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The Weekly Planet

625 Backrooms & Spider-Noir

The Weekly Planet

James

Tv & Film

4.912.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back everyone to a new episode of The Weekly Planet! This week we review two hot propeties that in a way have nothing in common, Backrooms and also Spider-Noir. We also discuss the passing of legandary editor Marcia Lucas, trouble for the Masters of the Universe 2026 adaptation, the return of AI Stan "The Man" Lee, the next movie from Obsession director Curry Barker and more! Thanks for listening


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00:00 The Start

02:50 Marcia Lucas RIP

06:24 Masters of the Universe Troubles

15:40 Somehow Stan Lee Has Returned

20:10 Obsession Director's Next Project

21:28 Sugar Season 2 Trailer

27:21 Backrooms Movie Review

43:12 Backrooms Spoiler Segment

58:53 Spider-Noir Series Review

01:08:34 Spider-Noir Spoiler Segment

01:16:22 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read

01:20:24 Letters, It's Time For Letters


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0:00.0

The weekly planet, the weekly planet.

0:22.9

Welcome back everybody to another episode of The Weekly Planets where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James also known as Mr. Sunday with me as always Nick Mason. What a wonderful day to do a podcast. Completely agree. Crisp. It's crisp outside. It's hard to argue with that. What's it like where you are, dear listener? Oh, are you asking me? No.

0:21.9

It's the same as where you are.

0:22.5

Come on, man.

0:23.5

In answer to your question. And you know that already. It's a stupid question. You know that I'm not asking you, James. You know that I'm never directing any of my words at you. I'm directing them all to the listeners. I'm listening. I don't want you to listen. I don't want you to listen.

0:36.7

I want these to be separate processes.

0:38.5

You do your thing and I do my thing.

0:39.9

Okay.

0:40.6

Just leave it.

0:41.3

I'm loving. I don't want you to listen I don't want you to listen I want these to be separate processes

0:38.3

you do your thing and I do my thing just leave it I'm loving this stop trying to interact with me you've been doing it for years and I'm sick to death of it quite frankly I just want your attention just for a little bit no man it's not going to happen have some kids or something I did and they don't listen to you either sometimes they do Yeah, sometimes they do.

0:53.2

It's true.

0:54.3

Yeah, man, it's a big week, isn't it?

0:55.9

Big week for news.

0:57.0

That and big property. they don't listen to you either. Sometimes they do. Yeah, sometimes they do. It's true.

0:55.8

Yeah, man, it's a big week, isn't it?

1:14.3

Big week for news. That and big properties. Big movie. Big movie. Big movie, big packed theaters. Yeah, absolutely. So of course we're not at Star Wars. No, we're talking about that because our backrooms has hit cinemas. That's right. And it's taking Gen Z and virality and all of those things to the next level, isn't it? Absolutely. I think so. Certainly take a virality to the next level. Loss Obsession is still doing really well. That's right. The mandilorian versus groglet is not having a good time. But speaking of Star Wars, I've got some news of the week, one being the passing of Marsha Lucas, whose career will talk about, very influential, not just on Star Wars, but other things as well. I'm going to talk about the tracking of Masters of the Universe, which is out this coming week. Is it bad? It's not looking good, Mason. Are we surprised? No, not really. Maybe they should get one of its major stars to promote it more, the one that's not promoting it at all, who's probably been asked not to promote it because he's barely in it. Don't do that. Yeah. We're going to talk about how Stanley is back even more in AI. Oh, hell yeah. And we're going to talk about... Hell yeah, true believers. Hell yeah, true believers. this is what we wanted. True believers, we want him to never die. Yep. And always be in things.

2:04.0

Always be in a... talk about... Hell yeah, true believers. Hell yeah, true believers. This is what we wanted. True believers, we want him to never die.

2:02.4

Yep.

2:02.9

And always be in things.

2:04.0

Always be in a weird booth. That's right. In a booth and he can answer your questions. No, he could be in other things that aren't just booths. Yes. Yeah. I'm going to talk about... Think outside the booth. Exactly. Carrie Barker, who did Obsession, of course, his next movie and the status of that.

2:17.9

Time codes below, because Rob Collings, he edits this and he also puts in the time codes.

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