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SDCC: Comic-Con: Disney 3D Hits Hall H!
Source: Edward Douglas
July 23, 2009
ComingSoon.net has gotten into the 6,500 seat Hall H at Comic-Con and we're waiting for Walt Disney's 3D presentation to begin, which will include new footage from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Disney's A Christmas Carol, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and the action sequel TRON. The panel moderated by Patton Oswalt should be starting shortly and we'll try our best to liveblog it, although the Wi-Fi in Hall H this year is horrendous!
*Panel just started... place is packed... already lost my 3D glasses... but found them again. Been hearing about people having arrived and stood in Hall H as early as yesterday afternoon. Some of our colleagues got in line at 7AM and only got in around 11AM.
*Patton Oswalt just came out to host the event wearing 3D glasses. Incidentally, this is indeed the very first 3D presentation in Hall H ever, which may be why it's so packed. Oswalt is definitely winning the crowd over with his jokes.
*First up is A Christmas Carol and director Robert Zemeckis is on hand to present the 3D footage. Oswalt is asking him why he's excited about 3D. They're sitting on high chairs like on "Inside the Actor's Studio" and this is a very different set-up than in previous years with one large screen in the center of the Hall rather than three smaller screens.
*Jim Carrey plays 8 roles in the movie and they have pictures of all of them on the screen. Wish I could keep up with Oswalt's jokes, but he's actually giving a fairly good interview with Zemeckis which we'll try to post highlights of later.
*Zemeckis showed an extended scene that includes the footage of Scrooge being visited by the ghost of his late partner Jacob Marley. It starts earlier with Scrooge visiting Marley lying in a coffin with coins on his eyes and signing the death certificate. It then shows Scrooge returning home and walking up the staircase which is glowing eerily in red. The rest of the clip was pretty much what we had seen with the long build-up to the entrance by Marley's Ghost as well as some of the footage that shows the various ghosts, much of which can be seen in the trailer. The 3D footage actually looked better than the same footage we saw in IMAX a few months ago, the smaller screen really bringing out the detail on Scrooge's wrinkled face since it isn't stretched out to fit the larger IMAX screen.
*They've gone to Q n A and Zemeckis is answering a lot of the obvious questions about why he cast Jim and why he decided to do it animated using motion capture. He said that he didn't feel that anytime while doing motion capture that he thought they didn't have what they needed from Jim Carrey's performance to do what they need to do in animation. He was just asked whether he'd be doing any more live action movies and right now he's into "sending this artform out into the world" because he likes the "control this artform gives the director."
*Zemeckis was just asked if he'd ever make a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? but he said that he "can't confirm or deny." He said that the 2D animated characters from the original movie would remain in 2D if he did decide to revisit those characters in a new movie.
*Next up is Tim Burton making his first Comic-Con panel appearance ever and he got a huge round of applause... he obviously has a lot of fans in this crowd. He says that he hasn't been here since he was a college student in the 70s.
*They just showed the character pictures from Alice in Wonderland including Matt ("Little Britain") Lucas' Tweedledum and Tweedledee, which looks like a shorter dumpier version of Lucas. Oswalt has asked him about why he picked Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and they showed concept art for the Chesire Cat, voiced by Stephen Fry.
*They showed the first teaser trailer for the movie which starts with the image of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and the voice-over "There is a place like no other place on earth." His Mad Hatter walks across the table set up for the Tea Party and towers over Alice saying "You're terribly late you know. Naughty." The footage accompanied by MGMT's "Let's Pretend" (great choice!) includes a bit of Alice falling down the Rabbit Hole and then we see her walking through a forrest, following the White Rabbit, in turn followed by Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the Jabberwocky. A later scene shows the Jabberwocky swooping down and grabbing the twins. After that, we see a shot of Alice and Anne Hathaway's White Queen on a terrace looking over the kingdom and a brief look at Helena Bonham Carter's Red Queen. We see a few shots of the Chesire Cat, including one where he's roaring like a lion. The audience goes wild whenever Johnny Depp appears on the screen as the Hatter, throwing his top hat at the camera and laughing maniacally. Towards the end of the footage, we see Alice drinking the potion that causes her to shrink with her voiceover saying "That's Impossible" and the Mad Hatter responding "Only if you believe it is." Oswalt immediately showed the teaser again to great applause... and a third time!
*Burton says that the movie is based on all of Lewis Carroll's works including the "Jabberwocky" poem, not just the best known original "Alice" novel.
*After the brief Q n A, Oswalt asked if he had anything else and he said he brought an "Imaginary friend" and Johnny Depp walked out to HUGE screams from the ladies in the audience. Apparently, Johnny isn't able to enjoy the 3D experience, according to Burton.
*Next up is the Tron Legacy panel and apparently, that is the OFFICIAL title for the new film. Director Joseph Kosinski is on hand, as is producer Sean Bailey and Steve Lisberger. From the cast is Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and of course, the veteran from the first film, Jeff Bridges.
*They just showed concept art from the world of Tron City including a view down from the top of Mile High Tower and a look at the arena for the city's gladiatorial games including an update of Disc War, which features 16 combatants fighting at once and then the courts combining as someone is eliminated to create one giant count for the final battle. They also showed shots of the new Recognizer, the Solar Sailor, the two-passenger Light Runner, and the 5th Generation light cycle.
*They just finished filming last week but Joe had cut together a key scene in which Hedlund's Sean Flynn arrives at the old Flynn's arcade which has been abandoned for 20 years.The place has clearly been vacant for a long time and all the arcade games are covered in plastic but he flicks on the power and the jukebox kicks into the opening of Journey's "Separate Ways" which was in the original Tron as all of the games comes to life. He sees a blue light emanating from the back wall so he walks back towards it and takes the plastic off the game and it's the original Tron arcade game. He takes out a quarter to play it but it drops to the floor and he sees a crack on the floor and realizes that it goes behind the console. He pushes the game aside and there's a secret door with blue light glowing from the cracks and he opens it up and walks in.
*French techno band Daft Punk has composed 24 tracks for the movie so far.
That's it for now... battery is running out of juice but hope to write more later.
Related Articles From Other SitesPosted by: J Smith on July 23, 2009 at 14:16:42
Disney at Comic-con '09! This is a first.
Posted by: loc420 on July 23, 2009 at 14:29:44
TRROOOONNNN!!! I cant wait but to stand in line for that long....whheeeeew coudlnt do it
Posted by: Colbert on July 23, 2009 at 14:58:16
Hate it when people are sticklers or grammer police, but it was actually Who Framed Roger Rabbit, not Killed. Not that I'd be opposed to the latter...
Posted by: Colbert on July 23, 2009 at 14:59:49
And I mispelled "grammar" in the process. Waa waaaa
Posted by: Jacob on July 23, 2009 at 15:06:17
its very funny and ironic to hear such things from zemeckis:
" the 2D animated characters from the original movie would remain in 2D."
Posted by: Oi on July 23, 2009 at 15:21:05
awesome. Johnny Depp was there?
And tron 2 is now known as Tron Legacy? awesome
Posted by: RustyMuffler on July 23, 2009 at 15:24:40
Just wanted to send a THANK YOU for the continuing coverage. Love it!
TRON LEGACY FTW!!!!!
Posted by: Jacob on July 23, 2009 at 15:28:24
tr2n sounded so much better
would have been fun if its out and all radio-shows trying to pronounce it tr two on
Posted by: artofwar on July 23, 2009 at 15:29:16
who framed roger rabbit not killed...geez man i enjoy u keeping up with this sdcc news but get the classics right man!!! oh and BRING ON TRON!!!
Posted by: Matthew H. on July 23, 2009 at 15:44:48
Thanks for that year old video, momy.
And the MGMT song is "Time To Pretend", not let's pretend. Come on man, that is two glaring errors now.
Posted by: RustyMuffler on July 23, 2009 at 15:47:16
Seperate Ways was NOT in the original TRON. They had 1990's Theme and Only Solutions in the original. Still nice homage, though.
Posted by: RustyMuffler on July 23, 2009 at 15:50:38
I want to know if Daft is using any of Wendy Carlos' stuff for the new score. They better be.
Posted by: Mike R. on July 23, 2009 at 15:52:31
C'mon guys, it's a live blog. A couple mistakes here and there aren't going to kill us. Besides, that's what the editors are for.
Posted by: Masked_Awesome on July 23, 2009 at 15:53:00
SOOOOOOOOOO happy Disney was there this year. They have released a lot of great stuff! Not too psyched about Christmas Carol... but Tron and Alice look absolutely amazing.
Posted by: stevedamien on July 23, 2009 at 16:03:10
TRON is going to be amazing!
Thanks for the updates
Posted by: Thanks for the Coverage on July 23, 2009 at 16:18:32
Great stuff man, thank you for covering this and reporting the juice to us. TRON LEGACY will rock!
Posted by: loc420 on July 23, 2009 at 17:05:50
I did like Tr2n but TRON LEGACY sounds epic. I hope disney doesn't drop the ball on this movie. Its one movie that I will riot if not done right!!!
Posted by: mike on July 23, 2009 at 17:19:38
Is 'Alice' going to play on IMAX 3D screens as well? I keep getting conflicting stories.
Posted by: mR pSYcHo on July 23, 2009 at 17:35:52
"...Alice falling down the Rabbit Hole and then we see her walking through a forrest, following the White Rabbit, in turn followed by Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the Jabberwocky."
I think that's the dodo.
"A later scene shows the Jabberwocky swooping down and grabbing the twins."
I think that's the Jubjub bird.
"We see a few shots of the Chesire Cat, including one where he's roaring like a lion."
And I think THAT'S Burton's Jabberwocky.
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