In this thrilling episode of Puny Pod, the hosts tackle the bittersweet news that Blade is on hold again, exploring the challenges the project has faced and what it means for Marvel’s supernatural slate.
Things take a brighter turn as they celebrate the official confirmation of Spider-Man 4, complete with a release date and speculation about the plot, villains, and Peter Parker’s next steps.
They dive into the highlights of Brazil D23, breaking down the unique announcements and how Marvel is engaging its global fanbase.
The conversation then shifts to trailers galore, including the Disney+ 2024-2025 release teaser, the mysterious and emotional sneak peek at What If...? Season 3, and the action-packed first looks at Captain America: New World Order and Thunderbolts.
It’s a feast of Marvel updates, speculation, and spirited debates you won’t want to miss!
Make sure you check out the Current Events episode for our review of the end of Agatha All Along and other current events in the Marvel World
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[00:00:01] What's up everybody? Hey, this is EditingBayRyan. Real quick before we get into the episode, I want to make sure that you guys kind of knew what was going on this month with the Monthly Bugle. We're trying something different out so we can cover some more news. The episode you're listening to right now, this is all the coming attractions. This is all the rumors. This is all the stuff that was announced at Brazil Comic Con or Brazil D23. This is our journey into the trailer park.
[00:00:28] This is all the kind of speculative future planning sort of stuff from the MCU. If you want all the current content, our Agatha review as well as some discussion of Deadpool and Wolverine, a Lego movie plus some comic book content, go listen to the current events episode that came out earlier today. Anyway, I hope that you guys enjoyed both. Please send us feedback. Let us know on social media. Let us know via our website.
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[00:01:21] We do want to jump into the future of the MCU here. So with that, David, I know you have, I'm going to give it to you for the first story.
[00:01:31] Sure. Great. So good news in the MCU. Blade has been confirmed hard. It is hard date, November 7, 2025.
[00:01:44] What's that? David, read the story again.
[00:01:49] Oh, it's not. Sorry. Correction. Current show correction. It's not coming out in 2025.
[00:01:57] Rather, Disney's opening 20th Century Studios, Predator Badlands.
[00:02:01] This is something we knew was happening. They've gone through a bunch of directors. They've gone through a bunch of rewrites.
[00:02:06] It was just this weird. It was toast.
[00:02:10] Yeah. I want to say, I don't know what we talked about last time. Was it 2019 at D23? When was it? Or Comic-Con was first mentioned?
[00:02:20] Something like that.
[00:02:21] And you just look at it and there are just certain projects like, this is just not happening.
[00:02:27] And you will still see glimpses. You'll see directors who are linked to it or rumored and directors who are not.
[00:02:34] You see, I just saw two days ago that like, oh, Mahershala Ali saw a script he really liked.
[00:02:42] I'm just like, guys, just let it go. Let's just put it on the shelf. Come back to it. So not happening.
[00:02:49] There's only going to be one, Blade.
[00:02:52] I knew you were going to do that. I just was waiting for it.
[00:02:57] Oh, man. Yeah, it's unfortunate.
[00:03:01] I think especially coming off the back of Agatha, which aesthetically it could be very close to Blade, right?
[00:03:09] Has that same sort of spooky, ooky feel and whatever.
[00:03:15] And so, yeah, unfortunate, but we knew it was coming.
[00:03:20] This just at least put it into writing.
[00:03:25] A very small part of me almost wishes that like Disney would license this out because Disney will never make a 70 or 80 million dollar movie for Marvel.
[00:03:37] Marvel's just not going to do that, right?
[00:03:39] I might have misspoke there.
[00:03:40] Marvel's not going, Disney's not going to do that.
[00:03:42] Marvel's not going to do that.
[00:03:45] And do you really want to spend 225 million dollars on Blade?
[00:03:47] Probably not.
[00:03:48] But if you give it to, I don't know, Sony, who likes to knock out like Spider-Man movies as cheap as possible, you could still do a really good movie.
[00:03:59] It's not a super difficult, you know, formula.
[00:04:02] Yeah, I think this is a project that the studio has moved past a little bit.
[00:04:09] If this was in phase one and they were taking the same risks that like they took on Thor, right?
[00:04:16] Thor, you hired two completely unknown characters as your main characters.
[00:04:26] And you made it pretty cheap.
[00:04:29] I don't know what the budget for Thor was, but, you know, same sort of idea.
[00:04:36] I could see Marvel of that era doing it, but now they need, you know, top 50 actors and somebody has to have a resume, the length of a CVS receipt to be able to even get a foot in the door.
[00:04:53] Well, let's do this.
[00:04:54] Let's do maybe next time.
[00:04:56] Maybe we could do like a Blade post-mortem.
[00:05:00] I do think, you know, the casting of Mahershali, while I think would be great as Blade, you might have been better off with just an unknown person or relatively unknown person.
[00:05:15] I don't think you need to have like a big, heavy star.
[00:05:20] But we could go back and I can pull a little history as to like all the different steps of how we didn't get here.
[00:05:27] So in looking at, I'm just looking at like the budget, the film, the cheapest movie they've ever made.
[00:05:33] 130 million.
[00:05:36] You know, but it was never going to get made.
[00:05:39] It was never going to get made during phase one due to everyone's favorite.
[00:05:42] Oh, yeah.
[00:05:43] Exactly.
[00:05:43] Like Perlmutter.
[00:05:44] But anyway, put that aside.
[00:05:46] Yeah, maybe that'll be a fun.
[00:05:47] We have a couple of months where our Patreon might be a little bit dry.
[00:05:53] So maybe we could do some like how did it not get made type stuff.
[00:05:59] Maybe a little Blade review.
[00:06:03] Yeah.
[00:06:05] Moving on now to another Marvel project, this time one that actually has some good news and occupied a lot of the Marvel news cycle for the last month or so, which is Spider-Man 4.
[00:06:21] So Spider-Man 4 has been confirmed.
[00:06:23] Filming begins in 2025.
[00:06:26] The release date has been set as July 24th of 2026.
[00:06:31] My understanding is Sony and Marvel are contractually obligated to hit that.
[00:06:37] And so there's some like ramifications in the licensing of Spider-Man to Sony to where they have to make a Spider-Man film.
[00:06:48] Essentially by I think it's the end of 2026 or they relinquish the rights to Marvel.
[00:06:55] And so this is a pretty sure thing.
[00:07:01] It also makes a lot of sense when you look at the releases around that, right?
[00:07:07] You're going to have this puts it in the summer of 2026, which puts it after the May release of Avengers Doomsday.
[00:07:17] And then so it would be May, Avengers Doomsday, July, Spider-Man 4, and then, you know, whatever else.
[00:07:27] And then back around to May again, you get Secret Wars in 2027.
[00:07:32] So Tom Holland was actually invited into the creative process for the first time with this one, which is kind of cool.
[00:07:40] It's been kind of fun to watch him grow up with the like from his casting early on as like the kid Spider-Man to now he's like full-fledged adult.
[00:07:52] And the Marvel group has kind of seen him grow and they're bringing him in for things like creative process, which is really cool to see.
[00:08:04] Apparently he and Zendaya, who if you weren't aware, they are dating in real life.
[00:08:11] What?
[00:08:11] But they have read the current script.
[00:08:15] They feel like they said, I think Tom Holland said something along the lines of they were like jumping around in their living room, reading it and really excited about it.
[00:08:26] Think that it's going to be something fans love.
[00:08:28] Think that there are some pieces that need to be fixed.
[00:08:30] So the script is not there yet from what they were saying, but really exciting.
[00:08:35] Sounds like it's going to be something for the fans, which is really, really cool.
[00:08:41] Spider-Man has done that.
[00:08:42] I think I would say probably out of.
[00:08:46] MCU series, Spider-Man is probably the most for the fans.
[00:08:51] It serves the fans probably the most as as a series.
[00:08:57] But I will say one piece that might be interesting.
[00:09:02] Is I would be very surprised if Marvel was OK with Tom Holland going out and publicly saying that Zendaya had had.
[00:09:13] Had seen the script if she was not going to be in it.
[00:09:18] That seems like the kind of thing that they would shut down pretty quick.
[00:09:24] So they can't stop him from saying anything like.
[00:09:28] Oh, I know.
[00:09:28] I know.
[00:09:29] But but I do think that that does indicate and it's not surprising.
[00:09:33] Right.
[00:09:33] MJ was probably going to be in it.
[00:09:36] But if we remember story wise, she doesn't know who Peter is.
[00:09:40] Right.
[00:09:40] She she has forgotten who Peter is.
[00:09:44] So it is.
[00:09:46] You know.
[00:09:48] You could have probably guessed that she was going to show up, but this does kind of I would say confirm it a little bit.
[00:09:58] Right.
[00:09:58] Mm hmm.
[00:09:59] At least gives us a pretty good indication that she'll that Mary Jane or MJ will show up.
[00:10:05] I think it was extremely likely.
[00:10:10] Because she's such a likable character, such a popular actress, I would have been surprised if you just look at the I'm looking at the cast right now.
[00:10:19] On IMDb and it just lists Tom Holland.
[00:10:25] I suspect there'll probably be more people besides Tom Holland in it, but.
[00:10:31] I saw rumors of of possibly a Norman Osborn showing up and possibly it being Matthew McConaughey, which.
[00:10:44] At first glance, I was like, that's weird.
[00:10:46] But then I was like, no, that actually makes a lot of sense.
[00:10:49] That's actually.
[00:10:51] It would make a lot of sense.
[00:10:53] The yeah.
[00:10:53] The only things that are confirmed, it's the Tom Holland.
[00:10:57] It's the director, Destin Daniel Cretton, who did Shang-Chi.
[00:11:03] And yeah, so we'll see.
[00:11:05] And then I think the writer from Ant-Man, as well as the other Spider-Mans.
[00:11:11] It lists Chris McKenna, who wrote No Way Home, Hope Coming, Far From Home.
[00:11:19] Yeah, that's a writing pair.
[00:11:21] It's Chris McKenna and Eric Summers.
[00:11:23] Eric Summers.
[00:11:24] Yep.
[00:11:25] Yep.
[00:11:25] No related to Scott Summers or.
[00:11:29] Or Summer Sanders.
[00:11:34] Or Suzanne Summers.
[00:11:36] RIP.
[00:11:37] RIP.
[00:11:38] Tucson.
[00:11:39] Summers.
[00:11:40] Okay.
[00:11:41] Let's just stop.
[00:11:45] Oh.
[00:11:46] Oh my god.