Joss Drops Batgirl & Look at that Brainiac | Weekly News Episode 160

Superhero Slate has got you covered when Batgirl loses its writer/director, Fox is trying to rush Skrulls in the X-Men, Infinity War could be the longest Marvel movie ever, and more!

Superhero Slate has got you covered when Batgirl loses its writer/director, Fox is trying to rush Skrulls in the X-Men, Infinity War could be the longest Marvel movie ever, and more!

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Black Panther (14:00)

Updated box office

Passed Avengers for highest Wednesday
Passing $700 million worldwide today

Highest Rated superhero movie of all time on RT
Go listen to our Review

Avengers: Infinity War (18:55)

Marvel Studios: The First Ten years

“Every story that Marvel has told since Iron Man 1 finds a narrative thread in these next two Avengers movies. It is a culmination of all that storytelling.”

Runtime possibly 2 hours and 30 minutes
Trailer this Thursday?

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (27:20)

Start filming early 2019 in Atlanta

Captain Marvel is March, Spider-Man 2 is May

Agents of SHIELD (28:25)

Episode 100 to reveal Coulson’s deal with Ghost Rider

Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur (29:50)

Animated show for Disney

“Follow the adventures of nine-year-old super-genius Lunella Lafayette, an African-American girl who teams up with her crimson-colored dinosaur and uses her smarts to save the day."

The Muppets (32:10)

Rebooted series coming to Disney Streaming Service

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (33:20)

Digital release on March 13
Physical on March 27

Star Wars IX (35:05)

Script is complete and will start filming in Late July for 2019 release

Silver & Black (37:45)

Production delayed indefinitely

Planned to start March 1

Script rewrite and no actors cast probably big factors

Sony’s sale of film side may also be making them reprioritize productions

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (39:50)

To feature the Skrulls as villains (An attempt before Marvel)
Serious film, but better than Apocalypse in terms of quality

X-Force (45:15)

May start filming this October

Aim for finishing before Disney deal is done

Batgirl (47:20)

Joss Whedon has exited Batgirl film

Could not find the right story
Initial thoughts it would be original Batgirl origin, not Killing Joke one

Detective Comics #359

Roxane Gay (An Untamed State; Bad Feminist essays) and Hope Larson (Batgirl comics) offer to write movie on Twitter

DC VP responded

Aquaman (53:50)

Trailer around Wonder Con in late March
Test screenings this week point to a great film

“Plays like an Indiana Jones movie”
“Action puts Wonder Woman and Justice League to shame”

Flashpoint (56:10)

John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein (Homecoming) have not signed on yet

Krypton (58:10)

First look at Brainiac (is actually good)

Jurassic World 3 (59:45)

Release June 11, 2021

Ghostbusters World (1:02:30)

AR mobile game, in the style of Pokemon Go
Preview Trailer

Westworld (1:05:15)

HBO building real life version at SXSW 2018

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