For this panel, approximately 70% of the population of Hall A filtered out after X-Files went backstage, allowing us to snatch some seats up front.
As always, the trailer for the movie was shown, as well as some scenes from the movie. While they had originally intended to do Harold and Kumar in Amsterdam, there were too many Euro-trip comedy movies that were being released, and so they wanted to do something more topical, and so they changed the setting to Guantanamo Bay. All the post 9-11 Homeland security stuff gave them tons of material to work with.
Harold and Kumar will premiere at the International Asian American Film Festival in San Francisco. John Cho can't talk too much about Star Trek, since J.J. Abrams really wants things to surprise the audience.
The movie looks great, and the most important thing for the writers was that they wanted to portray Harold and Kumar as real people, like the ones that they grew up around, but also they wanted to make a movie that was just as good as the first movie.
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