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EXCLUSIVE: Following a sleepy San Diego Comic-Con last summer due to the actors’ strike, this year’s is about to explode with the return of Marvel Studios to Hall H per sources. San Diego Comic-Con runs from July 25-28.
Traditionally, the penultimate day of SDCC is dedicated to Marvel Studio’s presentation in the late afternoon.
Note, the studio was present at the fanboy confab last year with a trade floor booth, a comic-book panel and autographs from distinguished writers and artists.
This year’s presence for Marvel falls on the opening weekend of their first R-rated Disney movie, Deadpool & Wolverine, which is expected to be huge, with some tracking firms spotting a possible $200M start. No word yet on what Marvel will dazzle us with, however, they left big footprints at SDCC 2019 when they announced their Disney+ and big screen crossovers, and 2022 when they teased their Phase 5 and Phase 6 plans.
Marvel Studios’ plans for San Diego Comic-Con go down to the wire, with never-before-seen clips polished up with music and VFX. For starters, given the first weekend of Deadpool & Wolverine, it wouldn’t be a surprise if Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman were to put in a special appearance. One year pre-Covid, Marvel introduced the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy inside Hall H, a stunt that had the crowds screaming like Beatles fans. That said, perhaps The Fantastic Four cast of Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach show up onstage. That movie is currently dated for July 25, 2025 in theaters, but won’t shoot until December.
Exhibitors at CinemaCon already got a first look at Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World (dated for Feb. 14, 2025), so we can expect footage from that. Thunderbolts starring the anti-heroes of Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barns (Sebastian Stan), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour) is currently in production for a May 2, 2025 summer start. It’s entirely possible we see footage or maybe cast from that movie as well as other titles from MCU’s upcoming film & TV slate. Marvel series Wonder Man and Iron Heart with Wakanda Forever‘s Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) have completed shooting.
Among those projects without footage are the next Avengers, of which Deadpool & Wolverine‘s Shawn Levy is the top choice per Deadline for the directing gig. That Michael Waldron penned movie is looking at a top of year production start. And then there’s Blade, starring Mahershala Ali, which is awaiting a new director.
Marvel Studios declined comment for this story.
