SHIELD Goes to Space & The Curious Case of the DCEU | Weekly News Episode 140

Superhero Slate wants you to know the DC Extended Universe is not the official name of WB’s movies, Fox is doubling down on it’s X-Men movies, you can schedule more Marvel TV shows in your future, and more!

Superhero Slate wants you to know the DC Extended Universe is not the official name of WB’s movies, Fox is doubling down on it’s X-Men movies, you can schedule more Marvel TV shows in your future, and more!

What We’ve Been Up To

News

Warner Bros. (11:20)

Warner Bros. Will Begin Deemphasizing Its Cinematic Universe After JUSTICE LEAGUE

DCEU name started as a joke

Marvel approach, films don’t have to lead directly into the next one

Unnamed side label for stand-alone films

Like the Joker Origin

Justice League (19:45)

Will incorporate John William’s Superman theme

Flashpoint (21:45)

Script is done
Frontrunners to direct:

Robert Zemeckis
Lord-Miller are out

Ant-Man and the Wasp (24:15)

Hannah John-Kamen as The Ghost

Can turn invisible and walk through walls, but not at the same time

Inhumans (26:55)

Season 1 debuted

Other thoughts

Season 2 being teased by showrunner

Old marketing material said “see entire series on ABC”
Cancellation announcement won’t come till episodes air

Agents of SHIELD (29:25)

Season 5 poster shows outer space
Rumor is Disney required ABC to renew show for 5th season

The Runaways (35:30)

First look images from show

Evil Parents
Confused children

The Gifted (37:10)

Premieres Monday on Fox
Polaris is the daughter of Magneto
Bryan Singer is director of Pilot

Good reactions to episode

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (40:25)

Olivia Munn (Psylocke) suggests movie is 2-part
Mimics Marvel’s Infinity approach

Fox has second release date a year out from there
Crew coming back after the winter to film more

Venom (44:05)

Michelle Williams in talks to join film in lead role opposite Tom Hardy

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (47:02)

Trailer to debut October 9 during Monday Night Football
Rumored to be 150 minutes, longest movie in franchise

Pacific Rim 2 (49:30)

Trailer to debut with NYCC (next weekend)

Avatar 2 (51:35)

Young cast revealed

The only one that won't be made-over to look like a young Na'vi is a character named Javier “Spider” Socorro, who will be played by Jack Champion (third from left)

Men In Black (53:55)

Spinoff film ordered from Sony

penned by Matt Holloway and Art Marcum, the writers of Iron Man and Transformers: The Last Knight

Blade Runner 2049 (56:35)

Black Out 2022

Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop fame

Positive reviews to film
Releasing October 6

Deadly Class (59:25)

Image comics gets pilot order from SyFy

Produced by Russo Bros

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