The Pod Universe with Dylan & Dalton

As War of the Worlds production continues through some unfortunate delays, we're pulling a recent bonus episode out from behind the paywall to help tide you over. Enjoy Studio Mandate pitches based on Phantom of the Paradise (featuring Carol and Jenny from the Dark Universe!) and Killer Klowns from Outer Space (featuring the star-crossed warriors from Last Flight of the Stone Hammer). Plus, reviews of a few spring movie releases and a look back at Billy Wilder's 1960 classic, The Apartment.
CHAPTERS
00:00:00 - War of the Worlds progress update
00:01:11 - Intro and Bev Check
00:05:13 - Dalton's bachelor trip
00:12:57 - At Da Movies: They Will Kill You
00:13:54 - At Da Movies: Faces of Death
00:23:08 - At Da Movies: The Drama
00:27:20 - At Da Movies: Project Hail Mary
00:37:49 - Studio Mandate: Phantom of the Paradise
00:48:20 - The Pitch
01:07:07 - The Dylterion Collection: The Apartment
01:18:19 - Studio Mandate: Killer Klowns from Outer Space
01:37:07 - Nominations are open!

Blockbuster comics writer Jadzia Axelrod (with a slew of books out for DC this June) joins our show to reflect on the 1980 cult classic Flash Gordon film adaptation and pitch us her own vision for an expansive modern cinematic universe based on the classic newspaper comics!
Find more from us at Patreon.com/DylanAndDalton starting at $5/mo, with a 7-day free trial!
CHAPTERS (Spoilers within!)
00:00:00 - Opening
00:03:55 - Introducing Jadzia Axelrod
00:08:06 - Discussing Flash Gordon (1980)
00:11:48 - What is Flash Gordon anyway?
00:18:37 - Jadzia's Flash Gordon origins
00:23:36 - Is Ming the Merciless problematic?
00:39:59 - Setting up Jadzia's Flash pitch
00:53:32 - Direct spin-offs
01:04:23 - Expanding the cast
01:08:53 - Defenders of the Earth
01:19:41 - Jadzia's new comics!

Dylan, Dalton, and Sarah review the new non-Universal monster movie, "Lee Cronin's The Mummy," which takes the basic conceit of "What if there was a mummy?" and goes in a very different direction. We don't mind different! But does this new feature hold up as either a Mummy movie or the Exorcist movie it plainly wants to be?
PLUS: A sneak preview at the forthcoming Pod Universe crossover spectacular, WAR OF THE WORLDS!
CHAPTERS
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:12 - Why we're here
00:04:16 - What makes a Mummy movie?
00:12:46 - Lee Cronin's approach
00:16:31 - Unpacking the story
00:22:48 - Where does it go wrong?
00:28:09 - Quirky filmmaking, bland characters
00:37:48 - CGI sand and CGI bugs
00:47:51 - Let's talk about that ending
00:55:02 - Our final verdict
00:57:28 - Sneak peak at War of the Worlds
01:05:00 - What's next for The Pod Universe?

SPOILER ALERT! We will be spoiling all of 1998's THE FACULTY, right off the bat!
Taylor Ortega, comedian and star of the new Netflix series "Big Mistakes," visits The Pod Universe to revisit the 1998 sci-fi Scream-alike, THE FACULTY, and pitch her own contemporary remake! Let's take a look back at the surprisingly rad Robert Rodriguez flick that's essentially Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Breakfast Club, featuring not nearly enough Usher!
This episode is sponsored by "Light Pursuit," the new album from Syracuse rock band Mosaic Mind. Find out more about mosaicmindband.com
And as always you can join our Patreon at Patreon.com/DylanAndDalton to get bonus episodes and help decide what classic film we'll reimagine next.
CHAPTERS
00:00:00 - Opening, and a little bit of dram
00:02:58 - Introducing our guest, Taylor Ortega!
00:06:12 - Looking back at The Faculty (1998)
00:17:06 - Mapping The Breakfast Club parallels
00:20:18 - Getting Taylor onto The Pitt
00:22:29 - The Faculty says "Do Drugs"
00:28:22 - A digression about White Nights (1985)
00:30:27 - Themes and meta-text in The Faculty
00:36:34 - The soundtrack, and some fun vices
00:42:26 - How The Faculty altered film history
00:45:50 - Sponsor: "Light Pursuit" by Mosaic Mind
00:48:40 - Taylor's pitch for The Faculty
00:59:27 - Workshopping the pitch
01:30:35 - Picking a director
01:36:23 - Taylor plugs her new show Big Mistakes!
01:37:46 - What's next for the Pod Universe?

A new era begins on our bonus pod, Are You Afraid of Dylan & Dalton? in which Patrons get more control over what movies we watch and what stories we tell!
This month, we are pitching a Dark Universe horror movie version of THE BOSS BABY. That's right, the Patrons have spoken and the very first movie elected to the Studio Mandate queue is the Dreamworks animated feature in which Alec Baldwin plays a newborn baby who means business.
You can help select our next Studio Mandate by joining the Patreon! $25/mo subscribers get to nominate a movie every month, and those nominees get voted on by all subscribers at the $8/mo level or higher. And of course, all paid subscribers get to listen to the results. Nominations for next month's Mandate open RIGHT NOW, so if you're a Studio Executive subscriber, hit us up via DM on Patreon or Discord and we'll put your choice on the ballot.