- Hello friends, D23 has come and gone, and shown us
a lot of footage from pretty much every movie
we care about for the rest of the year
because Disney owns everything.
Our intrepid Aaron Couch was actually there in person,
He's gonna break down everything that he saw,
and everything we should be excited about
at the end of 2019.
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- So, what's cool is that you've seen some of this too,
even though you didn't go there.
Rise of Skywalker has been released now.
- Yeah, it's like I was there.
Yeah, you didn't need to do the work that I did.
(laughs)
But yeah, so what did you think of "Rise of Skywalker"?
The panel opened up Saturday's presentation with a bang.
- [Patrick] Yes.
- [Aaron] JJ came out, he said,
"No trailer, but here you go, guys."
- Yeah, but we saw footage, sort of.
We saw a lot of old footage from movies--
- And about 10 seconds of new stuff.
- Right, we saw Rey and Kylo Ren fighting,
again, for the 85th time, and we're supposed to be excited
about that for some reason and--
- It's exciting!
- Is it exciting?
She's beat him twice already in the two other films.
What is the drama that is in this new Star Wars film?
- Well, will she turn bad?
- We saw that at the very end. - No.
- [Aaron] Okay, yeah. It's clearly a dream sequence, right?
- [Patrick] (laughs) Yes.
- That played extremely well in the crowd, you know.
At D23, it's 7,000 fans, the cast is up there,
it's a whole different experience than watching it
on your smart phone, so that, I assure you,
did play very well.
- Of those 7,000 fans, did anyone actually
believe that Rey is gonna be a Sith?
- Yeah, I mean, I think that you don't have time
to really think about it,
because then they move on to the next thing.
I think Kevin Feige comes out 10 seconds later.
That's how fast and how well-produced D23 is,
so, I didn't stop to think about it until afterwards,
"Wait a second, that's not real!"
- Hold on, Disney! - Yeah.
The day before, it was all about Disney+.
And Mandalorian is basically the flagship show.
- [Patrick] Okay.
- I mean, that's the entire selling point
of this platform, is,
Star Wars is not gonna be on the big screen
for three years after Rise of Skywalker,
but there are gonna be a lot of shows on Disney+--
- So Star Wars isn't going away.
- Yeah. - Still have a lot of
Star Wars going on. (laughs)
- Yeah, yeah.
- The Mandalorian is one I am excited about,
according to our Hype-O-Meter, (meter dings)
I'm very excited about it.
Mandalorian stars Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano,
Werner Herzog, the raddest dude in the entire world.
- [Aaron] Carl Weathers, that's what I'm all about.
- Yes, also very exciting. - Excited he's in this.
- What was the reaction like in the crowd
when they showed footage from The Mandalorian?
- Well, you know, it was strong.
Kathy Kennedy, Lucasfilm president,
she pointed out these shows
are going to look just as good as they do
as the big-screen movies.
- [Patrick] Well, from the footage,
it did look just like them.
- [Aaron] It really did, even on the big screen, it held up,
it looked as good as Rogue One,
which, you know, was a spectacular-looking movie.
But, you know, The Mandalorian was not the high point,
at the very end of the panel, Ewan McGregor comes out
to finally confirm (Patrick makes popping noise)
he is playing Obi-Wan again.
Now, we've known this for a couple weeks,
but to hear the man say it after years and years of going
"Oh, you know, it'd be nice to finally confirm it",
and they had a little skit--
- [Patrick] Like a summer camp?
- [Aaron] Yeah, basically, he instructed Kathy,
"Ask me if I'm gonna play Obi-Wan again",
and she asks, and he goes "Yes",
and then that was the loudest applause
I heard the entire time at D23.
I mean, that topped anybody else coming out,
any of the Marvel stars,
any of the Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker stars,
that was it.
So that shows you how much people care about this guy.
- Shocking, too, based on how Solo kinda underperformed,
that people are still very excited
about other old characters kind of coming back.
- Well, it's Ewan. - Well, the actual character,
I'm saying.
- Yeah, you're not having some kid, no offense, but yeah.
- According to our Hype-O-Meter, Aaron,
where would you say...
- Yeah, I mean, that's at the top of the Hype-O-Meter.
(meter dings) (Patrick laughs)
Absolutely.
- We also saw a lot from Marvel
and from Disney+ shows coming up.
Actually, let's start off with the film side,
let's talk a little bit about Black Widow,
because this was a film that I feel
people weren't as excited about coming off of
Endgame and other really big Marvel properties,
this seems a little bit smaller, it's kind of a throwback,
but the footage that you saw, you said,
made you a little bit more excited about it.
- Not just more, I mean, extremely excited,
because, yeah, I was thinking
"I don't wannna see a prequel,
"I want things to go forward", you know,
but I thought this footage
looked like Mission: Impossible - Fallout
plus Winter Soldier--
- Wow! - With a lot more
vodka drinking, you know?
(Patrick laughs)
the scope of this, I was really shocked by
just how Mission: Impossible,
just different shots of European cities,
the action, the footage we saw
starts off with Natasha Romanoff
basically fighting to the death in a small apartment
with her sister, played by Florence Pugh,
and it was some of the best fight choreography
I've seen in the MCU, it was crazy.
- That's good it feels more than
like the Captain America throwbacks,
like those spy films, lots of practical fights in it.
- Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
We didn't really see anything else
of any of the other movies,
we had Ryan Coogler come out
and announce the Black Panther II date.
- But we have a date. - Yeah.
- Which gets the Hype-O-Meter way up there.
(meter dings) - Yeah, 2022--
- That makes it a little bit farther--
(sad trombone) - Yeah, it's more
than four years apart, but that shows, okay, I love that
(children cheering) they're not just
rushing it up.
- Right. - Coogler would not reveal
the title, which makes me think,
it's not "Black Panther II",
but that title will probably reveal something exciting.
- Yeah. - Black Panther and Wolverine?
Nah, I'm just kidding. (Patrick laughs)
- Don't tease me like that. (Aaron laughs)
We also had a whole bunch of Disney+ shows,
some of which we knew about a little bit beforehand,
but other ones were big surprises to us.
One of the ones that was a big surprise to me
was a Moon Knight.
- [Aaron] I mean, Moon Knight has a great costume.
- He does. - He has a lot
of personal struggles,
so I don't know, I really don't know
what to think of this show,
other than people are excited about it
because the people that know him love him.
- Yeah, he's kind of - I don't really know
- A cult-favorite character. - A lot about him,
I have to admit, so, yeah.
- I'm getting that from you.
Do you know a little bit about She-Hulk, though?
'cause we also know She-Hulk is coming.
- [Aaron] She-Hulk actually seemed to be,
just reading the tea leaves,
the one that Feige may have been most excited about--
- [Patrick] Really, that says something.
- [Aaron] He was talking about it,
so she's Bruce Banner's cousin, she's a lawyer,
(laughing) in the comics,
she got a blood transfusion from Bruce Banner,
and that's why she's She-Hulk.
Now, Bruce should've said "Hey", you know--
- "Maybe this isn't a great idea",
or maybe she wanted to be a giant green rage monster,
and it was a good idea.
- Yeah, and then we have Ms. Marvel,
who is Marvel's first Muslim character, or superhero,
she's a teenager, and Feige confirmed,
listen, she's not only in the show,
she's gonna show up in the movies, too,
which is, again, showing this is not the days of
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Netflix,
these things are actually connected,
despite years of them saying everything's connected,
it actually is now.
- These matter.
- Yeah, these actually matter, yeah.
- (laughs) Speaking of the movies,
we also revealed that Kit Harrington
is going to be in The Eternals,
alongside former Game of Thrones costar Richard Madden.
So we're getting a lot of Game of Thrones in this new film.
- Right, exactly, and those guys,
they haven't been together since the pilot?
Isn't that when they last...
- Yeah, probably, when they split up.
- Yeah, so it's not like they really
have had a lot of screentime together,
so that's cool.
- No, but it's a reunion for us fans
who care about the Starks,
so according to my Hype-O-Meter,
(meter dings) I'm very hyped about that.
There was a lot of other footage shown
because Disney owns every property on the planet.
One of the ones that,
maybe it was a surprise to me
only in that it was so exciting to people in the room,
was the Mulan.
- [Aaron] Right, because often at Comic-Con or D23,
you want to see the stuff
that has never had a trailer before,
we've had a Mulan trailer,
so I wasn't expecting that much from it,
but they showed an extended scene,
they showed a lengthy sizzle reel,
and that was actually the one
that was getting kind of getting people
teared up in the room,
it was really quite emotional.
The star of that movie is kind of
embroiled in controversy right now, so she was not there,
but Disney, they're very good at
kind of just putting a sheen on everything glossy--
- Disney magic. - There's no controversy
going on, come see this movie,
so it played really, really well.
- That's shocking, also,
because there's so many Disney remakes,
they're making tons of money,
but people don't seem to be excited about them
when you talk to them,
so Mulan may be bucking that trend a little bit?
- Yeah, it did kind of seem like
it's really showing you something new versus,
sometimes those movies are seen as kind of a shot-by-shot,
but this really had just some special extra stuff, yeah.
- There was another one,
one of the bigger surprises, I think,
was Raya and the Last Dragon,
which is a new Disney Animation animated film.
- That was the biggest news to come out of Disney Animation,
because it was totally new project,
East Asian-inspired, and the animation,
which hasn't been released online,
it really did look different, it was quite beautiful,
so they know what they're doing.
- Where would you say the Hype-O-Meter falls
on Raya and the Last Dragon?
- I would say that the Hype-O-Meter
externally is not very high because people,
if you haven't gone to see it, you don't know,
but I think once that starts coming out,
once the trailers come out--
- It's gonna break the Hype-O-Meter?
(meter short-circuits) (meter explodes)
- Yeah. (Patrick laughs)
- [Aaron] The last bit of real news that came out,
and this was shocking for a couple reasons,
seeing as how the news that preceded it that week,
was that Tom Holland showed up on stage,
Tom Holland who is still Spider-Man,
but not in the MCU anymore as Spider-Man.
- [Aaron] Yeah, he was there with Chris Pratt,
they were promoting Onward.
- [Patrick] Another animated film.
- Yeah, and so, we're waiting the entire time,
is Tom gonna say anything?
You know, he's just bantering with Chris Pratt,
behind me, I heard people chant "Save Spider-Man",
(Patrick laughs) a few of them,
so I was thinking "Oh, is this gonna be a moment?"
Nothing happens, they show the footage, looks great,
okay, that's it, no!
Tom comes back out,
and he kind of gives just a little acknowledgement,
"It's been a crazy week, but I'm really grateful,
"I love you guys 3000."
- Aw. - People went nuts.
And later, he and Kevin Feige both gave
little tiny interviews to Entertainment Weekly,
and they were both very gracious,
Holland said "Yeah, I'm gonna still play him,
"it's still gonna be awesome",
and Feige said "We knew this wasn't going to be forever,
"I'm really proud of what we did.
So, very classy statement.
At the same time,
why would you put that cliffhanger in--
- Yeah, Kevin! - "We told the story
"we wanted", so I think he's being kind of nice there, but--
- Maybe they're sort of hedging it
because they're still trying to smooth things over,
and we can invite Spidey back into the MCU.
- Yeah, you never know, that could happen.
- You just, now our Hype-O-Meter fell all the way back down.
(Aaron laughs)
It broke the other way.
Well, a lot of things happened at D23,
a lot of them were covered by Aaron
and the rest of the fantastic Hollywood Reporter team,
so if you guys wanna check that stuff out,
it's all over the website.
We wanna know what you are most excited about, though,
so let us know in the comments right down there,
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I know this didn't come out on a Friday, though.
Eh?
- Calendars, got it. - Yep.
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