The upcoming slate of shows and movies materializes
San Diego Comic Con is suffering this year, as both the WGA and SAG strikes continue (and good for them for doing so). That means that no Hollywood celebrities and writers are there to support upcoming film and TV (streaming?) projects. That also means that there’s a very limited amount of video coming out of the expo this year — but it’s not completely devoid. There’s still promotion to be done on projects that are in the final stages of wrap-up, and we’ve snagged some of our favorite videos from the last few days, whether at the show or because of it.
The trailer for Netflix’s live action take on One Piece is looking… good? We just hope they’ve learned a thing (or 50) from some of their other live action remakes of beloved anime. It hits the streamer (with a lot of punches) at the end of August.
We’re in full Marvels hype mode, as the next MCU project is one the way in November. It’s the culmination of a few Disney+ projects (Ms Marvel, WandaVision, Secret Invasion) as well as being a full sequel to Captain Marvel and End Game. It has a lot to answer to, in other words, but the power-swapping premise looks fun.
Invincible finally returns for Season 2 in November — but only for the first half of the 8-episode season. The second will drop in early 2024. It may need that space, because the story it’ll be adapting is a doozy and we’ll need time to recover.
One show and property that doesn’t seem to ever go away is The Walking Dead. At Comic Con, AMC dropped trailers for its two new upcoming spin-offs: Daryl Dixon (September 10) and the Rick/Michonne series The Ones Who Live (2024). We’re so far past the comics at this point, so it’s not as if we’re keeping track any more. Just give us some cool zombie fights, please.
Something less zombie-infested is Pokemon, and the new Pokemon: Horizons series is on the way this Fall. The new trailer gives us some of the Scarlet & Violet love that we’ve been missing. Also: Captain Pikachu!
Tiny Toons was REQUIRED viewing for me as a kid, so with a new series on the way I can pass that experience on to my own child. Tiny Toons Looniversity looks to be just as zany as the original when it launches this Fall.
Finally, in the leadup to SDCC we kept hearing about something called Project K: now we know what it is, and it looks HYPE. Kalki 2898 AD is a massive Indian Sci-fi epic on scale with Star Wars and Dune, and it looks like it’s pushing ALL of the right buttons for us. It hits theaters next year.
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