This week on Superhero Slate we’re talking X-Men 97 Season 2, Avengers Doomsday official art, Supergirl’s competing versions, and more!

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News

• Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (25:10)
  • After movie leaked earlier this year, release changed to Paramount+ on July 25
  • Official trailer
• Star Wars (30:30)
  • The Ninth Jedi coming to Disney+ on August 5
    • “Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi is an upcoming 8-episode limited anime series from Lucasfilm and Production I.G”
  • The limited series picks up not long after the events of the Visions shorts: "The Ninth Jedi" and "The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope."
  • Simu Liu voices a character Lah Zhima
  • August 5 on Disney+ and HuluAugust 5 on Disney+ and Hulu.
• Marvel Studios (33:10)
  • Returning to Hall H at SDCC this year
  • Avengers Doomsday trailer (before Spider-Man in theaters); Upcoming Movies/Casting (X-Men, Black Panther 3)
• Nova (36:30)
  • Michael Waldron (Loki) has “Nova” on his WGA credit page
  • Marvel has confirmed he is not working on a Nova series for them (at this time)
• Avengers: Doomsday (39:35)
  • First concept art unveiled at Shanghai Expo
    • Artwork for movie too
  • Doom’s Throne revealed
• X-Men (48:00)
  • Kevin Feige confirms X-men are arriving AFTER Avengers: Secret Wars
• AXE: Judgement Day (53:50)
  • Rumor: Avengers, X-Men, Eternals will be the Avengers 7 movie
• X-Men 97 (55:40)
  • Season 2 talk
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day (58:30)
  • Looking to open between $230-250 million
• Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (1:01:10)
  • Trailer could be coming for SDCC to release before BND
• Lanterns (1:02:20)
  • Will have a panel at SDCC and interactive experience
• DC Crime (1:03:50)
  • Jimmy Tatro will play/voice Gorilla Grodd in the series
• Supergirl (1:05:35)
  • DC Studios had a director’s cut vs a studio cut competing in test screenings
    • Neither really ‘won’ per THR

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This week on Superhero Slate Marvel’s Nova movie gets a writer, The Batman 2 is delayed, Avengers Tickets go on sale, and more!

SDCC is next weekend; Sam Neil passed away at age 78

News

• Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (10:40)
  • Will receive limited theatrical release from July 24 to July 30
  • Most likely to become eligible for 2027 Academy Awards
• GI Joe (16:11)
  • Danny McBride taking over directing duties on upcoming film
    • Will be his feature Directorial Debut
  • Chris Hemsworth exited project for ‘undisclosed reasons’ - Thor 5?
  • Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, and Walton Goggins are lead choices to be in film
    • Cooper likely to take Hemsworth’s role as “Duke”
• Call of Duty (19:15)
  • Movie officially set in “Modern Warfare” universe
    • Games aren’t linear or connected
  • One of the most popular video games released in the end 00s
• God of War (23:40)
  • Kratos actor Ryan Hurst tears biceps filming live-action series
    • Will be recast due to 6 month+ recovery time
  • Series has filmed at least 4 episodes of season 1’s 10, but show has 20 commitment
• Wolverine (game) (24:55)
  • New trailer released for upcoming game, playing before The Odyssey
  • September 15 on PS5
• X-Men (31:15)
  • Rumor front runner casting:
    • Bill Skarsgaard as Professor X
    • Cailee Spaeny as Rogue
    • Adam Driver as villain (William Stryker, Mister Sinister, etc)
    • Charles Melton as Beast
    • Cooper Hoffman as Cyclops
    • Sadie Sink as Jean Grey
    • Margot Robbie as Emma Frost
  • Second set of rumors say no Wolverine or Magneto
• Nova (35:10)
  • Michael Waldron has been tapped to pen a Nova MOVIE instead of a series
    • Previously reported Marvel said no Nova series when questioned about his WGA page
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day (39:13)
  • Releasing July 29 in Prime screenings July 30th for regular screenings
  • Social media embargo lifts July 27, and review embargo on July 28
• Avengers: Doomsday (42:30)
  • Tickets will go on sale July 20 for Infinity Vision theaters
    • Most likely needs SOME sort of trailer/video to announce
  • Official runtime of movie is 165 minutes (could change, by only by small margin)
  • They have confirmed the first trailer will debut during Marvel's Hall H panel on July 25
• Box Office (48:15)
  • Domestic BO is trending to pass $10 billion this year
    • First time since 2019
  • Major movies so far have not made sizeable impact
    • Star Wars, Minions, Moana, Supergirl, He-Man
  • Cheaper, indie films made by Gen Z or visionaries
    • Backrooms, Obsession, Odyssey, Project Hail Mary
• The Batman Part 2 (53:30)
  • Movie delayed to February 18 2028 per Matt Reeves’ camera test
  • Batman has bigger ears
• Man of Tomorrow (55:30)
  • Xolo Maridueña will return as Blue Beetle in upcoming movie
    • Animated series announced 2 years ago has no updates or information since
  • Definitely NOT a Justice League...or is it?

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This week on Superhero Slate San Diego Comic-Con gives us Ghost Rider, a new Lanterns trailer, the Spaceballs Cinematic Universe, and more!

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News

• SDCC 2026 (17:55)
  • Going on now!
• Spaceballs (19:25)
  • The New One panel reveals a parody universe of films
• Avatar: Seven Havens (22:15)
  • Next series trailer
  • Retracted: All 26 episodes of Seven Havens will be available to stream starting October 9
• Resident Evil (29:00)
  • New Trailer for upcoming movie
  • September 18 in theaters
• Supergirl (33:00)
  • Home release dates
    • Digital on July 27th
    • 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on September 4th
• Clayface (33:55)
  • Trailer released featuring more body horror scenes
  • This is the same version from Creature Commandos, per Peter Safran
    • We WILL get the big clay beast
• Lanterns (37:45)
  • SDCC trailer
  • First look at suited up Hal and Sinestro
  • Manhunters - pre-Green Lantern space ‘cops’
• Star Wars: Detours (41:25)
  • Show will become available to watch, in a limited capacity
  • Selections of Detours will be playing exclusively at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
• Wolverine (45:20)
  • Story trailer for upcoming game revealed
  • Features Jean Grey
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day (47:00)
  • Out in theaters this coming week!
  • Rosario Dawson confirms she filmed scenes but they were all cut from film
    • Played Claire Temple/night nurse in Daredevil
• VisionQuest (49:55)
  • October 14 on Disney+
• MCU (50:30)
  • Post-secret wars
    • "It will establish a streamlined, simplified, single universe that we can keep up with. Some things will be familiar, but many, many things will be entirely new.”
  • "We were just in a Marvel Studios meeting room, planning movies all the way up to 2042,"
  • "But yes, we definitely have plans [for a live-action Miles]," he revealed, "and I think a live-action Spider-Man movie has this destiny: to add Miles sometime after the Spider-Verse series ends."
• Avengers Doomsday (58:22)
  • Trailer brought in 503 million views in first 24 hours
    • Spider-Man Brand New Day is 719m
  • Tickets on Sale for Infinity Vision
  • Costumes reveal multi colored Latverian Witches
    • Green, Yellow, Purple, Red
    • Doom’s outfit up close
  • Panel
    • Hayley Atwell confirmed for movie
    • Deadpool showed up (X-force costume)
    • Leaked footage
• Ghost Rider (1:09:55)
  • Ryan Gosling confirmed to be Ghost Rider
    • This movie is based on a version he brought to Marvel Studios
  • Shawn Levy to direct
  • 2028 in theaters
• Black Panther 3 (1:15:40)
  • Ryan Coogler returning to direct threequel
  • David Jonsson (Alien Romulus) is T’challa’s son in upcoming film
  • The film will be shot on larger format celluloid film.
  • December 15, 2028

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