Oops! Someone at Disney made a big mistake this weekend and for a little while, fans were led to believe that Rege-Jean Page had joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The 34-year-old actor was at Comic-Con to promote his new movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and it was incorrectly announced at the convention that he was also going to be in a Marvel project. Click inside to find out what happened… Disney sent out a press release announcing the cast for the upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion, which included Rege.
TVLine later reported, “A Disney spokesperson phoned TVLine late Saturday evening to state that Page, who currently can be seen in Netflix’s The Gray Man movie, is not part of Secret Invasion, and was accidentally included with the official cast list.” In Secret Invasion, Cobie Smulders, reprises her role of Maria Hill—a decorated spy and Nick Fury’s loyal #2.
The series also stars Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Ben Mendelsohn as the Skrull Talos—characters who first met in Captain Marvel.
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