At the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday July 24 Warner Bros. hosted a 2 1/2 hour panel that included a segment for Richard Kelly’s upcoming sci-fi film The Box.

The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella).  The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them $1 million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know.  The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.

The Comic-Con segment raised a fair bit of attention for the film which, as a result of exclusive footage being shown, appears to be way more of a sci-fi film than was previously thought. The footage delivered quite a few spoilers and some of them were really quite major.  I’m not going to talk about them here because, to my mind, they are a little too fundamental to the story to risk ruining it for you.

The Q&A session didn’t give away major spoilers so you’re safe to watch those:

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Watch an interview (courtesy of Multipleverses) with James Marsden and Cameron Diaz after the panel:

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Since the Comic-Con a heap of new images from The Box have also been released.  Check them out in the gallery below:

If you haven’t seen the trailer to The Box yet, watch it here.

The Box will be released October 30, 2009.

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