We at ComicMix didn’t get to too much manga news coming out of San Diego, if only because of the explosion of happenings and announcements coming out of the convention center.
The folks at ComiPress come through in spades, compiling a thorough listing of manga news.
Read up to your heart’s content right here.
The rush of Comic-Con slows to a trickle, with some of the late news including a trailer for the upcoming video game Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, which features an invasion of symbiotes and the apparent Venom-ification of Wolverine.
Watch below.
Sometime tomorrow I’ll post a general gallery of some of the creators, sights and swag that made this year’s San Diego Comic-Con memorable, but for now, here’s yet another gallery of some of the costumes that are such a big part of the Comic-Con scene. As I mentioned with the first and second galleries, you have my apologies for the blurriness of some of the photos — it was a wall-to-wall experience on the show floor and not the most ideal environment for photography.
Didn’t make it to San Diego for the surprise debut of a rough X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer? Luckily for you, it’s now online.
Watch it below and have your say.
With so much news coming out of San Diego from ComicMix HQ (at booth #3208) and elsewhere, it’s my job back here in New York to make sure all our regular columns and features don’t get lost in the hype! Here’s your weekly one-stop shopping source for all our exclusive goodies:
So, I hear there’s a convention going on this weekend…
DC’s not alone in its efforts to branch into direct-to-DVD animation, and Marvel showed off a preview of its next project at Comic-Con.
That would be Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow
Producer and Writer David Eick has one of the best jobs in television. Each week he gets to work alongside Ron Moore, Mark Verheiden, Jane Espenson, other talented writers, a brilliant cast and a superb crew to produce one of the best shows on television: Battlestar Galactica
I had a chance to sit down and talk with Eick during the Battlestar Galactica press event at the San Diego Comic-Con. During that time we discussed the show, its Caprica spin-off and his feelings now that Battlestar is coming to an end. There were also a few other collegues at this particular event, so any questions not mine are in italics.
COMIC MIX: You’re probably not going to be able to answer any of my questions are you?
DAVID EICK: No, no I’m good.
CMix: You showed some footage from Caprica during the Battlestar panel today? How’s the new show going?
DE: We finished shooting on the pilot which is now in post and we’re breaking stories for the first batch of episodes that hopefully we’ll have a reason to produce. We’re excited about it and so is the network. The truth is that even more so than with the original Battlestar mini-series, we’re hopeful and anticipating a successful series run with this.
CMix: But there’s no "official" series commitment from Sci-Fi as yet?
Things have been pretty slow lately in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe, but big changes are in the works with the event Ultimatum on the horizon.
After the dust clears on that — whatever it is — writer Mark Millar has announced he’s returning to the Ultimate Universe, though it’s likely not to write The Ultimates, the series he made famous through two "seasons."
CBR talked to Millar about the project, though he couldn’t reveal much:
The United States will serve as the primary setting for Millar’s new Ultimate title. "I think anything set outside of America everybody always hates [Laughs]," the writer said. "And I say this as someone from outside of America. Even I feel slightly depressed when I see something set in Europe. So it’s going to be very America centric. Like most adventure stories it will move around the world at times but I like the top ten list too much to set something outside of America."
America may be the primary setting of his new title ,but Millar plans to use the series to expand the Ultimate Universe by introducing many new characters and concepts. "Part of the fun is building up our own Marvel Universe, because if you think about it, Marvel has had almost 50 years to create a world. But if you add up all the ‘Ultimate’ comics, like Spider-Man and Fantastic Four and the various mini-series, you don’t have 300 issues. So, there is an untapped world and I think that’s a lot of fun to play with. Like in ‘The Ultimates,’ I created a European team and you’ve been given glimpses of what’s going on in Russia. There’s still a lot we haven’t tapped into, like China. So I’d never focus an entire story on that type of thing but it’s fun to bring that stuff into it."
Marvel also held an Ultimate panel, which you can read about right here.
An area DC Comics has been pushing hard is animated adaptions of the company’s comic book properties, including last year’s Justice League: The New Frontier, which earned an Emmy nomination.
At a Comic-Con panel, DC publisher Paul Levitz and others discussed upcoming animated projects, including Wonder Woman. Newsarama has a wrap up:
Noveck says “Wonder Woman” is not an adaptation of a specific comic, like “Justice League: The New Frontier.” Instead, it features an original story by “Wonder Woman” comics writer Gail Simone and Michael Jelenic, with the screenplay by Jelenic. That approach was decided on because the character can be a tricky one to get right, Levitz says.
Voice director Andrea Romano says they like to use a lot of name actors for these projects and joked that fans can often tell what she’s watching on TV and in the movies by who she casts. She says, for example, she liked very much the film “Waitress,” which played a role in her casting Keri Russell as Wonder Woman. Russell was right for the part because she can convey both strength and the vulnerability the character needs as she adjusts to living in the world of men.
Other cast members include fellow panelist Nathan Fillion as Steve Trevor, Alfred Molina as Ares, Rosario Dawson as Artemis, Virginia Madsen as Hippolyta and Oliver Platt as Hades. Romano says Platt had to record his lines in New York and couldn’t be filmed in the booth because of the distance — which turned to be a good thing when his starched shirt made so much noise he ended up having to work shirtless.
The long-rumored reboot of Robocop at the hands of director Darren Aronofsky was made official this week, Variety is reporting.
The previous trilogy is going to get a reboot, and apparently the idea is to take the mecha-lawman story and make it more noir-influenced. Personally, I was hoping for an Old Western.
From the article:
Darren Aronofsky has signed on to direct and David Self is penning a new installment about the hero whose tagline is "part man, part machine and all cop."
"RoboCop," which is being fast-tracked for a 2010 release, becomes the first potential tentpole to come together since Mary Parent took the reins of MGM in March. Aronofsky’s involvement has been one of the worst kept secrets, with rumors rampant in the blogosphere that "The Fountain" helmer was eyeing the project.
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