Geeks OUT Podcast: This Podcast is Family Too!

In this week's episode of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin (@Gilligan_McJew) is joined by Geeks OUT President Joey Stern as they jam to the the new music video "Friends are Family" from the Lego Batman movie, discuss the new yet old direction of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and celebrate the gay couple featured in the Alien: Covenant prologue in This Week in Queer. 

This Week's Topics Include:

BIG OPENING:

• KEVIN: Jamie Chung cast as Blink in the untitled X-Men pilot for Fox
• JOEY: Game of Thrones actor cast as Maximus the Mad in Marvel’s Inhumans

 

DOWN AND NERDY:

 

• KEVIN: Agents of SHIELD, Flash, Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers Captain America

• JOEY: Sex Criminals, Riverdale

 

 

STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER:  Nicole Kidman confirmed to play Aquaman’s mother

 

THIS WEEK IN QUEER:  A 4-minute prologue to Alien: Covenant has been released revealing interracial gay couple as part of the crew

 

CLIP OF THE WEEK: Music video released for Friends are Family from Lego Batman

 

THE WEEK IN GEEK:

 

MOVIES

• Batman solo movie after much back and forth, now has a director
• Lego Batman director in talks to direct live action Nightwing movie
• Ryan Reynolds is co-writing the X-Force movie
• Donald Glover and James Earl Jones cast in live action Lion King
• First cast photo of The Predator released
• Production started with first cast photo of the Han Solo movie

 

TV

• J.J. Abrams and Stephen King teaming up for Castle Rock on Hulu
• Trailer released for new season of Archer: Dreamland

 

COMICS

• Marvel Solicitations for May released and Hellcat and Silk are ending, and World of Wakanda, and Spider Woman are missing
• Paul Cornell apologizes for transphopic cover for Vampirella varient cover

 

SHILF:

• KEVIN: Peter Quill
• JOEY: no comment