595 New AI Actor Controversy & The Smashing Machine
The Weekly Planet
James
5 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
This week we discuss The Smashing Machine where The Rock takes a straight shot at doing a series role with a big time Hollywood transformation and all! Plus we get into all the news of the week including The Simpsons 2 official release date, how much money Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny really lost, a trailer for Frankenstein, the return of Brendan Fraser and Rachael Weisz in a new The Mummy movie and Hollywood's first AI actor and how it’s awful. Thanks for listening
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00:00 The Start
03:46 Tron Week at Caravan of Garbage!
05:37 New Simpsons Movie Revealed
10:15 Indiana Jones & Dial of Destiny's Failure
14:10 Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein Trailer
18:38 The Mummy Movie Gritty Reboot
20:24 Brendan Frasers' The Mummy Sequel Rumor
22:26 New AI Actor "Tilly Norwood" Controversy
31:05 The Smashing Machine Movie Review
47:16 The Smashing Machine Spoiler Segment
59:18 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read
01:07:08 Letters, It's Time For Letters
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