Now that Nicolas Winding Refn‘s excellent film Drive has been released and you’ve all finally had a chance to see it, there’s no better time to go back to Comic Con, where Drive distributor FilmDistrict presented one of the best Hall H panels to ever hit San Diego. Rather than doing a stock footage presentation and quick talent lineup, FilmDistrict filled the Hall H stage with those responsible for the company’s two genre films, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and Drive. So Guillermo del Toro, Ron Perlman, Carey Mulligan, Guy Pearce, Troy Nixey, and Nicolas Winding Refn all sat side by side for an hour.
What transpired was a conversation primarily between Guillermo and Refn, with their talk getting into more gritty filmmaking nuts and bolts than is typical for Comic Con. There is some great conversation about approaches to directing, and Refn gives the best rendition we’ve got of the story of how he came to direct Drive. There’s about an hour of footage below, broken into pieces, and it is all worth a look. Read More »
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The most disappointing, albeit it inevitable, part of attending Comic-Con is when you hear about something that happened you would have loved to see but totally missed. For me, that happened at Entertainment Weekly’s Totally Lost: One Year Later panel when show runners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse made a surprise appearance with a “deleted scene” from the finale of the first season.
Here’s the set-up. Lindelof and Cuse take a lot of flack for saying they had everything in the series planned out even though very little of what actually happened – Jacob, the Man in Black, Candidates, light caves, etc – was never hinted at. This scene “proves” that they weren’t lying. The fact that it was shot specifically for Comic-Con, a year after the series finale aired, is insignificant. It would have been awesome to be in the room for this surprise, especially the big reveal at the end, but thanks to the magic of the Internet, we can all check it out now. Read More »
And we’re back! Why is Tom Hardy comparing The Dark Knight Rises to Starbucks? Does Edgar Wright have an actor in mind for the Ant-Man lead? Is Henry Cavill comfortable in his Man of Steel costume yet? What are The Muppets doing to Green Lantern and Captain America now? And what do Conan O’Brien and Kenny Rogers have to do with superheroes? Read about all of this and much more in the triumphant return of Superhero Bits! Read More »
One of the more interesting movie panels at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con International was the one-hour Visionaries discussion between filmmakers Guillermo Del Toro and Jon Favreau. We have gotten the entire conversation transcribed so you at home can read it for yourself. I highly recommend it. Hit the jump to listen to Favreau and del Toro discuss the art of filmmaking, current and future projects, and much more.
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Having gone to San Diego Comic-Con for the better part of a decade, Sunday is usually mop-up day. That’s the day you finally get to explore the convention floor fully because the rest of the time you’ve been waiting in line and watching panels. Inevitably, while exploring the floor, you find something surprising. The surprise this year, for me, was the Studio Art Technology booth and a whole display case full of never before seen screen used props from Men In Black 3. Anyone who has seen the previous two MIB films knows that the weapons, such as the Noisy Cricket and Neuralizer, are some of the most memorable things about the movies. So, you’ve gotta check out this gallery of MIB 3 weapon images after the jump. Read More »
I’m still kicking myself for missing yesterday’s Comic-Con panel for The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra, but at least we can all now feast in the trailer that premiered there. As a huge fan of the original Avatar: The Last Airbender, I’m happy to report that Korra looks like a gorgeous and mature follow-up.
The trailer opens up with some epic imagery, including a giant statue of a grown-up Aang (the original series’ main character), and a flying bison (no clue if it’s Appa). We see Korra, the new Avatar, leaving her home in the Southern Water Tribe and making her way to the United Republic. That city was founded by Aang and Zuko (the tortured “evil” prince from the first series) as a place meant for members of all tribes to live, our friends over at UGO reported from the panel. Read More »
Over the past few days at Comic Con, Marvel has been unveiling character posters featuring concept art of the full team in The Avengers. These images have provided our first looks at the new suit for Captain America and the costume worn by Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye. Now the final image has been released, showing what we can expect Mark Ruffalo‘s Hulk to look like. That, plus looks at Nick Fury and a few SHIELD agents and the full ‘Avengers assembled’ banner (above) in larger form are all after the break. Read More »
Even though the film has yet to go into production, Universal decided it would be vital to present Snow White and the Huntsman, their movie competing with Tarsem’s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, to the fans at San Diego Comic-Con. They flew in the four main stars (Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and Sam Claflin), had director Rupert Sanders shoot a concept reel to give everyone an idea of the scope and look of the film and even made the actors poses for press shots as their characters. After the jump, check out those images and read our impressions of what’s in store for the Snow White film that’s described as being “on the scale of Lord of the Rings.” Read More »
