Michael and Us: The Void Soys Back
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What if a movie about a corporate merger became the most popular movie of the year? Friends, you don't have to imagine it. We discuss DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (2024) and ponder the question that Vulture asked: "Is Shawn Levy the Future of Populist Filmmaking?"
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're wish, on a star, |
| 0:05.0 | makes no difference who you are. |
| 0:09.0 | On the sacred timeline, hoping to give, join the Avengers, and give his life added meaning. |
| 0:15.0 | He is rejected by happy Hogan and returns to his universe. |
| 0:19.3 | Did that happen in the movie we just saw? |
| 0:21.1 | Yeah, I think so. I want to kick things off by answering a question that Luke asked me off Mike. You were wondering is, so Deadpool is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. |
| 0:33.0 | Like does that mean he was DC? |
| 0:34.7 | Like, what was he before this? |
| 0:36.5 | I think I can explain this. |
| 0:38.5 | Deadpool was a Marvel property who was owned by Fox. You see when Marvel Studios was created in the 2000s, |
| 0:47.0 | they had sold off a lot of their most popular heroes, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Spider-Man, the Deadpool, and what they had were some of their |
| 0:57.5 | less popular heroes, which included Iron Man, the Hulk, Haw Eye, Fish for Brains, the Yellow Kid, Cole Black, |
| 1:07.6 | Bilf, Shrem. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, all the Milkyky and Zappo. |
| 1:14.0 | They were all in, they were all owned in house, that's right. |
| 1:19.0 | So they created the Marvel Cinematic Universe with those raw materials. |
| 1:22.0 | And in the years since, they've been trying to find a way to get back those other characters that they sold off because the deals they made were they lease Spider-Man to Sony and as long as Sony makes a Spider-Man property every three to five years. |
| 1:37.0 | As long as there's a new Spider-Man trilogy. |
| 1:40.0 | Or just a new spider thing. |
| 1:42.0 | Yeah. This is why Warren Beatty has been able to keep the rights to Dick |
| 1:45.6 | Tracy for 30 years because every 10 years he makes a TV special that airs on Turner Classic |
| 1:51.9 | movies where he dresses this Dick Tracy and says I'm |
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