Superhero Slate

After 2 weeks, Superhero Slate has a lot of news. We can confirm Spider-Man’s casting, Marvel’s phase 3 plans, Deadpool shows up, the Ghostbusters is happening, and more!

Where have we been the last 2 weeks?!

News (4:30)

* Spider-man

* Tom Holland

* Will appear in Civil War

* Ant-Man (10:03)

* AVOID THE INTERNET

* Two after credit scenes

* Wasp - future plans per Feige

* GOTG 2 (16:15)

* Volume 2 title

* Thor: Ragnarok (18:52)

* Director/Writer announcement end of Summer

* Marvel Phase 3 (20:20)

* Civil War - halfway done

* Doctor Strange - November

* GotG Volume 2 in Feb-March 2016

* Spider-Man/Thor 3 in June 2016

* Agent Carter (25:38)

* Jarvis and Agent Sousa to return in S2

* Agents of SHIELD (27:30)

* Secret Warriors

* X-Men: Apocalypse (31:15)

* Hall H at SDCC

* X-Men: Rogue Cut (34:04)

* Iceman

* Trailer

* Deadpool (35:11)

* First official image

* With Negasonic Teenage Warhead

* Star Trek 3 (40:15)

* Beyond

* Stars sign for ST4

* Batman v Superman (42:24)

* 5 new images

* Justice League (48:57)

* Script is complete

* Green Lantern (50:25)

* Chris Pine/Tyrese Gibson for actors?

* Suicide Squad (51:38)

* David Ayer has therapist on set

* DC/Vertigo (53:45)

* Not under WB - moved to New Line

* Excludes Dark Universe

* Del Toro leaves project

* Ghostbusters (55:10)

* New Outfits

* Proton Packs

* Stan Lee (56:52)

* Is NOT a racist.

* Also, hospitalized, but made Ant-man premiere

* TMNT 2 (59:30)

* Bebop and Rocksteady bikes

* Terminator: Genisys (1:00:23)

* Did Mike's prediction come true!?

SDCC (1:05:50) - A special show next week!

 

The news this week on Superhero Slate has hit the proverbial fan. Marvel skips comic con, Star Wars awakens some forces, the X-Men arrive next year, and more!

News

* Marvel (4:38)

* Not going to SDCC confirmed

* So is Sony/Paramount

* Beyonce wanted for comic book role

* Captain America: Civil War (9:23)

* Practical Effects

* CDC?

* Thor: Ragnarok (13:15)

* Kenneth Branagh rumored to be highly wanted

* Marvel’s Spider-Man (15:45)

* Tom Holland trick videos

* Star Wars: The Force Awakens (18:01)

* Harrison Ford image

* Domhnall Gleeson

* Greg Grunberg

* Star Wars: Rogue One (22:15)

* Forest Whitaker joins cast

* Kick Ass (22:33)

* Hit Girl prequel

* Could lead to KA 3

* Fantastic Four (25:40)

* Soda cans show more images (naked Thing)

* Gambit (27:43)

* Rupert Wyatt to direct (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)

* Will not appear in Apocalypse

* X-Men: Apocalypse (31:12)

* Ian McKellan is not in it

* Says X-Men movies are superior

* Hugh Jackman confirmed for it

* X-Men: DofP (32:53)

* Rogue Cut Trailer

* Batman (33:33)

* Batman Day returns

* 9/26/2015

* Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (35:12)

* Harry Potter spinoff films

* Eddie Redmayne; Katherine Waterston

* TMNT 2 (37:17)

* Casey Jones’ Car

* Ghostbusters Reboot (38:28)

* Begins filming

* First looks!

* Kristen Wiig

* Others

* Inside Out (40:20)

* Review

* Jurassic World - SPOILERS (43:05)

* #1 opening weekend ever

* Marvel congratulates them

* Theme song from JP tops billboard charts

TV News

* Hawkgirl in development at CW (48:12)

* Seen on the Flash last episode

* Fear the Walking Dead promo (49:25)

* Arrow (50:55)

* Malcolm Merlyn will appear in S4

Video Games

* E3 (52:07)

* Exciting Announcements

* Final Fantasy 7 remake

* Xbox One Backwards Compatibility

Fan Submissions!

* How to get started reading comic books? - Jacob Hinshaw

Superhero Slate isn't changing, we just thought everything else is changing and we want to cover it on this week's podcast! We rave about Jurassic World, fangirl over the Punisher,  prepare for Halo 5: Guardians, and more!

Movie News

* Star Wars: The Force Awakens (4:53)

* C3PO red arm

* Star Wars: Rogue One (7:51)

* Takes place between 3/4

* No Jedi

* Dark, gritty, war-type movie

* Original Stormtroopers

* Avengers (12:17) (27:05 trailer)

* LEGO Sequel trailer

* Captain America: Civil War (15:48)

* New Logo released

* Spider-Man (18:38)

* Rumored down to 2

* Tom Holland

* Charlie Rowe

* Spider Gwen (22:08)

* Possible movie pushed by Sony

* Post Phase 3 option

* X-Men Apocalypse (27:47)

* Storm’s hairstyle

* Suicide Squad (30:00)

* Official Logo

* Common is the Tattooed Man

* Ghostbusters (33:52)

* Chris Hemsworth cast

* Jurassic World (35:10)

* Second highest weekend ever (behind Avengers)

* First to reach $500 million in a weekend (Global)

* Review

TV News

* Daredevil (40:00)

* Jon Bernthal is Punisher

* New logo for S2

* Constantine (45:15)

* Is officially dead

* Supergirl (47:20)

* Debuts October 26

* Muppets (48:35)

* September 22

* Agents of SHIELD S3 (49:06)

* September 29

* X-Files (51:51)

* First image from production

Video Game News

* Halo 5 (53:56)

* Nathan Fillion returning as Buck

* Blue Team playable

* Team Osiris

* Batman: Arkham Knight (56:40)

* June 23 Release

* Current consoles/PC only

* E3 (57:40)

* Going on this week!

* Expect a lot of announcements

Trivia Time! (59:23)

* Last week’s answers

* Sais - weapon Elektra uses

* Vampire - Morbius becomes this

* False - L in SHIELD stood for Law Enforcement (Comics)

* This week’s questions!

The Superhero Slate podcast is on rumor patrol! We talk about DC's direction for their movies, Ant-Man's increasing hype, Marvel rumors run rampant, and more!

News

* Wonder Woman (5:08)

* Chris Pine for Steve Trevor

* Aquaman (10:50)

* Director is James Wan (F&F7)

* Kurt Johnstad script (300)

* Suicide Squad (13:20)

* Deadshot on set

* Looks like the Silence

* Ant-Man (16:48)

* Spider-Man/OsCorp will factor in

* Official Site goes live

* Ant-Man Size Scale

* Agents of SHIELD (24:29)

* Luke Mitchell now series regular (Lincoln)

* Henry Simmons series regular (Mack)

* Captain Marvel (28:57)

* Rumor - Angelina Jolie/Charlize Theron team up

* Civil War (32:22)

* Rumor - Martin Freeman is British Minister (mentioned in Ultron)

* Rumor - Something big shows up (Possible spoiler)

* GotG 2 (36:35)

* First draft of script is complete per James Gunn

* Daredevil (39:30)

* Jason Statham for Bullseye (not after his involvement was mentioned)

* Mysterio to appear

* Mr. Fear to show up (Essentially Scarecrow)

* Heroic Hollywood Marvel “Speculation” (47:25)

* Netflix is necessary evil

* ABC - Cloak & Dagger; Ms. Marvel; Hulk prequel

* Netflix - Blade, Ghost Rider, Punisher - may not hold own

* Daredevil - Elektra is coming (hehe)

* Defenders - want Doctor Strange involved

* Star Wars (54:56)

* 2nd anthology film to focus on Boba Fett/Han Solo rivalry

* Obi Wan/Darth Maul Trilogy - Ewan McGregor

* Big Trouble in Little China (59:45)

* Remake with The Rock to play

* Assassin’s Creed (1:00:33)

* Promo Poster image

* TMNT 2 (1:02:20)

* Bumblebee from Transformers will cameo

Trivia Time! (1:03:18)

* Last week’s answers

* The Vision - married Scarlet Witch

* Iron Man - Joined GotG

* True - The Hulk was Joe Fix-it

* This week’s questions!

Email us your answers to [email protected] or tag us on twitter @SuperheroSlate to make us impressed.

Mike – @MikeRoyerDesign, Instagram, PickledComics

Chris – @Valdan, ComicUI - Facebook & Twitter

Superhero Slate gets back to business this week with only 2 people! Does the Suicide Squad boat have too many leaks? How did Doctor Strange conjure up controversy? Will TMNT 2 be Mike's favorite movie ever? All that and more in this episode!

Surprise Guest (2:03)

Movie News

* Suicide Squad (3:15)

* Batmobile makes an appearance

* No gun turret

* Batman on top of Joker’s Car

* Civil War (8:44)

* Damion Poitier on set

* Was Thanos in Avengers 1

* Iron Man concept art again

* Spider-Man Screen Testers (17:31)

* Asa Butterfield

* Tom Holland

* Judah Lewis

* Matthew Lintz

* Charlie Plummer

* Charlie Rowe

* Daredevil (22:42)

* Season 2 videos of Elektra auditions

* Doctor Strange (28:50)

* Tilda Swinton for the Ancient One

* CONTROVERSY (of course)

* Star Wars (33:50)

* Andy Serkis is Supreme Leader Snoke

* Apocalypse (40:36)

* Caliban will be in film

* Can sense mutants within a range

* Was Death in the comics after Archangel

* More bald Xavier

* Fantastic Four (42:19)

* Will the Thing have blue eyes?

* Or not?

* Deadpool (Feb 12th 2016) (44:26)

* Finished filming

* Colossus cast - Andre Tricoteux 6’10”

* First teaser trailer with FF (August 7th)

* TMNT 2 (47:37)

* Shredder

* Bebop

* Rocksteady (WWE Sheamus)

* Tron 3 (50:47)

* Disney pulls plug

* League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (52:50)

* Reboot in the works

* Johnny Quest (54:00)

* Robert Rodriguez to helm live action

* Independence Day 2 (56:45)

* Jeff Goldblum Back!

Trivia Time! (59:17)

To celebrate the 20th episode of the Superhero Slate podcast, we brought on not one, but TWO whole guests! We talk about the Joker's tattoos, Civil War's characters, and an entire hour packed full of this year's TV series. Can you make it through the entire show?!

Happy Memorial Day!

* Introduce our guests

* Andi Royer

* Alan Glasgow

Movie News

* Suicide Squad (6:27)

* Joker Images

* Pink Ferrari

* Tattoos Exist

* Static Shock (11:20)

* Jaden Smith is character

* Probably digital series, not TV or Movie

* Per Tyler James Williams - who has read for Marvel

* X-Men: Apocalypse (14:25)

* Psylocke to have purple hair

* Fantastic Four (15:33)

* Powers Commercial

* New Poster

* Rumor: Matthew Vaughn directed reshoots

* 3D release scrapped to put money in reshoots

* Josh Trank says no!

* Civil War (22:57)

* New Logo

* Who’s shown up?

* Cap

* Falcon

* Crossbones - done filming?

* Black Widow

* Scarlet Witch

* Hawkeye

* Ant-Man

* Iron Man

* Ant-Man (29:12)

* Magazine Images

* Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (31:30)

* Casting has begun

* Marvel’s Spider-Man (32:40)

* Rumor - Asa Butterfield

* Rumor - Matthew McConaughey to play villain

* Norman Osborn

* TMNT 2 (37:50)

* Krang to appear (rumor)

* Transformers Spin-offs (40:20)

* Writing Room

* Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead)

* Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man)

* Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk)

* Jeff Pinkner  (The Amazing Spider-Man 2)

* Chris saw Tomorrowland (45:07)

TV News (46:46)

* Flash Season 2

* More Speedsters

* Andi’s Script?

* Season 1 is an alternate timeline

* Agent Carter S2

* 10 episodes

* Agents of SHIELD S2

* Will be on Netflix in June!

* Supergirl

* Leaked pilot

TV Special (54:18)

* Current Series

* Arrow

* The Flash

* Agents of SHIELD

* Agent Carter

* iZombie

* Gotham

* Constantine

* Blacklist

* Daredevil

* Powers

* Future Shows

* Legends of Tomorrow

* Supergirl

* Lucifer

* Preacher

* Heroes Reborn

Plugs

The Superhero Slate podcast gets ready for every TV series to end for the summer. Also, Apocalypse gets a synopsis, Civil Wars starts filming, unexpected TV shows are coming, and more!

Episode 19 Show Notes

News

* X-Men: Apocalypse (3:45)

* Casting Call

* Confirms: Gambit/Wolverine

* Synopsis

* New Mutants (9:13)

* Josh Boone to direct (The Fault in our Stars)

* Focus on young mutants outside of main series

* Deadpool (16:30)

* Action image from filming

* Captain America: Civil War (18:20)

* Crossbones first look

* Captain America

* The Falcon

* Star Wars: The Force Awakens (25:03)

* Daniel Craig is an uncredited storm trooper

* Simon Pegg slipped it

* Underworld 5 (29:03)

* Kate Beckinsale returns

* Anna Foerster to direct

* TMNT 2 (31:38)

* Original April O’Neill in this movie

* Judith Hoag

* Gary Anthony Williams is Bebop

* Supergirl (35:01)

* November, Mondays at 8 on CBS

* 12 yrs older than Superman per synopsis, is 24 but Superman exists?

* Trailer

* Legends of Tomorrow (43:03)

* First Poster

* Featurette

* Villain - Vandal Savage

* White Canary returns

* Gotham (48:00)

* Joker & Mr Freeze in Season 2

* X-Files (49:55)

* Coming January 2016

* Lucifer (50:53)

* Early 2016

* Trailer

* Minority Report (53:06)

* Trailer

* Preacher (53:32)

* Started production

* Muppets (58:13)

* Trailer

* Tuesday at 8 on ABC

* Mad Max (59:43)

Next Week’s Show!

Mike – @MikeRoyerDesign, Instagram, PickledComics

Chris – @Valdan, ComicUI - Facebook & Twitter

Superhero Slate doesn't let the week after Ultron slow us down. This week's podcast have Chris and Mike get ready for Civil War, look at Task Force X assembled, talk about CW adding another show to its lineup, and more!

Episode 18 Show Notes

If you’ve not listened to our Spoilercast last week, go hit it up! But only if you’ve seen Avengers: Age of Ultron. Listen here!

News

* Civil War (5:53)

* Promo Art

* Fight!

* Captain America

* Iron Man

* Martin Freeman

* Unknown role

* Henry Peter Gyrich

* Everett Ross (most likely)

* Emily Van Camp returns

* Agent 13/Sharon Carter

* Marvel TV (15:40)

* Agents of SHIELD/Carter are renewed

* Spinoff show is scrapped

* Netflix (19:12)

* Rosario Dawson back for more Marvel

* DD S2 and more Netflix shows

* Age of Ultron (20:50)

* Marvel’s Quicksilver

* Infinity War (23:07)

* Filmed using IMAX/ARRI Cameras

* First film to do so, entirety of movies

* Ant-Man (28:00)

* Poster

* Will open the Fantasia International Film Festival

* Spider-Man (30:32)

* Director Shortlist

* Jonathan Levine (50/50)

* Ted Melfi (St. Vincent),

* Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect)

* John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein (Vacation)

* Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite)

* X-Men (36:25)

* Rogue Cut release July 14

* Case artwork

* Hugh Jackman confirms Wolverin3 is last time as character

* 17 years, not sure if in Apocalypse

* James McAvoy is bald

* Star Wars (41:35)

* Kylo Ren Unmasked

* Maz Kanata - concept art

* Motion Capture

* Castle inhabitants

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This is the super special Superhero Slate spoilercast for Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron! Chris and Mike are going to tell you how it is, whether you like it or not.

There ARE spoilers in this, duh. So don’t be surprised.

Avengers: Age of Ultron Special

* Overview

* 2nd highest opening ever

* behind Harry Potter; Deathly Hallows pt 2

* $340 million overseas in first week

* 2nd biggest opening - so far, lots of factors in play, plus no sunday full numbers

* Mike’s Review

* Chris’ Review

* Also on ComicUI

* http://news.comicui.com/2015/04/comicui-avengers-age-of-ultron-review/

Easter Eggs!

* Hulk was originally grey during Veronica fight scene

* Changed last minute or so

* Quicksilver

* Died, but did he?

* Project TAHITI is still in play

* Agents of SHIELD

* Hawkeye’s family is from Ultimates 2

* Has wife and family, but they’re killed

* Loki was filmed

* But not used of course

* Infinity Gauntlet!

* He put it on his left hand

* The Odin’s vault is right handed.

* Two confirmed by Feige

* Stan Lee

* Not twice, but 2 ‘scenes’

* Excelsior!

* FRIDAY - an AI from the comics

* Also JOCASTA as a choice

* Missing persons

* Winter Soldier, duh

* SHIELD Agent

* From Winter Soldier - didn’t push button

* Veronica is from Archie

* Betty is Banner’s love

* Helen Cho

* Mother of Amadeus Cho

* One of smartest kids in Marvel comics

* The New Avengers

* A team of secondaries

* Ulysses Klaue

* Is “Klaw” in the comic

* Loses hand/arm

* Ultron’s face

* When Thor, Vision, Iron Man hit him

* Melts into comic book form

* The red cape around his face

* Crimson Cowl

* Identity in comics before revealing self

Questions

* Ultron and Scarlet Witch’s relationship

* Probably due to Mind Gem similarities

* Did he give her the cowl?

* Saw her wearing it

* What are his powers?

* Red lazers.

* Gravity lifts?

* Is that really a vibranium shell at the end?

* Can the Vision exist without the mind gem in his body?

* Will he die for Thanos to obtain it?

Mike – @MikeRoyerDesign, Instagram, PickledComics

Chris – @Valdan, ComicUI - Facebook & Twitter

Despite Avengers: Age of Ultron’s release, this week's Superhero Slate is full of news. We talk Spider-Man’s casting, Apocalypse’s mutants, TMNT 2, the state of DC’s cinematic universe and more!

Episode 17 Show Notes

News

* Avengers: Age of Ultron (1:18)

* Initial Thoughts - Spoiler Free

* Second episode is spoiler full

* Avengers; infinity War (6:54)

* Films 9 months straight

* Parts 1 & 2 back to back

* Daredevil most watched Netflix show (9:15)

* 10%+ of users watched at least one episode

* Next Spider-Man (12:14)

* Asa Butterfield

* Ender’s Game

* Tom Holland

* The Impossible (2012)

* Star Wars (15:30)

* Look at these scruffy looking nerf herders

* Magazine Cover

* Josh Trank exits Star Wars Anthology film (18:00)

* Is a fact

* Due to Fox’s horrible experience with FF

* Apocalypse (20:50)

* Kodi Smit McPhee as Nightcrawler

* https://youtu.be/o_PMIqgZmiQ

* Nightcrawler Image

* Jubilee

* First Look on set

* Jean Grey

* First Look

* Girl Power!

* Filming has started

* First production image

* Logo

* Apocalypse

* Fox greenlights Kingsmen sequel (28:35)

* No story yet, but in production

* TMNT 2 (29:47)

* Tyler Perry is Baxter Stockman

* On-Set

* Casey Jones chooses his weapon

* Choosing his weapon

* April O’Neill is blonde

* Definitely a wig

* But not really

* But she also looks normal

* Batman v Superman (35:12)

* Promo images

* Batman

* Regular Batsuit

* Bat Armor Suit

* Superman

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