Stephen Amell sports new superhero costume for ‘Arrow’ at Comic-Con

Stephen Amell sports new superhero costume for ‘Arrow’ at Comic-Con

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Stephen Amell sports new superhero costume for 'Arrow' Stephen Amell sports new superhero costume for 'Arrow' at Comic-Con

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Here’s the latest from the Comic-Con International fan festival Saturday in and around the San Diego Convention Center (all times Pacific):

8:15 p.m.

“Arrow” is going sleeveless.

 

Stephen Amell debuted his superhero’s new suit at Comic-Con. The Green Arrow’s updated duds will feature more armor and fewer sleeves when the CW show returns for a fourth season Oct. 7.

Amell sported the costume while addressing 6,500 fans in character on stage inside the San Diego Convention Center.

“San Diego Comic-Con, you have not failed this city!” said Amell as Oliver Queen.

The third-season finale saw Queen seemingly hanging up his mantle as the hooded archer.

7:34 p.m.

Bryan Singer has revealed that “X-Men: Apocalypse” takes place 1983, 10 years after the events of “X-Men: Days of Future Past.”

He said in this world, “Mutants are for the most part accepted and embraced by society.”

The filmmakers also showed the first footage from the film, compiled from about five weeks of shooting.

Audiences got peek at the villain Apocalypse, who’s played by Oscar Isaac. The trailer hinted at the threats facing the mutants in this film, a look at bald James McAvoy as Professor X and Sophie Turner as a young Jean Grey.

Jennifer Lawrence, who plays Raven/Mystique, also said her character is a little more Raven in this outing.

“X-Men: Apocalypse” hits theaters on May 27.

3:45 p.m.

The Muppets raised the curtain on their new series at Comic-Con.

They made their first-ever appearance at Comic-Con on Saturday during a panel to promote their upcoming ABC show.

The producers and performers said “The Muppets” will be a documentary-style series focusing on Miss Piggy hosting a talk show where Kermit the Frog serves as executive producer, Fozzy the Bear is her on-air sidekick and Gonzo, Pepe the King Prawn and Rizzo the Rat are on the writing staff.

Kermit the Frog was apprehensive about attending the crowded pop-culture convention.

“It’s a little dangerous,” Kermit said. “We’re quite small.”

The producers showed the crowd a 10-minute pilot presentation featuring appearances from Elizabeth Banks and Topher Grace. The footage won’t be used in the actual show when it premieres Sept. 22.

“You are the only people ever, ever in the history of the world who are going to see it,” executive producer Bill Prady said.

3:40 p.m.

Director Duncan Jones is finally happy to be at Comic-Con with something to show audiences.

It’s his third year at the convention hyping his film “Warcraft,” a fantasy adventure based on the popular video game series.

Jones said he hopes the film appeals to an audience that isn’t familiar with the video game, like Peter Jackson did when he adapted “The Lord of the Rings” for the big screen.

The footage showed the elaborate world Jones created and teased an epic battle between the beasts and the humans.

Travis Fimmel plays the charismatic leader Sir Anduin Lothar who must protect the kingdom from its enemies and marveled that the footage looked amazing.

As the mysterious Magus Medivh, Ben Foster said he never hesitated to join the film. He asked the screaming audience, “who doesn’t want to be a wizard?”

Paula Patton, who plays half human, half orc Garona Halforcen laughed that it was a challenge to research the specifics of a mythical character.

“Warcraft” opens on June 10, 2016.

2:30 p.m.

Quentin Tarantino says that even though he “screamed and yelled” when his “Hateful Eight” script leaked in early 2014, it didn’t affect his process.

Tarantino addressed the leak at Comic-Con. There he debuted a 7-minute reel of the Civil War-era Western, which stars Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Bruce Dern.

He was mainly dismayed that it was a first draft that still needed to be worked on.

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