Comic-Con: Trailer for the final ‘Hunger Games’ film unveiled at Comic-Con

SAN DIEGO – The latest from Thursday’s sessions at the Comic-Con International fan festival in and around the San Diego Convention Center (all times local):

12:45 p.m.

About 6,500 conventioneers at Comic-Con were the first to see the full trailer for the final installment in the “Hunger Games” series.

Stars Jennifer Lawerence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, and director Francis Lawrence discussed the forthcoming film and shared the trailer for “Mockingjay – Part 2.”

The fiery, battle-filled trailer shows Katniss Everdeen leading a civilian army into the Capitol to take on tyrannical President Snow.

“I feel like there doesn’t even have to be a movie now. That was fantastic!” said panel moderator Conan O’Brien, who is taping his nightly talk show from Comic-Con this week.

The friendship between Hemsworth, Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence was obvious as the three leads teased one another during the hourlong presentation. When Hutcherson said being part of “The Hunger Games” was “the most incredible movie-making experience, and just experience in my life, getting to know these people,” Lawrence and Hemsworth playfully petted his face.

“He’s a sweet, sweet angel,” Hemsworth said. A scene featuring the two in the final film almost hints at a bromance, he said.

“We have this really emotional scene together,” Hemsworth said, “and there might be a kiss between Josh and I.”

Lawrence said that though the hugely popular series is coming to a close, she and Katniss are forever linked.

“Something was bestowed onto Katniss in a way that me saying yes into these movies was onto me,” Lawrence said. “The changes that happened in my life from doing these movies are so permanent and still with me that I don’t think I’ll ever say goodbye to her.”

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12:18 p.m.

Bruce Willis and Bill Murray have an ancient history that goes beyond “Moonrise Kingdom” and the upcoming “Rock the Kashbah” but that was news to Murray, he told audiences at Comic-Con.

Willis, Murray said, was a page on “Saturday Night Live” back in the day.

Although Murray didn’t remember Willis in his lowly stint fetching coffee for the performers on the show, Willis fortunately had decent memories of Murray.

A few years later, after a few tequilas, Willis told Murray that he was one of the only people who was nice to him on set. The other was Gilda Radner.

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11:46 a.m.

Bill Murray is a big fan of Miley Cyrus, he told audiences at Comic-Con.

“I thought she was just a knucklehead crazy girl, the kind of girl you would go on a road trip with,” he said. But, now, he’s a believer.

“She’s really good,” he said.

Murray’s been on a bit of a music tear lately, hanging with singer/songwriter Jenny Lewis at the Grateful Dead’s farewell shows in Chicago this past weekend. The two rocked out to the Dead songs with people including Woody Harrelson.

He also said he’s fond of the electronic band XX, which he saw “accidentally” in Nashville once.

In his upcoming film, “Rock the Kashbah,” he plays a washed-up music manager who finds a new talent in Afghanistan.

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10:57 a.m.

He might star in some of the biggest nerd classics of all time, but Bill Murray had never been to their ultimate convention.

That changed early Thursday when the actor strutted through the massive Hall H, marking his first appearance at San Diego Comic-Con to promote his upcoming film “Rock the Kashbah.”

The Deep Purple song “Smoke on the Water” blasted on the speakers while Murray high-fived the screaming audience members on his way to the stage.

Murray stars as a washed-up music manager who discovers a young talent while stranded in Afghanistan.

“I’m rock ‘n’ roll,” Murray said. “That’s what I am.”

The film is directed by Barry Levinson and co-stars Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson and Zooey Deschanel. It is scheduled to hit theatres Oct. 23.