One of the biggest, if not the biggest panel at this year’s Comic-Con was certainly the big-budget reboot of everybody’s favorrite web-slinging hero, The Amazing Spider-Man, which began with nine words: “you might want to put your 3-D glasses on.”
Len Wiseman’s Total Recall has been drawing a mixed reaction leading up to this weekend’s Comic-Con proceedings. Regardless, the remake 1990 sci-fi classic is happening and Wiseman, along with stars Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho and Kate Beckinsale all took the stage in Hall H to promote the upcoming film.
The Sony/Columbia Pictures panel in Hall H was one of the most highly anticipated at Comic-Con this year, opening with Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Stars Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba and Johnny Whitworth took the stage alongside directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Behind the scenes footage was shown, and fans (assuming they exist) were assured that real bones, not CGI, will be broken on film.
Relativity Media brought out two of its more adult-orientated movies to Hall H this year, the action revenge thriller Haywire and period thriller The Raven.
Breaking what? Underworld? Vampires are meant to get a little bloody and director Craig Gillespie aims to please with his remake of the 1985 cult film Fright Night. DreamWorks has unveiled the Comic-Con panel, including stars Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
Things got a little funnier in Hall H, as Zombieland director Reuben Fleischer took the stage along with stars Aziz Asnari, Michael Pena and Nick Swardson to discuss the upcoming dark caper comedy 30 Minutes or Less.
Starting events this Friday at Comic-Con was The Adventure of Tintin Panel, the adaptation of popular Belgian comic book series and one of the highly anticipated movies of this holiday season. Leading this panel was director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson, on a break from filming The Hobbit.
It might not have a finished script or a director, but Legendary Pictures must be dedicated to making a film based on the hit game Mass Effect if they’re prepared to talk about it at Comic-Con. Game creator Casey Hudson of BioWare and screenwriter Mark Protosevich (Thor) came on stage to discuss their plans for bringing the game to the big screen.
Legendary Pictures didng’t bring its “A game” to Comic-Con this year (that would be The Dark Knight Rises or Man of Steel), but it did bring a handful of projects barely out of the embryonic stage. Two of those films were the period fantasy The Seventh Son starring Jeff Bridges and director Alex Proyas’ Paradise Lost starring Bradley Cooper and based on John Milton’s epic.
One of the unexpected panels announced for Comic-Con 2011 was Legendary Pictures, the film company partnered with Warner Bros. that has delivered Zack Snyder’s films and Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” features. One of their long-term projects is Pacific Rim, a all-stops-pulled monster movie being directed by Guillermo del Toro.
