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New Trailers Debuted at Comic-Con Include Aquaman, Shazam, and The Simpsons (tvguide.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the cinematic-universes dept.

Today Comic-Con attendees were treated to new trailers and previews for a slew of upcoming geek-friendly movies. An anonymous reader writes: Besides footage from Wonder Woman 1984, there were also trailers for DC's Aquaman movie, plus a new DC superhero franchise with a lighter tone, Shazam. (And there was also a very apocalyptic preview of Godzilla: King of the Monsters.)

Numerous celebrities were on-hand to tout their upcoming films. Johnny Depp introduced the trailer for Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald -- in character -- while Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson introduced the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's Glass. Jamie Lee Curtis even plugged her return to the Halloween franchise 40 years after the original, revealing that her character has been waiting all these decades to kill Michael Myers after his release from prison.

TV Guide has collected most of the trailers for TV shows, including season 11 of Doctor Who, the revival of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and new seasons of Marvel's Iron Fist and Fear the Walking Dead. There was apparently also a trailer for Marvel's mutant series The Gifted -- and a preview for the 30th season of The Simpsons featuring this Halloween's "Treehouse of Horror XXIX", which includes a parody of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

42 comments

  1. I would have liked Grindelwald done better. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If instead of making him bland and boring, they had given him the real charisma and wit he could have shown as the one man able to outwit Albus Dumbledore and mock Tom Riddle to his face.

    But no, no, sophisticated villainy can't happen. That would require effort.

  2. Now I feel old... by DevNull127 · · Score: 1

    I watched the original Halloween when it first came out.

    I think it was the very first movie that Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel reviewed on their show....

    1. Re:Now I feel old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I watched the original Halloween when it first came out.

      So did I.

      We are old.

    2. Re: Now I feel old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are young. I watched the original Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

    3. Re:Now I feel old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Think how Jamie Lee Curtis feels. Do you think that when she make Halloween that all these years later she would put in an appearance in front of a bunch of nerds introducing a commercial for a film that represents the highlight of her career. That's gotta be depressing.

    4. Re:Now I feel old... by antdude · · Score: 1

      And she get paid well for it. :P

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    5. Re:Now I feel old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I watched the Simpsons's Treehouse of Horror I when it came out.

    6. Re:Now I feel old... by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 1

      Exactly. Convention and fan nerds were always there; she realized there was money to be had at appearances, directly, and indirectly by helping promote the movie to fans who yap to friends. And blog.

      She just needed less money over the years, unlike most franchise actors (think TV shows) who had little success elsewhere and wild horses can't keep them off the circuit.

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    7. Re: Now I feel old... by JackieBrown · · Score: 1

      They rebooted it?

  3. Shazam Nailed Billy Batson by rsilvergun · · Score: 1

    The guy playing Shazam himself I can kinda take or leave. I'd blame it on being hard to pull off the look but the guy playing Aquaman did it. That said, I'll probably stick to the animated movie that made not too long ago.

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    1. Re:Shazam Nailed Billy Batson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shazam is the wizard. The big red cheese is Captain Marvel. When did people start confusing the two?

      If Captain Marvel was known as Shazam, he'd change back to Billy any time he introduced himself. "Hi, pleased to meet you, I'm Shazam" -- BOOM -- "uh, Billy. Um, sorry about the lightning bolt. Hope you weren't carrying any electronics."

    2. Re:Shazam Nailed Billy Batson by aticus.finch · · Score: 1

      The guy playing Shazam himself I can kinda take or leave. I'd blame it on being hard to pull off the look but the guy playing Aquaman did it. That said, I'll probably stick to the animated movie that made not too long ago.

      Meh. He was good enough in Chuck, playing a childish man who accidentally got some superpowers. Pretty much the same character here, except instead of accidentally getting leet spy skills he gets other super powers. They probably considered his work in Chuck when making their decision. The only other thing I've seen him in was in the Psych! movie where he did a terrible job of playing a villain.

      Although, in Chuck the series didn't really get good until the second season, and then went downhill in the fourth season.

    3. Re: Shazam Nailed Billy Batson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There was an infringement lawsuit over Marvel's Captain Mar-Vell and DC lost. So they had to drop the name and go with Shazam

    4. Re: Shazam Nailed Billy Batson by Zobeid · · Score: 1

      They could have just gone back to Captain Thunder, which was his original name when his first comic was in development. DC have actually used that name a few times in different contexts, sometimes for alt-universe versions of him. Wikipedia has all the lowdown on that if you're curious.

    5. Re:Shazam Nailed Billy Batson by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 1

      When did they start confusing the two? Confusion was the default state. The truth is the shocker.

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  4. Where's Isis?? by zenlessyank · · Score: 1

    Shazam without Isis is heresy.

    1. Re: Where's Isis?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Isis had to change her name after the recent terrorist debacle. She's now going by Roseanne!

  5. Can't wait... by Hallux-F-Sinister · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just can't wait for them to reboot "The Simpsons." I mean, why let the fact that it's still running stop them? They've rebooted every damned thing else, why not something still on the air? OH! Why not have The Simpsons, The Next Generation, which focuses on Bart Simpson's grandkids as plucky young soldiers in the Second Robot War? As a set of secondary characters, you could offer Futurama fans some fan service by showing an early predecessor of Bender Robots who ironically is working hard, trying to help patch-up humans injured by his fellow robots in the war because he's a robot DOCTOR, damn it, and he treats the PATIENT, not the UNIFORM! It would be a kind of cross between The Simpsons, Star Trek: The Next Generation, with just a hint of M*A*S*H added for good measure. Throw in some blue-collar stuff and I'm pretty sure FOX would pick it up.

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    1. Re: Can't wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They already rebooted the Simpsons. Six times. 8 if you count the 3 variety shows.

    2. Re:Can't wait... by aticus.finch · · Score: 1

      I'd watch that! Futurama was the most insightful show on TV (and the only one to make a time-travel mechanism I find believable).

    3. Re:Can't wait... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      Well, there is a She-Ra reboot now... Maybe it will last longer than the He-Man reboot.

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    4. Re: Can't wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Microwave Popcorn?

  6. About time by ChromeAeonuim · · Score: 1

    plus a new DC superhero franchise with a lighter tone, Shazam

    Do they mean that in a figurative sense, or are they just going to stop applying the color dulling filter for this movie?

    1. Re:About time by denzacar · · Score: 1

      It's a comedy. With children. And wizards.

      Which is not exactly a bright idea, as they are clearly grafting it onto existing Justice League universe.
      One of the two will have to be "adjusted". A LOT.
      And my sunk cost fallacy sense tells me it will be Shazam.

      Funny how with Aquaman they do get that if the character is too stupid for modern age you shouldn't try to do the origin story but simply establish the character first.
      THEN do a quick fill-in of the details and move on.

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  7. Omgomgomg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Holy fucking shit there's nothing more fucking amazing than commercials for stuff that I already knew about

    Holy fuuuuuuuck I'm gonna need more chicken tendies

  8. local chaos by swell · · Score: 2

    As a literate person who can spell 'omphaloskepsis', I worry about the future when shallow comic characters are the pinnacle of entertainment. People try to convince themselves that this it sci-fi, but it's only fantasy. The pornographic costumes are the main attraction to pubescent viewers and more than a few others. The simplistic moral lessons are mind numbingly stupid; good versus evil over and over with magical powers on all sides.

    But there's always a hope that they will gravitate toward real sci-fi and real human drama that makes interesting storytelling. On the other side of the equation are 'literary' types who have no imagination or creativity and look down on sci-fi. ComicCon should be a bridge to bring us all closer.

    Gotta say that San Diegans are in turmoil this time of year. Many hate the colorful fans and congestion and confusion. Of course there's money to be made which pleases a few. I'm happy to have this happy chaos in our conservative city.

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    1. Re:local chaos by Powercntrl · · Score: 1

      I worry about the future when shallow comic characters are the pinnacle of entertainment.

      Mainstream entertainment has always catered to the lowest common denominator. In ye olden days, an execution could easily draw as big of a crowd as a well-rehearsed play.

      No one is stopping you from picking up a tome in your favorite esoteric genre.

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    2. Re:local chaos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ComicCon should be a bridge to bring us all closer.

      Gotta say that San Diegans are in turmoil this time of year. Many hate the colorful fans and congestion and confusion. Of course there's money to be made which pleases a few. I'm happy to have this happy chaos in our conservative city.

      Are you complaining that ComicCon focuses too much on Comic book characters???

    3. Re:local chaos by aticus.finch · · Score: 1

      As a literate person who can spell 'omphaloskepsis', I worry about the future when shallow comic characters are the pinnacle of entertainment.

      They probably said the same thing about stuff considered "classics" today. Shakespear, for example, was the Justin Bieber of his time.

    4. Re:local chaos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you complaining that ComicCon focuses too much on Comic book characters???

      It may seem stupid from Americans, but it you look at the bigger picture, GP has a point.

      The obvious counterpart to America comics is, obviously Japanese manga/anime.

      Compare the popular comics characters and storyline you usually see in American comics, such as Avengers, Superman, etc, to the popular manga series, such as Gundam, Psycho-pass, Steins Gate, etc. GP's comment "simplistic moral lessons are mind numbingly stupid; good versus evil over and over with magical powers on all sides" became very obvious.

      While, of course, there are simplistic manga/anime stories as well, but the diversity and depth of manga rivals that of novels in America. You can find novels on any topic in Amazon, similarly you can find manga on nearly any topic in Japan.

      While the stereotype of manga loving teen in Japan is very similar to that of a comic loving teen in America, however, underneath, many manga are very thought provoking, much much more so than the popular American comics.

    5. Re: local chaos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >shallow

      Son, you're either not listening hard enough or ignoring anything going against your opinion.

    6. Re:local chaos by quantaman · · Score: 1

      As a literate person who can spell 'omphaloskepsis', I worry about the future when shallow comic characters are the pinnacle of entertainment. People try to convince themselves that this it sci-fi, but it's only fantasy.

      It's not sci-fi or fantasy, it's comic book. The comic book genre is essentially standard action blockbuster with a bit more drama and philosophy than usual.

      The pornographic costumes are the main attraction to pubescent viewers and more than a few others.

      They're a secondary appeal, but I'd say they're far from the main attraction. To the expect that pubescent viewers go on about them they're just tying to show off for their friends. As opposed to traditional films they're probably unusual to the extent that the leading actresses are able to keep their clothes on.

      The simplistic moral lessons are mind numbingly stupid; good versus evil over and over with magical powers on all sides.

      Did you see the latest Avengers? The plot was literally driven by a difference in philosophy.

      But there's always a hope that they will gravitate toward real sci-fi and real human drama that makes interesting storytelling.

      Like what? There have been and continue to be pure character dramas and slightly harder SF films, the victims of the comic book movies don't seem to be the more artsy intellectual films, it's the other action blockbusters that aren't getting made.

      And as blockbusters go I think they're fine, if anything they do a bit more character and philosophy than most.

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    7. Re:local chaos by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 1

      Never, ever, not no way, not no how, forget this philosophical comic "dilemma" is a fraud driven by the company's interest to keep characters around for later reuse.

      You don't think Rick spared Negan because he wanted to honor childish wishes of a child who almost died twice, almost had his arm cut off, and ultimately did die because of Negan?

      No, it's needed for the corporate wishes for The Continues Stories With Negan.

      Like nerd stories? "Mixelplik" has visited this surrounding world with what would, by comic book standards, be the incalculably evil writers who keep these people alive and rerurning over and over.

      Thor, several Ragnaroks ago, visited the Fates and supergods and stopped the puzzling cycle where they kept having their one and only Ragnarok, over and over thru the decades.

      It didn't take.

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    8. Re:local chaos by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0

      If there's no science in it, it's not science fiction. Looking your way, Star Trek TNG/DS9/VOY/etc.

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    9. Re:local chaos by oldmac31310 · · Score: 1

      'omphaloskepsis' seems to be missing from my dictionary. Care to elucidate?

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  9. I lost interest in Shazam! when.... by mark-t · · Score: 1

    .... DC wouldn't/couldn't call their character "Captain Marvel" anymore.

    The ship has sailed, I know... but it's still my own personal objection.

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    1. Re:I lost interest in Shazam! when.... by Zobeid · · Score: 1

      Yes, it grinds. But then I don't think DC have ever understood the character or known what to do with him ever since they acquired him from Fawcett. If you go back and read the original comics that made him a huge success back in the 1940s, they're silly, they're whimsical, sometimes surreal, they're fun, and they're the absolute diametric opposite of the DC mentality where every comic has to become the Dark Knight. I watched this new Shazam movie trailer, looking for some hint that they know where they are going with this, and... I am still uncertain. At least they are going more lighthearted with it, but I won't really be a believer until I see him to go the jungles of Venus and get mobbed by Dr. Sivana's army of giant toads.

    2. Re:I lost interest in Shazam! when.... by samwichse · · Score: 1

      Let's face it, DC never knows where they're going with any of their characters (except batman, then it's always "darker").

      Sad but true...
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  10. This counts as news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thing that happens at every comiccon happens at this comiccon! News at 11!

  11. Oh great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That means THREE new videos here...