Last night's Star Wars: The Force Awakens Comic-Con panel may have heavily leaned on nostalgia for the original, but it was also rife with teases for the franchise's future. And as actor Domhnall Gleeson was sitting on the Hall H stage looking out at seas of con-goers, one huge one came as his character for the upcoming seventh chapter in the iconic sci-fi series was revealed as key Dark Side player General Hux.
Though Star Wars: The Force Awakens didn't bring another trailer to Comic-Con, as many had suspected it might despite confirmations to the contrary, Hall H attendees last night were instead treated to an almost four-minute behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming blockbuster by by director J.J. Abrams, producer and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and writer Lawrence Kasdan.
NBC took to Comic-Con yesterday in order to unveil the first full trailer for this fall's conspiracy thriller series Blindspot. Jaimie Alexander (Thor: The Dark World) stars as a mysterious, amnesiac Jane Doe who is discovered, naked and covered in intricate tattoos the meaning of which she is unclear on, in a bag in Times Square.
At Comic-Con, viewers were treated to the first full trailer for this fall's Ash vs Evil Dead, along with an official premiere date: October 31. And from the looks of the footage shown from the Starz series, Halloween cannot get here fast enough.
New Regency and Ubisoft Motion Pictures are still committed to bringing Splinter Cell to the big screen, and Deadline reports today that the studios have brought Frank John Hughes on board to write a new script for the military-action thriller, which Edge of Tomorrow's Doug Liman is still attached to direct.
From day one, The Strain always felt like a bit of an oddly mixed cocktail. A pandemic thriller that attempted to balance ancient monsters with modern medicine, its first season was torn between Midnight Madness craziness and jargon-heavy, scientific rationality, which more often than not left the show feeling bloated, so weighed down by its desire to combine two disparate tones that it didn't fully succeed in capturing either. The series improved over the course of its freshman run, particularly around the time a strigoi SWAT team showed up circa episode 7 - once sharp-toothed vamps start forming military squadrons, there's really no salvaging your show's believability, no matter how many grave voice-overs are employed.
Toppling a totalitarian government is no problem for Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, but matters of the heart? That's a different issue entirely. As the actress attends Comic-Con to promote this fall's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, she's just become attached to The Rosie Project, a romantic dramedy in development at Columbia Pictures.
Casting continues today on Warner Bros.' Harry Potter prequel/spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which has Eddie Redmayne taking on the role of magizoologist Newt Scamander 70 years before the Boy Who Lived first drew breath. Deadline reports that Dan Fogler (Fanboys) has joined the cast in the role of Jacob, a non-magical individual Newt encounters while traveling in New York.
The evil of Bughuul is spreading in the chilling red-band trailer for Sinister 2. A sequel to the 2012 frightener that finds Citadel's Ciarán Foy taking the reins from Scott Derrickson, the film focuses on a new family that finds itself under siege by the same supernatural entity that the Oswalt clan previously fared so poorly against.
Say what you will about Luc Besson, but the director has a pretty stellar track record for creating badass female action heroes. And though Lucy had a huge number of problems, the pic still gave Scarlett Johansson a chance to power her own summer actioner, and the actress really delivered. Recently, it was revealed that Besson's company EuropaCorp was proceeding with development of a Lucy follow-up, but a recent piece from Screen Daily posits that Lucy 2 isn't just in the works - its script is already complete.
