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."
- Both Avengers movies to feature secondary villains to replace Council of Kangs
- Thunderbolts* (38:38)
- Rumor: Val will be associated with other MCU villains
- Hinted at Wilson Fisk, Xu Xialing, Sharon Carter
- Rumor: Val will be associated with other MCU villains
- Moon Knight (41:10)
- Scooper reports that Moon Knight will return
- Marvel "[has] an idea...that's really exciting."
- Scooper reports that Moon Knight will return
- 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)
- Season 2 production begins in a few weeks
- 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
- Per scoopers: Robert Downey Jr will have a role as Doctor Doom in film
- 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
- Knull is not going to have a lot of screen time overall
- Kraven (55:25)
- New trailer classified to play in front of Venom 3
- Probably no post-credits scene tied to this movie
- New trailer classified to play in front of Venom 3
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