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Movies We're Embarrassed We Haven't Seen Yet, Chris Rock Rebooting Saw & More

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🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On the May 16, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Saw, Iron Man, John Carpenter, Ghostbusters, Martin Scorsese, and Evil Dead. In The News: Chris: ‘Saw’ Reboot Coming From Chris Rock (Yes, That Chris Rock) HT: Bruce Campbell Teases More ‘Evil Dead,’ But Without Ash Williams Chris:  John Carpenter Would ‘Love to Make a Little Horror Film’ Again HT: The Real Mandarin Will Show Up At Some Point in the MCU, Kevin Feige Confirms Chris: Martin Scorsese Is Obsessing Over the “Youthification” CGI in ‘The Irishman’ HT: Bill Murray Open to Appearing in Jason Reitman’s New ‘Ghostbusters’ Sequel   In The Mailbag: Kolin from San José writes in: “What are some movies you’re embarrassed you haven’t seen yet?” 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 Thursday, May 16th, 2019.

0:05.0

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

0:08.8

answer a question in the mailbag. This is slash film editor-in-Chief Peter Sorretta,

0:13.0

and joining me out to this podcast, and film Writers,

0:15.4

Why Trend Bowie?

0:16.7

Hey everyone.

0:17.6

And Chris, Evangelista.

0:19.4

Hello folks.

0:21.0

Okay, so we have a bunch of horror news to talk about today. Let's start out with that.

0:26.0

The first of which was kind of surprising, not kind of surprising, it was very surprising.

0:31.7

And that is that they are rebooting saw that that part is not that

0:35.0

surprising it's the fact that it's coming from comedian Chris Rock Chris what

0:41.7

is going on here?

0:43.0

Yeah, so Chris Rock is apparently a really big fan of the Saw franchise, which I don't think any of us knew.

0:50.0

And he came up with a story he's producing and he's going to star in a saw they're calling it a reimagining which is just another way of saying reboot really so

1:00.3

Get ready for a whole new saw movie.

1:02.8

I'm Darren Lynn Bousman, who directed saw two, three, and four,

1:07.3

is coming back to direct it, and we don't really know

1:10.4

what the plot's going to be,

1:11.6

but we do know based on the comments from the producers and Chris Rock that even though Chris Rock is involved it's not going to be a comedy.

1:19.1

They're selling it as you know a dark and gritty and chilling and twisted new movie so I mean I'm sure

1:27.7

it'll have some sort of humor in it kind of like how Danny McBride wrote the new Halloween movie and that had jokes in it,

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