The Irishman, The Mandalorian, SNL, Tenet, Halloween Kills, and More

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🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On the August 27 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and TV news, including The Mandalorian trailer, a Midsommar Director’s cut, some SNL news, The Irishman’s theatrical release plan, Michael Bay’s new movie, and casting news for Tenet, Halloween Kills, and The Suicide Squad. Opening Banter: In The News: Brad - ‘The Mandalorian’ Trailer Breakdown: Bounty Hunting is a Complicated Profession Chris - ‘Midsommar’ Director’s Cut Opening in Select Theaters This Weekend Brad - Leslie Jones Leaving ‘Saturday Night Live’ Brad - Eddie Murphy Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ in December, Woody Harrelson Takes Season 45 Premiere Brad - Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ Gets a November Release in Theaters and On Netflix Chris - ‘Halloween Kills’ Adds Anthony Michael Hall as a Grown-Up Tommy Doyle Ben - Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Recruits ‘Yesterday’ Star Himesh Patel Chris - Taika Waititi Might Join James Gunn’s ‘The Suicide Squad’ Ben - ‘Black 5’: Michael Bay Will Direct New Action Film for Sony 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 Tuesday August 27th
0:03.4	2019 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about the latest film
0:06.8	and TV news my name is Ben Pearson I'm the senior writer at slash film dot com
0:10.5	and I am joined on today's podcast by slash film weekend editor Brad Omen.
0:14.3	Hey, that's me. And writer Chris Evangelista.
0:17.5	Hello folks. All right, so as you can probably guess from the title of this episode and our voice is talking to you right now,
0:25.2	Peter is not on this episode and he's not going to be talking about D23 yet.
0:28.8	That episode is still coming, so don't worry about that. We aren are going to get to that later this week
0:33.7	but there was a bunch of news that we wanted to talk about today and scheduling
0:37.3	wise and all that stuff this is just how it shakes out so let's get into today's
0:40.5	show let's start off by talking about one of the big trailers that dropped at D23,
0:44.9	and that is for the Mandalorian, which is the Disney Plus show, the live action Star Wars series
0:50.0	that John Favreau is running over there at Disney Plus.
0:53.0	Let's just talk about, first of all, our general impressions of the trailer.
0:57.8	Chris, I want to hear from you.
0:58.8	What did you think about this one?
0:59.8	It looks okay.
1:01.8	I liked that they thought to throw Werner Herzog into the trailer as like the big
1:09.0	finishing moment like yeah, it's like that's usually the moment that's reserved for like a big stinger and for this trailer they made it worder Herzog asking a question so I gotta respect any any property that dares to do that. But beyond that, I mean, you know, it looks
1:25.9	like Star Wars. You know, there was all this talk leading up to about how it was going to be
1:29.2	like this visually groundbreaking thing and maybe you know the fun when I see the actual show it will be but you know watching that trailer I'm not gonna say it looks bad because it doesn't look bad visually but it looks like every other Star Wars thing I've ever seen
1:44.9	so I don't really know what all that hype was about but maybe you know they're
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