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Geekscape 7: The Secret Of Nilbog

Guest Co-host: My friend and screenwriter Mark -Review: The Hitcher, Catch and Release and a mini Arthur and the Invisibles review. The Hot Fuzz trailer. The Original Star Wars Trilogy in 30 minutes?!? Harry Potter 7 gets a release date! From Heroes to Zeroes. Was that Gilmore on Dateline: To Catch a Predator? The Mooninite Invasion begins! Dreamworks and Aardman get a divorce. Kate Beckinsale in the Whiteout movie... now go read the Whiteout trade paperback! And Wildstorm's Friday the 13th comic! And how many books is Wolverine gonna be in? What's your favorite comic book themed video game? Spidey 3 the game? And pointers for you amateur screenwriters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Broadcast on:: 06 Feb 2007
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ABC Wednesday, October 9th. You all can play all day. We want books. We want paper towels in the classroom. Bet you won't raise this too. I'm still waking up the paper towels. Abbott Elementary returns with the new season. We asked the district for more after school programs. They gave us $50 for class beds instead. Critics cheer. Abbott Elementary continues to be one of the funniest and most beloved shows on TV. What y'all doing out there? Taking bribes. Proud of y'all. Abbott Elementary, the season premiere Wednesday, October 9th on ABC, and stream on Hulu. Hey, this is Sophia Bush. And you're watching GeekScape. Enjoy episode 7, Jonathan. Why don't you return my cough? I miss you. Love you. Bye. Hey, what's up guys? This is Jonathan, episode 7 of GeekScape. For those of you uninitiated, GeekScape is a show all about movies, video games, and comics. And over the next 30 minutes-- you know what? We're not going to do 30 minutes. We're going to do 45 minutes. Then we're going to take it into an hour. For the next 45 minutes in an hour, we're going to be talking about the latest news and reviews in the world of movies, video games, and comics. I'm joined this episode by my buddy, Mark Riley, who tell people a little bit about yourself. We met working on a TV show. Yeah, we met during fat actress. We're critical if anybody knew. I don't think anybody watched it. No, I was like the delivery guy. He was the runner. Yeah, he was the runner. I was the bitch to the-- can I say bitch? Yeah. It's the internet. OK, good. You can show worse. You can say-- I can say shit. Yeah. OK, great. I try not to. I was the bitch to the producers. And you would basically do all the things that I wouldn't want to do. No, couldn't do. You would help me so much. Yeah, I helped you a lot, didn't I? You'd say my ass a lot of time. And in payment for saving your ass, there were times where I would just kind of get lost. You'd go to the comic book store sometimes. I'd send me off on a run, and Mark would call up. And I'd be at the comic book store. And you would know. Yeah. You knew. And I would cover some time. You'd cover it, sometimes. But then I was nice, because then it would kind of slow down a bit, and as they were doing the takes, and the phone wouldn't ring, and we were sitting there, and I would get to read your comics. And you were the reason why then I started to get into comics. Isn't that terrible? So I was late at this-- I'm sorry, people are going to be mad at me. Thousands of our listeners are saying, me too. Yeah. You know, you started out as a movie fan. That's where we conducted-- Yeah, movie fan. That's where we were talking about. Because you still love comics. You still love Star Wars. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's how I started. And as I would bring these comics into work, you would read them all out and run some stuff. And I remember you came in, and you were like, oh, they just started the Hulk, and you threw a Hulk one out there, and Hulk ripped a shark in half. And that's what I was like. Oh, yeah, yeah, that was cool. I liked that one, and then it didn't really go where. I didn't study it. But I actually went-- then as I got back into comics, I found myself in the comic book store looking for that issue, because I wanted jaws in half with the Hulk. And then it turns world ring in half, and the ultimate. Hulk versus world ring, which will never finish. Which I wanted to talk about. We will, OK. We can. So anyway, yeah, we've met talking about movies at work and comics, and of course, video games. We're into that. I play video games. And so it's a perfect-- when I started doing the show, I said, OK, we've got to have Mark Riley on one episode. I have to. Thank you. And what Mark does during the day is he's a screenwriter. Many people out here in Los Angeles, Mark is a screenwriter. And just like me and directing, you have the ups and downs. You have those flirtations with maybe this will be a good break. Absolutely. And then those flirtations are crushed before your eyes, like your dignity, your soul. Squash the hopes and dreams. Right. I'm fine. Kate, can you hear me all right, Vijay? Can you hear me? So I'm all nervous. No, no, no, you're good. Right? OK. The closest flirtation, the one that I thought was the coolest, was how far you got with, if we could talk about the he-man? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got-- should I tell him? Tell the story, because if I tell it, I'll f it up. Yeah, and it's no longer going anywhere. And nothing really happened with it, other than they were trying to make he-man. I had a friend where one of the many scripts, I guess, that was out there, came on his desk. He didn't like it. He was working as under the VP of development over at Warner Brothers, and he said, we could probably do something better. And we came up with the story, and then I wrote a very detailed, very long, very epic movie about he-man. Yeah, you wrote. I remember reading your treatment. It was 22, 24 pages. And that was with the font of like, 11. Right. You know, I changed it, because it ended up being 40 pages, like, detailed to the-- like, this is what they say, like, almost-- almost a script, but it was a treatment. And then I said, well, we need to get it down to 25 pages, and so I changed the font. That's what you did. Yeah, because I couldn't-- I didn't want to change anything, because it was awesome. I loved it. And you went in-depth, too, because when it starts out, you know, you know, I'm reading this thing. And it starts out, and the first character we see is-- Stratos. Stratos. Yeah, yeah. And I'm like, OK, Mark did his research. Yeah, you remember Stratos. You went through Triclops in there. Oh, yeah. You know, you threw all sorts of-- Triclops had-- I liked Triclops. He had the three eyes, and they were sniper eyes. One of them would be a sniper eye, and he could just-- you know, so it was like really-- That's what Skeletor used him for. He was like the guy that would send out, and like, he'd pick guys off of Castle, Eternia, and then they, you know, Skeletor went in, because it was cool working with-- actually working with development guys, because we got into, like, the story. We rewrote the myth of He-Man, which should I tell him? Well, there's not a whole lot. Well, yeah, it was like how-- Did you watch, like, every cartoon? We watched all the cartoons, and it was like, you never explain where Skeletor comes from. And you never really explain what-- we went into, like, what the sword really was. And it was passed down from generation to generation of He-Man's. And Skeletor was one of those He-Man's, and it had been-- It became like-- Yeah, well, it became like Lord of the Rings. The sword became so powerful, he became evil, and then he lost the sword in one of the many battles. You're into that stuff, you know? And just now that you said that, I realize your, like, a theme you always put in your scripts is like the fallen angel thing. The dark side. You like that stuff, which is why you're such a huge Star Wars fan, even since the last three movies start to ask. You continue to love Star Wars. Yes, absolutely. I love flirting with the dark side and walking on that line, and whether or not you go there or not, that's the story that-- And I just realized Lucas is genius. He gave us the force, and then he gave us the dark side. Yeah, in the last three. Yeah, the last three are definitely the dark side. Yeah, I guess. So we went to see a film. [LAUGHTER] We went to see Dave Myers, The Hitcher. I'm sorry. In this movie, he's such a strong word film. Yeah, we went to see a film. Sophie Bush and her boyfriend are on their way to Lake Havasu from Austin, where I guess she goes to school. And they're driving out through New Mexico. And somewhere in New Mexico, they start having this relationship with a hitchhiker, who they first don't give a ride to, and then they meet him again at a gas station, played by Sean Bean. And he makes them pay for not picking them up that first time around, because this dude is a killer. It's a remake of the '80s movie with C. Thomas Howl and-- Rucker Howl. --over Hower, who is the embodiment of Creepy. Yeah. Like he is-- you could tell he's a little bit psycho. And what did you think of this movie, The Hitcher Remake? What did you think? You could say it. I hated it. Right. Can I be that strong? I don't think you-- like I'll say it, they know. You said film. That wasn't a film. What was it? I-- words can't express. We didn't have to pay for it. Thank-- I still want my two hours back. And it wasn't even-- You get to some of the crap you've been dragged to watch. Yeah, right, right, right. But I still can't believe that. I know. I want my time back. The guy who loves episode three. Yeah, well, I didn't love it, but it was better than the other two. Phantom and Clones. That says a lot. Yeah. That's true. Let me tell you something. Right now, Mark, seeing The Hitcher, I enjoyed it. For these reasons. Yeah, OK. I was sitting between you and Laura. And I didn't give a fuck. Well, I tell you, my favorite part of the movie was where you turned to me and said, it's Grand Theft Auto. Because The Hitcher is basically these kids pick up The Hitcher and then he kills somebody, and then they run, run, run, run, and then The Hitcher kills somebody, and then they're blamed for it. And then they run, run, run, run, and The Hitcher kills somebody. It's always catching up and killing somebody. And killing somebody. And then they run, run, run, run, and The Hitcher-- He's always so much. Yeah. Then he kills eight cop cars and a cop helicopter with his fucking gun. And he's driving in some-- And he's driving in a transam-- There's a shotgun out the window. Yeah. Wasn't he a helicopter? No, no, no, wasn't he a shotgun. It was one of these jobs. And it was-- and he did this. And you went, oh, Grand Theft Auto. And I laughed. That was the biggest laugh I got-- I laughed without the whole movie. Well, I laughed when they had that wonderful touching moment in the shower. That's just like, you know, they're running and running and running and running and nothing's happening. It's almost coming to him. Let's take a shower. They took a shower together and it was a very quiet moment. And then they watched The Birds. Which is the next one that Rogue Pictures is doing. Which is so funny, because it's like their average-- Or Saturn Films. The next Michael Platon. Platon Films, whatever. Saturn Films. Saturn Films is Nick Cage. Yeah, yeah. It's the same producers. And it's like they're advertising their future crap. And I think they're doing a near dark remake, too. They're also remaking. I love near dark. They're remaking Friday 13th. I don't know if you're aware of that. Get out of here. They're doing the prequel-- A secret. They're doing the-- well, they say it's the prequel, but Jason is going to get his hockey mask. I just read it today. No, no, no, no. You have to do a movie without Jason. Then the second movie has to wear a potato sack. The third movie he gets is the hockey mask. Well, they're going to do the first one. They're going to redo it. And they're going to show how he gets his hockey mask as the first one. And it's going to be him. It's not going to be his mom. It's going to be Jason. I don't know how they're going to do it, other than ruining it. I mean, at least I kind of have respect for Rob Zombie, who's going to redo Halloween. I'm interested. I'm kind of excited. Because his movies are good. Yeah, his movies are good. But when you're working with when a stranger calls and the hitcher as your pedigree, and then they're doing my favorite slasher series, Friday 13th. You know what? My guest last week, we talked about Dave Myers. And they said, you know what? I think Dave Myers will do really well with his own material, his own voice, like his own stories. Not so much this remake stuff. You know? And I enjoy Dave Myers as a video director. I haven't seen any of these videos. I mean, dude, I know you have. I know you have. I probably am. He's really popular. And he's one of the biggest ones. He's one of the biggest music video directors. What's that? Like every Missiality video? OK. That's probably Dave Myers. Who's Missiality? Get out of here. Yeah, in this movie, you see promises. And the hitcher-- I saw promises of a better director, but only in the fun category. Yeah. I did not take this movie. I was laughing throughout the entire movie. Yeah, I was too. I mean, I guess I'll give it that biggest film by any means. A gauntlet film. Dude, you know a gauntlet film. We got to run a gauntlet. Tell me a gauntlet. The worst movies ever. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The appearances from VHS. Got it. Yeah, yeah. They don't make them on DVD anymore, even though Jim Cotta came out last week? Epic. That's a fucking-- that's close to gauntlet. Right. Is it maybe? Yeah, that's a gauntlet film. This is not a gauntlet film. Too polished, too nice. Sofia Bush is too hot. I guess you know it has to have some rough stuff. Well, for me, well, I guess you can appreciate it because you're a director. You see stung in, yeah? OK. But can you hear him OK? I get worried when you pull the mic down. OK, can you hear me OK? All right. I guess I go at it more as a screenwriter, and there wasn't any kind of-- There wasn't a script. There wasn't a script. I don't know what they-- I mean, they might as well-- I think they wrote it on some napkins and then just kind of handed it to the actors as they came out of their trailers. And then they just-- I didn't understand anything that was going on with those two characters. Yeah, I'm not going to be as hard on the hitcher as most people are. Yeah, I will. Don't go see it. Don't go see it. But if you and your friends end up renting it, make sure you drink a lot, all right? It could be a drinking game. They can drink every time the hitcher blows up eight cars. They get really drunk. Yeah. Every time you roll your eyes, you drink. They do not endorse that. I'm just don't want anybody, like, you know, go into the hospital for alcohol poisoning in our audience. What the hell am I? I don't want all three of those people dying. Other movies went to see. Why don't you tell people what your girlfriend dragged you to? What did you see last weekend? Well, we did the double feature. We saw smoking aces. Which you did not like. Which I did not like. All right, some of our audience disagrees. Don't like it. Vijay said it was overrated. Very overrated. Wasn't even rated as a good movie? I liked it. I saw a lot of bad reviews. I liked it. I don't-- yeah, it wasn't. But I wasn't as angry about that being bad as the hitcher was. Right. OK. Or catch and release, which I saw after I was kind of dragged to. I mean, it was kind of the promise that we'll see smoking aces. We snuck in to catch and release. And I was come on. I mean, Kevin Smith was in it. Well, that's an endorsement of quality. I like Kevin and everything. But he was acting in it. And it's like, you know, there was one of those previews where I thought it might be good. And it's like, why? What about the preview made you think it was good? OK, I'm fine. I'm just trying to stick out. I was dragged. It was horrible. I wish I didn't see what-- I don't even know what this movie is about. What's funny is it's about-- they try to-- the fiance dies before they even get married. Like, it's OK. And it opens with her in a voiceover saying, you would have loved it here on this day. It's beautiful. And it's supposed to be the wedding, but instead it's the funeral. And then, oh, surprise, you find out that he was cheating on her, had a kid with somebody. And then she, of course, falls in love with-- The best, man. I don't know if you-- you never knew who he was. I mean, he was a friend, but it was Timothy Olafint. And it was that devil's grin. And she's like, oh my god, you're-- He's going to be hit, man. Yeah, he's going to be hit, man, which I dig. She would always go, oh, I can't believe you're such a nice guy, I didn't know it. And he had that grin that was like, yeah, I am a nice guy. As he goes and screws like eight different chicks behind her back. But he didn't do that. I just didn't believe. OK. Because it was terrible. Yeah, you tried investing in catch and release. Did you get laid afterwards? Because, dude, if you didn't get laid after she tried you to catch her release, then-- I didn't. Oh, I don't-- Sickness. Why did you see that crap? It's a good movie. She's in the next room. Can we color over here? That would be funny. Stays? Stays? Come over here. Come here. This is bullshit. Come here. I'm in trouble. She's reading. You don't have to get on camera, but-- He wants to talk about catch and release. After you guys went to see-- come here, hand her the mic. You don't have to get on camera. Come here. You can talk from there. Sorry. Pick up the mic. Wait. So after you made poor Mark, go see that mic. I tried him. You didn't have sex with him afterwards. I think I went and got cupcakes or something each week early. You have no balls. I did. Yeah, I did. Monday, I think we-- I think we were going to got cupcakes. Yeah, we did. But I won't even go and see what happened Monday night. Am I done? Oh, I think I was supposed to talk. No, no, no. Yeah, I did. I cast her and then when he moved in, it was my old form of putting a chip in him. You know, he put it in the box. They make him look like him wherever he is. I didn't say I lied to him. It was not a good movie genre. She hated it, too. Wait for her to fall asleep, then take it back. No, she hated it, too. If she could sit here, she would agree with everything I said. And that's why I love her. Let me show you Stacy's dog, P.O. Stress is Superman. Stacy claims that this is the best dog in the whole world, but we both know Hank and Cheese. And so it's up in the air. Check out P.O. Check out his garb here as Kal-El. I think that dog is one of the best dogs ever. I do love you, P.O. I've seen that dog take down 75-pound dogs. I'm not kidding you. I do love P.O. But my heart belongs to Hank and Cheese. And this is turning back into dog talk. So, dude, I want to see a kid's movie. I wouldn't saw Arthur and the Invisible's. Oh, how is that? I want to see it. You know what? You can tell it's a Luke Besson movie. I think it's OK. If you rent it, watch it with kids. It's not going to be bad. It's not a Pixar movie. It's not one of these great movies. It has a little bit of a dark thing going on. It's definitely European. All right. So don't expect an American animation film. It has Frankie Heimore in it, who I love, that little kid. Charlie, and then the Finding Neverland. Yeah, he's a Finding Neverland. And for the most part, it's enjoyable. It's a good nothing to do on a Saturday or Sunday rental. For those of you in our audience with kids, it ain't that bad. I don't have to see it. And it's fun. It has a little bit of a style to it, because it's a Luke Besson, of course. Right. All right. Speaking of movies that we saw trailers to, Hot Fuzz. That looks-- You're pretty excited about this? Yeah. That looks absolutely awesome. I mean, I can't even words-- words don't express-- You know what is this? This is Big City cop going to a smaller town. It's like he's so good. He's making everybody look bad or something like that. And then they're-- it's like they're going to-- yeah, put him to the small town just to get him out of there. But there's a killer loose. And then, yeah. And he's got to crack the case. And it's-- who are these dudes? It's the dudes who did-- Sean of the Dead. Simon Pegg. And what's his-- Fatty. Yeah. He's hilarious, though. And the-- yeah, the-- And Sean of the Dead thing. No, that one scene that I cracks me up every time is like, is it true if you get-- there's a place in the head that if you shoot him, his head would blow up. That just cracks me up every time. And it's because he's around all these kids, as he's telling him about law enforcement. It was hilarious. I can't wait. I cannot wait for that movie either. The trailer looks funny. And they-- I like how they build on the joke from Sean of the Dead, where they're jumping fences. Yeah, which is great. Because he's like, have you do a shortcut? And he goes over every single one. And then it's like then he also hits a trampoline and flips over. And then, yeah, his buddy just goes right through and just crashes through it. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah, my wife. Very funny. So we've talked a little bit about news, my friend. Star Wars? You're a Star Wars fan. Why don't you tell everybody what you did in college? Instead of getting laid, this is what you did. Well, it wasn't-- I don't know what's more sad that it wasn't in college. It was after college. Oh! Yeah. What was it? It was the Star Wars trilogy in 30 minutes on stage. You were part of the team. I was. Yeah, I was part of the crew that we did it at-- You know how to make fun of you? You can't. But I totally respect it. I know. I got to meet George Lucas. We got to perform Star Wars for George Lucas. In person. In person. So we did it at-- I did it in Paris. Wait, well, tell them what is it. What is it? It's Star Wars trilogy in 30 minutes. My friend-- It's an acting treatment of like USC dudes. It's all USC alumni. We know Michael. We know that we know him from the comic con episode of The Last Show, The Old Show. He's Java in it with me. Patrick T. Gorman, he originally created it, and he wanted to do-- he did all three of the original trilogy movies on stage in 30 minutes. So each movie was 10 minutes long. And you run around, you play multiple parts. I play Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Emperor, an Ewok, a Stormtrooper, a Captain Nita. You have guys running around in white sheets that are the wampa, and it's that fast. And we did it. I started it in Paris at an American festival theater thing. Lucasfilm finally heard about it, and they hired us for celebrations, too, in Indianapolis. OK. That's like a big Star Wars celebration. That's cool. So we went and we did that right before Attack of the Clones. And then it got enough, I guess, juice that the president of Lucasfilm said, you got to come up and do it for George. Who's that? I can't remember his name. But they flew us up to Lucasfilm, Skywalker Ranch. We got the tour. We did it for George Lucas and all of the-- I like that. Walk on my back. Was he weird? Were you there? He did that. That was weird. I did a massage, my feet. And a massage. There's nobody knew this about you, George. Creepy, you know, we used cream. So he saw it. And it was a trip doing-- because I played Obi-Wan, and I do my best alligator's impression. Can you do it? No, not here. OK. And-- Really? No, not here. I don't want to do it. You know, I'm rehearsed. So what was it? Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot I was working with Thespian here. I'm just a ditto man here, yes. Very much so. Was that-- you know. Obi-Wan, Kenobi. I see. I can't really-- I mean, that's the inflections there. Yeah, Obi-Wan, Kenobi, Obi-Wan. OK. That's the name I've not heard in a long time. You don't have to do that here. You've wanted me to do it here. I don't want my brother to come on the show so we can do a van dams. Back in the week, we just did a conversation with a van dam with a van dam. Not funny. As everyone turns off their iPod. Oh, you and your van dam. But that's cool. But that was it. Is that it? No, then we did a run here in LA, and then they hired us again for Solaritions 3 right before Attack of the Clones. And now we've just been hired again to go. Celebrations 4 in LA, May 24 through the 28th. Yeah. So if you're in LA at the end of May-- And you want to see-- you want to go do Star Wars. You got to go to the convention and do the passes or whatever it is. But it's totally worth it because my favorite thing to do in the world is to do this play for the celebrations because there's lines around the corner to see us. That's crazy. And we did. We sold out every night, and we got a CNN article done on us, and it was really fun. And I mean, to know that at 28 to have peaked-- Doing Star Wars in 30 minutes. There's really-- and since then, seriously, I mean, is it sad that the only thing I really have to look forward to now is I'll be wearing a black cape, doing my best emperor impression? Yeah. I'm excited. Do that one in line with the quite upper wish. [LAUGHTER] This-- this death stop is quite a purchase. I do it exactly like that. This is not the only thing. Yeah. So-- Oh, I'm afraid of the coilover, right? Well, your friends arrive. That's good. No. Yeah. That's funny. Speaking of sequels, things like that. Yes. "Harry Potter release date" is a nice-- How much is the name of the book? "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." That answers the question on whether or not I read the book. I haven't read any of the "Harry Potter" books. "Gram" is a huge fan. I actually didn't even see what I think is the best movie of the Alfonso Coron one, the third one? Yeah. Is that the best one? Yeah, I think it's the best. I love it. That's the only one I haven't-- you know what? I didn't see the second one, the second Christopher Columbus. I didn't like the Christopher Columbus ones, the first two. I didn't have a thought. I love it when they got to the third one, and it got dark, and it got really-- I did see the fourth one, because Grant, we were in Austin, and Grant was like, I was just going to go see a movie, and I don't need an excuse to go see a movie. I'll see anything, catch your release. I probably would have seen it in the same situation as you, but I would have had sex at first. But with the cupcakes. Not with her, with the cupcakes. And I like-- That's a good idea. If it has Ray Feinstein, it'll probably watch it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the next one's going to have-- yeah, he's in it from now on. You've read all the books. I've read all the books. I'm excited for the set of books. And this new one is going to get released on July 21st, 2007. I already preordered. Got it. Yeah, it's coming. It's so cool. Amazon, it's like half the price. You order it. It's going to be delivered on my doorstep. That day, it's released. Dude, that's-- It's incredible. Because people are standing in lines and stuff like that. Yeah, I don't know about that. I don't know about that. Technology is brilliant that I just did that. That's clicking on the internet. Got it. And it's going to come to me, and I'm excited. That's exciting. It is. I hear somebody dies. Well, I want to wait to read all of them in one fell swoop. Well, you get the idea in all the movies. Somebody starting with four, so many major dies every time. Wow. It's interesting. The one thing I haven't-- because usually I wait for the DVDs to watch the TV series. The one that I haven't been doing is "Heroes." Oh, yeah. So watch the last "Heroes." Not the last one, as of the airing of this, but the last last. Which one? This past one. But I'm telling you, if this airs next week, they'll already have been one that we have as of the taping of this not seen. God, that's cool. That's not like a-- Yeah, it's in the future. Is this in the future? They're watching this in the future. This is-- We're speaking last week. Oh, my God. Yeah. Well, now I see why this is a cool show. Oh, God, OK. Are you with me in thinking that these last two have been a letdown? These last two since the break, that the episodes since the break of "Heroes" have been a bit of a letdown. You know, I have enjoyed them, but yeah, not much has really happened. It's more like, yeah, I guess I'm with you on that. I still like them. I'm still like, they've got me. But I'm waiting for something. It seemed that before the break, on every episode we had major revelations, we granted-- there's a lot happening. You're introducing your characters. But then at the break, it kind of slowed down. Granted, anytime the alley larger story line is on screen, you get this slow down. Yeah, because that just doesn't go in. Well, now it was cool because she was not in jail. So you had more going on now. She's in jail. And then Peter is-- Peter Petreli is now-- Little Nicky. Oh, is he little Nicky? That's what he looks like. Oh, yeah, he kind of does, huh? That's what he reminds me of. Well, he was in the hospital just having dreams. And I guess, you know, it's like-- It's kind of slowed down. Yeah, it kind of slowed down. And then I guess it was kind of cool when he met the Invisible Man. You know, that was-- I like that guy. He's been in other stuff, that actor. Yeah, I didn't know he was-- he's English. British. I don't know if he's from England. He may be from Ireland or-- British, you're right. Or Wales. Any time they just talk like that, that's just-- Yeah, it's a made up language. So I'm looking forward to it, but I do have to say something right now. These last couple since the break, I'm not feeling them. Yeah, no, I'm kind of with you. I mean, it's-- but I'm such a fan, and like, I'm blinded. You're going to watch it. I'm going to love it. I'm still kind of like that with like, lost. Everybody's turned away from lost. I'm still with them. To make things better, Tuesday night, Date Land to Catch a Predator, better show. Dude, Date Land to Catch a Predator, have you been watching this crowd? You know what it is? Yeah. Dude, were they like, set up a fake person? It's interesting. I love him. I mean, people show up and they get busted? I love doing it. Yeah, I do need to see it. That's one of the funniest shit on TV. I mean, granted, it's a very serious subject matter. And you have to be careful on the internet, folks, especially those of you under the age. There are predators out there. But watching some of these predators get busted is some of the most satisfying material I've ever seen in my life. I love that they're doing that. And now the show has been going on so long. There are repeat offenders on the show. Are you serious? People who have already been busted by the show are coming back and getting busted by the same show again. When they get busted, they have a look like-- You just castrate them. They just shut down. They're like, oh, god. I can imagine them the second time. It's like, oh, man, I'm an asshole, you know? I mean, not what they're doing is already. It's just so bad, but-- Oh. Oh. I love to watch it. It's scary. I mean, it's just scary. And seeing the range of people who are doing this is insane. I think it's the best show on TV right now. In every Tuesday, we throw a little party. From here on out, we're doing a dayland to catch a predator party or order up a pizza while the people get busted. It's ridiculous. I don't even know why I brought that up. Speaking of television shows, the Aukatine Hunger Force is becoming a movie. Yeah. I heard that news about the moon of the nights. The bomb scare. Yeah, and bomb scare. That was insane. Yeah. I guess the two guys that did it, they were at a press conference, and they are not supposed to speak about it because of being caught. And it's going to go to trial. And they're like our age. There's people who are out putting up these promotional things, which are basically light-bright boxes with moon and night characters on them. Yeah, like given the finger or something like that. And they set them up all over Boston, Philadelphia, LA, major cities. To promote the show, right? To promote something. Some show are the movie, right? Yeah. I guess it was the movie. People thought they were bombs. Yeah. What was that about? I read about it today. And the guys, they got busted. They got caught. They were out on $2,000 bail. They couldn't talk about it because of the legal ramifications that might happen to them. So they got up and they said, we are only going to be talking about hairstyles from the '70s. And then somebody said, you're not taking this seriously. You caused a panic. And they said, no, we're taking this seriously. You're not taking serious that we want to just talk about hairstyles. So they were very like, oh my god, what happened? And that's just I didn't see their reactions. But I just-- I thought that was-- I don't know. I guess it caused a major panic. I couldn't imagine being scared of like-- That's a question. Boom. Does it hurt or help the movie? It's going to help the movie. Hell yes, it's going to help the movie. Oh my god, it's going to help the movie. They're going to get so much press now from that thing. People are going to be like, what? I didn't even check out the trailer before this happened. Now-- I haven't seen anything-- I checked out the trailer. And the trailer looks funny. I've never seen a second of this show. I haven't either. I just-- now it's like everybody knows the name and knows what happened. And now-- Everybody's going to-- And people leave you comments on Myspace and they put these little characters in them. Like I've got a couple comments on Myspace with these characters in them. And I'm like, dude, I don't know what that is. Now I know what that is. Oh, it's the moon guy. Little moon and night guys looking you off. Yeah, I still don't know anything about it other than they're busted. Other news? Yeah. [INAUDIBLE] broke up with DreamWorks. Yeah. You thought it was a sad story. Right? Because it hurts their US distribution. Sure. Things like that. Then Nick Park comes out yesterday and says that they're working on more material for Wallace and Gromit. Possibly TV, possibly a sequel to Wear Rabbit. That's cool. Dude, Wear Rabbit was amazing. That's a good movie. I had so much fun with that movie. Yeah, I mean, it's a near perfect script. Yeah. As a screenwriter, dude, that's tight. Yeah. Absolutely. And I didn't see fleshed away, but I think it got caught up from what I heard. The reviews weren't very well and very good. I heard it's enjoyable, though. And yeah, I can't make an opinion other than I heard that they're kind of happy to be away from a big studio. You know, that might have kind of held them back a bit, maybe. I don't know. I could see that how that happens. You know, it's like John Wu coming to the US. He stopped doing what made you. Yeah. You know, he stopped doing what made you. If something like the-- remember the ones in the zoo with the animals? The argument animation did these about people living in apartments. That's right. And they took the voices of these people who were interviewed about living in apartments. That was brilliant. And they gave them-- and they animated zoo animals, too. Yeah. And it worked perfectly. Something like that. When you have something like Disney putting up the wild, that animated movie? Yeah. What if something like that had been put in the hands of somebody like, you know, Nick Parker at Aardman? Yeah. You know, now you have something original that's fun that has those same characters in it, but the voice is something. Right. You know. That's right. I forgot about that. That was hilarious. I love that. Can you go on a site and see that? Can you get them on DVD, too? Oh, they're on DVD? Yeah. I remember seeing that. I need to get that. Uh-huh. The comic book movie news, Kate Beckinsale is going to-- there's a comic. Have you read this whiteout? Yeah. I haven't read it, but-- Did anybody melt the second one? I haven't read any of those, but I know about whiteout, though. Okay. You've got to check it out. It's a cool idea. It's a commercial who goes down to Antarctica to check out like a murder, like a killer. Right before it. It's right before six months of darkness. That's cool. You know? What happens? Killer's still out there. You know? She has a limited window to catch this guy. Yeah. And it's awesome. I guess Kate Beckinsale's talking to do the movie. Let's see who is going to direct it, Dominic Sina. He did Swordfish, which was slightly enjoyable. Yeah. And gone in 60 seconds. I didn't see it. I didn't see gone in 60 seconds. I saw Swordfish. Yeah. It was fun, but Kate Beckinsale, I will not watch her in anything. I can't go that far. I think she's good. I like her. Like when Stacy probably dragged you to see Serendipity. Oh, we went together then. But Serendipity. I liked Serendipity. Did you? Mm-hmm. We're going to talk about this. On DVD. Because I saw Serendipity in the theater as part of a five-year relationship. You do those things. Yeah. Not good. You don't think so? No. Serendipity was not a good film. This is a geek's game we're talking about Serendipity. I know. Like, I think you're going to lose all over your audience. I think it gave you so much crap about it going as a catch and release. Yeah. And then you bring up Serendipity. Serendipity. See, like, catch and release compared to Serendipity. I mean, Serendipity was so much better. It had Jeremy Pivin and it had John Cusack in it. It's kind of cool. I mean, yeah. It's a little out there. I don't know if that's cool about Serendipity. It's cute. It's one of the best. Did you want to date? Did you run it with a girl? Um... Dude, don't tell me you saw this by yourself. I can't remember what I did. Then you definitely saw it by yourself. I probably saw it by myself. You blocked it off. Yeah, I did. Oh. Those are my... In a minute. That's what you get for my hours for 30 minutes. I know. Well, everything. Yeah. After that, you had a serious bottoming out. I really did. But you're on the rise again. Mm-hmm. Dude. Got it. Star Wars Celebration IV. Star Wars Celebration IV. Yeah. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. It did. I can't wait. You know? It's always fun. Comic news. Let's just go right into comic books, buddy. Yes. I like that. What have you been reading? Uh, I've been reading Friday the 13th. Now, see, I did not... I like that. When you told me you were reading Friday the 13th, I thought it was on the Brian Polito Road. Right. That... And you were like, no, it's the one at Wildstorm. Yeah. And I was like, what? I had no idea that the Friday the 13th franchise had gone over to Wildstorm. Yeah. I really recommend it. Because you were totally into it. And I was like, dude, I read the first issue. It sucked. Okay. But that was the old school one. This is the Wildstorm one. And I didn't read that. I mean, I did pick up of Jason versus Jason X, which was terrible. Yeah. But then... But Jimmy Palmiotti is doing the writing on this thing. Yeah. Yeah. And it's... Who's behind this? Go ahead and open this up. Go ahead and open this up. Okay. It's comic book. You got to treat it with... Tinder care. This is mine. That is his personal copy, friends. I'm not going to take... I'm not going to touch it. I just ripped the tape. Oh, Jesus. No, it's just the tape. Don't worry about it. You scared me. I don't like ripping the tape. It starts bleeding all over the place. I don't like ripping the... What the hell? You can replace the tape. Okay. We're okay. You have to replace those things every couple of years anyway. Yeah. Here we go. A new era in horror begins. That's what I like. So here we go. And I promise big things. Yeah. I'm going to flash some stuff up on the screen. Yeah. What's the most part is this about? This kind of... What I really loved about this, it does open... It's from Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiata Reddit. Yes. Adam Archer and Peter Guzman do the artwork. Mm-hmm. Cool. I trust something that Jimmy Palmiata is a part of. Well, I'll tell you. This opened up with classic girl, the half-naked, you know, verge of insanity running through Crystal Lake with Jason and chasing her and then she gets, she gets, you know, picked up by an old couple rush to the hospital and she's now flashing back to what happened. And what I love about this right now is that these guys went into Camp Crystal Lake because they basically say every time you have a Friday 13th movie, at least at the beginning of the series, you had the old man that was said, "It's courage, you know." Michael Bay should be taking notes right now. He really should because it's like, "You're cursed, you're like, Camp Crystal Lake is camp blood." And these guys went in and decided to like really look at the legend of Camp Crystal Lake. Not just Jason, but the lake is being cursed. And... That's what created Jason. That's what created Jason. Not Jason just drowning in the, like the lake, there's something going on with the lake. So when we get to meet, then we have your classic slasher guys and you meet all the people and you're like, "Oh, that one's going to die, oh, that one's going to die, that one's going to get killed so horribly, you know, you're going through that." And then... You always take inventory going into like a good horror movie. Yeah. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead, terribly annoying, we'll die. Yeah, that guy's going to get like a machete through the nose, you know, whatever. And then like some, one of the characters goes, the girl actually from the beginning takes a dive into the lake and there's a big splash page of like all these things like dead people, dead children, dead everything, bodies coming up and grabbing her and pulling her down in the lake. And it's like, "What the hell is going on? What's going on? What was that?" So Jason's not even related. He's not even there yet. And so you kind of get this idea of like, "What the hell is going on with the lake?" Another counselor is, you know, they have this great thing where it's like, you know, they're training the camp counselors during the day and then, you know, ride at nightfall. One of the head guys that hired them all is like, "Oh, got to go. See you later." Oh. And he's like... Part of it. I'm not going to be... Well, you don't know whether he's part of it. But he knows that at night, you don't want to be around. And so these camp counselors are basically going to, you know, meet horrible ends. Well, thanks for warning us, dude. Oh, yeah. Well, but I hear they're spinning on the end now and Jason's actually one of the counselors. It's weird. No, that's not true. It's good, though. No, it's really good. I'm having fun with it because, you know, then it's like another counselor is walking by the lake and they see all the bodies hovering over the lake. And then, of course, Jason's walking around and killing people. So there's a spiritual mystical supernatural thing going on there. Yeah. And it's interesting. And it's only a shoe, too. So I think issue three is coming out next week. I'm not sure. So if you're into the horror thing, see, no superheroes this week. If you're into the horror thing, you recommend this. I do. I really recommend this. Because I really get skeptical of a lot of these licensed properties. I agree. Most part I think they're junk. Yeah. I don't recommend any of the Nightmare Nome Street or Texas Chainsaw Mascers because I picked one of them up and was like, "This is not fun." But this one you like. This one I like. You don't want the horror at all. Definitely check out those trade paper racks. Greg Rucka did these white out. Our work's fantastic. He also did white out melt. Okay. I think it's the melt down. It's the sequel to it. And then there's a spin off character from those books who went on to do Queen in Country. And he did a series of books, sort of like a female James Bondish, espionage by a thing called Queen in Country, which is supposedly pretty good. And so yeah, no superheroes here folks. Those are the comics for this week. What about, can I bring up a question? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I had a question. It's about Wolverine. You mentioned Wolverine versus Hulk ultimate. Yeah. We've only had two issues. Yeah. What happened? And then I read 50. Wolverine 50. Number five. Yeah. Oh, we can talk about this because I read it too. Okay. David Lindeloff. David Lindeloff of Lost, yeah. He's one of the executive producers of Lost. He's writing this ultimate Hulk, Wolverine, or at least he was. I don't know what's happened. This was my question. The first two came out. The two came out and then nothing came out. It's a joke. But then in Wolverine 50, this is what I was wondering, all of a sudden he was like having dreams. Yeah. This is the one that Jeff Loeb is doing. Right. And Simon Boschke is doing the artwork. Right. And I liked it. The artwork's not bad. Yeah. It's all right. I like it. Can I, I mean, let me break something to the audience because I've been working hard on the geekscape stuff and in my own work, there's my work and then there's the geekscape stuff and I've been working a lot harder in the 2007 than I've ever worked before. And it's fun. I'm really excited for where I am right now. The one problem is this stack of comics by my bed is growing. You go every Wednesday, right? I go every Wednesday and without fail, I get books, whether or not I've been reading them. So I don't finish the books from the week before, before I get other ones. Got it. And this is just growing. I made it halfway through the Wolverine 50, this revamp, which is a good starting point for people who want to get in on it, right? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Because that's where you picked it up. Oh, I've been following Wolverine for a while now. But, but yeah, I thought it was a good like, but it actually made me think that they were closing out Wolverine versus Hulk. They're not related. I know they're not, but they did this thing. Different. Yeah. The ultimate universe in Marvel isn't the 616 universe, which they call it, 616. Oh, 616? See, learn something new on the escape every day. Not related. Okay. I guess I thought maybe they were copying out because I've been waiting for issue three of Ultimate Wolverine Hulk. Keep waiting, buddy. Got it. I mean, that was the only question. I mean, I know it. Side track. No, it's cool. It's cool. We can talk about superheroes. I'm not afraid of them. Video games. Yes. You love them. I do. I love them. I haven't played in a while. You keep telling me to play Wii. So. Wii's awesome. Feel free to cook. You guys can come over this weekend and play some Wii. Call Stacey. We'll come over. We'll do a little doubles tennis. Oh, yeah. It's a lot of fun. And your people are throwing the controllers. Yeah. That was a big news thing. Yeah. VJ does that. You found out that if you pass -- in the Wii sports, if you get past 1000, you're a pro. Okay. And your opponents all start getting really good. And then VJ was like, screw it. You know? There ain't no ceiling on my talent. He blew past 2000. Wow. What sports did you blow past 2000, VJ? Tennis. And what happened? You just play the same people over and over again. Like they stay the same age. 2000, 1900. That's as good as they get. But you keep getting better. Oh, wow. Yeah. VJ does not f around when it comes to Wii sports. He told me that there's a boss in boxing. Is that true? You heard there's a boss? Where are you at? 1500. You're at 1500? Yeah. You know. That's VJ's main form of exercise as Wii sports. It's amazing. It's amazing. You know, it leads to some form of exercise, right? It's a lot of fun. Yeah. But I've been playing a lot of Xbox. I leave the Wii at Laura's house. The Xbox is at my place. I've been working a lot, so I have met my place. And Graham did something really dick. He gave me both the first two Halo games and Hulk Ultimate Destruction, which was really neat. Oh, I played that. I mean, you can play it because it's for the old school. Yeah, yeah. No, I actually played it. This game kicks ass. It's fun. Yeah. It's like Grand Theft Hulk. Yeah. Smash things. Punch things through the sky. You know, they just-- The missions are fun. The controls are easy and the storyline's not bad. There's no part where it gets boring. Yeah. No, I had fun with that. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. Ultimate Spider-Man. That's my favorite. That's one of the best games that it was ever ever. Ever. Yeah. I love it. I still want it. When I came out, that was like 2000 and-- Four maybe. Four. I even-- But it was better than the-- Actual Spider-Man 2. Oh, it was Spider-Man 2. Oh, Spider-Man 2. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, based on the movie, because that was too big. It was the same kind of deal. You could run around and do it, but it was like, I liked the comic book, Cutaway Story, and then just better moves. It was just a better move. Ultimate Spider-Man was a tighter game. Absolutely. Cut the fat. Mm-hmm. We'll see what they do for Spider-Man 3 because there are some leaked artwork, and I think there's a website up where you can start checking out artwork for the next video game, which is a Spider-Man 3 video game. I'm listening. Which would be pretty cool. It'd be awesome if you could play as the Toe for Grace Venom. Oh, yeah. I wonder how that could be. That'd be fun. That would be fun. I saw some stuff, like I guess they were figures that they're going to release, and then they pulled them off the net, and it was that what Venom looks like in 3. Oh, the toys? Yeah. Where he's really anorexic looking? Yeah, he's skinnier than what they usually do, but he still looks pretty cool. Usually, he's a joke. I mean, you got to have a pro wrestler play Venom the way that they do it. I think they're going with that whole dark side thing again. That's you. I know. You're so topical. I'm so topical. I keep in the game, right? And you read all those books. You read like the Martin, Stephen Campbell, what's his name? The Hero? Joseph Campbell. Joseph Campbell, all that. You're reading like the story of Luke Skywalker and like the western civilization versus like what these movies mean. Yeah, this guy really went and analyzed all three of the Star Wars movies. Let me read that book. Hold on. It's on the... Wow, I don't know what to do. He's gone. Do I just sit here? Yeah. They... This was ridiculous. There we go. Thanks, Future. What's that? Departed. Oh, yeah. We got a screener of the departed. Cool. It's very cool. Luke Skywalker by Stephen Gallipo. Gallipu? Gallipu. Gallipu. An analysis of modern myth and symbol. And this dude just over analyzes Star Wars to death. Luke isn't thinking about none of this when he was doing the movie. Probably not. This dude, he's just a gig who read way too into it. We do that all the time here on Geekscape. We read way too into it. What? Yeah, there's a cover right here. I recommend it. It's a familiar image, but it's copyright. It's copyright free. It's just on the verge of infringing on something that you may have seen from the movies. Yeah. But if somebody wants to be a screenwriter, you've got a lot of kids who email me. Okay. Wanna get in a film, blah, blah, blah, blah. What's this? I tell them not to. But in case they... Good advice. Good advice. They've probably been ignoring me for a while. Yeah. What are some of the most helpful things as a screener? 'Cause you're probably one of the best screenwriters I know. Wow, really? Dude, I like your stuff. Thank you. I appreciate that. Uh-huh. Tell us some of those assholes that make movies. Yeah, I talk to them all the time, and what are some of the books that are going to read? What are some of the things that are going to... Like, do you do the Joseph McKee thing? Yeah, I did that. You know, I took the class. I read the sit field that everybody reads. I read the Joseph Campbell that I heard you were supposed to read, but I like that 'cause I like going, you know, knowing the basic storytelling all comes from the same myth and everything. You know, it's like, you know, there's so many stories out there that follow a certain pattern all the time, you know, and Joseph Campbell, he's corn of the market, you know. Troll 2? Did that do it? Troll 2, really? That was basically Luke Skywalker. Okay. You know. Just making sure. Troll 2. Oh my God. That was a flash from the past. Love it. Not a pleasant one either. No, it wasn't that... Actually, hurt me. Nog. I recommend, you know what, the best thing you can do when you're a writer is just write every day. Just make that time because I've been writing now for however long I've been writing, a long time, and all the screenplays I wrote, like I started with sucked. They were so bad. You gotta get them out of your system though. You gotta get them out of your system. You gotta get the mechanics down on how you write a screenplay because it's really important. People will put it down if you don't know what the hell you're doing with interiors and exteriors and cut to and fades and all that, you know, bull that can get in the way. And you're really disciplined about it. Like some of my friends who were the best screenwriters are the ones who were the most disciplined about it. Me? Not disciplined. I'm actually starting, let me know if you wanna be a part of it. I'm actually starting a writers group to meet every week and trade scripts just to give myself a deadline. If there is a social consequence, like if I show up and I'm empty handed, I don't like doing that. It's embarrassing. So to force myself to write, I'm starting this writers group. That's the best way to do it. A whole friends of mine and getting them writing. Because that's another way, 'cause I was like, dude, you haven't written a script since film school. Right. Because you had those due dates. Right. You had to make a script. Yeah. Why don't you do this writers group and force yourself to do scripts again? 'Cause I'll get into meetings and people will say, oh great, but can you write? Right. You can. I'll write you stuff man, I like it. But where's the proof? I don't have a feature. You know, I don't have anything that can just send them, you know what I'm saying? You need that. You know, especially if you're starting to get these meetings, it's embarrassing. You've got to be a triple threat. Yeah. That's true. You've got to be able to do the business, the writing and the directing. Triple threat. I want to be a triple threat. Why recommend the writers group? I did that with my Star Wars director, Patrick T. Gorman and Jason Major was his writing partner and we did that for years. They just sold a pitch to Universal. They're like, often screenwriting land now. Wow. I haven't called me. It's really weird, I don't know what happened. Not that weird. It's just like. It's sold a pitch. Guess what? Gives your numbers. I'm like, what's up guys? Congratulations. When V.J. Kurt. I don't know if he gets that. Like when he gets to like we sports and he has that 3000 in the whole game unlocks. He's never going to forget the phone again. I know. He's like, later bitches. That's what V.J. just goes. See ya. Like turn to just kidding. This is what's going to happen. V.J. is going to get so good at we sports. The game's going to be like, welcome. It's something that nobody else has ever unlocked on the Wii. Step in. He's going to turn to the game. See ya. And then the last star fighter music we'll start playing. And it's like, we're going to be at home and we're going to go on the me channel. Which are those little guys that walk around on the Wii. You got to come on and check it out. And V.J.'s me. It's just going to be like. Hi John. How's it going? Like knock on the screen. Hey. I became part of the system. Check this out. It walks over to another Wii. A female one. Flips over a dress. Pretty sweet. Huh? I'm a God in here. I like that. That's what happens when you pass 3,000. That's awesome. It's like. That's what I think. It's like, it's a little bit of lawn mower man. A little bit of Tron. A hundred percent V.J. That's what I think. That's nice. That's just my prediction. I like it. You're coming on the show with us? Yeah. Do you like visiting my friends and the internet? Yeah. This is fun. I can't wait to go on and see myself because I was an actor. Right. Right. So I still have that in me. You're still an actor. You're still an actor. Still have that in me. Oh. And this is great. Well Mark, we would love to hear more from you. I think you should do what some of our new listeners are about to do. Go on to geekscaped.net, send them for a profile. Yeah. The website is constantly evolving. We started this website when we started the show and we're taking everybody along for the riot and they're watching as this community builds itself and the website builds itself and I get excited because I think it's so cool. I don't know anything about web development and I look up and almost every week we have brand new features. Well that's what I like about your site. It's very accessible. It's easy. It's fun. It's going to get better. Yeah. We haven't done 5% of what we intend to do and get in now, start a profile, start talking to your friends, start making friends and you're going to see additions all the time. We're probably going to add a couple of people to the team to keep things moving and that's cool. Yeah. We're excited about all our geekscapes going. So check it out geekscaped.net, do what I just told you to do. So if you want, be friend us on MySpace, MySpace.com/geeekscapednet. Mark Riley. Thank you. You've been an effing pleasure my friend and yeah, that's it. That's it. Go to geekscaped.net, start a profile, submit some news stories and vote on some others and leave comments. Just leave a ton of comments and yeah hopefully Vijay will still be with us by then. He won't have gone into the weavers to come one with it. Yeah. It is connected to the internet so he can just wreak havoc everywhere. He could really take over the world. Well, it's going to happen anyway. Yeah. Might as well do it in the internet. We will see you guys next week. Thanks a lot. Thank you. And say bye. Bye.