{"id":37645,"date":"2010-07-27T17:08:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T22:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=37645"},"modified":"2010-07-27T19:32:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T00:32:50","slug":"comic-con-wrap-up-and-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/07\/27\/37645-comic-con-wrap-up-and-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic-Con wrap up and notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It almost seems that the San Diego Comic-Con becomes the center of the entertainment<\/del> Universe for a few days. Maybe it does. We were there presenting a panel, meeting fellow fans, conducting trivia, grooming sources, hanging out and watching the celebration of popular arts. Despite pen stabbings<\/a>, incredible (or impossible) lines and vexing shuttle buses, it remains an incredible experience.<\/p>\n

TORn was among the very first panels<\/a> to kick the week off and it helped produce a torrent of film industry folks and fans who wanted to touch base on ‘The Hobbit’ films.<\/p>\n

So here is a rundown from the TORn perspective of what went on.<\/p>\n

Guillermo del Toro is going to scare us. He is doing a remake of an important film from his childhood: “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark<\/a>.” And he is producing and perhaps directing Disney’s Haunted Mansion<\/a>. He also thinks Peter Jackson should direct ‘The Hobbit’<\/a>.
\nOh and in a non-press conversation he, without being asked, explained that there weren’t working conflicts on ‘The Hobbit’ that forced him to leave. It was just that he had to get on with his directing life including a lot of contractual obligations. (He is even more<\/em> down-to-earth and friendly and intelligent than you hope he is).
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\nLiv Tyler<\/strong> is back to geek and independent roots with the film “Super” where she appears with Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page and Nathan Fillion and director James Gunn. As luck would have it, the panel is on YouTube<\/a> but, it comes with an adult word warning. She is as sweet and beautiful (and sensitive) as ever. The film looks pretty great and unlike everything else, it didn’t feel studio pushed. (If you watch the video, I tried bacon flavored sunflower seeds at Comic-Con btw.)<\/p>\n

We have reported on our own panel enough, but there are a couple of interesting points to make:<\/p>\n