Morbius Delays & Selling the CW | Weekly News Episode 357

This week Superhero Slate is waiting even longer for Morbius, X-Men is bringing back original voice actors, Warner wants to sell The CW, and more!

 

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News

• Spider-Man: No Way Home (20:00)
  • Box Office - $1.5+ billion
    • #8 of all time
    • #6 All time Domestic
• Morbius (24:30)
  • Delayed until April 1, 2022 (no joke)
  • Now more dates than New Mutants
• Blade (27:10)
  • Casting for character called Faiza, with fighting experience
  • Dr. Faiza Hussain, Muslim woman who weilded Excalibur and took on the same name in the comics
  • Has fought Dracula and worked with Dane Whitman in the comics
• Eternals (29:40)
  • On Disney+ This weekend
• Echo (30:15)
  • Rumor: Writers from Netflix’s Punisher and Daredevil series have signed up for Disney+ series
  • Ken Kristensen and Dara Resnik
• X-Men ‘97 (34:05)
  • Cal Dodd will return as Wolverine in the animated series revival
    • Alongside Lenore Zann (Rogue)
  • The show will feature George Buza (Beast), Catherine Disher (Jean Grey), Chris Potter (Gambit), Alison Sealy-Smith (Storm), Adrian Hough (Nightcrawler), and Christopher Britton (Mister Sinister)
• Thor: Love and Thunder (35:50)
  • Leaked poster shows new Thor suit and helmet
• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (40:10)
  • Bill Murray says his “power is being a bad guy”
  • Could still by a microverse character, not Kang
• Turning Red (41:05)
  • Pixar film skipping theaters, straight to Disney+
  • Third Pixar film in a row
  • March 11, 2022
• The CW (44:20)
  • WarnerMedia is looking to sell (most) of the CW Network
    • Nexstar as a potential buyer
  • WM would keep minority stake and continue making superhero shows until inevitable HBO Max takeover
• Peacemaker (48:35)
  • On HBO Max this Thursday, Jan 13
  • First 3 episodes
  • Sequel to The Suicide Squad (2021)
• Batman: Caped Crusader (51:50)
  • Animated series has Ed Brubaker (The Winter Soldier) join as lead writer
  • “Set in the past, but viewed through a modern lens”
• The Boys (53:45)
  • Season 3 confirmed to start on June 3 with 3 episodes, then weekly

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