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  • Marvel Studios Reportedly Sets A Post-Multiverse Saga Date for Anticipated D+ Series

    Marvel Studios Reportedly Sets A Post-Multiverse Saga Date for Anticipated D+ Series

    Though 2025 will be another big year on Disney Plus for Marvel Studios, the Marvel Parliament remains committed to reducing the number of streaming projects released per year. As revealed by Disney’s Big Cheese, Bob Iger, Marvel Studios is moving in the direction of two streaming projects each year and it’s beginning to look like that plan will be fully realized once the studio completes its Multiverse Saga.

    We’re slowly going to decrease volume and go to probably about two TV series a year instead of what had become four and reduce our film output from maybe four a year to two, or a maximum of three.

    -Bob Iger

    With Season 1 of Daredevil: Born Again, Ironheart and Wonder Man set for 2025 and a second season of Daredevil: Born Again and the Vision-centric series already looking like sure bets for 2026, it 2027 may be the year that Disney finally dials back on Marvel Studios’ streaming content. Though no official announcements have been made, it’s beginning to sound like the long-awaited Nova series will be ready to go in 2027 and now, a new report points toward another highly-anticipated series potentially being on the schedule with it.

    According to a new report from insider Daniel Richtman, Marvel Studios is planning to begin production on Champions in 2026 with an eye on a post-Secret Wars release.

    Originally developed as Young Avengers, the project was recently reported to have undergone a title change to reflect the age of its core group of heroes. While there’s obviously no confirmed cast for the series, Iman Vellani (22 years old) and Hailee Steinfeld (27 years old) seem likely to lead the project alongside Dominique Thorne (27 years old), Kathryn Newton (27 years old), Elijah Richardson (25 years old), Joe Locke (21 years old) and Xochitl Gomez (18 years old). Additionally, Logan Kim (17 years old), who will portray Amadeus Cho in Captain America: Brave New World, the actor yet to be cast as Tommy Shepherd and, possibly, an actress yet to be cast as Viv Vision could all find their way onto the titular team as well.

    With the studio recently locking Ed Bernero down as the showrunner for Nova, it’s widely accepted that the Human Rocket will be the studio’s first Post-Multiverse series. Beyond that, it’s up in the air but with the studio reportedly actively searching for a showrunner for Champions, it could certainly be ready for a late 2027 release.

  • Matt Reeves ‘The Batman’s Sequel Delayed a Second Time

    Matt Reeves ‘The Batman’s Sequel Delayed a Second Time

    It took Matt Reeves five years to bring The Batman to the screen after signing into the project in 2017. And it looks like he will  also take five years to bring the sequel to theaters.

    According to THR’s Aaron Couch and Pamela McClintock, Reeves‘ sequel to 2022’s The Batman has had its release date changed for a second time. Though it was confirmed by Reeves to be starting production in 2025, The Batman sequel is scheduled for an October 1, 2027 theatrical release.

    Originally planned for an October 3, 2025 release, the film’s theatrical debut was delayed until October 2, 2026 earlier this year to allow for the script to be completed. According to THR’s report, the Batman sequel, which remains untitled, will be replaced in October 2026 by a new Tom Cruise project with director Alejandro González Iñárritu.

    Source: THR

  • DC Studios ‘The Brave and The Bold’ Facing an Indefinite Delay

    DC Studios ‘The Brave and The Bold’ Facing an Indefinite Delay

    Nearly two years ago, DC Studios’ co-chairs James Gunn and Peter Safran gave fans the first look at a group of planned projects that would make up part of the studio’s Chapter One: Gods and Monsters slate. Creature Commandos has gotten the all-new DCU off to a solid start and the first teaser for Superman has generated some incredible buzz for the 2025 film. As for the rest of the slate, Gunn has made it clear that it is nothing if not pliable, as Clayface, a project left out of the initial reveal, having come together very quickly, jumping in front of others. And now, following months of speculation, one project has been confirmed to be facing a delay.

    According to director Andy Muschetti, DC Studio’s Batman and Robin movie, The Brave and the Bold, won’t be heading into production anytime soon and “won’t be happening for a while.”

    Muschetti boarded The Brave and the Bold in June 2023. Described by Gunn as “a very strange sort of father-son story,” The Brave and the Bold will reportedly introduce the DCU’s new Batman alongside his son, Damian, and will also “feature other members of the extended Bat-Family just because we feel like they’ve been left out of the Batman stories in the theater for far too long.”

    Despite being one of the first projects revealed to the public, Gunn recently clarified that “there’s no set timeline for anything,” and that The Brave and the Bold, like every DC Studios’ project, will only be given a green light there’s a screenplay that he is “totally happy with.”

  • James Gunn Reveals One Project DC Studios Fans Won’t See Anytime Soon

    James Gunn Reveals One Project DC Studios Fans Won’t See Anytime Soon

    After nearly a decade in development hell, The Flash finally hit theaters in 2023. Mired in controversy due to star Ezra Miller‘s legal trouble and dead on arrival as Warner Bros. had committed to rebooting with the DCU in late 2022, the film performed poorly at the box office and served as a dour sendoff to the DCEU. Now, as DC Studios continues to forge ahead, it seems as though the specter of The Flash may continue to haunt the world of DC Comics’ greatest heroes.

    While responding to a question about the recently announced Clayface film on Threads, DC Studios’ co-CEO James Gunn clarified that a DCU-set Flash project won’t happen anytime soon.

    “We’re holding a beat on development,” said Gunn of a potential Flash-led project. No Flash-centric project was announced during the January 2024 reveal of projects expected to be part of DC Studios’ Chapter One: Gods and Monsters and even as the makeup of that batch of projects evolves, no word about the Scarlet Speedster getting another crack at a solo outing has come.

    That’s not to say, of course, that Barry Allen, Wally West or both won’t appear in other projects. Though the studio’s Teen Titans film is expected to feature the same core cast as Teen Titans Go!, Wally West, aka Kid Flash, appeared in over a dozen episodes over five seasons and has always been a core team member in the comics. Additionally, a character who many have presumed to be Wally West was among the dead heroes shown to Amanda Waller in a vision of one possible future of the DCU.

    Source: Threads

  • ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Directing Duo Resurrecting a 1950s Pirate Classic at Disney

    ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Directing Duo Resurrecting a 1950s Pirate Classic at Disney

    Five years after their indie film, The Peanut Butter Falcon, garnered wide-ranging acclaim as a charming, character-driven adventure, director Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz are back on the scene with their follow-up film, Los Frikis. Described by Schwartz as “Spanish-language Cuban movie about HIV and punk rockers,” Los Frikis was a passion project for the pair who turned down major studio offers following their successful debut. However, as they look ahead to what’s next, Nilson and Schwartz may move away from their indie roots.

    In an interview with THR, Nilson and Schwartz revealed that one possibility for their next project is a 70s, “Australian surfer” version of the 1950 Disney film, Treasure Island.

    After nearly 20 years in development as an animated film, Disney pivoted and produced Treasure Island, adapted Robert Louis Stevenson‘s 1883 novel of the same name, as its first live-action film. A pirate adventure through and through, the film features Long John Silver, played by Robert Newton, whose over-the-top accent and antics have become ingrained in pirate pop culture. Over fifty years later, the studio finally delivered its animated adaptation, the sci-fi space adventure, Treasure Planet.

    While Nilson and Schwartz’s new take on Treasure Island is still in development, it sounds as though it will be anything but another beat-for-beat Disney remake. “It has the patina of the 1970s surf world. It’s all there,” explained Nilson of the duo’s vision for the project. “It’s an Australian surfer version of Treasure Island,” said Schwartz, “and if they ever make it, it would be so fun. It has the vibes that we do, and there’s found family, brotherhood, drama and outsider energy.“

    Source: THR

  • ‘Creature Commandos’: Task Force M Will Return for a Second Season

    ‘Creature Commandos’: Task Force M Will Return for a Second Season

    Only halfway through its first season, the DC Studios’ Max streaming series, Creature Commandos, has been renewed for a second season of monster madness.

    We are excited to continue this wild ride with our partners at Max. You want more monsters, you’re getting more monsters!

    -Peter Girardi, WB Animation

    “We’re thrilled to team up to team up with Max for another season of Creature Commandos mayhem,” said DC Studios’ co-chair and series creator James Gunn. Despite the quick green light for another batch of episodes, unless production on the series is already under way at DC Studios, it could be quite some time before they hit Max. Despite all the advantages offered through animation, such projects are notoriously slow to get from the idea stages to a fully-realized series.

    Only James Gunn could have conjured this wild band of misfit monsters who tug at your heart and force you to root passionately for them. We couldn’t be more delighted to continue their stories with James, Dean Lorey, Peter Safran and our fantastic partners at DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation.

    -HBO & Max comedy programming head Amy Gravitt

    With four more episodes of the first season left and Gunn already having taken one of the Commandos out of commission already, it’s unclear which cast members, if any, will return for a second season of the animated adventure.

    The first four episodes of Season 1 of Creature Commandos are now available on Max with the fifth episode debuting this Thursday.

    Source: Variety

  • ‘Superman’ Set Prop Solves New Teaser’s Major Mystery

    ‘Superman’ Set Prop Solves New Teaser’s Major Mystery

    The first teaser for DC Studios’ Superman garnered over 250 million views in its first day, making it, according to DC Studios’ co-chair and the film’s director James Gunn, the most viewed trailer in the history of DC and its parent company, Warner Bros. Given the latter’s century-long history of producing some of Hollywood’s biggest movies, that’s an incredible accomplishment.

    The teaser provided the first look at David Corenswet‘s Man of Steel and the all-new DCU and it looks as though there will be a lot going on both in Metropolis and around the globe. In fact, it’s possible that at least a few of those 250 million views came from fans checking out the trailer multiple times while trying to uncover some clues about a mysterious figure seen on the front page of The Daily Planet.

    Visible in several different scenes, the front page story of the paper boasts the headline “Hammer of Boravia Creates Havoc Downtown” next to a photo of said Hammer. Without a clear look at the photo, fans began to theorize about who the character may be with classic DC villain and Legion of Doom member Gorilla Grodd a popular pick. The character does, after all, appear in Creature Commandos and the blurry image does contain a pretty bulky figure. However, a high-res copy of the paper obtained by Twitter user DCU Updates reveals exactly who the chaos causer is and some very intriguing details that add context to the teaser.

    It turns out the mysterious “Hammer of Boravia” is actually just the Hammer of Boravia, a character it seems that Gunn created for the movie rather than someone drawn from DC Comics’ lore. And he’s made the front page The Daily Planet because he came to town looking to tangle with Superman after the Man of Steel took it upon himself to end Boravia’s invasion of its neighboring country, Jarhanpur.

    Metropolis was targeted by a superpowered mystery man on Sunday, resulting in over 20 million dollars in damage to the city. The self-titled “Hammer of Boravia” attacked Downtown Metropolis claiming it was retribution for the recent political interventions in Boravia by Superman. This vengeful expedition turned into a terrorist assault on American soil, hospitalizing 22 Metropolis citizens. Boravia has been the source of numerous headlines worldwide in recent weeks as it invaded its neighboring country Jarhanpur, only for the brief war to be swiftly ended by the Superman. The President of Boravia, Vasil Glarkos(?), maintains the Hammer of Boravia is not a representative of the national government, but rather an independent vigilante.

    As theorized here, Superman seems to have taken inspiration from one of the character’s earliest comic book adventures which saw him single-handedly put a stop to a civil war raging in Boravia. It remains to be seen what stake, if any, LuthorCorps has in the Boravian invasion of Jarhanpur and if that’s how Superman ends up in the sights of Nicholas Hoult ‘s Lex Luthor.

    When addressing the political ramifications of his actions, Superman said, “While critics thousands of miles away from this conflict continue to argue if what I did was right or wrong, the bottom line is peoples lives were threatened. I had to act.”

    The notion of Superman inserting himself into global geopolitics isn’t novel, having played a major role in the character’s DC Comics history, with the character once having renounced his U.S. citizenship in Action Comics #900. “I’m tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. policy,” the hero said, adding “Truth, justice and the American way – it’s not enough anymore. The world’s too small. Too connected” And that certainly seems to be the vibe Gunn was after by having the character involved in the invasion of Jarhanpur.

  • Review: The Final Season of ‘What If…?’ Prematurely Delivers Megatons of Mulitversal Mayhem

    Review: The Final Season of ‘What If…?’ Prematurely Delivers Megatons of Mulitversal Mayhem

    As one of the world’s greatest minds would tell you, everything dies. People, planets, suns, galaxies and universes all have expiration dates because they all have natural lifespans. Over a decade ago, Reed Richards understood and accepted that and explained it to his fellow heroes as Jonathan Hickman launched the dual runs on Avengers and New Avengers that would ultimately lead to Secret Wars. As Marvel Studios Multiverse Saga makes its way toward the same inevitable end in 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars, fans of the MCU should start to get comfortable accepting that same inevitability; however, for myriad reasons, Reed Richards isn’t around to help them understand that just yet. So while What If…?, the studio’s multi-season multiversal adventure arrives at its end, it does so too early for fans to fully appreciate its coda.

    Though no fault of its own, the final season of Marvel Animation’s first canonical adventure arrives about two and a half years too early for the magnitude of its multiversal mayhem to make the impact it should. Once upon a time, the Multiverse Saga was set to conclude on November 7, 2025, less than one year from the launch of What If…? Season 3. Had Marvel Studios adhered to that timeline, revealed at SDCC ’22, the final eight episodes of What If…? would almost certainly have hit differently. They didn’t, so they didn’t and so the final season, which contains some of the series’ most imaginative and chaotic offerings, might ultimately find its relative importance delayed by a few years.

    From the opening episode, which introduces a multiversal iteration of the Mighty Avengers, through the final episode, which teases something beyond this iteration of the Multiverse, the final season of What If…? lands as an almost too self-aware commentary on the state of the MCU and could reasonably be viewed, for the most part as one giant size episode of “What If…the Multiverse Saga Had Gone as Planned?” Despite growing sentiment on social media by folks who haven’t watched an episode, the third season does indeed align with the intended premise of the anthological comics. For example, the first episode, “What If…The Hulk Fought the Mech Avengers?”, imagines what would have happened if Sam Wilson encountered Bruce Banner on his morning jog instead of Steve Rogers…and it ain’t good! Indeed Bryan Andrews, Matthew Chauncey, Stephen Franck, Ryan Little and A.C. Bradley deliver some Top 10 What If…? bangers here. Though the two-part finale doesn’t quite live up to the Season 2 double dip, it does deliver a deserving denouement for the series leads while also calling back to key moments from prior seasons. If you’ve liked What If…? so far, you’ll like it again; if you haven’t liked it so far, you won’t be watching it anyway.

    Marvel TV boss Brad Winderbaum has made it clear that, at least for now, the studio is ready to put What If…? out to pasture and though the series ends on a bit of a cliffhanger, that’s probably ok. It’s probably ok, at least partly, because the Multiverse Saga is on its way to its (kind of) natural conclusion and, at least in the comics, realities cycle through birth, destruction and rebirth. However, as fun as two-thirds of this season of What If…? is, the feeling that the studio dropped the ball on its release date is hard to shake. Though it isn’t entirely clear, the series finale feels as though it is at least partially connected to the studio’s intended plans for the end of the Multiverse Saga. Sure, we can all go back and watch it around the time Avengers: Secret Wars hits theaters but it’s probably fair to wonder what the rush was on the studio’s part to get it to D+ now. Everything dies…but What If…? could have stayed in stasis a bit longer, allowing Pedro Pascal‘s Reed Richards to provide some additional context for its super sci-fi, super comic book ending. Watch it and enjoy it for what it is because it may be some time before the studio takes the type of chances it did with this animated adventure.

  • ‘Spider-Man 4’ Casting Rumor May Indicate Marvel Is Searching for a New Love Interest for Peter Parker

    ‘Spider-Man 4’ Casting Rumor May Indicate Marvel Is Searching for a New Love Interest for Peter Parker

    As was the case with Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel Studios and Sony’s next Spidey collab has been subject to an absurd amount of rumors and speculation ahead of its expected Summer 2025 start of production. With so many wild and wide-ranging reports making the rounds, it has become incredibly difficult to make sense out of what to actually expect from the film when it hits theaters in 2026. However, assuming the studios intended to follow the path upon which they set their hero at the end of No Way Home, some possibilities do make more sense than others.

    One of the more realistic routes the film might take would be to follow Peter Parker’s new life in which his old friends no longer remember him and he transitions to a more traditional Spider-Man. It’s reasonable to assume that might include Parker enrolling in college, perhaps at Empire State University, where, in the comics, he met a whole new group of characters who played major roles in his life including Harry Osborn and Gwen Stacy. And now a new report from a trusted insider has people beginning to believe that the latter may be headed to the MCU in Spider-Man 4.

    According to Daniel Richtman, Marvel is considering Furiosa: A Mad Max and The Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy for an unknown role in Spider-Man 4.

    While some corners of social media are flocking toward speculation that the actress may be in the running for the role of Felicia Hardy/Black Cat, another intriguing possibility has also generated some by buzz as fans consider that Taylor-Joy would make for a pretty damn great Gwen Stacy.

    Of course, it speaks to both the actresses range of talents and popularity that Taylor-Joy’s name would be associated with two very different characters, both of whom played integral roles in both parts of Pete’s life. While this would mark the third live-action iteration of Gwen (with Bryce Dallas Howard and Emma Stone each having portrayed the characters in Sony’s previous Spider-Man franchises), Hardy has really never been fully realized in a Spider-Man film.

    Certainly should Taylor-Joy portray one or the other of the two characters, it would not necessarily mean the other would be ruled out of an appearance in the film. Previous rumors have circulated that Marvel was interested in Sydney Sweeney and a “Madelyn Cline-type” actress for a role in the film. Either of those stars could arguably fill the role of Felicia Hardy alongside Taylor-Joy as Gwen. At this point, even though trades will likely break casting news in the new year, it may be some time before the true nature of the new film, and the roles within in, becomes clear.

    Spider-Man 4 is currently expected to swing into theaters on July 24th, 2026.

  • ‘Superman’ Teaser Calls Back to One of the Man of Steel’s Earlist Comic Book Adventures

    ‘Superman’ Teaser Calls Back to One of the Man of Steel’s Earlist Comic Book Adventures

    The nostalgia-heavy first teaser for DC Studios’ Superman certainly provided plenty for fans to talk about over the next seven months while they wait for its release. The cleverly edited teaser gave first looks at not only Clark Kent/Kal-El and Lois Lane but also several other heroes who are already established in the all-new DCU, a villain or two and several members of Superman’s supporting cast. It also revealed the first look a several familiar settings, including Metropolis and the Fortress of Solitude, which will obviously be integral not only to the story that unfolds in Superman but also the larger DCU narrative. Additionally, a closer look at the teaser reveals a third setting that serves both as a call back to one of Superman’s earliest comic book adventures and may ultimately be tied to the film’s central conflict.

    While addressing the opening shot of the teaser, which sees a bloody Superman crash into the Arctic tundra likely near his Fortress of Solitude, director James Gunn explained the symbolism of portraying the hero who has always fought for truth, justice and the American way in such a state. “We do have a battered Superman at the beginning, and I think that is our country,” explained Gunn. “I believe in the goodness of human beings,” he added, “and I believe that most people in this country despite their ideological beliefs or politics are doing their best to get by and are trying to be good people despite what it might seem like to the other side or what that other side might be, and I think this movie is about that.” And if Gunn didn’t hesitate to include commentary on the current state of politics in America, it’s reasonable to assume he may have drawn from other ongoing sociopolitical conflicts as well.

    The latter third of the trailer contains an eye-catching moment in which a little boy, surrounded by gunfire and explosions, struggles to raise a flag adorned with the symbol of the House of El while seemingly calling out for Superman’s help. Later in the trailer, the same brave boy can be seen on a Luthorcorps monitor as part of GBS News’ coverage of a border dispute involving Boravia. Though it’s not explained in the trailer, additional casting along with a reference in this week’s fourth episode of Creature Commandos have led to the theory that the country on the other side of the border is Jarhanpur and the front page of the Daily Planet seen in the teaser indicates that Boravians–perhaps led by Gorilla Grodd– are likely preparing to invade Jarhanpur when the movie starts which means that’s probably what’s happening when the boy cries out for Superman. And while that invasion may or may not have taken inspiration from a significant real-world border dispute, Superman has found himself involved in disputes in both nations in the pages of DC Comics and his visit to Boravia over 80 years ago may give some insight into what’s happening in the film.

    In a story titled “Superman Champions Universal Peace” contained in 1939’s Superman #2, the Man of Steel found himself amid a civil war in Boravia after following a character by the name of Bartow into the country. Bartow, as it turns out, was hired by a Boravian warlord to deliver a horrific chemical weapon to him to help turn the tide of the civil war. As the champion of universal peace, Superman chose to put a stop not only to the usage of the weapon but also the civil war by helping speed up the negotiation process between the two sides.

    Gunn has stated that while both Superman and Lex Luthor have been active in their own individual ways for some time when the movie begins, they have not met each other. It’s possible, and potentially supported by another scene in the trailer, that should Superman heed to young boy’s call and intercede in the Boravian invasion of Jarhanpur, he and some of the film’s other heroes may stumble into some nefarious involvement in the invasion by LuthorCorp. Though it’s purely speculative, it’s possible that the scene in the trailer in which Mr. Terrific finds himself under fire by LuthorCorp goons in what appear to be prototype warsuits could reveal Lex Luthor’s involvement in the Boravian invasion. And should Superman choose to step in and, as he did in Superman #2, put an abrupt end to the war, that would certainly garner the attention of Lex. Of course, there are numerous other scenarios that could explain Lex’s disdain for Kal-El; however, given Gunn’s respect for all of Superman’s history, it would not be surprising in the least to find out he drew inspiration from one of the Man of Steel’s earliest comic book adventures.

    Source: Deadline