Venom 3 Trailer, World War Hulk at Marvel, the X-Men reboot with Jordan Peele, and more!

This week on Superhero Slate we're putting our dancing shoes for the Venom 3 trailer, World War Hulk is in the cards at Marvel, the X-Men reboot might get a horror director, and more!

What We're Watching: Shang Chi, Multiverse of Madness, Hit Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (original), The Princess Bride, Good Burger

News

• Captain America: Brave New World (28:25)
  • Benedict Wong seen on set in Atlanta
    • Possible Abomination connection from The Incredible Hulk
  • Giancarlo Esposito filming on set
    • Could he be Nick Fury’s brother, Jake Fury?
  • Scenes show Vibranium based suit on set
• World War Hulk (34:15)
  • Movie being setup in MCU for future project
  • Bruce Banner afraid of governments getting his blood and creating their own Hulks/super soldiers
    • Could be breaking point and see return of Savage Hulk
• Avengers 5 (38:10)
  • Shawn Levy (Deadpool and Wolverine) in talks to direct film (again)
    • Was offered movie but passed. Delay has given him an opening
  • Grounded story but with multiversal aspects
  • Sources say project could have more than 60 MCU Characters
    • Loki and Sylvie expected to play big roles in movies
    • Most likely over 2 films, not just one
• Avengers: Secret Wars (46:50)
  • Rumored (again) to be multi-part film
  • Could also borrow from comic book lines Avengers Assemble by Jason Aaron
    • Reality rewritten to get rid of 616 Avengers, but pursue through multiverse and meet variations on themselves
  • Avengers Forever
    • Rick Jones assembles different Avengers to fend off attack from Immortus (Kang Variant)
  • Time Runs Out
    • Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers vs the Illuminati
• X-Men (50:55)
  • Jordan Peele met with Marvel about the film
    • Most likely to direct
    • Nothing has come of it yet
  • Michael Lesslie is writing
• Marvel Cinematic Universe (55:20)
  • Phase 7 likely to “Look to the stars specifically Eternals Vol 3”
• Venom: The Last Dance (59:05)
  • First trailer released for upcoming finale
  • Features other symbiote spawns, return of Toxin (Let There Be Carnage), and a Xenophage (symbiote eater alien)
  • Rhys Ifans in van scene, could be this universe’s Dr Conners
  • Bar scene but not the same as No Way Home, probably ported back to variant version in Venomverse
• Star Wars: The Acolyte (1:06:15)
  • Most watched Disney+ premiere of 2024
    • 4.8 million views in 5 days
    • X-Men was 4 m
  • 93% on RT, comparable to Andor
• Superman (1:09:10)
  • Slate for film revealed in a collection
• Alien: Romulus (1:11:15)
  • Trailer for Fede Alvarez’s movie released
    • Set between Alien and Aliens
  • August 16, 2024

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