Super Bowl 2025 Trailers, Lanterns Starts Filming, Henry Cavill Joins Star Wars, and more!

This week on Superhero Slate, we're making our Super Bowl trailer predictions, Lanterns is the next DCU project to start filming, Henry Cavill is coming to Star Wars, and more!

News

• Super Bowl 2025 (8:35)
  • Trailer lineup:
    • Snow White
    • Lilo & Stitch
    • Elio
    • 2 MCU Movies: Captain America & Thunderbolts?
    • Jurassic World Rebirth
    • How to Train your Dragon
    • M3gan 2.0
    • Smurfs
    • Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
  • NOT Showing:
    • Warner Bros. including Superman (Puppy Bowl)
    • Sony
    • Netflix
    • Amazon/MGM
    • Apple
    • Lionsgate
• Invincible (19:35)
  • Season 3 on February 6 on Amazon Prime
• Fantastic Four (20:20)
  • First trailer to debut on GMA this Tuesday, February 4
    • F4 Day
  • Might miss Super Bowl and get its own news cycle
• Captain America: Brave New World (23:15)
  • 1 post credits scene confirmed
  • Releasing Feb 14 in theaters
• Daredevil (25:16)
  • Officially rated 18+ in UK
  • Previously series rated 16
• Black Panther 3 (27:00)
  • Rumor: Achebe will be antagonist in movie
    • a brilliant strategist and manipulator
  • His goals typically revolve around destabilizing Wakanda's leadership and exploiting its resources for his own gain
  • Could be Denzel Washington?
• Avengers: Doomsday (30:10)
  • Kelsey Grammer’s Beast to return for upcoming movies
  • Last featured with redesign in The Marvels
• Lanterns (33:20)
  • Officially camera testing on series via Garret Dillahunt
  • Moving faster than Waller series but may rely on more post production
• Batman 2 (35:14)
  • Production designer says “Elliot Bridge” name in movie was intentional
  • Thomas Elliot is “Hush” in comics, which was rumored to be villain for movie early on
• Teen Titans (38:45)
  • Rumor: Damian Wayne to serve as Robin in this teamup
  • Dick Grayson likely Nightwing already in DCU’s timeline
  • Originally reported team will fight Ra’s al Ghul, his grandfather
• Superman (40:20)
  • Joe Schuster’s estate suing Warner Bros/Discovery/DC for not licensing rights for upcoming film
    • Affects releases in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia
  • Siegal & Shuster assigned rights to DC’s predecessor company in 1938
  • British legal tradition contains: "provisions automatically terminating such assignments 25 years after an author’s death, vesting in the Shuster Estate the co-author’s undivided copyright interest in such countries."
• Star Wars (47:10)
  • Henry Cavill in talks to play villain in an upcoming project
  • Possibly Simon Kinberg’s trilogy
• SPUM Universe (48:20)
  • Sony removes 2025 untitled Marvel movie
• Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (49:46)
  • First episode reviews
    • 2 episodes on Disney+
  • Hudson Thames will return to voice Peter Parker in Marvel Zombies

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