No Trek Movie On Comic-Con Schedule - Continued Suckage

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Comic-Con has published their schedule for all four days:

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

No "Star Trek"programming devoted to the new movie is scheduled.

It's funny, on the one hand folks say "it would be a big mistake for Paramount to skip Comic-Con because they need the publicity," but on the other hand some folks will conclude that this means the studio is planning to slip something BIG in unannounced.

Of course, not announcing it in advance is clearly a superior approach to generating excitement and visibility, right?

 

[ancient]

The Trek stuff will be there. MARK MY WORDS.

However, it may be cloaked.

Or wearing a raincoat.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It will be smuggled in under Shatner's jacket.

 

[Darth_Pinche]

My bet is on the JJ Abrams panel about Fringe. I think he'll slip in a sneak preview clip or something.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

My bet is on the JJ Abrams panel about Fringe. I think he'll slip in a sneak preview clip or something.

That's possible, but not terribly likely.

 

[shapeshifter]

Something Trek could appear as a 'surprise'. Does the CC have a record of springing un-scheduled, surprise items?

 

[btflash]

It will be smuggled in under Shatner's jacket.

wow, he could fit alot under there.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Something Trek could appear as a 'surprise'.

Of course it could. Anything is possible.

 

[Gecko of Gorn]

"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on."

 

[Tralah]

Is there any precedent for Paramount or any other company pulling a "surprise" like this off at ComicCon?

 

[shapeshifter]

That's what I am looking for Tralah; a single person to give an account of some unscheduled surprise occurring at a CC and hope will shine abundant.

I remember the last one I went to, they had a bunch of charted busses take people to the Fox Theater for, among other things, some rough cut screening of scenes from Disneys "Tarzan", (yes, that long ago) but cannot remember if it was a surprise or a scheduled event. My heart is saying it was a surprise; they made an announcement to line up and we got to go only because we were at the right place at the right time. I remember being surprised about it but I just may not have been paying any attention to schedules so it came as a surprise to me.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

And here's the direct word from Abrams himself:

As for Comic-Con in San Diego, July 24-27, Abrams expressed disappointment at not bringing the movie to the largest pop-culture confab in the world...

Star Trek studio Paramount "said they're not going to take anything," Abrams said. "G.I Joe's not going. Transformers 2's not going."

Abrams added that the film is not ready to be shown, though Paramount screened snippets of Iron Man to last year's convention, earning raves. "Our visual effects, unlike something like Iron Man, we have well over 1,000 visual-effects shots," Abrams said. "It's a huge thing. so i'm very disappointed, because the characters are so good, the actors are so good, that I would have been psyched just to show some of the stuff that's about the people. Because it's not really about the visual effects. But with so little done ... . And this was a big kind of strategic decision on [Paramount's] part. so I was disappointed."

Link to SCIFI Article

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

^Well, that's that then. Moving on, at least there will be some funky Trek merchandise at Con especially those Retro figures!

 

[Darth_Pinche]

"Our Star Trek is not parody..." well sounds like JJ is NOT on the Sombrero-train.

I'll still be rocking the Sombrero at Comic-Con..resolutely Defiant!!

 

[Mordock]

That sounds quite plausible. A reel with unfinished or even missing effects isn't necessarily the best showpiece, so I certainly can't begrudge them not wanting to show the con audience a few random snippets.

 

[shapeshifter]

What a pisser.

 

[Procutus]

Just my .02 worth, but I can't believe with the amount of time since principle photography ended that they don't have SOMETHING that's complete enough to be shown.

Hell, what about that brief scene that J.J. showed to Harry Knowles?

 

[Darth_Pinche]

Abrahms, Quinto, and Simon Pegg will be there at the con for sure, yet nothing planned. Suckage or bait and switch?

It looks like Paramount is shooting themselves in the foot (no G.I. Joe, Transformers 2 either at the con). "Who are the advertising geniuses who came up with this one?"

 

[Psion]

Well, if J.J. et al do not show up wearing sombreros, I suggest someone be prepared to present them with appropriate attire.

 

[Dark Gilligan]

Abrams is going to screen his new series "Fringe" at the con's Preview Night, the Wednesday prior to the convention's actual start day on Thursday. Only attendees with 4-day passes will be allowed in. If Abrams were to try something unannounced and on the sly, that's when he'd likely do it.