Kevin Feige Teases MCU’s Fun Return to SDCC 2024

Are you planning to attend San Diego Comic-Con? If so, you’ll be pleased to know that Kevin Feige will be there, with a few surprises in store for fans in Hall H.

In a recent chat with Deadline, Marvel’s CEO shared some intriguing details about what attendees can expect as the convention gears up to start next week in sunny Southern California.

When quizzed about his plans for Hall H, Feige revealed some exciting news. “Yes, I can [share some plans],” Feige said. “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.”

This year, Thursday marks the debut of Deadpool and Wolverine, which will be commemorated with a special Deadpool panel in Hall H. “Thursday, of course, is the opening of Deadpool and 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,” Feige added.

It’s hard to imagine the throngs of fans eager to see this panel firsthand. Hall H is sure to be buzzing with excitement.

During the same interview, Feige talked about his earliest experiences with Comic-Con back in 2007, when Iron Man was just being introduced. He was asked whether it has become more challenging to bring lesser-known intellectual properties into the public eye these days.

“Yes,” he responded. “When we were going to Comic-Con in 2007, when we were bringing Iron Man there with Jon Favreau, one media outlet did a story that read ‘Marvel Calls Out the C Team.’ People thought, ‘Well, are you going to be able to make anything of these characters that aren’t the major players if you don’t have Spider-Man or X-Men?’”

“People thought Marvel had nothing else,” he continued. “And we thought, ‘We have 8,567 other things.’ The audience wants to see a great piece of entertainment. I said for a long time that the one-two punch for Marvel, pre-dating me, was Blade and then X-Men. Blade was a character that nobody knew from the comics, or very few people knew. It wasn’t advertised as being from Marvel Comics. X-Men was the No. 1 bestselling comic for the 15 years before the movie came out. Both of them did extremely well, and that instilled in us the notion that it is less about how many issues did you sell or how famous was the animated show or the live-action series in the ’70s, but how engaging can you make the character, and how much of a new experience of a world can you bring to cinemas with that character. And that’s what we tried to do with Iron Man, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, and Guardians of the Galaxy.”

If you’re able to make it to San Diego Comic-Con, it runs from Thursday, July 25, through Sunday, July 28. Don’t miss the opportunity to attend the Deadpool and Wolverine panel with Kevin Feige on Thursday.

Source: Deadline