Geeks of all stripes, unite!
San Diego Comic-Con welcomes around 140,000 fans, geeks, and gamers through its doors each year. That's roughly equivalent to a major city's population made entirely of cosplayers and fanboys. From its humble beginnings in 1970, this enormous celebration of the pop culture has grown to become the crown jewel for all the biggest news in entertainment, from major movie announcements to the latest book deals.
Marvel brings the Avengers, along with a few friends
In keeping with its Saturday night tradition at Comic-Con, Marvel Studios brought the house down with its panel in Hall H. Sadly, this years offering was a slight disappointment compared to years previous. Sure, the House of Ideas brought along every principal player from Avengers: Age Of Ultron (with the exception of Scarlett Johansson and Joss Whedon), introduced the Ant-Man cast, and showed impressive footage from both movies, but the panel was rather short on genuine revelations.
Sam Raimi is producing The Last of Us film, along with an Evil Dead TV series
Sam Raimi may be most known as the director of a trilogy of Spider-Man films, but more and more he's returning to his horror roots. Gamers in particular should be happy to hear Raimi's producing a movie adaptation of The Last Of Us. The game's writer/co-director Neil Druckmann is working on the script with an impressive amount of creative freedom, and Raimi and team confirmed they've met with Game Of Thrones' Maisie Williams. Is she being lined up to play Ellie?
Godzilla will return soon (along with a few friends)
Monsters invaded the massive Hall H on Saturday afternoon as Legendary Pictures took the opportunity to unleash the beasts. People expected the team behind Godzilla to appear, but the biggest surprise came in the shape of a gorilla, as King Kong came stomping out of the undergrowth to reveal that he'll be back on the big screen in Skull Island. Kong's return is due in theaters November 2016, with a director yet to be announced.
Superman and Batman prepare for battle in Dawn Of Justice
There's nearly two years to wait before Batman and Superman slug it out in theaters via Dawn Of Justice. But that long wait wasn't enough to keep Comic-Con fave Zack Snyder away from Hall H on Saturday, and the director even brought some super friends along to meet their public: a Man of Steel (Henry Cavill), a Caped Crusader (Ben Affleck) and a Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot)--most years, this would have been the highest profile superhero team-up of the day, but most years don't have an Avengers sequel.
The 1960s Batman TV series is FINALLY coming to Blu-ray/DVD
Holy home entertainment, Batman! After almost half a century of legal wrangling, the beloved, campy, Adam West Batman series will finally be officially released. Burt Ward, Adam West and Julie Newmar got the royal treatment at Comic-Con, including a Thursday press panel where Ward talked at length about the many perilous situations the show put him in. While West had a stunt double, Ward didn't often have that luxury, getting sent to the ER on six different occasions.
Outcast is the next TV series from the creator of The Walking Dead
Have you asked yourself, "How is Robert Kirkman ever going to follow The Walking Dead?" the answer is now "with Outcast." There was plenty of chat about the famous zombies during Comic-Con, but this was also where the writer launched his new comic/TV crossover project, promising to do for demons what he's already done for the undead. "Demons are the new zombies," says Kirkman. "They're much cooler. The thing is, zombies are not real and they're never going to be. But there IS this phenomenon of 'demonic possession'..."
M. Night Shyamalan comes to TV with Wayward Pines
M. Night Shyamalan wants you to know that there is a solution to his mysterious 10-part miniseries Wayward Pines. "This is no Lost," he says, promising clear answers in his adaptation of the book trilogy by Blake Crouch. It stars Matt Dillon as a secret serviceman searching for missing federal agents.After a car crash, he ends up in the small town of Wayward Pines from which he seems mysteriously unable to leave
Agent CarterAgent Carter takes the Marvel universe back to the 1950s
ABC's Agent Carter show, starring the spy played by Hayley Atwell in the Captain America movies and set just after WWII, will boast among its directors Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer, Captain America: The First Avenger) and the Russo brothers (Welcome to Collinwood, Captain America: The Winter Soldier). That's some pretty big behind-the-scenes muscle for the 10-episode period companion to Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D..
Christopher Nolan drops some clues about Interstellar
The surprise film in Paramount's Hall H panel at Comic-Con 2014 was Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and a personal appearance by Comic-Con virgin Matthew McConaughey. The movie star described Nolan as a director whose "reach always exceeds his grasp," and then went on to introduce the next massive surprise guest... Nolan himself, also making his Comic-Con debut (yes, he somehow skipped all those years while directing Batman).
Star Wars: Rebels takes the series back to its roots
J.J. Abrams and his Star Wars: Episode VII may have been otherwise engaged this year, but there was still some Comic-Con action from that galaxy far, far away. Lucasfilm and Disney debuted footage from the new animated series, Star Wars: Rebels, a show set five years before A New Hope. "We all felt like there was a chapter before A New Hope that was unexplored," executive producer Simon Kinberg told the Rebels panel.
