New X-Men Movie Reportedly Has Thunderbolts* Director Jake Schreier in Its Sights

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is yet bringing the X-Men into its multi-phase plans, and Thunderbolts* manager Jake Schreier is reportedly successful talks to pb the charge.

Deadline reports that the filmmaker is presently successful aboriginal talks with Marvel Studios to nonstop a caller X-Men movie. Its sources accidental that, portion the authorities of negotiations remains a mystery, Schreier presently sits atop the comic publication giant’s database of names to helm the project.

The early-in-development X-Men movie is said to diagnostic a publication written by The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes scribe Michael Lesslie. Marvel mastermind Kevin Feige is besides attached arsenic a producer. Other details — including its cast, merchandise date, and however intimately it mightiness necktie into the MCU — stay tightly nether wraps.

The MCU has spent its post-Avengers: Endgame slate dilatory gathering up anticipation for an X-Men instauration of immoderate kind. As multiverse shenanigans proceed to weave their mode into storylines seen successful movies similar The Marvels, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and Deadpool & Wolverine, Marvel has included tiny nods to however characters similar Wolverine, Beast, and Professor X mightiness conscionable up with the existent lineup of Avengers. While The Fantastic Four: First Steps volition fto fans conscionable the MCU instrumentality connected Marvel’s First Family travel July, the celebrated schoolhouse of Mutants has remained obscurity to beryllium found.

We volition spot the X-Men successful Avengers: Doomsday, of course. Last month's Avengers: Doomsday formed uncover was dense connected seasoned X-Men actors. Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden are each present acceptable to look successful Avengers: Doomsday, confirming the X-Men are successful the movie successful a large way. Grammer famously played Beast successful the Fox X-Men franchise earlier making his MCU debut via The Marvels' post-credits scene. Stewart played Charles Xavier/Professor X successful the X-Men films earlier appearing concisely successful the MCU via Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness arsenic a subordinate of the Illuminati. McKellen, who played Magneto, has not yet appeared successful the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who played Nightcrawler, Romijn, who played Mystique, nor Marsden, who played Cyclops. It begs the question: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men movie?

We cognize Marvel has been trying to get the shot rolling connected an MCU X-Men movie for immoderate time. Feige promised precocious past twelvemonth that fans would soon spot the X-Men marque their debut sometime wrong “the adjacent fewer movies.” Meanwhile, THR precocious reported that Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds, has softly been pushing to get a Deadpool-meets-X-Men movie made sooner alternatively than later. There’s nary authoritative X-Men movie connected the timeline yet, but with the velocity the MCU is moving at, audiences apt won’t person to hold excessively agelong to spot fan-favorite characters articulation the fight.

Schreier, meanwhile, conscionable launched Thunderbolts* into theaters past weekend. It’s disconnected to a beardown start, pulling successful a planetary full of $173,009,775 successful theaters truthful acold (via Box Office Mojo). The ensemble anti-hero movie has besides managed to impressment critics, arsenic the task presently boasts an 88% people connected Rotten Tomatoes (we gave it a 7/10 successful our review).

While we hold for much updates connected Marvel’s negotiations with Schreier, cheque retired the internet's absorption to a imaginable Nightcrawler/Mister Fantastic showdown In Avengers: Doomsday — leaked by Alan Cumming himself.

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