Following yesterday’s panel and Q & A at Comic Con, AMC has given us a kick-ass trailer for Season 2 of their incredible new series “The Walking Dead”. Four minutes and thirty nine seconds worth! The series, based on a comic book of the same name created and written by Robert Kirkman, broke ratings records for the network when it debuted last year.
In the trailer we see Andrew Lincoln’s Sheriff Rick Grimes continue to try to lead his struggling band of survivors to some sort of safety. But is anywhere safe? And the tensions within that group that began to surface in Season 1 are obviously mounting. While it does exponentially increase the possibilities in terms of where the story can go, is it a mistake to split up the group or will it be their salvation?
A few quotes from the panel via AMC’s twitter stream:
“{Andrew} Lincoln did most of his own stunts – even driving, and he only started to drive four years ago.”
“{Frank} Darabont: “It picks up 2 seconds after the end of season 1. It literally begins with them driving away from the CDC. There’s none of this six months later B-S.”
“{Norman} Reedus: “Dude, I run around with a crossbow and shoot zombies in the brain, it’s awesome.”
“The Walking Dead” features a cast that includes, in addition to Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies (“Prison Break”) as his wife Lori, Jon Bernthal (“The Class”, The Ghost Writer) as Deputy Shane Walsh, Laurie Holden (“The Shield”) as Andrea, Jeffrey DeMunn (The Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile among others) as Dale, Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints) as Daryl Dixon, Steven Yeun (“The Big Bang Theory”) as Glen, Emma Bell (Frozen) as Amy and Chandler Riggs (Get Low) as Carl Grimes.
Below you’ll find a reel from Season 1 featuring all of the tried and true methods that will kill a zombie (or ‘Walker’):
“The Walking Dead” season 2 premieres Sunday October 16 at 9pm on AMC.
Hot on the heels of the new images and the cool retro looking poster, Comic Con has yielded a first teaser trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire starring MMA fighter Gina Carano, Channing TatumEwan MacGregor, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton and Michael Fassbender.
Here’s the official synopsis:
This dynamic action-thriller directed by Oscar® winner Steven Soderbergh boasts a talented cast and introduces mixed martial arts superstar Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, in a demanding lead role that has her performing her own high-adrenaline stunts.
Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find the truth in order to stay alive.
Using her black-ops military training, she devises an ingenious—and dangerous—trap. But when things go haywire, Mallory realizes she’ll be killed in the blink of an eye unless she finds a way to turn the tables on her ruthless adversary.
Is it wrong I enjoyed the hell out of Gina Carano beating the crap out of Channing Tatum? I did not, however, like it when she mauled Michael Fassbender including a scissor lock with her thighs around his neck and throwing him through a glass door. She’s going to have to work hard to regain my sympathies after that one.
The trailer was presented at Comic Con during the Relativity Panel. The film doesn’t come out until January 20, 2012. Grrrrr.
So why then, you might well ask, did I start it with another picture of Jason Momoa at Comic Con? Because I had to. I just did. Not to mention then I didn’t have to choose which poster to lead off with. (C’mon…you gonna tell me you don’t want to look at that gloriously hot mess of hair and testosterone? Please.)
Moving right along…First up is the first official poster for The Raven, starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe. We’ve shown you some really cool images featuring Cusack and his co-star Luke Evans, but now Relativity has given us the first one sheet. It looks like it came from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe.
The official synopsis:
“In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allen Poe joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Evans), after a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered, in order to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta), the film also stars Alice Eve (Sex and the City 2), Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Faster).
The Raven had a panel/autograph signing at at San Diego’s Comic Con today and opens in theaters in the US on 9 March 2012.
(Ryan you know I love you, and I accept that you’ve got a plan for Machine Gun Preacher…I would just be really really grateful if you revealed it to the rest of us.)
Speaking of Relativity, they are also distributing Haywire, which also got a brand new poster, as well as sharing that Hall H panel/autograph session with The Raven.
Haywire is an action thriller starring Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton, Mathieu Kassovitz, Channing Tatum (one of these things is not like the other…) and newcomer, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Gina Carano.
The plot involves Mallory Kane (Carano), a freelance covert operative who is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can’t authorize and heads of state would rather not know about. When an operation goes awry and Kane finds she’s been double crossed, she needs all of the skill and ability at her disposal to escape an international manhunt and at the same time protect her family and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.
I love this retro poster. It reminds me of some of the work of Saul Bass from the 70′s. I’d also love to know which one of her co-stars Gina Carano’s Mallory Kane is sitting on.
Haywire will be released January 20, 2012 release but is also heavily rumored for a debut at the Venice and/or Toronto International Film Festival.
Last but not least, we have a look at a new teaser poster for the new Spidey, The Amazing Spider-Man.
How cool is this thing? Just a close up look at the suit. Am I the only one who wants to run their fingers over it? I want to know what it feeeels like.
Columbia’s reboot of the franchise focuses on high school-era Peter Parker as he comes to terms with his new found superpowers.
The Amazing Spider-Man won’t swing into theaters until July 3, 2012 so I’m sure there is a lot more to come!
Our newest boyfriend, Jason “Momoan” Momoa descended upon Day 1 of San Diego’s Comic Con yesterday in a big way. Pffft, I’m willing to bet that’s his standard modus operandi.
In any case, Jason was there for HBO’s “Game of Thrones” panel. If you look at the dais, he is clearly the biggest human on the stage. I find it amusing that not only did they seat him next to Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, wife of his character Khal Drogo (RIP), but they placed him next to Peter Dinklage. (Hey, I’m not making fun! But it was clearly someone’s idea to juxtapose the largest with the smallest!)
Now, ‘My Personal Idea of a Hawaiian Luau’ looked cool and appropriately bad-ass with the shades on, although I can see how some might think that a little too “hipster auteur” for Comic Con. But…check it out! He took them off to reveal Khal Drogo Eyes! (Bette Davis? Pfffft) From the accounts I’ve read, he was the hit of the panel! Below are some excerpts from the transcript via Ant.ag:
3:13 p.m.On hand, we have a very bearded Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kit Harington, Lena Headey (with shades and a jaunty hat), Peter Dinklage (who receives a big piece of a Standing O, easily the biggest cheer of the panel), Jason Momoa (looking like a Dothraki rock star), Emilia Clarke (gorgeous, but dark-haired!) and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
3:22 p.m.For Jason Momoa, {author George R. R.} Martin asks, “Who would win? Khal Drogo or Conan?” Well, if Martin didn’t ask, the fans would. Momoa responds, “Well, George, between you and me… Drogo would kick Conan’s ass.” Then Momoa yells something loud in what may or may not be Dothraki. Awesome. 3:23 p.m.Apparently Momoa was responsible for the scene in which Drogo rips out a rival’s throat. “I wanted to do something so it looked like he was just the baddest man in the world,” Momoa says, apologizing to Martin for deviating from the book.
{co-creator David}Benioff says that the DVD will include the first auditions for all of the actors. Benioff has particular praise for Jason Momoa’s audition. He adds that he found Momoa through message boards. “No offense, but I hadn’t heard of you before… I hadn’t kept up on my ‘Baywatch,’” Benioff cracks. 3:30 p.m.Momoa did a dance for his auditions. The fans want to see it, but Jason demurs. Asked about Dothraki, Momoa says it sounded like “Jabba the Hutt and Fozzie Bear.” Momoa describes his big “rape and pillage” Dothraki speech as his favorite scene from the series.
3:38 p.m.First audience question: How much of the actors read the books? … Momoa read through and was unhappy when he got to Drogo’s fate. “I f***ing hated you, man. I was like f*** this,” Momoa tells Martin. “Bring him back,” much of the audience yells at Martin, who promises to take it under advisement. 3:40 p.m.“Well, it keeps you on your toes,” Martin says in response to a question about why he kills off so many beloved characters.
3:53 p.m.“I’ve never been a part of anything remotely close to this,” Momoa says, when asked to compare working on a Sci Fi Channel show to working on an HBO show. He loves that scifi and fantasy shows let you “rip someone’s throat out and rape beautiful women.” For the record, that is what his character did. And realizing what he’s just said, Momoa looked incredibly embarrassed and hid his face in his coat as the audience laughed.
Questioner calls Momoa her “sun and stars” and asks him about doing fight scenes with long hair. He says it was easy and ends with, “Thank you, moon of my life.” *THUD* Dead, I tell you, dead. I’m typing this from my grave.
…but the Conan the Barbarian shenanagens continued yesterday! There was a meet and greet at the Lionsgate Booth with Jason, Rachel Nichols and Stephen Lang, and a Q & A with Movies on Demand and then our boo hosted, in conjunction with “The Hero Complex” blog, the “Barbarian Bar Invasion” at Bubs at The Ballpark! Damn, why am I not in San Diego??
Hopefully I’ll have more from these two events. Conan the Barbarian opens in theaters August 19.
Basketball Wives’ star Evelyn Lozado who also happens to be Chad Ochocinco’s fiancee is the latest cast rumour of Season 13 of Dancing With The Stars.
Her fiance Chad Ochocinco danced into the hearts of many of us on Season 10 (March, 2010) and into the diamond-loving heart of his dance partner Cheryl Burke. Of course they weren’t a ‘couple’ in the true sense (at least they kept denying it) but how many guys give those kinds of diamonds to a woman he isn’t boning? Exactly.
So it’s reasonable to assume if she’s going to be on the show we will see him cheering her on, schedule permitting of course. So what’s a woman engaged to an NFL star doing on a show called Basketball Wives? Well perhaps it was because she was once engaged to basketball star Antoine Walker.
Not having watched Basketball Wives I can’t say I’m excited about this news. And so far with the other rumours I’m definitely not excited about Season 13 of Dancing With The Stars.
Yesterday the cast of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 opened the San Diego Comic Con to a lot of very excited people because not only were Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, and Elizabeth Reaser there in person, they previewed that honeymoon scene from Breaking Dawn but considering this site has some pretty big oinkers behind it, it’s the sex scene. Yeah, honeymoon, schmoneymoon. It was the sex scene we were all after.
Not only did we get a preview of that, but also word that even after Breaking Dawn Part 2, the Twilight Saga may very well carry on. Aside from opening my closet door and finding George Clooney crouching in there in a French Maid outfit it doesn’t get much better than that. What?
