The Punisher Trailer & Justice League Cuts | Weekly News Episode 139

Superhero Slate is back this week with a real episode and are blown away from the Punisher trailer, maybe Gambit will be a good movie after all, our thoughts on Kingsmen: The Golden Circle, and more!

What Happened Last Week

News

• Old News Recap
  • Star Wars IX - JJ Abrams & Chris Terrio
  • Stan Lee - 5 cameos filmed
  • New Mutants - Done Filming
  • Hellboy - First look at David Harbour
  • Wonder Woman 2 to be directed by Patty Jenkins
  • The Batman might lose Deathstroke
• Kingsmen: The Golden Circle (10:10)
  • Thoughts and Impressions
  • Review episode
• The Punisher (11:35)
  • First official Teaser
  • Potential release date October 13
• Thor: Ragnarok (18:05)
  • 1987 Trailer
• Ant-Man and the Wasp (20:40)
  • Hope van Dyne in costume on set
• Avengers 4 (23:45)
  • Casting call for women engineers in the 1960’s
    • Possible Peggy Carter return
    • Hayley Atwell mocap dots on instagram
• Power Pack (26:50)
  • Marvel Studios has renewed interest in making film
  • The plan is to develop the film as a family-friendly “Spy Kids-like story” with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 executive producer Jonathan Schwartz on board in some capacity.
• Han Solo (29:35)
  • Darth Vader rumored to show up in film
• X-Men: Dark Phoenix (31:50)
  • Colossus Actor Daniel Cudmore to return to franchise
    • Maybe not Colossus?
• Gambit (33:50)
  • Possible characters include:
    • Mutants like Rictor, Fifolet, Dani Moonstar, Multiple Man, Marrow, and a "blue X-Men regular"
  • Plot synopsis could make fans happy:
    • Remy Lebeau (Channing Tatum) is on trial in New-Orleans. He’s considered a huge security risk. We flashback to almost 25 years before. Master thief Luke Lebeau runs into eight-year-old Gambit while doing a heist. Impressed by his skills, he offers to take the mutant orphan under his wings. Raised alongside other strays he calls “cousins”, the teenage Gambit becomes the superstar of the Thief Guild. He encounters Bella Donna Boudreaux while on the run from the police. Sparks immediately fly since Bella is also a fellow mutant. Their love is directly prohibited by both families since the Boudreaux are sworn enemies of the Lebeau clan. Deciding to unite the two sides, Remy offers to have the two clans team up on a HUGE heist to profit both families. Of course, the whole plan goes awry, and in the chaos, Maryanne Boudreaux shoots and kill Luke Lebeau.
    • We jump to 10 years later; Gambit is hired to do a job in Paris to steal something from the Louvre Museum. It was apparently a test job to see if he still has it. His mysterious employer is revealed to be Nathaniel Essex a.k.a. Mr. Sinister. He offers Gambit 40 million to recover a mysterious trunk that was stolen by the Boudreaux clan. It will be auctioned off during the yearly Thieves Ball where all the criminal organizations in the world meet up. It uses New Orleans’ Mardi Gras celebrations as a cover. Gambit decides to enlist a crew of mutants to pull off this seemingly impossible heist…
• Justice League (38:30)
  • Kiersey Clemons role as Iris West rumored to be cut from final film
    • Second behind Lex Luthor
  • Projections show $150 million opening (BvS was $166)
• Man of Steel 2 (43:25)
  • Matthew Vaughn in talks to direct film
• The Joker (45:30)
  • Origin film script almost completed
• Arrowverse (47:15)
  • Crossover this year to focus on The Flash’s wedding
    • Crisis on Earth X
• Watchmen (50:35)
  • HBO Pilot ordered & presumably series
    • Damon Lindelof (Lost)
• Tomb Raider (55:05)
  • First trailer for upcoming reboot
• Terminator (59:00)
  • Tim Miller to direct
  • Linda Hamilton to return to franchise
    • James Cameron has plans for new trilogy
  • Will forget last film (Genisys)

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