Comic Con Astana festival organizers posted a video message from the star headliner, actor Mads Mikkelsen, world famous for his role in Hannibal series as well as in Doctor Strange, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny movies.
Mads Mikkelsen has confirmed his intention to visit Kazakhstan capital within the upcoming convention and announced the exact dates of his presence at the festival.
“I’ll be there to chat, sign some autographs, share some stories. So mark your calendars: Comic Con Astana, July 27 and 28. Looking forward to see you there”, the actor said.
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It should be noted that Mads Mikkelsen is known to audiences for his roles of contradictory antagonists that he played in all the above-stated projects.
Among the other important projects in Mikkelsen’s filmography: Pusher criminal drama and its sequel, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky and At Eternity’s Gate biopics, Clash of the Titans and The Three Musketeers action-adventure films, Chaos Walking fantastic blockbuster, Arctic survival thriller, The Hunt and Another round dramas.
For his role of Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal series Mikkelsen was honored with Saturn award as Best Actor on Television. In total, Mikkelsen’s assets include about 40 awards from various movie awards and festivals.
In the video games world Mikkelsen was noted by voicing and playing (using motion-capture techniques) Clifford Unger, character from Death Stranding game. He also appeared in Rihanna’s Bitch Better Have My Money music video.
Just to remind, Comic Con Astana is a festival dedicated to graphic industry, cinema, video games, anime and other modern popular culture sectors. The event will be held in Kazakhstan capital Astana July 25 to 28. Venue: EXPO IEC.
In 2024 the large-scale event will once again host international studios, producers, popular bloggers and professional cosplay artists.
Comic Con Astana program will include meetings and autograph sessions, premieres, sneak previews and presentations, cosplay show, graphic novels’ alley, musical groups’ performances. World studios will present at the festival venue their interactive and entertainment booths.
The traditional element of the festival show program will be international scale cosplay contest with the total prize pool of 12,000,000 tenge. Cosplayers from 14 countries have applied for contest participation: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Belorussia, Russia, UAE, China, Georgia, Montenegro, Great Britain, Armenia, Cyprus and Thailand.
In addition I’M fast food chain will present at the festival creative photo zone made in the style of popular series, hold contests with memorable prizes and gifts. One of the most spectacular activities will be the agility contest where the participants will need to assemble their own combo sets in 30 seconds.
For the upcoming premiere of Borderlands movie Lionsgate studio famous for creating top favorite blockbusters for modern viewers will bring to Comic Con Astana a colorful branded booth and present unique promo materials.
Borderlands is the screen adaptation of the iconic videogame included in top 50 most successful games in history. The director of the screen adaptation is Eli Roth, the winner of 18 international movie awards, famous for Hostel, The House with a Clock in its Walls, Thanksgiving movies.
For the second time the festival partner will be TikTok – the leading platform for watching and making short videos. At the festival TikTok will have their own booth with entertaining activities and surprises for visitors. Also the platform is launching two contests for all users interested in fandom- and cosplay-content.
One of the official partners of the event will be Astana Motors group of companies with Changan Auto brand. Changan Auto is a company with more than 162-years history producing futuristic and technologically advanced cars available in 17 dealerships around Kazakhstan. Changan Auto’s exposition will include Uni-V sports coupe, the fastest car of the series created based on Vision V concept car. This model is perfectly keeping up with Pop Asia culture.
You can buy tickets to the festival at Comic Con Astana official site as well as at ticketon.kz and sxodim.com platforms.
