Comic-Con celebrates 50 years of Star Trek, 30 years since Aliens ... and new movies too
California pop-culture festival also marking anniversaries of Resident Evil, Beauty and the Beast, Wonder Woman, South Park; meanwhile, Walking Dead and Games of Thrones stars expected
Star Trek is going to Comic-Con to celebrate its birthday in a bold way. The intergalactic franchise is among several long-running entertainment properties scheduled to mark major milestones at this week’s pop-culture extravaganza in San Diego, California.
The series’ 50th anniversary will be celebrated along with the 20th birthday of the spooky video game series Resident Evil, the 25th anniversary of the Disney animated musical Beauty and the Beast and the 75th year of lasso-swinging superhero Wonder Woman.
In recent years, San Diego Comic-Con has become a go-to destination for Hollywood to celebrate – and promote – its most established entertainment properties to the more than 160,000 fans in attendance (and everyone else following the action online).
“We’ve been to all sorts of sci-fi and ‘Trek’ conventions, but Comic-Con is an entirely different beast,” said Rod Roddenberry, son of the late Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and president of Roddenberry Entertainment. “With so many different kinds of fans in attendance, it just made sense for us to celebrate this big birthday with everyone that goes to this amazing convention.”
At a time when almost everything we see on screen is a computer-generated visual effect, almost everything in Aliens was created using practical effects