They've given the world Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost, Dr. Horrible, Firefly, Angel, Fringe, and the reboot of Star Trek. And now they're going to talk to the throngs of their biggest fans.
Join me in pop culture hog heaven as I liveblog it NOW.
3:46 Abrams wrote a fan letter to Dick Smith, the make-up artist from The Exorcist. In return, Abrams got send a giant tongue.
3:47 Whedon's favorite prop that he ever got was an Alien egg. "I buried the property, so I got to keep a prop." Ooh...self-burn!
3:48 Joss OFFICIALLY declares that he is OFFICIALLY directing the Avengers movie.
3:49 Joss declares that his absolute favorite comics story was the Jim Starlin-penned Death of Adam Warlock in the Avengers Annual and the Thing Two-in-One Annual. How fast till those show up in torrents?
3:51 Joss' take on the Avengers will revolve around on how dissimilar all its members are, how they shouldn't even be in the same room together. "And after all, isn't that what family is all about?"
3:52 Abrams reveals his next film, Super 8, will NOT be in 3D and the crowd erupts in gleeful, thankful applause.
3:56 While Abrams shows himself to be firmly in the anti-3D camp, Joss is all about the third dimension, and thinks that the technology has matured enough for it to be workable.
4:03 Joss started to working on an internet piece with Warren Ellis called "The Wastelanders" but had to put it to the side once The Avengers became his. Who wouldn't love to see what that might look like?
4:06 Joss proposes a fight between his and Abrams' production companies, Mutant Enemy and Bad Robot: "Yeah, they should fight! Or kiss!"
4:09 Joss slams The Mentalist and accuses networks of ignoring serialized storytelling, even though people love it and it can be successful. "When people talk about how great Cheers was, they think about Sam and Diane, not one particular joke."
4:15 Joss lauds Abrams with some heavy-duty accolades, calling Star Trek the "gold standard of summer movies, of team movies. . .and it makes me fucking nauseous."
4:20 Joss: "I typically don't do second drafts, I try to work it out ahead of time." Abrams: "You don't do write second drafts? FUCK!"
4:23 Abrams: "Have you see that show, Hoarders? Holy shit! How is that a show? Are there really that many hoarders out there? I worry I might become one.
4:28 Abrams' father gave him this as he left for college: "Go and learn what to make the movies about, not how to make a movie."