What a crazy week! Only a day after last weeks show came a deluge of some of the biggest geek news of the whole year! Julian, Daniel and Jeremy have had a lot of time to think about what they had to say about the Nintendo Switch announcement, the Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer and, what turned out to be one of the most pleasant of the surprises, the Logan trailer. Of course it doesn't stop there with another exciting instalment of Nerd Association as well as some great Star Wars discussions about the casting of Donald Glover as a a young Lando Calrissian. All this and so much more in this weeks Tower of Babble Podcast!
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Show Notes
Nerd Association
- Round 1: Zombie
- Round 2: Arkham
- Round 3: Blackest Night
Movies
- Trailers
- Logan
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
- The next Alien movie, Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, won't have Xenomorphs. Nope, instead you’ll see Neomorphs.
- Deadpool 2 has lost its director. Tim Miller, the director of the first Deadpool, has left the project due to “creative differences” with Ryan Reynolds. According to Variety the split was apparently “amicable”
Star Wars
- Donald Glover has officially been cast in the role of a young Lando Calrissian for the young Han Solo film. Joins Alden Ehrenreich.
- From directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller: “"These are big shoes to fill, and an even bigger cape, and this one fits him perfectly, which will save us money on alterations. Also, we’d like to publicly apologize to Donald for ruining Comic-Con for him forever"
- Joss Whedon has decided he’d like to make a Star Wars movie
- "I mean, it’s a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It’s no different than any other storytelling [...] Do I want to make a Star Wars movie? Yeah. I was like, 'I don’t want to make a Star Wars movie. Like, god dammit, why?' But I saw the trailer for Rogue [One: A Star Wars Story] a while ago and I was like, 'I want to do that.' To make a Star Wars movie and not be wed to the bigger picture." - Via Complex.
- Speaking of Rogue One, it's getting a prequel novel called Rogue One: Catalyst that, according to Star Wars Story Group Executive and all around Star Wars genius Pablo Hidalgo, the book will answer questions about the Death Star, its architects, where the idea first came from, and the important role both Galen Erso and Orson Krennick play in its construction. He also compares Erso’s and Krennic’s relationship to the dynamic Apple's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had with each other, where one was the mastermind and visionary, while the other was the genius. - Via USA Today
- Episode 8 will reveal Ray’s parentage.
TV
- Jessica Jones season 2 will feature an all female directing lineup. All 13 episodes will be directed by a female director. News comes from EP Melissa Rosenberg.
Games
- Top 10 best selling games for North America in September according to NPD:
- NBA 2K17
- Madden NFL 17
- FIFA 17
- NHL 17
- Bioshock: The Collection
- Destiny: The Collection
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Overwatch
- Forza Horizon 3
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer
- Playstation announced a partnership with Rockstar that will bring timed DLC first to Playstation and the first Red Dead Redemption to the PS Now service.
- Trailer was captured on a PS4, likely a PS4 pro.
Nintendo Switch
- Video reveals the official name and release date of March 2017 while also giving us a glimpse at what it can do.
- No more Switch announcements until 2017
- Specs
- Removable “joy-cons”
- Cartridges (game cards)
- Pro-controller
- Powered by a custom Tegra processor from Nvidia
- Touchscreen?
- Games
- Mario kart 8
- New Mario game?
- Zelda BOTW
- Skyrim?
- Smash?
- Splatoon
- Super Mario Maker (touch screen?)
- NO Mass Effect Andromeda confirmed by EA rep
