Morgan Spurlock's Comic-Con Doc Shot List
Morgan Spurlock is shooting a documentary at this year's Comic-Con. Here are the essentials he'll need if his documentary is to ring true.
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By Jordan Hoffman July 9, 2010 |
The Slave Leia Effect
A phenomenon occurs at Comic-Con that one can't help but notice.
A woman, who our friend Strong Bad would refer to as "a modestly hot girl" and who, perhaps, may have trouble turning heads in the real world, will morph into an Uhura, Emma Frost, Zatanna or Lord knows who else and will, for these four days, have eyes and (lots else) pointed in her direction.
We call it the Slave Leia Effect and we love it. Spurlock needs footage of this and he needs it in the trailer.
(We also love that the gals in this photo are posing in front of a mylar bag container system. Comic-Con, you are the greatest.)
The Collector
There are so many awesome panels to see at Comic-Con and so many chances to meet kindred spirits. Yet some people will never take advantage of this. They will park themselves on long lines for their chance to buy con exclusive collectibles and then, once there's nothing but picked-clean bones, will head to the dusty back corner and the quarter bins, looking for old issues of Cinefex and Golden Age issues of heroes you've never heard of.
We trust that Spurlock will include one of these brave soldier's crusade to be a driving B-story in the film.
That Awesome Party You Can't Get Into
Here's a journey that needs to be documented.
You will get invited to an awesome party in a great location with all sorts of special guests and attractions.
You will get the email in advance and respond accordingly.
You may even get a wristband.
You will go to the appropriate location early.
You will even see your name on the list.
Yet you will still not get in.
That's the Comic-Con way.
That Awesome Party You Stumble Into
Don't let that last bit scare you! For every party that so lamely locks you out, there are welcoming arms around the corner.
You'll text your buddy who'll direct you to a hotel and elevator bank and - voila - you'll be on a roofdeck with an open bar that isn't ten people deep.
Or you can do like TV editor Hilary Rothing last year and simply bump into Ronald D. Moore on the street and hang out for a while. This sequence of the film will have a happy ending for those that perservere.
Hall H
6500 people, waiting eagerly for their heads to be blown.
Sometimes it happens. Like Leonard Nimoy beaming in out of nowhere to say accepting a role in a rebooted Star Trek is logical, or unannounced test footage for a new Tron. Othertimes it is the single greatest mass viewing of a scene from the Rumer Willis vehicle Sorority Row.
I'd love to see a behind the scenes of the last-minute chaos before one of these giant panels. For a studio publicist, Hall H can be a career-making moment, though keep in mind that it was just one year ago we left thinking Jonah Hex was gonna' be the bomb.
(That's the bomb, not a bomb.)
