X-Men 97 Review, Deadpool & Wolverine Tickets On Sale, Venom 3's Plot Leak, and more!

This week on Superhero Slate we're reviewing the first season of X-Men 97, get your Deadpool & Wolverine Tickets quick, Venom the Last Dance is going out with a bang, and more! News Deadpool & Wolverine (25:00) New in-cinema ad to turn off phones Tickets now available Fastest selling R rated film Some promos include […]

This week on Superhero Slate we're reviewing the first season of X-Men 97, get your Deadpool & Wolverine Tickets quick, Venom the Last Dance is going out with a bang, and more!

News

Deadpool & Wolverine (25:00)

New in-cinema ad to turn off phones
Tickets now available

Fastest selling R rated film
Some promos include “best friends” necklaces

First Marvel movie to have beer tie-in ads

X-Men (32:35)

Deadline says Michael Lesslie (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) is in talks to write the mutant led reboot

Vision (33:55)

Series officially announced with Terry Matalas (Star Trek Picard) as showrunner
Will be ‘revamped’ from VisionQuest ideas
2026 premiere

Wonder Man (37:50)

Confirmed to be a “Marvel Spotlight” TV series like Echo
Winderbaum confirms process 2 years ago was “fill the service (Disney+) as fast as possible no matter what” and is now a more “considered approach” where they develop more than they produce

The Blonde Phantom (44:50)

Taylor Swift has met with Kevin Feige about MCU
Rumor: Will be taking lead in Scarlett Johansson’s Blonde Phantom project

1950s spy movie set in Las Vegas

Would align with non-necessary character era + huge audience draw

Fantastic Four (48:30)

Franklin Richards will be part of the team and his suit will have the number 5 on it

Reed/Sue are easily of parent age actors

Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll) joined the cast in an unknown but ‘surprising’ role

Rumor: multiversal version of Dr. Doom

Avengers 5 (54:00)

Rumor: a new Kang/The Conquerer will be announced in the “next few months”

Could use the name “The Conquerer” to get around potential issues, if any exist

Fantastic Four not likely to appear in this film

Spider-Man 4 (55:23)

Bad Boys/Batgirl director team Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah as frontrunners for directing
Rumor: The Kingpin will be the main villain with returning henchmen The Shocker and The Scorpion to return, with the latter bonding with the MCU symbiote (like the comics)

Peter Parker may be killed, then bond with the symbiote to bring him back to life and give him the black suit

Venom: The Last Dance (58:30)

Rumor: Plot synopsis leaked online
Focus on Eddie keeping his universe’s 10 yr old Peter Parker alive, while dealing with the spawns of Carnage symbiotes and “The Jury” humans who want to kill all symbiotes in existence.

Kraven: The Hunter (1:03:15)

Sony exec says the movie was moved to December because “more will will have time to revisit the movie over and over again”

Lanterns (1:05:15)

James Gunn officially announces team of Chris Mundy, Tom King, and Damon Lindelof

The Last of Us (1:06:06)

Season 2 re-taps Jeffrey Wright (Batman) to play Isaac Dixon, a character he voiced in Part II the video game

X-Men 97 (1:07:20)

Season 1 Review
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