Round Table #18: Lou Sytsma, SDCC, GRRM/King, and Emails
Hile Gunslingers, joining the Palaver this episode is Lou Sytsma from The Stephen King Podcast. He joins Tadd and Peter in Palaver covering the San Diego Comic-Con news including Beryl Evans' book signing as well as Anthony Breznican's interview with Idris Elba where he gets the answer the the question about the accent that Roland will speak with, along with some insight into the thought behind bringing Roland to life, as well as Idris confirms that the film has officially wrapped and now enters post-production. The Palaver also talks about the Sombra App and the Tet-Corp website. There is also audio from the George RR Martin interview of Stephen King from the New Mexico End of Watch tour, including some talk of what might change in the Dark Tower series if ever revised. As well as the larger Ka-Tet sends in some emails to round out the Palaver.
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Show Notes
First off joining out Ka-Tet this week is Lou Sytsma of The Stephen King Podcast. He does this podcast with Hans Lilja who runs Lilja’s Library one of the best and longest running Stephen King fan-websites on the web. They are certainly a great place to go if you want to explore the larger Stephen King Universe.
Slightly tangential (but that is Palaver for you) Lou mentioned Starlog Magazine HERE is a link to digital versions of every issue ever printed. Gives you the idea if you are like Peter and were not aware of it.
Here is the picture Peter showed Tadd. Do you ken Barlow?
HERE is the great article we talked about where Anthony Breznican looks at the bizarre event of Beryl Evans showing up at SDCC to sign copies of her book.
Uncle Stevie tweeted this ahead of Comic-Con.
Beryl Evans at SDCC signing her book.
Want to see the entire book? Thanks to Anthony Breznican (again from EW) for posting all 19 pages, check out the story HERE.
We mentioned the Tet Corporation website, HERE is the link.
Also Sombra has a website, check it out HERE this page is basically a route to the app we mentioned.
Next is Anthony Breznican interviewed Idris Elba at SDCC, check out the full interview HERE.
Here is the interview with George RR Martin and Stephen King for the End of Watch Tour.
Here is the Conan video referenced about the cameras he “hacked” at George RR Martin’s house. Really funny.
Another muted scene but gives you the idea of the range of Idris. He plays the second in command of a Drug Gang that had a stick-up crew rob their stash, he believes there is a snitch and is telling a subordinate how to weed them out. Notice his accent and how different it is from Elba’s real English accent.
Spoilers for Luther in this clip. They basically have a killer who is doing really crazy stuff and it turns out he is rolling dice and killing based on his rolls. Luther (Elba) offers the bomb-strapped killer a game, he says he is the “boss” of this level and gets the killer away from the crowds and pours gasoline on himself and tells him he will guess the role of the dice and if he is wrong the killer can set him on fire. Very intense scene and you can see the mettle that Idris can play even when he is playing a character more human than Roland will be.