Episode Transcript
[00:00:03] Speaker A: What up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the Nergen report. I'm your host, Pablo. And joining me, as always, is Mister Brian Schultz. Brian, you texted me.
Let me go onto my phone and see what he.
[00:00:16] Speaker B: I wanted to give you, like, the little, I wanted to text it alongside, like, the audio, like, from the Deadpool Wolverine of all the characters say, let go.
[00:00:25] Speaker A: You sent me Amazon snags live action Voltron film for like, about a few seconds. Just like, just thinking about what is happening right now.
Live action. I read the article, Brian.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:44] Speaker A: That you sent in terms of who is doing this.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: Yeah, there's some cautionary stuff in here.
[00:00:50] Speaker A: But that's what I. When I. When you excited as can be until I read the names of who's behind it, Brian.
[00:00:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree.
[00:01:00] Speaker A: That was the most disappointing part, man. Like, I started looking to see if there were any job openings so I could be like, yo, this is what you gotta do.
But, Brian, so tell us how Amazon got Voltron and what's going on and who's behind this.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: So this project has been kicking around for a while, obviously. I mean, there's, as we know, there was Thundercats was kicking around for a while. Looks like that's finally going to get made by Adam Wingard, who did the Godzilla versus Kong movie. So we wait. We've been asking for Voltron for years.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: Being like, this is the most obvious eighties ip that no one has tried. We tried GI Joe's, we tried transformers. We, you know, we, like I said, we're trying thundercats like crazy to me. They leaving this. They're just sitting there, you know, and then like, along comes movies like Pacific Rim. And like, you're just seeing like, versions of this where you're like, the real thing is just right there.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: Like, you know, Brian, if Pacific Rim would have been Voltron, forget about it.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: That movie would have made like five times with me.
And by the way, if Guillermo del Toro was directing live action Voltron, we'd be more, even more excited. Okay, so.
But the thing that makes me overall excited is who bought it?
Because if Amazon bought it through their MGM. You know, they own MGM studios now. To me, at the very least, that means this movie will get a real shot.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: Real budget, no expenses spared. It will get real promotion. It will be put in theaters. And so it's a legitimate attempt in a way that even if, like, a Netflix had this, I'd been a little bit suspicious.
[00:02:46] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, nothing's happening.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: They really go all out to make this what it should be. Amazon will go all out to put the money behind this.
[00:02:55] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: Believing that at the end of the day, which I think is right, it's not just about tickets they sell for the theater. It's about the platform. It's. It's the exposure. There's stuff to be done. I would guarantee they will be doing. You know, Netflix has done Voltron series in the last ten years. I guarantee Amazon's gonna take that over. Be like, we're gonna do this live action thing. We're also gonna have a Voltron universe where, you know, maybe the car. Voltron comes back or whatever. You know, they do other things.
Now, the disappointment.
[00:03:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: Is the director. So they're kind of at the b level here. So Ross and. Ross and Marshall Thurber. Now, he has done big budget, but he's best known as kind of being one of the henchmen of Dwayne Johnson.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: Skyscraper red notice. He's one of the rocks guys like Brad Payton, Rawson, Marshall Thurber. Like, these are the guys who direct Joan Collette, Sarah. They direct for the rock.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: So he's the one who's, at the moment, attached to write and direct this, which, in my mind, is, like, kind of a cap on its ceiling.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:01] Speaker B: You know? Right again, like, another one. Like, if Gareth Edwards was doing this, I would be like, what? Like, look good, Voltron. Win an Oscar. Like, you know, but that's not working yet.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: But we are finally getting bullets. Run a live action, and it is obviously going to be huge budget, and it's going to be huge. So at the end of the day, I can't be too angry because I waited so long for this. But I do think.
[00:04:22] Speaker A: I just don't want to street fight up. Go ahead.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: I don't think it's gonna be that bad because. Because, you know. I know, I know. You know, we talk about some of the rocks movies and stuff like that, but the Rockies are not f's either. Street fighter is an f. Yeah. Zero.
You know, the rocks movies are not that bad. They're not good.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: But that's what I don't want. I don't want, you know? But not good movie.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: No, I get it. Okay, so then. Then the flip side would be, if Amazon's gonna put, like, rings of power type budgetary stuff behind this movie, can it really be that bad?
I don't think so. I don't think so. As long as it looks good. This is not that complex a story. No, we don't need, you know, we don't need Quentin Tarantino to write this script.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: No, all I want is a scene where they're beating up that dude that's always hanging out with the princess.
And then they're beating him up. Right? And then the ground starts rumbling, and they're, like, looking at each other. What's going on? And dude, that got beat up, he's looking at. And he starts laughing, and they're looking at him. What the. What the hell is that? He says, the lions. And then you see the lions just, oh, my God, look.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: The tech is there to make this look amazing.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: There's no excuse for horribleness here.
There is no. Especially with Amazon and the bucks that they got, they better listen. They've built a reputation of putting money behind stuff and making stuff look good. So I like, like you said, I'm not worried about that.
It is. And again, this is not a difficult movie to make in terms of dialogue and things of that nature. Just get me Prince Lotor, Henry Cabo, and we good.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: So, yeah, I don't know. Do you want to do this now? Because I've got the. I've got a. I've got submissions for everyone, but, I mean, that's okay.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: Let me see.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Half the fun. Half the fun of this movie getting made is who they can get to take some bucks to show up in this, because this is not.
This is an ensemble show.
There is no true lead of this show. Yeah, like, you could argue Lotor is them. You could argue he's the lead of this because the team kind of gets divided. Gets. They divide the lines, whereas Lotor kind of is the lead bad. But I think if they're smart, they got to get a couple heavyweights to show up in this movie. Like, real actors to show up and pay real dollars to be like, listen, they'll get this on the back end, don't worry, because people gonna around the world are gonna be curious to see what this looks like and will want to go back to their childhood the first time, form blazing sword and all that.
So you can't mess this up. The only way you can do that.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: Once in that movie. Go ahead.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: The only way you can mess this up is if you overthink it.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Yeah, but I would.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: So I got two low tours. Cavill's. So the weird thing with a lot, or is Prince Lotor has been done in live action already in the last five years. Twice, if I look so as the Witcher is one.
[00:07:37] Speaker A: Okay. Okay.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: It's the same hair.
[00:07:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:07:40] Speaker B: Attitude. Say, yeah, it's the same character. The other one that's happening right now is Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen on House of the Dragon. Either of those two guys are playing Prince Luftwaffe. It's just not called that.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: So you get me either one of those to do that, and we good. Already. We're already off and running, so, again, none of these people will, I don't think, will take the role. But I went through. We've gone through the exercise on a couple of these, and I think we agree on a couple of them. But I got my new. I got my new lead. He's. He's hot. I don't think he would take the call, but I want Glenn Powell to be Keith.
No, no, I want him to be Keith. He is great as a leader, charismatic guy. Just dye his hair black. He's great as Keith.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: I'll tell you who I'd like. I'd take any.
Think about this for a moment.
The dude in monarch, he's the brother of the girl.
[00:08:43] Speaker B: Oh, the. The asian guy.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: As Haro. That's his name. I don't know what the actor's name is.
[00:08:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: Oh, you want an asian lead? Oh, interesting.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: Okay. I mean, yeah, we do need a representation somewhere, but. No. Yeah. I don't know. Pals played too many pilots. He's never gonna do it. But I just think.
[00:08:59] Speaker A: Take the girl. Princess was his. What's her name? Prince Laura Allora.
I would use the girl from planet planet of the apes.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: Uh, yes. So she's actually. I have two, depending on how young you want to make Freya Allen. Fantastic. Yeah, that. That's actually one of the two. She actually looks very much like Allura with her face. So I do think if they wanted to aim higher, I think Florence Pugh could rock it. I don't know if she would take the call, but I think she would be great. She has the spirit. Allura is pretty feisty, but I think Freya Allen looks like Allura, but she's a little softer, like, personality wise. I know that. I know that Siri gets a little feisty in the Witcher, but I think that character is going to be pretty tough in this series, would be my guess. So those are my. Those are my two. It's funny you said Freya Allen because I had that. I think she's a. I think she's like a hidden gem. I'm waiting for Marvel or DC to kind of make a push for her to do something.
[00:09:56] Speaker A: Sven.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: I had a. So I don't know. He doesn't really look like Sven, but I kind of have Bill Skarsgard for Sven. Like a goof, kind of like a weird looking guy who sounds weird. Sven was always a strange character to me, so I would.
[00:10:12] Speaker A: For hunk, I would be Jacob battle chance.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: Jacob Batalon.
[00:10:17] Speaker A: Who's that?
[00:10:17] Speaker B: Ned Leeds from Spider man.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. I would have him read, though, because.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: I mean, that's who I think it should be.
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The other ones, I'm not sure, but in terms of the villains, Brian, certainly.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: No. Pigeons. Pigeons. Number five from Umbrella Academy. 100%. Yes, 100%. Aidan Gallagher.
[00:10:36] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:10:37] Speaker B: Lance is the one, I think so lent to me. Like, that's where I was. Like, I don't think that they'd have Keith and Lance both be caucasian in this teenage. So that I was like. Cause initially I was like, they could do a top gun riff and just have Glenn Powell and Miles Teller be Keith and Lance, but that's not gonna work. So I think they would have to flip. Flip Lance. That would be my thought. I didn't really have a great one. It's funny, like, you had mentioned JLS for Hal Jordan. I was like, is he too tall to be Lance? I don't know, but he also, like, kind of thought. I thought he could pull it off. Cause Lance is a little more of a hothead.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: In the show, I was thinking Evan Bachmas. Moss Bacharach.
[00:11:14] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: See, the thing is, the other thing is, how old do you want the Voltron force to be? Right.
[00:11:18] Speaker A: They're drawn young. Yeah, yeah.
[00:11:21] Speaker B: So that's why I was like, I didn't want anyone above, like, 35 to be kind of in the. In the cast, to be that of those. Those five, I guess, if you will.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: But, hagar, you already know my pick. Quantumania, that girl, the one that had her planet or whatever. Oh, again, she was frightening as that lady. That's what Hagar is, frightening. And she just creates Robey's. I don't know how many voltrons you can do, Brian, because you. It's like doing thundercats. You can't do a lot of thundercats. Because all I want is one Thundercap movie right where everybody in the theater is waiting for that thunder, thunder, thunder. It happens a couple of times in the beginning, but he doesn't get to the hole.
He gets. You know, he get. He builds the anticipation. It has to be like Avengers. You have to wait for that moment you all the time.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: Because wild is, like, so also what it was. Okay, so that was. That was your. That was your hagar. Part of me wanted Angelina Jolie to be Hagar.
She could never do it. But I was like, that might be fitting.
I had Lee pace as Zarkon. So he was Ronin in the guard in the Guardians of Captain Marvel movie. Because Zarkon, to me, is like, he's big. He's older, though, but it's all makeup, though, he looks like. So to me, the age of the pace is six foot five. And I think the character is important that he be bigger than Lotor.
And if you're gonna choose Cavill, who's quite large and six foot one, like, you need someone to tower.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: I'll see.
[00:12:58] Speaker B: And has a Zark on to me, had a really deep voice. Like, the voice is really what carries it. Pace has a really bass voice, so I like that. And then, I mean, talk about. I'm playing. I'm just playing by the numbers here. But the Quran, that old guy that mentors them in the castle, that's the one you're talking about getting.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: That's tailor made for Liam Neeson or Gary Oldman if they'll. If they're willing to do it. It's like the classic, like, old man mentor character who just kind of is, like, yoda and sort of sage guy who, like, hangs out in the castle. But the way he.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: The way I look at him, he's. He.
I always remember him. I know he probably didn't wear one like an ascot.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Well, he always has a collar up.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:13:43] Speaker B: Yeah. He's always got, like, a trench coat with a collar up.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: Like, I like the dude from Game of Thrones, the first one. The one that played Bruce Wayne in Titans.
[00:13:52] Speaker B: Oh, um, Ian. Glenn. Yeah. Glenn, I think is England. Yes. You're a Mormonthe.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: That'd be a good one. That's a good pick. I like that.
[00:14:02] Speaker A: Because the thing is, yeah, they got the money to pay dues, but, no.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: It won't be all, yeah, yeah.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: You know, pick. Pick some dudes that are, you know, on good shows and have that look and let him read.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: But this is a movie that, you can't miss this. You should mit. You can't miss the movie, but you should miss some of the dialogue because you're cheering so loudly in the theater.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like, I don't really care too much about the dialogue. I just care that you set everything up correctly. That's all. Just set it up correctly for the introduction of the Lions because Brian Voltron has to be for me. Brian last probably 20 minutes, 25 minutes, maybe.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, if you. If you should not show, he should not show up till the last act of this movie, and that should leave you wanting more. And that's how you make a sequel.
[00:14:55] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:14:56] Speaker B: But this is also my other key note for them is do not pull the Michael Bay transformers on the designs. To me, Voltron was a perfect toy.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: Like, a perfect design. Just make them as they were. Make the lines look exactly as they were in the eighties show. It will work just fine. The robot's face is great. Sword is great. Don't change it. Don't modernize.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they were beast.
[00:15:25] Speaker B: The beast. You can do anything, right? The beat. Like, in the show, they did anything. You. I don't care. Whatever you want to do with the robes is fine to me, that, you know, that you can have all the fun you want with, but not Voltron. If I see, like, some, like. Yeah, then what is this? We're calling it bolt. Like, it's like. That's what I said. The Transformers movie. It's unforgivable. It's like what we're calling this megatron. We're calling it star streamers. They don't look anything like characters, you know?
[00:15:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They can't. They can't mess. They can't mess with the design, the colors, none of that.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: No, and you're right. There needs to be some good scenes of action with just the lions critical. Don't skip that step.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: I'm telling you, man.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: And give me the full. When they go in those magical tubes that somehow take them all around the planet in, like, 2 seconds, like, give me the whole ride with the keys and everything.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah, man. And take me to that planet, and we gonna be okay.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: Oh, that's the other thing. You're 100% right. If this show sets foot on Earth, I'm out.
[00:16:29] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: I'm out.
If I see, like, hey, our entry to the Voltron universe is, like, some kids in the neighborhood growing up in Queens. Like, no.
[00:16:45] Speaker A: I am so out. And I'm gonna be boisterous about it, too.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: We will be domestic. He will be fired. Right, left. If that's the way they go.
[00:16:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, man.
[00:16:59] Speaker B: He's defender of the universe, not of Earth.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, yo, why you gotta bring me back here again? Yo, I know where I'm at. I got enough troubles here.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:13] Speaker A: Anyway. Oh, this is certainly Brian, by the.
[00:17:18] Speaker B: Way, the first trailer for this. Oh, my God.
[00:17:22] Speaker A: That I don't. This is the problem with the trailer, Brian, that they're gonna show.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the thing, is they can't. It can't show the full robot. You're right. They shouldn't. They got to give you a tease of something without giving it away.
But I. It's hard to do that. I don't know how you do that. I mean, they did it with Godzilla, I guess, the Godzilla movie. They really didn't show him that much.
[00:17:41] Speaker A: You could do it with, like, the lions only, like, showing, like, the eyes just light.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:49] Speaker A: You can do little things here to make it.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: You don't need three trailers for this movie. If you're smart, like, you should not be over, you know, over promoting. Oh, you over promote it, but you don't promote it that way.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I think then, I mean, it's quite a. Astonishing to me that this hasn't gotten a lot of attention, Brian.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: Now I feel like, yeah, not a.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: Lot of people are talking about this, and it's fine.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: Yeah, that's all right. When they, when they bring a teaser to hall h at somebody's dennis on.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: Everybody'S going to go crazy, and we're going to be like, what did you expect?
Amazon?
They make everything as. As top tier as they possibly can burn.
You know, obviously, you don't. You don't have the name behind it. That gives you a lot of faith in. In terms of the story, maybe, but this is the type of movie that you don't really need a really Scott on it, you know, saying you don't need.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: No, I would be. Yeah, I would be perplexed if it was like, christopher Nolan is doing a Voltron movie. I'd be, what? Like, why? Yeah, you know, it's not. It's not for those. That's what Del Toro, because he had done. Part of me wonders if Del Toro really wanted to do Voltron. And, like, could it. That movie is, like, trending pretty darn close to some of the ideas of Ultron. It makes me wonder.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: Yeah, man, I would ask that if I would. If we were to get him on our show and ask him five questions, that would be one of them.
But let us know in the comment section below if you guys have caught up with the news that Amazon snags live action Voltron Force film, what are your expectations? What it is that you want to see?
We can only see one form, bleeding blazing sword. We can't see too many of those.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: All form the head. Yeah, absolutely.
[00:19:50] Speaker A: I'm telling you, that should be screamed in unison in the theaters. Brian, a hundred percent.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: Because they do the whole thing where it's like form feet. Yeah, everything. Yeah, everything. It's perfect. That's why you're right. It's the same with Thundercats. Right. It's sort of omen sight beyond sight. There's phrases in those shows that are just epic.
[00:20:08] Speaker A: Yeah, man. You know how many times they did that short of omen, sight beyond side and Thundercast. How many Thundercast, Thundercast hole did we get? A hundreds. And then honestly, we didn't really care too much. We just like the, this. Oh, it's about to go down and we got it for the theaters. We can only get one of those probably.
[00:20:29] Speaker B: And I think Thundercats is harder. I actually think it's harder because, because the animation required this effects required to make the characters move tactile and real and move well. Yeah, to me is harder than what's required in Voltron.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: Certainly cats messed it up for everybody.
But let us know in the comment section below what you guys think of Voltron and this announcement that Amazon is going to do it.
Listen, when it gets officially announced as to when a date or trailer.
We told you that this was happening. We've been wanting this for years. And finally they've heard our call.
So let us know in the comment section below who you cast as some of the characters for the Voltron force. How would you see this movie play out if it's on Earth? I don't want to hear. I don't want to hear. Because, you know, that's the rumor. Brian, with the He man movie, Brian, back to Earth. That's what I read.
It's some craziness. Some. The sword gets lost and he's on.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: They did that in the Dolph Lundgren movie.
[00:21:41] Speaker A: They did that in Thor.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: What's wrong with Eternia is a cool place.
[00:21:49] Speaker A: I always said, if you did eternity the way you did pandora, we're good.
[00:21:56] Speaker B: And by the way, that's the most profitable filmmaker of all time. And where does he not set foot? Earth.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: He goes away, builds a world.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: He beat. That's the point. It's an escape to another place. Use your freaking imagination. Hollywood is so frustrating sometimes.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: Oh, man, I can just hear it now. We gotta keep this cheap. So let's put this on Brooklyn somewhere. I don't know.
All right, well, let us know in the comments below what you guys think. And remember to hit that like and subscribe and we'll see you next time on another Jericho.
[00:22:30] Speaker B: The show goes on.
