Warner Bros. Comic Con Panel: Batman V. Superman & More Recap

Warner Bros. Pictures is holding what promises to be the most talked about panel of 2015 Comic Con today. Last night, Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder arrived at Comic Con in the Batmobile and handed out t-shirts to fans waiting in line for the highly anticipated panel. Comicbook.com was in Hall H at Comic Con Saturday morning for the epic Warner Brothers panel. Here’s the official description:

The director of Comic Con opened Warner Brothers panel to a sizzle reel of their hot movies from 2015 and prior years, including The Matrix, Godzilla, Gravity, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Mad Max: Fury Road, and more.

Aisha Tyler of Archer emerged to host the panel. Tyler introduced the first footage of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. which included historical events wrapping around all of the massive screens unveiled in Hall H, the cast and title, just before introducing director Guy Ritchie via a behind the scenes clip of him apologizing for not attending which was followed by footage from the movie.

Man From U.N.C.L.E. Footage description:

Vankander’s character drives Cavill’s in a chase with Hammer’s. The two ultimately zipline into the back of a truck. Hammer and Cavill fight it out, dsetroying bathroom stalls and their boss tells them, “Don’t kill your partner on your first day.” The two main characters get under each other’s skin over lunch by the bay and Hammer flips the table then leaves. They both claim to work better alone. Hammer efficiently cuts through a fence while Cavil uses some clippers. They’ll be teaming up with the Russians. Hammer gets slapped by a woman and threatens to spank her but she tackles him.Car chases through forest, lakes, and muddy woods ensue. Hugh Grant tells them their new code name before a montage of action and car chases. Their name is U.N.C.L.E..

Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Debicki take the stage. Cavill says U.N.C.L.E. will take place around 1964 or 1965. Debicki says her hair “weighed about 10 kilos” and the costumes were “fantastic.” Armie Hammer says doing an accent for the film “was great,” and it makes what he says sound “more badass.” They had a dialect coach, Andrew Jack, on set to help them.

The panel is open to questions from the audience and a fan in a Superman T-shirt gets the first, which Cavill compliments, “Nice T-shirt, dude.”

Cavill describes his character, saying “It’s one you love to hate and hate to love.”

Man From U.N.C.L.E. wraps up and next up is Pan.

Pan footage description:

Flying ship, “Prepare to set sail!” yells out. Planes give chase but it goes into space as Peter touches a small planet before being yanked back to the ship.

Director Joe Wright and cast members, Levi Miller, Garrett Hedlund, and an applause earning Hugh Jackman (introduced by Tyler as “The Wolverine!”) take the stage.

“It’s Peter Pan for 2015. It’s a complete reframing of the story as we know it and love it,” says Wright. “It’s an origin story of how Peter became Pan.”

“You probably presume it’s all green screen. It’s not,” Jackman says speaking about Neverland. “It’s a set,” and he promises, “You’ve never seen Neverland like this!”

Wright introduces a new trailer.

Aisha asks Wright about why he chose to uses practical sets. He says, “I’m not sure it would’ve been less expensive to use CGI. The big set is the forest,” he explained. “It helped me to understand where I was.”

Jackman says the pirate ships featured in the film are “full scale. Fully built.”

Wright introduces exclusive footage from Pan:

The ship falls out of the sky and lands in a massive sea before taking off again within floating giant water molecules and approaching a floating island. Peter asks, “Is this Canada?” The man on the ship insists the kids on board, “Kneel!” as he introduces Black Beard who addresses the children. “I have sprung you from life’s cruel dungeon,” Blackbeard yells atop his perch. He claims the kids are now, “home.” He insists they are in a land of opportunity and reads the rules of their new home. “Welcome to Neverland!” he yells before the clip ends.

Pan concludes.

FOOTAGE OF DC COMICS

Superman’s classic Action Comics cover takes the screen accompanied by various Justice League members on the wider screen. The DC comics logo shows up and the crowd goes wild. Classic DC comics character films air as Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill narrate with their love for super heroes. Suicide Squad footage shows the Squad entering a building together. Killer Croc strapped to a gurney. Deadshot firing his gun. Batman and Superman stare down. A new Suicide Squad logo. A wonder Woman logo. Justice League 1 & 2 logos and Concept art. The Flash logo. Aqua,am logo and concept art. Cyborg logo and concept art. Green Lantern Corps logo. Superman and Batman charge each other. DC logo. Warner Brothers logo. Wow!

More footage begins to play, this time, Suicide Squad.

Animated concept art of various characters on the big screen. Harley Quinn strapped to a gurney getting injections. The Joker taking off in a helicopter. The Squad in a bar. Their new logo.

David Ayers takes the stage and leads into a Suicide Squad trailer.

Suicide Squad Trailer

Dinner table. “I have the worst of the worst,” a man tells Amanda Waller. The DC Comics logo ticks into screen. Waller says she put them in a whole and threw away the whole. She references Superman. “A task force of the most dangerous people on the planet who can do some good.” “We have built in deniability” because their bad guys. Harley Quinn hangs upside down in a cage. Deadshot beats a punching bag. Killer Croc is raised into frame, strapped to a gurney. Harley asks, “Are you the devil?” Deadshot grapples down a building. A hospital gets shot up. Enchantress sits in a pool. Deadshot calls themselves the Suicide Squad as the team forms in the street. Helicopters fire. Harley holds her bat like a shotgun. The Joker walks down a hallway. Harley strangles a guard. Batman rides the Joker’s car. Harley pops gum. Boomerang talks about crazy people. Joker’s laugh! “I’m not gonna kill ya!” Joker says. The squad walks down the street. Joker goes on, “I’m just gonna hurt ya, really, really, bad,” with the most insane look anyone can ever have in their eyes.

The cast takes the stage with the exception of Leto. Will Smith calls David Ayers, “The truth,” and they leave to get back to work.

MORE FOOTAGE. Batman v. Superman

Superman’s suit goes by. Batman’s foot stomps into the ground. His ears come into focus. The two stand off s the Batman v. Superman logo takes the screen.

Zack Snyder takes the stage. “Getting a chance to make this particular movie, I don’t know how, for me, it gets any better,” Snyder says. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice takes the stage:Holly Hunter, Jeremy Irons, Gal Gadot, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams, Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck.

NEW BATMAN v. SUPERMAN TRAILER DESCRIPTION

Superman lands at Capitol Hill. He walks into the US Senate as a woman calls his power dangerous. Bruce Wayne runs into a collapsing Wayne Tower being destroyed by a flaming laser of sorts and saves a little girl. Bruce reads a letter that says “You let your family die.” over a newspaper headed, “Wayne Tower Devastated.” He gazes at the batsuit, Clark calls Batman a vigilante. Perry White says “No one cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman.” Clark needs to be everyone’s hero. A space shuttle explodes and he catches it. Lex Luthor talks with the senator and says devils come from the sky. Zod’s face is revealed in as a body bag opens. Batman looks at a graffitied bat suit which reads, “Jokes on you,” in yellow spray paint. Bruce talks about Wonder Woman, who flashes by, saying she can wipe out the entire human race. Mechsuit Batman unveils the Bat-Signal. Bruce watches his parents die. Wonder Woman causes a massive explosion. Batman fights off military personnel. Luther looks at Kryptonite. Alfred discourages Bruce from fight Superman, saying, “He is not our enemy.”Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman fight. Luther says “The red capes are coming.” Superman opens the Batmobile and Batman rises up to eye level with him.

“The idea of Batman fighting Superman is a thing that happens all the time in comic books,” Snyder says. “We had done stuff in Man of Steel that allows us to create a conflict for what this movie is about,” adding, “and maybe more with other super heroes.”

Jeremy Irons says, “Michael Caine was pretty amazing as Alfred so I have big shoes to fit in. He’s a little different – my Alfred.” “I followed the boss and tried to make him happy and tried to make him safe and tried to make him grow up a little.”

Eisenberg talked about his Lex Luthor, saying “There’s a real, emotional groundedness to this version of him.”

Affleck opened up about playing Batman. He describes his early days of taking the job and what to do with it, saying, “If I thought too hard about the actors who played this role before I couldn’t have taken the job.” He went to Zack Snyder and asked he was sure and claims Snyder described this Batman as “older,” and “a burnout.” Affleck went on to say, “He took me through the process of creating this character that I didn’t see.”

He admitted that he bumped into Christian Bale and asked for tips, and Bale told him, “Make sure you can piss in that suit.”

Affleck analyzed Gotham and Metropolis, describing Gotham, as “a place where a lot more downtrodden people live.”

“There were a lot of ideas that were a little smart for me to understand,” Affleck joked, “but they made it feel real.” Affleck said he learned a lot from Zack Snyder, admitting as a director, “I would never think to do that!” He is confident in Snyder’s abilities. “We’re in good hands he says.

A flaming laser of sorts. Wayne enterprises. Wayne Tower devastated. Superman logo on top of a house during a flood and he saves them.His mom encourages him to help or just live, he doesn’t owe the worldthing. Zod’s body is in a body bag and is open. Batsuit says “jokes on you.” Alfred says “He is not our enemy.”

Warner Brothers panel concludes with another screening of the Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer and a massive applause from the crowd.