Comic-with in the stars. The immense festival dedicated to the returns of pop culture on Thursday, July 24 in San Diego and will be marked by the first appearance of the creator of Star WarsGeorge Luca.
Founded in 1970, the event has grown to the point of becoming much more than a large mass of geeks and comics lovers: today it attracts immense crowds and main stars, which come to promote their new films and series.
The arrival of George Lucas, who has marked several generations with the sagas Star Wars AND Indiana JonesTherefore, it is the highlight for fans. The director of Lucas’s narrative art museum “is expected to present on Sunday, a museum in the form of a spacecraft whose construction is ending in Los Angeles.
The futuristic building must open its doors next year and the filmmaker will discuss this project with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro and designer Doug Chiang, who have largely participated in the configuration of the visual universe of Star Wars.
“It really is the circuit he buys,” said David Glanzer, Comic-Con communications manager, remembering that Mr. Lucas’s intergalactic opera had already caused a sensation during this demonstration almost fifty years ago.
Marvel back
Used to dominate the Comic-Con-on with ads related to the adventures of their multiple superheroes, the Marvel Studios will have this year a more discreet presence in the Comic-Con, without guaranteeing the presentation in the largest hall of the program.
The rest of the saga Avengers It is in the pipes, but its launch date was postponed in December 2026. Instead of interrupting the filming currently in progress in the United Kingdom to make its parade of actors, therefore, Marvel made the decision to book for the next year, according to Variety magazine.
The saga Foreign This will take the opportunity to steal the show, presenting the series “Alien: Earth”, which takes place a few years before the events portrayed in the Space Thriller of Ridley Scott, released in 1979.
Made by Noah Hawley, this FX production, the property of Disney, will gradually launch in the transmission from August.
Another monster will also have its moment of glory at the Comic-Con this year. The feature film “Predator: Badlands” will be presented during a round table on Friday, in the presence of director Dan Trachtenberg, and the actors that he advocates and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi.
In this new part of the franchise, the usual intrigue is overthrown: the predator is in hostile territory and becomes a dam, instead of being the hunter.
Ryan Gosling in Salvador
Another prominent point of this edition is expected that on Saturday Ryan Gosling. LastFilm scheduled for spring of 2026, where he embodied a science professor who woke up only aboard a spacecraft, which should avoid the extinction of the sun.
On the side of the DC universe, Marvel’s great rival, director James Gunn will present the second season of the antihero Pacifierintroduced in 2021 in the film The suicide squad.
Beyond all these promotional events, dozens of thousands of visitors disguised as princesses, warriors and other aliens as every year in San Diego are expected.
Comic-with takes place until Sunday.
Source: BFM TV
