Green Lantern Casting, BIG Avengers Doomsday Rumors, Spider-Man & Venom Team-Up, and more!

This week on Superhero Slate, we’re discussing the Jon Stewart casting confirmation for the DCU, Doomsday level MCU rumors take over our feeds, Spider-Man might team-up with Venom, and more!

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News

Joker 2 (16:30)

• Made less than expected with $37.2 million
• Second weekend worst drop ever for superhero movie

Lanterns (20:40)

• Aaron Pierre officially cast as Jon Stewart
• Series eying Kelly MacDonald (Boardwalk Empire) as a love interest in series
• Reportedly as a Sheriff in show, but not Carol Ferris 
  • Regular Hal love interest is Carol Ferris, also known as Star Sapphire (another lantern Corps)
  • Could still exist in universe, as this is an older Hal

Marvel Games (23:50)

• Rumored to be developing first ever MCU-set Video Game
• Not part of the current video games we know of
  • Marvel 1943: Black Panther/Captain America
  • Iron Man by EA
  • Wolverine by Sony
  • Black Panther Solo game
  • Blade solo game

Avengers: Doomsday (27:30)

• Both Avengers movies to feature secondary villains to replace Council of Kangs
  • Previous scripts had different Avengers teams fighting Kang Variants: Rama-Tut, Scarlet Centurion, and Immortus
• Doom and Mister Fantastic’s dynamic similar to Tony and Thanos in Infinity War/Endgame
• Wanda/Scarlet Witch to be Baroness and “love interest” to Dr. Doom
  • Helping reshape realities and traverse multiverse
  • Similar to House of M/Children’s Crusade, where she had lost memory was living alongside Victor in Latveria
• Team to be led by Captain Marvel and Sam Wilson/Captain America
• Thor and Sylvie to meet on screen
• Scooper says:
  • "I’m very excited because it will feature some of the most important storylines that will set up the groundwork for Doomsday and Secret Wars."

Thunderbolts* (38:38)

• Rumor: Val will be associated with other MCU villains
  • Hinted at Wilson Fisk, Xu Xialing, Sharon Carter

Moon Knight (41:10)

• Scooper reports that Moon Knight will return
  • Marvel "[has] an idea...that's really exciting."

Daredevil (42:20)

• Season 2 production begins in a few weeks
  • Season 2 rumored to debut after Spider-man 4
• Mayor Fisk will be hunting vigilantes
  • Colleen Wing (Jessica Henwick) rumored to return
  • Danny Rand (Finn Jones) to return as Iron Fist’s master, rather than the hero himself
• Sony refused to allow Spider-man to be in series
  • Only Avengers/Solo films
• Will get a name drop in upcoming series
  • Not appearing in Season 2 (at this time)

Spider-Man 4 (45:35)

• Per scoopers: Robert Downey Jr will have a role as Doctor Doom in film
  • Will bridge Avengers movies
• Movie taking on multiversal aspects and saving street level post- Secret Wars
  • Due to being wedged between Doomsday and Secret Wars, possible “Battleworld” elements of merged universes
  • Marvel is pushing for street level after return to ‘soft rebooted’ MCU
• Could be crossover for Venom and Spider-Man
  • Fighting Knull with his All-Black sword
  • No Black Cat
• Will kick off filming May 25, 2025 through October
  • Tom Holland will do Doomsday filming prior to this

Venom: The Last Stand (51:36)

• Knull is not going to have a lot of screen time overall
  • Laying the groundwork for future movies
• Andy Serkis has signed on for multiple films
  • Collaboration with Sony and Marvel Studios

Kraven (55:25)

• New trailer classified to play in front of Venom 3
  • Probably no post-credits scene tied to this movie

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