Amazon’s Comic-Con@Home panel will characteristic ‘The Wheel of Time’ and ‘Evangelion’ | Engadget

Like many in-person occasions, geek Mecca Comic-Con was upended by the pandemic. By most accounts, the choice to change to a digital convention backfired as social media exercise plummeted by upwards of 90 %. Cosplaying on the sofa clearly is not as gratifying as congregating with 6,500 passionate followers below one roof. With large weapons Marvel Studios and DC Films already selecting to skip this yr’s Comic-Con@Home, the occasion wants all of the help it could possibly get. One firm that hasn’t given up on the convention is Amazon. 

For the second yr in a row, it is internet hosting a web-based panel with expertise from a few of its greatest reveals and films. You’ll be capable to watch the motion on San Diego Comic-Con’s official YouTube channel beginning at 2PM ET on July twenty third.

This yr’s lineup options a mixture of female-led fantasy, blockbuster anime, teen slasher and crime. First up is The Wheel of Time, a sequence adaptation of the bestselling novels by Robert Jordan a few clan of feminine magicians starring Rosamund Pike. Amazon might be hoping the present is extra Shadow and Bone than The Nevers. Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno may even be current to debate the ultimate chapter within the Rebuild film saga, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time.

To faucet into the ’90s slasher revival kicked off by Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, Amazon is trotting out its trendy spin on I Know What You Did Last Summer, that includes a fresh-faced solid of sacrificial lambs. This yr’s occasion may even see Amazon highlighting content material from its streaming service that is not known as Prime Video. As such, solid members from IMDb TV’s Leverage: Redemption might be readily available to debate the return of the crime sequence.