591 Man Of Tomorrow & Best Actors Who Pivoted

The Weekly Planet

James

Tv & Film, Unknown

5 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

The important thing in the world has happened. The Rock doesn't have as many muscles and now he's serious and has glasses. And in celebration of that we talk the greatest pivots in Hollywood history. Plus we talk an annoucement of the next DCU Superman movie, the Lara Croft TV show movies forward, a Call of Duty movie, 007 First Light James Bond gameplay, Alien: Romulus sequel loses it's director director, release dates for the Bluey movie and the Street Fighter film, trailers ahoy for 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple and Marvel Zombies and more! Thanks for listening

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00:00 The Start

05:32 Important Questions About Cars Universe

07:51 Man of Tomorrow Superman Sequel Announced

13:05 Sophie Turner Cast as Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)

16:44 Call of Duty Movie Happening

24:24 007 First Light James Bond Gameplay Trailer

27:21 Alien Romulus Sequel Getting New Director

30:28 Bluey Movie Gets Release Date

32:59 Street Fighter Film Cast Reveal

34:35 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple Trailer

37:54 Marvel Zombies Series Trailer

40:02 The Smashing Machine & The Rock's Big Acting Comments

49:44 Best Actors Who Pivoted Genres and Roles

01:32:35 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read (Feat. Peacemaker S2 Spoilers)

01:48:52 Letters, It's Time For Letters

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0:00.0	The Weekly Planet, the Weekly Planet. Welcome back everybody to another episode of The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday. And with me, as always, it's a fully recovered Nick Mason. Not true. But thank you for pretending and giving the listeners some hope. You are doing the work, though. And by that, I mean not talking outside of this.
0:21.1	Correct, yes. Yeah. Although I had lunch with my parents recently. Why? Because, you know. Father's Day. No. No. That's the day. How would I have had time before this? Yeah, that's what I did. Huh. I had lunch with your parents. Oh, great. Are they doing well? I don't know.
0:37.9	Yeah, neither do I.
0:38.7	But anyway, I had lunch with them.
0:40.1	They didn't, they didn well? I don't know.
0:37.8	Yeah, neither do I. But anyway, I had lunch with them. They didn't, I just spoke the whole time. I didn't let the mask. I didn't let them talk. Good call. But I'm like, just so you know, I've lost my voice. So like, just talk amongst yourselves. And, you know, I'll just nod along. and then like two seconds passed and they're like,
0:54.9	so how's work?
0:55.5	And I'm like, mom.
0:57.5	Mom! and and you know I'll just nod along and then like two seconds past and they're like so how's work
0:55.5	and I'm like mom that's great thank you how are they're good great that's good to hear
1:04.4	big week lots of news it's been a big week yeah a big topic because we know the rock of course
1:09.5	he's pivoting into being a serious thin actor.
1:12.1	That's true.
1:12.9	Which is what people do.
1:13.8	Where's all his muscles gone?
1:14.7	We don't know.
1:15.1	He must have been fake the whole time. And he chopped them off. You reckon he chopped them off. Yeah. I think there's easier ways to do it. But if you're the Rock, you take things seriously. Yeah. And you do things quickly.
1:23.9	And you build universes and destroy universes.
1:26.4	He took that big muscle suit.
1:28.0	We all know he was wearing.
1:29.5	He got a special oiled one.
1:31.1	Well, he did. He does for Moana 2. Oh. He's wearing a special Maui muscle suit in that, which I think is so fun. What do you mean? In Moana 2. Yes. Not Moana 2. Moana live action. He's wearing a muscle suit. Huh. You know about this? Nope. Is that out yet? No. I don't know, man. It doesn't matter. Yeah. And the funniest thing about this is, and I guess we'll talk about it a bit later, is that, oh, this fucking AI shit. You Google something and it's just fucking fake thumbnails.
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