'Spartacus: Blood and Sand' San Diego Comic-Con panel
Want to know what came out of the San Diego Comic-Con related to the upcoming Spartacus: Blood and Sand?
Panel attendees included Erin Cummings (Dollhouse) who plays Spartacus’ wife Sura, Peter Mensah (300, Avatar) who plays Doctore, executive producer Steven S. DeKnight, executive producer Rob Tapert, and Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess / Battlestar Galactica) who plays Lucretia.
Lead Australian actor Andy Whitfield (Gabriel / McLeods Daughters), who plays Spartacus, couldn’t attend the panel due to his filming schedule keeping him in New Zealand. Instead he greeted the audience via video and introduced the premiere of the trailer.
You can watch the entire panel below (trailer included), but first here’s a summary of what we learn:
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The ABC unveilved a new Lost related webisode series at the San Diego Comic-Con titled Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiative.
The show is a faux 1980’s “short lived television series” that advertises itself as being “of interest to fans of Lost.”
From ABC:
The Dharma Initiative
A project discussed for years in and around conspiracy circles. Once thought to be lost, this explosive documentary series has never been seen before…until now.
The series will consist of 5 webisodes, with each one to be released a month apart. The first one was released July 23rd, watch it now:
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Robert Carlyle at the 'Stargate Universe' Comic-Con panel
Want to know what came out of the San Diego Comic-Con related to Stargate Universe?
Attendees on the Friday July 24 panel included showrunners Brad Wright and Robert Cooper, Jamil Walker-Smith, Alaina Huffman, David Blue, Robert Carlyle, Ming-Na, Brian J. Smith, and Elyse Levesque.
Six minutes of footage was shown from the new series. As of now that footage has not been released to the public.
However, shortly after the Comic-Con panel the first full trailer was released online. You can watch it now:
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Whilst attending the San Diego Comic-Con MTV managed to score a brief interview with James Cameron.
During the interview Cameron was asked if Battle Angel would be his next film.
“Maybe, maybe,” Cameron replied. “We’re going to look at that.”
Although MTV state in their article that Battle Angel is Cameron’s next feature film, I wouldn’t go jumping for joy just yet if you’re a Battle Angel fan. Whilst attending the James Cameron/Peter Jackson panel an audience member asked the same question and Cameron basically said that he was still interested in the project, but not just yet. Read more about the Battle Angel project and watch his reponse to the question here.
Additionally, at the end of the MTV interview Cameron manages to slip in the possibility that Avatar 2 could come before Battle Angel. Given that the story to Avatar is said to lend itself to a trilogy, it certainly seems likely that if Avatar is a success, Cameron would be keen to finish off the trilogy that he started planning some 14 years ago.
Watch the MTV interview now:
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It’s been almost a year since it was first reported that Marvel had struck a deal with Japanese anime giant Madhouse to adapt four of its comic series into anime for the Japanese market.
The four series are Wolverine, Iron Man, X-Men, and Blade.
On July 24 at the San Diego Comic-Con Madhouse co-founder Masao Maruyama gave fans a first look at what is being produced.
Teaser trailers to their adaptations of Wolverine and Iron Man were shown.
Reactions were mixed but as a general assessment most hated the anime version of Wolverine and most liked what they saw of Iron Man. It is perhaps fortunate that the adaptations aren’t being made for the western market.
Both teasers are now available online. You can watch them below:
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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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Want to know what came out of the San Diego Comic-Con related to Sanctuary?
Attendees included executive producers Martin Wood & Damian Kindler and actors Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne.
There are clips from the panel below, but for the quick summary of what is talked about:
- season 2 is a “future story”
- there will be post apocalyptic episode of a ‘probable future”
- new characters will be introduced in season 2
- we’ll learn there are sanctuaries all over the world
- Amanda Tapping will direct an episode in season 2
- there will be events that have taken place between the end of season 1 and the beginning of season 2
- a new Han Solo character named Kate Freelander (played by Robin D’Arcy) will be introduced in the season opener
- guest stars will include Stargate’s Michael Shanks, Smallville’s Callum Blue and Eureka stars Erica Cerra and Chris Gauthier
- Tapping cast Cerra in the episode she directs
- Wood says you’ll see the main characters do things you’ve never seen them do before
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Want to know what came out of the San Diego Comic-Con related to True Blood?
Attendees included nearly the entire cast as well as series writer/creator Alan Ball and author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels Charleane Harris.
The panel opened with Alan Ball announcing that the mythical drink ‘Tru Blood’ is now a real drink that will become available from September 10 (the bottles won’t contain real blood though, it will be a mixture of blood orange and soda).
A preview of the last half of season 2 was then played. It has since been released online, watch it now:
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Want to know what came out of the San Diego Comic-Con related to Heroes?
Attending the packed Heroes Comic-Con panel were Tim Kring, Hayden Panettiere, Jack Coleman, Adrian Pasdar, Milo Ventimiglia, Zachary Quinto, Masi Oka, Robert Knepper, Ray Park, Madeline Zima, and Dawn Oliveri.
It is difficult to tell who was more popular. Zachary Quinto, Milo Ventimigila and Ray Park received notable roars.
A preview of the upcoming season 4 of Heroes, titled ‘Redemption’, was played.
A trailer that contains some of the footage shown at Comic-Con has since been released on the web. You can watch it now:
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The Doctor Who panel at the San Diego Comic-Con took place on Sunday July 26th. It was a very interesting panel although there were no special announcements and neither was a great deal revealed in terms of spoilers (there are a couple minor ones though).
Before the panel were introduced a previously available clip from the one-hour special ‘Planet of the Dead’ was aired.
Panel attendees were then introduced: showrunner Russell T Davies, David Tennant, Julie Gardner and Euros Lyn.
David Tennant arguably drew more of an enthusiastic roar from the crowd than anyone else at Comic-Con. If ever the actor had wondered how much he’s loved as The Doctor, his answer was right there in true rock-star defeaning glory.
Whilst standing in ovation fans screamed: “We love you!” and in reference to his looming final episodes: “Don’t go!”
Tennant humorously replied:
“I love you too, each one of you, but in a slightly different, individual way.”
The audience were treated to clips from David Tennant’s final episode.
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