Lanterns Podcast – Season 1, Episode 3: “OutKast”

But there's been a lot of talks about, you know, about the state of the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger.

Again, it's, you know, we don't know if it's gonna happen.

May not happen.

It may happen.

We will see.

But, um, there was this p- one person going around claiming that Andy Muschietti had said that The Brave and the Bold was on hold because of the merger, and thankfully James Gunn...

So people were bugging him about it on Threads, asking him about this supposed rumor.

Mm-hmm.

And, um, and I actually, you know, 'cause I, I did cover it at Screen Rant, and, uh, James had said that, "No, nothing is on hold." And Gunn went on to say-

[laughs]

... "I suspect what is lik- I suspect what's likely is that Musche- Muschietti himself doesn't know if he's moving..." No, no, no, that, this was what the person was claiming, uh, as a response to our buddy, Home of the DCU, Brandon Davis.

Um-

Mm-hmm

...

but, uh, Gunn had said, uh, "It doesn't sound like something Andy would say, would have said, but the project is in no way on hold." So again, this is why it's very dangerous these days that people just...

Uh, and the original post, like, and I, you know, I, I kept the receipts.

So this started with someone named Dan Marcus, who is a filmmaker, had quote tweeted a parody account of the crave news or something like that, that called @ChaosCrave, that was claiming that Michael Johnston from Obsession was reportedly in negotiations with DC Studios to play Dick Grayson/Nightwing in Brave and the Bold.

He quote tweeted it saying, "I have no idea if this is true or not.

I'm assuming that's, it's definitely false, but I did hear from Muschietti that all work on The Brave and the Bold is on hold until after the merger is settled." Then, you know, our buddy Cole from Home of the DCU q- had quote tweeted saying, "I wouldn't be surprised if Muschietti said this, but the statement, but the statement is just false.

I can see the merger, um, hurting some green lines, but I would imagine, uh, it would hit lesser-known projects more.

A pending merger isn't going to stop someone from writing, uh, like a strike would." And this Dan Marcus person followed up saying, "I suspect what's likely is that Muschietti himself doesn't know if he's moving ahead with The Brave and the Bold until after the merger gets finalized." But he also mentioned, [laughs] if it doesn't pan out, him directing the film, he would just move on to another film, so he just doesn't seem worried.

And then another was-

No, he's making a TV show.

Like, this never comes up that he-

Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.