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Enter the sharknado: a final day at Comic-Con 2014

Victory snatched from the jaws of defeat

Victory snatched from the jaws of defeat

Casey Newton
is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast.

You can’t get into Hall H every day. For the final installment of our animated series, I set off for Comic-Con’s biggest venue in search of new adventures. But the line for the day’s biggest and best panels was more than a mile long, and I abandoned all hope early on. Fortunately Thunder Levin, the screenwriter of Sharknado and this week’s Sharknado 2, was around to talk to me about upping the ante, crazy filming conditions, and what happened when he introduced himself to Richard Dreyfuss.

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