This week on Superhero Slate we step into the Avenger’s Writing Room, Spider-Noir’s Swings and Losses, Street Fighter Punches above its weight, and more!

News

• Street Fighter (11:25)
  • New Trailer released for upcoming movie based on game series
  • Special moves, fight arenas, and pure campiness
  • October 16
• Spider-Man: Noir (16:10)
  • Amazon has canceled show after 1 season
    • Received 11 Emmy Award nominations (most for any Prime series this year)
  • Stated to lack “staying power”
    • The side effect of dropping all episodes at once
  • Also an expensive show to reshoot everything in color
• Marvel Television (20:33)
  • “Veil Productions” which is used for an upcoming small one-shot for Disney+ is using “Slumber Party” as the working title
    • Other evidence suggests this could be open to future seasons
  • Report suggests it is “youth-focused series”
    • Could be Champions or New Mutants (which had a comic called Slumber Party in 1984)
• Nova (25:35)
  • Michael Waldron seemingly confirms Richard Rider would be the main character of upcoming rumored film
  • Says the movie will have to reckon with the fact Thanos destroyed the Nova Corps off screen in Infinity War
• Avengers: Secret Wars (31:00)
  • Sounds like a ‘writers room’ of sorts helped craft upcoming Avengers movies
    • Stephen McFeely (Endgame), Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna (Spider-man), and Michael Waldron (Loki, Multiverse of Madness)
  • Noah Jupe is first new actor cast in movie
    • Rumored to be Franklin Richards aged up
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day (44:25)
  • Currently second highest domestic film behind The Force Awakens
    • Will most likely take top spot before run ends
  • Will arrive on physical home release November 17
    • Potential digital in Mid-October
• Venom (49:55)
  • Insomniac’s game is still in major production
    • Picking up post-Wolverine release
  • Will feature Eddie Brock, Peter, and Miles as playable characters, with faster city traversal
    • Tony Todd had all voice work done before his passing
  • To be followed by Spider-Man 3
• Dungeons and Dragons (54:40)
  • Hasbro is still seeking studio partner for sequel to Honor Among Thieves
    • Writing team gave a completed script to company
  • Netflix creating a series set in Ravenloft focusing on the origin of vampire Darklord Strahd von Zarovich
    • Supernatural part of D&D campaigns and lore
    • Alfonso Cuaron as EP
• Lanterns (59:15)
  • Ryan Reynolds said he’d love to cameo in Lanterns, and HBO Max wants to take him up on that offer.
    • Reynolds says that movie helped him start his starring role career, despite its faults
  • Episodes 3 & 4 discussion

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