It's been a few week's since the ToB Crew has tackled the news but now that the Oscars are over it's time to dig deep into all the latest goings-on in the nerd world. Starting with the DCEU as things have been busy over at Warner Brothers. The guys discuss Matt Reeves directing The Batman, the Nightwing movie announcement and a ton more DC movie tidbits before moving onto some TV talk. Including: Another delay for Star Trek: Discovery but at least they cast their captain, Star Wars Rebels has been renewed for a 4th season and Castlevania is getting an animated series on Netflix. Finally, Julian, Dan and Jeremy cover the Nintendo Switch launch and the unprecedented reception of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. All this and so much more (including X-Men rumours and Tron 3 news!) on this week's Tower of Babble Podcast!

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Show Notes

No Nerd Association this week. Sorry! :(

Movies

89th Oscar recap - http://towerofbabblepodcast.com/blog/2017/2/24/oscar-predictions
Indiana Jones 5 is officially happening and it’ll be out in 2019
Wonder Woman set visit impressions from IGN
Matt Reeves announced as director of The Batman
Mel Gibson approached to direct Suicide Squad 2
David Ayer teases Black Mask as villain in Gotham City Sirens
Nightwing movie announced with Lego Batman director Chris McKay helming
Hellboy 3 "100% will not happen" according to Guillermo Del Toro
Longtime X-Men writer/producer rumoured to be directing the next X-Men film
- The rumoured title is X-Men: Supernova and it will apparently follow the Dark Phoenix storyline
HBO is making a scripted behind the scenes movie about the making of The Godfather called Francis and the Godfather
Tron 3 news
- Leaked info on the cancelled Tron: Legacy sequel
- New Tron would be a sequel/reboot starring Jared Leto
Arrival director Denis Villeneuve will be directing a reboot of Dune
The live action Lion King has cast Donald Glover as Simba and welcomes back James Earl Jones as Mufasa

TV

Star Wars Rebels has been renewed for a 4th season
CW's Riverdale has been renewed for a 2nd season
Lionsgate is potentially interested in a John Wick prequel series
Star Trek: Discovery has been delayed until late summer/early fall
- STD cast Jason Isaacs as captain Lorca
Nickelodeon announced a new 2D TMNT series
Game of Thrones wont return until July
Netflix announced a Castlevania animated series

Games

Nintendo Switch launch
- According to a press release the Switch “Sold more in its launch weekend than any other Nintendo hardware launch in history.”
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is getting insanely good reviews.
- A 98 Metacritic score
Horizon: Zero Dawn also launched to stellar reviews
South Park: Fractured But Whole has been delayed again
More details on Uncharted: Lost Legacy
VR News
- Sony revealed its sales numbers for PSVR at 915,000 units as of February 19th
- Nintendo wants to fix a major issue with VR
- Valve is working on 3 full length VR games

What We've Been Watching and Playing

John Wick Chapter 2
Lego Batman
Black Sails season 4
Gangs of New York
For Honor

Oct 19, 2025

Bonus Episode - ToB Film Club - Kingpin (1996)

Before Matt officially joined the show as a co-host he was invited on as guest to talk about one of his favourite movies of all time, ‘Swingers’. Now returning in an official capacity to the ToB Film Club, he brings with him another film from his top-3, another comedy, ‘Kingpin’. A Farrelly brothers film that followed up their smash hit breakout, ‘Dumb and Dumber’, and you can see the through lines. Like ‘Dumb and Dumber’ we follow two guys who are down on their luck as they head out on the road where chaos and hilarity ensue. Unfortunately it wasn’t the hit they hoped despite a killer cast, including legends Bill Murray, Randy Quaid and Woody Harrelson and as a result it didn't leave as large of a cultural footprint as some of the other Farrelly brothers films from this era. It's been nearly 30 years so now seems as good a time as any to revisit this sleeper and see what everyone was missing back then.

Oct 9, 2025

Episode 200 - Meet Matt!

After an extended hiatus, ToB returns with a fresh voice on the second chair. Julian is joined by long-time friend of the show, Matt Tworek. We spend this first episode of the "new" ToB getting to know him and setting up what else is to come.

Jun 5, 2025

SSSW - Tales of the Underworld

Lucasfilm Animation has been hard at work on their next major project, 'Maul: Shadow Lord', but they've found the time to deliver another installment in their "Tales of" anthology series. The first ones covering the Jedi and the Empire, they now turn their focus towards the Underworld. However, be warned, this is a bit of a misnomer. Don't expect any crime syndicates or really any large scale criminality here. These 2 mini-arcs instead focus on Asajj Ventress (I know, not the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions the Underworld) as she assists a young Jedi on the run from the Empire, and the origin story of Cad Bane. Which admittedly is closer in line with the criminal underworld concept, but is really more interested in telling a western style revenge story instead. All in all, despite the always great visuals and sound/music design, and few interesting ideas, there's not enough meat on the bone here to satisfy most viewers. But most disappointing is its failure to capitalize on the potential of the Underworld concept.

May 22, 2025

SSSW/ToB Film Club - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

It's hard to believe that 'Rogue One' premiered nearly a decade ago. At the time, it was fairly well received, considered to be a decent first step into the standalone Star Wars movies, if not a bit messy. As the years passed, we learned more about the production. Gareth Edwards, who retained sole directing credit, was assisted by Tony Gilroy to "fix" the project. Tony went so far as to call it a "corpse" when he came aboard for rewrites and reshoots. It was Tony's inclusion that brought us some of the movies most memorable moments, and ultimately led him to leading the charge on 'Andor', a prequel project that flew under the radar as hits like 'The Mandalorian' hogged the spotlight. With 'Andor' now complete, considered by many to be a masterpiece in storytelling, not just in Star Wars but on television in general, now is the most appropriate time to reexamine the movie that spawned the Cassian-centered prequel series with fresh eyes. 'Andor', which leads directly into the events of 'Rogue One' recontextualizes much of the film, creating a unique viewing experience that pays off a multitude of threads that are brilliantly laid over the two seasons of 'Andor'. It takes the movie, which was already pretty good, and makes it great. Now existing as part of a whole that weaves a cohesive narrative from the nascent moments of the Rebellion all the way through to the destruction of the Death Star in 1977 (the seed that begat ALL Star Wars, and what we appropriately align our Star Wars BBY calendars to). It all feels wholistic and considered when viewed from the broader perspective - an accomplishment that should set a shining example of what Star Wars can and should aspire to.

Episode 91 - Switch Launch

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