The Avengers will have to wait to assemble in San Diego for another year.
Marvel Studios will have a smaller presence at Comic-Con this year, skipping its annual blockbuster presentation in Hall H on Saturday, Variety has confirmed. With “Avengers: Doomsday” moving its release date from May 2026 to December 2026, the studio is holding its powder for Comic-Con 2026, rather than suspend production in London to fly its cast of more than two dozen stars to appear on stage in San Diego this year.
The company is still planing panels and events focused on its comics and games, as well as a booth that will play off of the release of “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” which opens in theaters on the Friday of the annual fan convention. (The stars of the film will appear at the fan convention CCXP Mexico this weekend.)
Since the preview of “Iron Man” electrified Hall H at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios has utilized the stage to showcase its upcoming features and make news with surprise appearances and the announcement of new titles. In 2024, the studio even tacked on a special Thursday Hall H panel for “Deadpool & Wolverine” that became a surprise premiere screening, capped off with a 10-minute drone and fireworks show over Petco Park.
The studio has sat out the convention before, however, most recently in 2023 (due to the guild strikes) and 2021 and 2020 (due to the pandemic), as well as in 2018, 2015 and 2011, largely due to a lack of footage and/or news to share due to production schedules. The event can also be something of a double-edged sword: Marvel has still yet to fulfill the promise of Mahershala Ali’s surprise appearance at the end of the 2019 Hall H panel announcing a new “Blade” movie.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision first broke the news.
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