San Diego: At least once a year, it’s the place where it’s chic to be a geek.
This July, the sun-soaked Southern California city became the central gathering place for all walks of exotic lifeforms, including superheroes, Stormtroopers, Klingons, Hobbits, wizards, Anime girls, pirates, writers, artists, gamers, toy enthusiasts, memorabilia collectors and even Playboy pin-ups, all of whom assemble to celebrate their various obsessions in the world of comic books, sci-fi, fantasy, cartoons, movies, TV, video games and just plain dressing up like their favorite fantastic characters.
And with such an enthusiastic audience on hand it’s no surprise that for four days San Diego also turns into Hollywood South, as major filmmakers and stars from genre projects—popular, forthcoming and nostalgic—join the fans to whip them into a far-out frenzy. Oh yeah, and sometimes to find that missing issue of X-Men that’s marred the completeness of their own collection!
Get ready to rocket into the future with Hollywood.com as we sought out all of the biggest names hitting Comic-Con to get the scoop on their latest adventures.
ABC’s Lost
As always when it comes to Lost, we had questions, and stars Jorge Garcia (the lovable Hurley) and Daniel Dae Kim (the English-impaired Jin) did their best to provide answers…Sadly their tight-lipped producers don’t share much more with them than they do with the audience. But the guys dud the best they could during a visit to the mainland to mingle with the obsessive minds of Comic-Con. Read more!
PLUS: It’s all about the Others…and maybe a little making out. Or at least that’s what Lost producers Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse and Bryan Burk would have Hollywood.com believe when we cornered them at Comic-Con and asked for any scoop they could spare on Season Three.
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Ghost RiderNot all superheroes are nice, good-looking people in spandex: take Marvel Comics’ Ghost Rider, for example: Not only is the source of his power from the darkest corner of Hell, but when he’s out fighting for what’s right, he takes the form of a badass biker in a chains and a spiked leather jacket, and his head erupts into a flaming skull. As Ghost Rider prepares to steer his Hellcycle into theaters next year, Hollywood.com took a spectral tour of the minds of stars Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes, along with director Mark Steven Johnson.
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Spider-Man 3
Hollywood.com took part in the first official Spider-Man 3 interviews with the superstar talent on hand. For the first words on the film, we sat down with the returning Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst!
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We continue our sneak peek into Spider-Man 3 with the first official interview with three of the film franchise’s newest stars: Thomas Haden Church as the abrasive villain the Sandman, Topher Grace as the evil-oozing Venom and Bryce Dallas Howard as the beautiful Gwen Stacy. Click here for the scoop!
And check back frequently for more reports, including chats with Ghost Rider’s Nicolas Cage, Battlestar Galactica’s Edward James Olmos, comic book legend Frank Miller (Sin City) and many, many more!
Watch Hollywood.com’s video highlights from Comic Con 2006 here!
Superman Returns Sequel
Director Bryan Singer gives Hollywood.com the scoop on his upcoming projects, including the sequel to the Superman Returns sequel, due to hit theaters in summer 2009! Watch video interview!
The Reaping
Hilary Swank talks to Hollywood.com about her upcoming supernatural thriller The Reaping, in which she stars as a former Christian missionary who loses her faith.
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Watch our video interviewSnakes on a Plane
Samuel L. Jackson talks about his upcoming thriller Snakes on a Plane, in which an assassin unleashes a crate full of lethal snakes aboard a packed passenger jet over the Pacific Ocean. Watch video interview!
