Saturday brought some exciting panels to Motor City Comic Con and while we weren’t able to attend them all, we’ve included a few of our favorites below. Click on an image to scroll through photos.
Kicking off the day to a packed house was the Arrow Trio of Stephen Amell (The Arrow), Emily Bett Rickards (Felicity Smoak), and Michigander, David Ramsey (John Diggle). Fans swooned over Amell and Ramsey and the threesome shared everything from movies and TV series that they loved growing up – for Stephen it was Die Hard, Ashley loved shows like Veronica Mars and Popular, and David fanboyed over getting to meet Tony Danza and Jonathan Frakes who were also celebrity guests at the convention. The sweetest moment came when Amell allowed for two more questions rather than the one the panel leader called for because second in line was a little girl. First class move.
Guardians of the Galaxy star Will Poulter (aka Adam Warlock) delighted all in attendance with his stories from the sets of GG and books-turned-movies The Chronicles of Narnia and The Maze Runner. Like the Arrow Trio, Poulter shared some of his influences – the Wayans brothers and Robin Williams. Poulter’s sense of humor seen in movies like We’re the Millers and even GG shined bright throughout the panel and fans loved little nuggets like the fact that Adam Warlock was actually wearing Nikes throughout the film and that Poulter mistakenly punched Bautista during a fight scene, leaving a gold fist mark on Bautista’s face.
There wasn’t an empty seat in the room for Christopher Lloyd’s panel. A bit slower at 84 (as one would expect), the Taxi and Back to the Future star partook in a shortened 30-minute QA& that relied entirely on questions from fans. Throughout the panel, Lloyd made it less about him as he continuously praised his mates. Of Michael J. Fox, Lloyd said, “he’s so wonderful, courageous, strong, a good sense of humor, a good man.” Having grown up reading The Addams Family comics in The New Yorker and being a fan of Uncle Fester, Lloyd shared how excited he was to be able to play Uncle Fester on the big screen, a character he loved for his mischievousness and evilness. And attention, Disney, as for his recent role in The Mandalorian, he’s itching to get back on set.
Fan favorite Carl Weathers closed out the day in the Diamond room and provided perhaps the most positive and inspirational panels of the weekend. With a resurrected career as a result of his role as Greef Karga on The Mandalorian, Weathers shared his request of director Jon Favreau and others not to cover his face for his role – thankfully they agreed! As for his breakout role as Apollo Creed, Weathers joked about how he took everything that Creed wore home after filming completed but that he destroyed the top hat when he used it to hold a fern and the moisture from the plan rotted the hat. Weathers also shared stories of his time with Muhammad Ali, a man he called “the most generous, iconic human he ever met.” Weathers apologized multiple times for standing on a soapbox, but his words of wisdom propelled him past being just another celebrity.
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