Who Ya Gonna Call | Episode 79

The week after a wedding and before SDCC, Superhero Slate talks Ghostbusters release, X-Men coming to TV, a Star Wars celebration, and more!

 

Riff & Raff

Disney World

News

• Ghostbusters (2016) (10:40)
  • Review
  • Spoilercast
• Pokemon Go (14:14)
  • Experiences with game
  • Legendary circle live action film
• Hellfire (series) (22:20)
  • Canceled to make room for new one.
• X-Men (23:20)
  • TV series in development
    • Lead is Matt Nix (Burn Notice)
    • Team-up with Marvel
    • Bryan Singer; Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory
  • “Two parents discover their children possess mutant powers and must go on the run from a hostile government and join an underground network of mutants.”
• Kingsmen: The Golden Circle (26:00)
  • Colin Firth on set and looking alive
• Doctor Strange (27:45)
  • Concept art for film
• Guardians of the Galaxy v2 (29:30)
  • Concept art image(features Mantis)
• Spider-Man: Homecoming (32:00)
  • Criminal webbed up
• Thor: Ragnarok (33:25)
  • Hulk and Thor ask Valkyrie to join them
• Star Wars: Episode VIII (35:00)
  • Picks up where The Force Awakens left off
• Star Wars Rogue One (36:00)
  • New poster
  • Behind the Scenes featurette
  • Galen Erso image
  • Shoretroopers
  • Jedah is a new planet, the spiritual Mecca for Jedi
• Han Solo (40:10)
  • Elden Ehrenreich confirmed as role
• Star Wars: Rebels S3 (41:05)
  • Grand Admiral Thrawn returns to canon
• Star Trek 4 (43:25)
  • JJ Abrams says script done
    • Chris Hemsworth to be a part of it
• Warner Bros. (45:00)
  • Guilty of paying for positive reviews on video games
    • Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor is game in question
  • Batman Arkham recent game scenarios
• The Flash S3 (46:45)
  • Kid Flash appears
  • Doesn’t move much
  • EVIL Speedster
• Suicide Squad (50:25)
  • The Adversary is one of a few bad guys
    • Cthulhu type old gods monster
  • Scott Eastwood
    • Conflicting Reports
      • Navy SEAL character
      • Non existing comic character
      • Nightwing
• Wonder Woman (53:00)
  • New image of character
  • First synopsis revealed
    • “Wonder Woman” hits movie theaters around the world next summer when Gal Gadot returns as the title character in the epic action adventure from director Patty Jenkins. Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.
  • Written by Geoff Johns & Allan Heinberg (Young Avengers comics)
• The Mummy (reboot) (56:15)
  • Sofia Boutella (Kingsmen; Star Trek Beyond) as the mummy
  • Takes control of a whole crowd of people, has a mysterious blade
  • Synopsis
    • "Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension."
• Kong: Skull Island (58:40)
  • First image shows enormous ape

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