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Want an exclusive piece of information? Seth Rogan stated tonight that his version of THE GREEN HORNET will NOT be played for comedic relief; it will be written as a straight, legitimate action movie. Take it for what it is.
OK, it’s Friday night, Saturday morning, 12:24 in the morning to be exact, and I have just come from the STAR WARS/WETA party to write a post.
What, with my screening of SUPERBAD just hours ago to said party where I consumed exactly two appletinis and two-thirds of a Heineken before tarrying away to Wendy’s so that I could eat great even late before midnight, I just had to let you know that I have seen the coverage from the other sites out there and, believe you me, there is no comparison.
Sure, you could follow the panels that have been written about, the information that’s been interpreted by other writers, but I figured something out this year with the help of esteemed EIC, Ken Plume: Video.
I bought a $15 tripod and hooked it up to my camcorder and took off into the throngs of my 1:1’s today and the ones I’ll be covering tomorrow. I should mention that if you’re interested in what major celebrities are saying to other sites who have been privileged enough to secure their holiest of holies, please go elsewhere. You can learn a lot from what a lot of writers are saying about the panels. For example, I can tell you, categorically, that the Warner Bros. panel sucked. It sucked for reasons that I can’t even explain at this point. I would use other, more descriptive language, to describe the sucktitude of the panel but I won’t.
I have audio.
It’s something I figured out after four years of attending this Comic-Con. You’ve got to get the stories no one else will bring and since most every single major studio deemed it good enough to shaft and tank every exclusive request for an interview I thought it would be fun to try and scoop the scoopers. Why bother having some writer’s interpretation of the panel’s events distilled when you can have the straight poop.
I have Zack Snyder’s audio of THE WATCHMEN panel; it’s just something no one else is going to bring you.
I’ve got Kevin’s latest Q&A.
I have a 1:1 video interview with Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon talking about BALLS OF FURY, where it ends up being hijacked by David Lo Pan himself, James Hong.
I’ve got the SUPERBAD Q&A which was done after an exclusive screening and where yours truly even made a jackass out of himself by asking a question about the Michael Cera “incident” which I never bothered to check up on after the fact to find out that the “leaked” video was just a hoax (yeah, that was a real journalistic shining moment).
I’ve got the lovely Missy Peregrym talking about her turn in HEROES and what her new series, THE REAPER, means to her career as an actress who’s simply trying to do whatever she can to stay out of the unemployment line. (She’s sensitive about these things…) She’s, perhaps, been the shining star of the Con so far.
I’ve even got Blair Butler of G4 taking some minutes to talk to me about comic books, nerd-ism and the magic of the con.
But, for now, you’ve all got to wait it out until I process all this raw footage. I’m not in the mood to do anything with it, I still have tomorrow to go. So far I’m looking at 1:1’s with the actors of MONSTER SQUAD, the director for SAW and a socio/political cartoonist who should be credited with being a voice for those of us who see our country devolving in ways that we can’t control on our own, Ted Rall.
Comic-Con is quite exciting this year. I don’t care what the haters will have you believe, the Con is just as alive and well as it should be, regardless of the slack treatment I’m getting by those in charge of the talent.
Wish you were here.
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