Author: Jordan Crucchiola / Source: Vulture
Superheroes! Spectacle! Outrageous lines! It’s time again for Comic-Con in San Diego, the biggest gathering of geeks this world can muster. While some heavy hitters like Marvel Studios and HBO will be sitting out this year’s edition, there are still plenty of big titles and major studios that will be touting their upcoming movies and TV shows.
What do we expect to find out? Here are 15 burning questions we hope to have answered over the next several days.What will the future of DC movies look like?
Previously at Comic-Con, Warner Bros. has seized the opportunity to present a grand, interlocking vision of DC Comics movies that would all lead up to Justice League. In the wake of that team-up’s underperformance, though, the new DC philosophy seems to be “whatever works.” Plan to see plenty of Aquaman and Wonder Woman, but will we hear something about the Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie that’s being produced outside existing DC continuity, or will Jared Leto show up instead? Has WB got plans to tie the kid-skewing Shazam to its existing DC universe, and might we see Margot Robbie announce Birds of Prey or Suicide Squad 2? As for those long-touted takes on The Flash and Green Lantern Corps, this Comic-Con feels like a now-or-never moment: Either concrete details will be announced, or the studio has likely gone back to the drawing board.
Will we see footage from Wonder Woman 1984?
Speaking of Warner Bros., the studio has no more-anticipated movie than the Wonder Woman sequel, which likely would have been announced at last year’s Comic-Con had the deal with director Patty Jenkins closed by then.
This time around, though, Jenkins is fully onboard and has been shooting for weeks, and first stills of Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, and Kristen Wiig have produced a lot of buzz. It’s still early into production, but we’d be shocked if Jenkins and Gadot don’t come to San Diego with a little morsel to show off.Will there be a Spider-Man–Venom crossover?
Marvel Studios president and architect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Kevin Feige has repeatedly and insistently said that Spider-Man will not turn up in the Spidey spinoff and first installment from Sony’s Spider-Man cinematic universe Venom. But Spider-Man: Homecoming/Venom producer Amy Pascal has contradicted Feige, saying, “There’s always a chance” the web slinger shows up in the edgy Tom Hardy–starring thriller. Moreover, Spider-Man star Tom Holland was reportedly spotted on the Venom set in January. Can the Hall H horde expect to catch a Spidey cameo in Sony’s Venom panel Friday?
Does Fantastic Beasts dare bring out Johnny Depp?
J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts franchise has seemingly committed itself to Johnny Depp for the foreseeable future, despite abuse accusations and bad press that just continues mounting for the beleaguered star. The new sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, has a big enough cast that the studio may simply decline to bring Depp to San Diego; on the other hand, you’ll find no more friendly, prescreened audience than at Comic-Con, and he’d likely be tossed softballs by the moderator and crowd.
Will other X-Men show up besides Deadpool?
Fox finds itself in a precarious place with the X-Men universe: Deadpool remains a big franchise for the studio — so much so that the Deadpool 2 crew will do a victory lap in Hall H before screening an expanded cut of the summer movie — but the two other X films on the docket, X-Men: Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants, have undergone reshoots and weathered significant delays. Will the Deadpool 2 panel include any sneak peeks at those movies? (Dark Phoenix star James McAvoy and New Mutants star Anya Taylor-Joy will already be at Comic-Con to tout Glass, after all.) Might Fox bypass them entirely and just announce future plans to feature Deadpool in an X-Force movie? Or is everything up in the air as Fox prepares for a big studio sale that could reshape its movie plans entirely?
Will there be a super-early tease of It: Chapter Two footage?
New Line is kicking off Comic-Con again with their Scarediego event on Wednesday night. The Warner Bros. subsidiary has teased information about The Nun and It: Chapter Two, and while Nun is on track for a September release, the next It only recently started production and won’t come out until next year. But the sequel will…
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