Day one at NYCC was a great day!
Very rainy outdoors, but soon undercover. Then, waited in the human crunch for 45 minutes!
Finally, into the Crystal Palace of the Jacob Javits Convention Center! Amazing structure!
And, from a different angle!
Still a wee bit sparce on attendance first thing, but that will change soon!
I am told this lovely creature is from Carnival Row!
So elegant!
Another fabulous costume! Who is he? 🤷🏻♀️
Look at these wee lads! I love the cosplay! 🤗
Now, here is a costume everyone can get behind! 😉
From the front, just to be fair! 😜 Jack Sparrow I reckon?
A great Captain America!
Afternoon panel, Si-Fi for the screen with Dinesh Shamdasani, producer of Bloodshot, Sam’s new, yet-o-be-released film with Vin Diesel! An interesting discussion about issues adapting books/comics to screen.
One of the most interesting comments came from Denish! He commented that the best adaptations fulfill two major requirements! 1) faithfulness to the characters. Should avoid deviations! 2) faithfulness to the tone. By this, he meant how the story makes the reader feel!
I thought these were important insights in the the process of converting Si-Fi to film!
Attending the panel was a cosplay stand-in for the main character in Bloodsport, played by Vin Diesel!
A quick trip to Shake Shack for a pumpkin milkshake 😋 and back to the center to stand in line for StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. Guests for the night’s panel were Charles Lui, astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History and a very funny comedian, Chuck Nice!
For this next hour, these funny men kept us in stitches as they compared the physics and biology of Star Trek to Star Wars (Star Trek won hands down!)
They discussed the different types of metals used by Si-Fi heroes such as Thor’s hammer, Wonder Woman’s bracelets, Wolverine’s claws, warp drive, and on and on Continue reading “friday at 2019 NY ComicCon!”