Cordkillers 386 - Pay-Per-Ganda
Sequels, reboots, and re-imaginings are flooding our screens. What makes a good revisit to an old property? Plus, more Holland Spider-Man and there may be a Mass Effect TV series. All that and more on Cordkillers!
This week on It's Spoilerin' Time: Hawkeye (101-102), Squid Game (106), Miami Vice (203, "Whatever Works")
Next week: Hawkeye (103), Squid Game (107), Miami Vice (205, "The Dutch Oven")
CordKillers: 386 - Pay-Per-Ganda
Recorded: November 29 2021
Guest: None
Intro Video
The Housewife and The Shah Shocker
Primary Target
The Book of Boba Fett will apparently address his Return of the Jedi survival
The Book of Boba Fett
Peacock Debuts 'Bel-Air' Teaser
- There's a new teaser for the Book of Boba Fett which comes out December 29th on Disney Plus. It shows Boba in what looks like a bacta tank and then some of the same footage from previous trailers. It's not specifically a remake. Unless you consider it somehow related to the Holiday Special animated sequences. But it's certainly a reimagining. Boba seems pretty dead in Return of the Jedi. That bacta tank seems to be ready to retcon that and explain more about how he got out of the sarlacc pit. (It's been alluded to in the books but not with detail)
- There's also a trailer for Peacock's series Bel-air. Coming next year. This is inspired by a fan film by Morgan Cooper and stars Jabari Banks as Will. Like the sitcom starring Will Smith it will follow Will from the streets of West Philly to a mansion in Bel-Air, California. The trailer indicates this will be more of a drama, with Banks reading some of the lines from the Will Smith/J Jazzy Jeff Fresh prince theme song with a dramatic tone.
- These are not the first spins, offshoots or dark reimagining in movies or TV. And the knee-jerk response for a lot of folks not immediately excited by more of a beloved fandom will be "why do we need more of this? Aren't there any original ideas?"
- The fact of the matter is people love sequels and series. Publishing has learned this which is why most genre books are at least trilogies these days.
- I think a better question than simply whether we like reboots or not should be, what makes a good one? What makes it deserved? When should it be done and when should it not?
How to Watch
Italy’s ‘Netflix of Culture,’ ITsART, Launches Across EU, Forges Cinecittà Pact
- It's divided into three sections. Stage for purchasing access to operas and dramas and such, Stories is full af a few hundred Italian movies and documentaries and Sites gives travelogues and tours of historic sites in Italy. The service is 51% owned but the Italian government with the rest owned by Chili TV which itself is backed by Warner Bros., Paramount, Fox and Sony.
- I know everybody is tired of "more choices" But is this a good model?
What to Watch
'Star Trek: Discovery' season 4 will stream on Pluto TV in some countries
- If you're in a country without Paramount Plus and haven't given up on finding legal ways to watch Star Trek: Discovery's new season, ViacomCBS has decided to bring it PlutoTV in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. New episodes will be available Friday, Saturday and Sunday. People in France, Germany, Russia, South Korea and the UK can also buy the fourth season from "participating digital platforms''
Tom Holland will return for another trilogy of MCU Spider-Man movies
- Sony Producer Amy Pascal told Fandango that Tom Holland will return as Spider-man in the Marvel universe. Pascal told Fandango's Erik Davis, “This is not the last movie that we are going to make with Marvel — [this is not] the last Spider-Man movie. We are getting ready to make the next Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland and Marvel, it just isn’t part of… we’re thinking of this as three films, and now we’re going to go onto the next three. This is not the last of our MCU movies.”
Netflix’s ‘Arcane’ Is No. 1 Digital Original Series With US Audiences, Claims Report
- Netflix's animated series Arcane, which is a prequel of the story in League of Legends is Netflix's number one digital original in the US according to Parrot Analytics as of the week ending November 19. Netflix's own chart for the week ending November 21 has Arcane as the most popular English-language series worldwide but has non-english shows Hellhound Season 1 and The Queen of Flow Season 2 both in front of Arcane overall worldwide.
‘Red Notice’ Already Second-Most Watched Netflix Movie Of All-Time, Eyes No. 1 Spot
- Filmwise, Netflix has Red Notice number one overall with 129.1 million hours watched, far ahead of the number two english-language film The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star at 24.4 million. Red Notice is now the second most watched movie of all-time on Netflix.
Amazon Studios is reportedly trying to make a Mass Effect TV show
- Deadline's sources say Amazon Studios is nearing a deal to make a TV series based on Mass Effect. Amazon Stduios head Jennifer Salke said its new fantasy series Wheel of Time, based on the books of the same name, is one of its top 5 series of all time and the studio is "continuing to invest in fantasy genre of all kinds." EA seems to be focused on making a TV series based on Mass Effect happen somewhere, telling Business Insider earlier this year that it's "not a matter of if, but when." And the Verge noted an Instagram post from February by Henry Cavill with a blurred out corner of a printout of the wikipedia page for Mass Effect 3. Next year we have a Halo series coming to Paramount Plus and The Last of US coming to HBO. Is the time of quality live action video game-based TV series upon us?
Eyes On
Brian: Get Back, Dream Corp LLC
Tom: Star Trek: Prodigy
On the Lookout: Formula E Unplugged
Front Lines
Hayao Miyazaki comes out of retirement for one last Studio Ghibli movie
- Anime legend Hayao Miyazaki retired in 2013. This week anime legend Hayao Miyazaki told the New York Times he's coming out of retirement- again-- to make a new film with Studio Ghibli. Why? "Because I wanted to," he said. The new film is a fantasy based on a 1937 novel about a 15-year-old boy who's father has recently died.
Real-life Squid Game re-creates Netflix show with $456,000 prize
- As you might have expected a "real-life" squid game is happening on YouTube. The channel MrBeast does this sort of thing regularly, so it was kind of a no-brainer. The MrBeast version features 456 people competing in show-accurate competitions like red light green light but is only giving away $456,000. The number does not increase as players are eliminated. Also nobody dies.
ESPN Pay-TV Carriage Fell Another 10% To End Fiscal 2021 At 76 Million U.S. Households
- ESPN's pay TV distribution fell again by 10% to 76 million US households. That includes traditional cable and satellite as well as OTT providers like YouTube TV and Sling. ESPN+ ended the fiscal year up 66% to 17 million subscribers. Those numbers are headed toward a world where all of ESPN's programming is available on it's own package, but the gap is still fairly wide.
‘Outlander’: Starz Sets Season 6 Return Date
- Outlander season 6 will return to Start on Sunday March 6 at 9PM. There's even a new version of the opening theme out for you to enjoy in advance.
Apple TV Plus released a new trailer for the Peanuts holiday special Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne.
Chucky has been renewed for season 2 on USA and Syfy. The season finale airs November 30th and then hits peacock December 1st.
Dispatches from the Front
Hello again! As I mentioned when I wrote in October to complain about how hard it is to watch baseball in Iowa, I have cancelled Netflix. Why? Because I wasn't *watching* Netflix!
I actually tried to cancel a couple of years ago. When I talked to my kids, however, my daughter said she and her dorm-mate were bingeing Jane the Virgin together. My suggestion that they could probably find a different show to enjoy was met with skepticism, so I kept the subscription.
Since then, we have enjoyed Netflix programming on occasion. We watched She-Ra and the Princesses of Power together with the younger siblings when my college kid was home, for example. I expected this trend to continue when the Kiddo was living at home for her summer internship. I thought for sure Shadow and Bone would be our "summer show" and that we'd probably pick up Gunpowder Milkshake while we were at it. And then, we just didn't. The kids found a way to stream a BTS reality show on our LG smart TV, and that was their together-watch. I don't remember the last thing *I* watched on Netflix, but it's been a while.
My plan for now is to pick up short term subscriptions and keep them only as long as we're actually watching. I thought I would start with Disney+, but Hulu's $0.99/month Black Friday deal was too good to pass up. I'll watch Only Murders in the Building, and then if nothing else pique's my interest, I'll move on.
Meanwhile, Netflix is really sad to see me go. I cancelled on October 15. Subscription ran out on October 21. Since then, they've emailed me approximately once every two days inviting me back! "We're ready when you are," "Try netflix again today..." "Give us another chance?" and my favorite: "It's been 16 days."
- Ulrike
P.S. Tom pronounced my name correctly last time. Good job!
Hey guys,
I loved your silence of the lambs spoilerin time episode, particularly the comparisons of Hopkins' and Mikkelson's portrayals of the character. Suggestion, I think it would be fun if you guys went back to watch 1986's manhunter to see Brian Cox's original portrayal of the character.
Love the show,
- Will
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