Getting back to our guest announcements and we’ve got a very exciting guest announcement coming tomorrow.
In our recent “A Look Ahead to 2017” post we teased that we will be interviewing several cast members from the on-going Yu-Gi-Oh! series, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V. We’ll be announcing one of these cast members tomorrow. This actor reprised the role of a character on ARC-V that he voiced on a previous series. He also voiced a different fan-favourite character on a different Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
I’m looking forward to revealing who this guest is!
By Ruari Williamson
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The curtain is closing on what has been another eventful year for our team at the Everything Geek Podcast. I have a lot that I want to talk about in this post but first I want to take the opportunity to thank all of you for your support. Regardless of whether you have been following us from the beginning or are a recent follower, your support means a lot to us and we greatly appreciate it.
During the week I sat down to think about what to talk about in this post and it only then hit me how much has happened for the podcast this year. We’ve now interviewed approximately 200 guests and, even though there were a couple of spells this year where we didn’t have any for a few weeks, we have continued to be consistent in getting guests and branching out into different themes with the guests. Getting to hear people’s stories is a big part of why I enjoy interviewing people and I wanted to take this chance to thank everyone who has been a guest on EGP. Some of the highlights this year were getting to interview Frank Grillo (Captain America), Lars Mikkelsen (Star Wars Rebels, Sherlock), Cory Michael Smith and Drew Powell (Gotham), Matt Letscher and Violett Beane (The Flash), Rick Gonzalez (Arrow), Nika Futterman (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Haven Paschall (Pokémon) and Douglas Sloan and Art Edler Brown (Dragons), but it has been a pleasure talking to everyone who has taken the time to be interviewed on our show.
The major highlights for me on the podcast this year were getting to attend two conventions with a press pass and working with TV networks (namely Fox, Dreamworks and The CW) to bring you exciting interviews from Gotham, Dragons: Race to the Edge and Arrow respectively. Both of these opportunities were very exciting for their own reasons. I have been attending conventions since 2011 but it felt extra special attending MCM Ireland Comic Con (July) and Dublin Comic Con (August) this year with a press pass representing the podcast. Between Dublin Comic Con and London Film & Comic Con in July I was able to get 10 interviews with various guests, which was very exciting. Hopefully we will have more opportunities like that at conventions in 2017.
Likewise, hopefully we’ll be able to work with Fox, Dreamworks and The CW again in 2017. It was an honour to work with them this year and I really appreciate their willingness to work with us. We’re also hoping to work with more networks in 2017. I can’t confirm anything right now (nor do I want to jinx anything) but I’m hopeful we’ll be working with another network early in 2017 and possibly another one or two a few months later. Nothing is confirmed yet but if anything does get confirmed I’ll definitely be announcing it.
While this year has been very exciting for us it has also been a challenging one for me. There are personal reasons why it has been challenging (and I’m not going to go into all of them) but it started in late 2015. Long story short, after attending the midnight screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens I fell ill and could barely do anything for several days. This led to me falling behind on college work and after I went back for the second half of that course I had to prioritise it because of falling behind due to the illness. I don’t want to bore everyone here with details but this led to me not posting as often on the website and not updating frequently with news articles like I had in 2015. This has become a trend again since August when I picked up a worse illness. This illness has left me with a continuous sore throat and for the moment (who knows when it will stop) I’ve only been able to do short podcasts. I’ve kept up doing the interviews most of the time because they’re usually short (usually 20-40 minutes max) and don’t require me to talk the majority of the time as an interview is more about the person being interviewed, though sometimes the sore throat has acted up badly before an interview and I’ve had to reschedule. However, the illness has a side effect where it zaps my energy away so what seems like a simple task can become very challenging. This means that even before our website went down momentarily recently I was struggling to keep it updated.
I wanted to use this opportunity to apologise for not being as consistent with posting on the website. While we have become bigger between attending conventions as press and working with TV networks I was hoping our website would have become a lot bigger by now. Unfortunately because of me that hasn’t happened and I’m hoping in 2017 things will be very different. I don’t know when the illness will go away but for now I intend to have a fresh start on the website posts in 2017. My problem this year was that I kept trying to catch up on previous news articles but from now on I’m just going ahead with what’s new and not trying to catch up by days after today. I have put up a few today that I’ve had for a while but after today it’s a fresh start.
When my illness finally goes away I have big plans to provide a lot more content for the show. The illness has given me time to think about our show and I have decided on some changes going forward that I think will make our show better. From now on our main show on Saturdays will just be an interview (on the Saturdays we have guests) and the discussion of news topics from throughout the week. I want to turn the recent film releases and TV episode discussions into their own show as a more in-depth analysis that we can also put on YouTube as their own thing rather than have them be 10-20 minute snippets on our main show. This might be challenging for us to do at first as we would probably be doing these on weekdays instead of a Saturday (reserved for our main show obviously) but I think this would work out better for both us and you, the listeners. I wouldn’t just use these analysis shows for obvious popular film releases and TV shows but for material that has proven surprisingly popular on our YouTube channel (so including analysis shows for less mainstream shows like Dragons, Pokémon etc). As well as getting our staff involved I think these shows will also be a great way to get friends from other podcasts and other people I’ve become acquainted with involved as well.
In terms of other content we’re aiming to start doing videogame walkthroughs and getting our companion podcast Everything Geek Comic Cast underway in 2017. We’re also hoping to set up an iTunes account at some point and, of course, it wouldn’t be our podcast without interviews to look forward to. I don’t want to give away too much right now but I can say that we’ll be announcing our first guests from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them early in 2017. I’ve also started watching the latest Yu-Gi-Oh! series, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, after having it recommended to me repeatedly (I’ve ended up loving it) and I can tell you that I’ve already booked several guests from it. You won’t have to wait long to find out who one of them is. I can also tease that we will have more of a focus on Marvel’s Netflix shows next year.
2017 will also mark a number of anniversaries we’re very excited about. The 40th anniversary of Star Wars is the big one and we’ll be interviewing numerous guests from across all areas of Star Wars to celebrate the anniversary (including Original Trilogy, Prequel Trilogy, The Clone Wars, Rebels guests and more), not to mention Rogue One and The Force Awakens of course. 2017 will also mark ten years of The Big Bang Theory (and possibly its final season) so we’re hoping to get more guests from that show on our podcast. There are other anniversaries coming up as well but I don’t want to say too much of course.
Hopefully next year is an even bigger year for us than this year was. Thanks as always for your support and I look forward to providing a lot more content for you in 2017.
Ruari Williamson, Founder of the Everything Geek Podcast.
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Our interview with actress Ida Marie Nielsen is now up on our YouTube channel!
You can listen to the interview below:
“Join host Ruari in this guest interview with actress Ida Marie Nielsen, best known for playing Margrethe in Vikings. In the interview they talk about how Ida decided she wanted to become an actress, how Ida was originally cast as Margrethe in Vikings, whether Ida was a fan of Vikings prior to being cast in the show, Ida’s experience stepping onto the set of Vikings for the first time, Ida’s experience working with the cast and crew of Vikings so far, the biggest challenge for Ida of working on Vikings so far, Ida’s favourite memories from working on Vikings so far and the role that Ida has found the most challenging in her career so far.”
Be sure to leave your feedback on the interview and enjoy!
By Ruari Williamson
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We’ll be uploading our first Vikings interview to our YouTube channel today.
We’ll be uploading our interview with actress Ida Marie Nielsen. Ida is best known for playing Margrethe in Vikings.
We hope you’re looking forward to the uploading of the interview!
By Ruari Williamson
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Actress Sigourney Weaver is known for her heroics in Sci-fi films, but now she faces four elite Defenders in the upcoming Marvel Netflix series. However, it’s premature for fans to be too excited for her appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“I’m very happy being in the Marvel with a small ‘M’,'” Weaver admitted to Movies.com. In this recent interview, she touched on topics regarding her involvement in Marvel’s The Defenders along with her work in the James Cameron Avatar sequels.
Weaver discussed her busy schedule with The Defenders, Avatar sequels (four films shot together), and A Monster Calls (a film based off a children’s fantasy novel).
“Meanwhile, I am doing The Defenders, which is a lot of fun,” she said. “It has a wonderful cast, and we’re doing it right here in New York, which means a lot to me.”
Weaver may be best known for battling Xenomorphs in the Alien franchise, but her prolific roles even include small parts like the Working Girl in Ghostbusters. She revealed to Movies.com that The Defenders separates itself from past and present superhero projects with a different feel to it.
“Basically the four heroes come up against this really nice woman, who I’m playing,” she joked. Weaver referred to Marvel’s Netflix series as a love letter to NYC. “To me they’re not superheroes; they’re people with a gift. It’s just a different scale, and I’m really enjoying the scale of it. The apocalyptic thing is a little harder for me to understand.”
A plethora of Marvel characters from the Netflix solo series are starring in The Defenders. These include Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll), Misty Knight (Simone Missick), Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson), Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor), Stick (Scott Glenn) and Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson).
All seasons of Marvel’s Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage are available to view on Netflix. Iron Fist is set to premiere on March 17th, 2017. Marvel’s The Defenders has no set release date, but will premiere later in the same year. The Punisher has no release date announced for now.
Are you excited to see Sigourney Weaver in the Marvel franchise? What are you looking forward to most about Marvel’s The Defenders?
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Takeshi Shudo, head writer of the first three seasons of the Pokémon anime and screenwriter of the first three Pokémon movies, originally wanted a sad ending for the Pokémon franchise. This may come as a surprise since many episodes with Shudo at the helm focused on friendships and growing bonds.
Redditor NAveryW recently translated a blog post that was written only a year before Shudo’s death in 2010 which gave insight on this darker ending. Shudo wanted to finish the show with an elderly Ash Ketchum (Satoshi in the Japanese version) imaging all the Pokémon adventures he went on and going on one last adventure. Every Pokémon adventure he experienced were just figments of his imagination. “Months and years having passed, Satoshi, who has become an old man, suddenly remembers the old days,” states the translated blog. “It is an embellished memory of childhood. A fantasy…The imaginary creatures, Pokémon, and their adventure. Friendship. Coexistence. That is, in the real human world, something Satoshi could not possibly encounter. However, somewhere in childhood, surely Pikachu and the other Pokémon are there, Musashi (Jessie) and Kojiro (James) are there, Mewtwo is there…”
Ending Pokémon on a darker note is not the only interesting idea Shudo had about the franchise. He wrote a blog post about a fourth movie where Pikachu is a revolutionary and frees his kind from captivity and then ends with a battle between Ash and Pikachu. This idea never came into fruition.
What do you think of this proposed ending? What kind of ending would you like to see for the Pokémon anime?
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In The Flash episode where Team Flash fought Magenta (Joey King), who the episodes title “Magenta” was named after, Jesse Quick (Violett Beane) showcased super-speed and her father Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) gave her a super-suit of her own. In the following episode titled “The New Rogues,” she wore the Jesse Quick costume when teaming up with The Flash to face Mirror Master (Grey Damon) and Top (Ashley Rickards).
Andy Poon, artist for The CW’s DC Universe, revealed a trio of Jesse Quick costume designs. Each of them slightly differ from the other. Difference include two missing a chest emblem, however it was featured in the final design. Yellow lightning bolts are visible on the sides of the mask for one design. Her collar and mask differ in design.
Based on the characters from DC Comics, The Flash is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (Arrow, Supergirl), Andrew Kreisberg (Arrow, The Flash), Sarah Schechter (Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and Aaron and Todd Helbing.
What are your thoughts on the alternate Jesse Quick costume designs? Would you have preferred to see any of them used in the show?
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The Everything Geek Podcast is DELIGHTED to announce that actor Brandon Alan Smith is the next actor we’re confirming for a celebrity guest interview on the podcast!
Brandon is best known for playing Talon and for being Theo Galavan’s stunt double in Gotham. His other notable roles include Thad in Taxi Brooklyn, Stuart in Fringe, Soundguy in Life on Mars and Fighting Red Hood in The Batman Chronicles short. His other notable works include a stunt double on Marvel’s Jessica Jones and Elementary and a stunt performer on Blindspot and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
We’re looking forward to chatting with and interviewing Brandon on the podcast. If you have any questions for Brandon please feel free to leave them in the comments. We’ll make sure to post updates once a date is confirmed for Brandon to be on the podcast.
By Ruari Williamson
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Getting back to our guest announcements and we’ll be announcing another very exciting guest later today.
We’ll be announcing our next guest from Gotham. This guest played a supporting character in the on-going third season and was the stunt-double for one of the main villains on the second season.
I’m looking forward to revealing who this guest is!
By Ruari Williamson
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Our interview with actor Charlie Akin is now up on our YouTube channel!
You can listen to the interview below:
“Join host Ruari in this guest interview with actor Charlie Akin, best known for playing played numerous First Order Stormtroopers and a Resistance Rebel in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a Mechanic in the James Bond film Spectre, an Archer in Snow White and the Huntsman, an Archer and a Soldier in Wrath of the Titans, a Courtier in Maleficent, a Soldier in Jack the Giant Slayer, a Barman in Doctor Who and a Guard in Atlantis. In the interview they talk about how Charlie decided that he wanted to become an actor, how Charlie was originally cast in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, whether Charlie was a Star Wars fan prior to his casting in The Force Awakens, whether Charlie knew when he was initially cast that he would be playing multiple roles in The Force Awakens, whether Charlie found the First Order Stormtrooper costume to be uncomfortable in any way, what Charlie had to do as a stand-in for Captain Phasma on two days of working on The Force Awakens, Charlie’s favourite memories from working on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Charlie’s upcoming acting roles and other projects.”
Be sure to leave your feedback on the interview and enjoy!
By Ruari Williamson
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