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Dune TV Show, Russian Doll, Swamp Thing, The Division, and Sony Pictures Animation

/Film Weekly

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🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On the June 12, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including details about the cancelled Swamp Thing show, a Dune spin-off TV series, Sony Pictures Animation’s plans, Russian Doll season 2, and The Division movie going to Netflix.   Opening banter:   In The News: Chris - ‘Swamp Thing’ Cancellation Shocked Production Insiders, Who Had at Least Three Seasons Planned Brad - Sony Pictures Animation Plots International and Alternative Slate, Including Adult-Oriented Movies & Shows Ben - ‘Russian Doll’ Season 2 is Coming to Netflix, But We Have Questions Chris - ‘The Division’, Based on the Tom Clancy Video Game, Heads to Netflix with Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain Chris/HT - ‘Dune’ TV Series Will Be Helmed By ‘Dune’ Movie Director Denis Villeneuve 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 iTunes, 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 Wednesday, June 12th, 2019.

0:04.1

On today's episode we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news.

0:07.6

My name is Ben Pearson, I am the senior writer at slashfilm.com and I am joined on the podcast today by Slash Film Weekend editor Brad Omen.

0:15.0

Hey that's me and writer Chris Evangelista.

0:18.0

Hello folks.

0:20.0

All right guys I think this is going to be a relatively short episode of the

0:23.5

podcast today. We did a big water cooler episode yesterday jumping back into

0:26.8

the news today, so let's get right into it. So Chris, the Swamp Things show

0:31.1

for DC Universe, we've talked about this show a little bit and the the troubles that it was having and the fact that it was

0:37.4

I don't actually remember if we talked about that it was cancelled like basically the day that it premiered.

0:44.0

But give us a little bit of background on the show

0:46.0

and then the latest news that we know about it.

0:49.0

Yeah, so the Swamp Things show, even before it aired, there was something amiss.

0:55.2

It was originally supposed to have, the first season was supposed to have 13 episodes,

1:00.0

and they were almost done filming and then DC Universe slash Warner Media cut the

1:07.7

episodes down to 10 which caught almost everyone involved with the show by

1:12.0

surprise like they're members of the cast almost everyone involved with the show by surprise.

1:12.8

Like they're members of the cast.

1:14.8

We're going on Instagram being like, what's going on?

1:18.2

Why are they sending us home?

1:20.3

And every, when that happened, we all sort of theorizing,

1:24.5

uh-oh, is this show in trouble?

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