With Comic-Con 2014 now a thing of the past, just thought I'd share these images that were released at the expo or on the Internet around the time these films had their Hall H panels at the San Diego Convention Center. One of the biggest highlights of last week, of course, was the photo above that revealed the lovely Gal Gadot (from the last three Fast & Furious movies) as Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. This was preceded by this pic below showing another glimpse of Ben Affleck as the Dark Knight in Zack Snyder's highly-anticipated film. Another huge highlight for Batman v Superman was the teaser video that Snyder presented to a large crowd during the movie's panel at Hall H last Saturday...which revealed a brooding Caped Crusader flashing the Bat Signal into Gotham City's night sky, only to reveal a hovering Superman staring down at Batman with glowing red eyes on the Man of Steel's face. The video immediately leaked onto the Web and has since been taken down at the behest of Warner Bros., but all you need to know is: Batman v Superman is gonna be epic.
Not to be outdone by the WB and DC Comics are Disney and Marvel Studios, who revealed the awesome poster below for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Not only do we see Iron Man, Captain America and company taking on a massive army of robots built by Ultron, the film's main antagonist, but we also take a glimpse of Paul Bettany's The Vision hovering in the poster's background (he's the caped figure in the upper-left corner), as well as Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Quicksilver and Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch joining the fray against Ultron's metallic minions. Also revealed at Comic-Con were posters for next year's Mad Max: Fury Road, starring The Dark Knight Rises' Tom Hardy as the title character made famous by Mel Gibson in the original 1979 flick. The WB had more news to be shared, with Godzilla set to fight the classic monsters Mothra, Rodan and Ghidorah in a sequel to this year's hit film, and King Kong (who we last saw taking Naomi Watts up to the top of the Empire State Building in Peter Jackson's 2005 remake) slated to return in 2016's Skull Island.
Comic-Con 2015 looks to be action-packed...with a panel by Disney and Lucasfilm that will hopefully reveal some great footage or movie displays from Star Wars: Episode VII, as well as previews of 2016 flicks (besides Batman v Superman) like X-Men: Apocalypse, Avatar 2, Captain America 3, Prometheus 2 and the Independence Day sequel, ID Forever Part I. The chances of me visiting Comic-Con next year are pretty slim (despite the fact San Diego is only a 2-hour drive from me), but I can't wait to read news from this expo once they get posted online next July. That is all!
