3 Hour Avengers & Pennyworth on Epix | Weekly News Episode 209

This week we’re talking about a 3 hour Avengers movie, Doom Patrol gives us a teaser, a horror-based Aquaman spinoff in the works, and more!

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News

• Star Wars (18:10)
  • Episode 9 Title maybe “Balance of the Force”
• Captain Marvel (21:08)
  • First Marvel movie to stream directly on Disney+
• Disney+ (24:00)
  • Will license other films to include a wider array of choices for service
• Avengers (26:40)
  • Current runtime at 3 hours
    • No one using bathroom during 4 positive test screenings
    • Marvel is fine with the lengthy runtime as long as the film "hits the right beats"
  • LIve action team image
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (34:05)
  • Chris Pratt confirms they’ll use James Gunn’s script
• Deadpool (36:00)
  • Likely to keep R rating on films
  • Will most likely keep it out of MCU
    • Can reference them but branding has to be careful
• Marvel Television (38:20)
  • All Women show has not been picked up at ABC
• Cloak and Dagger (40:55)
  • Season 2 on FreeForm
  • April 4, 2019
• Legion (42:45)
  • Season 3 debuts this summer
    • Will wrap show up
  • Professor X cast - Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones)
• Doom Patrol (45:10)
  • Teaser for show
    • Alan Tudyk - Mr. Nobody
  • Feb 15, 2019
• Pennyworth (48:55)
  • First image of Jack Bannon as role
  • Set in 1960’s DC England
  • Unhinged, R-rated, no Batman villains
• Aquaman (53:00)
  • Warner Bros. early stages of developing spinoff based on The Trench
    • Principal cast of Aquaman will not be featured in any capacity
  • Underwater horror film
• Justice League vs the Fatal Five (57:14)
  • Trailer
• Kingsmen: The Great Game (59:35)
  • Prequel set in WW1
  • Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Gemma Arterton cast
• Monster Hunter (1:01:30)
  • Sept 4, 2020

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