San Diego Comic-Con Announces Programming Line-Up

[dalmatianjaws]

The official program for the 2008 Comic-Con has been released, and it looks like a solid year for movies, but lacks the HUZZAH of last year's Indy 4 and Iron Man panels.

Leading the pack is Universal's Wolfman panel on Friday, an attempt to milk more out of their three horror franchises.

With Rick Baker helming the FX it promises to be visually awesome, at the very least, and with Benicio Del Toro under the latex we'll probably have a bit more weight in the acting department.

Also on Friday is the Hobbit "rumor" panel (not affiliated with the actual movie, apparently) and of course The Watchmen panel.

Saturday is swamped with the rest of Universal's line-up (Mummy 3, Death Race, Land of the Lost), as well as Pixar (Up), Sony (Underworld 3 and Quarantine), and Terminator 4.

Sunday holds panels for the Friday the 13th remake, Hamlet 2, and the line-up for Rogue Pictures.

Despite all the major studio panels, I find it interesting that the most interesting preview is the independent steam-punk film the Mutant Chronicles starring Thomas Jane (The Mist, The Punisher) and Ron Perlman (Hellboy)

[Sheridan Passell]

I will bet you everything I own that Mutant Chronicles will be a shitfest. I saw the film the director made immediately before (Lighthouse) and it was terrible on every single level. How he got the gig amazes me.

[Sheridan Passell]

What about Transformers 2? Hasbro said they were showing footage.

[Tyler Lovemark]

I guess it's kind of sad that the only news I'm interested in is the Friday the 13th stuff.  There must be something wrong with me.

[Sheridan Passell]

To be honest that was the one that interested me the most too. But I do have three shelves full of old slasher films.

[dalmatianjaws]

You'll adore the youtube vid I just posted in the horror corner, if you havn't seen it already, but it was new to me.

I couldn't find Transformers anywhere on the line-up, save for the "new toys" which is bullshit.


Yeah, the trailer for Mutant Chronicles looks pretty bad. But damn, that poster is amazing.