Our Roundup of Every Major Trailer And Announcement From San Diego Comic-Con
Be still my geeky heart.
Christmas in July comes every year in the form of San Diego Comic-Con. Here are the highlights from the year's biggest celebration of all things nerdy, geeky and otherwise awesome.
1. We got our first trailer for Wonder Woman's solo film.
Warner Bros. gave us our first peek into the cinematic world of everyone's favorite Amazon—and you don't need to lasso us to get the truth. It looks incredible.
Most enticing is the period. The film is exploring Wonder Woman's mythological roots against the backdrop of World War I, making the trailer feeling like a mashup of Captain America and Thor, but with a badass, sword-swinging heroine at center of the action. Expect it June 2017.
2. The 'Legends of The Hidden Temple' trailer made us feel like an eight-year-old again.
Can you smell the nostalgia? The game that show made every kid want to be Indiana Jones is getting a modern makeover in the form of a feature film. Can this scrappy band of youngsters retrieve the Pendant the of Life and escape the Temple? Maybe with Olmec's help. We'll know for sure this fall.
3. Robin takes his pants off in the new LEGO Batman Trailer.
We've been deliriously happy ever since it was first announced that 'The LEGO Movie's' massive success would beget a LEGO Batman spinoff starring Will Arnett.
In the new trailer, The LEGO franchise's wacky humor shines and we get our first look at Robin, voiced by Michael Cera, who joins a star-studded cast that includes Rosario Dawson, Ralph Fiennes and Zach Galifianakis, aka the best pick for the Joker since Heath Ledger.
4. 'Suicide Squad' kept its massive hype train moving with a new trailer.
Unless you've been sleeping under a rock, you might've heard of a little movie called 'Suicide Squad' that's coming out next month. Warner Bros. has been marketing the CRAP out of this movie, but this trailer proves the baddie-centric tale still has a lot more to show off.
5. 'Doctor Strange' got real Inception-y in its second trailer.
Marvel is blazing ahead with Dr. Strange despite the controversy surrounding its "cringeworthy" casting decisions. The new trailer doesn't reveal a whole lot of new details about the film, but it does give us a glimpse at some really cool Inception-on-crack action sequences.
6. The new 'Fantastic Beasts' trailer got us ready for our trip back to the Wizarding World.
Who needs lightning bolt scars and Hogwarts, anyway? Every look we get at 'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them' just seems to confirm that we don't need the boy who lived to get a kick out of a trip back in J.K. Rowling's marvelous world of witchcraft and wizardry. Can it be November now?
7. Warner Bros. delivered the giant monster King Kong trailer we've been dying for.
Following up the successful reboot of Godzilla into a modern giant monster flick, Warner is giving everyone's OTHER favorite giant beast a revival on the big screen.
While it looks like like a far cry from Peter Jackson's 2005 epic, the more action-centric take on Kong coupled with the fact that Warner Bros. owns all the properties seems to BEG for some kind of Godzilla, Pacific Rim, King Kong crossover. Keep your fingers crossed.
8. The trailer for Guy Ritchie's 'King Arthur' looked ready to pull a sword from a stone.
All the stops are being pulled out to make next year's retelling of the classic tale of 'King Arthur' a cavalcade of fantasy fun. All we can say about this one is that, at least in terms of scope, this movie looks big, bad and ready to rumble with most epic of medieval adventures—with Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie at the helm, we're sure it will.
9. A victory for diversity in film came with Marvel's reveal of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel.
While Marvel's been back-pedaling to explain the 'Dr. Strange' diversity snafu, they scored points with fans with the announcement that Brie Larson will be the first woman to play Captain Marvel in the upcoming solo film. Other details on the film were scarce at the Con, but the casting of the 'Room' star is an encouraging indication.
10. Zombies need brains, and 'Walking Dead' fans need more seasons of their favorite show. We got our first look at the new one.
Having stopped watching "The Walking Dead' after season 3, now 4 seasons later, it's a little difficult to comment on what the hell is going on anymore, but the Season 7 trailer for AMC's massively successful series looks to have everything fans are hoping for. Expect more zombies, more survivors and more conflict this October.
11. Trekkie's got downright giddy watching the first flight U.S.S. Discovery.
In 2017, 'Star Trek: Discovery' will be again, boldly going where no one has gone before, this time with a new ship, a new crew and, no doubt, new adventures to boot.
12. We got our pants scared off us by the new 'Blair Witch' redux.
From the writer/director duo that brought you 'The Guest,' 'You're Next,' and the 'V/H/S' franchise, the Blair Witch is back and from the looks of the debut trailer, she's out for blood.
Ordinarily, horror aficionados would probably be skeptical of retreading the movie that basically invented 'found footage,' but director Adam Winegard has been keeping this project under wraps for a reason: It looks straight up BONE-CHILLING.