The Top 11 Coolest Things To Happen At Comic Con 2013
By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2013 11:31 am EST
The big new trend this year at Comic Con is big actors reprising their iconic roles on the Hall H stage. We begin with those moments:
The lights went out during the Marvel panel and Tom Hiddleston appeared on the stage at Hall H dressed in full character as Loki. The resulting verbal tirade was awesome. Watch it here.
Comic Con is too large of an event for celebrities to actually walk the show floor, but that doesn’t stop some of them from trying. This year, Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, Doctor Who’s eleventh doctor Matt Smith and The Wolverine star Hugh Jackman are among the actors we know who donned a disguise and walked the show floor this year. See how they did it here.
And Comic Con this year had some big movie announcements from Warner Bros/DC Comics and Marvel:
Zack Snyder announced that he will direct a Superman/Batman Movie Inspired by Frank Miller’s ‘The Dark Knight Returns’. No title was announced, and no actors were mentioned, although it was confirmed in the press release that the film would introduce a new version of Batman. Snyder did say that this is effectively the sequel to Man of Steel, and a press release confirms Henry Cavill as Superman as well as the returns of Laurence Fishburne, Amy Adams, and Diane Lane. Watch this epic announcement here.
At the tail end of the Marvel Studios panel, Kevin Feige pulled a Steve Jobs and delivered a “One More Thing” brining our Joss Whedon to screen a video teaser trailer which revealed the title of The Avengers sequel — Avengers: Age of Ultron. Read about the teaser and what this means for phase 2 of the Marvel movie universe here and see Whedon talk about how he is changing the comic book origins to fit the new movie storyline.
AMC premiered the first scene for the final season premiere of Breaking Bad. Things I had expected we’d be waiting five or six episodes to find out are revealed in this awesome cold opening. Germain Lussier has a description of the scene for those spoiler addicts who can not wait. Germain also compiled a list of the 12 Things We Learned About ‘Breaking Bad’ At the Comic-Con Panel; Plus a Recap Video And info on the new ‘Talking Bad’ tv show
Marvel Studios kicked our ass with footage from Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy. You can watch the whole /Film team geek out about the footage in our post panel video blog reaction. You can watch the entire Marvel panel (sans copy-written footage) here. Or if you want to read a recap of the footage presented, Germain has a write-up of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Angie has a write-up for the batshit crazy Guardians of the Galaxy footage,
Green skies, a barren desert. Close up on a pair of eyes, and a slow pan down to a huge sword. Legendary Entertainment surprised Hall H with a teaser trailer for their World of Warcraft big screen movie Warcraft. Read about the test footage/comic con teaser trailer.
Legendary Entertainment tore up San Diego with a big green monster named Godzilla. At an offsite event, Legendary recreated a Tokyo street inside a warehouse. The “Godzilla Encounter” experience was like a Universal Studios attraction, letting you feel the experience of a Godzilla attack. Watch Peter and Germain recount their adventure seeing Godzilla stomp by them from the 26th floor of an office building. Awesome marketing. At the Saturday morning Warner Bros panel they screened an early Comic Con exclusive teaser trailer which gave us our first real look at footage from the movie. Read about that and our reaction here.
ABC sneak premiered the pilot episode of Marvel’s The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. You can read my reaction, get some details, and even learn some spoilery bits (if you’re into that) as well as watch the panel discussion.
Trask Industries gave us our first look at a Sentinel head from X-Men: Days of Future Past. Flanking it were posters offering a taste of the anti-mutant sentiment that led Trask to design these killing machines in the first place.
Other announcements and releases at the Con:
