Fantastic Four: First Steps Review, SDCC 2026 Recap, Peacemaker Trailer, and more

This week on Superhero Slate, we're recapping San Diego Comic-Con 2025, reviewing Fantastic Four First Steps, stepping into the Peacemaker Universes, and more!

News

• SDCC 2025 (1:17)
  • Updates
• Masters of the Universe (5:55)
  • Teaser trailer with title treatment in various languages
  • June 5, 2026
• Predator: Badlands (8:25)
  • Trailer for upcoming movie
  • Features young Yautja and Elle Fanning as Weyland yutani synthezoid
    • Mechanized loader in the end
  • Could this be a secret Alien vs Predator movie?
• Predator: Killer of Killers (9:40)
  • New version with extended ending dropped on Hulu
• Star Wars: Ahsoka (14:30)
  • First photo of Eman Esfadi returning as Ezra Bridger in season 2
• Maul: Shadow Lord (15:00)
  • First photo shows Maul’s return in upcoming show
• Ne Zha 2 (18:15)
  • Getting re-release in US with English voices
    • Ne Zha 2 explores the consequences of Ne Zha's defiance against the heavens and the internal struggle of being a "demon child" born of chaos.
  • $2.19 billion box office
• Clayface (21:40)
  • New report on plot:
    • "centers on an ascending actor whose face is disfigured by a gangster. As a last resort, the actor turns to a fringe Elizabeth Holmes-style scientist for help. At first, the experiment is successful but … well, it wouldn’t be a horror movie if the story ended right there, would it?"
• Peacemaker (24:05)
  • Trailer released at SDCC
  • Image of a potential alien on set with James Gunn
  • Synopsis released:
    • “In season 2, Peacemaker discovers an alternate world where life is everything he wishes it could be. But this discovery also forces him to face his traumatic past and take the future into his own hands.”
  • August 21, 2025
• Superman (30:00)
  • All 26 characters in the Hall of Justice memorial identified
    • Madame Xanadu
    • Silent Knight
    • Exoristos
    • Black Pirate
    • Miss Liberty
    • Whip Whirlwind
    • Super-Chief
    • El Diablo
    • Iron Munro
    • The Ghost of Flanders
    • Sandman I (Wesley Dodds)
    • Amazing Man (Will Everett)
    • Zatara
    • Liberty Belle
    • Bulletman
    • Max Mercury, see Whip Whirlwind
    • Bulletgirl
    • TNT
    • Dan the Dyna-mite
    • Phantom Lady
    • Atomic Knight
    • Freedom Beast
    • Wildcat
    • Vibe
    • Gunfire
    • Maxwell Lord
  • Very obscure, random heroes from time
  • James Gunn has teased that at the very least, 2 out of the 26 heroes in the mural are important to an upcoming DCU project
• Booster Gold (34:20)
  • David Jenkins (Our Flag Means Death) to write pilot for series
    • If successful, will become show runner
  • Inherited project from Danny McBride
    • Gunn alluded McBride “fell out of love” with the project
• Eyes of Wakanda (36:25)
  • Releasing almost a month earlier on August 1
    • Previously Aug 27
  • All 4 episodes will drop on Disney+
  • Follows warriors throughout Wakandan history tasked with traveling the world to retrieve vibranium artifacts
• Punisher (37:30)
  • Set photo shows some ‘punishment’
  • Videos have shown classic skull attire will be worn
• Fantastic Four: First Steps (42:20)
  • Box Office currently around $218 million (probably revised up tomorrow)
    • Biggest Thursday of 2025
  • Review of Movie
    • SPOILERS (56:30)
  • Real Suits
    • Practical Galactus outfit
    • Practical The Thing on set

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