May 2024 News Round-Up (270‪)‬ Kneel Before Pod

May is over but news never ends so our monthly round-up continues. The conversation covers missed theatrical opportunities, franchises scraping the barrel for content. and so many prequels.
Craig McKenzie can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Angus Ballantine can be found on this very site and over on SoundCloud. Kat Kourbetti can be found on Twitter and elsewhere under here.
Show Notes
TV Reviews
Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Discovery season 5
Craig’s reviews of WandaVision
Craig’s reviews of Heroes Reborn
Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Picard
Craig's reviews of The Boys season 3
Movie Reviews
Craig’s review of Godzilla
Craig’s review of Kong: Skull Island
Craig’s review of Godzilla Vs. Kong
Craig’s review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Craig’s review of Logan
Craig’s review of Madame Web
Craig's review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Craig’s review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Craig’s review of John Wick
Craig’s review of John Wick: Chapter 2
Craig’s review of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Craig’s review of Top Gun: Maverick
Craig’s review of A Quiet Place
Craig’s review of A Quiet Place Part II
Craig’s review of Moana
Craig’s review of the Martian
Craig’s review of The Maze Runner
Craig’s review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Craig's review of The Age of Adaline
Craig's review of Independence Day: Resurgence
Craig's review of Geostorm
Craig's review of It Follows
Craig's review of Pig
Craig's review of Silence
Craig's review of Hacksaw Ridge
Craig's review of Skyscraper
Craig's review of Plane
Craig's review of Tomb Raider
Craig's review of Army of the Dead
Craig's review of Now You See Me 2
Craig's review of The Giver
Craig's review of X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Craig's review of Steel Country
Craig's review of Robert The Bruce
Craig's review of Divergent
Craig's review of The Divergent Series: Allegiant
Craig's review of Transcendence
Podcasts
2024 Alien Day Special – Predator
2024 Star Wars Day Special – The Clone Wars
Logan
WandaVision
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Madame Web
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Star Trek: Picard season 1
Star Trek: Picard season 2
Star Trek: Picard season 3
Trailers
Lee
The Surfer
Megalopolis
It Ends With Us
Dune Prophecy
The Boys season 4
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Twisters
A Quiet Place: Day One
The Acolyte
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy
Never Let Go
Trigger Warning
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Reagan
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2
Moana 2
Wicked
News
Ralph Ineson cast as Galactus in Fantastic Four
John Malkovich cast in Fantastic Four
Agatha Harkness series title confirmed
Spider-Man: Noir series greenlit with Nicolas Cage to star
Silk: Spider Society no longer in development
Phil Lord and Chris Miller in charge of Sony’s Marvel universe
Michael Lesslie to write Marvel’s X-Men movie
Terry Matalas set as showrunner for Vision
Taylor Swift to join the MCU (Rumor)
First look at David Corenswet as Superman
Batman: The Caped Crusader first look
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew synopsis
Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac to star in Flesh of the Gods
Oscar Isaac to voice Jesus Christ in The King of Kings
Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer to star in The Death of Robin Hood
Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy to star in The Magic Faraway Tree
Andrew Garfield to join Julia Roberts in Luca Guadagnino’s The Hunt
Adam Wingard sets next film Onslaught
Greta Lee and Kingsley Ben-Adir to start in Louis Leterrier’s 11817
Andy Samberg to star in The Robots Go Crazy
Sydney Sweeney to play US Boxer Christy Martin
Edgar Wright in talks to direct Sydney Sweeney in Barbarella 
Kathryn Bigelow to direct real-time missile attack thriller
Gerard Butler in talks to star in Empire State
Dan Stevens and Al Pacino to star in The Ritual
A Donnie Yen led John Wick spinoff in confirmed
Tomb Raider seri