10 Things We’re Sad Won’t Be at Comic-Con This Year

“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!” Dang it. Didn’t work. We’re sorry. We tried to get the Ghost with the Most to travel to Comic-Con, and bring his Warner Bros. friends with him, but adjacent saying his sanction 3 times isn’t going to marque it happen.

San Diego Comic-Con 2024 kicks disconnected time nighttime and portion determination are plenty of big, breathtaking panels and events taking place, we can’t assistance but beryllium bummed that a fewer precise evident players aren’t going to beryllium successful attendance. Here are the 10 films, shows, oregon companies we were truly hoping would beryllium successful San Diego this week, but are not.

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Superman and the DC Universe

Superman writer and manager James Gunn was precise unfastened with fans that neither he, nor his film, nor the DC Universe astatine large, would beryllium astatine Comic-Con this year. The main reason? He’s inactive making Superman. Nevertheless, we were inactive benignant of hoping helium was lying—but Gunn doesn’t bash that. We’ll person to hold until adjacent year, aft Superman comes out, to hopefully spot if Gunn brings immoderate much quality connected the aboriginal of DC.

Warner Bros.

In the aureate property of Comic-Con, Saturday would beryllium bookended by Warner Bros. doing a monolithic sheet and past Marvel Studios doing a monolithic panel. Marvel is backmost this year, but not Warner Bros, which is simply a small unusual considering successful the adjacent fewer months it has a ton of immense geek titles coming out: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice; Joker: Folie à Deux; Mickey 17; the Ryan Coogler/Michael B. Jordan vampire movie; the Lord of the Rings animated movie; Minecraft; and more. Maybe a sheet was excessively expensive. Maybe the workplace didn’t privation anyone to expect Superman. Whatever the case, WB volition beryllium missed.

Spider-Man Universe

It’s not adjacent worthy asking for an update connected the adjacent Tom Holland Spider-Man movie but determination are, successful fact, TWO Spider-Man spinoffs opening earlier the extremity of the year. There’s Kraven the Hunter, a movie that exists, and Venom: The Last Dance. Both of those seems beauteous spot connected for Comic-Con, right? And yet? Crickets.

Severance

While Apple TV+ is bringing Silo to Comic-Con, it’s not bringing its adjacent much fashionable sci-fi show, Severance. Which is weird due to the fact that aft Severance came retired successful 2022, Apple spent a crap load of wealth connected an unthinkable Severance installation that was beloved by all. Now you don’t adjacent person a sheet with the 2nd play yet coming out?

Jurassic World

This clip adjacent year, the 4th Jurassic World movie directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Scarlett Johansson volition beryllium successful theaters. Maybe. It seems beauteous ambitious for a large effects movie that hasn’t started shooting yet. Still, if that’s astatine slightest the aim, Comic-Con would’ve been a large spot to get the formed unneurotic and speech a spot astir what’s adjacent for the franchise that was assumed to beryllium finished.

Fedor Steer arsenic the Manager connected Evil. Photo: Elizabeth Fisher/Paramount+

Evil

It’s tempting to blasted acheronian forces for Evil not having a beingness astatine San Diego Comic-Con this year. As Paramount+’s deed fearfulness amusement heads into the extremity of its last season, we’d hoped for 1 past SDCC quality to bid farewell to Mike Colter, Katja Herbers, and the remainder of the cast. Maybe there’ll beryllium a Satanic occurrence and the amusement volition get a revival, and we’ll get different chance? – Cheryl Eddy

House of the Dragon

Game of Thrones and Comic-Con spell unneurotic like, well, The Walking Dead and Comic-Con. But portion that franchise has aggregate panels this twelvemonth arsenic always, the Game of Thrones amusement House of the Dragon does not. Yes, it’s mid-season, but that’s each the crushed to ramp up the hype, and tease the different spinoffs.

Wicked

Universal has already gone beauteous immense connected Wicked. There was a Super Bowl spot astir a twelvemonth out. A monolithic CinemaCon presence. But now, thing astatine Comic-Con. The Wizard of Oz-adjacent, massively fashionable philharmonic fits close successful with the Comic-Con assemblage and a panel, possibly showing a opus from the movie, would’ve been 1 of the apical 2 oregon 3 big-ticket items of the weekend. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be.

Star Wars

We know. Disney has the D23 Expo successful conscionable a fewer weeks and that’s wherever we’ll spot much astir what’s coming successful the Star Wars universe, peculiarly the adjacent amusement Skeleton Crew. But Star Wars has created immoderate of the astir epic events successful Comic-Con history, truthful we’re ever hoping for a small something. Even erstwhile it’s doubtful.

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