NEWS: Wonder Man Trailer, Predator: Badlands $4.8 in Previews, Chloé Zhao Launches Kodansha Studios & Jennifer Lawrence's Miss Piggy Movie
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🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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This week in PREVIOUSLY ON… Jason and Rosie break down the latest trailer for Marvel’s Wonder Man, arriving January 27th. They also discuss filmmakers Chloé Zhao and Nicolas Gonda launching Kodansha Studios, which will bring some of Kodansha’s biggest manga titles to life in live-action. Then, they share their box office predictions for Dan Trachtenberg’s new Predator film, Predator: Badlands, before reacting to the news that Gremlins 3 is officially a go - with Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus returning! Finally, they wrap up with news that Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are teaming up to produce a new Miss Piggy film, written by Tony Award winner Cole Escola.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | On today's episode, we are talking Gremlins 3, the Miss Piggy movie, and more. |
| 0:09.8 | It is news. |
| 0:10.5 | Ooh. |
| 0:29.3 | Yeah. Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion. |
| 0:30.4 | And I'm Rosie Knight. |
| 0:33.1 | And welcome back to X-ray Vision in the podcast where we dive deep. It's your favorite shows. |
| 0:33.9 | We've been pop culture coming from my heart where we bring you you three episodes a week plus news, and it is news. |
| 0:39.2 | It's news. |
| 0:40.1 | In today's previously on news episode, we are catching you up on the biggest news of the week, |
| 0:45.4 | including Chloe Zhao and Nicholas Gonda creating live action manga adaptations, |
| 0:52.5 | Predator Badlands box office preview. Wow, we got so much stuff for you. |
| 0:57.6 | Let's talk about it. First up, new trailer for Wonder Man, which is out January 27th, showing the |
| 1:05.1 | lifestyle of a burgeoning superhero and entertainer out in L.A. We see Ben Kingsley repreasing his role from the |
| 1:15.1 | MCU, of course, as the leader of the... Trevor Slattery. The great Trevor Slattery, formerly known as |
| 1:21.5 | the leader of the Ted Riggs terrorist group, which he was not, but I love that. |
| 1:29.0 | I am excited for the show and I want it to be good. |
| 1:32.3 | That is my takeaway. |
| 1:33.5 | I think the trailer looks really good. |
| 1:35.7 | I'm excited to see this kind of like Marvel metacometry about movies and the making of movies and being an actor. |
| 2:18.2 | This is going back to, I think, what they did best with Wondervision, which is they made a show about TV. So it makes sense that with Simon Williams, who has that connection, they're going to make a TV show about movies, making movies. And I'm very interested to see how Trevor plays into this. Obviously, love Yaya Abdulormitin. He's amazing. Yeah. And Simon Williams is a great character. So yeah, I can't wait to see that. The end of the trailer is really interesting in which we see Simon have to sign an NDA. What are his, for the audience at home, who's not super versed on Wonderband? Like, what is Wonderband's deal? Okay, so the very interesting thing about this is there seems to be some kind of lore against superheroes being in movies. |
| 2:22.7 | So I think we could be seeing our establishment of these kind of class systems that we've been |
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