Wonder Con 2009 - Movie News

The crew at SCCGTV just got back from Wonder Con 2009 late last night and here's a quick rundown of some highlights:

Star Trek looks to be promising - JJ Abrams acknowledged fan concerns about canon and on set rapping with actor Chris Pine. We got to see a new trailer that hinted to the development of Kirk's character - apparently he's got some daddy issues. The new trailer is to be shown with Watchmen.

Director McG worked the crowd and showed a new trailer also to premiere with Watchmen. According to the response of the crowd during the panel, we should also look forward to seeing actress Moon Bloodgood's -ahem- goods onscreen. By refusing to answer one attendee's question of whether or not it will include the presence of Governor Schwarzeneggar in the picture. McG suggested "maybe I've answered it". On the less positive side, the Terminator actors attending the show did a rather tepid job of answering questions - many (in fact, most) of them posed to them by other cast and crew members instead of attendees. Aside from screening the trailer twice, McG also included two sequences from the film - an action sequence that includes many of the pieces shown previously in the trailer (a desert chase and the "moto-terminators"), and a more personal moment between John Connor and Marcus Wright, a Terminator who thinks he's a real human being still. Overall, many of the special effects looked good (especially a fight with what must be a CG Endoskeleton), but I doubt the wisdom of showing an incomplete sequence that's already had the polished pieces of it shown in trailers and some of CG that's replaced the make up for Marcus' damaged face in the scene between him and Connor.

While SCCGTV didn't get into the Watchmen preview Friday night, a friend of the show confirmed it is "the best movie they could've made" and while "they changed the ending" it "didn't matter". Personally, I'm waiting to read the novel AFTER the movie, seeing as how the friend of the show also added that knowing the plot mostly killed the thrill of seeing it on the screen - so if you haven't read the graphic novel, maybe you should wait until AFTER the sixth.