Wizard World Chicago

As previously stated in my blog, I was lucky enough to attend the Dark Knight panel at Wizard World Chicago.   As you can tell, I am somewhat of a bat fan, so I might be a little biased.  But the only way to describe this experience was IT WAS FREAKIN' AWESOME!!! However, this experience almost never happen. 

Rumors on the internet was that there was going to be a panel at Wizard World, since there was not one at Comic Con.  They were filming part of the movie in Chicago, so it made sense to have the panel there.  However, as the days drew near, rumors began to state that there was a falling out between the two sides and the panel was in jeopardy.  Myself and a few 2o2p's had visited the convention on Friday and there was no mention of anything relating to the movie.  Sadly, it looked like the rumors were true. 

On Saturday, I ventured on my own to the convention to get an autograph from Tricia Helfer and to get some deals on some comics.  As I was waiting in line for Tricia's autograph, I notice some people walking around in Dark Knight t-shirts.  On the back of the t-shirt, there was Wizard World Chicago and the date of the convention.  I was a little perplexed, as I question if this was part of an another viral campaign.  Once I had gotten my autograph, I headed over to the main panel room, to see if there was any details. On the schedule there was a panel for the Dark Knight, later in the day.   However, it appeared it was recently added, as it was written in ink on the board.  I quickly headed over to the DC booth to get the details and it appears that they were giving out wristbands for the event.  Of course, they had already passed them out and it looks like I am SOL. 

I was determine to get into the panel, so I decide to wait it out and hope that they would let us in.  Of course w/ my luck,  I wasn't expecting too much.  Once they let everyone w/ a wristband in, they determined that there was still room and let those w/o one in.  SWEET!!! I was in.  I rush to locate a seat and was able to find a nice spot.  After a few minutes, once of the reps from Wizard came out and introduced DC's President Paul Levitz. He greeted us and proceeded to introduce the panel.  One by one, David Goyer, Jonathan Nolan, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, and Chris Nolan came out.  HOLY F*CK, I am in the same room w/ Batman, Harvey Dent and Commish Gordon!!!  This is awesome and everyone was greeted to standing ovations.  The panel had a few quick words and a Q&A was set up.  Thanks to the wonder that is the internet, the Q&A was posted online  I will provided a link to those that are interested. Once that was over, we were treated to a little treat, an exclusive clip.

I am not certain if what I saw was the trailer that is going to be debut in Dec or something that was put together for Wizard World, but after seeing it I was in awe.  I will provided some details, but I am also relying on the internet to help me.  Sadly the screens were not up to par, so it was hard to see, plus the writers from Wizard can give a better description of the trailer than me.  Now before I continue, there are some spoilers, so do no click on the links, if you do not want to know.

Trailer description:

www.wizarduniverse.com/movies/dark_knight/005607875.cfm

Q&A panel

www.wizarduniverse.com/movies/dark_knight/005609461.cfm

So in the end, it looks like the movie is darker than the previous.  Joker is going to be a crazy mofo!  With the surprise at the end of the trailer, this is going to be a kick ass movie!!!  I can totally not wait for it to come.out!!!  Batman Begins is easily one of my favorite movies and it appears that the Dark Knight will be up there w/ it.  So until next time...