Comic-Con 2009: Seeing the sights
As noted, CH didn’t make it to San Diego Comic-Con 2009 this year—2010, for maybes?—but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been communing with the geeks this weekend, via both the ether and the information superhighway. You guys: this is what Youtube was made for. And so we present some Comic-Con highlights as presented by those energetic enough to post video from their hotel rooms each night. Thanks, guys!
One of the top-flight movies making a debut was Iron Man 2, with a panel including director Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle (replacing Terence Howard as Rhodey), and new cast members Sam Rockwell(!) and Scarlett Johansson. The preliminary footage shown went over so well that Cheadle demanded that they show it twice. Audience members did not object.
Jason Bateman–who is maybe taking over movies, like, as a genre?–turned up to promote his upcoming Mike Judge movie, Extract, which takes place in a food-extract factory and stars Bateman, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis, and J.K. Simmons, and therefore cannot fail. Period.
Cameron Diaz and James Marsden showed up to talk about their new “what would you do?”-type thriller, The Box, which comes out October 30 and is sure to be a hit, at least among the genre crowd: think director Richard “Donnie Darko” Kelly adapting Richard Matheson’s short story-turned-Twilight Zone episode “Button, Button.” Awesome and creepy.
Lastly–and much-posted-about; if the robots take over, I suspect the tweens will be responsible–Twilight: New Moon chatted about…well. Something that I’m sure I would know about were I to actually watch the panel. Should you choose to watch this, you might also close the windows: you won’t hear anything, but every dog in the neighborhood will suddenly appear at your door.
Finally, if you think Comic-Con is all about panels and celebrities, you’ve got it all wrong. This is world-class people watching. Here, some guy from Mania.com checks out (and talks to) some of the “characters” roaming the halls of the San Diego Convention Center. Just in case, you know, you’ve missed your spandex quota for the day.
Enjoy! And think of next year.
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