Na het panel was de signseersessie voor ‘The Originals’ op Comic-Con, hierbij waren Charles, Daniel, Joseph, Phoebe, Riley en Yusuf bij aanwezig.

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Vandaag was de Comic-Con Panel tijdens de San Diego Comic Con ter promotie van het vierde seizoen van ‘The Originals’. Hierbij waren Charles, Daniel, Joseph, Phoebe, Riley, Yusuf en schrijvers Michael Narducci en Julie Plec bij aanwezig. Foto´s hiervan zijn nog niet verschenen, hopelijk kan ik ze morgen toevoegen. Hieronder de recap van het panel door TVline.

A motley (yet smolder-y) crew of witches, vampires and hybrids on Saturday descended upon San Diego Comic-Con to preview The Originals‘ upcoming fourth season.

Stars Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Phoebe Tonkin, Charles Michael Davis, Yusuf Gatewood and Riley Voelkel — along with executive producers Julie Plec and Michael Narducci — were all on hand to tease the madness to come when the show returns midseason on The CW. Here’s what we learned:
* A short video confirmed Season 4’s extended time jump, and ended with Hope asking — yes, asking, as in talking — Hayley if they’re going to go save her dad. Narducci later confirmed the five-year time jump.
* “She was two years old when we left her … and she’s now a little person,” Narducci said of Hope. “She’s got dialogue and hopes and dreams, and she misses her dad and understands her family has suffered a great loss. … Hayley’s a great mom.”
* “When we met Hayley, all she ever wanted was family,” Tonkin acknowledged. “Through the events that happened, she created a family on her own with her daughter. I don’t think she feels alone — one, because she has five bodies in the back of her car — and because she has a purpose, a family-driven purpose.”
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* Hayley’s journey to save everyone will require her to “locate the seven werewolf packs … so she has a very difficult journey ahead of her,” Narducci said. “She has to explore the werewolf side that’s going to connect her to those packs.”
* “I don’t think Marcel is a villain,” Narducci said. “I don’t think he’s wrong. … We’ll have to see if there’s anything in the world that might be able to mend these fences.”
* We’ll “absolutely” learn more about Vincent’s backstory, Narducci confirmed.
* “With Hayley and Elijah, we felt they’d gotten to dance around each other early on, then become terribly separated, emotionally and physically,” Plec said. “Knowing this family was going to be split apart for the next five years, giving them the opportunity to [get together one more time] felt right. … Time will tell how much happiness they’re able to have — or not have.”
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* “It was emotional,” Morgan said of his all-day final shoot with Leah Pipes. “She’d been a part of the show for three years. It was surreal, though. Until she was gone, I didn’t think she was going.”
* On why Cami and Davina’s deaths were necessary: “It’s a hard thing to explain,” Plec began. “You start to feel a redundancy of heroes. If you continue down a certain storyline, you’ll end up taking people in a direction that will isolate them. You get the urge to mix things up and to make things very tragic … so that you can always feel fresh, and you don’t have nine people telling the same story. … We needed to pull the family as tightly together as possible, and excise some of the characters who might conflict with [that plan].”

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Na het panel was de signseersessie voor ‘The Vampire Diaries’ op Comic-Con, hierbij waren Candice, Ian, Kat, Matthew, Micheal, Paul bij aanwezig. Ian was zelf nog even live op facebook tijdens het signeren.

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Vandaag was de Comic-Con Panel tijdens de San Diego Comic Con ter promotie van het achste en tevens laatste seizoen van ‘The Vampire Diaries’. Hierbij was Candice, Ian, Kat, Matthew, Micheal, Paul en schrijvers Kevin Williamson en Julie Plec bij aanwezig. Enkele foto’s staan al in de galerij de komende dagen zullen er nog meer verschijnen. Hieronder de recap van het panel door TVline.

On their way to stop Damon and Enzo’s west-coast killing spree, the Vampire Diaries gang on Sunday took a brief detour, hitting up San Diego Comic-Con for the CW drama’s (final!) panel.

Stars Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Kat Graham, Candice King, Zach Roerig, Matt Davis and Michael Malarkey were all on hand — along with executive producers Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson — to tease the impending events of Season 8, premiering Friday, Oct. 21 at 8/7c:
* An intro video, featuring that creepy hand from the Season 7 finale, teased: “This season, get ready to meet evil herself.” (That’s right, herself.)
* Kevin Williamson on returning to the writer’s room: “I’ve never been too far away. … As Julie and I sat down to write the first episode of Season 8 together, I was freaking out. … Julie was like, ‘You write all the Damon stuff.’ It came back pretty quickly, and I think we’ve got a great Season 8 planned out. It’s really nice to live in this world again.”
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* As for what the aforementioned “evil” might be, Plec remained (mostly) tight-lipped: “The villain has a finger so far. … It’s a new take on villains for us. It’s rooted back all the way to ancient times.”
* Describing the new Season 8 villain as the “final bad,” Williamson noted that it’s a “cool way to infuse Mystic Falls with this ultimate evil. It’s like a cherry on top of the entire mythology of Mystic Falls.”
* Meanwhile, Somerhalder said, we’ll see “Damon and Enzo doing some gnarly s–t,” adding that “the mind control thing is actually quite interesting. … In their minds, they’re still them. That conflict and that struggle is what we always look for.”
* Sadly, Bonnie is “literally at ground zero” when Season 8 begins. “A lot of last season was about the development of the relationship Bonnie had with Enzo, and obviously Bonnie and Damon,” Graham said. “You saw the crumbling of her in the finale. She also doesn’t have her magic. The thing that made her feel like herself, and also her best friends, are not there. It’s going to be really exciting to see Bonnie’s journey this season.”
* Poor Stefan is “just crying, constantly,” Wesley teased. “[He’s] missing his bro, his bro-ham. It’s back to the original dynamic of the brothers. The dynamic was always Damon getting in trouble and Stefan trying to save him. … We’ll see how long that lasts, but for the current time, he has a broken heart over his big bro.”
* Caroline is “very busy” in Season 8, trying to maintain a connection with Alaric and the twins while also “helping Stefan and Bonnie track down Damon and Enzo.”
* As for everyone’s favorite human, Matt Donovan “had to make the decision to let go of that love [for the vampires].”
* Every Season 8 episode title will be a line of dialogue from previous seasons.

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Tijdens ‘The Vampire Diaries’ panel op Comic-Con eerder van dag is aangekondigd dat het aankomende achste seizoen de serie laatste zal worden. Er gingen eerder al geruchten de ronde in de media maar is nu officieel bevestigd. In de onderstaande video praat de cast en crew over de het einde van de serie.

The cast said goodbye in an emotional video at Comic-Con

After eight years, six doppelgängers, two car accidents on Wickery Bridge, and countless witchy hijinks, The Vampire Diaries has an official expiration date.

During Saturday’s Comic-Con panel, showrunner Julie Plec announced season 8 will be the series’ last. An emotional goodbye video the cast put together for the fans, which can be seen above, was shown immediately following the announcement.

“The greatest honor you can have as a storyteller in the business of television is to be able to make those decisions with your peers and your fellow storytellers and we have all discussed it and we have made the decision that this is it,” Plec said. “This is going to be the final season. … It’s bittersweet and emotional and we’re going to be crying about this in a few minutes.” To the fans, she added, “You guys stuck with us. … You guys have been with us for this run, and it’s a beautiful run.”

The news won’t come as too big of a surprise for die-hard fans. Not only did series star Nina Dobrev exit at the end of season 6, but both Ian Somerhalder and Kat Graham have spoken out about the probable farewell in recent months.

But now, the question turns to how the series will say goodbye. Plec has spoken in the past about how she and co-creator Kevin Williamson came up with the series’ end way back in season 2. And even as recently as when Dobrev left, Plec said not much had changed. “The sentiment of what we wanted our characters to be feeling when the series was over I think has definitely remained the same; the execution of it will be obviously a bit different.”

But for fans panicked the series could end without Elena, Plec has always said that they’d love for Dobrev to return to tie up any loose ends for the young girl whose love story was the centerpiece of the show for so long. “Nina has always said that if there’s something for her to do in the series finale that she will be there to do it,” Plec told EW. “When she left, she said, ‘I want to see this character to its end at the end of the show, so I can’t wait to come back and put her to bed again.’”

And if you need a little Dobrev in your life right now, you can check out another Comic-Con reel shown during Saturday’s panel, which pays tribute to some of the great villains of the past, while also teasing the final villain of the series. (Hint: It’s a she!)

De trailer van Phoebe’s nieuwste film ‘Billionaire Ransom’ is verschenen, in de film speelt ze o.a. samen met ‘Gossip Girl’ acteur Ed Westwick & ‘Shadowhunters’ acteur Dominic Sherwood. De film die eerder bekend was onder de naam ‘Take Down’ zal op 19 augustus in de VS verschijnen.

Ik heb enkele nieuwe fotoshoots van Kat toegevoegd!

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De eerste poster van Nina’s opkomende film ‘xXx: The Return of Xander Cage’ is verschenen.

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Afgelopen week is de cast weer begonnen met de opnames van het achtste seizoen van ‘The Vampire Diaries’!