All the announcements from San Diego Comic-Con 2024 so far: Doctor Who spinoff, Soldier Boy prequel, and more

CNET is live at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, and we’ve got all the biggest news from Marvel, Peacock, Prime Video, Max, and other entertainment giants. Deadpool & Wolverine even made an appearance on Thursday ahead of their new film, which hits theaters on Friday. If you couldn’t make it out to California, we’ve got the latest in TV, movies, and animation to keep you in the know. That means we’re sharing new trailers, panel sounds, and the hottest movies in Hall H as they come out.

As the days have gone by, we’ve gotten some solid glimpses of what’s new, including The Penguin, Peacock’s Teacup, Alien: Romulus, Like A Dragon: Yakuza, and Rings of Power for Prime Video, as well as Marvel’s showcase (fingers crossed for Avengers 5). Below, you’ll find a rundown of all the week’s biggest releases from across TV and movies. Keep checking back here for daily updates.

read more: Comic-Con 2024: Rings of Power Season 2 Has Sauron vs. Adar, Orc Destruction

The Boys is getting a prequel: Vought Rising

Prime Video’s bloody superhero show is getting a spinoff with Jensen Ackles returning as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash reprising her role as Stormfront. The prequel, Vought Rising, will take viewers back to the 1950s, the early days of the corrupt company and Stormfront’s old identity as Clara Vought. Eric Kripke will serve as showrunner and executive producer.

The Rings of Power Season 2 Gets ‘Nuclear’

The new season premieres on Prime Video on August 29, and clips shared in Hall H show a massive battle with orcs and rings being forged. Showrunners say that season 2 of Rings of Power is about “entering the nuclear age and everybody wants the bomb, everybody wants the nuclear codes, but what they don’t know is that it all feeds into this guy [Sauron].” Adar and Sauron will come into conflict, and there will be gigantic creatures aplenty this time around. Check out the latest trailer here.

Like a Dragon: Yakuza

The Like a Dragon: Yakuza TV series, based on Sega’s video game series, is bringing Kamurochō to life on Prime Video. Fans were treated to clips starring Ryoma Takeuchi as Kazuma Kiryu and Kento Kaku as Nishikiyama Akira on Friday. The show is an origin story of sorts, covering 10 years of Kazuma Kiryu’s life and his brotherly bond with Nishiki. The first three episodes will debut on Prime Video on October 24. Check out the teaser trailer, which debuted on Friday, below.

Creature Commandos by James Gunn

In a surprise appearance at a panel hosted by DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee, James Gunn appeared to promote Max’s new animated series, Creature Commandos. Like the Suicide Squad, the show follows a group of captured monster misfits who are assigned to carry out world-saving missions. The voice cast includes Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Steve Agee as Economos, Anya Chalotra as Circe, Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., Sean Gunn as GI Robot & Weasel, David Harbour as Frankenstein and Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus. Gunn wrote all seven episodes for the upcoming release, due out in December.

Doctor Who gets new spin-off

Disney has revealed a new Doctor Who addition to the franchise that will take you back to the 1970s and features the Sea Devils, an ancient group of creatures that rise from the sea. The show is being created in partnership with the BBC and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Russell Tovey, Alexander Devrient and Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. The show will air on Disney Plus, where fans can currently stream season 14 of Doctor Who starring Ncuti Gatwa.

Peacock’s horror series, Teacup

The streamer is now knee-deep in livestreaming for the Olympics, but one of the upcoming releases is Teacup, a new horror series from James Wan. The show is a Peacock original based on Robert McCammon’s novel Stinger and blends suspense, drama, and jump scares. Check out the teaser trailer for the series, which premieres October 10.

From season 3 onwards there will be a release date

The mystery horror series From is building on last season’s cliffhanger ending with a third installment set to premiere on September 22. Available to stream on MGM Plus, the series is set in a (seemingly) inescapable city threatened by bloodthirsty monsters.

Michael C. Hall Returns to Dexter

The Dexter universe keeps growing. During the Ballroom 20 panel for the upcoming prequel series, Dexter: Original Sin, viewers got their first look at the show’s breakfast-making credits sequence — a nice throwback to the original series’ opening credits. The program stars Patrick Gibson as the titular antihero and Christian Slater as Harry Morgan. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Christina Milian and Patrick Dempsey round out the cast.

Michael C. Hall took the stage during the panel to reveal his role in the series. When the show premieres on Paramount Plus in December, we’ll hear him deliver the inner monologue. “It’s pretty intoxicating. It’s so satisfying,” he said. “I’ve spent so much time with this character, and to go back and have all the imaginative holes filled in is going to be amazing.”

As an added bonus, Hall announced that he will be returning to the role that made him famous in a new sequel series titled Dexter: Resurrection. The series will be set in the present day and will premiere in the summer of 2025.

The Legend of Vox Machina season 3 first look

Prime Video’s animated series based on the wildly popular D&D streaming series Critical Role is back for its biggest adventure yet. According to the official synopsis for The Legend of Vox Machina season three — premiering October 3 — “the stakes are high.”
Isn’t that always the case in the world of Critical Role?

Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham and Liam O’Brien joined Ballroom 20 on Saturday to discuss the future of the series, the highly anticipated spinoff The Mighty Nein (check out a sneak peek below), and the future of Critical Role.