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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)
  • Jessica Jones (34:30)
  • 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)
  • 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

Plugs (1:04:20)

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