Action-packed thrills for Comic-Con fans
Warner Bros. brought out all the stops this weekend at Comic-Con with an army of stars, surprises and new footage from films like “Aquaman,” “Shazam!” and even “Wonder Woman 1984,” which is only 31⁄ 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 at the comic book convention.
Momoa, who stars as Aquaman, was downright giddy speaking about the film, which is over five years in the making. “My heart is big and open,” he said. “I’m really, really happy.”
With 20 weeks of filming left to go, “Wonder Woman 1984” star Gadot and director Patty Jenkins took a break from their shoot to tease brief footage from the highly anticipated follow-up to the groundbreaking superhero film, set for a November 2019 release.
The clip showed Diana Prince saving a young girl from some bad guys in their “Miami Vice”-finest in a very ’80s-looking mall.
Jenkins explained why she set the movie in the 1980s: “It was mankind at its best and worst. 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.”
Another audience-pleaser was “Shazam!” and Zachary Levi was on hand to introduce the first trailer for the DC superhero film. The origin story shows how a bullied 14-year-old kid becomes a superhero (and a fully grown man) after a fateful subway ride. It comes out in April.
“Maybe now more than ever we need heroes like that, who care about people,” Levi said.