The full five-day schedule for this year’s Comic-Con has now been announced and boy will this year be good!
While there are a few surprising omissions from the movies program – no Hunger Games, no Jurassic World, seemingly no Star Wars – there’s still plenty here to get excited about.
Below is the full schedule of movie panels.
Wednesday, July 23
Into the Storm screening (10pm, Gaslamp Theater)
The Hobbit‘s Richard Armitage and The Walking Dead‘s Sarah Wayne Callies star in Warner Bros’ disaster thriller, which follows a group of high school students who document a devastating tornado strike.
Thursday, July 24
DreamWorks Animation Panel (11.30am, Hall H)
Benedict Cumberbatch will make his Comic-Con debut to promote upcoming Madagascar spinoff Penguins of Madagascar, in which he plays a debonair wolf named Classified. He’ll be joined by co-stars John Malkovich and Tom McGrath, along with directors Simon J Smith and Eric Darnell. Meanwhile, director Tim Johnson will also attend to panel his alien animation Home.
Sony Pictures panel (12.30pm, Indigo Ballroom at Hilton Bayfront)
Sony, and by extension Spidey, are skipping Hall H altogether this year. Instead the studio will conduct a more modest panel in the much smaller Indigo Ballroom, where Jack Black and director Rob Letterman will discuss their spooky book series adaptation Goosebumps, and Chris Columbus will discuss action comedy Pixels.
Weinstein Co: Walden Media panel (1.30pm, Hall H)
Jeff Bridges, Brenton Thwaites, Odeya Rush, director Phillip Noyce, and best-selling author Lois Lowry will discuss upcoming sci-fi The Giver, which takes place in a perfect world where there is no conflict, racism or sickness.
Paramount Pictures panel (3pm, Hall H)
Paramount haven’t yet announced details of their presentation, but we’re hearing that Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will have a big presence this year, with Megan Fox and Will Arnett among the stars due to attend.
Goonies Never Say Die (6pm, Indigo Ballroom at Hilton Bayfront)
While the full lineup is TBC, this is billed as a reunion panel with the cast of Richard Donner’s classic.
Friday, July 25
Radius-TWC panel (3pm, Hall H)
Daniel Radcliffe will make his long-awaited Comic-Con debut this year, but surprisingly it’ll be to promote fantasy drama Horns, rather than Fox’s Frankenstein. Co-star Juno Temple and director Alexandre Aja will also attend, while Salma Hayek is due to promote action thriller Everly.
20th Century Fox panel (4.20pm, Hall H)
The notable exclusion from Fox’s packed lineup is The Fantastic Four, although we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see a surprise panel featuring the full cast, much as Fox did last year with X-Men: Days of Future Past. But so far, the confirmed lineup is as follows:
The Maze Runner: Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Writer James Dashner and Director Wes Ball.
Book of Life: Channing Tatum, Ron Perlman, Christina Applegate, Writer/Director Jorge Gutierrez and Producer Guillermo del Toro
Hitman: Agent 47: Zachary Quinto and Hannah Ware
Let’s Be Cops: Damon Wayans Jr, Rob Riggle and Keegan Michael-Key
Kingsman: The Secret Service: Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Taron Egerton, Sophie Cookson, Sofia Boutella and Co-Creators Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
X-Men: Days of Future Past behind-the-scenes (6.30pm, Room 5AB)
On the subject of X-Men, this mini-panel will see screenwriter and producer Simon Kinberg go into the backstage process.
Saturday, July 26
Warner Bros panel (10am, Hall H)
Batman vs Superman is missing from Warner’s list of confirmed films, but just like the film’s announcement came as a surprise at 2013’s con, you can pretty much bank on some early footage being screened during the studio’s two-hour Hall H presentation. The Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending will also debut footage.
Full panels will take place for final Hobbit chapter Battle of the Five Armies, and Mad Max: Fury Road, with several cast members from both expected.
Legendary Pictures panel (12.15am, Hall H)
No details at all have been released for the presentation from Legendary, which parted ways with Warner Bros this year following the expiration of its co-production deal, and has now teamed with Universal.
Looking at their upcoming slate, Seventh Son already had a panel at last year’s Comic-Con, but Interstellar, Fast & Furious 7 and Dracula Untold could all potentially show up. The first might be wishful thinking, since Christopher Nolan has famously never attended Comic-Con, but there’s a first time for everything.
Focus Features panel (1.30pm, Hall H)
Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright and Elle Fanning will discuss The Box Trolls.
Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For panel (2.50pm, Hall H)
Frank Miller’s long, long, long-awaited sequel finally gets its Comic-Con panel, with Miller, Robert Rodriguez and yet-to-be-confirmed cast members all due to attend
Marvel Cinema Universe panel (5.30pm, Hall H)
Marvel are going to have to get up pretty early to beat their showstopping panel last year, which featured Tom Hiddleston showing up in character as Loki to enslave the rapt Hall H crowd. They’re yet to confirm what films will show up this year, but Mark Ruffalo has already let it slip that The Avengers will be descending en masse to promote Age of Ultron.
Phase Three kick-starter Ant-Man is also likely to at least debut footage, if not hold a full panel with Paul Rudd and co, to try and disperse some of the ill will that’s lingering around the project following Edgar Wright’s departure. We might also see a casting announcement for the much-discussed Doctor Strange.
Fight Club: From Page to Screen and Beyond (7pm, Room 25ABC)
Quietly upstaging most of the day’s bigger events, David Fincher and author Chuck Palahniuk will get together to discuss the adaptation process behind Fight Club, which celebrates its 15th birthday this autumn.
