HBO and Disney may have skipped this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, but there are still plenty of trailers for upcoming movies and TV shows spilling out of the event. We highlighted several the other day, including one for the Syfy series Nightflyers, based off a novella by George R.R. Martin. The biggest trailer to come out so far is probably for Warner Bros.’ Aquaman, an origin story about the superheroic king of the sea, starring Game of Thrones veteran Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo). Dive in:
Momoa certainly looks the part. I’m still not convinced they’re going to be able to make “guy who controls fish with his mind” cool. We’ll see when the movie hits theaters on December 21. And damn, that is some very red hair on Amber Heard.
Warner Bros., which has been making movies based on DC Comics characters for a few years now, also debuted a trailer for Shazam, about the superhero Captain Marvel. This one looks a little more fun:
Warner Bros. and DC have been trying for a while now to compete with Marvel Studios, which has had a ton of success with movies starring the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Black Panther, Spider-Man and the Guardians of the Galaxy. So far, Marvel is definitely in the lead. Can Warner Bros. close the gap with movies like these?
If you haven’t noticed, superheroes are very hot right now. Universal is throwing its hat into the ring with Glass, M. Night Shyamalan’s follow-up to his surprise hit Split, which was itself a surprise follow-up to his 2000 kinda-sorta superhero film Unbreakable. Will this movie stand alone, or will Universal looking to establish its own original superhero cinematic universe? Why not? Everyone else is doing it.
Anyway, this is Glass:
Sarah Paulson is going to be a tragic victim of her own hubris, isn’t she?
But it’s not all superheroes all the time. Warner Bros. also showed off the trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the sequel to 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, now with 90% more Johnny Depp as bad guy Grindelwald:
Starring Jude Law as Young Dumbledore.
Meanwhile, Stranger Things’ Mille Bobby Brown leads the cast of Godzilla: King of the Monsters:
Matt Groening, the guy behind The Simpsons and Futurama, is making a new animated series for Netflix. It’s called Enchantment, it’s set in medieval times and it has some explicit Game of Thrones references. Have a look:
We never saw anyone get impaled on the Iron Throne on the show (yet); glad to see it happens somewhere.
Let’s hit some sci-fi for a second. Comic-Con gave us trailers for the second season of Star Trek: Discovery…
…and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s Star Trek send-up The Orville:
And that’s it!
Just kidding; there are, like, 30 more superhero things, this time for TV:
San Diego Comic-Con 2018 ends today.
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