Marvel Head Kevin Feige Discusses Future Comic-Con Plans and What Fans Can Anticipate

In 2008, Marvel Studios released Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr. The movie was both a critical and commercial success. More importantly, it is celebrated today for being the inaugural film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the most extensive interconnected cinematic narrative in history. Since then, the MCU has become a cornerstone of contemporary commercial cinema, and despite recent declines, it continues to perform strongly.

The mastermind behind this monumental project is producer Kevin Feige. His creative vision and leadership have been instrumental in shaping the MCU. Feige defined the modern superhero movie genre, making his perspective highly influential.

Given this context, we’ve decided to cover a recent interview Kevin Feige gave to Deadline. In it, he discussed Marvel Studios’ plans for the upcoming Comic-Con and the anticipated impact of ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ which is set to release in just a few days.

In a recent exclusive interview with Deadline, Kevin Feige addressed several pertinent questions about Deadpool & Wolverine and the MCU’s plans for the upcoming Comic-Con. In this report, you’ll discover what Marvel has in store for us at Comic-Con.

DEADLINE: Can you share with us any plans for Hall H?

KEVIN FEIGE: 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.

DEADLINE: Can you tell us more about Marvel’s plans at San Diego Comic-Con? I understand there’s a new booth. But also, can you speak about the confab’s importance to a motion picture studio? It’s surprising when some studios decide to skip it; that’s a missed opportunity. But San Diego Comic-Con is still a great place to sound a bullhorn for a project in the current social media age particularly at a time when consumers are fiercely making decisions about content.

FEIGE: 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.

Source: Deadline

If you’re fortunate enough to have secured a Comic-Con ticket and are a Marvel fan, you’re in for some thrilling updates and news. Your attendance will undoubtedly be worthwhile.

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