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

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.

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Re: Where's Isis??

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Can't wait...

[Hallux-F-Sinister]

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.

local chaos

[swell]

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.