Lucca Comics Chief Emanuele Vietina on Celebrating the Crossover Between Movies and Video Games: ‘It’s All Part of a Specific Vision’

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1 in the Tuscan town of Lucca, which seamlessly spans the full gamut of geek culture and pop entertainment. It also attracts more than 200,000 fans a day – many of which cosplayers – within its medieval ramparts.

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Related Stories ‘Ray Gunn’ Review: Brad Bird’s Latest Animated Feature Is a Giddy Retro-Futurist Noir With More Energy Than Charm As previously announced, highlights of this year’s edition include a sneak peak of Season 3 of “ Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” with talents in tow and the presence of Aardman Animations’ founder Peter Lord and director Peter Walker for the Italian premiere of “Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom.” In a major coup, Japanese filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu will be making the trek to Lucca to meet fans and discuss adapting Fujimoto Tatsuki’s manga “Look Back,” which blends live-action realism with the creative process behind the manga genre. To mark its 60th anniversary, Lucca will feature “Lucca Legacy: A Comics and Games Story” exhibition in the 14th century Palazzo Guinigi, which will dig into the archival vaults to “tell a seminal story that was made by [Marvel legend] Stan Lee, [‘Iron Man,’ ‘Black Panther’ and ‘The X-Men’] creator Jack Kirby, [iconic Hearst cartoonist] Lee Falk and all the great American artists comics that found a home in Lucca in the 70s,” says Vietina.

The Lucca Comics chief speaks to Variety about pulling out all the stops to celebrate the crossover between different forms of geek culture, in particular between movies and video games. Popular on Variety How does the “Percy Jackson” world tie in with Lucca’s theme this year which is “Legacy”?

The “Legacy” theme represents, if you will, the heritage of what has become one of the world’s major comic conventions. The way film and TV series at Lucca engage with the great fantasy storytelling of Percy Jackson is that the book’s author, Rick Riordan, is essentially bringing things up to date.

We often talk about “contemporary mythology.” With Percy Jackson, which features Olympus and the Olympian gods, he revitalizes the great heritage of classical Greco-Roman culture, making it accessible to young people today. An event like ours deals with contemporary mythologies, yet it remains firmly anchored in the mythology of the past.

This year, however, is particularly emblematic. For the movie world, Lucca is not merely the oldest comics convention in existence, or even the only one to feature a formal red carpet in front of an opera house that dates back to the turn of the 20th century.

On top of these aspects, we

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