The COVID-19 outbreak led SDCC, the largest annual fan convention in North America, to postpone the five-day event for two years, putting Comic-Con International, the nonprofit that oversees SDCC, under unheard-of financial duress. The SDCC made a triumphant return the previous year with a masked and immunized event that featured massive Hall H panels for the "Star Trek" TV universe, "House of the Dragon," "The Walking Dead," and, most importantly, Marvel Studios.
There is a growing likelihood that none of those panels will be present at this year's Comic-Con, which is set to begin on July 19 and is less than a month away.
Schedules will begin to be released on July 5, so any studio holdouts will have to decide quickly. However, if SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP extend contract negotiations over the June 30 deadline, they risk making their decision in the dark. No superhero will be able to escape this situation.
In light of this unpredictability, a number of studios have already abandoned plans for a significant presence at SDCC this year. The lack of panels from Disney and its affiliates, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm, eliminates the opportunity to introduce the casts of upcoming films like "The Marvels," "Loki" Season 2, "Ahsoka," and "Haunted Mansion." HBO (which will soon release "True Detective" Season 4 and is now working on "House of the Dragon" Season 2) will not attend.
Neither are Universal Pictures, which this year released "Last Voyage of the Demeter," "Strays," and "The Exorcist," nor Sony Pictures, which released "Gran Turismo" and "Kraven the Hunter" this year. And Netflix, which recently conducted its enormous Tudum fan event in Brazil, presented early peeks at high-budget genre series like its version of "One Piece" there.
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