Re: George Clooney Tomorrowland visit ComicCon New York in October

by hathaross Thu 09 Oct 2014, 22:38

Aawww the last one lip smack

THE RING!!!!!!!!!! cheers

by LizzyNY Thu 09 Oct 2014, 22:59

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“On top of my honeymoon it is my first Comic Con,” Clooney told the audience.

I'm sure it's not what he meant, but my first reaction was "WTF? Is he comparing his honeymoon to Comic Con?" That must have been an interesting week! Very Happy

by melbert Thu 09 Oct 2014, 23:02

Thanks for all the news and pics ladies!

by Sevens Thu 09 Oct 2014, 23:05

Lizzy Am I a prophet? I predicted his marriage to Amal and now his first Comic Con!

by Sevens Thu 09 Oct 2014, 23:07

Lizzy he basically jokes that he secretly spent his honeymoon here which is quite important (who knows if Amal is currently on a custom somewhere?)and then the truth is it's his first Comic Con!

by LornaDoone Thu 09 Oct 2014, 23:17

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LornaDoone wrote:Sevens, with his filming schedule, if he does show it would most likely only be for a 1 hour panel discussion with the others from the project and a probably photo call.

But I doubt he'll be hanging out with the fans and signing autographs.

WHAT Lorna

So did anyone see him outside signing photos? Or was he just on the panel AS I PREDICTED??? Hmmm?? HA!!

by LornaDoone Thu 09 Oct 2014, 23:19

Nicky thanks for the pictures with George the sources I was using didn't have any of him on the panel!

by LizzyNY Thu 09 Oct 2014, 23:20

Sevens - When I saw that he was at Comic Con my first thought was that you were right! I honestly didn't expect him to show up - and apparently no one else did either, because the organizers didn't even know until the last minute. I'm glad he was there. It means he's getting back to work.

There's mention of an extended clip from the movie being shown. Does anyone know if it was posted anywhere?

by Joanna Thu 09 Oct 2014, 23:38

Thanks for all the postings on this thread folks.
Much appreciated by me. flower

The trailer looks good......but nowhere
near long enough !!!!

by hathaross Thu 09 Oct 2014, 23:58

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by Silje Fri 10 Oct 2014, 00:04

Here is a link to a video with an interview with G.

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by hathaross Fri 10 Oct 2014, 00:10

Thank you!!!!!

by Silje Fri 10 Oct 2014, 00:16

Your welcome H.

Here is an article which I don't think we have but I'm getting tired so I'm not sure. It talks more about the film, so Spoiler Alert.

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Tomorrowland’ has a surprise for N.Y. Comic-Con: George Clooney

While mum was the word at the Tomorrowland panel at New York Comic Con, a never-before-seen clip screened at the show shines a bit of light on Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof’s latest mystery box of a film.

Bird and Lindelof started off the panel discussing the film’s origin but quickly segued into the film’s first teaser trailer.
The project became Tomorrowland, which is about … well, Lindelof and Bird are reticent to say just about anything, keeping the film shrouded in as much mystery as possible to preserve what they call a “discovery” movie. To help not tell the crowd much, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy, and Hugh Laurie came onstage.
The trio of actors were, again, limited in describing their characters, even remaining vague on who is good or bad. A brief teaser trailer shed light on how the wonders of Tomorrowland will be brought to the screen.

The trailer, as expected, reveals very little about what happens in the film, and even as actors Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson, and Raffey Cassidy came on stage to discuss their characters almost no new information was revealed. A small tidbit about the origin of the pin glimpsed in the trailer slipped out, as Robertson mentioned it comes from Cassidy’s character Athena, but that was as far as they would go under the watchful eyes of Lindelof and Bird.
But the real treat of the panel was an appearance by George Clooney—who Laurie jokingly asserted is an alcoholic, shouting mess who’s really 75 years old. The actor, celebrating his honeymoon in strange style, brought along a clip of his character Frank Walker’s first encounter with Casey Newton (Robertson).
The extended clip starts with Casey sneaking onto Frank’s property, where she asks the recluse for help returning to wherever the pin took her. He rebuffs her advances, literally—his locked door emits a reverberating force that knocks Casey to the ground. She refuses to leave, however, and that’s where things start getting interesting.
Setting his tractor on fire, Casey fools Frank into leaving his house with a supped up fire extinguisher. It doesn’t just put out the fire, it encases the tractor in ice. Casey sneaks into his home, however, but with her comes trouble, as a distribuingly amicable robotic agent shows up looking for her. Frank locks down his house, but a small army follows the first agent, storming Frank’s house. Luckily, years of living as a shut-in gave him time to prep his defenses.
The house is outfitted with laser tripwires that shred the robots to pieces, magnetic walls to freeze the assailants in their place, and a portable teleportation device that proves useful in a particularly dangerous moment. To make their triumphant escape, Casey and Frank jump into his bathtub, which comes equipped with a reinforced steel cover that rockets through his roof just just in time to escape their final robotic pursuer.
The footage is gorgeous. Walker’s drab and old house is hilariously offset by a claustrophobic mishmash of miscellaneous technology and computer monitors. And every interesting piece of technology comes with its own distinct color swath to liven the sequence up—the teleportation portal is a strange blue-and-white shimmering circle, the hallway lasers are a crisscross of fierce red, green blasts pulsate from the assailants’ guns.
The scene played beautifully into the film’s blend of a more muted real world and a vibrant and fantastical land of tomorrow. Little was revealed about the plot that isn’t already known. But the fully edited scene showed tremendous promise for the final film.
Tomorrowland looks like a passion project for all involved, one meant to be as much about discovery as it is about hope. And after the initial teaser and the impressive extended sequence in Frank’s home, there’s plenty of reason for Disney fans to be filled with hope.

by Doug Ross Fri 10 Oct 2014, 00:27

"It's not lost on me that I'm spending my honeymoon at Comic-Con," Clooney cracked. "MY WIFE was as confused about what Comic-Con was as you are," he added of his lawyer love Amal Alamuddin.
Here's another article http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/george-clooney-crashes-comic-con-jokes-about-his-wife-amal-alamuddin-2014910

I want the video of the panel!

by Silje Fri 10 Oct 2014, 00:33

Me too.

by hathaross Fri 10 Oct 2014, 00:35

We don´t gonna see the extended trailer?

Sounds strange MY WIFE.

by Silje Fri 10 Oct 2014, 00:46

So far no extended video and no video of the panel. Here is a video of 2 guys talking about the panel. They seem like Sfi-nerds and they seem to like what they have seen so far. They say that the film-makers (?)where inspired by Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. That seems promising, I love Sfi... and Close Encounters was great.

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by Sevens Fri 10 Oct 2014, 01:08

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more on his character...

by Sevens Fri 10 Oct 2014, 01:13

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all about the second clip

by Sevens Fri 10 Oct 2014, 02:06

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by Sevens Fri 10 Oct 2014, 02:10

FULL report here
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TOMORROWLAND Comic-Con Panel Recap: George Clooney Makes First Comic-Con Appearance; Unveils Action-Packed Clip Loaded with Lasers and Robots

We may be a little light on movies at New York Comic-Con this year, but Walt Disney Studios decided to go big by unveiling some never-before-seen material from Tomorrowland. At first, we thought it was huge that we got to see the film’s brand new teaser trailer, but mere minutes after screening it at the Javits Center, the promo hit the web. That couldn’t be right. There had to be more, right? Sure enough, Disney delivered.

You know how you only see that super short snippet of George Clooney in the teaser? Clooney made his very first Comic-Con appearance at the Tomorrowland panel to give us more footage featuring his character. Hit the jump for my Tomorrowland Comic-Con recap.

The event began with director Brad Bird and producer Damon Lindelof, but soon thereafter, stars Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie and Raffey Cassidy joined them on stage. Here’s what went down during the Q&A with the moderator:

Lindelof once thought that the idea of turning a theme park ride into a movie was ridiculous, but then Pirates of the Caribbean pulled it off. He also recalled thinking, “I don’t know what it would be about, but if there was a movie called Tomorrowland, I would go and see that movie.”
Early on, Lindelof recruited Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly to do some research about the history of Tomorrowland and specifically Walt Disney as a futurist, and he ultimately came across a box with loads of interesting things in it like a laserdisc, a map and an Amazing Stories magazine from the 1920s. They don’t know who put it there or why, but they said to themselves, “Who cares where it came from? Let’s make up a story about this.”
While developing the movie, Bird and Lindelof kept Close Encounters of the Third Kind in mind, especially the idea of “seeing something and being inspired by it.”
After showing the teaser trailer, Bird and Lindelof summed up the plot by explaining that Robertson’s character, Casey, finds this pin that allows her to see this place. She’s not entirely sure that she even saw it, but she wants to know more and she’s going to need help in order to find it.
As for how she even gets that pin, Lindelof teased, “We’ll come to find that she’s been given the pin by another character named Athena, but we will not be talking at all about who she is.”
Speaking of Athena, when asked if she plays a good character or a bad character in the film, Cassidy replied, “She’s not the bad character. She’s a good character because she’s helping and caring for people. But I wouldn’t say she’s very good. She’s not the most thoughtful of people’s feeling sometimes.”
Laurie recalled first meeting with Bird and Lindelof and being taken by “an attitude, a way of thinking about life, and specifically about the future, that simply had never occurred to me.” He continued, “I did leave thinking these guys are onto something really exceptional here, something incredibly powerful and uplifting.”
When the panelists were asked about working with Clooney, Laurie had some fun picking on him while he wasn’t there, and then that’s when things got crazy. Laurie joked, “I’m glad he’s actually not present at the moment because it frees me up to say one or two things.” Shortly after, Clooney walked out and the crowd erupted.
This is Clooney’s very first Comic-Con. He joked, “I think since my Batman, I was disinvited to Comic-Con.” He continued, “I met Adam West back there and I was like, ‘Hey! Sorry,’” and, “‘Sorry about the nipples on the suit.’”
A popular topic of conversation was the scale of the film. Even Clooney noted that Tomorrowland was “larger than most things I’ve ever been on.”
Before wrapping up, Clooney turned to Lindelof and Bird and said, “Really, that’s all they’re gonna see? Really?” He added, “I’m so barely in the teaser … you know, I mean, everyone’s saying, I’m a big star.” And then of course, that led into the unveiling of a clip loaded with material featuring Clooney’s character.

The footage begins with a shot of a dirt road from above. When we come in closer, the camera focuses on a mailbox that says Walker on it. Casey approaches and we get a quick glimpse of a security camera as she walks up to a secluded, somewhat rundown looking two-story farmhouse. She knocks on the door. Clooney’s character shouts from inside, “Go away!” She replies, “My name’s Casey. You’re Frank, right? Frank Walker?” She asks him to take her “there.” When Frank asks where, Casey yells, “The place I saw when I touched this,” and holds up the pin from the teaser trailer. Frank isn’t having it and Casey is blown back off the porch by something Frank triggers.

When she’s a good distance away from the door, Frank struts outside in a pair of dirty work boots, khakis and a flannel shirt. Casey begs him to take her “there” because she feels like she’s supposed to go, but he tells her, “You are not supposed to do anything.” He proceeds to tell her that she’s been manipulated to feel like she’s part of something incredible, but that she’s not. He goes back inside, but Casey isn’t giving up just yet.

Cut to a shot of Casey in the rain, trying to huddle under the tiny overhang sheltering the area right in front of Frank’s door. That’s when we go inside and find Frank in a room with a number of monitors in it. All of a sudden, an alarm sounds. He checks a monitor and spots something burning in his yard. Frank storms outside with a souped up fire extinguisher and puts out the blaze by turning it into a giant block of ice. Before he can get back inside, Casey’s already locked him out.

Casey watches Frank on a monitor while he yells and bangs on the door. She decides to give him a taste of his own medicine, using that same weapon to hurl him off his porch. Casey begins snooping around, checking out what Frank’s busy watching on his monitors – riot footage, destruction, news reports. All of a sudden, in the background, the stairs start to rise up. It’s a secret entrance. Frank is back inside! She spits out question after question, but before he can answer a single one or try to kick her out, the alarm sounds again. Someone’s there and according to Frank, this person followed Casey here.

A man in a black uniform is on the monitor accusing Frank of “harboring a fugitive” and threatening that if he does not comply, he’ll be “extinguished.” That’s when he turns to Casey and asks, “Who are you, kid?” But there’s no time for small talk now. The house is ambushed by not one, but many armed soldiers/officers.

One enters and Frank nails him with a taser-like weapon. Another officer runs right into one of Frank’s booby-traps, a hidden laser, and it saws his head right off, revealing that these aren’t human officers or soldiers at all; they’re robots. There’s a good deal of running around until Casey and Frank finally make their way back to the monitor room. Another robot tries to follow them, but falls through a trap door in the floor before he can get to them. Another one attacks from behind. Frank wrestles with him until Casey spots some sort of electrified circular device and sticks it over the robot’s head. As she does, the top half of the robot’s body disappears. That’s when Frank slices off its hand.

From there, the action moves upstairs. There are red lasers, tasers and explosions. Another one of Frank’s traps kicks in and, all of a sudden, a robot flies into the wall as though it’s been magnetized. Casey and Frank move into what looks to be a boy’s bedroom to take on another robot. Casey gives him a couple of good whacks with a baseball bat, literally bashing his face in and even when he’s down, she continues to hit him over and over again until the moment earns a solid laugh.

Frank then rushes Casey into the bathroom and insists that she get in the bathtub with him. He pulls out a remote, presses some buttons and that’s when the floor opens up underneath, a shield-like [size=16]shell[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.][/size] closes over the bathtub and then the whole thing shoots right up, out of the house and into the sky.

I don’t really know what I was expecting considering we’ve known little to nothing about the project until today, but this definitely wasn’t it. However, I liked it. The banter between Robertson and Clooney is amusing and the action rocks an incredible amount of detail and some original flare. As tacky as it sounds, it looks as though this one could be an entertaining family-friendly romp. Sure, there was a beheading, but the fact that it was a robot still keeps it wholesome enough, right?

Tomorrowland is set to hit theaters on May 22, 2015.

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‘Tomorrowland’ NYCC Panel: George Clooney vs. Killer Robots

by Boshkash Fri 10 Oct 2014, 05:30

Oh, it looks really cool! Not something he would usually do! And it is a teaser, so it is supposed to reveal nothing or just barely something, but it sounds promising!

by Nicky80 Fri 10 Oct 2014, 06:24

here is the part of the Panel. George is great

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by Nicky80 Fri 10 Oct 2014, 06:47

more pics here thanks to frenchies

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by Sevens Fri 10 Oct 2014, 06:51

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by Nicky80 Fri 10 Oct 2014, 06:56

Sevens your pics you try to post don't show in your posts. Not sure if it's just me but I can't see them

by Sevens Fri 10 Oct 2014, 08:20

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Sorry about that.but here are more pix and a detailed clip account

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by Donnamarie Fri 10 Oct 2014, 15:01

Thanks Sevens and Nicky80 for all your work to get the pics and videos here. It was great that G was there. Looks like he may have been the highlight of the CC's opening day!

by Sevens Fri 10 Oct 2014, 15:06

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He really loves George...and George will be on his podcast

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by Sevens Fri 10 Oct 2014, 16:46

So Brad&Damon literally jokes about George:

by it's me Fri 10 Oct 2014, 16:56

Sevens wrote:So Brad&Damon literally jokes about George:

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by Silje Fri 10 Oct 2014, 20:06

Thanks everyone for posting videos and pics. George looks so different in the ComicCon pics compared to the hotell pics. In the pics leaving the hotell he looks much older and I don't like the sun glasses. Here he looks perfect. Love the black suit.

by LizzyNY Fri 10 Oct 2014, 20:53

Many thanks to everyone for posting all the videos and saving the rest of us the time and trouble of hunting them down. Great work!

(Sevens - Shouldn't you be studying? Very Happy

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by amaretti Fri 10 Oct 2014, 20:56

Thanks for the pics Very Happy

He looks good . Very Happy

by theminis Sat 11 Oct 2014, 00:04

Echo the above, thanks for all the new info - plus the Yum pics of our George

by Sevens Sun 12 Oct 2014, 05:12

Silje wrote:Here is a link to a video with an interview with G.

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by Silje Sun 12 Oct 2014, 06:46

Sevens wrote:

Sevens, your link to my video doesn't work. But it is the same video that you posted later as a youtube video. The first youtube video with George's face on it. Smile

by it's me Sun 12 Oct 2014, 08:39

Sevens wrote:
Silje wrote:Here is a link to a video with an interview with G.

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thanks

but too short video Neutral

by Sevens Wed 12 Nov 2014, 05:22

More pix of him from Instagram:
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by party animal - not! Wed 12 Nov 2014, 10:03

The Bahamas reference.......

A Tripadvisor comment:

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Did we know this??

by cupcake Wed 12 Nov 2014, 10:35

l really liked the trailer , it looks awesome . l loved it that he showed up to ComicCon . I love you

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