Predator: Badlands, Bugonia & Del Toro's Frankenstein: Future Frontiers

About this episode

The episode covers the latest sci-fi films and series, including discussions on Predator: Badlands and Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

We're back with another Future Frontiers episode, covering all the latest sci-fi hitting screens this month. We chat about Predator: Badlands , Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein , Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia and the upcoming Running Man remake from Edgar Wright - plus we try to decode what on earth Vince Gilligan's mysterious new series Pluribus might be. We also talk about what we've been watching lately - Peacemaker S2, Gen V , Foundation , and Demon Slayer - and tackle your big listener questions. Should The Thing and Predator start one minute later? Chapters 00:00:00 – Welcome Back to Future Frontiers 00:01:05 – What We've Been Watching 00:05:32 – Anime at the Box Office Demon Slayer, Chainsaw Man. 00:08:15 – New Sci-Fi in Cinemas - Bugonia, Predator: Badlands, and The Running Man remake. 00:15:01 – Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein 00:17:51 – Upcoming Sci-Fi Series: Pluribus & Stranger Things 5 00:22:26 – Mailbag: Time Travel & The Toaster Paradox 00:26:02 – Jake's hot take on re-editing iconic openings and fan edit talk. 00:30:12 – What's Next for Journey Through Sci-Fi 00:31:00 – Outro & Sign-Off Subscribe for deep-dive sci-fi chat every other Thursday, and join us on…

People in this episode

Host: James Payne

Topics covered

• sci-fi films
• upcoming releases
• anime
• listener questions
• film analysis

Keywords

• sci-fi
• Predator
• Frankenstein
• anime
• listener questions

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Predator: Badlands, Frankenstein, Bugonia, The Running Man, Pluribus, Peacemaker S2, Gen V, Foundation, Demon Slayer, The Thing

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