So, San Diego Comic Con (sdcc) is an annual event which features numerous comic, movie, and tv franchises and usually brings a lot of news for them. 2018 was no different, except for less Star Wars and Marvel. That being with no marvel or star wars movie panels, but some news for both franchises did come out. That said, Star Wars non-movie material was one of the biggest winners of SDCC 2018, after Warner Bros. That is pretty much it, so now I will discuss all the big news and things I thought to be interesting from SDCC and I'll leave some links down below.
Thursday
Godzilla: King of Monsters teaser
The first little teaser for the sequel to the awesome Godzilla reboot, we would get a trailer later in comic-con.
#clonewarssaved:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Clone Wars is back on the upcoming Disney Streaming Service! The upcoming season will be 12 episodes long and marks the return of the series for the first time in years. The plot will cover the awaited Siege of Mandalore arc and will deal with Maul and his criminal enterprise, which makes me wonder if we can get more connections to Solo or Rebels. Also returning are Obi-Wan and Anakin, looking much more similar to his Revenge of the Sith design, which could bring a connection and shows he is very close to becoming Darth Vader. Also connectable is the return of Anakin's former apprentice, Ashoka Tano.
Speaking of streaming services, DC Universe was unveiled from DC comics and will launch with Titans and Young Justice. They also announced a Stargirl series for the platform. I think that the DC Universe doesn't look very worthwhile, considering the pricing is at 8 dollars a month and for just DC content, instead of a full Warner Brothers service, it shows me that WB doesn't have much faith in this either. In terms of originals, honestly nothing seems very original that they've shown, except for an announcement of a Swamp Thing series with the Aquaman director, which might be cool.
From Nickelodeon we got a trailer for the new animated series Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and they've released the first couple of episodes online. I will watch this, but there might be some problems, overall good though.
In other news, Deadline was reporting that Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana) would have his feature film directorial debut with the musical, Tick, Tick...Boom! I think this is great, Lin is very talented and should do well directing.
Friday
Sadly, as one director gets hired, another gets fired, as James Gunn, director of the first two Guardians of the Galaxy films was fired from the third by Disney. This decision was made over crude old tweets that were made before either Guardians film was directed or written, Disney was aware of the tweets, James Gunn has apologized for them, would never act on them, and has done much better, helping abuse victims speak out. This firing was made possible by far right "media figure" trolls. Aside from that, I really don't know what will happen with gotg3, James Gunn had a script and was going to begin production when he was fired, some people suggested it might be cancelled, but disney wouldn't drop a huge franchise like they would a director. I honestly don't know who will direct, but I suspect if production doesn't begin this year or is rushed the film will be delayed.
A trailer for the upcoming tv movie, Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus was released and it shows animation, but no voice-work yet. There also isn't a release date slated, but it should come out soon-ish.
An entire panel for Star Wars books was done by Del Rey and Lucasfilm publishing. The only major novel announced was Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray, starring Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon in the time before Phantom Menace, and will be released in 2019. I am very excited about this, because Claudia Gray is one of my favorite Star Wars authors and Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are two awesome characters that had a great dynamic only explored in one movie, so a novel will be awesome, there is also a ton of legends lore to mine on this and if even a tiny bit is kept, this will score. I also always enjoy pre-saga time-period content. I will definitely read and review Master & Apprentice.
They also announced Padmé Queen's Shadow by EK Johnston, this is a YA novel, I might read this because the book sounds interesting, but no offense to EK Johnston, I just wasn't a fan of her Ashoka book and since Claudia Gray was rumored to write this, the panel got me more excited for her book, than this one.
Some comics were also announced, Tales from Vader's Castle, a horror anthology centered around Vader's Castle and other familiar and non-familiar Star Wars characters. Published by IDW. This seems to be cool and I will read it.
From Marvel is their anthology series, republic, rebellion, resistance, which has 8 issues for each era and focuses on different aspects, stopping at The Last Jedi and Episode IX.
Revealed by Sony for their upcoming animated movie, Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-Verse was some character pictures and Spider-Ham, Peni Parker and Spider-Man Noir will be in the movie. Also Riot is the villain in Venom.
Saturday
Almost everything on Saturday was Warner Bros and DC, and they did dominate.
WB trailers
Aquaman Trailer #1
Shazam teaser
Godzilla King of the Monsters
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald
My thoughts on the DC trailers is that they were pretty awesome and they show a very good outlook for the DCEU. Aquaman seems like it will be a very interesting origin story and Shazam looks funny, but also like it will tie in well with the universe. The full Godzilla 2 trailer also came out and it looks spectacular, it's promised that there will be much more Godzilla and many more epic monsters with great effects. Fantastic Beasts 2 also had a trailer and a panel where a lot more info came out about the movie, Grindewald, Dumbledoor, and Nicholas Flamel are the new characters here and all seem pretty good, making for a good film.
It wasn't released to the world, but from people at the panel, we know that there was footage from Wonder Woman 84, showing a fight scene, which's cool.
DC CW trailers
Several trailers for DC's shows on CW came out, while they didn't reveal very much information. I'm not up to date on most of these, but the goings on still look at least fun.
I don't watch the show Krypton on syfy, but I am interested that they are adding the character of Lobo to the series' second season.
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Lastly, Netflix revealed some trailers for some animated series, one is from The Simpson's Matt Groening, Disenchantment and one from writers of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Dragon Prince. Both look neat, kind of Shrek and Avatar.
That is some of the biggest news out of comic-con. Obviously, much more than I could cover here. With how much was shown. I really think that the few days at sdcc has more news for media than several months. Links are below. Thank you for reading and stay connected.
Links:
Godzilla 1st teaser: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=emanE-Egu3A
Clone Wars trailer: https://youtu.be/RI7WyhWZkzk
DC Universe:
https://youtu.be/rSm8wq0YIuc
RTMNT Trailer:
https://youtu.be/asLU2NjEUZw
Lin-Manuel Miranda: https://deadline.com/2018/07/lin-manuel-miranda-directing-debut-tick-tick-boom-hamilton-jonathan-larson-steven-levenson-imagine-entertainment-musical-movie-1202429317/
James Gunn:
https://deadline.com/2018/07/james-gunn-fired-guardians-of-the-galaxy-disney-offensive-tweets-1202430392/
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwDN8pJvW2I
Star Wars Publishing Panel: https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2018/07/sdcc-disney-lucasfilm-publishing-panel-new-claudia-gray-novel-about-qui-gon-and-obi-wan-announced-and-more.html
Spider-Man: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-sdcc-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-footage-/1100-6460611/
Aquaman Trailer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WDkg3h8PCVU
Shazam Teaser: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=go6GEIrcvFY
Godzilla 2 Trailer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDtmouV9kM
Fantastic Beasts 2 Trailer: https://youtu.be/vvFybpmyB9E
DC CW trailers: https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/07/23/here-is-every-single-dc-arrowverse-trailer-out-of-comic-con/
Krypton Lobo: https://deadline.com/2018/07/krypton-introduce-lobo-season-2-comic-con-1202431055/
Netflix Animated: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/comic-con-2018-netflixs-the-dragon-prince-anime-ge/1100-6460631/
I think you should plan to attend in coming years. Make that a goal.
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