This week’s episode of GeekScholars Movie News has a lot of interesting headlines to discuss. To begin the show, the hosts play a round of ‘Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down’ where they weigh in on a variety of recent topics, including:
- The newly announced director of Spider-Man
- Casting for the live-action Beauty and the Beast adaptation
- Toy Story 4 plot and genre details
- Independence Day 2 casting
- New writer for Barbie adaptation
- Potential changes to the Academy Award Best Picture category
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From there, the GeekScholars round out the episode with Preview Reviews for Self/less, a psychological thriller starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley as the same person, and Big Game, which stars Samuel L. Jackson as the President on the run for his life in the Finnish countryside.