Comic-Con Day 2: Megan Fox Sex Scene, Cameron Diaz Spoils The Box?
Plus a first look at the new Freddy Krueger, Where the Wild Things Are, and more.
Nightmare on Elm Street
Unveiling the first trailer for their new horror reboot A Nightmare on Elm Street, star Jackie Earle Haley and the filmmakers had a lot of questions to answer. The best question, asked by a timid-looking teenage girl on the open mic: Why remake the classic film at all?
And though they tried valiantly, I'm not convinced that this Nightmare crew (who were also responsible for the horror reboots of the Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre series) made a very strong argument in favor of their reboot. Haley began by explaining that their film would introduce the Freddy Krueger mythology to "young adults." Director Sam Bayer went as far as to compare his Nightmare to Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins reboot. With no hint of sarcasm, producer Brad Fuller offered up a final thought: "It's horrifying," he said. "It's different from our other movies."
Jonah Hex
Where the Wild Things Are was moving, the new Freddy Krueger rousing, but nobody expected the raucous panel that we got for the supernatural western Jonah Hex. Credit on the one hand went to star Josh Brolin, who was as cordially surly as his titular scarred cowboy - an act that went off especially well when Hall H's curious characters came up to the microphone. He fired off deadpan quips left and right; when someone in the audience shouted "Goonies!" Brolin didn't miss a beat. "Same character - he's like Brand from the Goonies, except later." At one point a polite, nerdish young man offered compliments; Brolin offered, "You're so sweet. I wanted to make a joke but I just couldn't," before basically offering to adopt him.
But while the Jonah Hex panel was Brolin's show, plenty of glee erupted after director Jimmy Hayward played a red band trailer that had just been cut. (Megan Fox had only shot her last scenes, he said, 48 hours earlier.)
Fans of the comic book will undoubtedly be pleased. The Jonah Hex trailer packed a lot in - voodoo, horses, explosions, more explosions, boats on fire, machine guns mounted on horses, Hex's scary hole in the face, plenty of Megan Fox corseted cleavage, and two shots of a sex scene. Thanks to these glimpses in particular - Fox's tattooed, naked back visible as she engages her much older co-star in the sack (yuck!) - expect that fanboy interest will not dwindle. You could practically hear the nerd drool hit the floor. Hence, plenty of audience questions took a specific interest in Fox. Sample questions:
- Megan, will you marry me?
- Megan, could you imagine being attracted to me?
- Megan, are you attracted to action roles? Because I play sports...
- Megan, you're hot. (Not a question.)
Sherlock Holmes
By the time the Jonah Hex panelists swept out, the crowd was still buzzing. So loud was their buzz, that it took a few seconds for anyone to realize that Robert Downey Jr. had emerged from the wings.
RDJ is, simply, a master speaker. He held the room rapt waxing poetic on the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, upon whose stories Downey's Sherlock Holmes was based. Producers (including Joel Silver and Downey's wife, Susan) took the stage along with co-star Rachel McAdams, who plays Holmes' love interest and foil, Irene Adler.
And then, one of the best trailers of the 2009 Comic-Con debuted. Sherlock Holmes, as envisioned by director Guy Ritchie, is a lazy intellectual who depends a lot on his BFF, Watson (Jude Law). A plot involving sacrifices and a local (Mark Strong) drives the story, but more emphasis is placed on the comic bromance between Holmes and Watson. A cheeky tone permeates throughout, almost like Tony Stark has been sucked back in time to turn of the century England. As Downey put it, they're trying to pursue the idea of Sherlock Holmes as "the first superhero."
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Thefear77 on 07-24-2009 09:19 PM
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