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A Glee panel minus Ryan Murphy detailed a flurry of Season 4 highlights today at Comic-Con, some of which will come as no surprise to Gleeks. Also missing were notable castmembers including Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, Dianna Agron and Chris Colfer. Oddly, no sizzle reel either. The panel kicked off with a docu clip about how Glee has become a pop phenomenon.
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In Season 4, Lea Michele‘s character Rachel Barry contends with a big-fish-from-
a-little-pond in the big city scenario as she starts college in New York. There she’ll be dealing with her dance teacher, played by Kate Hudson. “She’s in a school with 1,800 Rachels,” said Michele.
Co-creator Brad Falchuk teased, “Finn (Cory Monteith) is off on an adventure (in the army) and his classmates don’t know what’s happening with him.” Plus “we’ve got a new senior class and we’re trying to get 12 kids into sectionals, said co-creator Ian Brennan. “Every series regular we had who has a deal will be back, in varying proportions,” added Falchuk.
Actor Darren Criss who plays Blaine Anderson sported a beard, making the girls in the Hilton Bayfront’s Indigo room scream like Beatles fans. “It’s a whole new format that’s going to shoot things up,” said Criss about the new season. Michele exclaimed that she loves singing with Criss so much on the show, she might want to stage a cabaret act with him in Los Angeles.
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Also, as has been reported, there will be another Britney Spears tribute this season, occurring in the second episode. The nine-person panel moderated by TVLine’s editor-in-chief Michael Ausiello was comprised of Falchuk, Brennan, executive producer Dante Di Loreto and castmembers Michele, Criss, Monteith, Naya Rivera , Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz.
The biggest absence overall from 20th Century Fox TV at Comic-Con was Falchuk and Murphy’s second hit show, American Horror Story. However as the rule of thumb goes at the convention: If the studios don’t need to pique any more interest for a well-known property here, they tend not to shell out the dough.
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Enough already. This Comic con is the silliest thing Hollywood ever got conned into, Why are you devoting all these posts? Dumb!!
umm… maybe because this site is about entertainment and comic con is all about it too?
Huh for something “dumb” it brings in millions of dollars plus adds hundreds more a fan base to many movies and television shows. They really are “dumb”.
For better or worse, Comic-Con seems to have become the Sundance/Cannes of fandom. That means lots of breathless reporting from an excitable media.
The posts are great for people who can’t trudge down to Comic-Con. I like the movie and TV news, but they need to rename the convention if something like Glee, which has absolutely nothing to do with comics, is making a presentation there.
I think there were only movies in Comic Com at first? Wasn’t Comic Com to be about Comics? And people dress up as comics heroes and go to convention about some action movie? And now even every stupid tv show goes to Comic Con. They need to stop. There are so many tv shows up there that I can’t even count.
It’s one thing if it is Totall Recall, or Avangers, or Expendables, Thor, Spider-Man, Hobbit, Captain America, Resident Evil, or even Game of Thrones. But there was panel for almost every TV show this year! Why do we need panel at Comic Con (place where fans of the comics gather) for Glee, Elementary, Dexter, End of Watch, Breaking Bad, Community and other? I made some home video of my dog. Can I have my own panel too?
They should forbid TV shows at Comic-Con. It should be about big action movies or movies about comics heroes. And let only fan favorites like Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or True Blood in. All those other should be banned.
Sigh… sounds like a very disjointed season. As Degrassi TNG found out, trying to keep the old cast just leads to head aches. Just drop them and move on, it’s only painful for a short time.
What does Glee have to do with comics? Oh right, Comic-Con has nothing to do with comics, it’s all a giant advertising convention. Yawn.
You sheep are being sold and hyped on an unfinished product that almost always disappoints. Have you learned nothing from past Comic-Cons? How everyone was excited for The Green Lantern, Cowboys & Aliens, Sucker Punch, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jonah Hex, The Box, Tron: Legacy, Watchmen, The Spirit, The Wolfman, Aeon Flux, The Box, Doom etc. all received good to great reactions based on their showings at Comic-Con, but all were terrible films. I long for a return to the pre-2000 San Diego Comic-Con.
Uh…where have you been during the last decade? Comic books, albeit not a lot of people read them (don’t tell any studio exec), have been blockbuster film material. Yet, I have no idea why “Glee” is at the Con because it has nothing to do with the material, let alone fanboys don’t like the show.
Yea… I get SDCC is a great place to pimp product, but shouldn’t it have some small thing to do with comics?
I clearly don’t get Comic-Con. What is GLEE doing there, exactly? Color me confused. I thought it was more of a convention for all things related to comic books and sci fi? But it just seems like a hodge podge of “anything goes”.