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The first details about Disneyland’s upcoming Marvel-themed land, Avengers Campus, have arrived thanks to Disney’s D23 Expo, including the first details of the new Spider-Man attraction W.E.B. or the “Worldwide Engineering Brigade.”

The ride will feature “web-slinging vehicles” and Spider-Bots, developed by Peter Parker, which are glitching out during the ride’s story.

Concept art for the new ride vehicles was shown during the presentation, teasing some of the ride’s interactive features which will let riders experience the sensation of Spidey’s iconic web-slinging moves as they work alongside Peter to round up the malfunctioning Spider-Bots.

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At D23, we learned about plenty about Disney’s upcoming movies, including Jungle Cruise, Star Wars: Episode 9, Marvel’s Black Widow, and more. However, one big surprise came from the details to the 101 Dalmatians prequel. We got to see what Cruella DeVille would look like in the upcoming live-action movie.

Starring Emma Stone as the titular character, those that attended the movies panel on Saturday at the Disney convention learned a bit more about the movie, which won’t hit theaters until 2021, on the 50th anniversary of the animated classic, 101 Dalmatians.

Fans got their first look at Stone from the set, complete with the half-black, half-white hair, which you can see above. In a behind-the-scenes video filmed by Stone for the D23 crowd, she revealed the movie would be set in 1960s London. Stone appeared on screen, discussing the film, while yelling at a poor dog off screen. Emma Thompson, Stone’s co-star in the film, was also mentioned. However, details about her character have yet to be revealed. There have been rumors she’ll be playing Baroness, but as to who or what that character is, no one knows at this time.

We’ll learn more in the upcoming year, but Cruella is still a ways off, as it won’t be released theatrically until May 28, 2021.

D23 was a huge weekend for news, as those in attendance got to see eight minutes of footage of the upcoming Tom Holland/Chris Pretty Pixar movie, Onward. Additionally, we learned a lot more about plenty of Disney+ TV series, including the Star Wars shows The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan. As for Marvel, three new Disney+ TV series were announced at the convention She-Hulk, Moon Knight, and Ms. Marvel.

During the D23 Movies panel, which gave us a look at Star Wars: Episode 9, as well as more info on Black Panther 2, and The Eternals, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe were in for quite a treat when they got to see footage from the upcoming Black Widow movie.

Set to release in 2020, those attending the panel learned that the movie is still filming as they watched an on-set video of Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour, and Florence Pugh. The cast was on a helicopter saying they wanted to attend D23, but they’re in the middle of making the movie.

Johansson is a major part of the movie, and many of these scenes show to the crowd featured her and Pugh’s character, assassin Yelena Belova. Some of this footage was shown at Comic-Con back in July.

Panel-goers got a quick recap of Black Widow from previous movies before seeing what the new movie had to offer. The new footage with Natasha Romanova walking through the empty streets of Budapest. She gets into an elevator. Then, Nat and Yelena have guns drawn on each other in an apartment. What follows is an intense battle where the two characters are trying to kill each other in the kitchen, which gets demolished. Yelena charges at Nat with a knife, and they try to strangle each other with a curtain.

In the next shot, Nat says, “It’s good to see you too, sis,” as they drink vodka together. There is a shot of the Nat, Yelena and Red Guardian (Harbour) all in costume and bearing people up, which leads to a face-to-face moment with Nat and the movie’s main villain, Taskmaster.

Black Widow will hit theaters on May 1, 2020. In other Marvel news, a Ms. Marvel TV show was announced for Disney+, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington joined MCU in The Eternals, and Moon Knight is getting a Disney+ series too. If that wasn’t enough She-Hulk is also getting her own show. You can see all the latest news in our D23 roundup.

The cast of Marvel’s Eternals just keeps on adding star power. This weekend, at Disney’s D23 Expo, it was announced that both Kit Harington and Gemma Chan would be joining the cast.

News of Harington’s reported involvement in the MCU broke before the official announcement, prompting fans to speculate about every possibility, including the potential re-casting of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in the wake of the Disney/Fox merge. Similarly, the news that Chan was being courted for the project broke earlier this month, leading fans to wonder how this new role would affect her Captain Marvel involvement.

In Harington’s case, the truth turned out to be much simpler than the fantasy that theorizing created. He will play Dane Whitman, aka Black Knight, a superhero who–this is not a joke–dresses like a medieval knight and rides around on a pegasus-like flying horse (maybe he and Valkyrie will have something to talk about?)

Things for Chan are a bit more complicated. She will not be reprising her Captain Marvel role as the Kree soldier Minn-Erva, and instead, be re-cast as the trickster Eternal Sersi. This is a rare case of an actor playing two different characters in the MCU–and likely means we won’t be seeing Minn-Erva around in future Captain Marvel instalments.

Though, interestingly, Sersi’s superpowers do revolve around matter manipulation and shapeshifting, which could potentially make for a very interesting in-universe loophole to explain how and why Chan could be two unrelated characters at once. Perhaps the Minn-Erva we briefly saw back in the 90s wasn’t actually Minn-Erva at all.

The Eternals hits theaters on November 6, 2020.