Tron: Ares (With Screenwriter Jesse Wigutow), The Last Frontier (With Jason Clarke), and a News Catch-Up
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On the October 15, 2025 episode of /Film Weekly, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by several people to talk about the latest film and TV news, discuss Tron: Ares and present an interview with one of that film’s writers, and talk about the new Apple show The Last Frontier and present an interview with that show’s star, Jason Clarke.
(~01:30) In The News:
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/minecraft-2-release-date-1236574896/
- Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair will be released in theaters nationwide for the first time ever
- Netflix has announced a Peaky Blinders sequel. There will be two new seasons, with each consisting of six 60-minute episodes.
- https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/stranger-things-5-runtimes-first-four-episodes-1236551797/
- https://www.slashfilm.com/1995109/m-night-shyamalan-next-tv-series-magic-8-ball/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/george-clooney-oceans-14-warner-bros-update-1236573384/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/bradley-cooper-oceans-prequel-margot-robbie-1236574659/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/tangled-scarlett-johansson-resumes-development-1236574770/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/crush-spec-john-fischer-sells-20th-century-studios-1236574771/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/knives-out-rian-johnson-break-original-script-1236582323/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/amazon-mgm-studios-united-artists-heat-2-leonardo-dicaprio-1236572358/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/clue-scripted-series-dana-fox-nicholas-stoller-board-game-1236573352/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/clue-competition-series-netflix-1236571635/
- https://deadline.com/2025/09/simpsons-new-movie-release-date-marvel-1236565221/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/jason-bateman-tom-holland-the-partner-john-grisham-movie-1236569719/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/final-destination-7-michiel-blanchart-1236569659/
- https://deadline.com/2025/10/bela-lugosi-biopic-leonardo-dicaprio-in-works-universal-1236584697/
(~10:52) Tron: Ares
Tron: Ares Review: A Thoughtless Sequel With An Uncharismatic Lead But A Pretty Great Soundtrack
(~29:54) Interview with Jesse Wigutow
(~40:30) The Last Frontier
(~51:21) Interview with Jason Clarke
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Weekly. It's Wednesday, October 15th, 2025. On today's |
| 0:05.0 | episode of the show, I'm going to be talking about the latest film and TV news. We'll discuss |
| 0:08.7 | Tron Ares and present an interview with one of that film's writers. And we'll talk about the |
| 0:13.2 | new Apple show, The Last Frontier, and present an interview with that show's star, Jason Clark. |
| 0:18.9 | My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashbump.com, |
| 0:21.9 | and I'm back after my vacation. As you can probably hear in my voice, I picked up a sickness |
| 0:27.4 | at the tail end of it, which is a bit of a bummer. But thankfully, that was the worst part of |
| 0:33.5 | the whole vacation. The whole rest of it, I had a really nice two weeks where I celebrated |
| 0:38.4 | my 40th birthday. And if you're a listener to my other podcast, Pop Cultured with a D, you can hear |
| 0:44.5 | me talk all about that trip and the highlights of it. That podcast, for those of you who don't know, |
| 0:51.2 | involves me and Yatran Bowie and Peter Serretta and BJ and Brad and Jacob |
| 0:56.9 | all talking about all sorts of stuff. |
| 0:59.9 | I do box office episodes over there with Ryan Scott. |
| 1:02.9 | So if you are a long time listener of this show |
| 1:05.9 | and you miss things like the water cooler discussions |
| 1:07.9 | or the box office chats that Ryan and I used to have, |
| 1:11.6 | definitely check us out at patreon.com slash pop cultured, and you'll probably find a lot to enjoy over there. |
| 1:19.1 | So I recorded the segments of today's episode of this show in kind of a weird order, |
| 1:23.7 | so my voice might sound like it's going through various stages of severity as we go here. |
| 1:28.9 | But I'm just going to try to power through starting with a pretty big news segment. A bunch of |
| 1:33.1 | news happened over the two weeks that I was away. And I'll try to run through a bunch of the stuff |
| 1:36.9 | fairly quickly. So a Minecraft movie two is in the works at Warner Brothers, which of course it is. |
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