Joss Drops Batgirl & Look at that Brainiac | Weekly News Episode 160

Superhero Slate has got you covered when Batgirl loses its writer/director, Fox is trying to rush Skrulls in the X-Men, Infinity War could be the longest Marvel movie ever, and more!

 

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• Black Panther (14:00)
  • Updated box office
    • Passed Avengers for highest Wednesday
    • Passing $700 million worldwide today
  • Highest Rated superhero movie of all time on RT
  • Go listen to our Review
• Avengers: Infinity War (18:55)
  • Marvel Studios: The First Ten years
    • “Every story that Marvel has told since Iron Man 1 finds a narrative thread in these next two Avengers movies. It is a culmination of all that storytelling.”
  • Runtime possibly 2 hours and 30 minutes
  • Trailer this Thursday?
• Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (27:20)
  • Start filming early 2019 in Atlanta
    • Captain Marvel is March, Spider-Man 2 is May
• Agents of SHIELD (28:25)
  • Episode 100 to reveal Coulson’s deal with Ghost Rider
• Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur (29:50)
  • Animated show for Disney
    • “Follow the adventures of nine-year-old super-genius Lunella Lafayette, an African-American girl who teams up with her crimson-colored dinosaur and uses her smarts to save the day."
• The Muppets (32:10)
  • Rebooted series coming to Disney Streaming Service
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (33:20)
  • Digital release on March 13
  • Physical on March 27
• Star Wars IX (35:05)
  • Script is complete and will start filming in Late July for 2019 release
• Silver & Black (37:45)
  • Production delayed indefinitely
    • Planned to start March 1
  • Script rewrite and no actors cast probably big factors
    • Sony’s sale of film side may also be making them reprioritize productions
• X-Men: Dark Phoenix (39:50)
  • To feature the Skrulls as villains (An attempt before Marvel)
  • Serious film, but better than Apocalypse in terms of quality
• X-Force (45:15)
  • May start filming this October
    • Aim for finishing before Disney deal is done
• Batgirl (47:20)
  • Joss Whedon has exited Batgirl film
    • Could not find the right story
    • Initial thoughts it would be original Batgirl origin, not Killing Joke one
      • Detective Comics #359
  • Roxane Gay (An Untamed State; Bad Feminist essays) and Hope Larson (Batgirl comics) offer to write movie on Twitter
    • DC VP responded
• Aquaman (53:50)
  • Trailer around Wonder Con in late March
  • Test screenings this week point to a great film
    • “Plays like an Indiana Jones movie”
    • “Action puts Wonder Woman and Justice League to shame”
• Flashpoint (56:10)
  • John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein (Homecoming) have not signed on yet
• Krypton (58:10)
  • First look at Brainiac (is actually good)
• Jurassic World 3 (59:45)
  • Release June 11, 2021
• Ghostbusters World (1:02:30)
  • AR mobile game, in the style of Pokemon Go
  • Preview Trailer
• Westworld (1:05:15)
  • HBO building real life version at SXSW 2018

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