Han Solo Spinoff Series & the Infinity Saga Boxset | Weekly News Episode 241

On Superhero Slate, the CW is having a Crisis from Multiple DC Shows, a Han Solo spin-off series could be in the works, Marvel reveals a trailer for the Infinity Saga, and more!

 News 

• Batman Day (11:18)
  • 80th Birthday on 9/21
    • Fortnite skins and challenges
  • The Animated Series intro redone in Arkham games
• Arkham City Games (15:45)
  • WB Montreal posts new teaser after 4 years
  • 2 days before Sony’s State of Play
• Crisis on Infinite Earths (18:25)
  • CW crossover continues to add more universes
    • Smallville Clark Kent & Lois Lane to return
    • Erica Durance plays Lois Lane and Supergirl’s mom
    • Multiple episode count
  • 5 part series
• Birds of Prey (23:50)
  • Title treatments revealed
  • The Fabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn
  • #BOPHQ
• Titans (26:20)
  • Nightwing costume makes first appearance in Season 2
• Star Wars (27:15)
  • Jon Favreau open to making another Star Wars Christmas Special for Disney+
  • 1978 original met with negative reception, introduced Boba Fett
• Solo (31:55)
  • Rumored spin-off series for Solo movie coming to Disney+
  • Focus on Crimson Dawn and other underworld criminal moments
  • Follow Darth Maul from Solo appearance to Rebels
• New Warriors (37:00) 
  • Has failed to find a network and series is no longer moving forward
    • Disney+ and Hulu passed
• Loki (42:20)
  • Tom Hiddleston promises answers to following questions:
    • Is Loki dead?
    • Where did he go with the Tesseract?
• The Infinity Saga (48:20)
  • Marvel shows trailer for Infinity Saga including all movies across 23 films
    • Starts with Iron Man and ends with Far From Home
  • “A thing isn’t beautiful just because it exists”
• Spider-Man: Far From Home (54:00)
  • Night Monkey trailer released to promote Spider-Man on digital and upcoming home release
• Funko Pop! (54:45)
  • WB enlists Oscar Nominated PIxar Director/Designer Teddy Newton (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) to work on story with Mark Dindal (The Emperor’s New Groove)
• Jojo Rabbit (58:00)
  • Taika Waititi film takes home People’s Choice award at the Toronto Film Festival
    • Former winners are Green Book and La La Land

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