1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: On today's episode, we're talking about the tragic case of 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: the Ben Solo movie and more It's News. 3 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 2: Hello, my name is Jason Caetepsi. 4 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: And I'm Rosie Knight, and welcome back to Extra Vision 5 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: in the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, 6 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: and pop culture. Coming in from my Heart, where we're 7 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: bringing you three episodes a week, plus news and it's news. 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 3: It's News. In today's Previously on, we are catching up 9 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 3: on the biggest geek news of the week, including we 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 3: always knew it was coming, but they had to wait 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 3: four years until the antitrust law timing had run out 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 3: on this deal, but Warner Brothers Discovery is officially for sale. 13 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,919 Speaker 3: We will also be talking about the uh oh Counterstrike 14 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 3: two skins market fiasco that was pretty crazy. 15 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 4: But first Jason tell us about Predator Badlands. Predator bad 16 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 4: Lands arrives on the Internet with a new international trailer 17 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 4: and folks, the Predator lare is expanding because we're getting 18 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 4: this is a trailer that I was definitely not expecting 19 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 4: this kind of trailer, Yes from Predator Badlands. 20 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 3: May I give you my theory? Yes? Go see it 21 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 3: looks beautiful incredibly violent, incredibly action packed. Also, as you know, 22 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 3: Common had pointed out when we were texting about it, 23 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 3: didn't the last trailer that came out have the name 24 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 3: Final Trailer. Well, this is my theory. Earlier this month, 25 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 3: Predator bad Lands received a PG thirteen rating for strong 26 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 3: sci fi violence. This concerned fans as every other Predator 27 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 3: movie has always been R rated, including Prey, which was TBMA. 28 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 3: But guys, I'm gonna tell you the reason for this. 29 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 3: And when you watch the trailer you will see the 30 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 3: trailer looks very violent and very aggressive, but it literally 31 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 3: contains no human blood because there are no humans on 32 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 3: this planet. So unless it was gonna be peppered with many, many, 33 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 3: many curse words, unlikely it would have got that R rating. 34 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 3: And the thing I love from this trailer is like, 35 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 3: this looks crazy, like there are insane action sequences. We 36 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 3: learn that many Predators have been sent to this planet 37 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 3: before as essentially like the ultimate test to kill an 38 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 3: unkillable animal. This kid is going on his first ever 39 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 3: routine kind of hunt and he ends up here and 40 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 3: has to team up with a whale and utani synth 41 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 3: to make sure that he can survive and become the 42 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 3: first Predator to make it back alive. I am very 43 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 3: excited about this. Obviously I'm gonna have some connections to Alien, 44 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 3: but we'll have to wait and see. And yes, and 45 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 3: then the tagline, which I think is really fun, is 46 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 3: the ways of your kind are ways of violence. Either 47 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 3: you are hunted or you become the hunter. And I'm 48 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 3: guessing this is going to become our story of our predator, 49 00:02:58,320 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 3: who I know, they're not monster fuckers are going to 50 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 3: be loving because he's a little bit hunky. And yeah, 51 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 3: it looks great. Compway. I love these movies. Out on 52 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 3: November seventh, guys, so very soon. 53 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: More Warner Brothers Discovery sale news, as it certainly appears 54 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: that the company is. 55 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 2: Preparing for bids. 56 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: There are swirling reports of interest by Paramount Global. The 57 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: WBD board of Directors says it has quote initiated review 58 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: of strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value, whatever that means. 59 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: And this is from reports in the Hollywood Reporter that 60 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: also said that the new Paramount owner, David Ellison, has 61 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: made a twenty dollars share twenty dollars twenty dollars per 62 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: share bid for Warner Brothers Discovery. 63 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 2: This has been dismissed. 64 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: And there are also whisperings that apparently the favored buyer 65 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: from the Trump administration is is sky Dance, and that 66 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: there were reports that the Trump administration and is basically 67 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: telling people, hey, uh, if you want to make a 68 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: bid for Warner Brothers Discovery and you are not sky Dance, 69 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: you're going to face an uphill battle with lots and 70 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: lots and lots and lots of hurdles to go through. 71 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: And if you are Skydance, guess what, go ahead and 72 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: just buy it because we're we're delighted to help you 73 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: acquire yet another media company. 74 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 3: Crazy. 75 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 2: This is crazy stuff. 76 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 3: I will say. I did see a positive note on this, 77 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 3: which was the WGA West. They did say they will 78 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,799 Speaker 3: be fighting alongside federal regulators to stop this potential sale 79 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 3: because it is, you know, another step towards the monopoly 80 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 3: that we are already living in. But yeah, I mean, 81 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 3: this is crazy. I like that. I like that the Hollywood. 82 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 3: I like that the Raw Story article that revealed that 83 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 3: Trump was trying to kind of pressure people into letting 84 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,919 Speaker 3: Larry Allison buy it was just like the quote was bonkers. 85 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 3: I agree, insane insane world that we are living in 86 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 3: right now, Let's see where it goes. My guess is 87 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 3: the Warner brother this movie hof does get sold to Paramount. 88 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 3: I'm not one hundred percent sure if about the other side, 89 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 3: it's going to be interesting to see. 90 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: Let's say a quick break when we read back with 91 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 2: more after this and we're back. 92 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: So some some changes to the counter strike to item 93 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: digital item marketplace have essentially collapsed the digital item and 94 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: skins market, which is up to a two billion dollar 95 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: unregulated digital items market which you may have read about 96 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: in years past. Essentially, just to make it extremely simple, 97 00:05:54,640 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: you can earn through various means a digital items in 98 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: counter strikes, skins for your character, certain skins for guns, knives, 99 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: skins for knives, et cetera. And some of these are 100 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: very very rare, and players have been trading these back 101 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: and forth for really immense profits. 102 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 2: Like this has been a money This has. 103 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: Been a long running unregulated market with all the hallmarks 104 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: of an unregulated market, including price fixing and market manipulation, 105 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: et cetera. Well, Valve in a quote unquote small change 106 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: has allowed players now to trade more common items for 107 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: these directly for these rarer items, essentially lowering the price 108 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 1: of these items, and it has collapsed this unregulated market 109 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: in precipitous fashion. And people are very very mad because 110 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: there have been folks that have invested or you know whatever, invested, 111 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: have been making tens of thousands, wow and more amounts 112 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:06,239 Speaker 1: of money from trading these items at a time, and 113 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: now they're mad. All of which is to say, I mean, listen, 114 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: and you've just seen what happens when you make money 115 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: in an unregulated marketplace. Yeah, where all of a sudden 116 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: the people have decided to regulate it. 117 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 3: This is what I got to say. This is what happens. 118 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 3: And also, guys like I do not believe that nobody 119 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 3: saw this coming, because this is essentially it's been going 120 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 3: on for a long time. It's been coming on a 121 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 3: long time, and it's essentially a ripple effect of the 122 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 3: loop box stuff, which was such a big deal anyway, 123 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 3: with like having to buy loot drops and blah blah blah. 124 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 3: So you know, I feel like morally and ethically this 125 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 3: is a good idea, but I do understand why people 126 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 3: are upset, and I do think it's kind of crazy 127 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 3: that nobody there realized or maybe they did, and that 128 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 3: was the issue and that regulations. 129 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: As an example of what the changes are, there is 130 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: a particularly rare knife called the Stiletto Swater that, according 131 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: to Eurogamer, was selling for six hundred and seventy one 132 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: British pounds on October. Wow. 133 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like a thousand dollars. 134 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: And that's right, and that's like what these things have 135 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: been going for today. As of the time of this recording, 136 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: that skin can be had for just over two hundred 137 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: and twenty two pounds. Still crazy, but you see how 138 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: the value is really classic, I mean, and that's the. 139 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 3: Good of what it used to be. So yes, very interesting. 140 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,599 Speaker 2: Lastly, a Ben Solo movie. Guys, we almost had it. 141 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: In a quote to the ap Adam Driver said quote, 142 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: I was always interested in doing another Star Wars film. 143 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: Kathy Kennedy reached out. I always said, with a great 144 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: director and a great story, I'd be there in a second. 145 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: I love that character, I love playing him. He apparently 146 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: came up with a story concept to continue the Benz Store. 147 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: The Ben Solo story Arc shared that with Steven Soderbergh. 148 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: The great and prolific direction on Soderberg, who kind of 149 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: like sketched out an outline with Rebecca Blunt, screenwrider or 150 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: of Blood producer Rick Blund, pitched it to Lucasfilm president 151 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: Kathleen Kennedy, and long story short, it almost happened, but 152 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: now it's not gonna happen because Bob Iger and Alan 153 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: Bergman passed on it. They just didn't think that audiences 154 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: would buy that Ben Sola was still rough and. 155 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 2: Do we do not bring back in Bruce Palpatine? 156 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 3: Whatever this off. I think what happened is they went, well, 157 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 3: we bought about Palpatine and people didn't like it. But 158 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 3: I'm dying. This is the role Ben Sol. It was 159 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,559 Speaker 3: barely even dead. That motherfucker kissed someone and then just 160 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 3: laid on the ground. I would have loved to see this. 161 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 3: I think Soderberg is such an interesting pick. I also 162 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 3: love to hear Adam talking about this role positively because 163 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 3: I think for a long time it flung him into 164 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 3: the spotlight and it was a tough situation. And you know, 165 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 3: he was coming out of his apartment in New York 166 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 3: and kids were yelling at him, calling Mikaylo Wren and 167 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 3: it was very different. But I still believe that he 168 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 3: is the truest reason that those movies did so well, 169 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 3: because he brings a gravitas and like a power that 170 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 3: stays within that performance even when they start making mistakes 171 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 3: with other characters, like the way that they treated Finn, 172 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 3: who was my big draw John Boyega. I love to 173 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 3: hear that Adam loved playing the character, because I believe it. 174 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 3: I never forget in the first movie, which we know 175 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 3: lots of people, it's too much of a redo, blah 176 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 3: blah blah. I love Force Awakens. I think it's fun 177 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 3: in the moment where he and Hahn, his father have 178 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 3: the showdown. He brings a Shakespearean level of Thespian tragedy 179 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 3: to it that has me crying every single time, even 180 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 3: though I know what he's gonna do. Make this movie. Please. 181 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 3: I'm glad that someone with too much money has paid 182 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 3: for a plane that they flew over Disney Studios with 183 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,439 Speaker 3: a banner saying save the Hunt for Ben Solo. I 184 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 3: think Hunt for Ben Solo is a great name. Come on, 185 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 3: Daisy's getting our own movie. Bring Ben Solo back and 186 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 3: we'll team him up with Finn. Finn and Poe can 187 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 3: finally get together. It's time, guys, let's rectify rise of Skywalker. 188 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: On the next episodes of X ray Vision, We're diving 189 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: into the first very soky, scary, gross episode of it. 190 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: Welcome to Gary. That's it for news. 191 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. 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