Comic-Con’s Return To In-Person Is Not So In-Person; Covid Check Lines “Winding Down To The Street”

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Those 135,000 folks flying into San Diego from various countries to line up for hours to see their fave stars at Comic-Con might be greatly upset to learn that not all panels are live and in-person.The crowds are real, but some panelists are being beamed in via satellite.Deadline has learned that today’s panels for ABC’s The Rookie and Abbott Elementary will have moderators in-person but with their casts beamed in via satellite.

The actors reportedly are unable to make it to SDCC because their series are in production.Comic-Con 2022: Hollywood Invades San Diego With Billboards, Murals, Key Cards & MoreAt the Rookie/Rookie: Feds panel, TV Guide‘s Damian Holbrook is onstage at Ballroom 20, but on screen is Comic-Con denizen, Firefly alum and Rookie star Nathan Fillion and Feds star Niecy Nash-Betts, as well as EPs Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter.Meanwhile at Abbott Elementary, scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

at the Hilton Bayfront, IndieWire’s Marcus Jones will be live, while those on-screen from the Season 2 set will include star and EP Quinta Brunson; stars Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, William Stanford Davis and Sheryl Lee Ralph; and EPs Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker.We’ll update you on other panels going hybrid, however we hear Dwayne Johnson will be in person at Warner Bros/DC big Hall H panel on Saturday AM. “When Dwayne commits to something, he does it big,” said one source with knowledge about the action star.

He made a big-splash in person at CinemaCon at the end of April when he showed off the first trailer for Black Adam. Hero Nation Podcast Comic-Con Edition: The Masking Up And Marvel Of It All As In-Person Confab ReturnsWarner Bros.