EL FANBOY #55: "The Age of Endless Studio Tinkering- Delays, Reshoots, and Drama, Oh My!"

On this week's episode of the El Fanboy Podcast, host and Revenge of The Fans Editor-in-Chief Mario-Francisco Robles takes a look at the latest Hollywood craze: Studios Tinkering And Overhauling Their Movies Until The Moment They Arrive In Theaters.

MFR discusses where he thinks this trend began (hint: It's not with Batman v Superman or Justice League), what he thinks it means to the filmmaking process and to us as consumers of these entertainments, and how it's all a negative side effect of something most people love: Shared Cinematic Universes.

For this topic, he examines recent examples of large scale overhauls in franchises like Star Wars, the DCU, and the current Fox/X-Men Universe.

Then, in an effort to make up for the lack of a Revengers Podcast this week, MFR invites one of his co-hosts from that show, Brett Miro, onto El Fanboy for a full-blown news segment. But before that, the duo gives their non-spoiler impressions of Ready Player One- which they saw together last night as part of a Revengers Watch Party in Queens.

Then, together, they cover all of the week's top stories, including:

• Ready Player One's box office prospects
• The big delays for X-Men: Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants
• Interesting updates on the plot and characters we should expect to see in Deadpool 2
• That unicorn of a movie known as Gambit
• The casting and character possibilities for Pedro Pascal in Wonder Woman 2
• Mark Hamill's endless "What If?" chatter when it comes to Star Wars, and how disorganized the storytelling structure seems to be at Lucasfilm
• Those Solo rumors regarding the changes Ron Howard needed to implement when he took over for Chris Lord and Phil Miller

And more!