SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 2010
WONDERCON: CHRIS EVANS TALKS CAPTAIN AMERICA
SAN FRANCISCO -- Chris Evans, announced by Marvel Studios as the star of The First Avenger: Captain America on Friday, talked about the role for the first time at WonderCon on Saturday.
"I think Marvel is doing a lot of good things right now," said Evans during a press conference for The Losers. "It's a fun character, even if it wasn't a comic book. I think the story of Steve Rogers is great. He's a great guy. Even if it was just a script about anybody, I'd probably want to do it.
"He's a great character to play. He just happens to be a comic-book hero, too, and that's where I'm coming from."
Captain America will be Evans' fifth comic-book film, following the two Fantastic Four movies and the upcoming The Losers and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
According to Evans, he sort of fell into the comic-book genre.
"I don't have a history or love of reading them. I didn't grow up reading them, but they're fantastic for film," he said.
Evans said there is a unique aspect about comic-book movies, though.
"it's an intangible thing," he said. "You have all of these different creative people come together trying to make something. The director is the quarterback trying to bridge the gap of all these different artists together with words. A lot of the times, the message can be lost in translation.
"The beautiful thing about comic books or even movies based on novels, you have a blueprint, you have something tangible thing where you can go, 'This is the world we're going for.' Especially in comic books you have a color palette, you have a visual home base to root yourself in. As an actor it's nice knowing at least the people behind the visual element to the film have this nice blueprint to work off. As an actor you have something to go off of too. It's a treat! It's always nice working on a comic book (film) because you know what you're getting into beforehand."
WONDER CON: STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS
The trailer for the Season 2 finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars debuted at WonderCon on Saturday during a panel devoted to the animated series.
Lucasfilm subsequently released the trailer. To watch it, CLICK HERE.
Supervising director Dave Filoni, Daniel Logan (voice of Boba Fett) and Jaime King (voice of Aurra Sing) attended the panel.
The two-part season finale, "R2 Come Home" and "Lethal Trackdown," is scheduled to air on Friday, April 30 on Cartoon Network.
WONDERCON: DC UNIVERSE EDITORIAL PRESENTATION
The DC Universe Editorial Presentation at WonderCon wasn't a presentation as much as a 90-minute question-and-answer session.
Panelists included Ian Sattler, Geoff Johns, James Robinson, Bryan Q. Miller, J.T. Krul, Gail Simone and David Finch.
For highlights, CLICK HERE.
WONDERCON: ONI PRESS
Emboldened by the recent debut of the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World trailer, Oni Press staged its panel at WonderCon on Saturday.
Panelists included Cory Casoni, Greg Rucka, Matthew Southworth and Ted Naifeh
For highlights, CLICK HERE.
WONDERCON: ASPEN COMICS
Aspen Comics staged its first panel of 2010 in typical style with a slide show, question--and-answer session and usual good-natured ribbing.
Panelists included Peter Steigerwald, Frank Mastromauro, J.T. Krul, Vince Hernandez and Joe Benitez.
For highlights, CLICK HERE.
WONDERCON: IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics presented its The Image Comics Show on Saturday at WonderCon with several announcements.
For highlights, CLICK HERE.
JUNE SOLICITATIONS ROUNDUP
For previously posted May solicitations, click on the publishers' names below:
* Archie Comics.
* Aspen Comics.
* Bluewater Productions.
* Bongo Comics.
* Dark Horse Comics.
* DC Comics.
* IDW Publishing.
* Image Comics.
* Marvel Comics.
BRIEFLY
* Clash of the Titans opened with $26.3 million at box office on Friday.
* Stan Lee will be a guest at Phoenix Comicon on May 27-30.
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