D23 Expo News

Disney's official convention, D23 was this weekend and there was so much news that came out of it that I need to just jump right into. I won't talk about anything I'm not really interested in, no one is paying me to do this, so why should I write about anything I don't like. If you like Lady & the Tramp or High School Musical, that's fine, search it up yourself. I'm just gonna keep it to nerdo media series over here. First, I have to report some pretty sucky news, Spider-Man is leaving the MCU and won't appear in any Marvel Studios movies, until the rights revert only when, Sony stops makes Spider-Man movies, gets bought out, or if they can come to another deal with Marvel. That's about all for that, here's a pretty reliable article: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/spider-man-tom-holland-kevin-feige-mcu

In very exciting news, we got posters, photos and trailers for The Mandalorian and The World According to Jeff Goldblum. Both series look great, but I just want to focus in on The Mandalorian and say that it had one of the best trailers that I have ever seen and it has got me beyond excited for this show. It looks super dark and if you haven't seen the trailer, leave here and go watch it now.

Now I want to go back in time a bit to the Disney Legends panel that showed some new footage of the Rise of Skywalker revealing Vader's helmet will be back in a sealed case. It was also announced that Ming-Na-Wen of Agents of SHIELD and Mulan will be in The Mandalorian. Speaking of Agents of SHIELD, we got a trailer for season 7, showing them in the 30's, the Chronicoms, and Hydra, the season will start in Summer 2020.
In theme park news, they revealed Avengers Campus for Disneyland in California and showed the Star Wars hotel for Galaxy's Edge. In some funny news from D23, people were waiting in huge lines for kiosks to do an advance sign up for Disney Plus, because of how promising the service and content looks. Also there was a bit of a memorial for Spider-Man out in front of D23 :(.

Back over to Disney+ news, The Clone Wars season 7 is going to be released in February 2020. They did some talking about the Cassian Andor series, nothing was really shown, but they did hint at 10 episodes. And finally, after years of waiting, an Obi-Wan Kenobi series was announced for Disney Plus with Ewan Mcgregor attached. Hype! All we know now is that it will take place 8 years after Revenge of the Sith. While they made all of these announcements they had a timeline with wavy lines, looking like it was made in Google Drawings.

There was a huge news blowout for the Disney Plus Marvel shows. Starting off with Falcon and Winter Soldier they announced US Agent would be in the series and we learned that the series is coming at us in August 2020. Plus we got a poster for the show. There was some footage from What If shown, Peggy Carter as Captain America, T'Challa as Star-Lord and Bucky fighting a zombie Cap in Marvel Zombies. It was also revealed that there will be 23 episodes for 23 movies.

WandaVision got a lot of news, D23 attendees got footage of Wanda and Vision in the MCU intercut with The Dick Van Dyke show to give a feel for the tone of the series. That is very interesting and I definitely see the influence of Tom King's Vision run from that. Then it was revealed that Darcy from Thor and Agent Woo from Ant-Man will be in the series. Played by Kat Dennings and Randall Park respectively. I don't know what Darcy's role in here will be, but at least it means that she can also be back for Thor: Love and Thunder. Agent Woo I expect to be there as someone that investigates what Wanda and Vision are doing. Kathyrn Hahn was also cast as a nosy neighbor. Matt Shakman will be directing episodes of WandaVision.

The last few announcements I have to talk about from the Diseny+ panel had me rolling on the floor. Marvel announced 3 new series for Disney+, She-Hulk, Moon Knight, and last but not least Ms. Marvel! Bruh, I have no words. Two of my favorite superheroes, Ms. Marvel and Moon Knight are getting their own series. And She-Hulk, we always thought that she could never get her own movie or series, because she was owned by Universal and now she is getting a Disney+ show. I am so excited for all of this. Although, I am confused about these being in Phase 4. Because we thought that we had the complete slate, but if the 2022 and on movies are Phase 5, then unless these shows come out before 2022, we will have 2 phases running at the same time. If the shows really are part of Phase 4. Lo and Behold another potential problem with Ms. Marvel in the MCU, don't get me wrong she is one of my favorite characters, I just want to see her done right. All we know about any of these shows is that Bisha K. Ali will be running Ms. Marvel. And I will be back with words on these, at some point.

Speaking of Ms. Marvel, she will appear in the upcoming 2021 Disney Junior show, Spidey and his Amazing Friends which will star Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen. It will feature guest characters such as Hulk, Black Panther, and Ms. Marvel. I'll be real, even though this is on Disney Junior, it looks cool and I have to watch at least a bit of it, if only for Ms. Marvel. And announced from Marvel for the Disney Channel is Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur from Laurence Fishburne, which I will definitely be watching as well. If you aren't sold on Disney Plus or if you know someone that isn't, pull up with this sick trailer highlighting great moments from the shows and movies that will be on there.

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Over to the movies panel at D23, we got some deets about Eternals including Gemma Chan being cast as Sersi, Barry Keyohan as Druig, and Kit Harrington as the Black Knight. Plus we got our first look at the Eternals, all looking very cool. Then the people present at the panel got to see more top secret Black Widow footage. But we did get a poster and a design for the White Widow costume, possibly used for stealth in the snow in Russia or someplace else.

Also announced was that Black Panther II will come out May 6th, 2022, with Ryan Coogler back to direct. One thing I have to comment on is the newly announced animated Disney movie, Raya and the Last Dragon. It sounds like it will be pretty good. But, sadly I'm seeing similarities to The Dragon Prince, Raya and Rayla, both are about some of the last dragons. It's just kind of sad that when this comes out and is super popular, no one will even know what The Dragon Prince is and confuse it for this.

Let's finish this blogpost with one of the best things, Star Wars. First some deets came out about Keri Russell's new character, Zorri Bliss being a criminal and Poe's friend. Then we got a poster, which is very cool. And then we got a special look that was shown exclusively for audiences at D23, that we didn't get to see until Monday, delaying this blog. Just kidding, I'm already lazy enough to delay it all by myself. The trailer is pretty good, most of it is old footage, but it's a nice compilation and it's cool to have footage from all 9 saga films in the same trailer. On to the new footage, we see the characters walk up to some sort of festival. Then we see Leia, Carrie Fisher is truly in it. We see some ships of the resistance. Then a ton of Imperial Star Destroyers in space, making me think that this is where the Imperial remnant went in the outer regions. That would be very cool if this is actually what this is and they are utilizing more non-movie material for the films. We see C-3PO with red eyes, I've heard a lot of theories, but I think it would be cool if he just went evil from his programming of when he swapped minds with a battle droid in Attack of the Clones. Then we see Kylo and Rey battling over water around what I think is the second Death Star. Very neat, we've seen battles over lava, it's cool to also have battles over water. Although we must have Mustafar in this movie!  Now on to the scene that everyone is talking about, Dark Rey. Double- bladed folding lightsaber, I like it. I don't have any clue what is going on. If I had to guess, I'd say it's a vision. But what I actually think would be cool is for her to turn to the dark side. We also hear Vader's breathing in this, which is odd, since even though we know he will be involved with the movie, they specifically play that over the scene of Rey. Which could mean several things: a)Vader's spirit is on the second Death Star, b)Rey is the next Darth Vader, c)It is a vision and Vader's breathing is playing over it to call back to Luke's vision of himself as Vader in the cave on Dagobah, or d)They are in Vader's castle during this scene. It could be none of those, but I would like all of them. But we Darth Darth Vader's Castle on Mustafar in The Rise of Skywalker. With that, stay connected.