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Speaker 1:
[00:06] What's up, everybody, and welcome into the Kinda Funny Gamescast for Thursday, April 23rd, 2026. I'm one of your show hosts, SnowBike Mike, and today I'm joined by two of my best friends. My 1.1 and my 1.3. 1.3.

Speaker 2:
[00:20] Which one's which?

Speaker 1:
[00:21] Who's, 0.2? Oh, 0.2?

Speaker 3:
[00:24] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[00:24] Barrett.

Speaker 3:
[00:25] Oh, wow, that's nice.

Speaker 1:
[00:26] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[00:27] Things are constantly shifting around here.

Speaker 1:
[00:28] Hello, boys. I have Andy Cortez and Roger Pocorni at the desk for today's fun gamescast. Andy, how are you today?

Speaker 3:
[00:35] I'm doing great, Mike. Great games daily.

Speaker 1:
[00:38] How are you feeling? We haven't had a bro moment, and we got a great... At the end of yesterday's gamescast with Greg Miller, we had a great 60 Seconds of Sports with Andy Cortez.

Speaker 3:
[00:51] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[00:51] And we bro-ed down.

Speaker 3:
[00:52] We did.

Speaker 1:
[00:53] Bro to bro. How are you feeling right now about it, your San Antonio Spurs?

Speaker 3:
[00:57] You know, Victor Wimbanalas traveling to Portland. He's there with the team.

Speaker 1:
[01:02] Concussion protocol.

Speaker 3:
[01:03] Concussion protocol.

Speaker 1:
[01:05] No basketball activities for 48 hours?

Speaker 3:
[01:07] I think I may...

Speaker 1:
[01:08] Recheck at 72?

Speaker 3:
[01:09] Maybe I just slip Adam Silver a little 20 spot and say, let's speed through the concussion protocol.

Speaker 1:
[01:15] Remember how we appealed the MVP 65 games? Maybe we can appeal concussion protocol.

Speaker 3:
[01:21] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[01:22] Hey, we don't need that. Let's just speed it up a little bit.

Speaker 3:
[01:23] Do you want your stars to be out of the game? No, you don't. His head's fine. He'll be fine.

Speaker 1:
[01:28] So he misses game three?

Speaker 3:
[01:31] Yeah, probably.

Speaker 1:
[01:31] Is that what's going to happen here?

Speaker 3:
[01:32] Yeah, probably.

Speaker 1:
[01:32] OK, you feel confident that they can get it done without him?

Speaker 3:
[01:35] No, I never feel confident about my sports themes.

Speaker 1:
[01:38] Do they play tonight?

Speaker 3:
[01:40] Yes.

Speaker 1:
[01:41] OK, we'll be all watching.

Speaker 3:
[01:42] Tonight and Saturday? No. Friday and Sunday? I blink. I forget.

Speaker 1:
[01:46] We'll take a look.

Speaker 3:
[01:47] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[01:47] Roger, how are you?

Speaker 2:
[01:48] My favorite moment of the 420 stream was Mike constantly talking to me through sports metaphors. He's like, oh, it's like Paul Pierce. I was like, why do you do this to me? Like, you know, I don't know any of it. He said, well, you know, it's mostly for Andy. He can be listening anytime. I love that guy.

Speaker 3:
[02:12] It's true, though. It's true.

Speaker 1:
[02:13] There's a lot of moments through Andy. I'm like, Roger, how are you feeling today?

Speaker 2:
[02:19] I'm feeling good. I'm interested in this topic. I mean, I, you know.

Speaker 1:
[02:25] Yeah, you and I, I don't know. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, he knows actors. I know Elden Ring. We come together. Roger to help Andy get a solid right behind him. And of course, we got a fun one. What's today's show topic, Andy?

Speaker 3:
[02:38] So normally, whenever we do the casting the movies, it's always just fun. It's always just us bringing up shit. But the Elden Ring movie is cast.

Speaker 2:
[02:47] There is like happening.

Speaker 3:
[02:48] The main cast is already kind of they're out there filming shit already. This is a 24's largest movie production, one hundred million dollars of budget and approximately about a hundred days worth of filming. It's going to take. Filming has already started. You know, we saw those first set leaks a couple of week and a half or so ago. And I look at it on like, I don't know if these are real or not. You know, yeah, this is a little too early. Could just be who knows? AI is like very, very good nowadays to just replicate fake shit. And we start to see more and more. And then it's photos of, you know, a couple of people working on the set, people working in the crew. And then you see all these props behind them. It's like, oh, shit, these photos are real. And we're starting to see more and more set photos. And you start to wonder if it's like, are these being purposely leaked? Because they have like no security there, it seems.

Speaker 2:
[03:41] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[03:42] And maybe I'm just used to the Marvel level of like, you know, you got to be a drone shot 700 miles away to take a photo.

Speaker 2:
[03:48] I mean, something's up with these video game movies because the same thing happened with Zelda. Remember, did you see this? Where there's just a bunch of guys just walked into the fucking forest and just found them doing the Zelda movie and it just was on a hill and just started recording. And you're like, oh, it's crazy. Also, do you see that guy that walked into, he went across the world to the Dune set, just broke into the Dune. He just put on a vest.

Speaker 1:
[04:10] You think maybe we're too public. You know what I mean? Maybe we shared too much online. And now we got people out here.

Speaker 2:
[04:15] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[04:15] Finding your location.

Speaker 2:
[04:16] Oh, yeah. He just took a flight, put on a fucking hazard vest, walked in, took photos and everything of the spaceships and all that jazz.

Speaker 3:
[04:23] That happened with Avengers 2, right? I believe.

Speaker 2:
[04:25] Yeah. People just walked in.

Speaker 3:
[04:26] I think like a guy like recorded himself in craft services, just pretending he was part of the crew. Pretty rad.

Speaker 2:
[04:33] Awful.

Speaker 3:
[04:33] So yeah, there have been a lot of leaks. There have been a lot of things happening on the Internet with video. And I still don't know what's real or not. That's I think that's the biggest problem. I'm still not quite sure exactly.

Speaker 1:
[04:47] We haven't had an official list of this person is this person.

Speaker 2:
[04:50] No, we do. We do have that.

Speaker 3:
[04:52] No.

Speaker 2:
[04:52] Oh, we don't have an official list of who's.

Speaker 3:
[04:54] No, I mean, there's a lot of assumptions.

Speaker 4:
[04:56] We have actors.

Speaker 2:
[04:58] Oh, sorry.

Speaker 3:
[04:59] We have actors. We have, you know, there's a lot of people making assumptions and saying this person could be them. This person could be them. But no, nothing official. OK, so I'd kind of just like to get together.

Speaker 1:
[05:10] Talk all about the show. Yeah, of course, this is the Kinda Funny Gamescast for your lovely Thursday. You can be part of the show. You can help fan cast this movie with myself, Andy and Roger right now by super chatting on youtube.com/kindafunnygames. Remember, we couldn't do this without you. All of our best friends watching live on YouTube and on Twitch and of course, our Patreon producers over on patreon.com/kindafunny. Thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney, the Psalm Twining. Let's jump in to what is topic of the show. Let's cast this movie, Andy Cortez. Let's talk about it. Where do you want to start? The people that we already know?

Speaker 3:
[05:48] Yeah, I mean, I would like to look at the cast list as we have it.

Speaker 1:
[05:52] Can we see an image of like the cast people? Do they have that?

Speaker 3:
[05:55] Yeah, we have the IMDb pages out. And we have the Elden Ring cast already revealed. And you'll notice a lot of regulars from Alex Garland stuff, right?

Speaker 1:
[06:09] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[06:10] Kaylee Spaney.

Speaker 2:
[06:11] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[06:11] We got Nick Offerman.

Speaker 2:
[06:14] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[06:14] We got Sonoya Mizuno and that's kind of all that I recognize. I recognize those three for sure. With a lot of other names that, you know, first of all, I'm noticing just like my brain immediately goes to can Nick Offerman do an English accent? I just don't know.

Speaker 2:
[06:33] Roger, does he need to do an English accent? Are we mixing accents? Is everyone English here is the question.

Speaker 3:
[06:37] Everybody has a everybody in the game has a European accent.

Speaker 2:
[06:42] Oh, so you're saying that Nick Offerman definitively has to have a European accent of some kind.

Speaker 3:
[06:49] I would say so. Yeah, because the only time we hear a non European accent in any from software thing was, I believe, Elden Ring Night Reign. And that's a game dealing with multiple universes and multiverses. And so the one of the guys sounds American, but everybody else is like, there's always just English speaking people, you know, or people with British accents rather.

Speaker 2:
[07:12] OK, OK.

Speaker 3:
[07:14] So we look at the cast here, and it's apparent that Kit Conner on the very, very top left, Kit Conner, there's a photo that was already one of these set leaks of people saying that he's likely to be the tarnished, the main guy.

Speaker 2:
[07:31] He's the guy.

Speaker 3:
[07:31] Yes, there's a photo of him on Twitter with him kind of in a suit. It could just be another character, but it looks like he's kind of wearing one of the Elden Ring kind of starting character garbs.

Speaker 1:
[07:45] What's your dream outfit? Yeah, what's the starting garb? What is the dream outfit to see on screen in front of you, Andy?

Speaker 3:
[07:51] The people talking on social media and stuff are saying that it looks like he's going to be the confessor.

Speaker 1:
[07:57] Oh, okay.

Speaker 3:
[07:58] As we see him kind of standing there. He looks kind of like Jon Snow.

Speaker 1:
[08:01] Yeah, so kind of a hooded fellow right there, it looks like.

Speaker 3:
[08:05] He's either going to be the tarnished or he's going to be Viik, who's one of the, who's the dude, he's the cover athlete. You don't really, you meet him much later, he's a boss fight, but he's the cover athlete. He's the guy on the cover, fingerprint Viik, he's got a helmet, yeah, he's got a whole thing going on there.

Speaker 4:
[08:24] Yeah, I think when we were talking about this the other day, I think Reb was talking about that as well, like that would be a really interesting story.

Speaker 3:
[08:30] Yeah, for sure. And that's the biggest thing about this, is like when we just pull back and look at what do we want from The Elden Ring Movie, of course, I legitimately, there are so many cool threads to pull from, and I know Alex Garland is an insanely capable writer and director. To me, it's like, I just want, I want a good movie. I really don't care if I don't necessarily want them to try to replicate the feelings of playing the game.

Speaker 2:
[09:04] Well, I think the cool thing about Alex Garland directing this is that he is very much an atmosphere heavy and focused director, especially when you see a movie like Annihilation, where it's like you feel that movie before you even think about the plot. You know what I mean? Like when I think back on that, I feel the energy of that entire movie of what you're going through and just going deeper and deeper into hell basically in like this weird alien world. And I think there's been like a lot of conversation online of like, is he the guy, right? Because he hasn't done a pure fantasy movie. But when you think about what Elden Ring is from the little knowledge that I have, it is this kind of journey, this epic adventure, but it is also like very scary and atmospheric. And I wonder how much horror there is going to be in this. I feel like there has to be at least a pretty solid amount throughout it. What's the like what are you thinking in terms of like the tone of this? Is it like more of a horror based like situation or just like dreadful type vibe? Or what are you looking for?

Speaker 3:
[10:02] I I'm of two minds. Yeah, I think one side of it could be the Game of Thrones, different cities, different kingdoms, drama, political drama, intrigue, but obviously way more fantasy. And they're going to kind of have to find a meeting ground there because this is a game, as Mike will attest, that sometimes there's a humanoid figure sitting in front of you that's 17 feet tall, and you just don't really know why, you don't really care, that's just how they look.

Speaker 2:
[10:35] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[10:36] You know, a lot of the, you know, millennia is like 12 feet tall, like there's just like these Perspective, yeah. Massive kind of, you know, bigger than life figures, and I don't really know how they're going to tackle that to kind of keep it realistic within the world, you know? But part of me, it's like, I would love this atmospheric, super quiet, introspective, scary, not a whole lot in the script sort of journey.

Speaker 2:
[11:02] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[11:03] And it's mainly just done through imagery and actions that the character is taking. But on the other side of it, I could see it being the different houses, the cheating of the spouses, the, you know, I think you kind of blend those.

Speaker 1:
[11:16] Yeah, because my mind does go like, well, it's probably Game of Thrones, right? Because I expect more talking than I would picture in an Elden Ring game of like, if it's a movie, they're probably going to be talking and setting up the story in the stakes. My mind does go to Game of Thrones, but I like what Roger's bringing there with the atmospheric horror. I think there's got to be some sort of dark twisted. What is the finger, right? Like, are we getting some sort of story where this guy meets some sort of scary witch and he's got to go deliver something and it is the curse or something like that? Like, what is going to be the overarching story pushing it forward?

Speaker 3:
[11:49] Yeah, it's a weird one because there is, you know, most of the Elden Ring story is you're uncovering it. You're hundreds of years later, whatever, uncovering this thing that already happened. And I feel like that's what they are going to sort of look back onto. There's, you know, one of the links that I, or it's on, actually on the thumbnail image. Sorry, I didn't put it in the assets for Barrett, my bad. But it's an image of the actress Emma Laird and she is dressed as Queen Merica and Emma Laird, I don't really have that sort of movie, you know, I don't got the knowledge like that, Roger, but Emma Laird is dressed as Queen Merica and Queen Merica is one of the main figures of Elden Ring. We learn a lot more about Queen Merica and why, you know, she's just such a stone-cold fucking bitch, you know, we learn a lot more and sympathize with her a lot more later on through the DLC and things like that, but it's another one of those images where I'm like, I don't even know if this is real or not, Roger. So that's like, that's another part of it, but it does seem like, all right, Queen Merica is in this movie and she's not a, you know, 10 foot tall figure, which is another thing to sort of think about.

Speaker 2:
[13:15] I don't know. I mean, they could be a perspective, all that jazz, you know, CGI.

Speaker 3:
[13:19] Yeah, that we know, that we know for sure. There's just so many different ways to sort of think about what stories are they going to be tackling.

Speaker 2:
[13:28] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[13:29] The Wolfman and the little witch girl gonna be there?

Speaker 3:
[13:35] Ronnie and Blythe.

Speaker 1:
[13:36] I mean, you gotta have the Wolfman and you gotta have her with that big ass hats. They're just so cool. Yeah. But like, they're so cool, Roger, it's a cool tandem.

Speaker 2:
[13:45] It's just so good. Sorry, before we get into this. Is this all of this that we're talking about? All of these, the wolf person, all that stuff. These are all side stuff that is happening that are like little stories that you've experienced throughout the world or are these like part of the main story?

Speaker 3:
[13:57] I'm not a everybody's related in this game, right? Everybody and in George RR Martin fashion, who takes a lot of inspiration from JRR Tolkien, everybody's name is similar and sounds the same. As we're doing Lord of the Rings in Review with Blessing, he's like, so Saruman and Sauron are different people. And Eowyn is the sister to Eomer. And there's Eowyn, but don't mix that up with Arwen, who's not related. She's an elf. There's a lot of different things like that happening in this world. Part of me wonders, do they try to parse that and try to make that easier for the viewing audience or do they go, no man, people watch Game of Thrones. The audience is smart. They know that all of the people, all of the characters on the Dragon side in Game of Thrones have super similar sounding names. That's just going to be part of it. But a lot of these stories are all kind of revolving around what happens in Elden Ring. And a lot of it has to do with Queen Merika and how she is kind of like doing a lot of like really bad shit to this group of people called the Horn-Scent. And it's very like racist stuff. The Horn-Scent, they got a bunch of horns growing out of them. They're thought to be like cursed people. So she like the whole time you're playing Elden Ring, in your mind, you're like, damn, she's really fucked up these Horn-Scent people. And she even has some kind of like kids that are kind of Horn-Scent. Can you bring up that image with all of the really shitty one that I put together with all the different characters? That image has a lot of different, the lineages, right? And if we look for Queen America, who should be on the closer to the right side, I believe. Yeah, there we go, Queen America the Eternal. She has some children who are Horn-Scent and are kind of looked down upon, right? And it's like, if you're born with horns and shit, you're a cursed kid, right? So we try to not talk about you. And so she's really, really evil to these people. And then in the DLC, we find out what they did to her people. And so there's a lot of, like, you know, redemption kind of, but also like, well, you're not fully redeemed because you were still really awful to races of people all over the place. There's a lot of intrigue there. But when I look at who the characters are in this Anna Baird lady, or Emma Laird, sorry, Anna Baird. She's very, very close to Emma Laird is going to be Queen Merica. I look at the rest of the cast and it's like, yeah, we look at these characters, Mike, and who do we think could be who?

Speaker 1:
[16:37] Well, let's get real. Is Melania in this? That's so tough because I, she's an icon. She's the icon of the video game.

Speaker 3:
[16:50] She's the one that you talk about.

Speaker 1:
[16:52] Is there an early version of her somewhere in this?

Speaker 3:
[16:55] Well, I mean, it's not even an early version. It's the version that we see her fighting Radon. And we talk about the other bosses and the other children and relatives in the game. How do you even try to get those people on screen? How do they look? Do they look? Are they doing like just normal human takes of them? Or is Radon going to be this gigantic hulking dude on a tiny little horse named Leonard? We don't know. We don't know, right?

Speaker 4:
[17:20] I take it to the bank. Havana Rosalie, who is playing... Who Mike just mentioned?

Speaker 3:
[17:26] Oh, Melania. Oh, OK.

Speaker 1:
[17:27] I was going with Ruby Cruz. I like that, though, Barrett. I think you got a better selection there.

Speaker 3:
[17:33] I think the common line of thinking right now is that...

Speaker 1:
[17:39] Yeah, give us a breakdown.

Speaker 3:
[17:40] Kaylee Spaney.

Speaker 1:
[17:42] OK.

Speaker 3:
[17:43] Everybody is assuming that Kaylee Spaney is going to be Melania. I'm going to offer you an accord, a tarnish. Let me be your, you know, your homie. I will sort of walk you to the tree. But then it's like, well, if it is a story about the tarnish, is it going to be a story about the tarnish bag with a lot of flashbacks? Because the tarnish story, the character that you play is many, many, many years later. So it's maybe it's not just going to be a look at the past. Maybe it is going to be this story about the main character who then, you know, maybe there's a lot of flashbacks and you meet a new character. And suddenly it's like, well, back in my day, here was this moment, right?

Speaker 1:
[18:25] I like this team up though. I like this selection that you got going on right there.

Speaker 3:
[18:28] I think that there's a good chance that Kaylee Spaney could be Melina.

Speaker 1:
[18:32] OK.

Speaker 3:
[18:34] There have been so many freaking set leaks of just awesome visuals, and there's even some people noticing that there are some set leaks that are borrowing props from the Night of the Seven Kingdoms.

Speaker 1:
[18:51] Oh, yes.

Speaker 2:
[18:51] Oh, really?

Speaker 3:
[18:53] But then part of my brain goes, well, is that just AI pulling from common images or whatever? But like a lot of movie houses do, Roger, they share props, and they go to the medieval...

Speaker 2:
[19:05] There's always that story recently for Sinners, is they got a lot of the outfits for Sinners from the Blade movie that was canceled.

Speaker 3:
[19:13] Oh!

Speaker 2:
[19:13] Yeah, that's the reason why they had it, because that movie was also going to be a period piece around the same time. So they were able to take...

Speaker 3:
[19:18] I was thinking Blade Runner. No!

Speaker 2:
[19:19] No, no, no, no. From the Mershal Ali movie, right? So yeah, these things talk to each other. Yeah, and it's also like going back to it, right? For the time of the conversation about $100 million. It is the biggest production that A24 has done. Still not as much as I would assume this movie would be, right? Like this movie... Like Alex Harlan is a very economical filmmaker. He's able to make lower budget films that still look huge. Like I don't know what the budget of Civil War is, but I'm assuming it's not as much as you would think it is for what that movie was and going for. So yeah, he's a very economical... 50 million dollars. So double what Civil War is. I think 100 million dollars. If you were to give me like the pitch of like Elden Ring in 2026, if you're making a movie, that would be like a 250 million dollar movie. Easy, right? So 100 million dollars is actually not that big when it comes to this. But I think he's being economical with the cast, right? Which are not really well known, huge movie stars, right? You're not getting five million dollars, ten million dollars for Ryan Gosling, right?

Speaker 3:
[20:12] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[20:13] And then on top of that...

Speaker 3:
[20:13] Which I think is awesome.

Speaker 2:
[20:14] Exactly. And on top of that, 824. Like, I think it's gonna be very economically made, but it's gonna look gorgeous and huge. So 100 million dollars for him is like 250 million dollars for most productions, which is really cool.

Speaker 3:
[20:24] Yeah. The thing that I was initially worried about was, man, I hope we don't get big names in this, Mike.

Speaker 1:
[20:29] Like, it was interesting when he brought up Ryan Gosling. It's like, it feels like it would take me out of it. Yeah. Thousand percent take me out. We don't want to see Chris Pratt was all of a sudden the artist. It would take me out.

Speaker 3:
[20:39] We don't want Tom Holland or Zendaya or, you know, yeah, any of the Chris brothers, you know. So there have been obviously tons of set leaks with stuff that brings a lot of confidence.

Speaker 1:
[20:51] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[20:51] And I've been sending through some links to assets that seem to be as real as they can be. You know, obviously, take everything with a grain of salt. We talk about AI, but we're looking at a lot of the soldiers of the Golden Order with a lot of their sort of yellow pieces of armor.

Speaker 1:
[21:14] They look good. I like the look of that.

Speaker 3:
[21:15] I like the look of it too. There's the shots of the dung eater hanging with a lot of people throwing.

Speaker 2:
[21:22] This went viral. Throwing shit at him. And I saw some people, again, be like, well, this doesn't look good. This doesn't look cinematic. It's like you're off the... You're not showing... This is completely, you know, leaked footage. Off angle, off color. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, don't be too harsh on me.

Speaker 1:
[21:36] Can we get the backstory on the dung eater?

Speaker 2:
[21:38] Yeah, let's talk to it.

Speaker 3:
[21:40] You know what, man? I don't really fuck with the dung eater.

Speaker 4:
[21:43] He's a serial killer, is what I remember.

Speaker 3:
[21:45] Dude, the dung eater basically tells you like at some point, I'm gonna kill you and I'm gonna fuck your corpse. Like, he's the loathsome dung eater, Mike. And that's an ending that I never went for. The dung eater has his own ending. And I didn't really ever go for that. But I just know that one of the iconic parts of the intro of the narrator saying, the loathsome dung eater. And I'm like, what the fuck is this guy and what's his deal? But the fact that the dung eater is involved at all, that we are seeing this random kind of side character that does pop up and it is a side NPC. I think the fact that the dung eater is here, mainly to show off, you see all those little things on his suit, those are like cut off horns. Yeah. And so on once one side of me, Mike goes, damn, if he's in here, that we're kind of opening up every but like there's nobody really off the table here.

Speaker 1:
[22:47] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[22:48] Because when I think of maybe they're making Elden Ring Movie, then you go, all right, well, they're probably not going to include these 20 characters. It'll just be focused around these characters. But seeing that motherfucker, I'm like, dang, maybe we're going to go. Maybe we're going to go deep into the roster.

Speaker 1:
[23:01] Turtle Pope.

Speaker 3:
[23:02] Oh, that would be amazing.

Speaker 1:
[23:03] Like, Turtle Pope feels like when I think of Elden Ring, I try to hit like the big names that I would recognize right away. And I think they're like kind of iconic to the game of like quotes. When I say the name, you instantly think about it. Turtle Pope to me definitely does that. Maybe one of those Chapel Bell Turtles that like stand up from the ground and ring the bell. Right, right, right. Sits down like I could see one of those in the distance or even one coming up in front of our character.

Speaker 3:
[23:31] Jonathan Price being cast, who's he's in Game of Thrones. Everybody saw him and was like, dang, that's got to be the Turtle Pope. He's got to be. But I could definitely see him just being any of the old people. I mean, that would be a great Turtle Pope.

Speaker 1:
[23:47] I thought Nick Offerman would be the Turtle Pope. This guy's giving me a different vibe. I don't know what it is, but he's giving me something else.

Speaker 4:
[23:55] I said this the other day when we talked about this with Reb. But I'm clocking Offerman playing Hugh. He's going to play the like, and Hugh is going to be like if we're doing the Tarnished story, Hugh is a very big part of helping the Tarnished out. And so I could see Offerman being like weird to say for an Elden Ring Movie, but like kind of that best friend type of character who's like helping you out.

Speaker 3:
[24:21] I think that I think that is a very spot on assumption. Smithy Master, Hugh, very important, a good one.

Speaker 1:
[24:28] Right.

Speaker 3:
[24:28] Being the blacksmith is it's got to be in the game, right?

Speaker 1:
[24:32] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[24:33] But I mean, Mike, does he work on ones that we don't know?

Speaker 4:
[24:35] Yeah, we don't know.

Speaker 1:
[24:36] Is he a carpenter? I don't know.

Speaker 3:
[24:39] Is he a woodworker for the longest time? Mike never upgraded his wand. Because he's like, well, he's a blacksmith. He doesn't work on one.

Speaker 2:
[24:46] Honestly, it's really smart.

Speaker 3:
[24:47] I mean, he works on all of the web.

Speaker 1:
[24:50] Going to the right people for the right job.

Speaker 2:
[24:52] He's looking for the wand guy. Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[24:55] Where's woodworker Duke?

Speaker 4:
[24:58] It's honestly, you know, it's...

Speaker 2:
[25:00] Yeah, I've been taking my scooter to a mechanic. You know what I mean? That's not happening.

Speaker 1:
[25:03] Well, let's keep the fun going. Let's keep talking about the cast and where we think the different roles will be placed right after a quick word from our sponsors. Welcome back, everyone. Let's keep it going. Let's keep having some fun. These characters, the fight scenes gotta be incredible.

Speaker 3:
[25:18] Oh, my God.

Speaker 1:
[25:19] I mean, there's gonna be some big ass, like the bosses, like they gotta capture this on film.

Speaker 3:
[25:25] And that's one thing. It's like, how do you translate that to, you know, the boss fights are what we think of when we think of, like...

Speaker 1:
[25:35] I think of the Fel Omen, an early boss fight, right? Big guy, he's probably 20 feet plus tall.

Speaker 3:
[25:40] Maybe Margaret is that old guy. Kinda looks like him. Kinda has the same sort of look. We have a Super Chat here from the Co-op Rose, who says, I think I'm... Thank you for your $5 Super Chat, by the way, who says, I think I'm 95% right here. Rose Liu is Melania. Sonoya Mizuno is Melania. Nick Offerman is Radon. And Jonathan Price is either Morgoth, Margaret, or the Turtle Pope. That seems pretty damn spot on. I don't know about Sonoya Mizuno being Melania. Thank you, Barrett, for bringing this up. We got Rose Liu in the far left, so he's assuming, the Co-op Rose are assuming that that person is going to be Melania. I think that's what Barrett assumed as well, or guess as well. We have Sonoya Mizuno guessing that they're going to be Melania. What I think of Melania, I think of somebody a bit smaller in stature. I don't know, could just be that Sonoya and Kayleigh Spaniard are the same height. But I think Kayleigh Spaniard is a bit smaller in scope. And so I feel like she's Melania. I don't know why. I feel like she's a bit small. Like I don't know. I feel like she could be Melania. But Nick Offerman is Radon. I mean, shit, if we're just going with somebody who's going to be voicing like a CG character.

Speaker 1:
[26:59] That's what my question is going to be. It's like, so Radon is going to be CG. Like that. When I think of how massive some of these guys are, they got to just be giant hulking CG monsters. We're going to be looking up at. So he's just going to voice that whatever they come out to look at. I won't see his face on it.

Speaker 3:
[27:16] Yeah, it's I mean, it's got to be because I don't really know how. I think if you do anything else, Alex Garland being such a fan of the games of the game and playing through it multiple, multiple times, I don't feel like he would do the out of touch thing to you know, we've known some directors to do with video game movies where they go. They just change something completely. And it's like, yeah, well, you don't understand this game, huh?

Speaker 1:
[27:42] Like, it's just a man on a horse ride with your vision.

Speaker 3:
[27:45] And it's like, that's just a human being on a horse. What the hell are we doing here? I feel like he I feel like he understands the assignment. And that's where I have the most faith in Alex Garland, where, yes, he's never made a fantasy movie before. I just think he has such a good eye for directing, and he's played the game a shitload, and he knows he knows Ball Mike.

Speaker 1:
[28:09] Is this an impossible task, though? Like, I love that you're putting down saying he knows Ball Mike. Like, he's played the game. But like, as we sit here and try to, like, figure out what this is even gonna be, I worry, it's like, did you choose an impossible task trying to land an Elden Ring Movie, man? My mind hurts thinking about this.

Speaker 3:
[28:30] I don't think so, and it's like, and it's largely because of the backstories with these characters. And these, the lore being so rich, and the stories and the intrigue and the backstabbing and all of the stuff that's happening that VaatiVidya uncovers and tells us about.

Speaker 1:
[28:48] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[28:48] Everything in the item descriptions. Everything is so, like, compelling from a story perspective. And he doesn't need, in my opinion, doesn't need to replicate the video game experience. I don't need Super Mario moments of, because here's a bunch of references.

Speaker 1:
[29:07] My mind goes, like, where's the first Vista, where I'm overlooking a giant field and there's the tree sentinel and seven little bad guys, right? Like, I am starting to picture, well, is that what it's going to be? Are we getting the Mario movie like that? You know what I mean?

Speaker 3:
[29:21] I mean, there will be touchstones to that because those things are so visually amazing anyway. But to me, I just need this to be an awesome high fantasy movie with a good story.

Speaker 2:
[29:31] And from what it seems like, there's a lot of different avenues to tell amazing stories within this universe and within this game of like, he just needs to pick the right ones and just focus in on them. And again, when it comes to atmosphere and building it out, I understand what you're saying, Michael. Like, that was my first thought. I was like, okay, need to have the moment. You're on the hill and you're looking out and you see the thing. I do think he's going to capture most some of that or that feeling of it, right? But I don't think it's going to be the feeling of rage quitting or the difficulty of it. We're not going to try to do any of that. I think you can have that feeling of like almost like a green night, right? Where you have like this person going on this adventure and this larger than life creature. That's hopefully like I want a lot of perspective stuff. I want a lot of that feeling of you are small. This world is so big and you don't understand it. But like we're going and we're going to figure this out.

Speaker 3:
[30:19] And all of these things make sense because we have sold you so hard on the fact that all of this stuff is real in this world and you're not supposed to be put off by something that looks out of place in this movie.

Speaker 1:
[30:32] So we don't expect any video gamey feel, right? I think my mind goes like a live die repeats where we're going to see this character die. No restart. We're not going to see a chug of an Estus flask and all of us go, Oh my God, he chugged it like.

Speaker 3:
[30:45] I mean, you know what I mean? He'll be chugging an Estus flask, but it won't be like, damn, I'm hurt. I got to drink this thing.

Speaker 4:
[30:52] You have to remember it's an 824 movie and it's an Alex Garland movie adapting Elden Ring. Like that's not the vision I think that they're going to go for. And if that is, that would, I think, be such a weird left turn from all of those things.

Speaker 3:
[31:06] So, yeah, I have too much faith in Alex Garland to do something like that. Ken Jr. with a $10 superjet. Thank you for your support. Ken Jr. asks, will there be any movie original characters? And that was the same thought I had last night while kind of thinking about what we were going to talk about today is. Will he do what, you know, Peter Jackson has done in The Hobbit where he created a woman elf character to be in the movie along with them, something that never existed in the original story? Will he put Legolas in The Hobbit even though Legolas wasn't in any of The Hobbit? You know, like stop reminding me how bad The Hobbit movies are. The first one's good. The first one's good, guys.

Speaker 1:
[31:48] It is.

Speaker 3:
[31:49] Two and three, I don't know.

Speaker 1:
[31:50] I love that world.

Speaker 3:
[31:51] Two and three got worse and worse. But will there be an original character? If there is, in my opinion, they won't be a super important character. They won't be somebody that's like critical to the actual story telling. Barrett?

Speaker 4:
[32:08] I had a question similar to that. Because that's a great question for one of the people in this cast that I keep looking to. And I'm like, who the fuck is this guy playing? And it's my boy Paddington, Ben Wishaw.

Speaker 2:
[32:22] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[32:22] That's the voice of Paddington.

Speaker 4:
[32:24] That's the voice of Paddington. He's also Q from 007.

Speaker 2:
[32:27] Yeah, that's where I know him from.

Speaker 3:
[32:28] Oh, shit. That is right. That is right.

Speaker 4:
[32:30] My fucking boy. And I keep looking at him. I'm like, I can't picture you as anybody.

Speaker 1:
[32:35] Wolfman Bach. He gives Wolfman Bach vibes. When I look at this guy's face, he's giving me Bach vibes.

Speaker 3:
[32:44] So let me soft. So let me give you a werewolf. Bach is a small, like ape looking creature. Oh, and he's talking about two different. And when Mike is explaining this, yeah, Wolfman Bach, Wolfman. Mike, he's like a, he's like an ape.

Speaker 2:
[33:02] Wolfgang Bach?

Speaker 3:
[33:03] He looks like a, he looks like a wolf, like he's a werewolf. No, he's a little monkey human.

Speaker 1:
[33:07] Like, there's a whole monkey crew out there too that I've seen many of times.

Speaker 3:
[33:12] Yeah, he just really, really, he kept saying Wolfman. I thought he was talking about Blythe, who's like a gigantic big wolf. He was talking about Wolfman Bach, who's not a wolf. Ben Wishaw, like, I'm not having any trouble. I think we're only having trouble because we're looking at the way he looks in this photo. Yeah, goatee, hair kind of, you know, styled in the front. I could totally see this guy being like a skinny meek. Any of the weird characters that he walked up to, they go, Ah, Tonnage, like one of those weird guys.

Speaker 4:
[33:41] To me though, it's like the way they have, and maybe I'm overthinking of like the cast order that they kind of announced this with, like him being so high up in the cast order, really made it the same with Nick Offerman. It's like, I feel like this is gonna be someone we're seeing a lot of. And so, I think he'd be more than just Santa Claus in the first little area that you run into, right?

Speaker 3:
[34:02] Oh, oh yeah, Kale. Yeah, yeah. Kale. Oh, a Super Chat here from ZeekSpeak who says, based on a quick fan art query, the America black dress is pretty iconic, so it could very well be a real photo. Interested to see how they do costumes. I have another Super Chat from Swords and Order who says, Kaylee is playing Ronnie for sure. The Tarnished won't be in the movie. Ronnie is a huge player in the early Elden Ring story. Damn, that would be pretty sick.

Speaker 1:
[34:30] Who's Ronnie?

Speaker 3:
[34:31] Hat.

Speaker 1:
[34:32] Big Hat.

Speaker 3:
[34:33] Big Hat Ronnie.

Speaker 1:
[34:34] I think Big Hat Ronnie is in this.

Speaker 3:
[34:37] Now, what ending are they going for?

Speaker 1:
[34:39] Do we have to have part of the ending?

Speaker 3:
[34:41] Because the best ending, you marry Ronnie. Well, the Tarnished marries Ronnie.

Speaker 1:
[34:45] Spoilers. I don't think we get to an ending.

Speaker 3:
[34:48] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[34:49] I think, like you said, I think this is pre all that. I think this is the set up to where we're at. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4:
[34:55] That would be so cool to like treat this as like, OK, you've played this. Here's the prequel to all this. And then for newcomers who are like, man, what a like a meaty family drama story. And then people would be like, hey, if you want to play a really hard conclusion to it all, here's this game.

Speaker 3:
[35:12] Dude, how amazing of a video game experience that would be, though, for real. To watch a movie that is awesome and Game of Thrones-like with its dialogue and intrigue and character relationships, and then you play a video game and you have all of the, you have all of the context for everything going into that. That would be fucking incredible.

Speaker 1:
[35:31] What about the underworld hand thing? You know, there's a lot of hands in this. The fingers underneath that church, remember? That you and I went down and under? I just remember this giant dark area. And like this giant, it looked like a hand, but yeah, the fingers.

Speaker 3:
[35:45] And Johnny killed the three fingers.

Speaker 1:
[35:47] Do we see that stuff?

Speaker 3:
[35:48] I think so.

Speaker 1:
[35:49] We get some like image.

Speaker 3:
[35:50] I think so, because all of that is Dick. I think this game will be about the golden order and the golden order being like the rule set for the world and the shattering of the golden order. Will it be the night of the black knives where the black knives stabbed homeboy in the back and like murdered him? And when they killed him, they made everybody, they took away the ability for people to to die. And that's why people keep on getting resurrected. Come back. So many possibilities here. The Co-op Rose says, as we get merit, how do we get the line? America's in it. Odd. How do we get the line? America's in it. I don't know what the oh, oh, the spoiler line. Ah, I don't know. I don't know, because now we're getting in it.

Speaker 1:
[36:41] Now we're getting deep in the sauce.

Speaker 3:
[36:43] Yeah. Roger, I need you to talk for like five seconds, just so I could whisper into Mike's ear.

Speaker 2:
[36:47] Oh, well, hi. We're talking about something. I don't know what they're talking about. I don't really. I feel like if they spoiled it for me, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. I don't know.

Speaker 1:
[36:54] That's kind of OK. That's an interesting one.

Speaker 3:
[36:56] Yeah. And we know and people who know if you know, you know, if people know, you know, but the line is about America and what what she's up to and what she's what she'd be doing. We have another super chat here from Kabob says, I cast Vati as the narrator. Dude, that would be sick.

Speaker 1:
[37:16] So who who's on Alex? You and you're the diehard Souls born fan here. Who's in this writing room with him? I mean, he's he's also I mean, he's in your dream writing rotation, the blunt rotation of like Alex Garland at the head of the table with the crew. And we're passing around. We're throwing out ideas. We're chopping it up, man. Is there some key figures out there that you would be like, Mike, we have to call this person to have them in the room with him?

Speaker 3:
[37:43] There are like there are no doubts in my mind. That when this movie comes out. We see George RR. Martin is is. Said to be a writer, OK, as is Hidetaka Miyazaki. I know that. Alex Garland is like working closely with Miyazaki on this.

Speaker 1:
[38:04] How involved are those two, right? When you bring up those names, are they putting pen to pad? Are they just consulting, like talking with them? Or are they like really helping?

Speaker 3:
[38:11] Well, I think they're consulting because George RR. Martin really only I think his name is there because he worked on the world building of it all. And that's a name you also kind of want to have as a producer as well, which is nice. You want to have that name attached for sure.

Speaker 1:
[38:24] Of course.

Speaker 3:
[38:26] And when you're talking about a game that sold 35 million plus copies, there's a big audience here that would want to see this and would want to pay money and infuse this into hoping to blow up that $100 or $100 million budget. That would be insane. Yeah. When it's all said and done, when the credits happen, I firmly believe that the top Elden Ring YouTube creators will have been involved in some way. Like, okay, just in terms of like, you know, we reached out to so and so we, you know, similarly to how what the Sonic movie, you know, the artist gets worked on by, you know, people who worked on, you know, the Sonic video games or whatever, like or fan artists and things like that. I have a feeling that there will, they will be credited not as like a major thing, but like, yeah, we also worked with, we expect to see Vaati in the credits of this movie. I either Vaati or like Smotown or just one of these people that dedicate their careers to, I'm putting out a two hour lore video, deep diving everything. Now one also, now the other side of me goes, well, why would you do that when you have Miyazaki as like he's the source of it all? He's the Bible writer. He wrote the Bible. But I don't know.

Speaker 1:
[39:43] Does he have the time to give you?

Speaker 3:
[39:45] I don't know.

Speaker 1:
[39:45] Does Miyazaki look around going, I got the time to give this guy as much as he needs?

Speaker 3:
[39:49] I got Duskblood.

Speaker 1:
[39:51] I got other things going on.

Speaker 3:
[39:52] I got Duskblood, and I got this other thing.

Speaker 1:
[39:53] I got to make another Armored Corps, please.

Speaker 3:
[39:56] Dude, Armored Corps is so sick.

Speaker 2:
[39:57] I gotta play that one.

Speaker 3:
[39:59] I don't know. Some people are saying, not a chance. Vaati has been awfully quiet. That's what I'm saying. I've been noticing that too. But also, he's made all the videos already. So there's not a whole lot more for Vaati to make.

Speaker 2:
[40:09] I also trust in Alex Garland of like, I'm sure he has those meetings with them occasionally. But I believe that he's able to adapt this and understand what this is. I'm sure he's asking maybe lore questions to Miyazaki. I don't think he's like, hey, you got to be in the writers' room to like figure out this story and break the story with me. I think he's just like, hey, is this actually correct in the canon of this thing? Okay, cool. One thing I want to bring up really quick, we're talking about like the budget. We say $100 billion. I'm like now realizing just how insane that is for A24. Because the highest grossing film that they've ever made is Marty Supreme, which made worldwide $147 million.

Speaker 1:
[40:42] Stop it. Marty Supreme?

Speaker 2:
[40:46] You're talking about like the pantheon of movies that they've made, right? Like of course, smaller budget, Yadda, but also a huge marketing campaign, right? Like that movie did well for them. Like there's no issue there, but like this is a bet on them of like this movie, they're trying to make 200, probably 250, $300 million out of this movie. And like A24 has never done that before. So this is a massive, massive, massive swing that A24 believes in. And Alex Garland has a lot of pressure on his back to make a hit. He's never really made a massive hit. I think the biggest, the actual hit that he's had is Civil War, which again, only $50 million budget. I think it made, I think it was the second. Let me, I'll do some research on that.

Speaker 1:
[41:24] This is a beloved classic, this game. This is the greatest of all time hits.

Speaker 2:
[41:28] Yes, for sure.

Speaker 1:
[41:29] The universe. I feel like people are showing up for this. Like in my mind, you say 100 million. I'm like, I'm not gonna say it's Mario level, but like the dedication of gamers feels like it's Mario level.

Speaker 2:
[41:40] 824's Civil War made $127 million with a $50 million budget. So like that's the level of like smash hit. That was the number one 824 movie. And before that it was everything everywhere all at once. Now Marty Supreme. So it's like they haven't broken the $200 million worldwide thing and they're making a movie that's $100 million. And then you would usually double that when it comes to marketing, spending everything. So about $200 million you want to hit in that theatrical run.

Speaker 1:
[42:03] I thought we were going 300.

Speaker 2:
[42:04] Yeah, we're going 300. No, of course they want 300, but you're going around 200 when it comes to marketing. So a lot of the thing that people don't want like triple, right? Because the thing people don't talk about is that that number, a lot of that number goes to the theaters, right? On top of it. So you're cutting, cutting, cutting, right?

Speaker 3:
[42:19] Film for IMAX.

Speaker 2:
[42:20] Is it really?

Speaker 3:
[42:21] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[42:22] Oh, that's huge.

Speaker 3:
[42:22] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[42:23] That's actually really huge. I did not know that.

Speaker 3:
[42:24] So the war I'm at with it. It needs to be a story that is not trying to cover everything to satisfy the gamer. Okay. If you want it to be a good focused story, you have to just focus on the core thing of the plot and what it seems like. It seems like it's going to be a story about America and maybe her kind of rise or whatever. Okay. If you try to include too much, I think you are, I think that's a death sentence. I think you cannot over scope this to try to include everything because then it's going to be mile wide and an inch deep. You need it to be a focus story on just a few set of people with a really good B plot and maybe a solid C plot, but the movie just, it has to be amazing. I think the people will show up for it. Not only just the gaming fans, because FromSoftware has, in my opinion, the most hardcore gaming.

Speaker 1:
[43:18] They're common.

Speaker 3:
[43:20] Most hardcore, they will show up and buy whatever thing that you are selling if it's good enough quality. And if this goes out, my hopes is that this is a this earns 500 mil.

Speaker 1:
[43:32] I love that.

Speaker 2:
[43:32] I think this movie is going to be a huge hit, especially like the marketing and just also the vibe of like, you know, gamers are going to be online talking about, well, I'm seeing a lot of times. And also if they do the marketing of like George RR Martin's there, you got Alex Garland and you got Miyazaki doing like a press junket for a little bit. Like the gamers are going to love that.

Speaker 3:
[43:49] Like you're bringing in like non-gamers to with people that just love fantasy.

Speaker 2:
[43:52] And that's the thing I want to point out. I think it's so funny and so interesting about this is that they're getting out the Elden Ring Movie before they're getting out a Game of Thrones Movie. And that's fucking crazy.

Speaker 1:
[44:01] That's fucking nuts.

Speaker 2:
[44:02] I like they completely bungled that franchise. Of course, it's doing great right now on streaming. But like they should have had a movie out years ago. That's crazy that this is going to beat it.

Speaker 1:
[44:11] Let's do a quick couple over-unders on this one for me. Andy, you ready for this?

Speaker 3:
[44:14] Yeah, I'm here.

Speaker 1:
[44:14] Over-under, .5 dragons. Will we see a dragon or not?

Speaker 3:
[44:19] Yes.

Speaker 1:
[44:19] There will be a dragon in this movie. Okay, I like that.

Speaker 3:
[44:22] I would say maybe a couple. I think it will be a big set piece for one of the fights.

Speaker 1:
[44:28] Okay, over-under. I want to be safe with this, but I don't know what the number will be, so you help me adjust the line. 4.5 big set piece fights. How many big fights will we see?

Speaker 3:
[44:40] Under, I think four.

Speaker 1:
[44:42] Under 4.5. You think four solid set piece. These are the big action sequence fights.

Speaker 3:
[44:47] When I'm just thinking about budget, you know, I think four is maybe pushing at three might be the safer number, but.

Speaker 1:
[44:55] A 3.5 line on that one, then? Yeah. Okay, you go with three, then four.

Speaker 3:
[45:00] Three and a half. Over under three and a half.

Speaker 1:
[45:02] Over under super tall CGI characters, like giant characters.

Speaker 2:
[45:09] You gotta be conservative on that number.

Speaker 1:
[45:10] Seven? 7.5.

Speaker 2:
[45:13] You gotta go three or four.

Speaker 1:
[45:15] When they feel imposing in the world, but not so much.

Speaker 2:
[45:18] Not too much, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[45:19] So many. But there's a lot of jabronis out there that are very big in this game. I think you're gonna have to. There's a lot of big people.

Speaker 2:
[45:23] I think you would have to scale it down a little bit and then you have that moment where it's like, oh shit, millennia, right? Millennia is fucking tall. You want that moment. You don't want every single character to be 13 feet tall.

Speaker 4:
[45:33] Well, she's tall, but not in a way that is.

Speaker 3:
[45:37] She's like 12 feet tall.

Speaker 4:
[45:39] You can pull that off without doing CGI. You can pull that off with realistic, practical effects and all that shit, right?

Speaker 1:
[45:47] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[45:48] Like the CG stuff you would save for.

Speaker 1:
[45:49] A Radon, a Fel Omen, you know what I mean? Like those kind of guys where it's like, oh, he is literally 15 plus feet tall and also a bus.

Speaker 3:
[45:58] I think we see part of the fight that we have seen throughout the trailers of Radon and Millennia.

Speaker 2:
[46:05] Oh, okay.

Speaker 3:
[46:06] Like as like a little bit of a call back, you know, this thing, this should happen, you know.

Speaker 1:
[46:12] And the final question for me. Yeah. This movie is going to actually come out. It's crazy. We truly believe that this movie is coming out.

Speaker 2:
[46:19] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[46:19] I'm fucking stunned when we have this talk. We try to break down the story and the idea like, I cannot believe that this is going to be real.

Speaker 3:
[46:26] A lot of it comes out to the amount of times that we've here that so and so picks up the rights to this thing. And you get excited and that thing never happens.

Speaker 2:
[46:33] Years of War, Bioshock, Horizon.

Speaker 3:
[46:36] One that I always go back to is Mark Wahlberg's production company buying the rights to the Cohed and Cambria story. And getting so jacked up about that when I was like 16 or 17 years old. Be like, no fuck it.

Speaker 1:
[46:48] They're gonna make a Cohed movie?

Speaker 3:
[46:50] Holy shit. And that shit never happened. Yeah. This happens a lot. The fact that there are still set leaks and I just can't believe that's where we're at. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1:
[47:01] I'm stunned, Andy. I really, I would have imagined this is all a dream or five months from now that's like, no, this movie's never coming.

Speaker 3:
[47:07] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[47:07] I just hope.

Speaker 1:
[47:08] I cannot believe this is real.

Speaker 2:
[47:09] I hope it's a success, man. I think I'm just, I'm looking at the numbers. I'm trying to figure out what is my estimate for how much it would make, right? I look at Five Nights at Freddy's, which made like $300 million worldwide, right? But it's like, that was a PG-13 movie. This is definitely gonna be an R rated movie. This is definitely gonna be probably a two hour, 30, 45 minute, you know, hardcore fantasy movie. So it's like, I want this to be super successful. I don't want this to be just a huge swing for A24 and it's up. We can't do any hardcore adaptations anymore. I'm a little bit scared.

Speaker 1:
[47:36] I'm going $300 million at the box office.

Speaker 2:
[47:38] I would love that.

Speaker 1:
[47:40] That's my guess.

Speaker 2:
[47:41] That would be my hope.

Speaker 1:
[47:41] I think this is gonna be a big deal.

Speaker 2:
[47:43] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[47:44] A lot of energy, a lot of gamers out there.

Speaker 3:
[47:47] I look at $300 million as like still kind of crazy. No, I look at that as like not quite as much of a success as I would assume.

Speaker 2:
[47:56] That's so interesting to me.

Speaker 3:
[47:57] Just based, I mean, 35 million people.

Speaker 2:
[47:59] I mean, that would be the big, I mean, I just know that H-24 would be so happy with that number. $300 million would be very good for them. And also that doesn't include streaming and everything. Like that's triple the budget of everything. That's a good theatrical run right there.

Speaker 1:
[48:13] When do we think timing wise of this, Andy? For the filming, how long do I have the rest?

Speaker 3:
[48:17] They're saying about 100 days of filming. I would assume that this-

Speaker 1:
[48:22] They've done 100 days of filming?

Speaker 3:
[48:23] No, they're doing.

Speaker 1:
[48:24] Okay, they're doing, okay.

Speaker 3:
[48:25] They are going to do 100 days, around 100 days of filming.

Speaker 4:
[48:28] Which is beefy?

Speaker 3:
[48:30] I thought it was 2028, is that not?

Speaker 4:
[48:32] I think it is 2028, yes.

Speaker 1:
[48:34] 2028 is the window we'd be looking for, okay?

Speaker 3:
[48:36] March 3rd, right? I think 2028?

Speaker 4:
[48:37] Yes.

Speaker 1:
[48:38] So excited, so pumped.

Speaker 3:
[48:39] Pretty wild.

Speaker 1:
[48:40] We should just fast travel to that.

Speaker 3:
[48:42] I have man.

Speaker 1:
[48:43] Like, skip everything else, I don't care. I just wanna be there in the theater.

Speaker 2:
[48:46] IMAX.

Speaker 1:
[48:47] Yeah, right away.

Speaker 2:
[48:48] The Metri on IMAX with the Elden Ring, dude? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3:
[48:51] Fucking unbelievable. And then maybe we bring back the co-op run.

Speaker 1:
[48:55] Oh my god.

Speaker 3:
[48:55] Throw Roger in there too. Maybe Roger takes the lead.

Speaker 1:
[48:57] I would love to try that.

Speaker 2:
[49:00] I would love to try this. I think this will get me jacked up to at least boot it up again.

Speaker 4:
[49:05] So don't do that to yourself, Andy. Because it's going to get ten minutes in, they're going to start killing every single character. It could have ruined everything.

Speaker 1:
[49:14] To all of our audience out there, thank you so much for watching today's Gamescast. Let us know your dream casting predictions, who you think is in what role, what do you want to see out of this movie? And of course, your general hype and excitement for this movie. We are so pumped up about this. And you know what else we're pumped up about? A great day of content here at Kinda Funny. We have, in review, Two Towers, first time watching Up Next. Yeah, fantastic in review series going on right now.

Speaker 3:
[49:42] You all will get into existence. You all showed up for Fellowship in Review.

Speaker 2:
[49:47] And not Air Bud.

Speaker 3:
[49:48] We weren't going to do Two Towers. We were not going to do Return of the King. You all showed up for it, so get ready for that. Blessing and Joey's first time watching Two Towers and Return of the King. Movies that they never thought that they'd ever want to watch.

Speaker 1:
[50:01] And then after that, we have Tim Schafer in the building with the Double Fine team to play Killin with me and Andy. So don't go anywhere. It's a jam-packed day. We're rushing into it. We'll catch you on the next one. Goodbye, gamers.