 Duncan Jones previously known as Zoe Bowie, I believe, David Bowie's son, he is finishing out his moon trilogy in graphic novel form. So Duncan Jones back in 2009 released a movie called Moon with Sam Rockwell. This movie was critically acclaimed and he intended it to kick off a trilogy of tangentially connected films, three movies that would all take place in the same universe and have some thematic connections. So that was 2009 and 2018 he did release a movie called Mute Straight to Netflix with Alexander Skarsgard and Paul Rudd. In some countries they actually called the movie Moon 2. So it took place in the same universe Sam Rockwell actually did appear in the film so they had some direct connections but the movie did not do well with audiences and was critically panned. I think it had a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes versus the 90% that Moon got. So it seemed unlikely that Duncan Jones would get to make the third film in this trilogy. It's an expensive film so he's taking to Kickstarter instead in order to raise funds to release his third film as a graphic novel. The graphic novel is called Maddie Once Upon a Time in the Future. It'll be 260 pages long which is pretty long for a graphic novel. It's written by Duncan Jones and Alex De Campy who is a comic writer who wrote a comic book called Archie versus Predator. It's funny because if you look in the Kickstarter she's credited as so Alex De Campy and then it says Blade Runner. I thought whoa they got the writer for Blade Runner but they're referring to an anime spin-off of Blade Runner not the Blade Runner film. And the comic is going to be drawn by some pretty well-known artists one of whom is Glenn Fabry who wrote or who drew a preacher. So you can go and read the first 19 pages of the graphic novel today on the Kickstarter and I have to say I like what I saw. It's kind of hard to judge the writing just off 19 pages but at least the art is fantastic. And when it comes to comic books I'm a fan of detailed art that looks pretty real and that's exactly what you see here. And I think that'll also make it palatable to people who watch the first couple movies aren't really big into comics. This will be a good stepping stone for them. A gateway comic. Exactly. Right after this you'll be picking up Spider-Man, Batman and all the rest. Well let me pause there. You guys both saw Moon right? Yeah. So what did you think of Moon? Have you followed Duncan Jones since then and what do you think about this graphic novel approach? Go ahead. Sure. I loved Moon. I saw it on the last flight that I was on I believe a few months ago for the second time and it was just as good as I remembered it being. I have not followed anything else Duncan Jones has done. Did you see Source Code? Oh yeah and I would love that movie too. I'm not a huge graphic novel person but once in a while there's one that if you recommend it to me I enjoy it like Watchmen, Scott Pilgrim. So I'm definitely down to read this. So I love David Bowie. He's my favorite musician so anything that his spawn produces is something that I'm interested in. His spawn. I haven't seen World of Warcraft or Mute but I saw Source Code, I saw Moon and I love them both and I like graphic novels so for me this feels like a good fit. Yeah I think not to be repetitive but loved Moon, loved Source Code. I didn't watch Warcraft or Mute. At some point I will go back and watch them but I was just you know just hearing what the critics were saying about it and audiences in general kind of dampened my enthusiasm for them, curbed my enthusiasm if you will. I like being contrarian and there are plenty of movies and shows that I like that are not widely liked by other people but I can't think of anything that's so heavily disliked that I do like. The one I go back to is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zsu from Wes Anderson. Critics hated that movie, one of my favorite movies of all time. So Mute or Warcraft could be the next Life Aquatic with Steve Zsu for me we'll see. I like having an opinion that I can be like yeah I'm the only one that thinks this everyone else you know feels differently so maybe it's worth checking them out. Hey maybe we watch Mute do a review? Yeah unless we don't like it. Yeah we'll never mention it again. And by the way the premise of the graphic novel Maddie Preston a veteran of Britain's elite special operations J squad unit is burnt out and up to her eyeballs in debt. She and the rest of her team have retired from the military but are now trapped having to pay to service and maintain the technology that was put into them during their years of service. Someone's got to check the grammar on this Kickstarter here. They're working for the British conglomerate Liberty Inc as mercenaries selling their unique ability to be remote controlled by specialists while in the field and the debts are only growing as they get injured completing missions. We see Maddie as she decides she's had enough she will take an off the book's job that should earn her enough to pay out her and her sister one last job at them. Never heard that premise before. But when the piece of tech she's supposed to steal turns out to be a kid and she suddenly blacks out she finds herself on the run from everyone she's ever known. Is this the Mandalorian? Do you say that because it feels like it was a plot copied and pasted from other plots you've heard before? Yeah it does. But I mean I am still hopeful about it. The thing that the thing I kept thinking when I was hearing that description is it sounds like a video game. It does sound like a video game and it doesn't surprise me because Duncan Jones is clearly in the comics clearly into video games you know adapting Warcraft so he comes from the mentality that would think like a video game. I love that last line she's on the run from everyone she's ever known that's pretty rough. And you know going back to what we said earlier in this video about Zack Snyder getting to release his Snyder cut along the same lines I love the fact that Duncan Jones has found a way to see his vision all the way through and I think a lot of other people would have given up they would have said the movie can't be done justice without the right budget so forget it I'm not going to do it. And here he says I'm going to get this out there and they're going to do it as a graphic novel which I think is a great concession. Yeah and also it's impressive because did the Kickstarter come out like today? I believe it started today. Yeah and its goal is $50,000 it's already exceeded $200,000. It's good because I don't have to donate to it. Yeah we don't feel pressured at all. And you know I want to see more movies from Duncan Jones right? I want him to knock another one out of the park like Moon and Source Code so all for this graphic novel I'm going to read it I'm looking forward to it but what is he going to do next in terms of film? The last project we heard about was in 2018 Duncan Jones was hired to direct the adaptation of a comic book called Rogue Trooper. Now this comes from an anthology series called 2000 AD that might sound familiar because that is the same anthology where the Judge Dread comics got published. So Rogue Trooper is about a genetically engineered super soldier and the Kickstarter here for Maddie once upon a time in the future this Kickstarter actually mentions Rogue Trooper and says that Duncan Jones will get back to making that film once it's safe to start producing movies again. So it's good to hear that's still on track because we haven't really heard anything about it in a year or so and Rogue Trooper is part of a broader plan by the company Rebellion Studios who are producing a Judge Dread TV series and are planning to adapt more works from the 2000 AD anthology series. So a lot going on for Duncan Jones and hopefully Rogue Trooper is good hopefully Maddie is good too. Any other thoughts on the graphic novel or Duncan Jones? No but every time I pick up a graphic novel and get into it it's very satisfying to have a page turner to keep coming back to so I hope it's good. Yeah as with everything we discussed I hope it's good. Alon do you hope it's good? Yeah. All right good. What a shocker. No it's too much good stuff to watch I don't want any more. 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