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Geek Culture
30 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Culture
The MCU's X-Men Reboot Will Be More "Youth-Oriented" Take
Despite the X-Men not arriving in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) until at least 2028, after the events of Avengers: Secret Wars (2027) have taken place, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has already disclosed more details on his plans to recast the X-Men and other key characters in the MCU, expressing that the reborn X-Men team will go in a 'very youth-oriented' direction this time. (L-R) Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian (David Harbour), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) and John Walker (Wyatt Russell) in Marvel Studios' THUNDERBOLTS*. Photo by Chuck Zlotnick. © 2025 MARVEL. 'Jake's going to make a youth-focused reboot. That may be reflected in mutant castings, and it'll definitely be felt in the tone and perspective of the film,' Feige said. Feige seems keen to get an early start on the project, with development already underway. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) screenwriter Michael Lesslie has been confirmed to be penning the screenplay, and Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier has also recently been tapped to spearhead the project. On his choice to pick Schreier to helm the project, Feige expressed how he was impressed with what Schreier did to appeal to the sensibilities of younger demographics. He said, 'We had a great experience with [Schreier] on Thunderbolts , and if you saw that movie, what he did with those character interactions — he also has his pulse on, shall we say, a younger demographic. Not—he's younger than me, for sure—but he's tapped into that in a way that I think is important.' In that same interview with Nerdist, Feige emphasises how vital it was for their choice of director to have this connection with a younger audience, stating, 'It was important for Thunderbolts, much more important for X-Men, because X-Men, as it was in the comics, will be a very youth-oriented, focused and cast movie.' In a chat with The Playlist, when asked if the new reboot would be recognisably different from previous iterations, Schreier reinforced that the MCU's reboot of the X-Men would likely be distinct from the ones previously shown onscreen in 20th Century Fox's X-Men films, despite Fox's own younger reboot via the First Class line of prequels. Halle Berry's Storm, Patrick Stewart's Charles Xavier, Fan Bingbing's Blink, Ian McKellen's Magneto and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) The X-Men film franchise has been chock-full of big names such as Patrick Stewart ( Star Trek: Picard ) who played Charles Xavier / Professor X, Ian McKellen ( The Hobbit trilogy) who played Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, James Marsden ( Sonic the Hedgehog film series) who played Scott Summers / Cyclops, Kelsey Grammer ( Frasier ) who played Hank McCoy / Beast, Rebecca Romijn ( Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ) who played Mystique, and Alan Cumming ( The Traitors ) who played Nightcrawler, who are all set to reprise their roles in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday (2027). The franchise has also boasted renowned actors the likes of Hugh Jackman ( The Greatest Showman ) who recently reprised his role as Logan / Wolverine in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Halle Berry ( The Union ) who played Ororo Munroe / Storm, Famke Janssen ( How to Get Away with Murder ) who played Jean Grey / Phoenix, Elliot Page ( Umbrella Academy ) who played Kitty Pryde, Shawn Ashmore ( The Rookie ) who played Bobby Drake / Iceman and Vinnie Jones ( MacGyver ) who played Cain Markok / Juggernaut in its original line of films. Olivia Munn's Psylocke in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) This is on top of the rebooted First Class line of prequels that also featured an impressive lineup of high-profile actors like James McAvoy ( Split ) as Charles Xavier / Professor X, Michael Fassbender ( The Killer ) as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, Jennifer Lawrence ( The Hunger Games trilogy) as Raven / Mystique, Nicholas Hoult ( Superman ) as Hank McCoy / Beast, Evan Peters ( Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story ) as Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver, Lucas Till ( MacGyver ) as Alex Summers / Havok, Sophie Turner ( Game of Thrones ) as Jean Grey, Tye Sheridan ( Ready Player One ) as Scott Summers / Cyclops, Ben Hardy ( Bohemian Rhapsody ) as Angel, Alexandra Shipp ( Tick, Tick… Boom! ) as Ororo Munroe / Storm, Lana Condor ( To All the Boys film series) as Jubilee, and Olivia Munn ( The Predator ) as Psylocke. Sophie Turner's Jean Grey, Kodi Smit-McPhee's Nightcrawler and Tye Sheridan's Cyclops in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) While there's no news of casting yet, any of the new and younger actors set to take over the reins of the X-Men in the MCU will certainly have massive shoes to fill. But until then, fans can only continue to speculate and discuss their favourite fancastings. Given how fan castings and cries for John Krasinski to play Reed Richards ultimately led to his brief appearance as Mister Fantastic in 2022's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , who knows? Maybe Marvel Studios may heed fans after all. Conversation with Ting Wei is like chatting with a weird AI bot programmed only with One Piece lore and theories, sitcom quotes and other miscellaneous pop culture references. When he's not sleeping, he's highly likely reading manga. In fact, the only thing he reads more than manga is the Bible, and it's honestly pretty close. 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Gizmodo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘Thunderbolts' Director Teases His Take on the ‘Complex' X-Men
While Marvel basks in the success of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, director Jake Schreier—the guiding hand behind Marvel's earlier 2025 hit, Thunderbolts—is looking ahead to the studio's most anticipated movie that doesn't have the word 'Avengers' in the title. Schreier is helming the movie designed to bring the X-Men fully into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, on the heels of Deadpool & Wolverine. As you'd expect, he's giving his approach to the oft-adapted characters a lot of thought. Speaking to the Playlist (and keeping things in Marvel-approved non-spoilery terms), Schreier said that his movie's take on the X-Men will be quite different than what fans have seen before. Of course, he couldn't elaborate more on that, but his comments suggest the departure will come not with the movie's aesthetics but with a new approach to the emotional arcs of its famously conflicted mutants. 'To be able to explore all of the ideas that are inherent to that rich source material, but also at the scale inherent to the source material, that's like a very rare and fortunate opportunity. That's very exciting.' Schreier also called the project 'an incredible opportunity with super interesting characters and [much] internal conflict. These characters are wrestling with their identity and place in the world—that's inherently interesting and complex material.' In the same Playlist piece, Marvel boss Kevin Feige was quoted as calling Schreier's X-Men a 'youth-focused reboot' in terms of both casting and 'tone and perspective.' Details about the new X-Men movie are understandably scarce at the moment; it does not have a release date set, though the MCU has its trajectory mapped out through 2026 (Spider-Man: Brand New Day; Avengers: Doomsday) and 2027 (Avengers: Secret Wars). Characters from the Fox X-Men movies, released prior to Marvel parent company Disney's acquisition of the characters in 2019, are expected to appear in those two Avengers films, with Schreier's reboot coming after. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Gizmodo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Bat-Mite Is No Longer Canon in James Gunn's DCU
Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier talks X-Men, Eddie Murphy provides an update on Shrek 5, and Alien: Earth introduces a 'ruthless' cyborg. Your bongo to Theed is now arriving; it's Morning Spoilers! In conversation with Screen Rant, Eddie Murphy confirmed he's 'still in the booth' recording lines for Shrek 5 before beginning work on a Donkey spinoff movie this September. We're still in the booth, and literally, we're still doing Shrek. We start in September on Donkey, we're doing a Donkey one, and that'll be three years from now, but we're about two years into Shrek 5. Still in the booth and about to start Donkey in September. Donkey's going to be like how Puss in Boots had his own movie, Donkey's going to have his own movie, own little story with his dragon wife and his kids that are half-dragon and half-donkeys. They've written this funny story. We're doing that, starting that in September. During a recent interview with The Playlist, X-Men director Jake Schreier stated he finds the material 'inherently interesting and complex.' I mean, yeah, without going into too much—really almost any detail. What I can say is, it's just inherently interesting and complex material. The core idea of what X-Men is involves complexity. It's an incredible opportunity with super interesting characters and [much] internal conflict. These characters are wrestling with their identity and place in the world—that's inherently interesting and complex material. Photos from the future set of Spider-Man: Brand New Day reveal Glasgow's Bothwell Street will double as Lexington Avenue in the upcoming sequel. View this post on InstagramThe curse of an Aztec death whistle terrorizes a high school in the trailer for Whistle, starring Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Sky Yang, Jhaleil Swaby, Ali Skovbye, Percy Hynes White, Michelle Fairley, and Nick Frost. A child's drawing comes to life in the final trailer for Sketch, starring Tony Hale and D'Arcy Carden. A teaser trailer for the demonic-possession movie, Traumatika, claims any footage from the film is too intense to show. We also have a trailer for Lineage, the fifth and allegedly final film in the Hell House LLC series. During a recent press event attended by Comic Book, Alien: Earth actor Babou Ceesay revealed his character is a 'ruthless' cyborg. I don't even want to give away his backstory… but he's a cyborg, let's just say that. When I say cyborg, what do you think? This is interesting. People have been saying odd things to me when I tell them I'm a cyborg. So some people think that he's all machine when they say 'cyborg,' but that's not it. He's human and flawed in a human way. Whereas you've got people who are synths, who are, I guess, AI brains with synthetic bodies and then you've got the hybrids that are both. So he's a cyborg. The best way I can describe him, he's like an iPhone 1 in a world of iPhone 20s. But what he does have is an unbelievable clarity in terms of what he wants to do and a determination. He's ruthless for that reason. Finally, during a recent episode of Peacemaker: The Official Podcast (via Comic Book), James Gunn stated every character name dropped in the first season of Peacemaker is likely still canon in the new DCU, barring Bat-Mite. I will say that everything in the [first season episode Best Friends For Never] is canon except for maybe Bat-Mite. He's one of my favorite characters, but I can't say for sure that Bat-Mite is real. He's a wonderful character from the comics. He's an Imp from the Fifth Dimension who looks creepy and dresses in a little Batman costume. Except the ears are bent, because it's a really ill-fitting Batman costume. He's got skinny little legs [and] a fat little body, and he worships Batman. And so he tries to create these extraordinary circumstances for Batman to prove he's a hero, and it's these nightmarish scenarios. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Digital Trends
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
Marvel's X-Men director says the new movie will be ‘recognizably different' from the Hugh Jackman franchise
Following the premiere of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the X-Men are the last major set of characters who have not yet been interested into the Marvel universe. Now that we know Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier will be helming this new version of the X-Men, though, he's offered some detail on what the movie will look like in an interview with The Playlist. When he was asked if Marvel's take on the characters will be 'recognizably different' from the previous franchise, Schreier said 'yeah, I think that's fair to say,' before joking that there was red sniper dot pointed at his chest. Recommended Videos 'But to be able to explore all of the ideas that are inherent to that rich source material, but also at the scale inherent to the source material, that's like a very rare and fortunate opportunity,' the director continued. 'That's very exciting.' Kevin Feige, the head of Marvel Studios, said during a previous interview that Marvel's take on the characters would be quite different, explaining that they were 'going to make a youth-focused reboot. That may be reflected in mutant castings, and it'll definitely be felt in the tone and perspective of the film.' We don't yet know what the introduction of the X-Men is going to look like in the MCU. What we do know, though, is that Marvel is bringing back much of the cast of the original X-Men franchise for an appearance in Avengers: Doomsday. Whether any of them will have significant roles remains to be seen.
Geek Tyrant
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Marvel Boss Kevin Feige Confirms Who Will Direct the X-MEN Film Reboot — GeekTyrant
Marvel boss Kevin Feige has done a good job of choosing filmmakers, actors, writers and crew members to tell the comic book stories we all love over the past 17 years. We have some fun films coming up as we move through the MCU's sixth phase, and one that fans are looking forward to is the reboot of X-Men . Little is known about the film, except that it will be the main focus after the events of Avengers: Secret Wars , which will hit theatres in December 2027. Now we have a little more info on who will be behind the camera, bringing the film to life. Feige confirmed to Comic Book, while making the rounds for The Fantastic Four: First Steps , that Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier will be helming the X-Men reboot. Feige said, 'It's official, Jake Schreier is doing X-Men for us, and we're very, very lucky to have him and very excited to have him. And so we're beginning. It's all starting now. The script's underway.' The producer confirmed that the positive response to Thunderbolts* played a role in Schreier getting this gig, but his faith in the director extends beyond that. He went on to add, 'Jake's an incredibly smart guy, and he's an incredibly talented filmmaker. We had a great experience with him on Thunderbolts* . And if you saw that movie, what he did with those character interactions, he also has his pulse on, shall we say, a younger demographic. He's younger than me for sure, but he's tapped into that in a way that I think was important for Thunderbolts* , much more important for X-Men . Because X-Men , as it was in the comics, will be a very youth-oriented, focused and cast movie.' I think this is a great match, and I can't wait to see what Schreier does with these beloved characters. Stay tuned for more updates.
