Dark Phoenix Review & Warner Bros. SDCC Woes | Weekly News Episode 226

This week Superhero Slate is reviewing Dark Phoenix, we take a first look at Loki in his own show surfaces, Warner Bros. skips on SDCC, and more! 

News

• Men in Black International (7:55)
  • Release this week
• Dark Phoenix (9:40)
  • Last Fox X-Men Movie Review
  • Spoiler Free Thoughts
• X-Men vs Fantastic Four (13:00)
  • Johnny Storm goes Nova, forcing a superhero registration act
  • X-men fight Fantastic Four; Mr. Fantastic cut wolverine’s arms off
  • Skrull invasion the next set of films
• X-Men: Animated Series (18:25)
  • Original creators plan to talk to Disney
  • Continue original 1990’s cartoon
• Fantastic Four (19:35)
  • Rumored to debut 2022
  • Peyton Reed campaign to direct
    • Has mentioned 1960’s setting (not likely)
• Marvel’s Phase 4 (Rumors) (23:50)
  • Black Widow - Yelena Belova as villain
  • Black Panther 2 - Queen Divine Justice to appear (Ce'Athauna Asira Davin was a princess of the Jabari Tribe)
  • Nova - last living Nova Corps member
  • Avengers - Dark, Young, & New Avengers
• Avengers: Endgame (30:52)
  • Nearly ended on an F-bomb to Thanos
    • Changed to I Am Iron Man
• Loki (32:40)
  • First concept art unveiled at Disney Investor Day
  • Loki in various periods of time
    • Appears to be post-Thor 1
• Jessica Jones (34:30)
  • Season 3 trailer
  • Last of the Netflix era Marvel shows
• Runaways (36:55)
  • Elizabeth Hurley cast as Morgan Le Fey in Season 3
    • Magical using villain
• Into the Spider-Verse (38:38)
  • Spider-Man film to hit Netflix June 26
• Uncharted (39:05)
  • Tom Holland starring in film adaptation of video game to land December 18, 2020
• Warner Bros. (40:40)
  • Skipping SDCC this year!!!
    • No Birds of Prey, Joker, Wonder Woman, Dune, etc
    • First time in 20 years
• Wonder Woman (43:44)
  • Colorful poster showing Diana in variation of Golden Eagle armor
  • Full marketing campaign to start in December
• Birds of Prey (45:30)
  • Rated R via Margot Robbie
  • Less-skimpy outfits to stare at
• Supergirl (47:10)
  • Start production in the first quarter of 2020
    • Alongside The Batman
  • 2021 release
• Black Adam (48:00)
  • Jaume Collet-Serra (Jungle Cruise) looked at for director
  • Fast tracked due to Shazam’s success
• Swamp Thing (50:00)
  • Show canceled after just 1 episode
    • Producer troubles reduced episodes from 13 to 10
• SyFy (54:30)
  • Deadly Class and Happy! Canceled on network
    • Deadly Class had 1 season; Happy had 2
  • Production companies looking for new homes
  • Krypton is the remaining comic-book show left on network
• Lucifer (56:15)
  • Renewed for 5th and final season on Netflix
• Magic: The Gathering (57:15)
  • Animated series going to Netflix
    • Focus on Planeswalkers
  • Russo brothers as Exec Producers
• Hasbro (1:00:05)
  • Snake Eyes (GI Joe spinoff) moves to October 16, 2020
  • Micronauts release June 14, 2021

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