New Star Wars The Force Awakens, Rogue One Details
New details for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the first Anthology film, Rogue One, were revealed at today's Star Wars Comic-Con panel. Here's everything you need to know:
Domhnall Gleeson will portray General Hux in The Force Awakens. We already knew he was cast in the film, but until today, we didn't know his role.
General Hux is in command of Starkiller Base (which was Luke's original last name in early Star Wars scripts, and also the last name of Vader's apprentice in The Force Unleashed games). Starkiller Base is the First Order's headquarters.
Ash Vs. Evil Dead Gets a Premiere Date
Breaking news out of Comic-Con at the Ash Vs. Evil Dead panel. The series, which will consist of 10 half hour episodes, will premiere on Starz on October 31st. That's right, Halloween.
Stay tuned for more info about the series (panel's actually going on right now), but make sure you check out this interview from earlier today when Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Lucy Lawless stopped by the IGN Comic-Con studio.
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Warner Bros. Apologizes for Batman: Arkham Knight PC Performance
Warner Bros. Interactive has taken full responsibility for the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight failing to meet the company's own "quality standards."
On its support forum for the game, Warner Bros. issued a full apology, saying it heard the "outcry of disappointment" from the PC gaming community regarding the game's launch on PC.
"We would like to apologize to you, the fans," it wrote, explaining the problems with the PC version are what led the suspension of sales. Steam sales for Batman: Arkham Knight were suspended on June 24, with Warner Bros. issuing full refunds to gamers who were dissatisfied with performance of the game.
Star Wars: Rogue One Begins Filming Soon
Star Wars’ first Anthology film, Rogue One, begins shooting in three weeks, according to Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy.
Star Wars: Rogue One is the first Star Wars Anthology film, and it's about the Rebel Alliance stealing the Death Star plans from the Empire. It'll be filmed in 6K. The second Anthology movie centers on a young Han Solo.
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Agent Carter Goes to Hollywood for Season 2
Agent Carter is making the move from New York City to the West coast in Season 2. Jeph Loeb -- who began the panel sporting Peggy Carter's signature red hat -- spoke with executive producers Chris Dingess, Tara Butters, and Michele Fazekas and cast members James D'Arcy (Edwin Jarvis) and Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter) at Comic-Con about the characters, the popularity of the series, and what's ahead in Season 2.
When Agent Carter appeared in Ballroom 20 last year, it wasn't quite the same. Not much information had been released about the series yet, and Fazekas recalled, "I remember walking through the Marriott last year with you
and telling her, 'You're never going to be able do this again.'" And that's absolutely true. Butters added that working on Agent Carter is "the best job we've ever had." Butters loves seeing all the cosplay and fan art, "I love that expression of the fans and how they love they show."
What’s the President’s Favorite Game of Thrones Episode?
Spoilers for Game of Thrones season 5 follow.
There's a lot the president of the United States needs to do in the course of a day, but current president Barack Obama makes time to keep up on Game of Thrones, going so far as to have a favorite episode.
According to director David Nutter, who spoke at a panel at San Diego Comic Con, the president's favorite episode of the acclaimed HBO series is Season 3 episode The Red Wedding.
Oh yeah, and that one character everyone loves, the one who had been built up to be a potential candidate for the Iron Throne over the course of season 5? Yeah, he's wicked dead.
Obama asked Nutter about the fate of Jon Snow, to which Nutter replied essentially everyone's favorite illegitimate son is definitely dead.
Newest Halo 5 Multiplayer Warzone Map Revealed
The newest Halo 5: Guardians Warzone map, titled Raid on Apex 7, was revealed at San Diego Comic Con today.
However, rather than reveal the new map through traditional means, Microsoft and 343 teamed up with Mega Bloks to reveal the map as a gigantic brick sculpture that weighs in at over a 1000 pounds and has working LED lights and over 90,000 individual bricks.
According to Microsoft, Raid on Apex 7 is the spiritual successor to the original Halo's Silent Cartographer and is the largest Warzone level to date.
The defining feature is the Forerunner Spire in the middle of the map, a structure that provides a base of operations, the control of which Microsoft calls "paramount to a team’s success."
Destiny: The History of Bungie Day
Destin Legarie, and Jose Otero are back discussing the history of Bungie Day, the latest Taken King updates from Luke Smith, and how they feel about the Year 1 emblem.
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Agents of SHIELD Season 3 Will Have Lash
Season 2 of Agents of SHIELD became all about the Inhumans. It wrapped with Director Coulson and Daisy Johnson discussing the covert team of Inhumans Daisy would be putting together. Jeph Loeb moderated a panel at Comic-Con with SHIELD cast members Luke Mitchell (Lincoln), Henry Simmons (Mac), Nick Blood (Lance), Adrianne Palicki (Mockingbird), Iain de Caestecker (Fitz), Elizabeth Henstridge (Simmons), Ming-Na Wen (May), Brett Dalton (Ward), Chloe Bennet (Daisy Johnson), and Clark Gregg (Coulson), and they briefly discussed the events of Season 2 and revealed a bloopers reel before looking slightly ahead to Season 3.
Loeb focused on the newbies of the cast -- Mitchell, Simmons, Blood, and Palicki -- and asked them about what it was like to join the team. They've all had positive experiences in, and Palicki in particular was thrilled to join the series: "It's pretty awesome to play this character has a huge comic book fan -- there was a lot of pressure coming in."
Watch Game of Thrones Cast Audition for Their Roles
HBO has released a compilation of clips from audition reels for Game of Thrones. The audition clips are merged with the clips from the program itself, showing the actors both in character and in their auditions for the characters.
Among the stars shown in the reel are Nathalie Emmanuel, Liam Cunningham, and Tom Wlaschiha trying out for the role of Jaqen H'ghar.
Of course, all the actors who featured in the reel landed their respective roles. However, not all of their characters remained in the realm of the living, but that's sort of an ongoing theme with the show anyway.
The video is definitely worth a watch if for no other reason than to see a bunch of Game of Thrones characters dressed in normal, Earthly clothes in a non-descript audition room.