So San Diego Comic Con was back for another year, seemingly acting as some kind of nerd
Christmas.
And I couldn’t be happier for it.
Comic Con weekend is one of my favorite times of the year, even though I don’t even go
and I just sit at home and read about all the stuff online.
Anyway, enough of that, let’s talk all the biggest stuff from this year’s convention,
even though I admittedly probably missed a few small things since this con is so huge.
And also, sorry, I haven’t included anything that happened on Sunday in this, because really
there are no big announcements on Sunday and it’s more just for people at the actual
convention.
First up, before Comic Con, there were some new Entertainment Weekly Pics for Black Panther
and Justice League, which both looked pretty cool.
Then on display at the convention itself were all the costumes from Justice League, which
look pretty spectacular, and the new Batmobile, which looks,pretty similar to the old one,
which is a design that I do like.
Ok, now let’s get into the actual convention.
I’ve divided this into Marvel Studios, Warner Brothers, and other.
And let’s start off with the other.
Also, just so you know I’ve put links to all the trailers and clips and whatnot I talk
about in the description below.
Firstly, there was a trailer for Jigsaw, aka the 8th movie in the Saw franchise.
As most of you know, I’m not super into horror movie stuff, but I have been breaking
through on that front a little bit recently, but if there’s one kind of horror that I
dislike the most, it’s the torture stuff.
So sorry, just not really my kind of thing.
As for this, this movie looks like exactly what you’d want if you were a fan of this
series, although I did find it weird that the big end of trailer scare opportunity they
broke to try and put some humor in there….oh well.
I don’t think i’ll be seeing this regardless.
Then there was a trailer that I don’t know if it was from Comic Con or was just released
coincidentally at the same time for a movie called Proud Mary….looks fine.
It’s like taraji P henson’s own kind of Atomic Blonde I guess, which sounds cool,
but the trailer itself just looked a little bit like a generic action movie to me.
Hopefully it’ll surprise me though.
Speaking of Atomic Blonde, that movie, which I’m really excited to see actually, had
a panel which involved a whole free screening of the film, so that’s pretty cool.
Then there was a little teaser for Pacific Rim Uprising, which basically showed us two
things, one, Jaegers are back, two, John Boyega is using his British accent in this.
I still haven't seen the first Pacific Rim yet, but I really want to, since it just looks
like a very fun if not a little dumb movie, so I hope this sequel has more of that.
There was a new trailer for that David Ayer Will Smith Netflix movie called Bright, which
initially I wasn’t very interested in.
But after this trailer, I’m pretty intrigued.
The premise for this is fascinating to me, this world of I guess magical-ish creatures
living with humans and how that would look all gritty and what not, and the actual movie
itself doesn’t look bad at all.
So yeah, I imagine I’ll be checking this out.
Another Netflix movie coming out, one that’s a little more controversial, is dEATH Note,
and a new clip was released for that.
As someone who's not really familiar with the original but I know generally what it’s
about, this looks...ok.
Willem Dafoe as an giant demon man, that doesn’t sound so bad.
There was a new trailer for Star Trek Discovery, which by all means looks very average and
very star Trek-y.
I imagine if you’re a big fan of Star Trek you’ll enjoy this.
And funnily enough there was a trailer for the Orville, the Seth McFarlane star Trek
parody.
I’m not a huge fan of Seth MacFarlane, though I do like some of his stuff, and this looks
good, I just don’t think I’ll be watching it.
THere was a trailer for Voltron: Legendary Defender season 3 and it was confirmed that
the new Tick TV show will be coming to Amazon Prime in August.
Now in trailers for shows that I really should catch up on but
for whatever reason haven't yet….news, there were trailers for The Walking Dead season
8, Westworld season 2, and Game of Thrones season 7.
Gonna be getting into Game of THrones soon though hopefully, so expect a review at some
point within the next 5 years or so.
There was also a new trailer for that new X-Men TV show, the Gifted.
And like the last trailer, it looks really serviceable.
Whether or not I’m gonna like this all comes down to if I end up liking the characters
or not, because otherwise this doesn’t look that impressive to me.
It looks like the quintessential very average superhero TV show formula, oh you know those
big superheroes that have cool adventures, well we’re the other heroes and we have
smaller adventures in smaller locations because budget restrictions.
Sometimes that can work, the last season of Agents of SHIELD I quite enjoyed.
But this….this has yet to really hook me.
Also, Legion season 2, another show I’m gonna have to catch up on, added that one
Howling Commando-ish guy from Wonder Woman, Said Taghmaoui, which is how I beleive you
pronounce it, so that’s cool.
Speaking of Legion, it was announced that a Doctor Doom movie will be coming to us from
Noah Hawley, the guy behind Legion and Fargo.
So hey, a Doctor Doom movie otherwise wouldn’t have me very excited.
But with this guy on board, that bodes pretty well.
I’m holding out to see more developments though before I either become indifferent
of excited.
There was a new Rick and MOrty featurette released, can’t wait for season 3.
There was a new trailer for the Lego Ninjago Movie, looks like a fun kid’s movie, I’ll
probably see it.
Doesn’t look close to as good as the Lego Movie or the lego Batman movie though.
Then there was a Stranger Things season 2 trailer, which looks great.
LIke a perfect follow up to what was already an amazing first season.
For the record I binge watched season 1 recently and wow was I missing out.
I’ll probably do a review of the whole show once this comes out on Halloween.
And finally, let’s wrap the other up with a trifecta….of Channing Tatum news.
1, Chaning Tatum is gonna be Van Helsing in the Universal Dark Monster Tom Cruise-iverse.
Cool cool, anything to save that series is welcome at this point.
2, Channing Tatum confirmed that he’s working on Gambit still.
Surprised me too.
And 3, well the Kingsman 2 trailer, which Chaning Tatum is in.
With Kingsman 2, the first trailer looked great, but this looks even better.
This is precisely what I was hoping this movie would look like, more fun quips, more insane
action, just more of everything.
Harry’s back in a big way, Pedro Pascal and his laser lasso looks incredible, really
this trailer just reminded me why I put Kingsman 2 as my most anticipated film of 2017.
Also there was this little Kingsman Archer crossover which I imagine is even funnier
if you watch Archer, but as someone who hasn’t yet, it was still pretty funny.
Alright, now let’s talk all the Warner Brothers stuff.
And by that I mean mainly DC, but there were a few non-DC WB
Properties.
Blade Runner 2049 had a panel which was apparently opened by hologram Jared Leto….interesting.
But the big Warner Brothers news was the trailer for Ready Player One.
Look, Steven Spielberg has gone from making some of my favorite movies of all time to
making you know good movies.
Tintin was pretty fun.
But this, this looks kind of amazing.
For the record, I haven’t read the book and I had no idea what this was about, so
when the trailer started off, I though, ok, this looks pretty cool I guess.
And then suddenly the Iron Giant shows up and I kind of freaked out.
The Iron Giant is one of my favorite films and one of the most underrated movies of all
time, so to see it pop up again in a mainstream big movie, that’s kind of the best.
So the premise is you go into this world of pop culture references and have crazy adventures,
which is an amazing premise.
The only other references I picked up on were Harley and Deathstroke, the Delorean, and
Freddy Krueger, but I’m sure there are more in the trailer and I’m sure there are tons
more in the actual film.
So consider me pretty excited now.
Ok, now we can talk about all the DC stuff.
Firstly the TV shows.
Firstly, there was a trailer for the Flash season 4.
I loved season 3, and I’m sure I’ll enjoy season 4.
The trailer though isn’t very well put together and doesn’t make it look very good, but
I’m still pretty excited.
There were then trailers and/or sizzle reels for Arrow season 6, Supergirl season 3, Legends
of Tomorrow season 3, and Gotham season 4.
All shows I haven’t watched, sue me, I don’t have unlimited time.
There was also a super short teaser for the new Krypton show, the Gotham for Superman,
which doesn’t sound like an amazing pitch, but we’ll see.
Young Justice season 3 had a panel where they showed off some new character designs.
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay was announced as an upcoming DC animated film, and Injustice
2 showed off a trailer for Star Fire as DLC I guess.
Also, that new and not very good looking animated movie Batman and Harley Quinn had a screening,
and the reviews are mixed to positive I guess?
I don’t know, this doesn't look that good to me.
So then there was the big DCEU movie news.
For one, Ben Affleck confirmed that he’s in for the Batman, despite what all those
recent rumors said.
Then DC’s movie slate was confirmed, with Shazam getting it’s rumored director, David
Sandberg from the movie Lights Out was confirmed.
Wonder Woman 2 is happening, Suicide Squad 2 is happening, also fun little tidbit, Jared
Leto said about his involvement in Suicide Squad 2, quote, "Talking about Joker is like
talking about ‘Fight Club’: unless you want to gargle your testicles, it’s probably
better to leave it.
He’s liable to jump out of the cupboard and just start having fun."
So yeah, make of that what you will.
Warner Brothers is also developing a Harley and Joker film, which, between that and Gotham
CIty Sirens, I feel like we’re gonna start to get kind of sick of Harley Quinn.
We’ll see though.
Then, that Flash movie that’s seemingly stuck in development hell right now, it got
an exciting new update in the fact that it’ll be called The Flash: Flashpoint.
The Flashpoint story is great, although I think it’s interesting they’re making
a movie considering they just did this in some respect on the TV show, but oh well,
I’m much more excited for this film now.
Then some footage was shown to the attendees of the new Aquaman film, and apparently it
looks pretty great.
In it you apparently see Atlantis and Aquaman talking to someone with a sword, and it was
described as Star Wars underwater, which sounds pretty promising.
And then, the big DC event this year, the Justice League trailer, which once again,
looks pretty cool at least.
The trailer opens with a classic superhero scenario, a museum is being robbed, and there’re
a bunch of school children in it, but not to fear, cuz wONDER Woman bursts in to save
the day.
And on that note, this trailer was way more Wonder Woman focused than before….I wonder
why that is.
Just a speed round of stuff I have thoughts on in here, cuz
really on the whole my overall feelings towards this are the same towards the last trailer.
I’m still loving how JK Simmons looks as Gordon and how Jeremy Irons is as Alfred.
We get our first proper look, kind of, at the villain Steppenwolf in action, he looks
cool enough.
THere’s a reference to the Lanterns, maybe we’ll see them pop up here.
There are still some really cool effects and I’m still loving all the visual effects
around the Flash.
Although I have to say, while he’s pretty funny in these trailers, I really hope the
Flash doesn't get annoying in this.
We get to hear Cyborg talking more, it’s completely digital and robotic, which surprised
me a bit, since I thought he was just gonna have a normal human personality, but I guess
not.
That’s a cool dynamic to add to the team though, one of them is really just a computer.
Also I do wanna say, this does not look more like a Joss Whedon film than it did before,
even if there is more humor.
It still looks exactly like a Zack Snyder movie, and that Snydery action still looks
pretty cool, although I guess now the finale won’t be them fighting and fighting and
fighting in dark grey locations but fighting and fighting and fighting in dark red locations.
Hopefully that isn’t a real eyesore in the movie.
And then, at the end, Superman I’m assuming shows up.
First of all, I kind of called this, I said after the title rolled, someone would say,
we’ve been waiting for you or something, and then we’d see a flash of the Superman
logo.
Thankfully it showed a little more restraint than that, so I’m not annoyed about this.
Also, there was this new poster for Justice League, which I personally think looks awesome
but a lot of people hate.
Like yeah, the text with the logos looks kind of cheesy but the rest of it looks awesome
in my opinion.
Now, finally, let’s talk all the stuff out of Marvel Studios at Hall H. Firstly, in TV
news, there was a new trailer for The Inhumans show, which looks a little better than the
last one.
This still doesn’t look very good though.
I’ll watch it, mainly because I kind of have to for a video I’m making, but I hope
these are just kind of poorly made trailers and the show is better.
There are some really cool shots in here though, including that we finally get to see Medusa
using her hair.
Iron Fist was renewed for a second season and got a new showrunner, which is probably
for the best.
There was this little Defenders video with Stan Lee, which was nice, but mainly because
it gave us our first look at the Punisher in his new show.
On that note, people in Hall H got to see some footage from the new Punisher show, which
was apparently real violent and showed the Punisher killing his way around North America.
He strangles a guy in New York, he kills some bikers in Alabama, and he takes out a drug
lord in Mexico while he’s having sex.
The drug lord that is, not the Punisher.
Sounds great, especially for a character like this, and I’m glad we’re finally getting
a Netflix Marvel show that can move around the world and not just have to stay in New
York.
Then there was the trailer for the Defenders, which once again I’m so insanely hyped for.
Not much to say here that couldn't be said about the last trailer, it’s exactly what
I was hoping for when I heard all these characters were coming together.
They’ve seemingly managed to capture the characteristics and personalities of all the
characters perfectly, and they play off each other really well.
Plus we get a lot of funny moments from it.
Action looks great, villain looks great, and it’s coming out in less than month.
Goddamn am I excited.
Also, people at the convention got to see the first episode of the Defenders, which
I didn’t read descriptions of because I wanna go into this and be somewhat surprised.
Then there was some pretty big casting news for Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Michelle Pfeiffer was cast as Janet van Dyne, great choice, and Laurence FIshburne was added
to the cast as Bill Foster, aka this guy.
So that’s cool.
There was also a little bit of footage, including modern day Hank Pym in a white Ant-Man costume,
and Ant-Man and the Wasp flying side by side into action.
Great, probably gonna be a lot of fun.
There was also big news for Captain Marvel.
First of all we got some awesome concept art, and then we got some plot details.
Firstly, the Skrulls will be in this, I remember there was a rumor they were gonna be the villains
for the first Avengers, and since that didn’t play out, it’s cool we get to see them here.
And secondly, this will take place in the 90s, which is interesting,and it’ll also
co-star a two-eyed Nick Fury, which is very interesting.
So consider me much more intrigued with this movie than before.
Then there was a new poster for Black Panther and some more footage was shown, which was
apparently insanely fantastic.
It showed that casino scene that we saw a glimpse of in the trailer, where apparently
T’Challa and Lupita NYong'o, whose character's name I can’t recall, are looking out for
Klaw and Martin Freeman, and then all hell breaks loose, with an amazing action sequence.
And then the big reveal is that Klaw shows off his new prosthetic weapon arm, so that
all sounds awesome.
Again, this might be my most anticipated MCU movie, maybe.
Then we got some new cool posters for Thor Ragnarok and as expected we got a full length
trailer.
I’m still loving how this looks.
Again, this movie’s biggest strength I imagine is gonna be the comedy, because of the director
and the talented cast, and that’s still apparent here, the jokes are still really
funny.
I also love all the costumes and the set design, the movie looks great, especially Hella.
Almost all of the visual effects look fantastic, I still love this 80s kind of rainbow vibe
this has going.
And we get to hear Hulk speak, which was interesting, but I liked it.
The only kind of complaint I have here, and I haven’t really heard anyone else saying
this so maybe it’s just me, but the CGI on Hulk doesn’t look, as good as it’s
looked before.
I’m guessing it’ll look better in the actual film, but some of this, I don’t know
it just doesn’t look as good as in the last two Avengers movies.
I don’t know, still super excited for this.
And then finally, there was some pretty cool concept art for Innity war, and then the Infinity
War footage was shown again, except this time, and for the first time in maybe ever, Marvel
wasn’t top notch with their security, and a video leaked online of the whole trailer.
Luckily I was able to get my hands on it pretty early, but I’m hoping that Marvel will release
the full trailer in HD now that it’s leaked.
Anyway, I already talked about all this in my D23 video, but we can just go over the
highlights again, this time with footage.
Thor crashes onto the Guardians ship, an epic team up shot, Thanos coming to Earth, Spider-Man’s
hairs raising, new Spider-Man suit in action, Doctor Strange and Star-Lord fighting Thanos,
Loki with the Tesseract, Bucky with Black Panther and a Wakandan army, and just a great
montage of action.
I’ll try to leave a link down below to that, but this keeps getting taken down left and
right, so hopefully you’ll find a place to see it.
So those were my thoughts on this year’s SDCC.
What do you think of all these announcements?
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