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Marvel Studios is choosing to skip out on Hall H this year, but San Diego Comic-Con must go on. And go on it shall, as the supersize convention ramps up. Even without Marvel in attendance, SDCC is sure to release a deluge of trailers, with presentations slated from studios like DC (sigh, but no look at Supergirl yet), Amazon, and Disney, sans its superheroes. Ryan Gosling is jumping from Hollywood stunts and Barbieland to saving the world in the upcoming sci-fi adaptation Project Hail Mary, for which he will be in attendance, while Timothy Olyphant will be a silver-haired synthetic in FX’s Alien: Earth. There’ll also hopefully be looks from the upcoming seasons of Gen V and Interview With the Vampire — we’re saying now, the more sneak peeks at Rockstar Lestat, the better — and fresh off the glow of Superman, James Gunn and John Cena will present Peacemaker. Ahead of SDCC, new trailers premiered for Tron: Ares and Predator: Badlands. We’ll be updating this post with trailers dropping throughout SDCC weekend.
Gen V
Season 2 of Gen V is getting a power upgrade, complete with cameos from The Boys’ own Starlight (Erian Moriety), the Deep (Chace Crawford), and Homelander (Antony Starr). Meanwhile the former Guardians of Godolikin (Jaz Sinclair, Marie Moreau, London Thor, Jordan Li, and Lizze Broadway) are sent back to university after the bloody finale of season one. Oh, and Ethan Slater is here?
The Long Walk
Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is the latest filmmaker to take a stab at a Stephen King adaptation. Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, and Charlie Plummer star as the young men who’ve signed up for a competition where they must walk until one of them is the last man standing.
Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues
In this follow-up to the 1984 classic Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner is back with fellow rockers Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer for a reunion show.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Jason Mantzoukas mocks Walker Scobell’s Percy Jackson by saying, “I honestly don’t even remember what it was,” in regards to the “cool” thing he did in the events of season one. Now, considering that season will be three years ago by the time season two premieres, I think Mantzoukas speaks for us all.
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
Ahead of its Hall H panel, Blumhouse debuted the trailer for its hopeful win of the year, the sequel to Five Nights at Freddy’s. The creepy killer animatronics are roaming the streets, but at least they still look willing to kill anyone who gets in their way.
Predator: Badlands
There’s only half of Elle Fanning in this trailer, and she’s still serving more charisma than most. Joining a young Predator (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) on his first hunt is Fanning as a Weyland-Yutani android, which reminds us that technically, the Predator and Alien films are set in the same universe.
Tron: Ares
The excitement of Nine Inch Nails scoring the film’s soundtrack is really distracting us from the fact that this sequel is setting up an AI Jared Leto as the protagonist. Greta Lee, help us.
