Join us as we navigate the cinematic multiverse, pondering the great what-ifs in entertainment history. We look at the history of what actually happened, what could have gone differently, and what effect it might have had on the media landscape.
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In a special mystery season finale, the team looks at a film that was actually completed but never released - Coyote vs. Acme. After a smooth production process and very successful test screenings, the film was nevertheless hidden away by Warner Brothers in 2024, never to be seen again. Why did WB Discovery refuse to release or sell Coyote vs. Acme…
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The Inflection Game - Holiday Special
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1:07:00Eric and Halstead celebrate the holiday season with a special speed round we're dubbing The Infection Game. We get to the bottom of what really matters, like: Why has there never been a movie of the popular 80s Top Gun-meets-Gundam series Robotech? Was Superman a coded look at the post-WW2 Jewish diaspora? Is Scott Rudin a villain in the Inflection…
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On an election's eve episode of The Inflection Cut, the team turns its multiversal projector on the MCU. They dig into the crazy story of when the director of Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver left a major Marvel film he had been working on for almost a decade, less than a month before filming was to start. Why did Edgar Wright quit Ant-Man so clos…
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In the latest episode of The Infection Cut, the team unspools the crazy story of Crusade, Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger's wild, big-budget epic about the 13th century Catholic Crusades. This film had a cast, sets built, and yet was killed just days before filming started. As always, we focus on what really matters: What could make a Holl…
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After the blockbuster success of the Alien sequel Aliens, producing a 3rd movie was a top priority for 20th Century Fox. The tortuous development process that followed eventually led to 1992's divisive Alien3. Eric and Halstead look at the many false starts to see if there was a better way. Could the second Alien sequel have been salvaged? How migh…
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Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One - BONUS FEATURES
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22:53We had too much fun stunt casting Batman Year One and discussing a new vision for DC films in the 21st century, so we spun that discussion off into our first-ever bonus episode! Hopefully, that was a good idea.By Halstead & Eric
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Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One
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1:12:27After the underperforming Batman and Robin, a young filmmaker named Darren Aronofsky pitched a hard-R, 1970s set reimagining of Batman's origin. And it got surprisingly close to seeing the light of day. What if it had been made instead of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins? Would we have the Aronofsyverse instead of the Snyderverse? Join Halsted and…
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In our inaugural episode, Eric & Halstead look at the tortured history of Peter Jackson’s never-made film based on the Halo video game franchise. What led to the film’s failure to launch? Who could have brought this film across the finish line? Why would a Halo film lead to the streaming wars starting a decade earlier? Bibliography…
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