What If Titles for Season 2, Ahsoka Mid-Season Recap, One Piece Impressions, and more!
This week Superhero Slate is revealing Season 2 titles for Marvel’s What If, making our predictions for the second half of Ahsoka, giving you a review of Netflix's One Piece, and more!
News
One Piece (7:10)
- First impressions of Netflix series
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (19:10)
- Will beat every Superhero movie in 2023 with $150 million opening
NYCC (22:50)
- New York Comic-Con on October 12
- Panels starting to get scheduled
What If...? (26:30)
- Season 2 episode titles revealed
- What if Gamora killed Thanos?
- What if Captain Carter finds Hydra Stomper? (Continued from Season 1)
- What if the Tesseract landed in Haudenosaunee Confederacy before the colonization of America? (Introduction of new hero Kahhori)
- What if Hank Pym & Janet Van Dyne fought the Red Guardian during 1980’s?
- What if Yondu delivered Star-Lord to Ego?
- What if Happy Hogan saved Christmas? (Iron Man 3)
- What if Wanda had grown up watching musicals instead of sitcoms?
- What if Odin & Hela had faced Wenwu?
- What if Avengers had fought Surtur?
- 9 Episodes, with first being cut from first season
- Is there a ‘culmination’ of these or just single stories going forward?
Loki (31:55)
Agatha: Darkhold Diaries (34:20)
- May be a reason for show’s continuous title changes
- Producer says “something is afoot” and may indicate a different title per episode
Daredevil: Born Again (37:10)
- Spider-Man will be mentioned during show by Kingpin
- Previously thought to appear, but no longer the case
Deadpool 3 (39:15)
- Rumor: The TVA is selecting Heroes from dying worlds as a way to stop the multiverse from collapsing on itself
- Deadpool and Wolverine meet as Wolverine was chosen from Fox universe
- Rumor: Daniel Radcliffe cast in “secret role” in film
- Wolverine variant amid fan casting of him taking over mantle in MCU
Avengers: Secret Wars (45:05)
- Sam Raimi top choice to direct movie currently
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; Spider-Man trilogy
- DS2 brought in $950 million
- Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter 3; Gravity) near top of list as well
Spider-Man 2 (47:45)
- Reveals more characters from game
Crisis on Infinite Earths (50:15)
- Animated adaptation looking to be split into a trilogy
- Animation Director updated resume to have parts I, II, and III listed for this film
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (50:55)
- TV series set in Godzilla v Kong universe
- John Goodman (Kong: Skull Island) returns
- Takes place across 2 time periods: Wyatt Russell and Kurt Russell play same character
James Bond (54:45)
- Christopher Nolan rumored to be making deal to write and direct 2 Bond movies
- With full creative control, unlike previous Bond entries with producers overseeing
Rotten Tomatoes (58:25)
- PR firm Bunker 15 has been purchasing positive reviews for shows/movies, launching with a high rating
- Focused on sites that are favorable and ‘debuting’ scores
- "obscure, often self-published critics who are nevertheless part of the pool tracked by Rotten Tomatoes,"
Roku (1:02:40)
- Removed almost all of Quibi shows they acquired
- Roku cutting content to save costs
I Am Groot (1:04:44)
- Season 2 on Disney+
- 5 episodes
Ahsoka (1:07:34)
- Episode 1-4 discussion
- Back Half predictions
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