Marvel’s Ultimate Movie & Deadpool’s MCU Debut | Weekly News Episode 224

This week's Superhero Slate, we ask will Zemo be the villain to Falcon & the Winter Soldier, The Rise of Skywalker teases the Knights of Ren, how will Deadpool debut in the MCU, and more!

 News

• Avengers: Endgame (12:20)
  • Labor Day goal to beat Avatar’s numbers
    • Endgame had huge up front, Avatar had no competition
• Ultimates (15:50)
  • Reportedly working on movie for MCU
  • Ultimates have several iterations
    • Ultimate Universe - likely akin to Avengers
    • Ultimates (recent) - Captain Marvel, Black Panther, etc, focus on Multi-verse/cosmic threats
• Falcon & The Winter Soldier (23:55)
  • Daniel Bruhl & Emily VanCamp to return as Zemo & Sharon Carter
  • Kari Skogland (The Handmaid’s Tale) as director
  • August 2020
• WandaVision (27:10)
  • First series to reveal Wanda’s reality manipulating powers
• Deadpool (29:15)
  • Rumored to be introduced in Spider-Man: Far From Home sequel
    • Biggest box office returns
  • Solo movie & Disney+ limited series also as options
• Solo (36:40)
  • #MakeSolo2Happen trending
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (37:55)
  • Knights of Ren to get screen time and play a key role
  • Sand planet is Pasaana
  • Luke Skywalker to return somehow (Flashback?)
• Knights of the Old Republic (42:00)
  • Movie reportedly being written by Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar)
  • Set 4,000 years before formation of Galactic Empire
• Star Trek: Picard (43:40)
  • First promo for upcoming show
• Terminator: Dark Fate (47:15)
  • Trailer for upcoming movie
    • Sequel to T2: Judgement Day
• John Wick 4 (51:40)
  • May 21, 2021 release
• Akira (52:55)
  • May 21, 2021 release
  • Taika Waititi
• DC Super Pets (54:05)
  • Pushed back to May 22, 2022
• Sonic the Hedgehog (55:20)
  • Pushed back to February 14 2020 for redesign
    • Originally November 8, 2019

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