San Diego Comic Con 2016: History’s ‘Vikings’ Panel Will Include Show’s Creator And Travis Fimmel, Among Others

San Diego Comic Con 2016 has just started making its announcements in regards to TV show panels. In the lineup is History’s Vikings. Once more the show’s creator, Michael Hirst, will join with regular cast members to discuss the show’s upcoming storylines.

Season 4 of Vikings is currently on hiatus with the second half to air later in 2016. It is likely the return date announcement for Season 4 of Vikings will be made at San Diego Comic Con 2016 along with a preview of what is to come.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, History’s Vikings panel will be held in Room 6BCF on Friday, July 22, from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Along with Michael Hirst, the lineup is as follows: Travis Fimmel (Ragnar Lothbrok), Katheryn Winnick (Lagertha), Clive Standen (Duke Rollo), Gustaf Skarsgard (Floki), Alyssa Sutherland (Aslaug), and Alexander Ludwig (Bjorn Ironside).

The mid-season finale of Season 4 of Vikings saw a significant time jump that left some fans unimpressed. While the time jump was distracting, it was also essential to set the pieces in play for the second half of Season 4. Ragnar Lothbrok returns to Kattegat after a crushing loss in battle to his brother, Rollo, and finds a vastly different place to the one he left. All of his sons are grown up and it is interesting to note that none of the older versions of Ragnar’s sons will make an appearance at San Diego Comic Con this year, other than Bjorn. It would have been a wonderful way to get the audience behind the new characters. Also absent will be Vikings newcomer Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. As yet very little is known about the role he will play. Although, considering his name was announced at the same time that History announced Vikings was renewed for Season 5, it is likely Meyers will not even turn up at all in Season 4.

As yet, there have been no announcements in regards to other Vikings events during San Diego Comic Con 2016, however, there should be autograph and photo opportunities available. Last year’s San Diego Comic Con also included the Vikings Bludgeon Booth that allowed fans to re-enact their favorite scenes from Vikings, a chance to drink like a viking in the Gaslamp District using your very own replica drinking horn, and the chance to sail on a replica of one of the Vikings longships. Many fans will also participate in San Diego Comic Con 2016 by dressing up as their favorite character from History’s Vikings.

This is the 47th year San Diego Comic Con has been held, making it the longest-running convention of its kind. San Diego Comic Con will run from Thursday, July 21, to Sunday, July 24, at the San Diego Convention Center with a special review night on Wednesday, July 20. Fans can already get their hands on exclusives via the Comic Con website. If you want to pre-order your SDCC 2016 T-shirt, you have until Wednesday to do so. To order a T-shirt, you must be attending San Diego Comic Con and the shirt must be picked up from SDCC before the end of the event as there is no mail services available for this item. For full details, please visit the San Diego Comic Con website. For the rest of the first wave of exclusives, you can visit this page. Clicking on each company name will reveal the exclusive deals already available.

Vikings will return in 2016 and has been renewed for Season 5 by the History Channel. As yet History has not made an official announcement on when Season 4 will return, but speculation has ranged from July 7 through to October of this year.

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