Marvel Television Returns, Nic Cage as Spider-Man Noir, DCU Live-Action Crossover, and more!

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This week Superhero Slate is getting a better look at the revamped Daredevil series, Nicolas Cage returns to his Spider-Man Noir role, the first DCU crossover character is confirmed, and more!

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News

• Deadpool & Wolverine (17:00)
  • Tickets go on sale tomorrow
  • July 26, 2024
• Marvel Television (20:30)
  • Branding reborn for MCU series on Disney Plus
  • Lives alongside Marvel Studios and Marvel Animation
• Daredevil: Born Again (28:10)
  • New icon and releasing March 2025
  • Confirmed to be reduced to 9 episodes
    • Season 2 would be next 9 episodes
  • Footage showcases returning characters, Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson, Karen Page, Wilson Fisk/Kingpin
• Ironheart (31:00)
  • New logo and confirming 2025 release date
  • Footage describes stealing parts at MIT to build early suit and getting expelled, later shots show better final Ironheart suit in action
• Agatha All Along (35:25)
  • Series confirms name with release date
  • Other titles as plays on how things aren’t as they seem
    • Coven of Chaos, The Darkhold Diaries, House of Harkness, and The Lying Witch with a Great Wardrobe
  • Footage teases Agatha getting out of Wanda’s hex and walking the Witches Road to create her own coven
  • Two episode premiere on September 18
• Hawkeye (39:40)
  • Season 2 rumored to be greenlit
    • Focus on Clint’s brother, Barney, as villain
  • Kate and Clint trapped in one location, similar to The Raid movies
• The Blonde Phantom (43:50)
  • Rumor: Scarlet Johansson’s Marvel project (as producer) is based on the Blonde Phantom
  • Created in 1946 in All Select Comics, then reintroduced in The Sensational She-Hulk in 1989-1994
  • ScarJo mentioned character in previous interviews when asked about Marvel characters before being selected as Black Widow
• Noir (49:00)
  • Amazon confirms Nicolas Cage to star as “Spider-Man Noir” in series
    • Not an adaptation of comic book, but ‘based on’ style series
  • Produced by Lord, Miller, and Pascal
  • Described as:
    • "of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero."
• Creature Commandos (56:35)
  • Frank Grillo to reprise role as Rick Flag Sr. in Peacemaker season 2
    • With a vendetta against Peacemaker
  • Series to be screened at Annecy Film Festival in June
• Booster Gold (59:50)
  • TV series will use Blue Beetle from the 2023 movie
  • Casting to be announced this year
    • Rumored to be Chris Pratt, but unlikely
• Green Lantern (1:04:24)
  • Lanterns TV series has Chris Mundy (Criminal Minds) as show runner
  • Tom King (Batman/comic books, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (comic)) as co-writer
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (1:08:45)
  • Movie to release June 26, 2026
• The Boys (1:15:15)
  • Season 5 confirmed before season 4 airs

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