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- Spider-Man Brand New Day Review, Street Fighter Blanka Reveal, Jumanji Trailer, and more!
This week on Superhero Slate Spider-Man swings into theaters, Blanka makes his Street Fighter debut, Jumanji hits the Open World, and more!
GenCon – Mystic Curling Club, Hoxfall, Marvel Multiversus RPG (Secret Wars)
News
- Alien: Romulus (10:05)
- Sequel talk stalls due to Michael Fassbender’s David character
- Ridley Scott doesn’t want a character he created in another movie
- David Jonsson and Cailee Spaeny have moved (likely) to MCU projects
- Jumanji: Open World (15:00)
- New trailer revealing upcoming Jumanji sequel
- Third of the new Jumanji films (4th overall) is releasing this Holiday against Doomsday and Dune 3
- Synopsis says “Final” but franchises, ya know
- Street Fighter (19:05)
- Blanka vs Ryu clip reveals Jason Momoa’s green skinned ‘monster’
- October 16
- Booster Gold (22:55)
- David Jenkins says his version of Booster Gold series for DCU not moving forward
- Show will still go on with a new creative team
- Wonder Man (25:45)
- Season 2 canceled after announcement of renewal earlier this year
- Writers room hadn’t opened, with all production team released to pursue other projects
- Showrunner Andrew Guest put some info out on Tiktok
- “I feel how you all feel. And I just want to clear up what I can here. This is not a marketing stunt. There is no movie in the works. And Destin’s schedule, and no one’s schedule, was an issue. Yahya, Destin, Sir Ben, and I all loved making this show. All felt passionately about continuing to do it and were eager to. Contracts were signed, schedules were cleared. The writer’s room was supposed to start this month. The production was supposed to begin early next year.”
- Reasons?
- Destin Daniel Cretton could be moving on to other projects like Spider-Man 5 or Shang-Chi 2
- Character could be moved to theatrical team up, possibly Shang-Chi 2
- Renewal was promotional stunt to see if more people watched it under the assumption a second season was happening
- Marvel could be done with streaming live action series (probably was not cheap with academy award winners)
- Blade (33:12)
- Mahershala Ali confirms project at Marvel isn’t going forward
- At least not with him
- Likely has been ‘dead’ for a while, since he didn’t voice Blade Knight
- X-Men (38:00)
- Deadline reports Samara Weaving (Ready or Not) has been cast as Emma Frost
- Niece of Hugo Weaving who played Red Skull
- Storm casting has Ryan Coogler involvement
- Likely to be involved in Black Panther 3
- Avengers: Secret Wars (41:15)
- Likely to start filming within a month or so
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day (43:10)
- Currently eyeing between $340-370 million opening weekend; maybe $355
- Possibly beating Avengers Endgame’s $357m, which was biggest opening of all time
- Looking at $925m worldwide opening
- Characters include Spider-Man, Punisher, the Hulk, Scorpion, Boomerang, Tombstone, Ramrod, Tarantula, The Hand, and …
- SPOILERS (53:00)
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1 hr 22 min - One Piece Into the Grand Line (2026) Review
Welcome to the Superhero Slate review of Netflix’s One Piece: Into the Grand Line! Will the Straw Hat crew survive the treacherous waters of Reverse Mountain and the bizarre islands ahead? Can the series successfully introduce the eccentric agents of Baroque Works and the adorable Chopper? Who won’t Luffy make friends with on the open ocean? Find out all these questions and more!
Find One Piece Into the Grand Line streaming only on Netflix!
Part 1: Episodes 1-4 (5:41)
Part 2: Episodes 5-8 (25:02)
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48 min - REVIEWS: Avatar Fire and Ash & Stranger Things Season 5, Wonder Man Trailer, and more!
This week on Superhero Slate we’ve got a Wonder Man trailer, your exclusive reviews for Avatar Fire and Ash and Stranger Things Season 5, and more!
News
- Avengers: Doomsday (9:30)
- Trailer Updates
- Trailer #2 featuring Thor now officially released
- Trailer #3 with the X-Men (Fox era) now playing in front of Fire and Ash
- Trailer #4 now rumored to feature Wakandans and Fantastic Four
- Korean Rating’s board listed 2 more, so possibly 6 total?
- One a week to lead up to Super Bowl BIG trailer reveal
- Rumor: Time codes in “Doomsday” Date videos relate to scenes from Endgame
- Loki being captured, Bruce Banner and the Ancient one, & Hawkeye return with baseball glove
- Wonder Man (17:45)
- New trailer for upcoming series released
- Hollywood has given an explicit “No Superpowered People” in movies mandate
- Department of Damage Control appears again
- Fantastic Four 2 (20:20)
- Rumored to want Matt Shakman back to direct (unannounced) sequel
- Characters will have large role in Avengers films
- Black Panther 3 (22:20)
- While talking about upcoming Black Panther 3 (no details), revealed Sony stopped him from using Kraven in Black Panther (2018)
- Blade (25:50)
- Jordan Peele’s MonkeyPaw Productions shared rumor about Peele being involved in upcoming Blade movie
- Has history in horror and supernatural films
- Parodied their own response on X
- Avatar: Fire and Ash (29:35)
- Review with Spoilers
- Stranger Things (53:45)
- Season 5 and Series Review with Spoilers
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1 hr 17 min - Fantastic Four: First Steps Review, SDCC 2026 Recap, Peacemaker Trailer, and more
This week on Superhero Slate, we’re recapping San Diego Comic-Con 2025, reviewing Fantastic Four First Steps, stepping into the Peacemaker Universes, and more!
News
- SDCC 2025 (1:17)
- Updates
- Masters of the Universe (5:55)
- Teaser trailer with title treatment in various languages
- June 5, 2026
- Predator: Badlands (8:25)
- Trailer for upcoming movie
- Features young Yautja and Elle Fanning as Weyland yutani synthezoid
- Mechanized loader in the end
- Could this be a secret Alien vs Predator movie?
- Predator: Killer of Killers (9:40)
- New version with extended ending dropped on Hulu
- Star Wars: Ahsoka (14:30)
- First photo of Eman Esfadi returning as Ezra Bridger in season 2
- Maul: Shadow Lord (15:00)
- First photo shows Maul’s return in upcoming show
- Ne Zha 2 (18:15)
- Getting re-release in US with English voices
- Ne Zha 2 explores the consequences of Ne Zha’s defiance against the heavens and the internal struggle of being a “demon child” born of chaos.
- $2.19 billion box office
- Clayface (21:40)
- New report on plot:
- “centers on an ascending actor whose face is disfigured by a gangster. As a last resort, the actor turns to a fringe Elizabeth Holmes-style scientist for help. At first, the experiment is successful but … well, it wouldn’t be a horror movie if the story ended right there, would it?”
- Peacemaker (24:05)
- Trailer released at SDCC
- Image of a potential alien on set with James Gunn
- Synopsis released:
- “In season 2, Peacemaker discovers an alternate world where life is everything he wishes it could be. But this discovery also forces him to face his traumatic past and take the future into his own hands.”
- August 21, 2025
- Superman (30:00)
- All 26 characters in the Hall of Justice memorial identified
- Madame Xanadu
- Silent Knight
- Exoristos
- Black Pirate
- Miss Liberty
- Whip Whirlwind
- Super-Chief
- El Diablo
- Iron Munro
- The Ghost of Flanders
- Sandman I (Wesley Dodds)
- Amazing Man (Will Everett)
- Zatara
- Liberty Belle
- Bulletman
- Max Mercury, see Whip Whirlwind
- Bulletgirl
- TNT
- Dan the Dyna-mite
- Phantom Lady
- Atomic Knight
- Freedom Beast
- Wildcat
- Vibe
- Gunfire
- Maxwell Lord
- Very obscure, random heroes from time
- James Gunn has teased that at the very least, 2 out of the 26 heroes in the mural are important to an upcoming DCU project
- Booster Gold (34:20)
- David Jenkins (Our Flag Means Death) to write pilot for series
- If successful, will become show runner
- Inherited project from Danny McBride
- Gunn alluded McBride “fell out of love” with the project
- Eyes of Wakanda (36:25)
- Releasing almost a month earlier on August 1
- Previously Aug 27
- All 4 episodes will drop on Disney+
- Follows warriors throughout Wakandan history tasked with traveling the world to retrieve vibranium artifacts
- Punisher (37:30)
- Set photo shows some ‘punishment’
- Videos have shown classic skull attire will be worn
- Fantastic Four: First Steps (42:20)
- Box Office currently around $218 million (probably revised up tomorrow)
- Biggest Thursday of 2025
- Review of Movie
- SPOILERS (56:30)
- Real Suits
- Practical Galactus outfit
- Practical The Thing on set
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1 hr 21 min - NEW Superman Review, Avengers Doomsday Set Pics, Street Fighter Cast Revealed, and more!
This week on Superhero Slate Superman flies into theaters, Avengers Doomsday set photos show up, Street Fighter gets an eclectic cast, and more!
Jim Shooter, Julian McMahon
News
- The Running Man (6:00)
- Trailer for Edgar Wright’s take on Stephen King’s novel
- Seems more like a modern and book accurate version of the Schwarzenegger film
- The Odyssey (10:45)
- Christopher Nolan’s next movie trailer leaks online
- Starring Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, and Jon Bernthal
- Street Fighter (16:00)
- Cast announced for live-action film
- Andrew Koji (Snake Eyes; Bullet Train) as Ryu
- Callina Liang as Chun Li
- Noah Centineo (Black Adam) as Ken
- Jason Momoa as Blanka
- 50 Cent as Balrog
- Cody Rhodes as Guile
- David Dastmalchian as M. Bison
- Andrew Schulz as Dan Hibiki
- Orville Peck as Vega
- Roman Reigns as Akuma
- Releases in 2026
- The Last of Us (22:20)
- Neil Druckman (co-creator) and Halley Gross (Writer) exit series ahead of season 3
- To focus on NaughtyDog properties and stories
- Maybe Part 3 game?
- Venom (26:35)
- Rumor: Sony working on animated project around character
- Could follow Flash Thompson
- Spider-Man bully who lost legs in war, gets bonded to Symbiote
- Currently NOT in the style or vein of Spider-Verse (yet)
- Sinners (30:40)
- Purchased a warehouse full of costumes meant for Marvel’s Blade
- Movie was being written as a 1920s period piece originally
- Midnight Sons (33:00)
- Marvel has hired a screenwriter for the movie
- Doesn’t mean greenlit but definitely progress in a direction
- Rumor to adapt “Damnation” comic story where Mephisto takes over Las Vegas
- Team in comic comprised of Blade, Ghost Rider, Elsa Bloodstone, Man-Thing, Moon Knight, and Doctor Voodoo
- Wonder Man (36:15)
- Upcoming Disney+ teaser features some powers/abilities of character
- December 2025
- Fantastic Four (37:20)
- Non-story trailer released in Retro-futuristic style
- Something you would see in drive-in cinemas
- Avengers: Doomsday (40:25)
- Leaked set photo shows The Thing, US Agent, and (new) Falcon on a ship
- Batman (43:50)
- James Gunn says he expects to have 2 finalized Batman scripts before end of the year
- The Batman Part 2 was recently completed
- Most likely a draft of The Brave and the Bold
- Lanterns (44:50)
- Nathan Fillion says he has “Dropped more F-bombs” than any other project he’s worked on
- Will appear in DCU series on HBO Max as another Green Lantern (reprising role from Superman and (likely) Peacemaker)
- Superman (2025) (45:50)
- Review for first DCU film
- $122 million domestic
- Spoilers Start (59:50)
- FULL SPOILERS!
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1 hr 21 min - Thunderbolts Review, The DCU Cancels Movies, Avengers Doomsday Cast Assembles, and more!
This week Superhero Slate has your review of Marvel’s Thunderbolts*, Sgt. Rock is the first DCU cancellation, the Avengers Doomsday cast gets together, and more!
May the 4th
News
- Sgt Rock (15:20)
- Movie canceled for potentially 2 reasons:
- It needed to be in production by Summer 2025
- Budget was slashed and director walked
- Could be revisited at end of year for production 2026
- Clayface (17:10)
- Rumor: Doing a page 1 rewrite of script
- Mike Flanagan only wrote a skeleton script for film
- Scooper: strongly hinted that the DCU’s future will be reevaluated after Superman’s release this summer.
- Ahsoka (22:40)
- Rosario Dawson shares first set photo confirming season 2 now in production
- First concept art images shared at Star Wars Celebration Japan
- Deadpool (25:10)
- Ryan Reynolds is in early stages of writing a new project
- Along with “three or four” X-Men characters
- Thought to be a proper X-Force movie
- Different than Deadpool 2
- X-Men (27:50)
- MCU version believed to have Mister Sinister as villain in first outing
- Have always teased character across previous X-men movies with Essex Corp
- Hawkeye (30:30)
- Jeremy Renner says no season 2 because they offered him half the pay to return for the same work (8 month shoot)
- Rumor: Hawkeye Season 2 will move forward with Hailee Steinfeld as lead
- Avengers: Doomsday (37:20)
- Officially filming this week with actors together
- Chris Hemsworth showing workouts (and short hair), Pedro Pascal in his Mister Fantastic Suit, Robert Downey Jr. doing a Tate’s Bakeshop ad, full team at Thunderbolts
- Newton Thomas Sigel confirmed as director of photography
- The Usual Suspects, 4 X-Men movies, Superman Returns, Drive
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day (45:20)
- Rumor: J.K. Simmons to return as J. Jonah Jameson
- Thunderbolts* (47:50)
- Movie Review for last Phase 5 movie
- Spoilers (57:50)
- Ties to larger MCU & Post Credit scene details
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1 hr 24 min - Deadpool and Wolverine Review
Welcome to the Superhero Slate review of Deadpool and Wolverine! Grab your special sock nerds, because we’re taking a look at the Threequel with FULL Spoilers! Does the return of Deadpool and Wolverine diminish their days at Fox Studios, or does the Marvel Cinematic Universe help them expand their horizons? Find out all our thoughts and more!
- Box Office
- Looking for $400+ million opening weekend
- $38 m Thursday, $96m Fri, ~$105m Saturday
- Spoilers (9:30)
- REAL Cameos, Crossovers, and Post Credit Scenes
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1 hr 5 min - Rebel Moon, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Wolverine Game Leak, and more!
This week Superhero Slate is ending 2023 with a bang talking about Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Part 1, the last DCEU movie – Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, breaking down Insomniac’s HUGE Wolverine leaks, and more!
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News
- WB/Discovery (30:10)
- Possible conversation about merging with Paramount
- Would be eyed critically from FTC commission
- eOne (34:22)
- Hasbro sells off Entertainment One to Lionsgate
- Purchased in 2019 for $4 billion; sold for $500 million
- Adds 6,500 film and television titles to Lionsgate’s existing library, including Showtime hit “Yellowjackets,” ABC’s “The Rookie” and Discovery’s “Naked & Afraid” franchise
- What If…? (35:55)
- Season 2 Thoughts
- Season 3 confirmed to be soon
- Avengers 5 (43:00)
- Jonathan Majors has been dropped by Marvel and Disney after being found guilty on 2 of the 4 counts
- Current materials refer to the movie as Avengers 5 instead of Kang Dynasty
- Excalibur (49:20)
- UK version of superhero team in early works at Marvel
- Can include Giah (Emilia Clarke), Dane Whitman (Kit Harrington), and possibly Captain Britain
- Spider-Man 2 (PS5) (51:55)
- Insomniac the victim of a hacker leak
- Reports on video game with Venom, Miles, and Peter as playable characters
- Coming in late 2025, similar to Miles spinoff with $50 target, would lead into Spider-Man 3
- Spider-Man 3 (55:40)
- Looking to release 2027 and 2028, possibly split into 2 parts at $50 each
- Spider-Man: The Great Web multiplayer portion added as part of this game with part 1
- PS5 or maybe PS6?
- Wolverine (1:00:30)
- Has to be released by Sept 1, 2025 on PS5
- Early gameplay footage leaked to internet
- X-Men (1:06:55)
- Game looking to release by 2030
- License mentions PS5
- Another X-Men game by 2032
- X-Men 97 (1:12:22)
- Titles leaked for upcoming season, including a 3 part finale
- E1: To Me, My X-Men
- E2: Mutant Liberation Begins
- E3: Fire Made Flesh
- E4: Motendo
- E5: Remember It
- E6: Bright Eyes
- E7: Shine With Strength Reborn
- E8: Tolerance is Extinction – Part 1
- E9: Tolerance is Extinction – Part 2
- E10: Tolerance is Extinction – Part 3
- Dune: Messiah (1:14:00)
- Has reportedly been greenlit at WB already
- Eyeing 2027 release; takes place shortly after first Dune
- Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (1:15:30)
- Review & Discussion with Spoilers
- Last of DCEU films, started with Man of Steel in 2013
- Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire (1:36:20)
- Review and Discussion with Spoilers
- Available on Netflix
- “R rated cut to be more bizarre and a lot of sex.” – Zack Snyder
- Part 2: The Scargiver out April 19, 2024
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2 hr 10 min - The Marvels (2023) Review
Welcome to the Superhero Slate review of Marvel’s The Marvels Who exactly are The Marvels and why are their powers connected? How has Disney+ and the actor’s strike affected theater turnout for this movie? Why is Goose our favorite Pet-Avenger?! Find out all these questions and more!
The Marvels (2023) is the culmination of Captain Marvel (2018), WandaVision (2021), and Ms. Marvel (2022).
Spoilers start at: (27:20)
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1 hr 10 min - One Piece (2023) Review
Welcome to the Superhero Slate review of Netflix’s One Piece! Who are the Straw Hat Pirates and why are they looking for the One Piece? Can Netflix adapt anime to live action and make it GOOD? Can Luffy become king of the pirates? Find out all these questions and more!
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