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First appearing on Saturday Night Live shorts in 2007, Will Forte's dimwitted bomb-detonating special agent MACGRUBER certainly didn't seem like feature film material. But he proved popular enough to justify an R-rated 2010 movie... which completely flopped at the box office. And then, a cult following over the next decade somehow brought the character back to life for a streaming series. Time to pound some Cunth and find out "WTF Happened to MACGRUBER!"

Zack Snyder’s Watchmen was relatively well-received by fans and overall was a box office success. Devoted to making a faithful adaptation of the Alan Moore/ Dave Gibbons graphic novel, the fact that Snyder’s Watchmen film got made on the scale it did is a miracle. However, several other versions of Watchmen were in the works before Snyder got involved, with several coming close to being made. In this episode of WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie, we dig into versions that almost got made involving folks such as Terry Gilliam, David Hayter (who filmed a demo reel with Ray Stevenson and Rorschach and Iain Glen as Nite Owl), Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass. Suppose any of these versions had gotten made. In that case, we might have gotten someone like Paddy Considine as Rorschach, Joaquin Phoenix as Nite Owl, and possibly even Tom Cruise as Ozymandias (in which case the adaptation likely would have had little to do with Moore’s comic). 

In the end, perhaps it was best that no one succeeded in getting the movie made until Snyder, with it also paving the way for the excellent HBO limited series and maybe some future Watchmen stories to come. 

Today we’re going to showcase an actress who has actually pulled off the rare hat trick of surviving through every one of her appearances in the franchise she helped make amazing. I’m talking about Ashley Laurence, who brought to life on screen one of the most unlucky daughters and nieces in the history of horror films, Kirsty Cotton, in Clive Barker’s classic Hellraiser. Ashley has since taken her place alongside other heroines of horror history. So, let’s open the box and peer inside to find out WTF Happened to this Horror Celebrity?

In this 6th episode of Thirsty on Toon, we move into a Stepford neighborhood, have awkward drinks with the locals, feed our dog to a stray, play with model trains, and redecorate with blood and tinfoil for a deep dive into Everything Is Fine by Mike Birchall.

Our special guest for this episode is Steve Seigh of Talking Comics and JoBlo.com

Thirsty on Toon is a member of the Talking Comics family of podcasts. Thirsty on Toon was co-created by Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh and Chris Ceary of Talking Comics and Gotham Outsiders, respectively. You can find Thirsty on Toon on Twitter @thirstyontoon. Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh and Chris Ceary are your co-hosts for the podcast series.