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Cosplayers dressed as Marvel

characters play around outside Comic Con.

Attendees wait to enter the convention centre.

Comic-Con celebrates Marvel’s return C OMIC book fans returned to San Diego, California recently for the latest Comic-Con, with convention-goers buzzing about this year’s return of Marvel. o Annual event features movie teasers, actor panels, cosplay

From left: Actor Walker Scobell, composer Bear McCreary and actor Aryan Simhadri attend the Percy Jackson And The

The studio skipped last year’s event, but were back at the coveted Hall H to promote Avengers: Doomsday , which is slated to premiere in December. Under the Russo brothers’ direction, the latest superhero flick will pick up where 2019’s Endgame left off, bringing together heroes and villains from X-Men, the Avengers, Black Panther and the Fantastic Four to duke it out once more. But surprises were often a major draw for the 130,000 fans who flock to the annual event, expecting to be wowed by movie previews and actor announcements. Actor Johnny Depp stunned passersby when he appeared on a street near the convention centre, decked out in full costume for the miserly Scrooge character of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to promote Ebenezer , due in cinemas in November. Later, the famed Pirates of the Caribbean swashbuckler burst into a panel, asking the audience: “Have you no lives? No responsibilities?”, before sharing a preview for his new holiday movie. Weapons prequel Weapons director Zach Cregger confirmed a script is in the works for F R OM the far reaches of the galaxy, the team behind Spaceballs: The New One , the sequel to comedy master Mel Brooks’s Star Wars parody, recently landed at Comic-Con in San Diego. The legendary filmmaker, who has just turned 100, did not attend Hall H, the convention’s largest venue, but recorded a hilarious video for an enthusiastic audience. “I know you’ve been waiting in line for a long time, maybe even days and I ask why. When I was your age, on a Friday, I would go to something called work,” Brooks joked. Spaceballs was released in 1987

Olympians press line.

A Jack Sparrow pirate cosplayer poses outside the Convention Centre during Comic-Con. – PICS FROM AFP

tonight so that I’m in there first thing tomorrow, I’m really excited,” said 21-year-old Adelaide. Her sister had tried to line up near dawn but “there was no line, and so she was like, okay. She came home, she rode her bike, and then she grabbed me and we came down around noon, and then we got in line.” The San Diego native is eager to see the panel for Percy Jackson and the Olympians , a fantasy TV series with its third season due out Nov 20. Fans shrieked over another morning panel titled Bite Me: Calling All Vampires , which brought together K-pop sensation Enhyphen and some cast members from 2008’s teen vampire blockbuster film Twilight . Since the pop culture festival began in 1970, it has grown into a major event, with thousands of sometimes-costumed fans gathering in San Diego to buy memorabilia, see their idols and celebrate beloved stories. DC Studios will also grace Hall H to preview its HBO series Lanterns , starring Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre as small-town Nebraska detectives, which debuts Aug 16. The flesh-and-blood narrative offers a new take on 2011’s Green Lantern, a Ryan Reynolds-led space adventure movie. On Friday, fans will see the hotly anticipated preview for Spaceballs: The New One , a long-awaited sequel to Mel Brooks’s legendary space comedy. Weeks before its opening in Los Angeles, the Lucas Museum were on hand to share new details about its exhibits. – AFP

Mayday , starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh. Calling all vampires Fans began lining up around noon for the following day’s events in coveted Hall H, with sisters Adelaide and Delaney Hall heading up the queue. “I’m gonna be camping out

hits that woman with his car, and I wanted to see if I could just put my foot all the way down on the gas pedal and not let up until the end of the movie. That was the challenge,” Cregger said. Game Night directing duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley shared teasers of Apple TV’s Cold War comedy

a prequel to the hit film that has “got a lot of twists and turns and mysteries and crazy things” to tell the origin story of the terrifying Aunt Gladys character. The filmmaker also offered a first look at Resident Evil, his adaptation of the video game that is expected to hit the big screen in September. “About five or six minutes in, he

100-year-old Mel Brooks appears at convention for Spaceballs sequel

Brooks is one of Hollywood’s oldest and still working veterans. – IMDBPIC

Brooks, who despite his age also acted in this instalment, was a great incentive. Moranis, returning to the big screen after a hiatus of about 30 years, reprised his role as Dark Helmet and was greeted with a standing ovation in Comic-Con’s main hall. “I started talking to Mel about a sequel in 1989, and we kept talking about it. I really wasn’t retired. I was just negotiating!” Moranis joked. Zuniga and the new stars of this galaxy, Keke Palmer and Lewis Pullman, also took to the stage, as well as the project’s screenwriters. – AFP

at the height of George Lucas’s galactic saga. Directed by and starring Brooks, alongside John Candy – who died in 1994 – Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman and Daphne Zuniga, it became a cult classic. “Everyone in this audience has kept Spaceballs alive for all these years, so from the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you, nerds,” Brooks said. In Hall H, director Josh Greenbaum, who is helming the sequel set to premiere four decades later in April 2027, admitted feeling pressure in taking on the project. But he said working with