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PTG Episode 128 is brought to you once again by the Anime Addicts Anonymous podcast! We have A.A.A. hosts Mitsugi and Chiaki on the phone for a great segment during this hour that you don’t want to miss, regardless of how much or how little you know about anime. It was a fun, informative chat about the current landscape of anime and anime fandom, and if you’re someone like me, who’s had trouble finding anime these days to be accessible due to the sheer volume of it out there, you might find the chat especially helpful. Oh, plus there’s all that chat about hentai and the Cosplay Deviants‘ Hentai Café at Florida SuperCon and “maid cafés” in Japan that you might find fun to listen to–Ryan and Mark from the Talk Nerdy Show, who were in studio for this hour and the next, certainly did!
Along with our interview with Mitsugi and Chiaki, in this hour we discuss the possibility of X-Men film franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner lobbying Warner Bros. to produce a Wonder Woman film. There seems to be a headline in the movie news just about every week now about someone wanting to be a part of a Wonder Woman film, perhaps due in part to the film rights reverting to DC Comics and Warner Bros. from producer Joel Silver, who has basically held them hostage since 2000. Jennifer Love Hewitt wants to play Wonder Woman on screen, Shuler Donner wants to produce the film, the fans certainly WANT the film (as long as it’s done right) … the only people who don’t seem to want the film are the execs at Warner Bros., although I can’t imagine CCO of DC Comics Geoff Johns sitting on his laurels and not trying to make that film happen somehow. Now would certainly be the time to make a movie announcement: this week DC Comics is releasing Wonder Woman #600, which features an introduction by Lynda Carter, which you can read HERE, plus stories from Geoff Johns, J. Michael Straczynski, who will take over writing duites after this issue, outgoing writer Gail Simone, and more, plus art from Phil Jimenez, George Pérez, Adam Hughes, Greg Horn, Ivan Reis, Amanda Conner, Nicola Scott, Joe Madureira, and more! Here are a few images from the gallery of art included in the issue, by Nicola Scott and Phil Jimenez, courtesy of the DC Universe: The Source blog:
Finally, we wrap this episode with a review of the new Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day, which took a beating at the box office thanks to Toy Story 3 still going strong for a second week and Adam Sandler’s new movie Grown-Ups appealing to audiences’ appetite for summertime nostalgia. Knight and Day certainly isn’t a BAD movie, by any means–Cruise sells the action and Diaz brings the cute as only the two of them can–but it feels like the director and producers were banking on those two qualities to completely carry the film, so there’s not much else to it. Orlando Sentinel reviewer Roger Moore put it best in his review, I think: “This is a Killers that works. Sort of. Just don’t think about it too much.” Of course, we have more to say about it in the podcast, so do give it a listen. Enjoy!
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