Tag Archives: New York Comic Con

Entertainment

‘Outlander’ Season 7, part 2 Trailer Ushers in Death, Loss, Redemption

Leave a comment

Starz debuted a brand new trailer for the second half of Outlander‘s seventh season on Thursday whereas its forged shared reflections on their greater than 10-year journey with the present at New York Comedian Con. 

Throughout a 45-minute panel, stars Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin and John Bell appeared alongside government producer Maril Davis and creator Diana Gabaldon to tease what followers can anticipate for the Fraisers throughout time when the brand new episodes debut on Nov. 22. 

Davis kicked off the panel by telling attendees, “It’s such an emotional rollercoaster season seven — demise, loss, redemption. The whole lot is within the second half. It’s even higher than the primary.” Gabaldon strengthened Davis’ description, telling the conference, “It’s such a tremendous second half. I can’t anticipate folks to see it.”

The episodes will see most of the characters returning to Scotland, and Heughan mirrored with Balfe on the “actually particular” return to the place the place their characters’ kicked off their tales. “Carry your whiskey, your tissues. It’s fairly intense. So I feel that’s one which can be talked about in some ways,” Davis added. 

Outlander | Season 7, Part 2 Official Trailer | STARZ

Whereas reflecting on the present’s tenth 12 months anniversary, Heughan recalled the sensation of being “actually inexperienced” going into the present. “We have been naive,” he advised followers. “I feel we each thought it might solely final a season or two. Eleven years later, eight seasons, 101 episodes, we’re so grateful.”

Balfe mirrored on rising with the characters during the last decade, reiterating the pack that she and Heughan made early on to all the time have one another’s again within the filming course of. “I feel we have now caught to that, however it’s been such an honor to have the ability to play characters and watch them develop and be capable of construct a life with them. Each time you do a scene, it’s a reminiscence. Each time you get to play them, you’re filling that reminiscence again, and after that, the character simply grows inside you.”

Rankin and Skelton each spoke about their audition processes, with Rankin recalling at one level viewing sides for Jaime and being separated from the remainder of forged for therefore lengthy in gentle of the time variations. “I bear in mind after we arrived on the present, it was prefer it was sort of a movie on a special TV present, as a result of we have been utterly segregated for the remainder of the forged,” Rankin mentioned. 

Bell expressed appreciation for having the ability to, in the midst of his character’s arc, heart an Indigenous group. “To have the ability to be part of the Mohawk Nation and inform their tales and be part of that story was the most important privilege of my life,” he mentioned. 

Balfe’s first-time directing this season was additionally broached, with the actress noting that she discovered it tougher to direct than act, however inspired different girls to get into filmmaking. “I used to be bracing myself for getting a number of slack, however I feel it was wonderful. My first day was Sophie and Richard, and also you guys have been so wonderful and so beneficiant,” the actress-director mentioned. “It’s a nerve wracking factor to face in entrance of the crew and tackle this new function however to return into it with these guys — I do know them so nicely as co-stars, and to be like, ‘Hey, do this or attempt that.’ It was actually simply such an unimaginable expertise.” 

At one level, Davis expanded on feedback lately made at PaleyFest that not everybody within the forged has seen the finale to keep away from leaks of the ending. “[Producer] Matt Rogers didn’t need everybody to get our regular distribution, and so we didn’t put out the complete script to everybody. We’re not telling folks the tip,” she mentioned, earlier than including Gabaldon is conscious of how the sequence is concluding. “We did speak to Diane about it. We have been very cautious. We didn’t need to step on her toes. There may be one other e book, so we’re ending it the way in which we’re.”

When requested what they could be capable of tease about what’s coming, Davis acquired considerably emotional speaking in regards to the present getting nearer to its sequence finale. The eighth season has been introduced as the ultimate run, although a prequel is at present in manufacturing.

“It was such a troublesome season in so some ways,” she mentioned. “I feel this season is a celebration of our characters and attempting to hit among the excessive factors and finish on a word that hopefully folks can be happy with. However I really feel prefer it’s inconceivable to fulfill everybody as a result of the present’s not going to go on, and I feel there’s a unhappiness with that. So I don’t know this. This season had a vibe to it.”

Different forged members, together with Bell and Heughan, mirrored on saying goodbye and filming the tip of the season. Each famous how emotional the various goodbyes on the set have been, whilst there’s has been “satisfaction” and “pleasure” round all of their work. “It’s been an unimaginable journey, and even coming to Comedian Con, which is all the time such a pleasure for us to return right here. It’s so enjoyable to share with you guys,” Heughan mentioned. “Coming this time, there’s this bittersweet schedule of taking pictures after which going and selling and doing press because it’s coming to an finish.”

As they take a look at their lives past the sequence, many seemed ahead to getting sleep and time again to journey, being with household and dealing on different initiatives. However all shared a gratitude in regards to the present’s journey. “This present has constructed such a legacy that has continued on, so we’ll be speaking about it for some time,” Bell added. 

Entertainment

The Electric State Plot Teased by Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt

Leave a comment

The Electrical State promised large journey and even larger motion throughout a panel at New York Comedian Con, which confirmed off Anthony and Joe Russo’s newest Netflix movie.

The footage and dialogue with creatives and solid — together with Chris Pratt and Millie Bobbie Brown — was introduced to an electrical crowd on the Empire Stage on Thursday, hours after a brand new teaser trailer dropped on-line.

The Electric State | Official Teaser | Netflix

The movie hits Netflix March 16 and is a spin on Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel, which explores a battle between man and clever machine set within the ‘90s.

Electrical State follows Michelle (Brown), a younger lady with a candy, however mysterious robotic who groups up with eccentric drifter Keats (Pratt) for a cross-country expedition to search out her brother in a retro-futuristic U.S., the place an uneasy peace has settled following a human and AI battle. 

Joe, who jokingly shared that he’s “exhausted” together with his present slate of labor (which features a pair of upcoming Avengers films), famous that he and Anthony started work on the mission 5 years in the past, and had been happy to reunite with a few of their Avengers: Endgame collaborators, together with Pratt, Anthony Mackie and writers Christopher Markus Stephen McFeely.

“It’s an actual ardour mission. We’re very, very excited to convey it to audiences. It’s huge in scale. We love telling very large tales,” mentioned Joe.

Pratt shared that earlier than taking the script, he had “100%” deliberate to take day without work, however attending to re-team with earlier collaborators and the story grabbed him.

“It’s not the form of factor that usually will get made to be a blockbuster fashion film like this. It’s so unique, it’s an enormous swing,” Pratt defined. “I believed that all these films may be my final alternative to be in an enormous film like this. I’ve to have a look at each alternative like that. And I did. It’s simply such an important story. I used to be moved to tears studying.”

By way of how the Russos approached this adaptation, Anthony pointed to the “fascinating” artwork of Stålenhag’s graphic novel, and likened the expertise to adapting Marvel Comics properties for Captain America: Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil Warfare, Avengers: Infinity Warfare and Endgame.

“We simply appeared on the photographs, and the story that he unfolds within the graphic novel. It is rather opaque. It’s form of arduous to grasp it. You get it in glimpses,” mentioned Anthony. “You’ll be able to inform there’s a a lot bigger world behind what he’s telling you within the graphic novel which you can solely guess at.”

A part of the problem was telling one story in a two-hour characteristic slightly than in a extra expansive graphic novel. “It’s a must to get rather more particular concerning the narrative, so we had an important, nice enjoyable, kind of diving in and utilizing his unimaginable paintings as inspiration to determine what sort of story we are able to inform this world,” mentioned Anthony.

Joe and Anthony got here up within the business on TV exhibits like Arrested Improvement and Neighborhood. Joe famous there are lots of Neighborhood-esque parts within the movie, together with well timed conversations and points.

“Think about a Nineties the place, within the late ’50s, Disney animatronics grew to become sentient after which began demanding equal rights,” mentioned Joe. “That’s what, that’s the place the battle comes out. It cherry picks the ’90s in a manner that helps that storytelling and helps the theme of the film.”

Added Pratt concerning the time interval: “It’s a ‘90s that’s reflective of our trendy world.” A behind-the-scenes clip noticed Pratt and Brown displaying off the assorted props and manufacturing design parts that talk to the movie’s ‘90s nostalgia like Massive Mouth Billy Bass, Cabbage Patch Children, Barbie, VHS, and Beanie Infants. It emphasised how the movie can pay tribute to the period, whereas mixing in trendy tech and points. 

By way of what the administrators had been attempting to evoke, Joe famous that they had been impressed by the ‘80s films of Amblin or Robert Zemeckis, together with Alan Silvestri’s scores, pointing to Again to the Future. 

Later, Brown revealed she had little prep between capturing this and one other film, however did take time to consider what she needed her “angsty teen” character to evoke, sending in pictures of Drew Barrymore within the ‘90s. “I had by no means performed something like this earlier than,” Brown mentioned. “It was very completely different. As an actor, it challenged me… The Russos did such a lovely job in directing my trajectory … I saved going again to the Russos, ‘how would you like me to play this and that?’ We actually discovered it collectively.”

New footage confirmed Brown and Pratt’s character carried round in an previous volkswagen van by Herman, Keats’ large robotic good friend (voiced by Anthony Mackie). As Keats recollects why he has belief points and the way the 2 ended up assembly and saving one another within the robotic wars, they come across a seemingly deserted mall. However they quickly uncover it’s not deserted after they’re attacked and approached by a brand new robotic after their van has flipped. 

After the clip, Joe spoke about bot Herman’s backstory, and revealed extra concerning the main roles the robots and people will play within the movie. “What’s fascinating about all of the lead characters within the film is that all of them have some trauma of their lives that they’re operating from,” he mentioned. “They’re all dropouts in their very own manner. Know-how’s actually pervasive within the film, however none of them wish to take part in it, and so they discovered their very own method to escape it. Herman is a dropout. He’s dropped out of robotic society. Doesn’t take part in it… they reside off the grid and on the run from the regulation collectively.” 

Brown and Pratt additionally spoke to how working with movement seize and different know-how created enjoyable challenges. “ I’ve an enormous quantity of gratitude to the Russos, but additionally the mocap actors and workforce that helped construct the world so we didn’t must do a lot of the work,” Brown mentioned. 

Along with Pratt and Brown, the movie additionally stars Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Jason Alexander, Giancarlo Esposito, and Woody Norman, with Woody Harrelson, Mackie, Brian Co, and Jenny Slate lending their voices to the movie’s main robots. Whereas discussing the movie, the administrators spoke about The Electrical State’s solid, addressing their love for ensembles. 

“We’re large followers of ensemble storytelling. You’ll be able to see it in all of our work: our smaller films, our larger films, our tv work. We predict it’s as a result of we got here from an enormous Italian American household the place there have been a lot of individuals in small rooms collectively, speaking loudly on a regular basis,” mentioned Anthony. “You simply develop a way of group and an appreciation for the number of voices that contribute to your expertise.”

To shut out the panel, Brown shared a heartfelt message concerning the significance of households having escapist movies to observe, one thing the Russos touched on firstly of the panel. “It actually takes you on a journey,” she mentioned. “Escapism is big, and I believe it’s so beautiful for households to have that second the place they’re capable of take themselves out of this world that’s so scary and put themselves right into a world that’s so transformative.”

Entertainment

Prophecy’ Trailer Shows Off a Major Threat at NYCC

Leave a comment

The Dune: Prophecy solid and producers teased new collection particulars and the way the present is linked to Denis Villeneuve’s movies whereas discussing the HBO and Max collection throughout New York Comedian Con on Thursday.  

Through the hourlong panel, new footage was teased together with appearances by showrunner Alison Schapker, govt producer Jordan Goldberg, together with castmembers Emily Watson (Valya Harkonnen), Olivia Williams (Tula Harkonnen), Travis Fimmel (Desmond Hart), Sarah-Sofie Boussnina (Princess Ynez), Josh Heuston (Constantine Corrino), Chloe Lea (Lila) and Jessica Barden (younger Valya Harkonnen). 

The panel kicked off with a trailer foretelling troubles “higher than simply Arrakis,” with challenges for the king hidden in plain sight and a mission to erase the sisters from existence. Schapker quickly after teased the place the collection will start, telling attendees “we’re within the shadow of the wars” and within the aftermath of the struggle in opposition to AI. “Computer systems, considering machines, have been outlawed. Does that imply they’re not floating across the universe in varied methods, who is aware of?” the showrunner stated. “People should attempt to fill the voids of what was carried out by expertise. Now people are coming to try to push the boundaries of what it means to be human.”

Dune: Prophecy | Official Series Trailer | Max

Later within the panel, Schapker added that the workforce has been “writing a present that’s involved with energy and fact and tales, and what does it imply to have charismatic leaders. Is that one thing to be adopted; one thing to be suspicious of? Dune raises every kind of questions on how energy operates within the mild, but in addition the way it operates within the shadows.

“The sisterhood actually has a distinguished public place, they usually have these jobs as truthsayers. They’re within the halls of energy, they’re instructing ladies, and insinuating themselves into noble households. However they’re additionally pulling strings behind the scenes. That actually speaks to each time interval and highlights some questions all of us could be asking of energy at any given second, together with in the present day,” she continued. “Within the movies, they’re very a lot of their full energy, they usually’re making their strikes, however they’re cloaked in a form of mystique. One of many nice issues about this collection is we actually don’t wish to take away their mystique, however we do go behind their closed doorways and form of see how they function.”

She went on to tease that the collection will present the Atreides, in addition to the “starting of the Harkonnen household at a time once they’re not fairly the extra monstrous model that you simply see 10,000 years later.” As an alternative, it’s the seeds of the Harkonnen household in an earlier time, when “you’re coping with individuals who have great pressure and willingness to go to nice lengths to attain their objectives and an ideal huge grudge.”

As for a way the present will likely be linked to the latest movies, Schapker supplied nice reward for  Villeneuve’s movies, telling followers they set a “excessive bar and actually unlocked Dune for many individuals — simply invigorated the unbelievable work that’s on the market. We undoubtedly felt like we needed to only attempt in each method to be worthy of holding down a special nook of the Dune universe.”

Later, whereas discussing the Dune Expertise activation and the clothes, the solid and artistic workforce additionally teased the manufacturing workforce’s work. “Crew from prime to backside simply did such unbelievable work, and I do suppose that’s a testomony to Dune, and the storytelling that individuals simply attain so deep to understand it and and do it justice and make it with love,” the showrunner stated. “There isn’t any element that we didn’t pore over and take into consideration and punctiliously contemplate. It actually exhibits.”

The prequel to director Villeneuve’s two-part movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed science fiction epic, this small-screen tackle Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s prequel Sisterhood of Dune facilities on two Harkonnen sisters combating the forces that threaten humankind’s future and within the course of set up the Bene Gesserit sect. 

The dialog, which served as the primary public dialogue of the movie by members of the collection’ inventive workforce and solid, vastly expanded on the thematic and literal struggle for energy and management already previewed in two prior teasers of the collection. 

Dune: Prophecy will debut on HBO and Max this Nov. 15.