Spider-Man Brand New Day Breaks Records, Firefly Returns, Marvel's NEW MCU Dates, and more!
This week on Superhero Slate Spider-Man’s Brand New Day sets Brand New Records, Firefly is returning as an animated series, Marvel adds New Release Dates, and more!
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News
- Firefly (12:10)
- Animated series coming out for show
- Set after live-action series but before Serenity movie
- Marc Guggenheim (DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow) and Tara Butters (Agent Carter, Reaper) as show runners
- Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin, Sean Maher, and Summer Glau
- A new actor will be enlisted to voice Shepherd Book after Ron Glass passed away in 2016
- Joss Whedon not involved but has ‘given blessing’
- Animated series coming out for show
- Fast Forever (16:44)
- Michael Lesslie (Now You 3 Me, Hunger Games; X-Men) has been tapped by Vin Diesel to pen Fast Forever
- Rewriting a script previously written by Aaron Rabin and Zach Dean
- Michael Lesslie (Now You 3 Me, Hunger Games; X-Men) has been tapped by Vin Diesel to pen Fast Forever
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (21:30)
- Frank Miller has drawn a special cover for IDW’s #300 issue
- Draws on previous work with Daredevil and Ninjas
- Frank Miller has drawn a special cover for IDW’s #300 issue
- Sonic 4 (26:05)
- Filming underway with new cast announcements
- Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) and Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows)
- Kristen Bell (Frozen) is voicing Amy Rose, with Ben Kingsley and Nick Offerman officially joined
- Returning stars Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, Idris Elba, Keanu Reeves, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, and Lee Majdoub.
- Filming underway with new cast announcements
- Powers (28:30)
- Animated version of Brian Michael Bendis’ comic series coming for Netflix
- Was originally a Playstation Network live action show too
- Synopsis:
- "Combining the tropes of the superhero genre with the police procedural genre, Powers follows two Chicago homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, who work in cases involving super powers."
- Daredevil: Born Again (30:50)
- Season 2 this week on Disney+
- Born Again Official Podcast also released
- Finn Jones & Elodie Yung shared “training” photos, possible returns in Season 3?
- Marvel Studios (35:00)
- Removed some dates, added new ones to release calendar Post-Secret Wars
- Current Lineup:
- July 31, 2026 (Spider-Man: Brand New Day) - but owned by Sony
- December 18, 2026 (Avengers: Doomsday)
- December 17, 2027 (Avengers: Secret Wars)
- May 5, 2028
- July 28, 2028 (NEW)
- December 15, 2028
- May 4, 2029 (NEW)
- July 13, 2029 (NEW)
- Meanwhile, the following dates have been dropped from their calendar:
- February 18, 2028
- November 10, 2028
- Ideas for movies:
- Black Panther 3, Doctor Strange 3, Thunderbolts 2, Fantastic Four 2, X-Men, Midnight Sons/Blade, Deadpool 4
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day (48:20)
- First teaser trailer for upcoming movie released
- Peter Parker still around his friends who don’t remember him
- Biggest trailer launch of all time in 24 hours with a staggering 718.6 million views
- Transformation of Spider-Man
- Season 2 of the animated Spider-Man series?
- Tarantula, The Hand, Scorpion, Boomerang, The Punisher, Bruce Banner, Department of Damage Control
- Keith David as voiceover?
- Similar to the “leaked” version, but differences
- First teaser trailer for upcoming movie released
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