Chris Evans Heading Back to the MCU, Star Wars and Indiana Jones Video Games, Risk TV Show, The Flash, and More

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🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On the January 14, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest film and TV news, including Chris Evans’ return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, new Star Wars and Indiana Jones video games, a Risk show, Netflix’s upcoming film slate, The Flash movie, and Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos. Opening Banter: In The News: HT: Chris Evans in Talks to Return to the MCU as Captain America‘Avengers: Endgame’ Almost Had Another Actor Play Old Captain America Brad: New ‘Star Wars’ Open-World Video Game Coming From Ubisoft HT: A New ‘Indiana Jones’ Video Game is Coming From Bethesda and Machine Games, the Developer of ‘Wolfenstein’ Brad: ‘Risk’ TV Series in the Works From ‘House of Cards’ Creator Beau Willimon HT: Netflix Unveils 2021 Film Slate, Promises “A New Movie Every Week” Brad: Ray Fisher Confirms That He is No Longer Playing Cyborg in ‘The Flash’ Movie OG Chris: ‘Being the Ricardos’: Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem Will Play Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for Director Aaron Sorkin Other Articles Mentioned: All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily for Thursday, January 14th, 2021.
0:04.6	On today's episode we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news.
0:08.2	My name is Ben Pearson, I'm the senior writer at slashfilm.com and I'm joined on today's episode
0:12.4	by Slash Film Managing Editor Jake Paul. writer at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film managing
0:13.9	editor jayopold hello hello weekend editor Brad Omen hey that's me and writer
0:18.9	white train buoy hey everyone all right guys let's just jump right in.
0:22.8	We have a lot of news to get to today.
0:24.9	And, H.C. let's start with you because you just wrote and published an article that is sort of
0:30.4	a sending shockwave through the Marvel Cinematic Universe community right now.
0:34.4	What is the latest MCU news that we all should know about?
0:37.8	Yeah, the big news today is that Chris Evans is reportedly in talks to make return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Steve
0:44.6	Rogers, aka Captain America after he supposedly retired the character in
0:49.1	Avengers Endgame. Its deadline broke the news that Chris Evans is closing an ideal to surprise his role in at least one Marvel property with the door open for a second film.
1:00.0	However, they won't likely won't be Captain America solo projects but in Ensemble or other
1:05.2	superhero solo films akin to how Robert Denny Jr. operated in the MCU post
1:10.3	Iron Man 3 with appearances in Captain America Civil War, Spider Man Homecoming,
1:15.2	and of course the Avengers movies.
1:17.5	And this comes as a big surprise because not only did the character have a really fitting and emotional ending in Avengers end game in which we see him as old man Steve Rogers and he hands the shield, passes the torch to Anthony Mackey's Falcon. It's a surprise that because
1:38.0	Chris Evans has been very vocal about not wanting to return to the MCU, Been very excited to hang up his hat as well as his shield.
1:46.2	But apparently, the talks in recent months
1:49.0	have changed his mind.
1:50.8	And we still don't know in what capacity Steve Rogers will be returning whether it will be as young Steve Rogers or whether it will be as old man Steve
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