SHIELD Goes to Space & The Curious Case of the DCEU | Weekly News Episode 140
Superhero Slate wants you to know the DC Extended Universe is not the official name of WB’s movies, Fox is doubling down on it’s X-Men movies, you can schedule more Marvel TV shows in your future, and more!
What We’ve Been Up To
News
- Warner Bros. (11:20)
- Warner Bros. Will Begin Deemphasizing Its Cinematic Universe After JUSTICE LEAGUE
- DCEU name started as a joke
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- Marvel approach, films don’t have to lead directly into the next one
- Unnamed side label for stand-alone films
- Like the Joker Origin
- Warner Bros. Will Begin Deemphasizing Its Cinematic Universe After JUSTICE LEAGUE
- Justice League (19:45)
- Will incorporate John William’s Superman theme
- Flashpoint (21:45)
- Script is done
- Frontrunners to direct:
- Robert Zemeckis
- Lord-Miller are out
- Ant-Man and the Wasp (24:15)
- Hannah John-Kamen as The Ghost
- Can turn invisible and walk through walls, but not at the same time
- Hannah John-Kamen as The Ghost
- Inhumans (26:55)
- Season 1 debuted
- Other thoughts
- Season 2 being teased by showrunner
- Old marketing material said “see entire series on ABC”
- Cancellation announcement won’t come till episodes air
- Season 1 debuted
- Agents of SHIELD (29:25)
- Season 5 poster shows outer space
- Rumor is Disney required ABC to renew show for 5th season
- The Runaways (35:30)
- First look images from show
- The Gifted (37:10)
- Premieres Monday on Fox
- Polaris is the daughter of Magneto
- Bryan Singer is director of Pilot
- Good reactions to episode
- X-Men: Dark Phoenix (40:25)
- Olivia Munn (Psylocke) suggests movie is 2-part
- Mimics Marvel’s Infinity approach
- Fox has second release date a year out from there
- Crew coming back after the winter to film more
- Venom (44:05)
- Michelle Williams in talks to join film in lead role opposite Tom Hardy
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (47:02)
- Trailer to debut October 9 during Monday Night Football
- Rumored to be 150 minutes, longest movie in franchise
- Pacific Rim 2 (49:30)
- Trailer to debut with NYCC (next weekend)
- Avatar 2 (51:35)
- Young cast revealed
- The only one that won't be made-over to look like a young Na'vi is a character named Javier “Spider” Socorro, who will be played by Jack Champion (third from left)
- Young cast revealed
- Men In Black (53:55)
- Spinoff film ordered from Sony
- penned by Matt Holloway and Art Marcum, the writers of Iron Man and Transformers: The Last Knight
- Spinoff film ordered from Sony
- Blade Runner 2049 (56:35)
- Black Out 2022
- Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop fame
- Positive reviews to film
- Releasing October 6
- Black Out 2022
- Deadly Class (59:25)
- Image comics gets pilot order from SyFy
- Produced by Russo Bros
- Image comics gets pilot order from SyFy
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