Green Lantern Casting, BIG Avengers Doomsday Rumors, Spider-Man & Venom Team-Up, and more!

This week on Superhero Slate, we’re discussing the Jon Stewart casting confirmation for the DCU, Doomsday level MCU rumors take over our feeds, Spider-Man might team-up with Venom, and more!

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News

• Joker 2 (16:30)
  • Made less than expected with $37.2 million
  • Second weekend worst drop ever for superhero movie
• Lanterns (20:40)
  • Aaron Pierre officially cast as Jon Stewart
  • Series eying Kelly MacDonald (Boardwalk Empire) as a love interest in series
  • Reportedly as a Sheriff in show, but not Carol Ferris 
    • Regular Hal love interest is Carol Ferris, also known as Star Sapphire (another lantern Corps)
    • Could still exist in universe, as this is an older Hal
• Marvel Games (23:50)
  • Rumored to be developing first ever MCU-set Video Game
  • Not part of the current video games we know of
    • Marvel 1943: Black Panther/Captain America
    • Iron Man by EA
    • Wolverine by Sony
    • Black Panther Solo game
    • Blade solo game
• Avengers: Doomsday (27:30)
  • Both Avengers movies to feature secondary villains to replace Council of Kangs
    • Previous scripts had different Avengers teams fighting Kang Variants: Rama-Tut, Scarlet Centurion, and Immortus
  • Doom and Mister Fantastic’s dynamic similar to Tony and Thanos in Infinity War/Endgame
  • Wanda/Scarlet Witch to be Baroness and “love interest” to Dr. Doom
    • Helping reshape realities and traverse multiverse
    • Similar to House of M/Children’s Crusade, where she had lost memory was living alongside Victor in Latveria
  • Team to be led by Captain Marvel and Sam Wilson/Captain America
  • Thor and Sylvie to meet on screen
  • Scooper says:
    • "I’m very excited because it will feature some of the most important storylines that will set up the groundwork for Doomsday and Secret Wars."
• Thunderbolts* (38:38)
  • Rumor: Val will be associated with other MCU villains
    • Hinted at Wilson Fisk, Xu Xialing, Sharon Carter
• Moon Knight (41:10)
  • Scooper reports that Moon Knight will return
    • Marvel "[has] an idea...that's really exciting."
• Daredevil (42:20)
  • Season 2 production begins in a few weeks
    • Season 2 rumored to debut after Spider-man 4
  • Mayor Fisk will be hunting vigilantes
    • Colleen Wing (Jessica Henwick) rumored to return
    • Danny Rand (Finn Jones) to return as Iron Fist’s master, rather than the hero himself
  • Sony refused to allow Spider-man to be in series
    • Only Avengers/Solo films
  • Will get a name drop in upcoming series
    • Not appearing in Season 2 (at this time)
• Spider-Man 4 (45:35)
  • Per scoopers: Robert Downey Jr will have a role as Doctor Doom in film
    • Will bridge Avengers movies
  • Movie taking on multiversal aspects and saving street level post- Secret Wars
    • Due to being wedged between Doomsday and Secret Wars, possible “Battleworld” elements of merged universes
    • Marvel is pushing for street level after return to ‘soft rebooted’ MCU
  • Could be crossover for Venom and Spider-Man
    • Fighting Knull with his All-Black sword
    • No Black Cat
  • Will kick off filming May 25, 2025 through October
    • Tom Holland will do Doomsday filming prior to this
• Venom: The Last Stand (51:36)
  • Knull is not going to have a lot of screen time overall
    • Laying the groundwork for future movies
  • Andy Serkis has signed on for multiple films
    • Collaboration with Sony and Marvel Studios
• Kraven (55:25)
  • New trailer classified to play in front of Venom 3
    • Probably no post-credits scene tied to this movie

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