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Comic-Con ’11 Bites: Full ‘Walking Dead’ Trailer & Premiere Date, Peter Jackson Horror & ‘Jurassic Park IV’!
From the San Diego Comic-Con Steven Spielberg confirms a fourth Jurassic Park is in the works with a story and writer already locked.
During the Hall H panel, Dead Alive and Frighteners director Peter Jackson continues to tease horror fans hoping he’ll return to the genre that made him. He explains that he does have a few ideas that he’s been playing around with proclaiming something will eventually happen in the future. I wonder if he’s still pondering the zombie Nazi concept teased a few Comic-Cons ago?
AMC revealed that “The Walking Dead” will return for their 13-episode second season on Sunday, October 16 during Frightfest. The project is set among a group of zombie survivors of an apocalypse who are led by a police officer, Rick Grimes, in search of a safe place to live. They’ve also unveiled the official trailer that can be enjoyed below!
Lastly, it was announced at San Diego Comic-Con today that Hatchet’s Victor Crowley would be the next villain to face off with Cassie Hack in the hit comic series “Hack/Slash!” This marks the first time that Victor Crowley will appear in comic form as well as the first collaboration between “Hack/Slash” creator Tim Seeley and Hatchet creator Adam Green. Annual Number Three (“Hatchet/Slash”) from Image Comics will hit stores in November. Inside are the three covers released at Comic-Con.
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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