After five days of chaos, the 38th annual Comic-Con wrapped up on Sunday, following 120,000 visitors, hundreds of programming hours, and more Hollywood stars than an Oscar ceremony.
“Excitement” doesn’t even begin to describe the buzz at the San Diego Convention Center as fans celebrated what the event billed “the popular arts.” Dozens of rooms simultaneously hosted events exploring the minutiae of Harry Potter, “Star Wars,” “Heroes” and many more; massive displays featured a life-size Jabba the Hutt, a 40-foot-long Black Pearl, and cars ranging from the original Batmobile to Speed Racer’s Mach 5 to the killer’s souped up ride in next month’s “Death Sentence.” Lou Ferrigno charged $20 for a Polaroid while a man nearby dressed as Jesus (with a curved glo-stick for a halo) offered the same for free; another man held up a sign touting the hundreds of high-fives he had dispensed.
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Marvel executives and “Iron Man” director Jon Favreau revealed plans to begin teaming heroes in future flicks.
300″ director Zack Snyder revealed the poster and cast for his highly anticipated “Watchmen” movie.
Steven Spielberg revealed live via satellite that Karen Allen would return in the forthcoming fourth “Indiana Jones” as the whip-wielder’s greatest love, Marion Ravenwood.
Director Paul W.S. Anderson served up his newest “Death Race” stars, Tyrese and Joan Allen.
Sam Raimi let it slip that he recently met with Marvel producer Avi Arad to lay the groundwork for a “Spider-Man 4″ script.
The villainous Zachary Quinto was announced as Mr. Spock in the upcoming “Star Trek” re-launch flick.
Speaking of Quinto’s “Heroes”, the NBC show was arguably the biggest success of Comic-Con, with a fire-regulations-pushing crowd in its booth each day and 10,000 fans showing up for a panel that had to turn most of them away.
Late Sunday afternoon, the last remaining geeks were dragged out of the convention center kicking and screaming, with shopping bags in one hand and light sabers in the other. Here’s hoping that the last Wolverine impersonator out the door remembered to turn off the lights.
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Comment by Frybread on 1 August 2007:
Comic Con has morphed into E3 — nothing but hot chicks showing of their bodies in revealing costumes.