Attending the annual Comic-Con International in San Diego is a sort of geek pilgrimage: difficult to do every year, but essential at least once in one's hopefully long life. For those of you still saving up your first post-high school paychecks in hopes of making it out West, the upcoming "Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope" will have to make due.
Directed by "Super Size Me"'s Morgan Spurlock, it'll be an intimate look at the minutiae and scope of the famous comic book convention. Equal parts travelogue and tribute, it looks to show a nice portrait of an average Comic-Con while also deconstructing what makes it such a blast to attend.
The just released trailer opens on a train, with thousands of fanboys and fangirls on their way to the convention (costume optional). "I'll never forget the first time I took a pee next to a Stormtrooper and a Klingon," Eli Roth says. "That's a thing that could only happen at Comic-Con."
From there, we're treated to montages of "Star Wars" cosplayers taking group photos, swarms of collectors covered in swag, movie stars like Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen paying tribute to the convention's quirks, and testimony from three of the five subjects the movie follows: The Collector, The Geek, and The Designer. They'll be looking from underneath the Comic-Con's massive tent while Roth and Rogen look from above, and it should be a nice juxtaposition of how different things at the convention appeal to different people.
The movie is set to open on April 6, just in time for Comic-Con to hit San Diego in July. We don't need to tell you, but we'll be there in full force to cover all of the convention's excitement.
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