Star Wars creator George Lucas was the headline attraction at this year’s Comic-Con International, making his first ever visit to the influential San Diego event, where he found himself welcomed like a king.
The film legend was there not to promote a new movie project but to announce his own museum which will open next year in a spaceship-style building in Los Angeles.
He called the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art “a temple to the people’s art” and revealed it will include movie memorabilia, valuable comic books, iconic illustrations and items from his own vast art collection.
As for the movies coming in 2026, one of the best reactions at Comic-Con was given to the first footage from Coyote v ACME, a wildly inventive hybrid of live action and animation that sees cartoon character Wile E. Coyote taking legal action against the ACME Corporation for injuries sustained from their products during his pursuit of Road Runner in the Looney Tunes cartoons.
Also getting a great reaction was a first look at space thriller Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling, who was there to promote his role as a scientist sent into space to save the Earth from catastrophe.
Talking of outer space action, the Comic-Con crowd also went wild for the latest outing in the Alien franchise, the spin-off TV series Alien: Earth in which the terrifying space creatures crash land on Earth.
—Sandro Monetti