Comic-Con: 'RocknRolla' panel explores why Madonna made Guy Ritchie drop trou

At Thursday's presentation for Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla and Joel SIlver's Dark Castle Films, young girls, moms, and even a woman wearing a blue dress and a tiara over her blue hair went bonkers over Gerard Butler, who plays a low-life scam artist in RocknRolla. One young lady asked the 300 star for the craziest moment on the set; Butler responded with a story about how Madonna found out the actor was sick and ordered him to drop trou for a shot of B-12 in the bum. "It didn't work at all," Butler said, "because I got more sick." Butler was the life of the panel, simultaneously happy and a bit embarrassed when fans called for him to take off his shirt or dubbed him "the world's sexiest man." He flirted back by tossing Hershey's Kisses into the crowd.   

Also on hand for the panel and official trailer viewing (which, for the record, beats any bootleg footage found online; they just finished it this week) were Ritchie, Jeremy Piven, Idris Elba, Ludacris, and producer Joel Silver. Ritchie described the film as "spillover from Lock, Stock and Snatch, and we wanted to give it a contemporary feel, so it was born out of enthusiasm. [I] was trying to reflect the changing cultural environment in the U.K. It's a look into the underbelly of a subculture." Later, a fan asked Ritchie, "The critics didn't seem too kind to the past couple of films, I was just curious if there was pressure to go back to films that were as successful as your first two?" With a sense of humor, Ritchie interrupted the first half of the question with, "Hey, that's not true, they liked them," and the second half with, "Yup."

Piven, who, you'll recall, went to Comic-Con as Ari Gold in Entourage, was also a crowd pleaser. "This is the first time I've been here and I'm completely overwhelmed by everyone's dedication and focus," he said. "I'm...

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