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Marvel Studios has been teasing mutants and the “X-Men” for quite some time, with fans wondering if and when the most asked about superheroes would be integrated into the grand universe.
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What has been announced thus far is that “Thunderbolts” director Jake Schreier would be helming the MCU’s look at X-Men. After months of waiting on any kind of update, Schreier has dropped an important one.
While speaking to Empire Magazine, Shreier revealed the wheels are turning on the “X-Men” film.
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“As he tells Empire, Schreier is starting to get the wheels spinning on his X-adventure. ‘I can’t say anything about it, but we’ve started work on X-Men, and that’s obviously very, very exciting,’ he confirms. ‘There are so many things that I didn’t know about before I started [Thunderbolts*].'”
“The biggest learning curve for me was the proportion of the action to the more emotional, character-driven scenes, and how, even though it’s more shooting days than I’ve ever had, they get eaten up quite quickly by the action stuff. By the time we got to the end of it, it felt like, ‘Oh, now I feel like we get how to do this a little bit better.'”
Schreier is getting to work on the “X-Men” film and is also taking some lessons that he learned from “Thunderbolts” along the way. This is great news, and could mean that fans are mere months from finding out who the mutants in the film might be.
Though “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” brought back Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and “Deadpool and Wolverine” brought in the likes of Gambit (Channing Tatum), there are no established original mutants just yet.
There are reports that many of the mutants from the FOX era will return in “Avengers: Doomsday,” but this does not include any new actors who might be suiting up as the X-Men in the MCU.
The two confirmed MCU mutants have been Namor (Tenoch Huerta), who appeared in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”, and Ms. Marvel, who received her own show on Disney+.
Despite those additions, nobody knows if Cyclops, Rogue, Storm, Beast, and many of the most asked mutants will make an appearance in the new “X-Men” film.
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