Comic Con Day 3

MARVEL STUDIOS

Well the panel I have been looking forward to the most, and the one that seems to be the show stealer every year is officially over. I have the entire transcript from Captain America, Thor and The Avengers. So here ya go, the entire transcript of the Marvel Studio panel:

Dana Vinson: Hey everyone! We are finally a go for Thor and Captain America!
6:45
Dana Vinson: We're coming to you live from Hall H at Comic-Con 2010, where Marvel is showcasing their line up of upcoming films.
6:46
Dana Vinson: Marvel is working on combining the universes, bringing their stories together!
6:47
Dana Vinson: Here we go, Captain America trailer
6:47
Dana Vinson: Starts out with footage from World War II...
6:47
Dana Vinson: And now the famous Captain America shield!
6:48
Dana Vinson: "Next Summer, Meet the World's First Avenger"
6:48
Dana Vinson: and then we get a quick look at Captain America. End of trailer!
6:49
Dana Vinson: Now they're bringing out the director of Captain America, Joe Johnston
6:50
Dana Vinson: "We have one chance to tell the origin story of Captain America." Johnston
6:50
Dana Vinson: Chris Evans is out on stage now...Captain America himself!
6:51
Dana Vinson: Evans has only been shooting for five days he says, "The Suit is fantastic."
6:52
Dana Vinson: Hugo Weaving, who plays The Red Skull, spend a lot of time studying the German accent, but won't do it for us right now in this panel.
6:52
Dana Vinson: Evans also played the human torch in the Fantastic Four.
6:53
Dana Vinson: Also, just for the record, Chris Evans's shoulders are out of control muscular.
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Dana Vinson: They're very Captain America.
6:54
Dana Vinson: "We're going slightly more modern than the old Captain America," Johnston said in regards to the suit.
6:54
Dana Vinson: What we saw in the trailer was just a little snippet from the costume test. The final suit has not been revealed yet. Chris Evans hasn't filmed in it yet.
6:56
Dana Vinson: "If we don't love Steve Rogers before he gets transformed, we're not going to love him after," Johnston said.
6:57
Dana Vinson: They're going to show us what they shot just last week!
6:58
Dana Vinson: It's very rough...still has time code on it!
6:58
Dana Vinson: Norway, May 1942
6:59
Dana Vinson: A wall is broken down by German soldiers.
6:59
Dana Vinson: The Red Skull comes walking through the giant hole in the wall!
7:00
Dana Vinson: He pushes the top off a tomb...
7:00
Dana Vinson: and grabs a glass cube and drops it on the ground.
7:01
Dana Vinson: The Red Skull opens a secret compartment in the wall by pushing on the eye of a snake. He opens the box and a blue light comes out of it.
7:01
Dana Vinson: The footage looks fantastic! Very Raiders of the Lost Ark!
7:02
Dana Vinson: OH SNAP! It's hammer time!
7:02
Dana Vinson: Thor director Kenneth Branagh is out on the stage!
7:04
Dana Vinson: "The one I loved was Thor. I loved the name, I loved the fact that he is a character with the combination of brute strength, I liked that he was in a very dysfunctional family and that the stories were epic" Kenneth Branagh
7:04
Dana Vinson: Here comes the cast!
7:07
Dana Vinson: We've got Kat Dennings, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman and Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth!
7:10
Dana Vinson: Portman is talking about how acting in an action movie is completely different because of all the blue screen involved and how acting in front of a blue screen requires a separate set of skills.
7:10
Dana Vinson: Kat plays a new character named Darcy. She's not in the books, only the movie.
7:11
Dana Vinson: Now we're hearing from Hiddleson who plays Loki.
7:11
Dana Vinson: "He's a great liar and it was fun playing with is he lying or is he telling the truth." Hiddleson
7:13
Dana Vinson: Oh here we go...some early footage from Thor!
7:14
Dana Vinson: We were ordered to put on our 3D glasses...
7:14
Dana Vinson: It's a new Thor trailer!
7:15
Dana Vinson: We're getting snippets of Thor fighting, and then finally a good look at his face.
7:15
Dana Vinson: Here's our first look at Odin!
7:16
Dana Vinson: Very impressive. The 3D look great. Very well done.
7:16
Dana Vinson: Thor gets cast out.
7:17
Dana Vinson: Jane finds him in the desert.
7:17
Dana Vinson: Thor just threw the hammer. Awesome
7:17
Dana Vinson: Wild applause erupt from the crowd as the trailer comes to an end.
7:19
Dana Vinson: Looks like the classic Jack Kirby hammer...
7:20
Dana Vinson: Ok, now they're opening up the floor to questions
7:23
Dana Vinson: Someone in the comments asked about Don Blake...Branagh said that there are some "Don Blake" surprises in the film.
7:24
Dana Vinson: Someone got up to the mic and just shouted Edward Norton.
7:24
Dana Vinson: Marvel didn't like that too much, but handled it very gracefully and also said "The panel's not over yet."
7:24
Dana Vinson: Hinting that something big is still going to happen...
7:26
Dana Vinson: A dude just got up to the mic and said "After seeing that trailer, I might have to change my panties."
7:27
Dana Vinson: Frank Castle is under the roof of Marvel studios now and they hope to bring him "into the fray" shortly.
7:29
Dana Vinson: So maybe that means The Punisher is next?!
7:31
Dana Vinson: Here comes another viewing of The Thor trailer!
7:32
Dana Vinson: I don't know when they're going to release the trailer to the public, unfortunately. Should be soon now that they've already shown it here.
7:37
Dana Vinson: The Marvel guys are back out on the stage...
7:37
Dana Vinson: They just shut off the lights...
7:37
Dana Vinson: The Avengers Trailer!!!!
7:38
Dana Vinson: Just a teaser trailer...
7:38
Dana Vinson: but now, Samuel L. Jackson is out on the stage!
7:38
Dana Vinson: He's rocking his usual Kangol cap and looking good...
7:39
Dana Vinson: Scarlett Johansson is here!
7:40
Dana Vinson: Robert Downey Jr. just stepped out on stage!
7:40
Dana Vinson: Everyone here is on their feet.
7:40
Dana Vinson: Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth are also out on stage.
7:41
Dana Vinson: RDJ is talking now about The Avengers. He's introducing Jeremy Renner.
7:41
Dana Vinson: And now, here comes Mark Ruffalo!
7:42
Dana Vinson: And finally, here comes director Joss Whedon!
7:42
Dana Vinson: "I have had a dream all my life and it was not this good." Joss Whedon
7:43
Dana Vinson: "This is The Avengers! This cast is more than I could have ever dreamed of working with." Whedon
7:43
Dana Vinson: All of them are standing in the front of the stage right now and Joss said "See you soon!"
7:44
Dana Vinson: That's it's from the Marvel Movies Panel here at Comic-Con 2010!

I would have given anything to have been there. In fact, I would have skipped my wedding to go.

I was really surprised that they not only had a Captain America trailer ready, but also had a scene for the audience as well. That is a lot of work to get ready for a film that has only been shooting for eight days. They showed more from Captain America than DC did for Green Lantern, and that film is almost wrapped. But then what do they do, they give us a teaser trailer for The Avengers, which hasn't even begun filming and isn't released until 2012.

I've looked at three different sites covering the panel, and all three said that what they saw from Captain America and Thor was incredible and now has me psyched out of my mind even more than I already was.


















GREEN LANTERN PANEL
So we go from a crazy, out of control panel, to an incredibly boring panel. Year after year I hear " Warner Bros. is going to be announcing some huge news this year for their plans for DC." Then Con gets here and every year all they say is, "We can't talk about future projects". This is why Marvel whips the crap out of DC consistently. They may have Batman, but that is it. They don't do anything to get the audience excited or anything to look forward to. A few years ago, Marvel announced at Con their five year plan which was, Iron Man, Hulk, Iron Man 3, Thor, Captain America and then The Avengers. The crowd went nuts and Marvel has been the king of Con ever since. So here is the transcript from the Green Lantern panel:

Not sure if this is something that many people will realize but apparently, there are hurricane warnings along the Gulf, which means the cast and crew of Green Lantern had to run in to do the panel and they have to get right back to Louisiana.

Moderator is Geoff Boucher of Hero Complex. He started things off by saying the Green Lantern oath, great way to kick things off and the first person out is "Green Lantern" writer and DC Entertainment CCO Geoff Johns!

They're starting things off with some footage! (Will write up in a second but it went by very fast!)

It's essentially a teaser which starts off with a glowing green ball and an alien voiceover that says:

"Welcome inhabitants of sector 2814. The Guardians have chosen you as candidates for enlistment but before you can be recruited, you must be tested. The light you see before you is controlled by your will. Focus on the light. If you will it, it will be. Now, focus."

That ball of green light continues to pulse and get larger and larger before it blasts the screen with a wave of green light.

We then hear Reynolds' voiceover saying the Green Lantern oath and a quick montage of footage cut together that went by very fast, including a close-up of Reynolds as Hal Jordan, his hand holding the ring, we see him in street clothes being pulled upwards and see a later scene in which he's taking on criminals by using the ring to form a giant fist that throws a roundhouse punch knocking out a bunch of guys. We get a very brief glimpse of Hector Hammond and Tomar Re. (We presume that the voiceover was Abin Sur, but we're not sure.)

After the oath is done, we hear the original alien voiceover saying, "The choice has been made."

The light we saw earlier starts forming into the GL emblem and then we see the logo is "Await Further Contact Summer 2011." (Hopefully, they'll show it again so we can catch more since it went by very fast.)

They're now bringing out the cast and crew including producer Donald DeLine, writer/producer Greg Berlanti, director Martin Campbell, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Mark Strong and Peter Sarsgaard.

Ryan Reynolds says he was influenced by Han Solo and Chuck Yaeger for the part of Hal Jordan. The rest of the cast are talking about their characters and doing a superhero movie.

Director Martin Campbell is talking about the tone about keeping it very real and that the humor is apparent due to the presence of Ryan and Blake.

Producer Donald DeLine just listed a roster of Green Lanterns we're likely to see in the movie, most of which we missed cause we were writing up the footage (will add in a bit) but he did mention that we get to see Killer Wasp. We'll go back and add this when we have some time.

Geoff Johns is talking about the origins of the project and how ten years ago, he never thought a GL movie would happen cause someone at Warner Bros. asked, "Can we do it without the ring?"

Boucher is asking the cast some fairly generic questions about the characters they're playing, nothing really urgent that we haven't heard before from any actor who has been in a superhero movie. (Is that too cynical? Yeah, probably.)

Sarsgaard described Hammond as "the kid who licked the battery or went up the rooftop with a coat hanger" to see what happened.

A question from the audience asks how they picked the characters to use for the movie, and it focuses on Kilowog, Sinestro and Tomar Re. They mention that Green Man and Bzzt will both be seen briefly.

Geoff was asked about other DC projects and he said that he can't talk about them. Same as always.

Ryan Reynolds was also talking about how he got the gig, and how they showed him the worlds and he was trying to play hard to get, but they really wanted him, though they made him work for the part by doing a couple screen tests before he got the role.

Martin Campbell is talking about Hal's relationship with his father Martin as seen in the "Secret Origins" arc and how that's going to play a large part in the movie, finally culminating at the end of the movie when Hal becomes a Green Lantern.

Geoff Johns was asked about a "Justice League" movie but he's sidestepping it, saying that it will depend on the success of "Green Lantern."

At the request of a little kid, Ryan Reynolds is saying the Green Lantern's oath... the kid isn't sure how to react. Reynolds is wearing one of those (presumably) plastic Green Lantern rings... unless that's a real one from the movie?!?

A question from the audience asks if there's room for Alan Scott, and Johns says, "There's always room." Ryan Reynolds says that Parallax is in the movie.

Asked about whether Mogo may appear, Johns says, "There's a lot of Green Lanterns in the film."

When asked which DC character they might make into a movie next, Johns says "Green Lantern 2."

Ryan Reynolds and Mark Strong talked a bit about how their character fly in the movie, and then Martin Campbell is talking about Hal and Carol as test pilots and how that's shown in the movie as the two of them test out some of Ferris Aviation's latest jets. We definitely will see Carol in the skies flying the jets as well, rather than being only on the floor.

Ryan Reynolds says he's been wearing the ring for six months and he plans on passing it onto someone else, similar to Abin Sur giving his ring to Hal Jordan. They told the audience that there's a piece of paper under someone's seat and they will be given the ring. And we have a winner!

Are they seriously not showing the footage again? Man, that's kind of a rip-off! Nope, that seems to be the end of the panel. Wow.

As you can tell, they guy writing this wasn't very impressed with the panel or the fact that so little footage was played and not even replayed.