Comic-Con's News and Notes 7.22.13

We can only hope these are the guys that play Batman and Superman.

One weekend every year, San Diego, California becomes Nerdvana. (Did you see how I did that? nerds... nirvana... Don't steal it, I just trademarked it.) Over the past four days, thousands of nerds from around the world descended on the city for SDCC - San Diego Comic-Con; the biggest and most ballyhooed of all the Cons. One day I will attend and I will drag people with me, I swear it. Many purists complain that the convention has little or nothing to do with actual comics these days, serving instead as a hype machine for all the latest movies Hollywood is churning out for the geek set. Speaking of...

Since I know you come here for all your news, I'll let you in on the biggest revelations of the weekend. #1. They're making a Batman/Superman movie. and #2. The Avengers' next villain will be... Ultron. For those of you who haven't spent the last 25 years studying Marvel continuity, Ultron is a sentient robot bent on destruction. Think Skynet in indestructible robot form. As far as Batman/Superman goes...   Okay, I guess? Zach Snyder must feel good about it because he's coming back to direct. But, personally, that is not a ship I'd be eager to jump on. That thing looks a little like a Carnival cruise-liner with faulty toilets to me.

WSF Notes

I'll hit you with some quick updates on production in the Compound this week. I've poured through all the Paranormus footage we shot last weekend. Good stuff. Possibly even better than we'd hoped for.

The next step is to schedule a shoot as soon as possible in August to finish this thing out. If I can edit in a timely manner, we may be able to get this thing submitted to Rivers Edge Film Fest before the late deadline. That will at least give us a chance to return to the land of quilts for our fourth consecutive year to our favorite fest on the planet. If we don't get it done... there will be much sobbing in the Compound. We need our Kerchoff's sammiches.

This week I'll be editing whenever I can on both Paranormus and Space Cops. Getting an early jump on the Paranormus edit before the next shoot may make the difference in whether we can finish it up in time.

We'll see you back here for Indie Wednesday (actually on Wednesday this time) and anything else that comes up.