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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 24 July 2017
‘Westworld’ cast talks existentialism, robots at Comic-Con

By SANDY COHEN life. She also says the pow- clipped and you’re not be- presentation inside the San nominations.
AP Entertainment Writer erful character she plays ing represented the way Diego Convention Center’s “I’m so into the existen-
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Actress has empowered her off- that you want to. largest exhibition hall. Other tial stuff on the show,” she
Evan Rachel Wood says screen as well. And this was like just like cast members at the panel said. “In moment of chaos,
working on “Westworld” “It’s so fulfilling,” she said somebody had given me included Jeffrey Wright, Ed when you think you know
changed her life. Saturday at a Comic-Con (expletive) condor wings Harris, James Marsden, Tes- nothing, that’s when gifts
She says the series about a panel for the HBO show. and I got to take off and sa Thompson and Thandie come. I just think that’s in-
futuristic park manned by “Because especially as fly.” Newton. credibly profound.”
robot hosts where humans women, and I don’t know Wood appeared alongside Newton said she’s been in- Though her character is
can live out their fanta- if this is true for men too, showrunners Jonathan No- spired and empowered by an android prostitute, she
sies has inspired existential but a lot of times you feel lan and Lisa Joy and her her role on the show, which gradually becomes more
questions about her own as if your wings have been fellow cast members for a recently received 22 Emmy self-aware.q

Comic-Con goes wild for ‘Black Panther’ at Marvel panel

By LINDSEY BAHR read X-Men, I read Spider-
AP Film Writer Man,” Coogler said. Then
SAN DIEGO (AP) — “Black he started looking for a
Panther” stole the show character that looked like
Saturday night at Marvel him and he stumbled on
Studios’ Comic-Con pre- Black Panther.
sentation, outshining the Marvel Studios also teased
Ant-Man, Thor and even its third “Thor” film, “Thor:
the ultimate Avengers Ragnarok ,” which has
team-up, “Infinity War.” quite a different and more
Fans went wild for the ex- irreverent tone from previ-
clusive sneak peek at the ous installments, and hits
upcoming superhero pic, theaters in November.
featuring star Chadwick “I’ve played this charac-
Boseman T’Challa inter- ter five times,” Chris Hem-
cepting a sketchy vibra- sworth told the audience.
nium trade between Andy “Me, personally, I got a
Serkis’ Klaw and Martin little bored and thought
Freeman’s Everett. we’ve got to try something
Set in an elegant, Japa- a little different ... Push the
nese-inspired casino, the envelope, take it to anoth-
deal goes haywire and er level.”
T’Challa and his security Lupita Nyong’o, left, and Michael B. Jordan attend the “Marvel” panel on day 3 of Comic-Con So, they cut his hair, take
detail (Lupita Nyong’o and International on Saturday, July 22, 2017, in San Diego. his hammer away and pit
Danai Gurira) jump to ac- (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) him against Jeff Goldblum
tion in their evening gowns and Cate Blanchett. When
to retrieve the precious turning to his home of hand in San Diego to talk know what’s going on in Blanchett’s Hela, the god-
goods. Wakanda after the death about the film, out Feb, 16, Wakanda.” dess of death, invades As-
The clip was followed by of his father, the king. 2019. Coogler said he’d always gard, Thor finds himself on
the trailer for the film from “He’s still mourning his fa- Nyong’o described her had a fondness for comic the run and under the con-
“Creed” director Ryan ther’s death. It’s a transition character as a spy who books, and found “Black trol of Goldblum’s Grand-
Coogler and the 6,500 souls period that gets interrupt- goes undercover to report Panther” at a pivotal mo- master on Sakaar where
in the audience erupted ed, and he’s struggling with back to Wakanda about ment. he is pitted against the Hulk
into deafening cheers at the type of king he wants to what is going on in the rest “I grew up as black kid in in a Gladiator tournament.
the sight of T’Challa mor- be,” said Boseman. of the world. the Bay Area and grew In this film, the Hulk refuses
phing into the Black Pan- Coogler, Boseman, “Wakanda is an isolated up with comic books and to turn back into Bruce
ther suit. Nyong’o, Gurira, Serkis and nation,” Nyongo said. “The it didn’t matter what color Banner, but he is learning
The film finds T’Challa re- more of the cast were on world does not need to the superheroes were. I to speak, albeit slowly.q

Spielberg debuts action-packed ‘Ready Player One’ footage

By LINDSEY BAHR a half years bringing au- vision of the housing situa- Iron Giant” in the footage. a storyteller because of this
AP Film Writer thor Ernest Cline’s vision to tion in Columbus, Ohio, in “It was like the most amaz- man.”
SAN DIEGO (AP) — When life. The director unveiled 2045. Tye Sheridan stars as ing flash-forward and flash- He brought his DeLorean
Steven Spielberg first read a new action- and nostal- the lead character Wade back at the same time,” to his first meeting with the
the book “Ready Player gia-packed trailer for the Owen Watts, who longs Spielberg said. director in honor of “Back
One,” which is about a film Saturday at San Diego to have been born in the For Cline, having Spielberg to the Future,” which he
dystopian future where hu- Comic-Con to much ex- 1980s. directing the adaptation of had Spielberg autograph,
mans take refuge in a virtu- citement. For Spielberg, the film was his book was like closing a Cline said. Co-star T.J. Miller
al reality world, he had one The 6,500-person Hall H a chance to both go back circle. He grew up on Spiel- went one step further in his
thought: “They’re going to crowd gave the director to his heyday of filmmaking berg’s films, which informed Spielberg fandom, sport-
need a younger director.” a standing ovation and while also gazing into the how he evolved as a writer. ing “Back to the Future”
But Spielberg decided to cheered heartily when the future. Eagle-eyed viewers “They are woven into the inspired sneakers, and “E.T.:
take on the challenge any- first images of “the stacks” spotted references to ev- fabric of my DNA,” Cline The Extraterrestrial” inspired
way, spending two and appeared showing a bleak erything from “Tron” to “The said. “I learned how to be red hoodie and T-shirt.q