarpino]

It's gonna be there.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It's an uphill battle, I'll say that.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Similar to how when they decided to make the Halo show, I was like, this is going to be an uphill battle. Yeah. Because you have a character that is just not. It's difficult to put into a live action film.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

So we're gonna see how this works out.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. I don't know. I liked Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and what he was able to do with that franchise, but also, it's kind of a slam dunk. A bunch of monkeys, mon.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah, we're on a boat.

[Nick Scarpino]

Were they on a boat?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

But not the. Is that the third one?

[Nick Scarpino]

No, it's the fourth one. He did the fourth one where they're breaking into the armory and stuff.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

They always break. They always break into the army. Yeah, that's in every movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

So. Yeah. You know, when you're working with the apes, we work with the monkeys. It's easy.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh, this was the one with the lady who was like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is pretty good. No, this is the boat. This is one where at the end, remember, they're like, we're going to take over, and the apes were living on the big ship.

[Nick Scarpino]

Oh, yes, you're right.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

She hung out there, and then the human was like, hey, man, they're pretty good to me, actually.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. So I don't. I don't have any confidence, though, in any Legend of Zelda thing from that.

[Roger]

I need to see that first trailer. Or like, a first. Look, I know we saw the pictures of the actors, theoretically, in their costumes, but that, like, didn't do it for me. I'm gonna say salad until proven valid.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, Mikey.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, yeah. Are you excited for this next one, though? Elden Ring. This is directed by Alex Garland. One of the goats.

[Mike]

This movie could have the gas.

[Nick Scarpino]

This is produced by A24 he recently told the story about how he was so jazzed up about this project that he flew to Japan to talk to from software and try to get this done. And he got it secured. And this movie is being produced by A24. Alex Garland is directing. I. This is a super valid.

[Roger]

Super valid.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Super valid, super valid, super valid. I agree.

[Mike]

All the things this might say. This has motion, it's got the juice.

[Roger]

This might be crazy. This might be.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Roger]

See, I don't want to. I don't know. What's hyperbole?

[Nick Scarpino]

Okay.

[Roger]

If I, if I were to say that this could be the next like Dune, the next like big epic. It could be in multi part.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It depends on the budget. What's the budget of the Rings?

[Roger]

I was gonna say Lord of the Rings. I'm like, I don't want to say too much.

[Mike]

Yeah, but it's an epic fantasy adventure.

[Nick Scarpino]

That's why you say I think it's going to be. This budget is going to be huge. A24 is in the business right now of trying to compete with these large studios and they're throwing a lot of money around. So George R.R.

[Roger]

Martin'S name is on, on this. So yes, you know what?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah, but his name was also on the last season of Game of Thrones and that was hot garbage.

[Roger]

Yeah, but Game of Thrones was still Game of Thrones.

[Mike]

Think about the journey though. Game of Thrones.

[Roger]

Game of Thrones is still about. That's a household name.

[Mike]

Season five. That's where it stopped.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah. I'll tell you, this comes down to obviously I think the creative vision is going to be there. It comes down to how much money they can put behind it because there's a built in audience for it for sure. But the thing about Elden Ring, as a person who plays games and is not into Elden Ring, it is a hard sell for me to look at this and be like, yeah, I want to a part of that world for three hours.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

So they're really going to have to come at this from a unique perspective and sell it to mainstream audiences. Because Dune, you have to remember, had a. Dune's been around for a very long time. Those books were written in the 70s, for Christ's sake. I think I want to say. Yeah, I think the 70s chat, Craig, if I'm wrong on that. So you have a fan base that's generational for Dune.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And Dune, if I'm being 100% honest, should not have been as big as it was. I'm happy it was. But Blade Runner should have been bigger than Doom. It makes way more sense. The fact that everyone's doing it and gooning right now is just the craziest thing that I've ever heard.

[Roger]

My life and I pass for it, though.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

They got. But. But still, it's like. Let me. Let me. Let me give you the one sheet on the pitch on Dune. Hey, there's a planet that's just sand and people are fighting over.

[Roger]

Yeah, sand over the Spice. Spice Malone, the Spice.

[Nick Scarpino]

Didn't hear that, bro. He would run in here and just let you know. Just let you know.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

No, no, I'm saying I love it. Don't get me. But it is an obscure thing, as was Lord of the Rings. You have to have a director that really, really, really, really, really loves it, bring it into the populace.

[Nick Scarpino]

Having Denis come in there and be like, hey, this is. I'm going to bring my touch, my vision to that world. That goes such a long way. I do not want to see a Dune movie without him directing it. And I think that that's what Alex Garland. You can.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You can see one, and it's one Fincher directed.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, that's why I haven't watched it.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Right.

[Nick Scarpino]

I don't want to watch that.

[Roger]

I just see this as the Holy Trinity right now. You got Alex Garland, you got Miyazaki, you got George R.R. martin. That press run is gonna go, I don't think.

[Nick Scarpino]

I don't know how much George R.R. martin's gonna be attached. Yeah, it's gonna be in the. In the trailer. He's not doing the world. He's not doing any press for this movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

George R.R. martin, let's have a conversation about this, man.

[Roger]

I know he didn't do. But you gotta throw him the bag.

[Nick Scarpino]

Too many conversations.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

He's right around his PT Cruiser, cash.

[Mike]

And checks right now.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

He doesn't give a About anything anymore.

[Mike]

Is this gonna give Edge of Tomorrow vibes of the live die repeats, or do you think we just get one mainline story? Because, like, oh, it's an interesting. What's the world gonna be? What is this movie gonna look like? Because when I think of Elden Ring, I think of dying over and over again and retrying. Right. Are we giving some engines?

[Roger]

You're gonna get the story of, like, how we got to where we are at with Elden Ring. So it's gonna be like war. It's gonna be the character.

[Nick Scarpino]

You're gonna get the actual, like, drama.

[Roger]

That you learn about throughout Elden Ring.

[Nick Scarpino]

Actually, I think it's also gonna be.

[Mike]

If he dies, comes back, there's gonna be a. Don't do that.

[Nick Scarpino]

There's gonna be a large amount of horror in this movie. This is gonna be.

[Roger]

I think it's gonna be dark.

[Nick Scarpino]

It's gonna be scary. And I can't. I can't imagine the way he's gonna shoot the first whatever boss in the video. In the video game comparatively into the movie. Like, it's going to feel huge. It's going to feel matched. It's gonna feel scary.

[Roger]

It's gonna be about Radon and America and all the characters that Andy can tell you every single thing about. Right. It's gonna be those characters that you know the names of. Godric. All these guys.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Am I thinking the right thing? The big one that rides little horses? Yeah. That's got to be in it. I want to just. I just wanted to have the Green Knight vibes. Have you seen that movie?

[Nick Scarpino]

No, I haven't.

[Roger]

I hate Green Knight.

[Mike]

You didn't like Green?

[Roger]

I hated that movie. Yeah. I thought it was boring as, like, I. I just didn't think it was interesting.

[Nick Scarpino]

Wow.

[Roger]

And I like that he's. And I like Depatels.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Roger]

I like Depatel. I liked, I think, a lot of the visual direction fairy tale. And I could see like that working for like a Zelda thing or even like an Elden Ring thing, but I would just need more to happen.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh, fair.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

The next movie, which is another super valid for me, is Michael Saranovsky directing Death Stranding. I am so over the moon with this. With this idea. And you shake your head right now, but this is the. This is so exciting for me for multiple reasons.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I love explained.

[Nick Scarpino]

I love Michael Saranovsky and what he brings to this world. I've not seen the newest, A Quiet Place, which I know is. That's the one that he directed.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's the prequel, part one or whatever.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. Which I hear is really good.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It's really good.

[Nick Scarpino]

I loved his direction when it came to the movie Pig, which you all need to watch. I don't want to spoil it.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's the Nicholas Cage movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

It's incredible. It's so good. I saw it in theaters. I. I had a blast with that movie. I thought it was amazing.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You live a whole other life, man.

[Nick Scarpino]

I didn't. I saw a movie in a theater.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

So many un.

[Mike]

Text him all the time.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

No.

[Mike]

No. Ever an invite. I don't get an invite.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

What did you do last night?

[Nick Scarpino]

Sleep in that movie theater?

[Roger]

What, the Pig?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah, me and Nick Cage, we're, we're.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, it's not the pig Nick Cage movie. You're thinking it's going to be invite.

[Roger]

That says this guy.

[Nick Scarpino]

And Death Stranding to me is such an infinite world and a world that you can create so many smaller stories within. And I'm interested to see how he would adapt this. Kojima has said. I don't know, we'll see how much I believe Kojima. He said that I'm hands off on this one. I'm going to let him kind of cook off cook on this thing. He's going to be on set, he's going to start saying some stuff, he's going to try to be involved. But I'm interested to see is this going.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Is this actually happening?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes. It's an A24 joint there.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

This, this, is this max with. Because wasn't there like a metal gear in the works for the longest time?

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, but that was just up in the air. A24 has a good track record of like, hey, we're saying we're doing something, we're doing it. I am interested in this just because I want to see. I don't want them to do an adaptation of Death Stranding 1. I don't want that. There's so much you can do. You can do an origin story. You can do an origin story, like a quiet place, day one with Death Stranding. You could have the first death stranding happen.

[Roger]

I don't want that.

[Nick Scarpino]

I want it so much. Interesting.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You don't want it.

[Nick Scarpino]

You absolutely do.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's a cop out. What you need is just to be punched into this world. Yeah, that's what you want. Like if they were smart, they would put you into this world and have the audience be confused for the first 20 minutes of it and then slowly have. And then by the end of it go. I think I know what that was about, but I'm not quite sure.

[Roger]

Like death straining in a weird way. I'll like a movie of it. Almost would have to be a little bit like Green Knight where like it would have to be a thing where the whole movie I'm just looking at, I'm like, I don't know what the.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Is happening right here. Cuz that's the game.

[Roger]

I shouldn't know what's happening in D training until the last 20 minutes.

[Nick Scarpino]

What are the. You have to over explain it. I mean even the first death stranding has enough weird shit going on in that universe that. You know what I mean? Like there's it's not. I don't, I don't mean like a full on prequel of like, hey, this is normal people. And then now everything is happening in the first bts are happening. Like there's a lot of things to explain through that world just by showing it happening for the first time. I don't know. I. There's a. There is so much universe here. There's so much characters, there's so many, so much lore here that I think would do a disservice to the universe to just be like, like, well, we're doing Norman Reedus stuff again. It's like, okay, well, there's a reason that's a video game. Because you're able to actually physically move this character across a map over the course of 50 hours and have to deal with all the management of everything. Like making this its own movie, its own universe. Like the way that Zack Kreger is doing it, where he's connecting it to the world of Resident Evil, but making his own original story is the way to go.

[Roger]

I think I, I believe in more in the world of Resident Evil. For me, with Death Stranding, I think I like that world because the setup for, for the Death Stranding world is so in service of the gameplay of just walking around and connecting communities together. And so like, I think the gameplay really sells me on what you're doing with the world because if you take away the death rating gameplay, none of that makes sense. Right? Like death training is such a bonkers, like, doesn't make sense story.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And it's like, it's a Kojima story. Nothing he writes ever.

[Roger]

It's Kojima unrestricted and unhinged. You know what I mean? It's because it's Kojima without anybody to.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Be like, no, but that's why you love it, right? And that's why to do anything, to try to. That's why it scares me. Because to try to put that, that like let's. From my perspective, and I've only played a handful of Kojima games, the narrative in those stories should not work. Those games shouldn't make any sense. They shouldn't be enjoyable. But they are. Because that is his, that is his artistic vibe. Right. That's what he does. That's what he brings into the world. So you can't put that creativity in a box. You got to just let it go bonkers.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And hope to God that it resonates with mainstream viewers, most of whom, like myself, are going to watch and go, what the fuck did I just watch?

[Roger]

Yeah. I think the struggle I have is like the two. When you. When I look at the two routes. Right. You could remake just the story of death training one. I don't want that. You did it in death straining one anyway. Right. Like it's Norman Reedus already. I don't need that. And then yeah, you can then tell a different story in that world. And yeah, I really don't want that either.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah. But this is the. This is the top level conundrum with every video game to movie. Right. This is the exact same thing. Reason why people had criticisms of the Last of Us were like it's too much like the game. It's like, well yeah, that's what you wanted. Right. But if it's too much like the game, why not just go play. Play the game. Yeah, that's the problem, unfortunately.

[Mike]

Roger as you ride or die.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I'm salad on this one. Whoa.

[Mike]

Ice cold salad from that sweet greens when you do. Or the food that I wanted salad.

[Nick Scarpino]

Damn, you're really cold on this.

[Mike]

I just make the Metal Gear Just make Metal Gear get Oscar.

[Roger]

I want that.

[Mike]

That's all I want.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Metal Gear. The thing about Metal Gear is that if they did that right, it could be be a franchise that like lasts forever.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It could be Star wars and that's.

[Roger]

Literally be Star Wars Mission Impossible.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It could be.

[Roger]

I need the same people that would be both of those smashing.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Nobody could, right? Because you have so many characters involved in that and they could build out that cinematic universe very, very easily. Yeah. And I'm just shocked. I'm just. I know that the rights are a nightmare, but man, that, that, that's what I'd rather he focus on.

[Roger]

I agree.

[Nick Scarpino]

We got a lot of rapid fire stuff right here. So I'm just gonna say. I'm just gonna say them and then you stop me if you want to say anything about it.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Okay, everybody, it.

[Nick Scarpino]

We got the Sims which is directed by Kate Heron. She is one of the directors from the Loki show. It's also produced by Margot Robbie's production company. So they're trying to do like the Barbie thing of like oh, like I'm stuck in the Sims.

[Roger]

I think that has a lot of potential.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That could be fun.

[Roger]

I think that could be fun.

[Mike]

Jumanji. I get sucked into the computer screen.

[Nick Scarpino]

And they were also talking about it of like the. The head of EA or something like that was like, hey, like this can have a lot of like nods to like the lore of the game and like all the things don't do too much all the Easter eggs at the fans, the lore of the game.

[Mike]

Everyone knows about the goth family. So like they. I'm sure they're going to do about the goth family.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You don't know about the go.

[Roger]

The only thing I know about Sims is drowning people in pools.

[Nick Scarpino]

And they said they're going to have that. They said they're going to have that. Okay. They literally said exactly that. They said me remove the. The.

[Roger]

The ladder.

[Nick Scarpino]

So I. Yeah, I think that's going to be. I think that has a possibility to be fun. BioShock, this is in kind of development hell. It's been going on for a while. The. I believe one of the writers, the directors was working, is working on the long walk. So he was talking, he was asked about this recently. He said that the script is still in the work and it's going to be an adaptation of the first game.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And it's gonna be on Netflix. Yes, it's. It's not going to be good.

[Roger]

It's gonna be solid.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It's going to be bad.

[Nick Scarpino]

It's gonna be.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Netflix does not make good original stuff.

[Mike]

This should be the Netflix animation route of like, just make it the BioShock anime like we see with all the other ones that are doing great and are fun to watch and give a chance to. That's what I like that.

[Nick Scarpino]

And also they recently, I don't know if it was a rumor confirmed that they cut the budget of the movie, like by a lot. The movie was supposed to be like this huge, big budget movie and then they cut it.

[Roger]

This is coming out.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

We're not seeing this, sadly enough. This. Yeah, this, this movie needed to come out in 2010.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And be a huge budget movie starring like, you know, a notable star. Because this, the story of Bioshock is amazing and the game's amazing. I don't know if you guys.

[Nick Scarpino]

And the world is incredible.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah, it needed to be like. It needed to be like 2007, Brendan Fraser, you know, a mixture of that and like Dark City.

[Nick Scarpino]

I feel like that's your definition of like any movie. You're like, we just gotta have 2005 running Frazier in here.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

We need 2000, 2002, Leo DiCaprio.

[Mike]

Here's what I need. Okay. I need the Mummy video game made by Naughty Dog.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Get.

[Mike]

Get bf.

[Nick Scarpino]

No, that's not what you said earlier.

[Mike]

That's what I want.

[Nick Scarpino]

No, you want Hanger.

[Mike]

Well, I, I gave Hangar 13 a chance, but I really want Naughty Dog.

[Nick Scarpino]

If I want.

[Roger]

Who's my. Who's my guy? That I love from Ozark.

[Nick Scarpino]

Main character Jason.

[Roger]

Jason Bateman. I want him to play Andrew Ryan. Oh, he'd be good actually, as Andrew Ryan.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

I mean, the generic answer would have been Tony Stark's dad bad.

[Roger]

He has that look. He has that look when Jason stays. What the is his name again?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Jason.

[Roger]

Jason Bateman.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Bateman.

[Roger]

When Jason Bateman is menacing, he's so medicine. Did you watch the airport movie that came out this last Christmas?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

No, but Mike really wanted me to watch it.

[Nick Scarpino]

You would love it. You would love it. It's not. It's not. I mean, it's an airplane movie, but like it's not on airplanes. Because it's a Netflix movie. You should watch it on an airplane.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

As a general rule, I don't watch anything that has to do with airplanes on airplane place. I just get lost. I just watch Wolf of Wall Street.

[Nick Scarpino]

That's a fun.

[Roger]

I love Jason. B.

[Nick Scarpino]

So fun. It's a fun movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's a Taran Edgerton movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes. It's really great.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Days gone. TBA. It's announced in 2022. Literally no motion on it since then. I think that's literally happening. That's the first Call of Duty from Paramount. This was announced pretty recently. The skirted Steven Spielberg who had an idea for this movie and they said, no, no, Steven Spielberg. We want to do our own thing with Paramount. I think here's the thing.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Is it going to be a good movie?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Tell me.

[Nick Scarpino]

Probably not.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Tell me.

[Nick Scarpino]

I think this is going to lead to a very successful franchise and is going to end up making a billion dollars.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I am. This is going to be valid 100% with you. I am shocked. I am shocked that they don't have one of these movies coming out every year. From the team that brought you. That's right. Transformers, Dark of the Moon, Transformers last night. Let's put Call of Duty in there. Let's get so dope. Let's get this. Let's get that guy. Let's get Michael Bay to direct the out of this. Let's have it make no sense. And it's just basically American propaganda that.

[Roger]

Should be in 2009. Like that's another Bioshock. That should have happened a decade and a half. It's crazy because that would have been billions of dollars by now.

[Mike]

They're gonna walk into the blacked out suv.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

All armored up and they're gonna pan to every character and then they're gonna get to Ghost with the mask. And that theater is going to expose.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

They're gonna go nuts.

[Roger]

Nuts.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And here's the thing. Here's the real question about a Call of Duty movie. Do you want it to be good or do you want it to be fun?

[Nick Scarpino]

Well, it depends.

[Roger]

Well, it depends.

[Nick Scarpino]

It depends. So, okay, I have a few pictures. We talked about this on kind of funny games.

[Roger]

I hope. I hope one of your pitches involves something that I'm thinking.

[Nick Scarpino]

Okay, so it's Paramount, right? So just top level, soon to be.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Paramount, Warner Brothers, probably.

[Nick Scarpino]

Because, yeah, they're probably going to buy Warner Brothers, but Paramount is now owned by David Ellison, who is one of the son of the second richest person in the world. The creator, of course.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

He's the richest now.

[Nick Scarpino]

Oh, really?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Okay. So, yes, this guy has an unlimited money, right? And he's trying to make Paramount into the next big media empire that beats Fox and all this stuff. He wants to make it the number one. So he is looking at all of these franchises, Paramount. Hey, hey, hey, hey. He's locked in and he's trying to. He's trying to court all of these big name talents to make franchises. And my pitch goes two different ways. We either go Michael Bay easiest. It's simple, right.

[Roger]

Or get him out of retirement.

[Nick Scarpino]

What's Christopher McQuarrie doing? What's he doing? Where's he going?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's the next series that.

[Nick Scarpino]

What is he doing? You give him the fucking bag and then you say, make Modern Warfare. You have, you have it right in front of you. Get someone crazy that's gonna go on the side of a mountain, do the cliffhanger thing. Boom. You make a Billy. You make a Billy.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I mean, you could make.

[Mike]

I want Call of Duty to be Mission impossible level.

[Roger]

See, I was gonna throw out there who did Sakario, you're the best.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh, that's Dennyville.

[Nick Scarpino]

New. No, that. No, that's not happening.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

If you want.

[Nick Scarpino]

He's doing James Bond. He's doing James Bond.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

No, no, no. If you want to go hard in the yard and you want to see a movie that would take over the goddamn world, you'd say, hey, Denny, Denny, what's your take on a Metal Gear movie? And he would make that.

[Roger]

Movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh, dude.

[Roger]

Life changing movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Denim is the best director of our time. I, I love that I stand by this. He is going to go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest directors of the. Of the 21st century.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, we're good on this one.

[Mike]

I want Modern Warfare rods like you said. And then I want Black Ops like I.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

This is what you do.

[Nick Scarpino]

This is what you do. You do Modern War. I'm falling. I don't know why. This thing you do. Modern Warfare two years later, Modern Warfare 2. Then you say Black Ops. And then we just do Black ops. Black Ops.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Here's what you. Here's what you have to do.

[Nick Scarpino]

And then you do a World War II one.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You have to make it. You have to make it so utterly confusing for people to realize which one comes before the other one, because it just has to be.

[Nick Scarpino]

And then you do a Call of Duty Zombies movie. You say, fuck it, let's go.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And then. And then 20 years later, you just call it Modern Warfare again. You just call it Call of Duty. Just go back to the original title.

[Nick Scarpino]

That's incredible.

[Mike]

It's crazy that we're. It's like, now it's happening.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yes.

[Mike]

It should have happened 10 years.

[Roger]

This should have happened 20 years.

[Mike]

They should have already been a thing.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Oh, Dan Trachtenberg as well.

[Nick Scarpino]

Let's. Let's keep it going. We have Ghost of Tsushima, which is not in development hell, but it's like, been announced. Director Chad Stahenski, who is the John Wick guy, he's attached to this. I don't know if this is actually gonna end up happening. He's been doing a bunch of. But we'll see. I don't think he's the guy that I go to in my head to develop a Japanese, you know, samurai movie. But, I mean, it would look cool.

[Mike]

He would do it FX show that everybody loved Shogun.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Shogun.

[Roger]

Love that movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Different show. Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Moving on. This is a movie that has been in development hell for literally my entire life. It feels like Gears of War. David Leach is attached to directing it this time. He is the director of Bullet Train and the Fall guys. And also I believe Deadpool 2. So he has an action background. I have. I'm gonna say salad. I don't believe in Gears of War coming out in general, like, as a movie. And he's not my first go to. I want. I would want Alex Garland to direct a Gears of War movie. I want that.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You want Alex Garland direct everything.

[Mike]

Well, no.

[Nick Scarpino]

Alexander is generally the perfect person for.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

This because of Annihilation.

[Nick Scarpino]

Well, well, he has the. The alien background with Annihilation and movies like it. Right. And then he also has, like, the war aspect of it where he would make this like an in arms. Like. Like, hey, this is. Oh, he also direct the movie Warfare, which is like a super serious. Like. Like they're trying to make an adaptation of what Exactly. Happened in like a day, in the life, in a night.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

But do people want see I. And I hear that and that pitch is amazing and that is absolutely the right way to go. But is that what I could easily see the commenters being like, this is not what I want from a Gears of War movie. They want big budget Batista.

[Nick Scarpino]

I think what they want. I think what they want is the Mad World trip trailer as a movie. And like, honestly, Zack Snyder is not a bad idea.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Like, Zack Snyder actually might be the.

[Nick Scarpino]

Kind of the perfect person.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

But don't let him write it. Get a writer that writes the story. So it's actually like a story that makes sense.

[Nick Scarpino]

People want to see that. Like, hey, this is like a serious movie. Like, this is something that's like these two people, Dom and Marcus, are together and they're bond together. That. That's a movie. Right.

[Mike]

I mean, with E Day coming out. Right. Like ede movie situation. Yeah. And then right up to. To of course, the trailer. But yeah, Roger, for me, it's interesting as the big Xbox guy, it's like, this should have already been a franchise. This is a perfect Netflix animated one. That's a layup. That should have already happened. And then when Batista was just screaming for it, we should have backed it up and made.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah. But now him, he and the Rock are like, hey, man, maybe we don't do steroids anymore.

[Mike]

Exactly. He's only getting smaller.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

They're getting smaller.

[Nick Scarpino]

Good.

[Mike]

I know. He always looks good, though. Batista Bista.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Batista's a good looking guy.

[Mike]

Everybody was in Stuber I love.

[Nick Scarpino]

Don't get me started.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I hated Stuber because I wanted stupid to be so much better than Stuber was. But it's.

[Nick Scarpino]

I'm not gonna say. We'll talk about that later.

[Roger]

I saw the trailer. I was like, no, I'm not watching this.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, I will totally up there. Stray. We're making a straight animated movie. Annapurna.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

This could be amazing.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. I mean, it's Annapurna already, so that makes sense.

[Mike]

I exact like bless said, sure, why not? I don't know about that.

[Roger]

No.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Straight could be one of those incredible art films.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That Annapurna puts out and everyone goes, wow, that was amazing. And she could account anymore. But nobody watched.

[Roger]

And Straight was an incredible piece of art.

[Mike]

It was Homeward Bound.

[Nick Scarpino]

Incredible. Yeah, exactly. It's like whatever. Horizon zero Dawn, TBA on everything. No director. We'll see. That was also in development. Hell. That was supposed to be.

[Roger]

That was supposed to be a TV Show.

[Nick Scarpino]

A TV show. And then that was supposed to be a Netflix tv.

[Roger]

Netflix TV show.

[Mike]

I mean, Robo Dinosaurs always will hit that one.

[Roger]

Yeah. But you gotta make them look good. And I think that's where they're gonna struggle. Yeah, you gotta make that shit look good.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Helldivers. TBA as well.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Helldivers could be amazing.

[Roger]

Isn't it? Just make a star.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Is it Starship? Starship Troopers. You gotta give it the starship. But the problem with Starship Troopers is nobody got Starship Troopers back in the day. Everyone thinks it's just this bad movie. It's actually kind of genius.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I don't know if you can make Hell diverse. I don't think people will get the nuances of Helldivers as a movie these days.

[Nick Scarpino]

Uncharted 2, the sequel, of course, to the Tom Holland one.

[Roger]

Are we still doing in this?

[Nick Scarpino]

Man, what an awful movie. What? It made me so angry watching that movie. And like, there's a small chance because the post credit scene spoilers, Everybody for Uncharted 1 is they actually do put the mustache on Mark Wahlberg and they come out, he kind of looks like Nathan Drake a little bit more. And they're kind of doing like the first story of. Of Uncharted 1, which is already up in the timeline. But whatever. It's like, maybe they bring up, maybe they get a brand new director who's like actually going to make a real Uncharted movie, but who gives a fuck? Just recast it already. Just, we're done. Rebooted.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I. I'm. I could not be more with you. And I didn't have a terrible time watching the Uncharted movie. I thought it was as serviceable. Tom. I love Tom Holland. And as much shit as I give Mark Wahlberg for being Mark Wahlberg, I sometimes enjoy watching him on screen as well. But these two are, it's. They're in this movie and they just feel so shoehorned in, like, we want this to be a thing. And I'm like, this is the worst cast movie I've ever seen in my entire life. And I know everyone wanted Mark Wahlberg to be him at. They wanted to be Max. He's the Max Payne movie and all that stuff. But at the same time, like, what? You could not have cast this movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

Well, the issue was because he was like, contractually obligated to be in this movie, he's been attached to the Uncharted movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's right. He was supposed to be Nathan Drake.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Just make him Nathan Drake. Why didn't they just make him Nathan Drake now? Who cares? I don't know. I don't want frustrating. I watched it, I enjoyed in the theaters. If the second one comes out, well, I'll watch it. I'll eat popcorn and watch it.

[Roger]

But it just doesn't have enough sauce.

[Nick Scarpino]

You know what I mean?

[Roger]

Like, it's very much like dry ass burrito. Here's a dry burrito.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's a dry burrito.

[Roger]

Yeah. Like you watch Indiana Jo Jones and they're the stables, you know what I mean? There's this whip, there's this hat.

[Nick Scarpino]

Like it's.

[Roger]

That's Indiana Jones.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Here I'm just like, I. I need something. Ground me with the Uncharted. This is just a generic action movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

The problem is it's a generic. And again, a great video game, but a generic ripoff of Indiana Jones.

[Roger]

Yeah, that's what it was. That's true. That's true.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's what it was. And so like when you got. They took that. They made the world's best Indiana Jones game when it came. When Uncharted came out. And then they're like, well, how do we make a movie out of it? You don't. You just make another Indiana Jones movie. But for the love of God. So stop let Harrison Ford die. Stop putting him in the costume, for Christ's sake. I went off on a tangent there. I'm sorry.

[Roger]

I agree though.

[Nick Scarpino]

Moving on. We have a bunch of other. Well, yeah, we have more sequels. We have Detective Pikachu 2 for it.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Nick Scarpino]

Cool.

[Mike]

Yeah, that needs to happen.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, it's.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

That's crazy that it hasn't happened.

[Nick Scarpino]

We're at the point now where it's like, what happened? Yeah, this should have happened way sooner.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You know what happened? Ryan Reynolds was like, hey man, I'm a big star again. I don't have to do the voiceover for this weirdo.

[Nick Scarpino]

You know what I mean? That was the whole meme.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I know, I remember.

[Nick Scarpino]

We should have been that.

[Mike]

But yeah, we should be living in that world. We should be franchise. We should be deep in that.

[Nick Scarpino]

It didn't make like. The issue was that it underperformed heavily.

[Roger]

Well, they also did.

[Nick Scarpino]

It made a lot of it made money. But it like this was supposed to be a billion dollar movie in the.

[Roger]

It was in the highest grossing video game movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

Well, I mean it makes. It's in Pokemon movie and it had Ryan Reynolds in it and it made four less than. Less than $500 million.

[Roger]

Pikachu make just a traditional Pokemon.

[Nick Scarpino]

You.

[Roger]

Can'T call it Detective Pikachu and be like, oh, this is gonna be the great. Like this is gonna make billions and billions. Billions.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, but it's still a, it's Pokemon attached to it. Nintendo's looking at this and like, oh, this is going to be a billion dollar franchise, clearly. And it's $500 million.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

See, I wouldn't, I, I, I guarantee we'll see how Zelda does. Yeah, but if Zelda does numbers, then the next movie that's going to be in there, in there, the next major movie with 200 mil behind, it's gonna be a Pokemon movie. It's not gonna be a Detective P. Pikachu. This was basically just to be like, to test the waters and be like, does the mainstream culture, would they come out for this? And they did, to a degree. But it is, it is a false premise. It's a false experiment because who gives a. No disrespect to everyone out there. I don't care about Detective Pikachu. I would care about.

[Roger]

Just give me Pikachu.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, no, I agree with you.

[Roger]

He does have to be a detective. Just give me Ash Cat.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Now, having said all of that, as a person who had never played a Pokemon game going into this movie, I thoroughly enjoyed this film.

[Roger]

This is a fun movie. Jason Smith was great. The fucking Pokemon design. Yeah, yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

Let's continue now. Okay, now we get into some weird stuff that I want to get into. We have a production company called Picture Start that is making a ton of IP movies. They're also, they also made like real movies that you know of. But like they, they're making a Bratz movie, they're making a Naruto movie, but they're also making Sega movies, they're making a Comic Zone movie and Space Channel 5 movie, whatever. We'll see if those movies actually come out.

[Roger]

That's not happening.

[Nick Scarpino]

And this is where we get into the real meat and potatoes here. Of the this list, I want to talk about a company called Story Kitchen. Story Kitchen is a production company that is seemingly only doing video game movies and trying to adapt that stuff. If you see a video game movie in the headline, it's most likely, especially if it's an indie game, it's most likely connected to Story Kitchen. So I just want to read out some of the games that they have in development that they have on their website, their official website that they are working on and kind of what they're up to. They are known mostly, if you look at their website, the movies that They've actually come out and actually are real things are the Sonic Trilogy. They are attached to that they that their claim.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

So they did the Sonic Trilogy and now they're like where we want to be. The guys that take these games and actually make decent movies out of it.

[Nick Scarpino]

And they've been trying to do this for a while. So they have a first look deal with Raw Fury which is an indie game publisher and then they also. This is the two big ones that seemingly are happening or we're going to happen or seemingly had the biggest news around it. It Takes Two, which is over at Amazon and MGM studios. And this is in connection to the rocks production company company. It's being written by the Sonic movie writers. There's an incredible quote that I want to read from Joseph Ferris, who is the head over at Hayes Lights, the creators, the studio that created It Takes Two. When asked about the movie he said, quote, Hollywood, there's so much bullshit. I think 90% of the meetings are actually bullshit and 10% of what actually happens. The thing is there's a lot of talk but not a lot of walk. I don't know what's going on. Hopefully something. It would be so cool to get something out of it but my hopes are not so I high. Obviously there's a lot of talk but you have to have the people that get shit done. If. If I would be really involved in it, it would happen. And he goes on to talk shit about Hollywood and LA and how nothing ever happened. So he's not very excited about this movie specifically. And then it's very funny that a few months later after that Split Fiction comes out which is their newest video game and that is actually seemingly happening or is being pitched to happen. Director John Chu, who is the director of Wicked. Wicked and I believe crazy rich Asians.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Right.

[Roger]

Donju. Oh, he does so much.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Step up too. Yeah, he's one of my favorite directors.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Nick Scarpino]

So yeah, he's over here. He's his next movie after Wicked, which is insane, is gonna be a split fiction movie. Yeah. And it's starring Sydney Sweeney. That's the only star that we have attached to it. I don't think this movie's gonna be good.

[Roger]

Right.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I don't see this coming. John Shoes really happening.

[Nick Scarpino]

Apparently it's Amazon. They have a name, they have a.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Makes sense.

[Mike]

It takes two. 0% interested in that one. Don't even see.

[Nick Scarpino]

I'm more interested. I'm way more interested in It Takes Two.

[Roger]

Here's the thing.

[Nick Scarpino]

The romance like premise to it we're talking rom com situation, which I like. I think that's, that's a, it's an easy adaptation.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It takes two.

[Nick Scarpino]

It takes two.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I don't know if it's a wrong com.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

A comedy.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Oh, It Takes two is for sure a comedy. Is it? Yeah. Is that part where they killed the teddy bear?

[Nick Scarpino]

What game are you thinking about?

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Think of a character where you played the, you're, they're getting a divorce, basically.

[Roger]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It was a very sad, depressing comedy.

[Nick Scarpino]

It comes back to it.

[Roger]

Yeah. You shrunk down to a dog.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

We're splitting hairs.

[Nick Scarpino]

Let's keep going. Sorry. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Terrifying.

[Nick Scarpino]

But split fiction story, in my opinion is bad. I don't like the story of split fiction whatsoever. I, I, I think it's, it's very generic.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

So generic would be amazing. Is, you know how Hollywood is completely devoid of new ideas. So whenever someone, someone's doing something, like if you're doing the It Takes Two, like split movie or whatever. Yeah. We start developing. I hope that's the next 10 years. Just horrible movies based on video games that take take place from like the same perspective but then they split off.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And you're saying that because people always.

[Nick Scarpino]

Split screen movie, people always try to.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Do like that and it's never good. It's never good.

[Nick Scarpino]

So yeah, that's, that's where we're at with split fiction. I, I, I think one of these is going to happen. I don't think It Takes Two is happening, but split fiction, I think fiction.

[Roger]

Has too much motion.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Roger]

You have John Chu on it. You have Sydney Sweeney, you have Amazon.

[Nick Scarpino]

But here's the thing. John Chu is like one of the most in demand directors right now. So if he gets something offered a huge franchise, he's leaving this behind.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Well, yeah, this happens all the time though, right? You just get attached to it. They go, he says yes to give him a little cash or whatever. Wait till Crazy Rich Agents three comes out.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Roger]

And then.

[Nick Scarpino]

Okay, now we're just going to start reading off all of the French. These are all confirmed in production or in pre production or all on their website. We're just going to read them out. We're just going to. You don't even have to interject if you really want to say something. We can, but it's crazy. So we have Dredge, which is tba. That is a small little indie game that got announced. We're making a movie, the House of the Dead. This director, Paul W.S. anderson. So this is his next Movie. We got some concept art for that. Just. Cause, uh, this one is over at Universal. Director Angel. Uh, Emmanuel Soto, the director of Blue Beetle, uh, which actually kind of cool. Uh, that. That one's sort of sick. Claire Obscure. Expedition 33. No motion on that. That was announced before the game came out. And then we have two more games here that I want to say really quick. Kings Makers and Spine, Both games that are not out. I already have deals.

[Roger]

I know that. Spine game.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, that are already.

[Roger]

That has a filmed adaptation announced. That's crazy. Y' all doing too much, man.

[Nick Scarpino]

Sleeping Dogs starring Simu Liu. This was in development hell for a while. Who was attached to it? Donnie. What's his face. He was in John. Yes, he was attached to it. He was supposed to be. Yeah, he was supposed to be leading it, but now he dropped out. Now Simu Liu is potentially starring in it.

[Roger]

I watched that. That fight scene from IP man again the other day. The one where he takes out a bunch of people fucking, like, punches somebody's chest so fast it looks like it's gonna cave in.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Yeah, he's a bad motherfucker.

[Nick Scarpino]

So good Sifu. Netflix. This is. Chad Slahanski's company is attached to it. He's not directing it, but his company's attached to it. Streets of Rage. Yes, that's from Lionsgate. Written by.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Streets of Rage is what Street Fighter probably should be.

[Nick Scarpino]

This is written by Derek Halstead, the writer of John Wick and a lot of their sequels. I just want to read this really quick because this is like, maybe like the most like, backhanded quote that I've ever read from a news article. So this is how it starts. This is from Variety. Brett Brent Lang. Brent Lang wrote this. Streets of Rage, a popular beat em up video game that first hit the scene in the 1990s, is getting the big screen treatment. Lionsgate has landed the motion picture rights to the Sega game and has enlisted Derek Colson. No stranger to the world of broken bones and crushed ribs from his stint writing John Wick and its sequels, he will write the film and produce it, apparently fulfilling a childhood ambition.

[Roger]

In.

[Nick Scarpino]

In parentheses. Mine was to be James Bond. What a. What a. What a weird thing to say.

[Roger]

I want to be like, hey, this.

[Nick Scarpino]

Guy, he had a childhood ambitions to make a video game movie. I wanted to be James Bond. I was like, okay, so that's actually happening. And then a weird one here.

[Roger]

Ruiner.

[Nick Scarpino]

This is another indie game that came out. Has a cool art style. Style. West Ball is also attached to directing this One. I don't think that's fucking happening. There's no way. There's no way that this guy's gonna go over here and make another Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Legend of Zelda and now he's gonna go back and make a ruiner movie. I don't know. That seems like kind of crazy. Shinobi is apparently in works with Sam Hargrave who is the extraction director. Slime Rancher has a game as a movie attached. And also this is great. Toe Jam and Earl is being developed by Amazon and Steph Curry's production 101,000.

[Mike]

That'll be like Bill and Ted's excellent adventure.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

We're back.

[Nick Scarpino]

I just gonna look at the camera right now. I would love to interview Story Kitchen. I would love to interview anybody that works there, maybe the CEO, whoever can talk to me about these game. These games and these movies and why you're picking these games to be movies. And just what's the kind of the back end of this? Because it's is so fascinating because you look at this. They also have the Legend of Legends, Zelda, the Tomb Raider TV show that they're doing.

[Roger]

They produce Life is Strange as well. They got my friend Pedro on their website.

[Nick Scarpino]

But all of these like the only movies that they've produced, it seems like are the Sonic movies.

[Roger]

It's so interesting because they're about me page. Yeah.

[Mike]

Called Toys R Us on this.

[Nick Scarpino]

Oh yes.

[Roger]

That's.

[Nick Scarpino]

That's what I want to say. They're making a Toys R Us movie.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And a Teddy R. Teddy Ruxman, by the way. Teddy Rman if I'm in. If they make it hardcore horror. Horror like if it's Chucky.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Because look at how terrifying that they.

[Roger]

Say they specialize in franchise farming. Which I want to know more about what that means. Right.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

It's probably has to do with AI.

[Nick Scarpino]

That doesn't feel like something. That doesn't seem like something you say out loud.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

I think you need a couple RTX graphics cards to do that. Yeah.

[Roger]

And they say adapting video games and other non traditional IPS into film and tv. Then they say they talk about how they launch in 2022 by Sonic the Hedgehog, yada yada. And then. Yeah. Their whole strategy here is to. To quote Franchise Farm, which I think sounds very negative. Right. Has a negative connotation to what I think when you say it out loud like that. I assume if I'm going to be charitable with how they're using it. Right. Like they probably approach these Companies, they approach Raw Fury and go, hey, we want to help you maintain and manage and grow these ip and like I think that's cool. I think that's a fucking awesome thing. I just worry about a lot of these picks because like you're out here trying to make a Slime Rancher movie.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah, sure. At that point it just is all about, it's not even about the ip. The IP is just a Trojan horse to get a minute made. Right. It has to be, there has to be a vision to make these movies good. And if none of these movies are going to be good and then there's no real fan base for slime rancher people that are going to go into the theaters, then like, what's the point?

[Roger]

That's my thing is like, I think the point of ip, right? Is in if I'm being cynical about it. Right. If I'm being the business brained about it. You want IP because there's a built in thing there that yes, to some extent works and there's an audience for. I know there's people that play Slime Ranger. I've heard of Slime Ranger.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Right.

[Roger]

But like enough people to make a successful.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Let me be honest, looking at, looking at all of these, same for Lunar, with the exception of Sonic, Mine isn't Even out half, 90% of the movies we just listed. Nobody knows, nobody. They're not going to have any contact. The average mainstream audience of America is going to have zero concept for what split fiction is.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

They're not going to know.

[Nick Scarpino]

No.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

So it's interesting. These are, these are the kind of movie projects that you get off the ground by making them super low budget, attaching a star, promising everyone the world. And then it comes and it comes to Amazon and goes. And I see it 13 years later and go, dude, Raw Fury or Shinobi was the best movie nobody ever saw.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick Scarpino]

So that is all of the movies that are being, that are in development.

[Roger]

Some of these are going to be bangers. I say this, some of these are going to be.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You make a. You make a weird ass Toe Jam and Earl movie. I have Toejam and Earl.

[Roger]

Sifu CLEAR Obscure Expedition 3 writes itself.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Sifu. You just make. John.

[Nick Scarpino]

I think I just, I think I'm just so.

[Roger]

Those are gonna be fine.

[Nick Scarpino]

I think I'm just so negative of like this actually happens. Happening.

[Roger]

Right.

[Nick Scarpino]

Because we've just heard so many of.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

You know how this goes. You know how this goes. They get 30 projects, you get the rights for the same thing with books. Everyone buys the rights to every single thing for that one moment where Shinobi, you know, a PlayStation 5 shinobi comes out.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

And just did. They're all.

[Roger]

No we just released yet.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Well, I'm saying. And it blows up and they go, oh, we're immediately in development of that because it's already. It's already ground. All these are just a holding pattern. They're not going to do anything with all this stuff.

[Nick Scarpino]

Thank you so much for hanging out with me, everybody. This was an adventure. We learned a lot.

[Roger]

We learned a lot.

[Nick Scarpino]

And maybe we might talk to Story Kitchen and figure out what's going on.

[Roger]

Because, like, yeah, I have questions both on the. Some of these sound awesome. And then why Slime Ranger.

[Nick Scarpino]

Yeah. Well, everybody, thank you so much for watching this episode of gamescast. Right after this, Mike and Nick are going to play some Rainbow Six Siege. We'll see you on the next one. Peace out.

[Blessing Eddie Yoye Jr.]

Jump in there with us.

[Roger]

Oh, maybe I'll think about it.