This month, the team heads to the final frontier to look at the decade-long struggle to revive Star Trek in the 1970s.  Even though there were no new episodes in the 1970s, CBS almost immediately had regrets about Star Trek’s cancellation and spent the disco era trying to find a way back to the quickly growing legions of fans. Show notes: https://tinyurl.com/3dudjuj9

The team digs into Orson Welles’ originally planned film - a wild adaptation of Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Along the way, they unearth the bones of the original plans for Apocalypse Now when it was to be a guerrilla film made by director George Lucas in the early 70s - while Vietnam was still at war! Show notes: https://tinyurl.com/4x6e6tuw

On a new episode of The Inflection Cut, the team take on that internet safe space that is Star Wars. Specifically, the Episode IX that almost was, Colin Trevorrow’s Duel of the Fates. Would it have been Disney’s New Hope or Revenge of the Space Bros? Show notes: https://tinyurl.com/bdxrkdzf

On this episode of The Inflection Cut, the team looks at Guillermo del Toro’s many attempts to get his passion project, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s novel At the Mountains of Madness, to the big screen. Show Notes: https://tinyurl.com/yd2z8dvs

On the Season 2 premiere of The Inflection Cut, the team returns to the early aughts WB and DC to look at the big-budget Justice League by the director of Mad Max that was inches from production start when it was cancelled. They also offer a shocking follow-up to the Coyote vs. Acme-focused season finale. Show notes: https://tinyurl.com/w9nkukbk

In a special mystery season finale of The Inflection Cut, the team looks at a film that was actually completed but never released - Coyote vs. Acme. After a smooth production process and very successful test screenings, the film was nevertheless hidden away by Warner Brothers in 2024, never to be seen again. Was it wrong place, wrong time, or was it MURDER? These questions and many more are answered in this month’s The Inflection Cut! Show notes: https://tinyurl.com/57hy7tbn

Eric and Halstead celebrate the holiday season with a special speed round we’re dubbing The Infection Game. We get to the bottom of what really matters, like why has there never been a movie of the popular 80s Top Gun-meets-Gundam series Robotech. Was Superman a coded look at the post-WWI2 Jewish diaspora? Is Scott Rudin a villain in the Inflection Cut multiverse, our universe, or both? All this and much more in this month’s The Infection Cut!

On an election’s eve episode of The Infection Cut, the team turns its multiversal projector on the MCU. They dig into the crazy story of when the director of Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver left a major Marvel film he had been working on for almost a decade, less than a month before filming was to start.

The TIC team TIC unspools the crazy story of Crusade, Verhoeven and Schwarzenegger’s wild, big-budget epic. This film had a cast, sets built, yet it was killed just days before filming started. Why? Show notes:  https://tinyurl.com/thcev9wv

After the blockbuster success of the Alien sequel Aliens, producing a 3rd movie was a top priority for 20th Century Fox. The tortuous development process that followed eventually led to 1992's divisive Alien3. Eric and Halstead look at the many false starts to see if there was a better way. Could the second Alien sequel have been salvaged? How might that have led to a golden age of auteur-driven science fiction? Join Halsted and Eric in their latest adventure in the cinematic multiverse! Bibliography: https://tinyurl.com/38uaem7v

Halstead and Eric deep dive into casting Batman: Year One and come up with the most punchable Batman yet!

Halstead and Eric discuss how Darren Aronofsky’s radical Batman: Year One might have been completed and released in 2003 and what that could have meant for DC, Warner Brothers, and comic movies as a whole. Bibliography: https://tinyurl.com/47yhy9c2

In 2008, A Halo movie almost happened with Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, & Neil Blomkamp on board. It never got to the finish line, but... what if it did? What would need to be done to keep the project together? What would the finished film look like? What might the effect on the entertainment industry be? Join Halstead and Eric as they explore the cinematic what-ifs!