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All The Trailers, News, Gossip And Announcements You Missed At This Year’s Comic-Con

Yes, Bryan Cranston told some kid he was bangin' his mum.

by Meg Watson  13 July 2015

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Oz Comic-Con is great. Moving to bigger venues and accommodating slightly larger hoards of glorious nerds each year, we’re seeing bigger stars and more elaborate costumes; the event’s ongoing popularity is a testament to Australia’s dedication to pop culture, and it’s the only place in the country where you can find a middle-aged man dressed as a fictional boy scout from an old Pixar film. There is nothing I can fault about that.

But even with all this, it’ll never rival the size, hype and excitement of its US counterpart. The tickets for International Comic-Con this year booked out in less than an hour, and this weekend 130,000 lucky fans descended on the San Diego Convention Centre to see the world’s biggest stars and most prolific creators.

You may have seen some headlines filter through in the past few days. A rogue picture of wild Bill Murray may have even passed through your feed. But now, on its last day, we’ve compiled all the incredible, interesting, and newsworthy happenings from the whole convention.

There. Was. A Lot.

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ALL OF THE TRAILERS

Unsurprisingly, a huge event with worldwide press coverage and thousands upon thousands of people who want to blow their savings is a great time to launch news of your upcoming TV show or movie.

The cast of The Hunger Games took to the stage for their last-ever Comic-Con panel while their marketing department pummelled the internet with cruelly insignificant teasers for Mockingjay Part Two. They then screened the film’s second full trailer to thousands of aggressively rule-abiding fans who didn’t film any of it.

Commentary like this has been coming hard and fast on social media while precisely helping no one at all:

Alternatively, those at the screening of the trailers of Suicide Squad and Deadpool had their cameras at the ready to give the world its first look at the much-hyped films, though the footage for the latter has already been pulled. Thankfully, Warner Brothers obliged us all with the official footage of Batman v Superman and, for better or worse, it’s every bit as epic as you’ve been imagining.

There was just as much hype around TV too: we also got our first looks at the ninth season of Doctor Who featuring Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams; the Christmas special of Sherlock; and the sixth season of The Walking Dead.

And because there can apparently never be enough shows and movies to remind us that some day a person may eat our brains, the producers of the latter also used this as an opportunity to announce a new venture.

Premiering on August 23, Fear The Walking Dead will be a prequel series which explores the beginning of the initial outbreak in more depth. Unlike the currently running show, it won’t be based on the graphic novels of Robert Kirkman. It’s now centred around actress Kim Dickens, who you last saw investigating the murder of Amy Dunne in Gone Girl; this time, she’s investigating the origins of the zombie apocalypse. Would watch.

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Bryan Cranston Told Some Kid He Had Banged His Mum

Adorable nerd nervously asks earnest question about his home town. Intimidating legendary actor delivers devastating burn.

I mean, I’d feel bad for him if it wasn’t such a great story.

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Quentin Tarantino Said He Might Transition To TV

Tarantino’s love of film and hatred of pretty much everything else is pretty well-documented at this point. At Cannes last year he dramatically stated “what I knew as cinema is dead”, and proceeded to shit all over everyone who says otherwise. “The fact that most films now are not presented in 35mm means that the war is lost,” he said, presumably with one hand flung to his forehead in distress.

After already confirming his upcoming film The Hateful Eight would be presented on 70mm, he used his panel at Comic-Con to once again advocate for traditional film, calling digital projection “just HBO in public”. He then launched into what Vulture describe as “a long video tutorial about the bygone 70mm format” and begrudgingly finished up by saying, “Maybe I should just move to TV”.

The audience were pretty into it.

Considering he’s already hinted at the possibility of a Django miniseries based on unused footage and declared he’s retiring after his next film, maybe one of these days it’ll actually happen.

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Harrison Ford May Have Finally Come Around To Liking Star Wars

Though he’s one of Star Wars‘ most beloved stars, there’s a bunch of anecdotal evidence that suggests Harrison Ford isn’t even that into the franchise. In a 2010 interview with David Letterman, he once dismissed the assertion he was an icon by calling his character “Ham Yoyo“. Ham. Yoyo.

But now, in his first public appearance since surviving a plane crash earlier this year, Ford seems to have made his peace with the whole thing. In fact, he seems pretty stoked about it.

Coming on stage to a rapturous applause (around 1.05), Ford said, “I never expected it to come back — to bless me rather than haunt me … I never thought we would do another [but] I was very gratified when I read the script, because I read something that I thought was really remarkable and really well-written, with some really intriguing developments.”

As the release for Star Wars: The Force Awakens draws painfully closer — it comes out on December 18 — they also took this opportunity to blow some nerd minds with exclusive behind the scenes footage:

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All The Superheroes Were In One Place And The World Was Somehow Fine

At the end of a panel with stars of Fantastic Four, X-Men Apocalypse and Deadpool, comedian Chris Hardwick went full-Ellen and gathered everyone together for a vastly superior selfie. Wolverine, Mystique, Deadpool, Charles Xavier, Mr Fantastic, Psylock, The Invisible Woman, The Thing, Weasel, Magneto, Beast, Jean Grey, Gambit and Stan Motherfucking Lee were all there.

How many superheroes can you fit on a stage? #FoxSDCC #XMenApocalypse #Deadpool #Gambit #FantasticFour #Wolverine

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Somewhere, someplace, Ben Affleck was sitting alone with a single tear coming down his cheek.

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Bill Murray Sang Because Of Course He Did

Despite being the human embodiment of pop culture, this year was somehow Bill Murray’s first appearance at Comic-Con. There to promote his new film Rock the Kasbah, he showed up to his panel in character and proceeded to sing for the thousands in the audience.

Nope, he didn’t choose The Clash’s ‘Rock The Casbah’ as you might have assumed. Since everything he does is contractually obliged to be surprising and novel now, he launched straight into Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’.

Moments later, he asked the audience to indulge themselves and sing whatever song they want for the next 30 seconds. It’s perfect, and beautiful, and absolutely terrible.

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