Marvel casting director Sarah Finn has explained why they chose David Jonsson and Ryan Gosling to fill two of the MCU's most exciting roles.

"[David] has a lot of talent and a whole lot of heart," Sarah Finn told Variety, when asked about casting Jonsson as the new Black Panther. "Obviously, these are very big shoes to fill. He is the grown version of [T'Challa's son], and our heir apparent. We needed somebody not only with the talent, but with a certain presence and a certain spirit."

Both Jonsson and Gosling took the stage during Marvel's Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con following their big standalone movie announcements. Both Black Panther 3 and Ghost Rider are due out in 2028.

"Have there been occasions in the past where we've pursued Ryan for a role?" Finn asked rhetorically. "Although Ryan is very public about saying he wanted to play [Ghost Rider], so there wasn't a lot of heavy lifting. The reaction was beautiful to witness."

Jonsson is best known for his starring roles in Alien: Romulus and The Long Walk, with the former earning him the BAFTA Award for Rising Star. Gosling recently hit big at the box office with Project Hail Mary, which saw him playing a secretly brilliant schoolteacher who gets sent into space to save the world.

For more, check out our guide to everything announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. We've also rounded up all of the upcoming Marvel movies and shows on the way in 2026 and beyond.

Zach Cregger says star Austin Abrams almost died during the making of Resident Evil... and that the moment was captured on camera.

"So there’s a scene in this movie…it’s in the trailer," Cregger told Dread Central. "He’s [Austin] running down the street, and there’s zombies on the roof of the buildings on either side, and they’re all leaping at him. And so we had to design this thing where he’s just running with bodies falling and detonating all around him. I knew I didn’t want to do it with VFX. So I was like, how do we do this?"

"All these explosions are real, and the way to do it is, you get a bunch of cranes, and you have all these body-sized blood bags, and you rehearse the shit out of how they’re going to fall, and how fast he’s going to run, and then you just shoot it," Cregger explained. "So, he’s running, and they’re releasing these bags that are falling and hitting all around and exploding. One triggered too early, and it missed him by inches. And these things are all like one hundred and fifty pounds, and would have killed him if he had been one step to the right. He would have died. And it’s in the movie. So it’s fucking worth it. I was pretty stoked."

Cregger also reportedly specified that he was happy that Abrams was safe and uninjured, though he did receive minor injuries throughout the course of filming. This is unfortunately par for the course for a physical zombie movie with action of this caliber. Cregger directs from a screenplay he penned with Shay Hatten. Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser also star.

Abrams, who starred in HBO's Euphoria and Cregger's Weapons, plays Bryan, a medical courier who is in the process of making a delivery to Raccoon City General Hospital when an outbreak forces him to fight for his life. A new scene was shown behind closed doors at San Diego Comic-Con that saw Bryan pull over to the site of a wrecked cop car, only to engage in combat with a terrifying, fast-moving zombie woman.

Resident Evil hits theaters on September 18. For more, check out our guide to upcoming horror movies.

Kevin Feige says Ryan Coogler called him after secretly meeting with actor David Jonsson – and that the two unanimously agreed on casting him as the new Black Panther.

"A month and a half or so before that process, he called me and said, 'I found him,'" Feige told Empire. "I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He goes, 'I found him. He's this guy, David Jonsson.' He mentioned his movies. I had seen some of them. I watched more. He goes, 'I'm going to meet him.'"

Continued Feige: "He had a secret meeting with him under cloak of darkness in a hotel somewhere, and called me afterwards and said, ‘He’s the guy, he’s the guy, I felt it. I felt it in my soul. He’s a good man, and he is the next Black Panther.' And I got chills, and I got a little welled-up and said, 'Let’s do it.' So we’ve been sitting on this secret for a good five or six months.”

The news broke at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 during the Marvel Studios panel, when Kevin Feige brought Coogler to the stage and announced that Black Panther 3 was set for a December 15, 2028 release. Coogler then revealed to the crowd that they were not recasting T'Challa, but had instead cast someone to play a grown-up version of T'Challa's son (who was introduced as a kiddo in the Wakanda Forever post-credits scene). "In this next film, he grows up, comes of age, and we had to find an incredible actor," he said, before introducing David Jonsson as the new Black Panther.

Jonsson is best known for starring in Alien: Romulus, which earned him a BAFTA for Rising Star in 2025, and the dystopian Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk. If you're unfamiliar with his work, both of these movies showcase exactly what he can do... and prove why Marvel cast the perfect actor.

For more, check out our list of all the upcoming Marvel movies and shows on the way in 2026 and beyond.

Ryan Gosling came to Marvel with a vision for Ghost Rider, according to studio boss Kevin Feige. It was announced during Marvel's SDCC 2026 panel that the Blade Runner 2049 actor would be joining the MCU as the comic book character in a new movie directed by Shawn Levy.

"I am going to let Ryan reveal what he wants to reveal, when he wants to reveal it, and what he wanted to reveal today is: he's playing Ghost Rider," Feige told Comicbook.com. "He is a huge fan of the comics; he did come to us particularly with a specific vision, based on some particular comics, but I'll let him unveil that as he wants to."

At the moment we don't know much more about the Ghost Rider movie other than its logo and that it will be released in 2028. This means we don't know which version of the character will debut in film, Johnny Blaze or Danny Ketch.

Ghost Rider has had mixed success on screen before, having been played by Nicolas Cage in two live-action films and by Gabriel Luna in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

First up for Levy and Reynolds is Star Wars: Starfighter, which will be released in 2027. Feige has seen the movie, and told audiences at SDCC that he thinks it's "awesome".

Elsewhere, at the Marvel panel, some new footage from Avengers: Doomsday debuted, highlighting the history between Reed Richards and Victor Von Doom. It was also confirmed that David Jonsson is joining the MCU as T'Challa's son in the upcoming Black Panther 3. We also got an exclusive look at Spider-Man: Brand New Day ahead of its release in theaters next week.

For more, check out our guide to everything announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 and our breakdown of the SDCC 2026 schedule. We've also rounded up all of the upcoming Marvel movies and shows on the way in 2026 and beyond.

Chris Evans has opened up about why he has returned for Avengers: Doomsday, admitting he turned down "dozens" of pitches from Marvel over the past eight years.

"When we finished Endgame in 2018, Lou [D’Esposito] and Kevin [Feige] took me to dinner and they were like, 'We’d love to keep doing movies with Steve Rogers as Nomad,'" Evans told Entertainment Weekly after the Marvel SDCC 2026 panel. "And I said, 'Okay, well, what do you got?' They showed me a pitch, and it was a great pitch, but for whatever reason, it just didn't feel right at the time. I kind of wanted to… I was a little precious. I wanted to preserve it. But I just said, 'Please keep pitching.'"

Nomad is an alternate identity that Steve Rogers takes on in the Marvel comics. During a run during the mid '70s, Rogers became disillusioned with the United States government and decided to become a man without a country. Anthony Mackie recently teased that this is the version of the character we'll meet in Avengers: Doomsday.

Evans added that none of the MCU ideas from Feige and co. felt right until he got the call about Doomsday.

"Over the course of eight years, I probably heard at least a dozen pitches," he continued. "And they were all wonderful. It just never quite felt right. And you do start thinking maybe that's the expiration – whatever it is – maybe it's not right because it's just not right."

However, it was another actor's return that changed the game for the Avengers star. "I got a phone call from my team saying there’s a rumor [Robert Downey Jr. is] talking to Marvel, and I was like, 'Uh, oh. What does this mean?' And all of a sudden it felt right. Joe [Russo] gave me the pitch, and Downey was [back]. It just all of a sudden… it was like, 'This is it.'"

Elsewhere at the Marvel panel, some new footage from Avengers: Doomsday debuted, teasing the history between Doom and Reed Richards. It was also announced that a Ghost Rider movie with Ryan Gosling is happening and that David Jonsson is joining the cast of Black Panther 3.

Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, 2026. For more, check out everything that happened at SDCC 2026 in our San Diego Comic-Con 2026 live coverage as well as checking out our breakdown of all the upcoming Marvel movies and shows on the way.

Robert Downey Jr. has opened up about returning to the MCU as a new character, and he's admitted it was quite an isolating process.

Speaking after the Marvel SDCC 2026 panel, where new footage from the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday debuted, Downey Jr. was asked about the throughline between Iron Man and Victor Von Doom.

"I mean there's the science thing and they're considered pretty brilliant guys but Tony had the trauma that turned him into a hero and Doom has got the exact opposite to where it takes the prowess of all of these folks to go up against him," he explained to Entertainment Weekly. "It was a joy to pull [off]. It was really weird being on the other side of a bad guy mask because it's just such an isolated vibe, and I'm seeing them all socialise and I'm the enemy."

His Avengers co-star Chris Evans, who is returning as Steve Rogers in the Marvel Phase 6 movie, said working on the film reminded him of the original Avengers movie.

"I would find myself during that movie watching. You're in the scene but then you're like, 'Robert Downey Jr.'s playing Tony Stark' and 'Oh fuck, I have a line,'" he added to the publication. "And on this one I felt that a little bit again, just kind of watching you do this thing that I couldn't wait to see."

Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, 2026 and sees a whole host of major stars return. Alongside the original Avengers like Thor and Rogers, the cast of Thunderbolts, Black Panther, the Fantastic Four, and the Fox X-Men movies all star as well.

The official synopsis is pretty vague at the moment, reading: "Heroes from three different worlds must unite when they're thrust together to confront a catastrophic danger that could destroy everything they know." However, we did see some of the epic action in the Avengers: Doomsday trailer.

For more, check out everything that happened at SDCC 2026 in our San Diego Comic-Con 2026 live coverage as well as checking out our breakdown of all the upcoming Marvel movies and shows on the way.

Ever since it was announced that Steve Rogers was returning in Avengers: Doomsday, speculation has been rife about what role he'll play in the new movie. Now, it seems like we might have our best insight yet, all thanks to current Captain America star Anthony Mackie.

Speaking to Variety after Marvel's SDCC 2026 panel, Mackie clarified that Chris Evans' character will not be Cap again. "Steve Rogers is returning, not Captain America," Mackie said. "Steve Rogers in the comic book – there is a comic book, you say you're a nerd, read the comic book. Don't be a nerd by trade, be a nerd by fact. So, in the comic book, Steve Rogers becomes Nomad."

Realizing he might have revealed too much, Mackie didn't give away any more when pressed if that could happen in the MCU. "I don't know! I don't even watch movies!"

In the Marvel comics, the original Captain America becomes Nomad after abandoning his original title when he becomes disillusioned with the United States government. He becomes a man without a country, allowing him to continue fighting as a hero, but not being defined by the USA. The storyline only lasted for a few months in the mid '70s but it was an interesting one.

We are still not sure how this version of Steve Rogers appears in Doomsday. The last we saw of him, he was an old man, having returned back to life with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) at the end of Avengers: Endgame. Atwell is confirmed for Doomsday and we've seen footage of Rogers with a baby. How does this all fit in with what's going on in the upcoming movie? Only time will tell.

At the Marvel panel, some new Avengers: Doomsday footage also debuted, revealing more about Victor Von Doom's past with Reed Richards. You can find out everything that happened in our San Diego Comic-Con 2026 live coverage.

Avengers: Doomsday arrives in theaters on December 18, 2026. For more, check out our guides to all the upcoming Marvel movies and shows you need to know about.

More Avengers: Doomsday footage has been shown at Marvel's Hall H panel during this year's San Diego Comic-Con.

Those worried about the lack of Fantastic Four connection to Doctor Doom can rest easy. The behind-closed-door teaser, which GamesRadar+ was in attendance for, features Vanessa Kirby's Sue Storm narrating.

Opening with a lingering shot of Doom sitting on his throne, Sue Storm narrates the roughly two minutes of footage. "Victor was always the smartest guy in every room. He used to be different. Used to be kind. Used to be caring. Everything he loved was taken from him. I knew he was lost, but I did not realise that he was broken."

She's speaking to a room of assembled Marvel heroes and mutants, including Shang-Chi, Gambit, the Thunderbolts, Thor and more. Magneto, Professor X and Steve Rogers are also seen in glimpses. As Sue speaks, we see Doom looking up longingly at the image of his wife and child featured on the Doomsday poster.

Cut to a distressed-looking Reed Richards who asks Victor, "Did you do this?" Quick cuts reveal new images of Johnny Storm holding Franklin close in a bright environment, Steve Rogers cradling his baby, Shuri in Wakanda, Thor looking at his daughter Love, Cyclops looking battle-worn, and more.

Cyptically, Doom says: "All of you have lived stolen lives and now you must give them back."

Suddenly, something flies out of a window at the top of a towering building. It's Doom, who lands with impact. "Did you do this?" asks Reed again, shouting now, looking up at Victor. Thor enters the fray "I swear you will beg for hell long before I grant it." He jumps, but as in the film's first trailer, Doom blocks the axe with two fingers, and easily bats it away with magic, blasting Thor back in the process.

The footage ends with Doom placing his hand on the ground and resurrecting a number of broken Sentinels. "Hell answers to me. For I am Doom."

Our next real taste of Avengers: Doomsday will likely be as part of Avengers: Endgame Encore, the re-release of Marvel's greatest cinematic success, this September. Director the Russos have already promised fresh footage which will narratively bridge the gap between Endgame and Doomsday.

That wasn't all from Marvel. Black Panther 3 has been announced for December 15, 2028, with David Jonsson playing T'Challa's son in the threequel.

Ghost Rider, starring Ryan Gosling, is also slated post-Secret Wars in 2028. Deadpool and Wolverine's Shawn Levy will helm the project.

Avengers: Doomsday hits cinemas on December 18. For more, check out the upcoming Marvel movies currently in the works.

Catch up on everything else from SDCC with the SDCC live blog and SDCC Marvel live updates.

At the San Diego Comic-Con 2026 panel, Marvel Studios revealed some new details about Black Panther 3.

Kevin Feige officially confirmed that Ryan Coogler, fresh off his Oscar win, will direct, and the film is set for a December 15, 2028 release.

Most crucially of all, however, is the news that a new Black Panther has been cast. The Long Walk's David Jonsson will be taking up the mantle, playing the character of T'Challa's son, who was introduced in the Wakanda Forever post-credits scene. It's not quite clear how that works out on the Marvel timeline, considering T'Challa II was a young child when we met him. However, Coogler did sort of acknowledge this on stage. "In this next film, he grows up, comes of age, and we had to find an incredible actor," he shared.

"I want to say thank you so much," Jonsson told the crowd. "Thank you, Ryan. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you to this amazing family that I have the honor and the privilege of blessing to join. I actually don't want to say too much because I want to let this screen do the talking. But believe me, the honor is entirely mine. Thank you."

Black Panther 3 has been in development for some time, following on from the success of Black Panther 2 back in 2022. Denzel Washington was long rumored to be part of the cast after he revealed that Coogler had written a role specifically for him.

"Ryan Coogler is writing a part for me in the next Black Panther," Washington told TODAY during the Gladiator 2 press tour. He then listed off roles as Othello, Hannibal, in a mystery film with Steve McQueen, and King Lear before concluding: "After that, I'm going to retire."

We won't be waiting too long to see the Black Panther cast either as they are confirmed to be a part of Avengers: Doomsday. The Wakandans appeared in an early teaser and again as part of the main recently released trailer. It's not clear at the moment what role they'll play in the upcoming film, but new Black Panther Shuri, M'Baku, and Namor will all be involved.

For more from Marvel's panel, follow along with our Marvel SDCC 2026 live coverage as well as our San Diego Comic-Con 2026 live coverage as a whole and our SDCC 2026 schedule.

We've also got a list of all the upcoming Marvel movies and shows on the way in 2026 and beyond.

His job is bike. In a shock SDCC announcement, Marvel Studios has announced that Barbie and Project Hail Mary star Ryan Gosling is joining the MCU as Ghost Rider.

During Marvel's Hall H panel, Kevin Feige brought Gosling out to announce a standalone 2028 movie with Deadpool and Wolverine's Shawn Levy on-board to direct. Levy also helmed the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter, also starring Gosling.

First debuting in the pages of 1972's Marvel Spotlight, Ghost Rider has been the moniker given to several heroes who have become the flame-spewing Spirit of Vengeance. He has been played on-screen by Nicolas Cage in two live-action movies and by Gabriel Luna in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Gosling had done little in the past to pump the brakes on speculation surrounding a Marvel superhero role.

"Some discussions have been had. It’s a complicated situation," Gosling said on Happy Sad Confused earlier this year. Previously, he had shut down reports that he was attached to a Nova project, instead suggesting that he wanted to play the chain-wielding, hellish Ghost Rider in the MCU. A separate Nova movie is in the works, however.

Next up in the MCU is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which sees Tom Holland's wallcrawler team up with Jon Bernthal's Punisher to take down an unknowable threat. It may or may not be Sadie Sink's mystery character, who is largely thought to be X-Men's Jean Grey.

Then, Avengers: Doomsday arrives this December. A first trailer was released earlier this month, though fans are split on Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom voice.

Keep up with all things SDCC with our SDCC 2026 schedule and Marvel SDCC live blog.

Plus, dive into everything else Marvel Studios has been cooking up with our complete guide to upcoming Marvel movies.

According to Prime Video, Alan Ritchson's Jack Reacher is back and bigger than ever in Reacher season 4, which is just as well, as the first trailer shown at San Diego Comic-Con gives us a glimpse at his most dangerous mission yet.

The trailer, which you can watch above, opens with Alan Ritchson's ex-soldier sitting inside a subway car when he witnesses a woman end her own life. The police pick up Reacher for the crime, but soon after escaping their clutches, Reacher sets out to solve the death, which he thinks was suspicious. Reacher meets up with the woman's brother (Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette), who is adamant she didn't kill herself. From then on, the two are pulled into a dangerous web of criminal activity.

At one point, Reacher is told to walk away. But, of course, our favourite lucky hero does no such thing, as he is prepared to beat down as many bad guys as it takes to get to the bottom of the murder. However, it looks like season 4's villain has connections in high places, as Reacher's dedication to cracking the case quickly makes him a wanted man. Plus, it wouldn't be a season of Reacher without a romantic subplot thrown in, and it looks like Reacher will hook up with a young journalist played by AGNEZ MO.

The action series' fourth outing adapts author Lee Child's thirteenth Jack Reacher book, Home Tomorrow. The official synopsis from Prime Video reads, "When a chance encounter with a distraught stranger on a subway goes horribly wrong, Jack Reacher is drawn into a complex and deadly game that pits him against ruthless foes from the highest echelons of power."

Also at Comic Con, the Reacher and Neagley panel revealed the first trailer for the upcoming Frances Neagley spin-off. The trailer, which has since been shared by Prime Video on YouTube, gives us a glimpse of Reacher's once right-hand woman as she and her PI squad take down criminals connected to the death of her beloved friend.

Reacher season 4 starts streaming on Prime Video from August 12, and Neagley season 1 premieres right after on September 16. Stay up to date with this year's San Diego Comic-Con with our SDCC 2026 live blog and our SDCC 2026 schedule.

At San Diego Comic-Con, Apple TV has unveiled the first trailer for its adaptation of William Gibson's sci-fi novel Neuromancer, which stars Callum Turner and Briana Middleton.

In the trailer, which you can watch above, Turner plays a hacker named Case. The show looks like a trippy, tense, tech-focused ride, and the trailer is very slick and stylish. While it doesn't give much away, Apple promises the show "follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case (Turner) who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high-stakes crime with his partner Molly (Middleton), a razor-girl assassin, as they pull off a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets."

Gibson is a founder of the cyberpunk genre: Neuromancer was released in 1984, over 10 years before The Matrix arrived in 1999.

Along with Turner, the rest of the Neuromancer cast includes Mark Strong, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Lee, Clémence Poésy, Dane DeHaan, Max Irons, Emma Laird, Junia Rees, Jordan Kouamé, Marc Menchaca, André De Shields, and Isabella Pappas. Graham Roland and JD Dillard created the show, and Gibson is on board as an executive producer.

"Now, we've been building something special with Neuromancer, a world our dear William Gibson imagined in 1984," Turner said in a fittingly virtual appearance at SDCC. "He didn't just give us cyberspace, he helped define the entire cyberpunk genre. This is just your first access point. Stay sharp and enjoy the teaser, because you guys, you guys are the very first to see it."

The show arrives on Apple TV Plus on January 22, 2027. In the meantime, you can fill out your watchlist with our guide to all the best Apple TV Plus shows.

To keep up to date on all the action in San Diego, check out our SDCC 2026 schedule, our SDCC 2026 live-blog, and our SDCC 2026 predictions.

We're sure you were as heartbroken as we were during Fast X’s finale when John Cena's Jakob Toretto sacrificed himself to help his brother Dom, played by Vin Diesel in Fast X (yep, that sentence is still absolutely bonkers, isn't it?).

Then worry not, because it looks like the wrestler-turned-movie star has another high-powered vehicle to start up with in Apple's new movie Matchbox: The Movie, which just released a brand new trailer. In fact, there's not just one vehicle but several, and they're all getting smashed together in ridiculously explosive fashion.

The new film, directed by Extraction helmer Sam Hargrave, follows Cena as CIA agent Sean, who reunites with his old childhood friends from his Matchbox car days (like you didn't have those, either). Unfortunately, his efforts to keep his job under wraps hit a snag when his old pals (comprised of Jessica Biel, Arturo Castro, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris) wake up and find themselves forced to tag along with our hero, who has been framed for a crime he didn’t commit.

From there, a globe-trotting adventure unfolds that really does feel like it's carefully parked between Fast and the Furious and The Hangover.

Joining the action are Danai Gurira, Golshifteh Farahani, Corey Stoll and Bill Camp, who will all undoubtedly be screeching, swerving and smashing into one another before miraculously walking away unscathed.

See how they handle things behind the wheel when Matchbox: The Movie arrives on Apple TV on October 9, 2026.

If you want more filmic fun from Apple TV, check out our rankings of the best Apple TV movies here. Follow along with all the San Diego Comic Con 2026 live coverage as well as checking out our SDCC 2026 schedule.

San Diego Comic-Con 2026 has brought plenty of surprises thus far... and Marvel seems to be using it to hide some pretty big plot details about Avengers: Doomsday in plain sight.

Several Doomsday costumes have been on a rotating display at the Marvel Studios booth ahead of their big panel in Hall H. The first saw three separate "Latverian witch" costumes... each with its own separate color. But before we get into that, we have to talk about the symbols on the new Doctor Doom costume that Marvel has put on display.

In the photo, which can be viewed below, Doctor Doom's costume has two distinct symbols on either shoulder. And no, your eyes aren't deceiving you: On the right, we see Thor's hammer etched into a gold circle. On the left, we see the symbol for none other than Captain Marvel. Uh, what?

Brie Larson was absent from the big Avengers: Doomsday live-streamed casting, but hasn't confirmed nor denied that she'll be featured in the upcoming pic. We've seen Thor fight Doom in the Doomsday trailers, but Captain Marvel has been completely MIA.

As for those color-changing Latverian witch costumes, fans think they're pointing to the return of Wanda Maximoff. The first costume, which you can see below, was green. Then it was replaced with an orange costume, followed by a purple costume, before they eventually brought out Doctor Doom's costume. It's worth noting that there are no "Latverian witches" in the comics. There is, however, a storyline where Doctor Doom kidnaps Wanda and manipulates her into working for him. The colors also may or may not represent the Infinity Stones... remember those?

If Marvel is indeed following the Hickman Avengers storyline, then the Infinity Stones do play a major part... especially when it comes to the end of the world.

Avengers: Doomsday arrives in theaters on December 18, 2026. For more check out our guides to upcoming Marvel movies and shows as well as how to watch the Marvel movies in order.

For more on what's been revealed at SDCC, check out our San Diego Comic-Con 2026 live coverage and our SDCC 2026 schedule.

The Rings of Power season 3 will be jumping ahead five years when the Lord of the Rings show returns to Prime Video. According to co-showrunner Patrick McKay, this is actually an "advantage" for them and gives the show "a jolt of adrenaline".

Speaking at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, McKay said: "I mean, it's pure advantage. We love the idea that even if you've maybe never seen the first two seasons, season 3 is a great place to jump in because the stories are starting in a brand new spot. You know, if you're a fan who loved the first two seasons, that's wonderful, and now you can see where everybody has gone in five years."

He added at the roundtable attended by GamesRadar+: "This character is now friends with this character, and they've moved over here, and oh my gosh, the war seems to have been gone for a while here. An entire realm got built in Rivendell, an entire tower got built in Barad-dûr, in Mordor. So it's an opportunity to just kind of give your storytelling a jolt of adrenaline. Hit the ground running from the first minute of season 3 and hopefully never let up."

The Rings of Power season 3 trailer was released at San Diego Comic-Con and showed Sauron heading to Mordor to create the One Ring. It also introduced a whole new host of characters, including Jamie Campbell Bower's Celeborn, Galadriel's long-lost husband.

The new season begins on Prime Video on November 11 with a four-episode drop. Two episodes will then air weekly until the finale, which marks a very different approach to the show's previous release schedule. However, it does mean that it will be wrapped up by the time that Blade Runner 2099 begins on Prime Video on November 25.

For more from SDCC, check out our San Diego Comic-Con 2026 live coverage as well as our breakdown of the SDCC 2026 schedule.

As well as Marvel's big return to Hall H this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, the studio has kicked off celebrations a little early at the Marvel Comics to Screen panel, where it has been announced that X-Men '97 season 3 is officially complete.

During the panel, Marvel TV head Brad Winderbaum said X-Men '97 season 3 is finished and ready to hit Disney Plus in 2027. Better yet, the SDCC audience got to see the first clip from the animated show's junior season, which showed Magneto's the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants fighting the mutant robots known as the Sentinels.

Beyond that, the panel confirmed that X-Men '97 season 4 is officially in production at Marvel Animation, with 4 scripts already being worked on. This is good news indeed, as fans were not too happy with having to wait two years between seasons 1 and 2. However, earlier this year, Producer Larry Houston told The Direct that the delay was a "one-off" and "won't happen again" with seasons 3 and 4.

X-Men '97 season 2 is currently midway through airing, with X-Men '97 season 2, episode 6 titled 'Danger.Exe' hitting Disney Plus on July 22. The animated series' sophomore season will wrap up on August 12, with the finale cryptically titled 'The Survival of the Fittest'. You can find the complete episode list over on our X-Men '97 season 2 release schedule.

So far this season we have seen our favorite mutants scattered across decades, whilst Scott and Jean desperately try and save their son, and the threat of OG mutant Apocalypse continues to loom over our heroes. Plus, this week delivered the Wolverine episode we had all been waiting for.

Elsewhere in Marvel land, we're hoping for more news on Avengers: Doomsday and Thunderbolts director Jake Schierer's X-Men reboot. See our SDCC 2026 schedule for exactly when Marvel's Hall H takeover begins this Saturday.

X-Men '97 season 2 continues to air weekly. For more, keep up with other upcoming Marvel movies and shows, and stay up to date with this year's San Diego Comic-Con with our SDCC 2026 live blog.

One of the biggest ongoing mysteries in The Rings of Power will be answered early on in season 3. The identity of Ciarán Hinds' Dark Wizard will be revealed in the new season, showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have confirmed.

When asked by GamesRadar+ at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 whether we'll be finding out his identity, Payne promised: "We are! That's all we can say." Then his co-showrunner McKay gave an even more intriguing tease: "You'll find out, and you might find out sooner than you think."

It seems like we won't be waiting too long then into The Rings of Power season 3 to finally have some answers. While they didn't reveal the exact timings, the first four episodes will be released at once on November 11 so we're guessing there may be some big reveals in there.

There has been a lot of speculation about who the Dark Wizard really is, with some even wondering if he was Gandalf before the Stranger's big reveal. However, we know who he definitely isn't: Lord of the Rings character Saruman. .

"Well, I wonder if we can make news on this one. We can say definitively he is not Saruman. Definitively, 100% he is not," McKay told GamesRadar+ after season 2, while Payne teased: "I think we can say we do know who he is."

Elsewhere during our conversation at SDCC, the showrunners also teased their plans for season 3 – and where it stands in their timeline. "We always thought of this as one, five-season story that aspires to the epic, or even the mega-epic," McKay explained at a roundtable attended by GamesRadar+. "And when you watch any story or read any book at first you're not sure who's who. Is that a bad guy is that a good guy, what's their agenda, what's that person's real identity sometimes? That's always how things unfold."

He continued: "As we thought about the first two seasons, we thought about them as the first act of a huge three-act story, and sometimes in the first act you don't know who everybody is yet. But now the joy of a third season is actually, everybody's out in the open. The masks are off. We have full metal, evil dark lord Sauron. We have Gandalf appearing much more similar to his iconic, third age, novelistic appearance. And those are just the gifts that keep on giving as storytellers."

For more, check out the new The Rings of Power season 3 trailer. You can also follow along with out San Diego Comic Con 2026 live coverage and our SDCC 2026 schedule to not miss a moment.

Although DC Studios is choosing not to promote its stack of upcoming movies at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, the Lanterns panel has given us another look at what's to come from DCU Chapter One on the small screen with a brand new trailer.

The new clip opens with Hal Jordan rudely waking his trainee, Jon Stewart, giving us a taste of the duo's Training Day-style relationship. As the pair uncover a string of crimes, Hal becomes convinced that aliens are to blame. Well, ol' Hal is correct, as later in the trailer we find out that extraterrestrial antagonists known as Manhunters, which "can take the shape of any species," are at large on Earth.

Elsewhere in the trailer, it seems as though there is quite a bit of friction between Hal Jordan and Jon Stewart, as Jon seemingly wants rid of his mentor. "The Ring has always been mind. Jordan is just keeping it warm," he says. We also get a glimpse at Nathan Fillion's Superman character Guy Gardner, and what looks to be Green Lantern's nemesis Sinestro, who you can see below.

Starring Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre as intergalactic cops and members of the Lantern Corps, Hal Jordan and new recruit Jon Stewart, Lanterns follows the duo as they investigate a murder in the American heartland, but in the process are drawn into a dark mystery.

Unlike the most recent DCU project to hit the screen, Supergirl, Lanterns is set on Earth. The show is set across two timelines, both in 2016 and in 2026, sometime after the events of Superman. But just like Supergirl, it looks like Lanterns will feed into Superman sequel Superman: Man of Tomorrow, as it has cast Jon Stewart actor Aaron Pierre.

Lanterns, which has been described as a buddy cop show meets True Detective, is the third TV show to come from Gunn's DCU, following on from Creature Commandos and Peacemaker season 2, and is the fifth project overall. However, the HBO show has a bit of pressure on it not only for being the only DC series released this year, but after Supergirl flopped at the box office, DC Studios needs Lanterns to be a hit.

Lanterns is co-created and co-written by Lost's Damon Lindelof, Criminal Minds' Chris Mundy, and comic book writer Tom King. DC heads James Gunn and Peter Safran are on board as producers. The show also stars Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, Laura Linney, Jason Ritter, and Ulrich Thomsen.

Lanterns arrives this August 16. In the meantime, check out our guide to all the upcoming DC movies and TV shows for everything else the DCU has in store.

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender director Lauren Montgomery has responded to the Paramount Plus movie's wave of leaks – but doesn't think it will harm the staying power of the animated feature.

"Under the circumstances of everything that happened, [it is bittersweet]," Montgomery admits to GamesRadar+ at San Diego Comic-Con. "But I'm excited that we get to share it sooner than later."

Previously, Avatar Aang – a sequel movie following the exploits of the Gang as they discover a dormant Airbender – was set for Paramount Plus in October (and, prior to that, a theatrical release).

However, a series of leaks that allegedly included the entire movie being available on social media months ahead of time proved to be a blow to those hoping to hold out until near Halloween for a chance to see The Last Airbender. In turn, Paramount shifted up the release to July 25 on its streaming service – but Montgomery sees the positives in the shift.

"We were going to have to wait until October knowing we were all really happy with this movie… now, we get to share it at Comic-Con, which is a huge event," Montgomery says.

"Everything else, they're just situations that are out of our control. You can mourn it a little bit, but in the long run you have to believe in what you've made – and know that this is a short moment in time. The movie is going to live much longer than that. We're happy it's going to be out there now."

Also at SDCC, The Last Airbender team have confirmed a "secret" TV show is in the works. Legend of Korra sequel Seven Havens has also been set for a October 9 release.

Discover our verdict in the Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender review.

For more from this year's SDCC, check out the SDCC 2026 schedule and our SDCC 2026 live-blog to make sure you don't miss a second of the action in San Diego.

Simon Pegg's Balrog will be "an intelligent, strategic, dangerous adversary" in The Rings of Power season 3.

Balrog, voiced by Pegg, was teased at the tail-end of The Rings of Power's second season, where the Mines of Moria – and King Durin's madness – uncovered the fiery creature lying in wait.

But whereas most Tolkien and Lord of the Rings fans may know him as the one who fought Gandalf in an epic duel, The Rings of Power's latest season will seemingly show a new side to the fearsome foe.

"So, creatures in Tolkien talk, full stop. And the Balrog is not just a monster; it's not a mindless beastie. This is an intelligent, strategic, dangerous adversary, and we think of him as a character," co-showrunner Patrick McKay teases at The Rings of Power's Hall H panel at SDCC 2026 – with GamesRadar+ in attendance.

"And every season, we want to show a different side of him, a different facet of him that you've never seen before. And we are crazy, stupid, or wild enough to imagine that this season he should have a scene with Sauron."

Perhaps teasing a spark that would soon become Sauron's meddling in Mount Doom, McKay adds. "I don't want to give away the game, but you know Balrogs know how to live in fire and be on fire and live. And if Sauron goes into a volcano to forge a ring, that might be a kind of dark magic that he would need to understand. He essentially goes to the Balrog to try to learn this power, and it also found a really cool opportunity to show another side of Sauron's character. Because Sauron is a Maiar, he's constantly interacting with people who are, in some ways, just a different class of being than him. The Balrog is the same class of being, so it's Maiar versus Maiar in this, and it's something that Sauron generally has to respect."

The Rings of Power season 3 premieres on Prime Video on November 11. Stay up to date with this year's San Diego Comic-Con with our SDCC 2026 live blog and our SDCC 2026 schedule.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power's Celeborn star says Sauron puts a real damper on his and Galadriel's reunion in season 3, suggesting he may use the relationship against the elves.

"The reunion between the two of them is deeply impactful, particularly for Celeborn. And I think, you know, with Galadriel, it's the memory, and the hope of their reunion has really been the thing that's been keeping him alive," said Celeborn star Jamie Campbell Bower at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, attended by GamesRadar+. "With this time and distance between them, they've got a lot to catch up on."

However, what should be a happy moment between Celeborn and Galadriel may turn sour, as Bower suggests Sauron may use the two's emotions against them. "Sauron, from my perspective, and as we know, he uses that which you hold most dear against you," added Bower, "that definitely creates some complications for Celeborn for sure."

Celeborn is finally joining The Rings of Power season 3 after being absent from seasons 1 and 2. The news broke just days before SDCC, but fans already had a feeling Bower would play the long-lost elf. In the Lord of the Rings franchise, Celeborn is Galadriel's husband, but in the series, they have been separated for hundreds of years. We have already seen Sauron manipulate Galadriel in order to get what he wants, so we wouldn't put it past him to somehow ruin her happiness this time around.

Sauron will truly be getting up to no good in season 3, as aside from meddling in Galadriel's relationship, we will finally see the Dark Lord forge the One Ring.

Also announced at the SDCC 2026 Prime Video panel, Gandalf star Daniel Weyman shed some light on what the wizard has been getting up to in the time jump between The Rings of Power season 2 and 3. After hanging out with Tom Bombadil, Weyman says, "I think we will agree-he has arrived in season three. He's in his power. He has agency. He's the Gandalf."

The Rings of Power season 3 arrives this November 11 on Prime Video. Stay up to date with this year's San Diego Comic-Con with our SDCC 2026 live blog and our SDCC 2026 schedule.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3 star Daniel Weyman has teased how Gandalf will play into the series going forward. Speaking during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the actor revealed that the iconic Lord of the Rings character has "arrived".

"We've seen in this in this time gap between season two and season three-he's been sitting around with Tom Bombadil," Weyman said at the panel attended by GamesRadar+. "He's been trying to learn his stuff, and he can't make a sense of these riddles that Tom keeps coming up with. But he is-he is learning. I think we will agree-he has arrived in season three. He's in his power. He has agency. He's the Gandalf. I think we all hopefully know and love, and that means that as he tries to influence what's going on in Middle Earth as the darkness is rising."

Weyman also teased a bit about what Gandalf will be doing in the upcoming season. "He's on the lookout for people whose hearts have been chilled, that have been frozen," he added. "He's going to try and rewarm them. He's going to rekindle them to like a place where they can where they can grow and they can love again. So hopefully, we're going to be watching him through season three, work all ways of helping to defeat [Sauron]."

Showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay also teased what to expect from the new season at the panel and were in attendance with plenty of the cast, including Benjamin Walker, Charlie Vickers, Jamie Campbell Bower, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, and Ismael Cruz Cordova.

The third season features a big time jump from season 2 as we head into a new era of war between the Elves and Sauron. This is also the season where we finally get to see the Dark Lord forging the One Ring to rule them all, a key moment in Lord of the Rings history.

Speaking ahead of SDCC, McKay told Empire that the filming this was "the single most ambitious, technically challenging sequence we've ever done on the show. Charlie’s performance is absolutely staggering. We never could have prepared for it."

Elsewhere, we also got our first look at Gandalf in all his glory, following on from his reveal at the end of season 2. He appeared on a side of a bus making its way through San Diego wearing his signature hat.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3 begins on Prime Video on November 11. Check out our SDCC 2026 schedule and follow along with our San Diego Comic Con 2026 live coverage.

For more, check out our guide to the best Prime Video shows as well as our SDCC wish list for what we hope is revealed this year.

The first teaser trailer and release date for Prime Video's upcoming Blade Runner 2099 TV show at San Diego Comic-Con 2026

In the brief clip, which can be viewed above, we meet Cora (Hunter Schafer), a human who is struggling to survive in a post-war future where the replicants have won. "How much longer until we have nothing... until we are nothing?" she asks in voiceover, as we see a montage of both chaos and violence (and there's a pretty surprising scene involving her head being smashed against a window that might make you a little queasy). She meets up with Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), a replicant near the end of her life.... but we don't quite yet kow what her motives are.

The spin-off series is set 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, and is slated for a November 25 release. The official synopsis reads, "The war has happened and the humans have lost. Our worst fears imagined. The replicants are now the power brokers of the city. And humans are the second-class citizens." The impossibly bleak tagline is: "Welcome to a future we no longer control."

"There was a moment of just letting go… I was like, 'OK, we’re really going out there with this,'" star Tom Burke has said of the show, adding that it will be "much closer to the aesthetic of the first movie than the second movie" as it contains "that somewhat kind of Baroque, eclectic mix of cultures and time periods."

Blade Runner 2099 comes out on November 25, 2026. In the meantime, check out our guide to the most exciting upcoming TV shows to fill out your watchlist.

For more on Comic-Con, check out our SDCC 2026 schedule for a rundown on what's coming up.

A new clip from Resident Evil was shown during San Diego Comic-Con... and we're in for some new nightmares.

Director Zach Cregger introduced the clip, specifying that it takes place "early in the movie." The scene opens with Bryan (Austin Abrams) coming across a flipped cop car in a snowy field at night. Bryan asks as he crawls in the passenger side to check on the officer, as the door has mysteriously been left open. He goes to check the pulse and... the radio suddenly turns on (which jump-scared the audience).

"Hello, I'm not a cop, so I don't know what to say, but I have an emergency here. Can you hear me?" says Bryan, but there's no response. As he looks around the car, the tension builds, but instead of the police officer returning from the dead, a zombified woman appears outside the car window.

Bryan grabs the cop's gun and tells the undead woman to stop as she creepily crawls around the car towards him on all fours. Bryan kicks her in the face and tries to shoot her, but the gun doesn't fire. She chases him around the car, as he screams and frantically fiddles with the gun until he realizes the safety is still on. He accidentally fires the gun off to the side and almost drops it.

Suddenly, the zombie woman disappears. Bryan slowly makes his way around the car, looking for the zombie when she suddenly comes running out of the darkness. Bryan stumbles backwards, firing missed shot after missed shot, and ultimately falls over. Lying on the ground, he shoots the gun one more time, which knocks the zombie off her feet like a cannon. End of clip.

Cregger noted that the finished theatrical footage will be somewhat different from what was shown during the panel, and hilariously added: "They managed to cut about 25 f-words out of that clip."

Resident Evil hits theaters on September 18. For more, check out our guide to upcoming horror movies.

For now, check out our guide to all the most exciting upcoming movies for everything else that's on the way this year, as well as our SDCC 2026 schedule, our SDCC 2026 live-blog, and our SDCC 2026 predictions to make sure you don't miss a second of the action in San Diego.

A new Mobile Suit Gundam anime, titled Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO, has been announced, which will coincide with the previously announced video game Gundam Rogue Orbit.

The brief teaser trailer, which can be viewed above, was released during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. Per the official logline: "For three months, humanity fought the Apocalypse to a standstill in orbit above Earth. Forced to abandon the planet, humanity marked that year as A.A.... the first year After Apocalypse. By A.A. 45, children born on the Moon and in space colonies have never known life without the Apocalypse. And on the lunar surface, a boy named Ray Azumi awakens."

The new anime is set to tie-in with Gundam Rogue Orbit, which was announced in June. Per Polygon, the anime "takes place first chronologically and is set 100 years before the game." Kenji Kamiyama, who is best known for Ninth Jedi from Star Wars Visions and Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, serves as writer and director.

The franchise first kicked off with the Mobile Suit Gundam anime series in 1979, which would go on to spawn numerous series, movies, manga, novels, and video games.

Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO is due out sometime in 2027, as is Gundam Rogue Orbit. For more on what to watch, check out our guide to the best anime to watch this year and keep up with new anime.

For even more, stay up to date with this year's San Diego Comic-Con with our SDCC 2026 live blog and our SDCC 2026 schedule.

The first look at Blade Runner 2099 is here, and showrunner Silk Luisa has finally given us some details about the plot, along with some pretty rad news about working one-on-one with franchise creator (and absolute legend) Ridley Scott.

"There's been a replicant uprising that feels like it's been bubbling up," Luisa told Entertainment Weekly. The spin-off show, which stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, is set 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049. It was first announced in 2021, and finished filming in 2024. "And between 2049 and 2099, that's happened. So the war has happened and the humans have lost. Our worst fears imagined. The replicants are now the power brokers of the city. And humans are the second-class citizens."

The Blade Runner franchise began in 1982, with Scott's adaptation of the sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film underperformed at the box office, but would go on to become a cult classic.

Though Scott was also an executive producer on Blade Runner 2049, it seems he had more of a hands-on experience with the upcoming Prime Video show, which makes me even more excited. Especially since Scott previously expressed regret at not being able to direct Blade Runner 2049.

"It’s once in a lifetime to have your hero sit down with you and tell you what it was like making your favorite movie," Luisa said. "It was really important for Ridley to be a part of the development process. Because both visually and in terms of story, there are mythological canon points in his film that we're touching, and it was really important to both get his blessing and have his insight into what his original intentions were."

Blade Runner 2099 is coming in 2027. In the meantime, check out our guide to the most exciting upcoming TV shows to fill out your watchlist.

The team behind Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender have shared more about what's coming up next.

The Aang movie is releasing in just a few days, though originally, the plan was for three feature-length films.

"There's stuff in development, just TV shows in production, but not features at the moment," The Last Airbender co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino told GamesRadar+ at San Diego Comic-Con.

"We have another secret thing in production, but yeah, it's on the series side," added co-creator Bryan Konietzko. "To be clear, we're series people, so that's okay to us. Features is a new thing to us."

We already knew something was in the works thanks to previous comments from Konietzko. "The [Avatar] Aang movie was just one of a whole slate," he shared. "I'm working on another thing, which we'll announce when the time's right."

The Avatar: Aang movie was leaked in full earlier this year, but it's finally being released officially on July 25.

"Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender will bring harmony to a fandom long divided over recent live-action adaptations," reads our Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender review. "While it's not as strong as the original series, it is a faithful return to form for these beloved characters that bodes well for future chapters of Aang's story and the franchise at large."

Expect more news on The Last Airbender as Comic-Con continues.

For now, check out our guide to all the most exciting upcoming movies for everything else that's on the way this year, as well as our SDCC 2026 schedule, our SDCC 2026 live-blog, and our SDCC 2026 predictions to make sure you don't miss a second of the action in San Diego.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day composer Michael Giacchino has sent a chill down all of our spines by teasing the tone of the new movie – and now I'm really worried for Peter Parker.

"Well, I guess I'll just say a little bit about this new Spider-Man," Giacchino shared at the Musical Anatomy of a Superhero panel at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. "I love the new Spider-Man movie. It's really great. I'm so excited. I can't wait for you guys to see it. Tom Holland is great – everyone. But it was really fun because at first I thought, 'Wow, I've never done four of anything. This is the first time I've done four movies of doing the same thing.'

"So, I wasn't sure what I was going to be able to bring new to the table for this, and I just sort of had this idea, that I asked Destin [Daniel Cretton], the director who did an incredible job, was, 'What if we just start removing all the extraneous notes from his theme in the way that could represent pulling away all the pieces of his life that he doesn't have anymore?'" Giacchino shared.

"I know, it's so sad," he continued, when the crowd aww'd. "I was like, 'I want to make a sad Spider-Man movie.' Everyone wants to see a sad Spider-Man, you know, because we're all sad and we can be sad together, it's great. But it was really fun to see what happened when this – I was curious if it would even hold up in that sense because now it is down to its base roots. And I look at it now, and I was like, 'Hmm, maybe you should have done that like three movies ago.' But we live and learn."

Spider-Man: Brand New Day certainly looks like an emotional installment in the quartet, mainly because, at the end of No Way Home, Peter Parker was erased from the memories of everyone in the multiverse. That means MJ and Ned no longer remember him, and he's pretty much all alone. So, having a different theme certainly seems fitting.

The film arrives this July 29 in the UK and July 31 in the US. In the meantime, check out our guide to all the most exciting upcoming movies for everything else the year has in store, and see our SDCC 2026 schedule or our SDCC 2026 live-blog to keep up to date on Comic-Con news.

You can also check out our SDCC 2026 predictions for what we think might be coming up.

Although San Diego Comic-Con 2023 wasn't exactly what we were expecting this year, all the new SDCC toys and action figures that were announced still managed to impress. Or weird us out. Often at the same time, actually.

Everything from Marvel Legends to Funko delivered cool collectibles for this year's event, and while some were to be expected (more additions to Star Wars The Vintage Collection, for example), others took us totally by surprise. SDCC toys of Steven Spielberg shooting Jurassic Park? A Magicarp made up of Mega bricks that flops about? I mean, sure. Why not? 

Because a lot was unveiled, I've whittled the list down to my favorite SDCC toys, collectibles, and action figures right here.  

New X-Men '97 figures

Hasbro's been gradually delving deeper into the X-Men Animated Series roster, and now it's created a new wave for the upcoming X-Men '97. And dear lord, these action figures are good-looking. Along with classic 1990s Gambit and Rogue (read: the best ones), Wolverine, Magneto, Storm and Bishop all look incredible. From shots on the show-floor, they're just as handsome in person too.

Unfortunately, we don't know when these are hitting shelves or how much they'll cost. However, Marvel Legends marketer Dan Yung noted in a reply on his Twitter account that we could get more info next week.

Mega Magicarp

Mega is a rival to those classic Danish bricks seen in the best Lego sets, and it's been used to create kits for everything from Gyarados to Charmander. Now comes a quasi-sequel (or should that be prequel?) to the former - Magicarp. It's a gloriously goofy idea and comes with a handle on the base so that you can make the Poke-fish flop around. Wonderful.

You can pre-order it direct from Mattel for $65. 

Star Wars The Vintage Collection Ghost

While the new Vintage Collection Imperial Officers from the original trilogy (available from Hasbro Pulse for $59.99) are cool and all, they're overshadowed both literally and metaphorically by the new Ghost. This massive figure recreates the ship from Rebels and Ahsoka in painstaking detail, so it's no surprise that HasLab's crowdfunding campaign for it succeeded. It may be $499.99 at Hasbro Pulse, but when you look at the extensive detailing both inside and out (extending to a detachable extra craft and a cockpit with each character's personalized seat), that's no surprise.

Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park 30th Anniversary)

There's something gloriously absurd about getting an action figure of Steven Spielberg filming Jurassic Park this SDCC. I mean, don't get me wrong. He's one of the greats and this is a really cool way of honoring him. The fact that it's sold out at Mattel already is another indicator of how in-demand it is. But seeing toy-Spielberg set up in dioramas 'filming' other action figures shooting the movie tickles me. 

You can see it on Mattel's store where it would go for $30... but for now, it's out of stock.

Knightfall 30th Anniversary Batman

One of the few villains to ever break Batman was Bane during the Dark Knight's Knightfall storyline, and this action figure by McFarlane harkens back to that era with a premium, seven-inch take on the character's '90s costume. Unfortunately, it was only sold at SDCC 2023, so anyone who didn't make it to the show might be out of luck in terms of picking up their own version.

You can see more via McFarlane's website.

For more cool gear, check out the best Star Wars gifts. You can also see the best gifts for gamers if you're on a present hunt.

AMC has finally unveiled a first look at the upcoming Rick and Michonne focused spin-off series, newly titled The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, which sees Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira reunite on-screen for the first time in almost five years.

The trailer debuted during the show's panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 21. Lincoln and Gurira were unable to attend the event, due to the ongoing SAF-AFTRA strike in the US.

Teasing an "epic love story" between its two leads, the new horror-drama's logline reads: "Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... And ultimately, a war against the living. 

"Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they've ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive – or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?"

The last time viewers saw Rick and Michonne, it was right at the very end of The Walking Dead series finale – and the pair were certainly not together. Heck, they weren't even on the same timeline. You see, in Michonne's side of the epilogue, she appeared to be writing to Judith (Cailey Fleming) by a campfire and, more crucially, in the possession of some of Rick's belongings; an engraved iPhone and some boots. 

In his scene, Rick is held up by a Civic Republic Military helicopter on a muddy bank on Bloodsworth Island, the place where Michonne found said belongings back in The Walking Dead season 10. With that, we could assume that Rick's scene happened in the past, while Michonne's is taking place in the present.

Also at SDCC, it was revealed that AMC has ordered a second season of other spin-off shows Dead City and the upcoming Daryl Dixon series. The news was announced at San Diego Comic-Con, with the official Walking Dead Twitter account releasing a video. "Thank you all for making Dead City a hit," the text reads. "AMC Plus's most-watched series ever... So, we thought you all... might like to know... Dead City will be back for season 2."

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live is expected to premiere in 2024, but it currently doesn't have a release date. Meanwhile the season finale of Dead City airs on Sunday and Daryl Dixon is set for release on October 10.

For more, check out our guide on how to watch The Walking Dead franchise in order. Or, if zombie apocalypses aren't your thing, have a peruse of our list of new TV shows heading our way.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania merchandise has revealed the first proper look at Marvel villain MODOK's MCU debut. The character was confirmed to be part of the film back at SDCC, but the footage featuring him hasn't been released to the public just yet. 

As you can see in the picture below, MODOK's MCU design is distinctly metallic, with the villain gold all over. He has some fierce-looking red eyes and bared teeth, and his chair is floating on a jet of air. The look is fairly comic accurate, with the same purple limbs and pink stone in his forehead; though, in the source material, MODOK's face is usually uncovered. 

The merchandise also reveals another look at Kang the Conqueror, set to become the MCU's new Thanos-level big bad, as well as Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne in their costumes.

This isn't the first time MODOK (which stands for Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing) has been brought to screen – Patton Oswalt voiced the character in a Hulu stop-motion series, but the show was cancelled by the streamer.  

New Quantumania footage debuted at Brazil Comic-Con, revealing Scott in a sticky situation. The clip reportedly saw Scott and his daughter Cassie in separate cells, being held in some kind of prison, with Kang asking Scott to steal something in exchange for his freedom. But, Scott says no, which angers Kang. 

Paul Rudd returns as Ant-Man, while the rest of the cast includes Evangeline Lilly as Hope, aka the Wasp, Michael Douglas as Hank Pym, Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne, Kathryn Newton as Cassie, and Bill Murray in an unknown role. There's also no word on who's playing MODOK just yet. 

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania releases on February 17, 2023. In the meantime, check out our guide to all the upcoming Marvel movies and Disney Plus TV shows. 

Maggie and Negan’s spin-off from The Walking Dead has got a new title. Previously called Isle of the Dead, AMC has decided to rename it The Walking Dead: Dead City. There doesn’t seem to be any specific reason for the change, other than that Isle of the Dead was just a working title for the show.

The spin-off was confirmed back in March for a six-episode first season. It will follow the two central TWD characters, played by Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, traveling to post-apocalyptic Manhattan, which has been cut off from the mainland. According to AMC, what they’ll find is a crumbling city that has been taken over by walkers.

Filming recently got underway in New Jersey with the show set to be released in 2023. As of yet, it’s not clear what the reason behind Maggie and Negan’s team-up is. It’s fair to say that the characters do not see eye-to-eye in the show, given that Negan made his introduction to TWD when he bashed Maggie’s husband Glenn’s head in. 

Since then, the pair have had uneasy tension so it’s likely the remaining episodes of The Walking Dead may find time to set up their new spin-off. The show will return to AMC with its final run of episodes on October 2. The news was confirmed during TWD’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con back in July. 

There are only eight episodes left in the final season, which the show’s chief content officer Scott Gimple said would finish the story, rather than focusing solely on setting up the numerous spin-offs on their way.

"The finale is about completing The Walking Dead story, not setting up spin-offs," Gimple said at SDCC. "There's room for those spin-offs, but full-on, The Walking Dead finale concludes the story of this 11 years. We didn't want the spin-offs to get in the way of that satisfaction. They live together, I think, very nicely."

Ahead of the release of the final episodes, check out our ultimate Walking Dead recap to make sure you’re up to date.

Writer Tom Taylor and artist Trevor Hairsine will return to their zombified version of the DC Universe for what the publisher calls the "final chapter" of the DCeased saga in DCeased: War of the Undead Gods.

War of the Undead Gods will run for eight issues starting in August, and will focus on the fallout from the return of the DCeased universe's version of Darkseid, who was resurrected at the conclusion of DCeased: Dead Planet. 

Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman will have to unite with "the most powerful surviving hero from the first DCeased series" who may be the world's "only hope."

DC has previously published four DCeased series, starting with the original (simply called DCeased, of course), as well as DCeased: Dead Planet, DCeased: Unkillables, and DCeased: Hope at World's End. DCeased: War of the Undead Gods is billed as the finale for the entire epic tale - though who's to say a zombie story couldn't be resurrected again at some point?

DC revealed an extended look at DCeased: War of the Undead Gods at San Diego Comic-Con and now they've released some fully-lettered pages from the debut issue:

DCeased: War of the Undead Gods will feature a variety of covers, with series artist Trevor Hairsine providing the main covers, Francesco Mattina providing horror-themed variants, and Kael Ngu creating special edition acetate variant covers. 

DC also debuted covers for issues #2-3 at SDCC. See them all below, alongside the covers for issue #1.

Meanwhile, Batman/Superman: World's Finest artist Dan Mora will provide a series of four interlocking covers that combine to pay homage to Jim Lee's cover of X-Men #1, a popular reference point for several recent homage covers, and one of the best selling comics of all time.

DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #1 goes on sale August 8. 

Should DCeased have a place among the best horror comics of all time?

For All Mankind has been renewed for season 4, it was announced at the show's San Diego Comic-Con panel. Season 3 is still releasing weekly on Apple TV Plus, and production on the fourth installment is due to start next month.  

The series tells the story of an alternate history where the Soviet Union beat the US to land on the Moon first and the space race doesn't end. Season 1 opened in 1969, while the latest installment brings up to the '90s with the focus of the space race shifting to Mars. Co-creator Matt Wolpert revealed to Deadline at SDCC that season 4 will take place in the 2000s. 

"I’m thrilled that we get to keep going forward in this amazing story," co-creator Ronald D. Moore told the publication. "Right from the beginning it was my hope that it would be a long, multi-year journey. It’s gratifying to see what we’ve done and I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do in the future."

The series' cast includes Joel Kinnaman as NASA astronaut Edward Baldwin, based on Apollo 10 commander Thomas P. Stafford, Shantel VanSanten as Edward's wife, and Jodi Balfour as a former astronaut and president of the US, Sonya Walger, along with Krys Marshall, Cynthy Wu, Casey Johnson, Coral Peña, and Wrenn Schmidt.

For All Mankind season 3 is currently streaming on Apple TV Plus, with the season finale premiering on July 29. While we wait for season 4 to get a release date, check out our picks of the other best new TV shows coming our way this year.

The Black Widow movie has been announced at San Diego Comic Con 2019. the movie has been filming in the UK for some time and is just one of a handful of new properties to arrive as part of Marvel Phase 4,.

Scarlett Johansson is back as the eponymous ass-kicking Avenger, having previously appeared as the character in multiple other MCU movies. She will be joined by Midsommar actress Florence Pugh as Yelena, a "sister figure" to Natasha Romanoff, Stranger Things acotor David Harbour (who will play the character Alexi), Rachel Weisz, and O-T Fagbenle. It was revealed that Black Widow will face off against the villain Taskmaster.

The Black Widow movie will be directed by Cate Shortland, and will debut in cinemas on May 1, 2020, the first of the Phase 4 movies.

Of course, there’s also the small matter of where it all fits into the timeline (and if you thought the Marvel timeline was confusing before, just you wait). Despite being a Marvel Phase 4 addition, the Black Widow movie will take place between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War. 

"They've known each other for a while and there's a complex history there," Harbour told IGN. "This movie happens right after Captain America: CIvil War, and so those events do factor in."

The announcement was made at San Diego Comic-Con, with Marvel head Kevin Feige confirming another nine new MCU movies are currently in development. They include  The Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder and Blade. Read all about the Marvel SDCC panel here.

Don't miss out on a single moment SDCC with our complete look at the San Diego Comic Con 2019 schedule and our San Diego Comic Con 2019 trailers hub.

Thor: Love and Thunder has been announced at San Diego Comic Con 2019. One of a handful of new properties to arrive as part of Marvel Phase 4, Thor 4 will continue the story of Chris Hemsworth's God of Thunder post-Avengers: Endgame and also introduce a female Thor - played by none other than Natalie Portman. Tessa Thompson will also return as Valkyrie.

Taika Waititi will be back to direct the film, having also helmed Thor: Ragnarok. Waititi apparently moved on from his live-action adaptation of Akira to get to work on Thor 4. 

Thor: Love and Thunder, which will take inspiration from Jason Aaron’s Mighty Thor run, will reach cinemas November 5, 2021.

Also at the Hall H panel, Marvel head Kevin Feige confirmed The Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will also make up part of Phase 4. The head of Marvel also announced a Blade movie, starring Mahershala Ali, and teased that the Fantastic Four are coming to the MCU. Read all about the Marvel SDCC panel here.

Don't miss out on a single moment SDCC with our complete look at the San Diego Comic Con 2019 schedule and our San Diego Comic Con 2019 trailers hub.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has been announced at San Diego Comic Con 2019. One of a handful of new properties to arrive as part of Marvel Phase 4, Doctor Strange 2 will continue the story of Benedict Cumberbatch's Sorcerer Supreme.

While details regarding the plot remain thin, we do know that Elizabeth Olsen will return as the Scarlett Witch in the movie. Considering she will later appear in WandaVision, we expect she may go about trying to save Vision.

Despite Doctor Strange’s powers proved more than a match for Thanos in Avengers: Endgame, expect him to be getting knocked into the fifth dimension by Baron Mordo, who betrayed Strange during the first movie. Scott Derrickson is back to direct, and C. Robert Cargil will be penning the script.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will reach cinemas May 7 2021.

The announcement was made at San Diego Comic-Con, with Marvel head Kevin Feige confirming 10 new MCU movies are currently in development. They include The Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Thor: Love and Thunder and Blade. Read all about the Marvel SDCC panel here.

Don't miss out on a single moment SDCC with our complete look at the San Diego Comic Con 2019 schedule and our San Diego Comic Con 2019 trailers hub.

 Shang-Chi: And the Legend of the Ten Rings has been announced at San Diego Comic Con 2019. One of a handful of new properties to arrive as part of Marvel Phase 4, Shang-Chi - also known as the Master of Kung Fu - will be Marvel Studio's first lead Asian superhero, and will be played by Simu Liu.

Destin Daniel Cretton (who worked with Captain Marvel herself Brie Larson on The Glass Castle) has signed on to direct the movie. Tony Leung will play the villain The Mandarin in the movie, with Awkwafina playing a supporting role

Shang-Chi will reach cinemas February 12, 2021.

The announcement was made at San Diego Comic-Con, with Marvel head Kevin Feige confirming 10 new MCU movies are currently in development. They include The Eternals, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder and Blade. Read all about the Marvel SDCC panel here.

Don't miss out on a single moment SDCC with our complete look at the San Diego Comic Con 2019 schedule and our San Diego Comic Con 2019 trailers hub.

San Diego Comic Con is the biggest pop-culture event on the planet and this year looks set to be extremely exciting. Unfortunately, unless you have shelled out a few hundred bucks (and in some cases, flown halfway across the world) to be there, there’s a good chance you’re going to miss out on the best bits from each panel, booth, and special experience San Diego Comic Con has to offer. 

That’s where we come in. Here’s our guide on how to get all the latest news from San Diego Comic Con 2019 without having to leave the comfort of your own home.

First, a word of caution: a lot of the exclusive panels, including the iconic Hall H, are not officially streamed, and while the panels usually end up on YouTube, the quality is often awful as Comic Con wants to ensure the exclusivity of the event. As such, it's hard to pin down exactly where and when you can watch every event – but we’ll do our best to help you avoid the missing out. And don't worry if you're busy/asleep while everything is going on as the GamesRadar, Total Film and SFX crew will be reporting on any and all of the big news, footage, and reveals coming out of Comic Con, so you won't miss a thing. 

When can I watch San Diego Comic Con 2018?

Thursday July 18 is when things kick off properly, starting with a panel on the forthcoming Terminator movie. That’ll be followed by plenty more exciting panels and the rest Comic Con has to offer every day up until Sunday July 21.

How can I watch San Diego Comic Con 2018?

This is a tough one. There aren’t expected to be any official live streams of San Diego Comic Con 2019, with the majority of clips coming after the fact. 

Marvel are likely to debut a few trailers from their upcoming Marvel Phase 4 announcement online following the event on Saturday. And AMC is bound to be showcasing The Walking Dead season 10 online as well.

The best thing you can do is make sure you're tuned into the GamesRadar, Total Film and SFX Twitter feeds. We have journalists on the ground who will be tweeting along with events, and news writers working their hardest to get you the news when it happens.

What can I expect from San Diego Comic Con 2018?

There's going to be a lot of news coming out of San Diego Comic Con, mainly from Marvel's own SDCC panel in Hall H. For an in-depth break down on what to expect head to our San Diego Comic Con 2019 schedule.

San Diego Comic Con 2018 is over - *sob* - but there was more than enough exciting news and amazing trailers to keep us going until next year. If you missed any of it, don't worry because we've got you covered with an easy-to-navigate list of all the must-know news from San Diego Comic Con below. From the Doctor Who confirmed Christmas special and Star Trek Discovery's new faces, to our first look at the Aquaman movie and the exclusive Wonder Woman 2 footage not released to the public, we've got it all! Just looking for all the San Diego Comic Con 2018 trailers? We've got you covered, but for everything else you might have missed from SDCC 2018, keep on scrolling. 

Here's what happened in the Wonder Woman 1984 Comic Con footage you won’t get to see

"Sup, I'm a superhero" - here are the 7 best moments from the Shazam! trailer in GIF form

The Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald gives us our first look at a classic Harry Potter character

Underwater beasts, one-liners galore, and Jason Momoa’s flowing mane… the Aquaman trailer will restore your faith in the DCEU

Every Unbreakable and Split reference in the first Glass trailer you might have missed

The Venom movie's exclusive Comic Con footage reveals *other* symbiote Riot (and teases a future Spider-Man showdown)

5 questions we have after watching the first Star Trek Discovery season 2 trailer

"The trailer actually gave me a little hope" - The Walking Dead season 9 trailer has fans tuning back in

7 potentially spoilery things we learnt about Star Trek Discovery season 2 at San Diego Comic Con

Watch Andrew Lincoln confirm The Walking Dead season 9 will be his last and try not to cry

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is getting a proper send-off after half a decade, and fans are pumped

George R. R. Martin's Nightflyers looks like a cross between Interstellar and Alien - watch the trailer

Doctor Who Christmas special confirmed, first look at the new sonic screwdriver, and more from San Diego Comic Con

Busy weekend? Don't worry if you missed most of San Diego Comic Con 2018 because you can catch up on EVERY Comic Con trailer released right here. Whether you want to rewatch that incredible first Aquaman trailer, take another look at The Walking Dead's upcoming season, or you just want to make sure you haven't missed a new trailer for your favorite show, we've got them all below. Sadly, some of the trailers are geo-locked to the US, so we've also added links to the UK trailers where possible - but what about the exclusive Hall H footage, which isn't released to public? Don't worry because we've written that up too and added it below. Keep scrolling to watch every San Diego Comic Con trailer released this year. 

Exclusive Hall H footage

• Here's what happened in the Wonder Woman 1984 Comic Con footage you won’t get to see
• The Venom movie's exclusive Comic Con footage reveals *other* symbiote Riot (and teases a future Spider-Man showdown)

Movies

Aquaman

At long last, we’ve finally got our first proper glimpse at James Wan’s Aquaman and boy it does not disappoint. Taking us back to Arthur Curry as a youngster to the moment he realises what he’s destined for, this looks like the movie that could put the DC Extended Universe back on the map.  

• Underwater beasts, one-liners galore and Jason Momoa's flowing mane... the Aquaman trailer will restore your faith in the DCEU

Shazam!

Finally, a touch of genuine humour appears to be taking place in Warner Bros’ DC universe. Our first look at Shazam! highlights the film’s amusing Big-esque premise, as the young Billy Batson figures out how to transform from his typical teenage self into the spandexed adult superhero, played by Zachary Levi. 

• "Sup, I'm a superhero" - here are the 7 best moments from the Shazam! trailer in GIF form

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

In case the 2014 Godzilla didn’t quite make this point, Charles Dance does in the first trailer for its sequel, Godzilla: King of the Monsters. This scaly beast is the KING. But if he’s the king, what the hell are the rest of the beasts he’s destined to tussle with? To be honest, that doesn’t even seem to be the biggest question I have after watching this trailer. That would be: err, so the world’s survival depends on scheduling a kaiju playdate?

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald  may sound like some *epic* Potter fanfic, but it’s actually the sequel to last year’s spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. This deep dive trailer gives us a glimpse at what’s next for Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander in the Wizarding World. As expected we’re shown a smattering of flashback scenes signaling the young Newt’s first dalliances with magic and Jude Law as the very dapper and youthful Albus Dumbledore. 

• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald gives us our first look at a classic Harry Potter character

Glass

The first trailer for Glass shows Split's Kevin Wendell Crumb and Unbreakable's David Dunn and Mr Glass being questioned by psychiatrist Dr Ellie Staple (played by Sarah Paulson), who considers them to be delusional. Prepare for the return of The Beast, and to see how Dunn's super powers help when he has to take him on. "A lot of people are going to die," says Mr Glass, ominously. "Are you ready?"

• Every Unbreakable and Split reference in the first Glass trailer you might have missed

TV

The Walking Dead

Even long time viewers weren't too excited about The Walking Dead season 9 after last season... that is until it dropped one hell of a Comic Con trailer! With the war now (mostly) behind them, Rick and co. seem to thriving and building a new world... until some sort of civil war kicks off between the different settlements. Oh, and did you notice the tease for the season's 'big baddies' The Whisperers at the end?

Watch The Walking Dead trailer in the UK here. 

• "The trailer actually gave me a little hope" - The Walking Dead season 9 trailer has fans tuning back in
• Watch Andrew Lincoln confirm The Walking Dead season 9 will be his last... and try not to cry

Star Trek Discovery

Star Trek Discovery season 1 was a wild ride, boldly going where the franchise had never gone before, and season 2 looks to continue that streak with a flashy and exciting Comic Con trailer. As well as teasing the main plot for season 2 - what are those signals about? - it looks like the second season will bring in some familiar Star Trek faces, including the one and only Spock. As Captain Pike says, hit it!

Watch the Star Trek Discovery season 2 trailer in the UK here. 

• 5 questions we have after watching the first Star Trek Discovery season 2 trailer
• 7 potentially spoilery things we learnt about Star Trek Discovery season 2 at San Diego Comic Con

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

After years of silence and a vague not-quite-cliffhanger ending to season 6, it looks like the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars series will get a proper send-off after all. This surprise Comic Con trailer gives fan a tease of what's in store: epic-scale battles, clone trooper squad drama, and the return of Ahsoka Tano, apprentice to Anakin Skywalker.

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars is getting a proper send-off after half a decade, and fans are pumped

Doctor Who

We've waited a long time to get our first proper look at the new Doctor and while this teaser may be short, it's definitely maintained our hype levels as Jodie Whittaker's Doctor asks Graham, Ryan, and Yasmin to be her new BFFs. Awwww. The teaser promises "new faces, new worlds, new times" and features some pretty beautiful landscapes in its 40 seconds as well. 

• Doctor Who Christmas special confirmed, first look at the new sonic screwdriver, and more from San Diego Comic Con

Fear the Walking Dead

As well as a trailer for the new season of The Walking Dead we also got a Comic Con trailer for Fear the Walking Dead season 4, which seems to be teasing some sort of extreme weather! Plus, check out The Walking Dead crossover character Morgan who puts in a significant appereance in this teaser too. 

Watch the Fear the Walking Dead trailer in the UK here. 

Continue to Page 2 for more Comic Con trailers

Iron Fist

Despite Iron Fist season 1 getting... 'mixed' reviews, season 2 is well on its way and the first trailer has been released at Comic Con. It seems to be teasing a distinctly darker Danny Rand, which might imply that the show is heading in a different direction this time around, but either way Iron Fist will be back kicking ass soon. 

Better Call Saul

Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul will soon return for its fourth season and fans of the original show will spot a reference to a character from the series in the Comic Con trailer above. Tony Dalton will play Lalo, a character referenced in season 2 of Breaking Bad, but unseen until now. 

Watch the Better Call Saul trailer in the UK here. 

Nightflyers

Game of Thrones fans, get ready to fall in love with another George R. R. Martin TV show! Nightflyers - based on the author's other book - debuted its first trailer at SDCC and it teases an intense series, which appears to mix sci-fi and horror in a similar way to the original Alien movie. 

Watch the Nightflyers trailer in the UK here. 

• George R. R. Martin's Nightflyers looks like a cross between Interstellar and Alien - watch the trailer

Good Omens

Less of a trailer and more of a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at the making of new Amazon Prime Original Good Omens, the above Comic Con teaser shows us just how much has gone into adapting the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. With the interviews with some of the cast, including David Tennant and Michael Sheen, it appears to be an incredible elaborate TV show. 

Disenchantment

Here we get our first look at the new series from The Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Groening. Disenchantment looks to be continuing Groening’s love of jet black comedy, this time set in a Medieval world where we meet Bean, a princess desperate to take control of her life, and Elfo, an elf eager for bigger and better things, and Luci, who’s a demonic sprite. All in all, it’s a promising tease for what could be your new favourite show, that’s set to debut on Netflix next month.

The Purge

We've just had the most recent Purge movie, but The Purge TV show is coming very soon as well and we got out first look thanks to the above Comic Con trailer. It seems to have captured the gory terror of the movie franchise, but time will tell if the series can maintain that level of fear over multiple episodes. 

Preacher

If you’ve been keeping up with AMC’s other bonkers comic book adaptation, you’ll be excited to see the trailer for what remains of Preacher season 3. It appears to be continuing down its path of insanity, as the tale of Jesse Custer, a drunken, chain-smoking preacher, gets all the more irreverent when the Allfather makes an appearance. 

Watch the Preacher trailer in the UK here. 

Arrow

Sometimes it can take a while for a comic book show to really pay homage to its roots. For fans of Arrow, one of those elements is coming to the small screen. Well, I say elements, when what I really mean is: Oliver Queen’s comic beard will at last make an appearance in Arrow season 7. Oliver’s stint in SuperMax will at last see the do-gooder don his iconic goatee… 

Supergirl

With the season 3 finale dropping somewhat of a big reveal, we’ve now got a glimpse at Supergirl season 4 in the first-look trailer that dropped during the show’s panel. And, while a majority of the footage is recycled from old seasons, we get a look at Kara wearing a new armored suit toward the end. 

The Flash

The Flash is about to get every weirder than usual as the Comic Con trailer for the new season reveals how Barry and Iris' handle their daughter's arrival from the future. It also give us a sneak peek at the upcoming season's new big bad, Cicada and he does not look like someone to mess with. 

Continue to Page 3 for more Comic Con trailers

The Orville

Wearing its genre stripes proudly, Seth McFarlane’s comedy that doesn’t involve satirical animations is an absolute blast that’s somehow not yet hit the mainstream. Hopefully things will change for The Orville in season 2, as its latest trailer hints at more sci-fi homage excellence to come. We’ll find out when it debuts December 30, 2018.

Legends of Tomorrow 

The CW has dropped the trailer for season 4 for Legends of Tomorrow, which looks to be picking up where season 3 left off. With the Legends having allowed for time to crumble, the boundaries and barriers between worlds weakened, letting a whole new glut of baddies into the fray - namely? The Fugitives. Sadly nothing to do with Harrison Ford, this is a catch-all term for creatures from myths and legends. 

The Man in the High Castle

It feels like an age since Amazon dropped its last season of The Man in the High Castle. Lucky for us, season 3 will land in its entirety on October 5, but until then this Comic Con teaser which dropped today ought to tide you over. Judging by what the cast had to say at the panel, it’s going to be a compelling season, as characters discover “the anomaly” a bridge between parallel universes. And that’s not all: they’ll be trying to access it, and, along the way meet other versions of themselves. Yes, you should start watching the earlier seasons now. 

The Tick

Also, not really a trailer is this exclusive set tour of Amazon Prime Original The Tick, BUT it does show us some things from the upcoming second season, which we haven't seen before, so it's worth taking a look. Notice at the end of the Comic Con sneak peek the offices of new character Tyrannosaurus Rathbone?

Titans

The first trailer for DC's live-action take on the Teen Titans (simply dubbed "Titans") is pretty... well, grim. It's certainly a far step from more kid-friendly previous incarnations such as the 2003 animated series or the still-running spin-off, Teen Titans GO! About the only thing that's colorful here is the language, as Robin growls "fuck Batman" after murdering a group of thugs.

Watch the Titans trailer in the UK here. 

Young Justice: Outsiders

As well as the first Titans trailer, DC also gave us an extended Comic Con trailer for the third season of the animated Young Justice: Outsiders, which you can check out above. It teases a new challenge for the superheroes as they once again band together to protect the Earth from a deadly threat. 

Mayans M.C.

Sons of Anarchy fans rejoice - the first trailer for spin-off series Mayans M.C. is here! As you can tell from the name, it focuses on another biker gang called the Mayans who were the sometimes rivals, sometimes partners of the Sons of Anarchy. The trailer teases everything we love about SoA and more, and with a Comic Con panel planned for Sunday, fans can expect more juicy details soon. 

Watch the Mayans M.C. trailer in the UK here. 

Stan Against Evil

Prepare for a return to the distinctly cursed town of Willard’s Mill, where you’re more likely to encounter a demon, zombie or vampire than another human! Season 3 is gearing up to drop later this year, and by the looks of its teaser trailer, we’re getting more horror comedy gold in that batch of eight episodes. 

Invader Zim

There's no date attached to Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, a TV movie continuation/possible conclusion to the cult classic Nickelodeon series, but if this trailer is anything to go by, expect lots of the same strange, gross humor that made it a hit. Now if only we could hear any of these beloved characters speak again...

Homecoming

The new Amazon Original series starring Julia Roberts, Homecoming is "mind-bending psychological thriller", which sees Roberts' caseworker try and help soldiers transition back into civilian life. It's Comic Con trailer is little more than a teaser for the new series, but it's enough to pique our interest. 

Continue to Page 4 for more Comic Con trailers

Gifted

The Saturday afternoon Fox panel saw the latest trailer drop for the mutant series. The Gifted season 2 looks set to continue expanding the world established in its debut season, except this time we’ve got a glimpse at some new threats for those who haven’t succumbed to the allure of the Hellfire Club. As well as the Sentinel Services, we’ve got Morlocks on the horizon...

Roswell, New Mexico

In addition to that Buffy reboot, we’re also getting a return to another ‘90s supernatural-tinged show. Granted, this return to Roswell isn’t going to include the same characters as before, instead opting for a fresh slate to tell a new tale of extraterrestrial drama. 

Deadly Class

New Syfy series Deadly Class is based on the best-selling graphic novel centred around a school for trouble youths, which trains them to become the next generation in deadly assassins. Yes, really - check out the Comic Con trailer above. Starring Doctor Strange's Benedict Wong and a whole host of exciting newcomers, this could be your new TV obsession. 

Watch the Deadly Class trailer in the UK here. 

Lore

Lore is the Amazon Prime Original based on the podcast of the same name, which explores the real life tales that give rise to modern-day myths and legends. The short Comic Con trailer for season 2 promises even more gruesome and disturbing stories as it features new narratives from the podcast, as well as some which haven't appeared in podcast form yet.  

Origin

This YouTube Original series stars Harry Potter's Tom Felton and Game of Thrones' Natalia Tena and is part-sci-fi part-thriller as a group of outsiders finds themselves abandoned on a spaceship heading to a distant planet. They must rely on each for survival but - surprise, surprise - not everyone is who they say they are. 

Games

Marvel's Spider-Man

We've seen plenty of gameplay for Insomniac's upcoming Spider-Man PS4 game since it was first announced in 2016, but this new Comic Con trailer finally gives us a good look at what to expect from the story, which involves Peter Parker going up against the likes of Rhino, Norman Osborne, and Silver Sable(!). 

• Spider-Man PS4 looks great in new SDCC 2018 trailer, and you can play it on a Spidey-themed PS4 Pro

Wonder Woman 2, AKA Wonder Woman 1984, only started filming 3.5 weeks ago, but that didn’t stop the cast and crew pulling out all the stops to bring fresh footage from the super sequel to San Diego Comic Con 2018. Director Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, and Chris Pine (whose mysterious return wasn’t addressed beyond Jenkins claiming “it’s a very important part of our movie”) were on hand to explain how WW84 isn’t a sequel, but “it’s own story, a different chapter”, and brought a brief look at the film with them. Here’s what went down.

The two-or-so minutes of footage opens with Wonder Woman in full costume, her attire noticeably more vibrant, leaping over a bannister on the top floor of a shopping mall. Immediately it’s clear we’re in the ’80s, from the fashion of passing punters to the garish signage and bright, clean cinematography – a clear contrast to the filmic grain and desaturated colours of the first film. Already it feels like a whole new world for Diana of Themyscria.

Arcing over the railing, Wonders lands in front of a young girl who looks up at her in complete awe, and whispers “Oh my gosh!” receiving a broad smile in return. But clearly Diana is there on business, turning around to find two armed goons closing in on her from behind. Without flinching Wonders grabs the girl, says “hold tight” and slides her along the floor into an oversized teddy, bringing the girl to a soft, safe stop with a giggle.

Her duty of care complete, Wonders immediately turns around and sets her sights on the two pistol-toting men. Dashing across the space in a familiar blink of the eye, she grabs their guns, one in each hand, and crushes them, the camera fixing on the men’s faces as they convulse in pain. But she isn’t done, latching onto the pair with the lasso of truth, and making a bee-line for another bannister in the middle of the mall, leaping over and dragging the two men behind her. Without context for the scene it’s tough to tell what was going on beyond everyday hero duties, but the message was clear: this is a Diana who loves being Wonder Woman again.

In a second, much briefer shot, we see Wonders running down a busy street, against traffic, and at a speed no human could possibly match. Despite the effect appearing a little Twilight-y (and possibly unfinished VFX-wise) it’s a clear homage to the iconic sprint of Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman and a warm reminder that this character has a legacy beyond the DC Extended Universe.

And that was that. Plot details were thin on the ground otherwise – Kristen Wiig’s villain Cheetah didn’t get a single mention, for one. But Jenkins did explain the thinking behind the move to 1984, saying: “It really was mankind at its best and worst… so there was no better time to see Wonder Woman in a period of time that’s really us at our most extreme.” With the film not releasing till November 2019 it’s going to be a long year.

Watch every San Diego Comic Con 2018 trailer released so far, from Aquaman to Shazam!

While the likes of Batman v Superman and Justice League would lead you to believe that the DC Extended Universe doesn’t understand comedy, Wonder Woman and the upcoming Aquaman suggest otherwise. We can now add Shazam! to that list, based on the cheery, delightful nature of its first trailer, which was released at San Diego Comic Con 2018.

Interestingly enough, the film hails from David F. Sandberg, a director whose work includes Annabelle: Creation. While that flick is not exactly teeming with cheer or delight, it’s obvious that he’s going all-in on the light-hearted tone for Shazam! Seriously, this looks like the most family-friendly entry in the DC universe. Things kick off as 14-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel) discovers he can transform into an adult superhero (Zachary Levi) when he says the magic word. 

The most amusing parts of this trailer are when we see the adult Billy hanging out with his best friend, Freddy (played by the It movie's Jack Dylan Grazer). It’s basically like the Tom Hanks ‘80s classic Big, but instead of him just being an adult, he’s, you know, an adult in a padded superhero outfit with powers. 

Here are the best bits:

Billy’s new family

Billy meets Freddy, who warns him of his new foster family: “They seem nice, but don’t buy it. It gets real Game of Thrones around here. *snorts* Dude, just messing around, you’re looking at me like ‘why so dark?’ You’re a disabled foster kid, you’ve got it all.”

When Billy meets... Shazam!

Billy encounters an ancient wizard who tells him the word he must say to become an adult… is SHAZAM! “What, are you for real?” is Billy’s retort. 

The trouble with supersuits

"What are your superpowers?” Freddy asks. “Superpowers?" Billy replies, "I don’t even know how to pee in this thing!”

Billy shakin' his thang

His first superpower test goes pretty well.

Billy's attempt at flight

His second? Not so much.

Solving the biggest first world problem

“Your phone’s charged… and your phone’s charged… and *sets fire to an old man’s phone*”

"Oh hey, sup, I'm a superhero."

Billy’s super suave pick-up line after he and Freddy leave a convenience store, arms laden with chips and soda having defended it from a trio of thieves. Classy.

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We've had our first proper look at Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel The Crimes of Grindelwald, courtesy of a new trailer (above), which dropped during Warner Bros' Hall H panel at San Diego Comic Con 2018. 

Not only does the trailer show us a young Newt and Dumbledore at Hogwarts, but it also gives us a good look at villain Grindelwald, played by Johnny Depp, who also turned up in Hall H. There's lots to love about this trailer - all those fantastic beasts! - but the one moment which really got me excited comes right at the end when we're treated to our first look at iconic Harry Potter character Nicolas Flamel. 

Fans will recognise the name immediately as the alchemist and only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone who is referenced throughout the first Harry Potter book. Despite being a major character in the Harry Potter universe, we've never seen him on screen before, but it looks like Flamel will have a role in Fantastic Beasts 2, which makes sense as Flamel is a good friend of Dumbledore's in the book. 

Played by Brontis Jodorowsky, he appears in the trailer quite pale, giving Jacob cause to ask: "Are you a ghost?" Harry Potter fans will love seeing this further reference to the books in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, but it remains to be seen how big of a role Jodorowsky will have or whether it's more of a cameo. 

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Lucky attendees at this year’s Cinema Con got a glimpse at a slapdash cut of the Aquaman trailer, and now, the rest of the world has been gifted the finished product. The first full-length Aquaman trailer has finally dropped, folks, and it’s absolutely glorious.

Fans have been longing for a glimpse into the world of Arthur Curry, a young lad who grows up to be the king of Atlantis, and James Wan has dished up a preview that’s left everyone gagging for more. Make no mistake: this is not your standard comic book movie fare.

Wan himself even told the Hall H crowd at San Diego Comic Con 2018, that it’s more of a “science-fiction fantasy film than a traditional superhero movie.” His passion for the film is clear in every single shot. His vision makes this world look like an adventure playground, a vibrant, diverse landscape that I would definitely go snorkelling in.

Best bits include: 

What makes this so exciting is that everyone involved looks like they’re having a blast. Jason Momoa was born to play this role, from Curry’s devil-may-care attitude, his ease at dispensing with wry one-liners, to his willingness to dive head first into the ocean. The playfulness between he and Amber Heard as Mera, the ass-kicking Queen of Atlantis, feels natural, which is a nice counter to the somewhat forced flirtations between Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince in Justice League.

Elsewhere, we get to see Nicole Kidman as Aquaman’s mother, and Patrick Wilson in his full aquatic regalia as the villainous King Orm. But what about everyone else in the cast? Well, we’ve seen the full trailer, but those in Hall H were shown an extra tidbit of footage, that reveals a look at those characters:

Excited much?

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Unless you've been living under a rock for last couple of days, you'll have seen the first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's Glass (above), which was released at San Diego Comic Con 2018. 

The third movie in a surprise trilogy, which started with 2000's Unbreakable and continued with Split in 2006, Glass sees Samuel L. Jackson’s Mr Glass, Bruce Willis’ David Dunn, and James McAvoy’s The Horde collide in a psychiatric unit run by new character Dr. Ellie Staple, played by Sarah Paulson.

The trailer itself is one of the best released during Comic Con so far, and is a real treat for fans of either Unbreakable or Split, but there's probably more connections between the two movies in the teaser than you first noticed. It goes without saying that Shyamalan has been thinking about this trilogy for a while and a lot of the references and connections are so subtle, there's no way you'd realise what you were seeing unless someone pointed it out to you.

Luckily for us, YouTuber Flicks and the City has put together an impressive analysis of the Glass trailer, which breaks down every obscure reference and cool nod for your viewing pleasure. I enjoyed it so much, I had to share it with you, so scroll down and discover all the Split and Unbreakable references (and everything else you missed) in the first Glass trailer: 

Pretty impressive, right? It just shows how much work has gone into this film already and I can't wait to see the finished project. 

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Marvel Studios may be MIA, but that doesn’t mean Marvel movies are completely absent from San Diego Comic Con 2018. Chief among them is upcoming movie Venom – the Spidey-verse anti-hero with a penchant for biting people’s heads off, and soon-to-be star of his own solo feature, who made a gloopy black splash in Hall H on Friday night.

During a 30-or-so-minute panel director Ruben Fleischer, Tom Hardy, and Riz Ahmed (with a shock of blond hair) talked up the film’s comic book inspirations (“We stay pretty close to the Lethal Protector,” said Hardy), the surprisingly sweet reason Hardy first considered the role (his young son is a huge fan), and brought some exclusive new footage to show the 6,000+ attendees.

Assembled into a trailer-like sizzle reel (with VFX work still be be completed, according to Fleischer), we got some big new glimpses at Venom in all his gargantuan symbiote glory, Venom emerging tentacle-like from Brock’s body and talking to the investigative journalist, and the alien parasite repairing Brock’s broken body after a nasty injury. We also got our best sense yet of just how wicked (and juvenile) Venom’s sense of humour is - at one point he threatens to bite a criminal's arms and legs off then roll him down a hill “like a turd in the wind”.

The biggest reveal came in the form of Riot – another symbiote who, unlike Venom, doesn’t latch onto a single human, but hops between hosts in the film, meaning anyone is a potential enemy, including Ahmed’s Life Foundation figurehead Carlton Drake. Bigger, stronger, and way uglier than the lethal protector, he boasts two cleaving axes for hands and, in a dazzling slow-mo hero shot, has a pretty decent stab at ripping Brock and his symbiote apart.

But Riot wasn’t the only new symbiote on display. Though not officially confirmed on stage, it looks like Agony will also be appearing, a female security guard glimpsed transforming her arm into a blade (not dissimilar from the T-1000) and then firing prehensile hairs out of her back and killing everyone in the vicinity.

With unseen, but hinted at, moments of head-munching, and Fleischer claiming, “There are no heroes in this film,” Venom presents a very different prospect for superhero cinema, and it’s one with ambitions beyond a single feature. “We’re definitely planning a huge world with this Venom story,” said Fleischer. The panel also addressed the spider-shaped elephant in the room during the closing moments. With Venom’s origin inextricably linked to Peter Parker in the comics, is there any chance we could see Tom Holland’s web-slinger on screen again this September?

“I think we an all agree it would be pretty amazing to see Spider-Man and Venom face off in a film,” said Fleischer, confirming or denying nothing. “I have to think the studio’s thinking the same way and, at some point down the road, they’re going to run across each other’s paths.” Tom Hardy was then asked if he’d like to fight Spider-Man, a question he answered amusingly literally, “What, go toe-to-toe with Tom Holland? I’ll have a go, yeah. You’ve got to have a go, ain’t yah.” So while it’s very (very) unlikely that Spidey will swing into Venom, don’t rule out a showdown in the distant future.

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Star Trek Discovery season 1 was one of the best TV shows of 2017, so it's safe to say that its second season is hotly anticipated. While there were a few worries after the showrunners were reportedly fired and replaced, the Star Trek Discovery Hall H panel at San Diego Comic Con 2018 seems to have silenced any concerns with a spectacular first look at what fans can expect when the show returns. Watch the trailer above or here if you're in the UK. 

Eye-watering action sequences, new aliens, iconic characters... the trailer seems to have it all, but it does raises a few questions we'd like answered please. 

What is Michael looking at?

You know the bit I'm talking about. It's right at the beginning of the trailer when Michael is in her spacesuit and looking towards something in awe as we hear her voiceover. Whatever she's seeing must be pretty important to hold her interest like that, but we only see a vague, blurry shape in the trailer. Considering how she and the shape are both drenched in red light though, I'm going to make an educated guess and say it's whoever - or whatever - sent the red signals Pike goes on about later in the trailer. New aliens perhaps?

Why is Pike and his crew wearing different uniforms?

It can't have escaped your notice that when Captain Pike and his crew board the Discovery they're wearing a version of the more traditional Star Trek uniforms from the Original Series. They look incredible and will no doubt please fans, but it does raise the question, why are their uniforms different to the ones we saw throughout the first season? As a prequel, Discovery always made a big deal about being completely separate and different from other Star Trek series, so why introduce the more traditional uniforms now? interestingly, Pike does appear in a Discovery uniform later on in the trailer... 

Who is the woman in red?

Is it just me, or does the young woman who accompanies Pike onto the Discovery seem a bit different to everyone else? Her outfit is much less formal than everyone else's - although this may just be the skirt - and the way she very casually walks around the ship looking at everything makes me feel like she's not a Starfleet officer. Who is she? A civilian? A guest of Captain Pike's? Or just a Starfleet cadet in unusual garb?

Where is Spock?

Spock is only referenced in the trailer and doesn't put in an appereance, but we know from the Hall H panel that he will be in Star Trek Discovery season 2. So, where is he when Pike joins the Discovery and his foster sister? Pike tells Michael that Spock took leave because he found something in the signal he couldn't explain, and then Michael tells Saru that Spock and the signal are linked and that he needs help. Could he have gone to investigate the signal without his crew? It doesn't sound very Spock-like, but either way, we know he'll cross paths with Michael at some point. 

When will we get Star trek Discovery season 2?

Because that trailer was so amazing that we want it now! Unfortunately, we didn't get a specific release date for Star Trek Discovery season 2 along with the trailer, but we do know that it'll be at some point in 2019, with Alex Kurtzman teasing early on in year, perhaps around January. We'll just have to be patient I guess. 

Want to know more about Star Trek Discovery season 2? Here's 7 potentially spoilery things we learnt at San Diego Comic Con.