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Spoilered for unproven fan theory.

Apparently there’s a rumor Jensen Ackles is in the running for Gunn’s Batman. I got my CW actors mixed up for a minute and was briefly intrigued/excited about Wentworth Miller being the new Bruce Wayne.

Introducing Franklin already is a real wild card, as that opens up a lot of different possibilities depending on where they want to go. I agree it feels like the trailers plus (Thunderbolts spoiler) are almost intentionally misleading us. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ending of this was almost Empire Strikes Back-esque, with Galactus and/or Doom triumphant and the F4 seemingly taken off the stage until a heroic return to save the day in Doomsday. I know Strange supposedly isn’t in Doomsday, but one potential story beat they could play with there is that Strange already had a bad interaction with one version of Reed Richards talking about the dangers of incursions, so another one showing up from a different universe should definitely gain his attention.

Hence the “despite what D’Onofrio says.” IIRC, he’s the one who revealed that. Disney has the rights back to Daredevil from Fox, so I believe the argument was that Sony somehow had some rights to Kingpin as a Spider-Man villain. Since the Spider-Man moves are Sony co-productions, there shouldn’t be anything stopping Kingpin from appearing in those.

I don’t think anyone has mentioned this here, but apparently the MCU does not have a major panel at SDCC.

I read that right after I posted; shows how much attention I’ve been paying.

Marvel is going back to four movies a year in 2028, and someone named Jake Schreier will apparently direct whatever the mutant/X-Men movie is.

Oops, hit quote instead of edit.

I thought the middle third/half of Moon Knight was bad the first time I watched it, but on a rewatch binge, it wasn’t that bad. Perfectly mediocre. I have absolutely no desire to rewatch Secret Invasion. It really did feel like a Bendis comic in that it kinda referenced stuff from other movies/shows but basically ignored them and did its own thing poorly.

Hopefully nothing reaches “Secret Invasion” bad, but at least it was comic accurate in that regard.

I think it’s a little of this, combined with this being set in a world that already has some super-heroes, but presumably not your A-listers working together yet, combined also with Gunn liking the weird B/C guys.

I can easily see Seth Rollins as the annoying B-story distraction who plays a recurring role similar to GSP/Batroc. Frankly, he makes a lot more sense in that role in that movie than casting Esposito does. I’m a little surprise they recast and reshot things so Esposito would be that specific character instead of just casting him as a different character, making him the Serpent Society lead, and tacking on a scene or two showing him to be behinds things.

I think the same things could have been said about Morrison’s Batman, and Gunn has some Morrison tendencies IMO.

I’m interested to see additional movies are announced. IIRC, they only have F4, Brand New Day, and the two Avengers movies announced for the rest of this year and the next two years. With their reduced release schedule, they could wait until next year to announce a new slate, but that would be late for whatever gets released in summer of 2027. At the same time, this summer seems too early to announce things, so who knows.

It’s amazing how different the tone and vibe of this is to prior DC stuff. I can’t wait for this.

I’m curious as to what you think was a bait and switch.

I was a little pissed that I had mostly managed to avoid spoilers except for I thought it was really good, higher MCU stuff. A couple of questions/thoughts about the post-credit:

It still cracks me up that one of the Whitest Kids U Know and co-Director of Miss March has become a successful horror director.

That looks so fucking good.

Secret Invasion and the middle part of Moon Knight are the only things I’ve thought were actively bad. That said, I haven’t seen Eternals yet.

As someone who binged the new MC Chris and Dana Snyder podcast in the last week, I lol’d.

It would be mildly amusing if many of these are solely just cameos in a massive George Perez-esque group shot of heroes from different multiverses gathering.

Do we have a new Stan Lee on our hands? Take that however you want.

I can see Rollins as a GSP as Batroc level recurring villain, and I think that’s basically what the character came off as in BNW. I assume they have bigger plans now given who they cast, but I can easily see Rollins cackling madly while shooting at Cap’s truck.

I’m just now getting caught up on Creature Commandos. I watched the first two awhile back, thought it was fine, and dropped it for a while. Finally picked it back up tonight with the GI Robot episode, boy, that escalated quickly. Immediately watched the next one, and the Weasel episode was just as good.