• Hugh Jackman’s appearance at the tail end of this afternoon’s 20th Century Fox panel sent the 6,000-seat Hall H into “pandemonium,” according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz blog and EW’s Popwatch. Jackman, there to promote X-Men Origins: Wolverine, left the stage momentarily to shakes hands with Wolverine co-creator Len Wein. (The panel apparently was delayed because scaffolding supporting drapes collapsed in the rear of the room.)
• On Tor.com’s new blog, David Moldawer reports that in this morning’s “75 Years of Doc Savage” panel, producer Michael Uslan “let slip” that there’s a Man of Bronze movie in the works.
• As predicted, Twilight devotees were out in full force, jamming Hall H for the Summit Entertainment panel. MTV Movies blog says that, “Thousands of fans stretched nearly a mile, many of them lining up Wednesday evening.”
• This is either some strange harmonic nerd convergence, or a WTF moment: Watchmen director Zack Snyder tells MTV’s Splash Page that My Chemical Romance — fronted by Umbrella Academy writer Gerard Way — will cover Bob Dylan for the movie’s soundtrack.
• Scott Robins, who used to write the All-Ages blog, is covering Comic-Con for Good Comics for Kids. Welcome back, Scott.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Whoa, a cover of Dylan’s 10 minute “Desolation Row”? Or will they do a shortened version with an emphasis on the “At midnight all the agents” part?