Comic-Con 2005: Day 3
Whew, that was a long day! Started out by getting off the shuttle bus into The World's Longest Line. It started at nearly the end of the convention center, went down to the other end of the convention center, past the convention center, switched back a couple times, wound around an outdoor courtyard area and finally reentered the convention center. All in all, it took me 30-40 minutes to get into Hall H, where Warner Brothers were having their panel, so I missed over half an hour of it. And the clip for V is for Vendetta evidently. :-( Saw Natalie Portman (who is in the film) who had shaved her head for the movie and is stick thin. After that they brought out a couple of folks from The Corpse Bride, which is coming this fall, I think. It's a new stop motion film from Tim Burton a la Nightmare Before Christmas, with less singing. Looked potentially entertaining from the clip. There was a brief super-trailer for the Harry Potter film. They wound up with Darren Aronoffsky and Rachel Weisz coming out to plug their new movie The Fountain. The Fountain (from what I could gather from the clip) is a love story that takes place during 1500AD, 2000AD, and 2500AD. Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman appear during all these times, not necessarily as the same character. Since the first part of the movie involves Jackman's character searching for the Fountain of Youth (hence the title), presumably there's something about immortality going on. Looks like a really interesting movie.
After that I went over to the Vertigo new releases panel. Jill Thompson is doing a cute manga style cartoon called (I think) Dead Boy Detectives that takes as protagonists the two ghosts from the Sandman series, "A Season of MIsts." Other new comics include DMZ (about a guy acting as a journalist in the war zone of Manhatten), American Virgin, and a retelling of fables called (I think) 1001 Fables. Darren Aronoffsky stopped by to talk about the graphic novel version of The Fountain which is actually not quite the same as the movie version. They had a lot of other titles that they talked about, but I don't remember much about them.
Next up, the Battlestar Galactica panel. Line was long, but not as long as the WB panel, so I got in before the panel started. Woot. They had a bunch of the cast there and a couple of the writers. It was a pretty fun panel. Learned about an upcoming plot twist that will allow the humans to bring the battle back to the cylons. Sadly, I learned that Grace Park is already married. Oh well.
Went to the JJ Sedelman panel next. He's the dude responsible for a lot of the cartoons you saw on Saturday Night Live, such as The Ambiguously Gay Duo and The Ex-Presidents. He mostly talked about process and how his company does work. Missed the film reel. :-p
Caught a bit of the end of the Boondocks panel, where I learned that on October 2 they're going to start a new series on Adult Swim based on the show. It looks savagely funny and potentially very offensive. My kind of stuff. They showed a clip from an episode called "The Trial of R Kelly." One of the guys from Reno 911 is doing some of the voice work.
The last panel of the day that I went to was the 50th Anniversary of the Jim Henson Company. They showed some old archive clips as well as a new clip from the movie Mirrormask. They said they were going to show more, but they let fan Q/A get in the way. Interesting news tidbits, they're doing Dark Crystal II, with modern puppet technology. They have plans to do a movie version of Neverwhere (YAYYYYYYYYYY!), although it sounds like they haven't gotten very far with production. They are also working on some unspecified project with Neil Gaiman and TNT, as well as another unspecified project with Dave McKean. They said they could have released Mirrormask earlier, but they did not want to compete with the summer movies. Oh, and for the Fraggle Rock people, they will be releasing a Fraggle Rock DVD (Season 1?) later this year.
Had dinner with some friends, caught the season premiere of Battlestar, and then trudged back to the hotel to get some Zzzz.
After that I went over to the Vertigo new releases panel. Jill Thompson is doing a cute manga style cartoon called (I think) Dead Boy Detectives that takes as protagonists the two ghosts from the Sandman series, "A Season of MIsts." Other new comics include DMZ (about a guy acting as a journalist in the war zone of Manhatten), American Virgin, and a retelling of fables called (I think) 1001 Fables. Darren Aronoffsky stopped by to talk about the graphic novel version of The Fountain which is actually not quite the same as the movie version. They had a lot of other titles that they talked about, but I don't remember much about them.
Next up, the Battlestar Galactica panel. Line was long, but not as long as the WB panel, so I got in before the panel started. Woot. They had a bunch of the cast there and a couple of the writers. It was a pretty fun panel. Learned about an upcoming plot twist that will allow the humans to bring the battle back to the cylons. Sadly, I learned that Grace Park is already married. Oh well.
Went to the JJ Sedelman panel next. He's the dude responsible for a lot of the cartoons you saw on Saturday Night Live, such as The Ambiguously Gay Duo and The Ex-Presidents. He mostly talked about process and how his company does work. Missed the film reel. :-p
Caught a bit of the end of the Boondocks panel, where I learned that on October 2 they're going to start a new series on Adult Swim based on the show. It looks savagely funny and potentially very offensive. My kind of stuff. They showed a clip from an episode called "The Trial of R Kelly." One of the guys from Reno 911 is doing some of the voice work.
The last panel of the day that I went to was the 50th Anniversary of the Jim Henson Company. They showed some old archive clips as well as a new clip from the movie Mirrormask. They said they were going to show more, but they let fan Q/A get in the way. Interesting news tidbits, they're doing Dark Crystal II, with modern puppet technology. They have plans to do a movie version of Neverwhere (YAYYYYYYYYYY!), although it sounds like they haven't gotten very far with production. They are also working on some unspecified project with Neil Gaiman and TNT, as well as another unspecified project with Dave McKean. They said they could have released Mirrormask earlier, but they did not want to compete with the summer movies. Oh, and for the Fraggle Rock people, they will be releasing a Fraggle Rock DVD (Season 1?) later this year.
Had dinner with some friends, caught the season premiere of Battlestar, and then trudged back to the hotel to get some Zzzz.
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Battlestar Galactica had a good premier. I guess the old man's going to make it. Would've liked to catch that panel.
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