Warner Bros. shows out at Comic-Con International
SAN DIEGO — Warner Bros. pulled out all the stops Saturday at Comic-Con with an army of stars, surprises and new footage from films such as “Aquaman,” “Shazam!” and even “Wonder Woman 1984,” which is only three and a half weeks into production. Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Chris Pratt, Johnny Depp and Nicole Kidman were just a few of the starry names to grace the stage of the comic book convention’s Hall H.
Momoa, who stars as Aquaman, seemed to be as excited as those in the 6,500-seat audience, if not more so. The actor was downright giddy speaking about the film, which is more than five years in the making.
“My heart is big and open,” he said. “I’m really, really happy.”
Director James Wan, best known for his “Conjuring” films, introduced some footage from the origin story that hits theaters in December.
“I wanted to create a superhero film that we’ve never quite seen before. I wanted our film to be more unique,” Wan said. “My movie plays more like a science fiction fantasy film than a traditional superhero movie.”
With 20 weeks of filming left to go, “Wonder Woman 1984” star Gadot and director Patty Jenkins also took a break from their Washington D.C. shoot to tease a little bit of footage from the highly anticipated follow-up to the groundbreaking superhero film.
The clip showed Diana Prince saving a young girl from some bad guys in their Miami Vice-finest in a very ’80s-looking mall.
Chris Pine also joined Gadot and Jenkins on stage, but all stayed mum about how and why his character Steve Trevor is back considering his fate in the first movie.
“I am actually not really here right now,” Pine said. “I am just an aura of emotional support for my friends.”
Jenkins did say, however, his presence is a “very important part” of the movie and audiences will have to see it in November 2019 to find out.
She did explain why she set the movie in the 1980s.
“It was mankind at its best and worst,” Jenkins said. “We see Wonder Woman in a period of time that is us at our most extreme … We thought it could go on forever, everything we were doing right then.”