The reaction to the Seventh Son trailer was lukewarm at best, but it's a big fantasy movie we haven't seen in a while, and I want to remain positive on it. I'm a huge fan of star Jeff Bridges and antagonist Julianne Moore. Still, it's going to be a tough sell, and everyone's itching for a big show when you're the lead-off panel on the biggest day of Hall H. They didn't have a lot of time in the crowded Warner Bros./Legendary presentation, but the crowd responded well, and they made a case not to simply write this off as another January write-off like this year's Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Hit the jump to for my recap of the panel. Seventh Son opens January 17, 2014. Moderator Chris Hardwicke brings Jeff Bridges on stage, and he's "doing pretty dang good." He says Seventh Son is "chuck full of myth," which Hardwicke hopes Legendary/WB will use as the tagline. Before the director and rest of the cast comes on, we're shown a "new" trailer/clip. I put new in quotations because most of what they showed us was in the trailer that's already been released. The new material is a set piece featuring a gigantic bogart chasing down Master Gregory (Bridges) and his apprentice Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) they run away, hide behind a wall that leads into a cliff overlooking a ravine. They're forced to jump, and while Gregory believes that bogarts hate water, the creature jumps over the side, and Tom ...
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