The MCU is returning to Comic-Con in a big way as Kevin Feige confirms Marvel Studios will have not one but two panels at the SDCC, including Deadpool on Thursday.
Deadpool & Wolverine, the highest anticipated Marvel movie since Spider-Man: No Way Home, gets released on July 26, the same week of Comic-Con.
Deadpool Comic-Con panel
It has already been confirmed Marvel Studios will be in attendance, and Kevin Feige previously teased Fantastic Four for the SDCC. While speaking with Deadline, Feige announces a Deadpool panel:
Yes, I can. I think people know we’re going to be there on Saturday for our traditional Hall H panel with a lot of fun stuff to look at about our upcoming movies. But what I don’t think people know is that we’re also going to be in Hall H on Thursday for the first time ever. Marvel Studios is going to be in Hall H twice during Comic-Con. Thursday, of course, is the opening of Deadpool & Wolverine, so we’re going to be doing a fun Deadpool panel in Hall H to commemorate the opening and Shawn [Levy], Hugh [Jackman], Ryan [Reynolds] and I will be there.
Update: The panel on Thursday is called “Marvel Studios: The Ultimate Deadpool & Wolverine Celebration of Life. Hall H at 6:30pm.” Fans can register for a chance to attend at event.twdc.com.
Marvel has also officially unveiled its Comic-Con plans.
Brand-new Marvel booth
Kevin Feige also confirms Marvel will have a newly designed booth on the Comic-Con floor:
For Marvel, it’s important on all aspects; it’s important for publishing and for the roots of everything we do. And you’re right, we have a whole brand-new booth this year that we spent a long time designing and trying to make as impressive as possible and diverse as possible with the amount of events going on in that booth, many and most of which relate to the comics and to the artists and to the storylines that we’ve made and of course tapping into games and movies. The entirety of Comic-Con started in the comics, and I love seeing the amount of stuff that C.B. [Cebulski], our editor on the publishing side, is doing each year and every year. On the movie side, which I’m emotionally of course connected to, that’s where everything started for us. I remember showing clips of X-Men 2 for the first time before Hall H existed in San Diego Comic-Con and Sam Raimi with Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3 and, of course, our Iron Man panel with Favreau and Downey Jr. We build movie schedules oftentimes, and obviously the pandemic and the strike that threw a wrench into it for a few years. But what we’re able to do this time is to get back to literally designing our film schedules around what we would have ready to show at Comic-Con — to announce and set the expectations and the tonality of what’s to come over the next couple of years. And that starts in Hall H. I think Hall H has become such an iconic venue that people who’ve never been to Comic-Con know what Hall H is or know that Hall H stands for the unveiling of important, fun pop culture moments.
Kevin Feige attending three Comic-Con panels
That’s not all as Kevin Feige will actually be attending three Marvel panels.
Kevin Feige will be on the “Marvel Fanfare” panel on Friday, July 26 from 3:00 – 4:00pm PT, described as:
Marvel masters collide in an unprecedented meeting of page and screen! Marvel Comics editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski and Marvel Studios’ president Kevin Feige discuss their mutual love for all things Marvel Comics along with some special surprise creators. With decades of creative storytelling at the House of Ideas between them, there will be no shortage of insider insights and unheard comic book anecdotes that you can’t afford to miss. And if that wasn’t enough… following the discussion, fans will receive an exclusive giveaway comic!
Comic-Con runs July 25-28 with preview night on July 24.
