Marvel Movies & TV: Phase 17

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Yeah, exactly.

Still haven’t seen Echo, and I am not sure that I ever will.

https://deadline.com/2024/05/x-men-movie-marvel-studios-momentum-as-michael-lesslie-writer-1235924562/

Following the success of its animated series X-Men ’97, Marvel Studios is now ramping things up on its live-action X-Men movie with Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes scribe Michael Lesslie in negotiations to pen the movie. The film is still in early development with no talent or director attached and no release date set. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige will produce.

There’s little chance of this happening until after Secret Wars in 2027. I’m still skeptical they can do it right, even if I have enjoyed some of the stuff the writer worked on.

Marvel Resurrects Vision (Again) for Disney+ Series

Paul Bettany will reprise his role in the show, which has tapped Terry Matalas as showrunner.

I’d love to see a good Vision show, but…

Star Trek: Picard’s Terry Matalas

Not holding my breath. Sorry, but Picard was pretty bad.

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Uncle Retrospective, Ben

It’ll be Picard series 3 style

9 eps of complete dross.

1 ep that’s a damn cool conclusion that makes you wonder why the preceding eos were so bad.9

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Uncle Retrospective

Matalas was only the sole showrunner for the 3rd season of Picard which I thought was the strongest season of any of the recent Star Trek tv. And he was also the creator/showrunner on 12 Monkeys, which is a show I’ll always sing the praises of. I wish we weren’t bothering with a Vision show, but I’ll give it a shot.

I keep reading it as Telly Savalas.

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Todd

Iconic Marvel hero will make MCU debut in Marvel’s Fantastic Four movie

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‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ Unveils Sexual, ‘Dune’-Inspired Popcorn Bucket – Variety

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https://www.murphysmultiverse.com/first-look-at-giancarlo-espositos-captain-america-character-generates-fan-frenzy/

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Todd

Jesus, they made another one of those?!

…yeah, okay, looks fun. I’ll watch it on streaming.

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Shawn Levy Tops List To Direct Marvel’s Next ‘Avengers’ Movie? – Deadline

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Deadline hears that Levy has been given the latest script by Michael Waldron, though sources add that he has not given an answer on whether he will take the job, and the studio is still planning to meet with other directors while they wait on a decision from him.
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Marvel’s ‘Blade’ Loses Director Yann Demange | Exclusive

Now can we say this production is cursed?

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JRCarter wrote:

Marvel’s ‘Blade’ Loses Director Yann Demange | Exclusive

Now can we say this production is cursed?

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.

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Is “Agatha All Along” the name for real? It sounds like a sitcom, like “Malcolm in the Middle” or “Everybody Loves Raymond”.

That’s on purpose, I expect. WandaVision was very meta, and big parts of it were in a sitcom setting, of course.

Agatha All Along looks better than I expected, honestly. I’m game.

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Good timing for Marvel to put out a trailer about an elderly presidential candidate who’s concealing dangerous psychological problems, with a subplot about the US relationship with Israel.

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SDCC Hall H panel is tonight, 6PM ET/2AM UK time.

I imagine they’ll confirm the Russos return, along with a new title for Avengers 5, but hopefully some new stuff too?

I don’t believe they’ve announced any movies since the 2022 SDCC; it would be good to get confirmation that X-Men is coming, eventually. Probably the new Shang-Chi too, and maybe Black Panther 3.

6 pm Pacific – 9 pm Eastern
(Ah, I see you got the 2 am UK right, just erred on the other one. Okay.)

Panel should just be starting now

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Avengers: Doomsday introduces Doctor Doom to the MCU, played by Robert Downey Jr.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robert-downey-jr-doctor-doom-avengers-1235960026/

Both Doomsday (May 2026) and Secret Wars (May 2027) will be directed by the Russo Bros.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/avengers-secret-wars-doomsday-russo-brothers-return-1235879783/

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Uncle Retrospective

We need to move the Avengers franchise forward!

Proceeds to hire the directors from last decade and the star from the decade prior…

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Todd

Pouring one out for Kang.

RDJ as Doom… it’s going to have a big impact with the casual audience (especially kids I think) having a hero back as a villain (though how far they’ll let him go into villainy I don’t know) but I think it’s a fairly bad idea. Feels desperate.

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Todd

Ah, come on, you miserable bastards. I think this is going to be a blast. The Russos made some really great Marvel movies, and I’m glad to see them back behind the wheel. And Downey Jr. is a fantastic actor and he’ll play the shit out of Doom.

(Yes, it is a shame that they failed to move the Avengers in any way after the last Russo movies, which were half a decade ago, but we already knew as much, didn’t we?)

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Martin Smith wrote:

RDJ as Doom… it’s going to have a big impact with the casual audience (especially kids I think) having a hero back as a villain (though how far they’ll let him go into villainy I don’t know) but I think it’s a fairly bad idea. Feels desperate.

I agree, it all seems a bit desperate to me. Things are so bad that they’ve stumped up for RDJ and the Russos to come back because they think it’s the only way they can guarantee a hit. Feels like a tacit acknowledgement that they haven’t got any new ideas they can have confidence in.

Having said that I just showed my son the announcement video and he got excited about the title (and Doom being the villain) but immediately said it was going to be weird having an Avengers movie without Iron Man.

Then his jaw dropped at the RDJ reveal and he said “that is so cool!”

So maybe there’s something in it after all.

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I’ve this odd take, while it seems everyone gets themselves in knots over how Tony Stark goes evil, he ain’t playing Stark, he’s playing Doom. Actor’s are going to act.

As for the Kangs, be easy to write them out due to annoying Doom.

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Uncle Retrospective

Trying to imagine a Justice League movie in the 80s in which Adam West played Darkseid and now that’s all I want.

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Ben wrote:

I’ve this odd take, while it seems everyone gets themselves in knots over how Tony Stark goes evil, he ain’t playing Stark, he’s playing Doom. Actor’s are going to act.

The heavy implication is that Doom will be a Stark variant though, right? There’s no way they can pretend he’s a completely separate character given RDJ’s history in the MCU.

I’m reasonably confident that Secret Wars will have RDJ playing some Tony Stark variant whilst also voicing Doom under the mask.

That seems to be what people are going into meltdown over.

I think whatever rules people think there were for the multiverse just went out the window.

Can Downey pull it off? We’ll find out in a couple of years

saga wrote:

Trying to imagine a Justice League movie in the 80s in which Adam West played Darkseid and now that’s all I want.

By the power of AI, Zaslav will order WB to create the abomination you desire.

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Todd

saga wrote:

I’m reasonably confident that Secret Wars will have RDJ playing some Tony Stark variant whilst also voicing Doom under the mask.

I do wonder whether the multiverse fatigue will have set in by the time Secret Wars gives us Nicholas Hammond teaming up with Lou Ferrigno.

We’ve had Far From Home, No Way Home, Dr Strange 2, Quantumania, Loki, The Marvels, and Deadpool & Wolverine all involve multiverse shenanigans and variants, and it’s starting to feel a bit stale now. It’s also a story device that actively makes it harder to invest in drama because characters essentially become constantly replaceable and interchangeable with alternative versions.

I guess Feige is really hoping for the Russos to give us another Thanos but it feels ambitious to expect the same kind of lightning to strike twice.

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Todd

Absolutely. Multiverse fatigue has greatly diminished my interest in the MCU already. Things escalated from the more personal stakes in Phase 1 to “we have to save the world” in the Avengers to “we have to save the universe” in Infinity War to “we have to save the multiverse and every variant of everyone is out there”.

I wonder if this casting was always part of the plan, for Secret Wars at least, but they decided to just announce it ahead of time after Kang got canned. It would have been a hell of a reveal in a post credits scene at the end of Kang Dynasty.

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Todd

I’m sure they’ve been planning to bring back RDJ for a while after seeing how the box office has gone over the past couple of years.

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Todd

I’ve no problem with the Russos coming back – they’re good directors and there’s less baggage with their return vs RDJ. As Dave’s seen with his son, I think having RDJ back is going to go over well with the (I hate using this kind of terminology but it’s apposite) the casuals, especially the “it all ended with Endgame” boors.

But it feels like a bit of a waste of Doom. I mean, sure, it’s possible RDJ will just be playing him as Dr Doom, but that would kind of just be a bait and switch to the aforementioned casual audience. It seems far more likely that we’re just getting Doom as an amoral/ends-justify-the-means variant of Tony Stark, which I think would work well as a movie villain, but is a disservice to Doom, frankly. It just smacks of when Bendis made Doom into morally-ambiguous Iron Man for a while, a fundamental misunderstanding of the character and his appeal. He’s not just another guy in armour.

And I am disappointed about Kang. I think with the right recasting, it could have been salvaged. I hope we at least get a recasting and some kind of closure to the Council of Kangs, that they’re not just getting “Poochie died on the way back to his home planet”ed or jobbing to Doom in one brief scene at the start of Doomsday.

Dave wrote:

The heavy implication is that Doom will be a Stark variant though, right? There’s no way they can pretend he’s a completely separate character given RDJ’s history in the MCU.

Well, they could. He’s wearing a mask and when he isn’t, they can make him so disfigured that you can’t recognise RDJ’s face.
And, I mean, he’s an actor, he can play a different character. It’ll be interesting to see which road they’ll take with this.

Martin Smith wrote:

But it feels like a bit of a waste of Doom. I mean, sure, it’s possible RDJ will just be playing him as Dr Doom, but that would kind of just be a bait and switch to the aforementioned casual audience

I mean, yeah, it would.

Martin Smith wrote:

It just smacks of when Bendis made Doom into morally-ambiguous Iron Man for a while, a fundamental misunderstanding of the character and his appeal. He’s not just another guy in armour.

I don’t know though. I mean, if the multiversal story is that Tony Stark was Reed’s roommate and we take things from there, I don’t have any problems with that. Yes, Victor van Doom is a foreign monarch, but honestly you could very easily turn the Starks into a capitalist American dynasty that has monarch status (William Randolph Hearst-style). I don’t think it’d be hard to create a very interesting Doom from that origin that is also very close to the comics one.

Dave wrote:

I do wonder whether the multiverse fatigue will have set in by the time Secret Wars gives us Nicholas Hammond teaming up with Lou Ferrigno.

I mean, when did multiverse fatigue set in in the comics? More specifically, did it result in them not doing multiverse storylines anymore?

I think it’s probably correct that similarly to after big multiversal comicbook events, we’ll get to a point where the audience gets tired of that and the focus will shift to original-universe storylines. Maybe we’ll even get one of those big events in which all of the multiversal realities are destroyed.

And then they turn back up again. And so on. I don’t see this going much differently than it did in the comics.

If the FF movie is set in the 1960s in a different universe (as it certainly seems to be from the leaked footage I saw from yesterday) then I could see Doom ending up being that universe’s Tony Stark, twisted into someone quite different by whatever happens in the FF movie. I still think Doom will be linked to the FF somehow.

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Dave wrote:

If the FF movie is set in the 1960s in a different universe (as it certainly seems to be from the leaked footage I saw from yesterday) then I could see Doom ending up being that universe’s Tony Stark, twisted into someone quite different by whatever happens in the FF movie. I still think Doom will be linked to the FF somehow.

That’s plausible.

 

Also, I don’t get all the “multiverse fatigue” stuff. I love multiverse stories, always have. It doesn’t lower stakes by saying “oh, here’s a replacement from another universe” because (in good stories at least) the point is that you can’t just get away with that, that different versions of the same person are still different.

It’s a reasonable assumption that Secret Wars will bring an end to it all and reformulate the MCU main continuity to have the FF (and X-Men?) in etc anyway.

Martin Smith wrote:

Also, I don’t get all the “multiverse fatigue” stuff. I love multiverse stories, always have. It doesn’t lower stakes by saying “oh, here’s a replacement from another universe” because (in good stories at least) the point is that you can’t just get away with that, that different versions of the same person are still different.

The trouble is that I think it does feel like that. Multiverses give you such an easy out when it comes to consequences that stuff feels lacking in stakes.

None of the stuff in the middle act of Dr Strange 2 really felt like it mattered because it was all alternative versions of characters. A lot of the stuff in the new Deadpool movie that riffs on similar ideas feels throwaway. Nobody really seemed to care about the reveal of all the multiple versions of Kang.

Like you say, sometimes good stories can be told with the concept – No Way Home worked for me, although a lot of that was based on nostalgia and existing affection for the previous Spideys – but basing a whole two Phases of the MCU around such similar and repetitive concepts is starting to feel tiresome. By the time Secret Wars arrives and crams in every variant imaginable of these characters, it’ll be difficult to care.

Lack of consequences of course also allows you to show all kinds of cool stuff, like Wanda killing the Illuminati. It’s a double-edged sword for sure, and I do think it’s important to wrap it all up at some point (like Martin says, probably after Secret Wars) and focus on one universe again. I think that most of us are fine with exploring some multiversal stuff up until then though.

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Ben

Stan Lee built Marvel on the illusion of change, not actual change. MCU has done the most change with them, but it’s always going to have its limits.

I could see Feige deciding against a third big story after Avengers 6, as it’s lost its lustre. By then there’ll be a clearer picture of what Gunn is doing with DC. Currently they’re embracing an elseworlds set up that might work well for them.

Could see Marvel pivoting to more self-contained stories with greater character crossover post Avengers 6.

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Christian wrote:

Lack of consequences of course also allows you to show all kinds of cool stuff, like Wanda killing the Illuminati.

Yeah, that’s what I was referring to with the part of Strange 2 that didn’t feel like it mattered. Decent beginning and ending to that movie, but the middle section felt like a load of pointless multiversal cameos that added very little other than the memberberries factor. Which I think is already starting to wear thin.

Dave wrote:

If the FF movie is set in the 1960s in a different universe (as it certainly seems to be from the leaked footage I saw from yesterday) then I could see Doom ending up being that universe’s Tony Stark, twisted into someone quite different by whatever happens in the FF movie. I still think Doom will be linked to the FF somehow.

I think it might be something like that, sort of an alternative universe evil Tony Stark.

 

So there could be other evil Avengers as well.

 

Haven’t watched any superhero flicks in a long time, but I think Tony Stark being Doctor Doom could actually be kinda cool.

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I think it’s quite clever because they needed a new villain after the Kang/Majors mess and Doom always seemed like the obvious choice. But him coming out of nowhere and being an Avengers level threat right away is a bit of a stretch. But casting RDJ means the audience will have a connection with the character straight away and then playing with that connection and him being a villain could be really fun to see.

I think he’ll definitely show up in Fantastic Four. Him being the villain of that world and then the FF coming to the MCU to see he’s a hero could be a nice concept. I just hope they’ll let him be an actual full on villain and not try and do some kind of redemption arc.

Although they’ll now have a RDJ shaped body back in the MCU again. Sure would be nice if Tony Stark somehow managed to back up his brain before he died🤷‍♂️.

And talking of the FF, the footage they showed looked really promising. I’m loving the retro future style they’re going with.

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Ben

Phone camera capture of the F4 sizzle reel: https://streamable.com/6bz0b8

https://www.slashfilm.com/1639374/x-men-97-season-2-new-costumes-characters-d23/

Daredevil Born Again leaked trailer looks pretty damn good.

Let’s hope it’s as good as it looks. Marvel TV can use a win.

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Sean Robinson

 

And remember, these are the best bits of the movie that are supposed to make you want to see it.

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Todd

I always get a little sad when I see a trailer for a movie that looks really awesome and realize that I will have to wait several months before I can see it.

That trailer does not make me sad! :)

(And was the part with the traps in the forest straight from First Blood?)

After this tanks (and you know it will), Sony really should consider selling their Spider-Man IP collection to Disney.

Outside of the first Venom movie (which I think they got lucky with) and the Spider-Verse movies, they have really failed to do anything good in a very long time. Sell it to Disney, get the cash, and let them do something with it.

Or double down and make a Trouble movie?

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saga wrote:

Or double down and make a Trouble movie?

That’s not doubling down.

That’s putting all the chips on the table.

I feel like the idea of a Trouble movie got floated at some point already?

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lorcan_nagle wrote:

I feel like the idea of a Trouble movie got floated at some point already?

Maybe that’s what became Madame Web.

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Todd wrote:

After this tanks (and you know it will), Sony really should consider selling their Spider-Man IP collection to Disney.

Outside of the first Venom movie (which I think they got lucky with) and the Spider-Verse movies, they have really failed to do anything good in a very long time. Sell it to Disney, get the cash, and let them do something with it.

It was always a weird and likely-to-fail idea to build their own supervillain universe based on the bad guys from Spider-Man. But they did hit the jackpot with Venom for whatever reason, so they needed to actually see the other ones fail to understand that this was never a good idea. I hope Kraven bombing will be enough to do it, and yeah, they should just sell everything to Disney.

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Todd

Sure, might as well.

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Uncle Retrospective

The first two episodes of Agatha all along were a lot of fun. It’s a bit daft, and the song in episode two might not have worked but I had more fun watching it than pretty much any other Marvel tv show. Kathryn Hahn is just a joy to watch and she seems to be having a great time.

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Yeah, it’s definitely the most fun I’ve had with the MCU in a long time

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Uncle Retrospective wrote:

the song in episode two might not have worked

I really dug the song. I’m definitely enjoying the show and I’m glad to see Debra Jo Rupp swept up into it.

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A more than three-minute trailer and not one single thing in it that might make you want to watch the movie.

It just feels like the dregs of loads of other movies put together, like that Simpsons episode where Lisa makes a bar of soap out of the ends of all the other soaps.

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njerry

It looks like someone typed an AI prompt of “Suicide Squad, but shitter”.

It looks like an episode of the A-Team but without the production values.

While it doesn’t look horrible by any means, it does come across as a bit generic. It does feel like we’ve seen this before, but better.

Hopefully, the next trailer gives a bit more meat to chew on.

Oof, that’s the Marvel film I’ve been looking forward to most and that is a seriously dull first trailer.

I think it looks fun.
So there.

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Martin Smith

Well, right now, that teaser has given us a collection of action scenes and quipping, and very little idea of a story. I’ll reserve judgement until I see something that has more of that.

Dave wrote:

It looks like someone typed an AI prompt of “Suicide Squad, but shitter”.

“but also not Star Trek: Section 31”

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Dave wrote:

It looks like someone typed an AI prompt of “Suicide Squad, but shitter”.

Being shittier than Suicide Squad is next to impossible!

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Tobias Radesäter wrote:

Being shittier than Suicide Squad is next to impossible!

Which one we talking about now?

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Dave

The shitty one! :)

The one directed by David Ayer. It’s one of the films I can’t stop thinking about, because it’s totally fascinating, since every part of it is really bad. Nothing that happens in it makes sense. Each scene seems to be written by someone who hadn’t been told what happened in the previous scene.

(And if Superman becomes homicidal, who thinks that a small crazy woman with a baseball bat is going to stop him?)

The one directed by James Gunn is good, but not great.

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Christian

Agatha is pretty goofy but is still… What’s that word?
“Fun”?

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As much as I liked the song in episode 2, it was a bit eh to revisit it this week even if it’s a different arrangement.  It fitted The Wu’s character as set up at least and now that her challenge is over I’d be fine to leave it behind.  Or just some different songs?  I’m not averse to having the witches sing in general.

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Tobias Radesäter wrote:

The shitty one! :)

The one directed by David Ayer. It’s one of the films I can’t stop thinking about, because it’s totally fascinating, since every part of it is really bad. Nothing that happens in it makes sense. Each scene seems to be written by someone who hadn’t been told what happened in the previous scene.

(And if Superman becomes homicidal, who thinks that a small crazy woman with a baseball bat is going to stop him?)

The one directed by James Gunn is good, but not great.

Agreed on all counts!

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How do we feel about this fancast?
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Marvel Studios’ ‘Blade’ Removed From 2025 Release Schedule, Disney Dates ‘Predator: Badlands’ Instead

In what comes as no surprise, Marvel Studios’ Blade won’t be coming out on Nov. 7, 2025, rather Disney is opening 20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands.

The reboot of the famed Wesley Snipes Marvel movie was first announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019 with 2x Oscar winner Mahershala Ali starring. Production and development on Blade hit unavoidable delays with a global pandemic and dual industry strikes.

The project saw two directors exit, first Bassam Tariq, who was eyeing a fall 2022 start, then Yann Demange. Mia Goth is set to play supervillian Lilith in the vampire slayer movie. She told Deadline’s Natalie Sitek at the world premiere of her A24 movie MaXXXine, that in regards to the Blade delays, Marvel “really care, they do. They want to make a great movie. That’s the sense that I get from them and that feels good.”

For Marvel Boss Kevin Feige, it’s important to make the best Blade movie ever. The studio won’t make the movie until they’ve cracked a great script. In the meantime, Snipes had a cameo as Blade in the highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time, Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine ($1.3 billion).

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The Blade movies are arguably the first R-rated superhero set of movies. Launched in 1998 by New Line Cinema, the other two titles in the trilogy were 2002’s Blade II and 2004’s Blade: Trinity, altogether grossing $418.1M at the worldwide box office, unadjusted for inflation.

In addition, three untitled Marvel movies are dated for Feb. 18, 2028, May 5, 2028 and Nov. 10, 2028.

Dan Tratechenberg, who directed the previous Predator movie, Prey, which went to Hulu, is back for Predator: Badlands, the latest installment starring Elle Fanning. There was debate that Disney left money on the table by taking Prey straight to homes, and indeed, the reversal here indicates their continuing commitment to theatrical in the post Bob Chapek era of the studio. The first Predator opened in the summer of 1987 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers, directed by John McTiernan. It grossed close to $100M WW. All in, the Predator franchise counts six titles, that’s including two Alien vs. Predator movies, with a global take of $750.6M.

All for the best, I think. Maybe they’ll go back and turn Blade into a TV show. That’d make more sense anyway.

They already did a Blade TV show, didn’t they?

Huh. So they did.

I am not sure whether I have forgotten about this or just never knew.

Quality TV, clearly!

If the MCU wants to do “horror”, they should do Nightstalkers. Have a group of paranormal and paranormal-adjacent characters fighting supernatural threats. They could even have Blade as a member. They can go after lower-level supernatural threats or adversaries that if not stopped early enough, will become major threats.

Dear Agatha All Along: Please, for the love of Bob, don’t shit the bed at the end.

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Dear Agatha All Along, don’t worry, you are a Disney+ MCU series, it is fully expected that you will shit the bed.

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‘Spider-Man 4’ Sets July 2026 Release Date – Hollywood Reporter

The film opens one week after Christopher Nolan’s next movie, which also stars Tom Holland.

Spider-Man will be swinging back into theaters on July 24, 2026, Sony announced Friday. Tom Holland returns for the currently untitled Spider-Man 4, which has Destin Daniel Cretton set as director.

Holland last starred as Spider-Man in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, the multi-verse spanning film that generated $1.916 billion at the global box office despite challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. He previously headlined Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and appeared in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

Holland is expected to shoot the new Spider-Man next year, which will be a busy one for him. He also will flim Christopher Nolan’s next movie, and may film a role in Marvel Studios‘ Avengers: Doomsday.

No Way Home ended with the world forgetting that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, and in the process, even Peter’s closest friends have forgotten who he is. No Way Home writers Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna are the writers on the new Spidey movie.

Sony controls the film rights to the character, while Disney-owned Marvel Studios produces them with Sony via a landmark partnership that was struck in 2015 and allowed Spider-Man to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Holland will be everywhere the summer of 2026. One week before Spider-Man 4 opens, he will be on the big screen with Nolan’s movie from Universal, which bows July 17, 2026. And if he does indeed appear in Doomsday, that film opens on May 1, 2026.

Daredevil March 2025, Ironheart June 2025, Wonder Man December 2025.

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Daredevil looks good. Everything else, who the fuck knows.

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Can we declare the bed to be free of shit?  I’m leaning towards yes.

I was a bit worried when everything was lining up for a FX fight with Rio in episode 8 and Billy came back in the Wiccan costume and was so glad when the plot veered left right after

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Uncle Retrospective

Pretty good finale. I’m glad they didn’t really go down the redemption path for Agatha, and that there was no big Marvel cameo.

I’m curious about the implications of Billy having a “Once More with Feeling” poster in his room. Does he know what Joss Whedon did after Buffy? Does he know Emma Caulfield lives nearby?

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In the MCU, Buffy was created by Wil Wheaton

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Uncle Retrospective

I thought Agatha stuck the landing. I wasn’t expecting there to be two episodes this week and I actually thought the end to penultimate one would have been a bold place to leave it. I really liked that the road was a bit of folklore Agatha inadvertently created then completely seized upon for own benefits and that she’d been winging the whole thing. And hey now she’s got white hair again, after the comics made her look like young Kathryn Hahn. One day they’re going to stop chasing MCU synergy so desperately and pointlessly.

I’m still surprised there hasn’t been any kind of Young Avengers project announced, given that they’ve gone from seeding the characters to now actively setting them up finding each other.

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lorcan_nagle

lorcan_nagle wrote:

Can we declare the bed to be free of shit? I’m leaning towards yes.

I love that this constitutes a positive review for an MCU project these days.

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Martin Smith wrote:

I’m still surprised there hasn’t been any kind of Young Avengers project announced, given that they’ve gone from seeding the characters to now actively setting them up finding each other.

At the rate they’re going, they won’t be “young” anymore.

Marvel has been working to set up the Young Avengers since 2021 when Kate Bishop was introduced in Hawkeye. Also in 2021, we saw Eli Bradley. Ms. Marvel’s miniseries was in 2022. The Kamala/Kate mid-credits scene in The Marvels was in 2023. Billy was just introduced in 2024. It has only been three years but as slowly as Marvel has been moving lately, it may be another three years before they truly get together. They may assemble in one of the upcoming tentpole Avengers movie.