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Talk To Me directors Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou sit down with Nerdist’s Kyle Anderson to discuss the origin of the film’s cursed hand, their early horror shorts, and their favorite modern horror classics on today’s episode of Nerdist Now!
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At first glance, Lazarus looks to be a fast paced, jazzy, thriller that I am sure will dazzle the hell out of us all when it finally arrives. Featuring a character being chased throughout the short preview trailer, the animation is smooth, sleek even, and worth re-watching for its short one minute and thirty-one second run time. There’s enough Mirror’s Edge-like parkour to make me a little dizzy and and a variety of characters on screen to keep me interested and speculating until we get more.
San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone. While this year was lighter on big time celebrity sightings and panels, it led way to more niche programming and panels. A big highlight from this year was the reveal of Shinichirō Watanabe presenting a first look at the series at the Adult Swim Festival. Watanabe, the prolific director responsible for helming several of our faves including Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Carol & Tuesday has a new world for us to eyeball and get lost in.
What is Lazarus About?
According to Anime News Network: “The year is 2052 – an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity prevails across the globe. The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain. Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has developed a miracle cure-all drug with no apparent drawbacks called Hapuna. Hapuna soon becomes ubiquitous… and essential. However, soon after Hapuna is officially introduced, Dr. Skinner vanishes.
Three years later, the world has moved on. But Dr. Skinner has returned – this time, as a harbinger of doom. Skinner announces that Hapuna has a short half-life. Everyone who has taken it will die approximately three years later. Death is coming for this sinful world – and coming soon.
As a response to this threat, a special task force of 5 agents is gathered from across the world to save humanity from Skinner’s plan. This group is called ‘Lazarus.’ Can they find Skinner and develop a vaccine before time runs out?”
Who Else is Involved in the making of Lazarus?
Off jump, we know that Lazarus is being directed by Shinichirō Watanabe. Thanks to Anime News Network, as confirmed through Twitter that Watanabe is directing every episode. One of our favorite heavy hitting animation studios MAPPA (Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen) is responsible on that front with the series being produced by Sola Entertainment. Another name attached to the program that pulled all the eyeballs is Chad Stahelski, perhaps best known as the director behind the amazing John Wick films.
Stahelski apparently designed and/or storyboarded several action sequences for the series which continues to elevate who and what we know of the creative team so far. Another wonderful surprise is the addition of the anime jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, and producers, DJs, and musicians Floating Points and Bonobo. We are to expect that Lazarus will feature a score by music created by Washington, Floating Bonobo, and if the trailer’s music is anything to go by, we’re in for a treat.
Final Thoughts:
The short trailer for Lazarus has intrigued me and left me a little star struck, to be honest. I have really always loved the science fiction world in the anime projects that Watanabe has been involved in. He’s also had a great hand in collabs with musicians and artists that I love listening to. Additionally, Stahelski, a renowned stuntman in his own right has brought us some engaging and entertaining fight sequences in recent years through the John Wick movies. The world building and lore of the John Wick franchise continues to fascinate me to this day, as well.
With just a few other names of the creative team announced, I am hyped for this project involving not just faves of mine but talented folks who are sure to bring us all something visionary and authentically original to watch in the near future! We are anticipating more previews and sneak peeks of Lazarus as the new series will eventually premiere on Adult Swim sometime soon. Stay tuned as we all learn more!
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One of the biggest weekends in Hollywood history delivered everything audiences hoped for and more. Barbie and Oppenheimer are both critical and box office hits. More importantly their combined force has reignited the public’s love affair with going to the movies.
But we know it’s not enough to simply enjoy each film for what it is. Only a fool would let themselves appreciate two distinct works of art on their own merits. I mean, they had the audacity to come out on the same day! That kind of confrontational release schedule, which was pretty common not that long ago, is basically begging very smart people to declare one a winner instead of celebrating that each is elevating the other while also lifting the entire medium and industry. And since we’re not idiots we’re pitting each film head-to-head in a scientific, totally objective, totally serious Barbenheimer showdown. And we’re doing that with categories that apply equally to both films.
Best Explosion
In a matchup this tough it’s always nice to start with a layup. Obviously this goes to the movie which features an explosion of neon-pink. Advantage: Barbie
Best Use of Color
This is another easy category to hand out. Only one is partially shot in black-and-white, making all of its scenes in color really stand out in comparison. A classic case of “less is more.” Advantage: Oppenheimer
Best Costumes
Barbie has great costumes, absolutely. But they’re mostly based on toys lots of people have purchased. That pre-existing template likely made it super easy to recreate countless extravagant, stunning, memorable looks. Meanwhile, Oppenheimer needed clothes covering a span of nearly 40 years, from 1924 to 1963. During that time men went from wearing dark suits and hats to slightly different dark suits and hats. And it’s not clear they even have cameras back then. Talk about a tough assignment! Advantage: Oppenheimer
Most Times Saying the Movie’s Title
People say “Barbie” a lot in Barbie, but they also say “Oppenheimer” a lot in Oppenheimer. We tried to count each instance but lost track of both after roughly 20 minutes, so this analysis is maybe a little less objective than we’d like. Considering people sometimes chant or call him “Oppy,” whereas no one ever calls her “Barb,” we feel good about which one is probably correct. Advantage: Barbie
Best Musical Number
Tough break for Oppenheimer. Despite being three hours long, director Christopher Nolan inexplicably didn’t find room for a single musical number. Will that cost the movie at the Oscars? It definitely won’t help. Meanwhile “I’m Just Ken” will likely take home three or four Academy Awards on its own. Advantage: Barbie
Best Use of a Line From the Sacred Hindu Text the Bhagavad Gita
We swear this is true: nothing said in Barbie comes directly from the Bhagavad Gita. No, not even anything Weird Barbie says We can’t believe it either! Advantage: Oppenheimer
Second Best Use of a Line From the Sacred Hindu Text the Bhagavad Gita
More like “Now I am become repetitive, the repeater of words,” amirite? But a technical win is still a win, so… Advantage: Oppenheimer
Smartest Lead Character
Who adds a random “J” to the start of their name for no reason? Oppenheimer was literally no Einstein. Meanwhile, Stereotypical Barbie was busy saving her world with a genius plan while the “brilliant” scientist was busy blowing up his. Advantage: Barbie
Biggest Crybaby (In a Good Way)
Some of Barbie‘s best, most emotional, most important scenes feature its lead character crying. Advantage: Barbie
Biggest Crybaby (In a Bad Way)
How many people in history have had the sitting U.S. President call them a “crybaby” in the Oval Office? Gotta be a small list. Advantage: Oppenheimer
THE ULTIMATE BARBENHEIMER WINNER
Uh oh. Our thorough, all-encompassing categories—meticulously designed to fairly compare a heartfelt, lively comedy about an iconic toy that explores what it means to be a woman and a grand, somber biopic about one of the most consequential and complicated scientists in history—resulted in a final score of 5-5-1. You don’t need to be an astrophysicist to know that equals a tie. We haven’t been this disappointed since we found out the patriarchy isn’t just about horses. Better add one more category to break it.
Best Existential Crisis By a Main Character About How Their Life Hurt So Many People
Advantage: Push
Dang. Looks like there’s no clear “winner” in our big Barbenheimer showdown.
THE ULTIMATE BARBENHEIMER TIE
…Is it possible no one “won?” In fact, is it actually childish to evaluate art in a binary way that diminishes movies into arbitrary winners and losers? Should we instead focus on each film’s deep themes that get to the very nature of what it means to exist and how we help shape the world we live in? In fact, aren’t the real winners everyone who loves movies, because we got two excellent, star-studded original films by talented directors on the same day?
Yeah, maybe. But we’re going to go see both movies a few more times just to be sure.
Mikey Walsh is a staff writer at Nerdist. You can follow him on Twitter at @burgermike. And also anywhere someone is ranking the Targaryen kings.
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