Captain Marvel Casting & Deadpool's Animated Leak | Weekly News Episode 165

In this Superhero Slate episode Captain Marvel adds some familiar faces to its cast, Deadpool’s animated series gets leaked on, uh-oh Fox Marvel movies, and more!

In this Superhero Slate episode Captain Marvel adds some familiar faces to its cast, Deadpool’s animated series gets leaked on, uh-oh Fox Marvel movies, and more!

Riff & Raff

Star Wars Clone Wars Microseries

Marvel March Madness - Guardians of the Galaxy v Captain America: Civil War

News

Avengers (16:20)

Thor had a reduced part in the original script, before Whedon rewrote it

Infinity War (18:40)

Secures China release date on May 11, second largest box office market

Captain Marvel (19:55)

Cast confirmed for movie

Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson
Lee Pace a Ronan the Accuser
Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer

Hawkeye (26:20)

Stand alone film Reportedly in development with Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely as writers (Captain America movies, Infinity War)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (29:00)

Matt Damon passes on villain role in sequel movie

Agents of SHIELD (30:20)

Season 6 is now ‘on the bubble’

Renewal could go either way
Strong DVR & international markets

New Warriors (34:40)

Half hour docu-comedy show about a young group of 20-somethings living in a house, pretending to be superheroes

Deadpool Series (37:15)

Donald Glover releases ‘finale’ script online

Wasn’t really the finale
“Or too busy”
“There definitely was a Taylor Swift episode. It was HILARIOUS. And it was definitely the last straw lol.”“Our show wasn’t too black. It wasn’t really that black at all. But we definitely wanted to give ‘Rick and Morty’ a run for their money and I think we would have. Proud of the gang.”

Leaked test footage

Gambit (44:11)

Filming start date is for June 19th in NoLa

Same studio Logan used to film

No direct announced yet

The New Mutants (45:55)

Release moved to August 2, 2019
Josh Boone allowed to add/re-add scary sequences execs had deemed too frightening to a ‘superhero movie’ in first half of film
Antonio Banderas added to cast

Jon Hamm originally as Mr. Sinister

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (48:40)

New release date for February 14, 2019
Final act getting reshoots, cost less than $10 million
Jessica Chastain as Miss Sinister: a perfect genetic clone of Nathaniel Essex

Powers include shapeshifting

Wonder Woman 2 (54:15)

Pedro Pascal (The Golden Circle) has been cast as a slippery conman known as “Rex”

Solo (58:05)

Edit is locked and score is done, release is on May 25
Second trailer incoming

Jurassic World 3 (59:55)

Colin Trevorrow to return and direct third movie on 28th anniversary of original film

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