Thunderbolts Absolute Cinema Trailer, Star Wars Underworld Costs, Shang-Chi 2 Rumors, and more!

This week Superhero Slate is back with a mind-blowing Thunderbolts trailer, Star Wars Underworld would have cost $40 million per episode, Shang-Chi 2 rumored to start production soon, and more!

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News

• Fantastic Four (5:45)
  • Concept Art officially revealed, showing inspiration on Disney’s Tomorrowland
  • Characters will be in Disneyland Park this summer
• Thunderbolts (15:30)
  • New trailer teases weird places movie will go
  • Filled with talent names to showcase the team making the movie
    • Not just actors
• Planet X (24:00)
  • Vin Diesel’s recent social media post claims there is a call for him to return as Groot in a Planet X movie
    • Planet X is where Groot’s species is originally from
  • Unsure if its a Guardians 4 film following his origins or animated I Am Groot spinoff
• Marvel (26:30)
  • November 2026 movie likely to be Shang-Chi 2 or Black Panther 3
    • More likely BP 3 as Cretton is on Spider-man 4 and news about Denzel’s casting from last fall
• Shang-Chi 2 (27:55)
  • Marvel has created a production company called “Atlas” in the UK
    • Could be Greek God’s version of Atlas?
  • Further rumors the Atlas Foundation will be part of Shang-Chi 2
    • Jimmy Woo was part of comics
  • Atlas Foundation was the descendents of Genghis Khan, who would’ve been warring with Wenwu
    • Death would allow Foundation to arise and take over in power vacuum
  • Iron Fist would be introduced, alongside Amadeus Cho and Luna Snow
• Avengers: Doomsday (34:30)
  • Studio looking into how to bring animated characters into the film
    • Rather than translate them to live-action
  • This is in addition to Miss Minutes, so possibly Spider-Verse, What If, X-Men 97
• Spider-Man 4 (38:20)
  • Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) cast in upcoming movie
  • Red hair makes people immediately think of Mary Jane Watson
    • Is this a Doomsday altered universe?
• The Last of Us (43:12)
  • Season 2 trailer released
  • April 13, 2025
• Batman (44:30)
  • State Farm goes all in on Bateman vs Batman commercial
  • Showcases villains including Two-Face, The Riddler, Catwoman, and The Joker
• Lanterns (48:00)
  • Actress reveals the Guardians of the Universe and Sinestro Corps will be in show
    • “We have all the characters we know and love... the Lanterns, the Guardians, Sinestros, and that world is still intact and everyone is presented as heroes and villains at the same time.”
• DCU (52:00)
  • Peter Safran possibly taking over WB movies division
    • Leaving James Gunn as sole DCU head
  • Current plans are to release two live-action films and one animated film per year in cinemas
    • Same for Max streaming service, two live-action series and one animated series per year
• Star Wars Underworld (57:55)
  • Rick McCallum has opened up about George Lucas’ canceled show
  • Episode cost was around $40 million and 60 episodes planned
    • Each episode was bigger than the movies, and cost was from the technology at the time
• Avatar: Fire and Ash (1:02:40)
  • Third movie will be longer than second, which was 3 hours 12 minutes
  • Some plot points were pulled from second movie
    • Still most likely to have a time jump

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