March 17, 2025

Thunderbolts Absolute Cinema Trailer, Star Wars Underworld Costs, Shang-Chi 2 Rumors, and more!

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This week Superhero Slate is back with a mind-blowing Thunderbolts trailer, Star Wars Underworld would have cost $40 million per episode, Shang-Chi 2 rumored to start production soon, and more!

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News

Fantastic Four (5:45)

Concept Art officially revealed, showing inspiration on Disney’s Tomorrowland

Characters will be in Disneyland Park this summer

Thunderbolts (15:30)

New trailer teases weird places movie will go

Filled with talent names to showcase the team making the movie

Not just actors

Planet X (24:00)

Vin Diesel’s recent social media post claims there is a call for him to return as Groot in a Planet X movie

Planet X is where Groot’s species is originally from

Unsure if its a Guardians 4 film following his origins or animated I Am Groot spinoff

Marvel (26:30)

November 2026 movie likely to be Shang-Chi 2 or Black Panther 3

More likely BP 3 as Cretton is on Spider-man 4 and news about Denzel’s casting from last fall

Shang-Chi 2 (27:55)

Marvel has created a production company called “Atlas” in the UK

Could be Greek God’s version of Atlas?

Further rumors the Atlas Foundation will be part of Shang-Chi 2

Jimmy Woo was part of comics

Atlas Foundation was the descendents of Genghis Khan, who would’ve been warring with Wenwu

Death would allow Foundation to arise and take over in power vacuum

Iron Fist would be introduced, alongside Amadeus Cho and Luna Snow

Avengers: Doomsday (34:30)

Studio looking into how to bring animated characters into the film

Rather than translate them to live-action

This is in addition to Miss Minutes, so possibly Spider-Verse, What If, X-Men 97

Spider-Man 4 (38:20)

Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) cast in upcoming movie

Red hair makes people immediately think of Mary Jane Watson

Is this a Doomsday altered universe?

The Last of Us (43:12)

Season 2 trailer released

April 13, 2025

Batman (44:30)

State Farm goes all in on Bateman vs Batman commercial

Showcases villains including Two-Face, The Riddler, Catwoman, and The Joker

Lanterns (48:00)

Actress reveals the Guardians of the Universe and Sinestro Corps will be in show

“We have all the characters we know and love... the Lanterns, the Guardians, Sinestros, and that world is still intact and everyone is presented as heroes and villains at the same time.”

DCU (52:00)

Peter Safran possibly taking over WB movies division

Leaving James Gunn as sole DCU head

Current plans are to release two live-action films and one animated film per year in cinemas

Same for Max streaming service, two live-action series and one animated series per year

Star Wars Underworld (57:55)

Rick McCallum has opened up about George Lucas’ canceled show

Episode cost was around $40 million and 60 episodes planned

Each episode was bigger than the movies, and cost was from the technology at the time

Avatar: Fire and Ash (1:02:40)

Third movie will be longer than second, which was 3 hours 12 minutes

Some plot points were pulled from second movie

Still most likely to have a time jump

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