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Comic-Con At Home Presents Shudder: Horror is Queer

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Comic-Con At Home took a dive into the world of both horror and the LGBTQ community Thursday night as Shudder presented a panel featuring some prominent LGBTQ creatives that specialize in the horror genre. Hosted by writer Jordan Crucchiola, the panel included Don Mancini (creator of the “Child’s Play” franchise), Sam Wineman (director of the upcoming untitled LGBTQ Horror documentary on Shudder), Nay Bever (co-host of the podcast “Attack of the Queerwolf”), Lachlan Watson (actor, “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), and Bryan Fuller (creator of NBC’s “Hannibal”).

So what is “queer horror”? Wineman broke it down into four categories: “explicit representation, queer coding (whether it is intentional or not), queer ownership, and having a queer creator.” Mancini shared that when developing the first Child’s Play, he didn’t consciously include gay themes because it just wasn’t commonplace at the time. He did intentionally leave out a father character for Andy as a form of “revenge” against all the fathers that didn’t accept their queer children. It wasn’t until “Bride of Chucky” that Mancini felt it was “safe” to explore more gay culture in the Chucky franchise. He began casting famous icons in queer culture like Jennifer Tilly and Alexis Arquette. “The films have just gotten gayer and gayer,” noted Mancini. The 2004 film “Seed of Chucky” further explored queer culture and even gender identity with the character of Glen/Glenda, the child of Chucky and Tiffany. While not specifically discussed here due to potential spoilers, it has been reported that we will see these themes further explored in the upcoming “Chucky” television series for SyFy.

Watson spoke of her time on “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and what it was like to play a queer character. “It’s this box that we have of queer actors, queer people, queer creators can only create queer art and that’s something that I think is worth breaking down because there’s so much more to it than that.” Bever also expressed her feelings on the subject noting that she feels a lot of queer fans use horror to reclaim their representation from all the monsters i.e. when the bogged down, bullied kid fights back and kills their oppressors. “If queer and or trans folks want or do see themselves in something, then it’s ours. Period. I think any community that is marginalized and experiences the death rates and death threats that we do, we are absolutely 100% allowed to find ourselves wherever we can.”

Fuller also shared his own experiences through the development of Hannibal and how he approached the series with a variety of queer themes. He explained he initially wrote the characters of Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter as “two straight men who fall in love with each other”. However, he later began to shift the dynamic to more queer themes and following a queer narrative as he saw that the show had such a following in the LGBTQ community.

LGBTQ Representation has, in the last decade, become larger and more positive. As a proud pansexual man myself, I find that I identify with many of the themes and scenarios discussed and can’t wait to see what the future holds for queer representation in horror as well as all forms of media.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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