San Diego Comic-Con brought a slew of first-look trailers to the drooling fans, and thanks to the internet, not just to the lucky few who could afford to attend in person. They rest of us can slaver in the privacy of our homes or workplaces over the treats to come next year.
The Justice League trailer immediately scotches Man of Steel/Batman vs. Superman's perfect record by demonstrating a sense of fun. Barry Allen, and even Bruce and Diana come across as likable characters. Cyborg is not much in evidence - my guess would be this is because he needs a lot of effects work just to say hi - but Aquaman is suitably grumpy. I'll always have a soft spot for Brave and the Bold's Aquaman, but his avuncular optimism was an outlier. No sign of the Martian Manhunter or GL, but maybe for the future, when the shared universe has established enough impetus to get past the last Green Lantern's lacklustre box office.
And speaking of DC, there was also the Wonder Woman stand-alone origin movie's trailer, complete with colours and the inevitable Steve Trevor. It's mostly teaser so far, but looking good, with Gadot showing a more zippy side to Diana's personality than the all business portrayal in BvS. This feels important to me after the five hour sombre grind that has so far established the tone of the DCCU. On the strength of these two trailers, I am somewhat hyped for the post- or at least inter-Snyder segment of the shared universe, although of course disappointed by the lack of Martian Manhunter. Still, there's always Supergirl.
There was also a run of Marvel MCU noir trailers: A Season 3 teaser for Daredevil, a first look teaser for Iron Fist, a first soundbite teaser for Defenders and our first full trailer for Luke Cage, in which the eponymous Hero for Hire drops a reference to his late wife and then takes out a stash house with a car door and a lot of attitude. It will be interesting to see how this particular subset of the universe develops the kind of threat that can challenge a quartet where Daredevil is the pretty-boy dead weight without attracting the attention of SHIELD or Thunderbolt Ross (or indeed if it does.)
There was also a Season 4 teaser trailer for Agents of SHIELD, so I guess I ought to watch the rest of Season 3. Not that I'm that hyped about Ooo! Ghost Rider.
Also from Marvel was the second Doctor Strange trailer, with a little more detail and some magic. Still struggling with Benedict Cumberbatch's accent on this one, I'll be honest, although it certainly looks epic.
Back to TV, and Starz were fielding their first trailer for American Gods, which certainly has the gritty, downbeat thing going for it. The cast looks pretty promising as well. Ian McShane was a bad call to play Merriman Lyon in The Dark is Rising, but pretty textbook Wednesday. There's a lot in the book that could be tough to film, but the first glimpse doesn't suck, and that beats a lot of efforts.
Back with DC, we got a look at the darker side of the line with another Suicide Squad trailer, which reveals the scale of the fight that 'Task Force X' is being set up against. Amanda Waller seems to have taken Lex Luthor's warnings to heart, even if she is rather more willing to set a thief to violently murder a thief on pain of cranial detonation. The opening shot here has an interesting 'last pub on Earth' vibe, and I'm particularly curious to see how this aligns with Justice League.
The first trailer for Kong: Skull Island shows us a modern expedition to find a Kong upscaled to share a future screen with 2014's Godzilla, here facing off against the helicopter, gun and camera of John Goodman, Tom Hiddleston and soon-to-be Captain Marvel, Brie Larson. Oh, and Samuel L Jackson, because he's going through another of his swings of ubiquity.
Just... thank god we have Guy Ritchie to realise that what the legend of King Arthur was missing is lovable Cockneys and elephants.
Conversely, thank god we have David Yates to realise that what Harry Potter was missing was guns. Lots of guns. Actually, I say that but I am looking forward to 1920s wizarding New York, even if all the armed police do make me regret that it's not a wizarding Untouchables with potion prohibition and magical g-men.
The early-phase test footage from Star Trek Discovery answers the age old question 'what if a Federation starship and a Klingon cruiser had a baby that looked kind of like the Star Fleet emblem?' That's about all we can say. Even the in-production teaser for Game of Thrones confirms that there will be costumes and shit.
And then there's Legion. There is a definite push to do something different with the story of David Haller, dissociative supermutant and the result is, at least in this teaser, a little unsettling. It's a bold move, to set a series around a character with a severe mental illness - especially one which involves the possibility of bollocks mental health writing favourite dissociative identity disorder - and a lot of eyes are going to be on this one to see if they mess it up.
Uh-huh.
So that was... most of the Comic-Con trailers. I'm pretty psyched for a lot of this stuff, to be honest, so that's a lot of room for disappointment.
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