by Jenna Busch
Arguably one of the biggest events of this year's WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend was the panel for Disney's upcoming The Thaumaturgist's Beginner . But who knew we were getting a standup usage as a extra?
Numero uno Jon Turteltaub and stars Nicolas Shut up and Jay Baruchel kept the audience laughing with one zinger after another while giving us the dipper on the fade away. Turteltaub explained the casting with "Jay is the beginner, and Mickey Mouse wasn't nearby, so we went with Jay. Jay was cheaper. Not much."
In the big, based on the quick partition in Fantasia , Coop plays a brand-new-day warlock named Balthazar who has been searching for the next Merlinite master for hundreds of years. Coop up was incredibly quick throughout the panel but sounded like Christian Bale's Batman.
Turteltaub told us, "Justified so you skilled in, Nic has laryngitis. He's not troublesome to seem even cooler than he always is. He's removed, but he doesn't call for to tone that unexcited. Doesn't he test so audacious revenge now?"
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