Josh Hartnett Reflects on Comic Con

I didn’t have a whole lot of experiences. I flew in from Hong Kong to come do press and just went straight to Comic-Con and came up here to do press with you guys. But we did the panel discussion with Sam Ramie and he’s like God down there. I walked out on stage right with him and there were like seven thousand people in the audience and we showed a little clip from our movie [30 Days of Night] and they went nuts. It was good, you know. It’s like Halloween for adults and it lasts for four days.

 â€˜Sin City’ was a comic book too and, for a long time, people were trying to get me to do other comic book films but I couldn’t bring myself to put on tights so..[laughter] so I found one where I was allowed to wear proper pants. Of course people are making films for comic book lovers now because they’re loyal fans and actually go see the movies in the theater. The audiences are, I think, shrinking for a lot of different genres in this business but, for some reason, comic books keep drawing people in. I think it’s cool because the people who are at Comic-Con are so into the idea of their favorite comic book being made into a film or just to be down there and revel in the common insanity of it all; people coming together from all over the place and enjoying the same thing.