SDCC 2024 Highlights: Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, ‘Penguin’ Trailer, and More

CNET is live at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, and we’ve got all the big news from Marvel, Prime Video, Max, Peacock, and other entertainment giants. Deadpool and Wolverine even made appearances Thursday before the new film hits theaters Friday. If you couldn’t make it to California, we’ve got all the latest news from the world of TV, movies, and animation to keep you up to date. That means we’re sharing new trailers, panel snippets, and the hottest news from Hall H as it happens.

As the days wore on, we got a few solid glimpses of new releases, including The Penguin , Peacock’s Teacup , Alien: Romulus , Like A Dragon: Yakuza , and Rings of Power for Prime Video, as well as a Marvel show that offered some big reveals about Avengers 5 . A roundup of all the biggest TV and movie drops of the week is below. Check back here for daily updates.

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Robert Downey Jr. is Doctor Doom

Marvel’s Hall H panel brought big news for Avengers 5. The film has a new title, Avengers: Doomsday. The film (and Avengers: Secret Wars) are directed by the Russo brothers, and Robert Downey Jr. will play Doctor Doom in Doomsday.

Penguin

Penguin, a new crime drama starring an unrecognizable Colin Farrell, will premiere on HBO and Max on September 19. The series is a spin-off of Matt Reeves’ 2022 film The Batman, in which Farrell also played the Gotham gangster. Watch the dark official trailer below.

The Boys Gets a Prequel: Vought Rising

Prime Video’s gritty superhero series is getting a spinoff with Jensen Ackles returning as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash reprising her role as Stormfront. The prequel, Vought Rising, will take viewers back to the 1950s, to the origins of the corrupt corporation and Stormfront’s old identity as Clara Vought. Eric Kripke will serve as showrunner and executive producer.

Rings of Power Season 2 Goes “Nuclear”

The new season premieres on Prime Video on August 29, and clips shared in Hall H show a massive orc fight and the forging of rings. The show’s creators say that the second season of Rings of Power is about “getting into the nuclear age and everybody wants the bomb, everybody wants the nuclear codes, but what they don’t know is that this guy (Sauron) is fueling it.” Adar and Sauron will be at odds with each other, and this time there will be a lot of giant creatures. Check out the latest trailer here.

Like a Dragon: Yakuza

Adapted from Sega’s video game series, the Like a Dragon: Yakuza television show brings Kamurochō to life on Prime Video. Fans were treated to clips of Ryoma Takeuchi as Kazuma Kiryu and Kento Kaku as Nishikiyama Akira on Friday. The show serves as an origin story of sorts and will cover 10 years of Kazuma Kiryu’s life and his brotherly bond with Nishiki. The first three episodes will hit Prime Video on October 24. Watch the trailer below, which dropped on Friday.

Creature Commandos by James Gunn

In a surprise appearance at a panel hosted by DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee, James Gunn showed up to promote Max’s new animated series, Creature Commandos. Like Suicide Squad, the series follows a group of imprisoned monstrous outsiders tasked with saving the world. The voice cast includes Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Steve Agee as Economos, Anya Chalotra as Circe, Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., Sean Gunn as GI Robot & Weasel, David Harbour as Frankenstein, and Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus. Gunn wrote all seven episodes for the upcoming December premiere

Doctor Who is getting a new spin-off

Disney has revealed a new addition to the Doctor Who franchise that will travel back to the 1970s with the Sea Devils, an ancient group of creatures that emerge from the sea. The series, produced in partnership with the BBC, stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Russell Tovey, Alexander Devrient and Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. The series will air on Disney Plus, where fans can currently watch Doctor Who season 14 starring Ncuti Gatwa.

⛰️ WAR BETWEEN LAND AND SEA 🌊
Hall H just announced: Filming for the new Whoniverse spin-off will begin next month, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Russell Tovey, Jemma Redgrave and Alexander Devrient.

Find out more at #DoctorWho website https://t.co/vNkQffl4BV photo: twitter.com/enRr2T8Kw6

— Doctor Who (@bbcdoctorwho) July 26, 2024

Peacock’s horror series, Teacup

The streamer is currently up to its neck in live Olympics coverage, but one of its upcoming releases is Teacup, a new horror series from James Wan. The Peacock original series, based on the Robert McCammon novel, Stinger combines thrills with drama and fear. Watch the trailer for the series, which premieres in the fall on October 10.

There is something there. #Teacupexecutive produced by Ian McCulloch and James Wan, will debut on Peacock on October 10. photo:twitter.com/c6ssGKeeoM

— Paw (@paw) July 25, 2024

The premiere date for season 3 is already known

The crime-horror series From follows up on the gripping conclusion of the previous season with a third installment set to premiere on September 22. The series, available on MGM Plus, is set in a (seemingly) inescapable town that is threatened by bloodthirsty monsters.

Michael C. Hall Returns to Dexter

The Dexter universe continues to expand. During the Ballroom 20 panel for the upcoming prequel series, Dexter: Original Sin, viewers got their first look at the breakfast-making end-credits sequence — a fun nod to the original series’ opening credits. The show stars Patrick Gibson as the titular antihero and Christian Slater as Harry Morgan. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Christina Milian, and Patrick Dempsey round out the cast.

Michael C. Hall took the stage during a panel to reveal his role in the series. When the show premieres on Paramount Plus in December, you can hear him in an interior monologue. “It’s pretty intoxicating. It’s so satisfying,” he said. “I’ve spent so much time with this character, and to come back and fill in all the imaginative gaps is going to be great.”

As an added bonus, Hall announced that he is returning to the role that made him famous in a new sequel series titled Dexter: Resurrection. The series will be set in the present day and will premiere in the summer of 2025.

First Look at Season 3 of The Legend of Vox Machina

The Prime Video animated series based on the wildly popular D&D streaming series Critical Role returns with its biggest adventure yet. According to the official synopsis for the third season of The Legend of Vox Machina — premiering October 3 — “everything is at stake.”
In the world of Critical Role, isn’t that always the case?

Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, and Liam O’Brien stopped by Ballroom 20 on Saturday to talk about the future of the show, the highly anticipated spin-off The Mighty Nein (watch the trailer below), and the future of Critical Role.