While some of us spent most of the day with a large sleeping gentleman dribbling on our shoulder on one side and a lady eating jerky with her mouth open on the other; there were many other things happening around the San Diego convention centre. If we had enough people we'd be in all places at once. But we weren't. Luckily, other people were. And here's what they said:
About films
Exciting film things were in store for those who joined the mile-long, round-the convention-centre queue for the main hall. The Peter Jackson-backed District 9 got particularly good talk talked about it. Everyone was talking. Good old talkies. They'll be the future of film, I tell you.
A new Batman film appears to be definitely in the works, and Gary Oldman will be in it. Because he announced it. The WB publicist at the table with him seemed surprised: if this means that Hollywood is outsourcing all large-scale announcements to Gary Oldman, this is all good by us. Or maybe he just decides it, says it, and PAF! It is done. I like to think that Brits have this power in Hollywood. It's the accent.
Finally, Some Comic-Con COMIC NEWS!
Apologies for lack of Comic book news from Comic-Con so far; there's only so much a TV writer can say about them, and I don't want to start talking about the big news and get it wrong:
BUT: The big gongs were the Eisner awards have been announced
ComicMix tweeted the winners live, and did a a semi-liveblog of the awards ceremony here - but as a taster: wins for Chris Ware, Bill Willingham, webcomic Finder and the Best New Series went to Invincible Iron Man, by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca (Marvel). There were many more winners.
In other news - Marvel announced it has bought the rights to Marvelman, a famous British comic book character given the treatment previously by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. Will a film be on the way? And will Moore disavow it if it is?
Aaaaaaaand... back to television
How any flavours of re-creation can you have? All the other TV come-agains are reimaginings or redrawings, revisions or reformatting, refocusing or renewals. No one just bloody remakes anything anymore. The new Prisoner? That, my friends, is a 'Response', according to ComicMix. Response? I'll give you response, mate...
