Marvel's New X-Men Reboot Will Be 'Very Youth-Orientated' and Recognizably Different From the Previous Fox Films

Marvel's program to reboot the X-Men franchise volition spot the iconic superhero squad reborn with a "very youth-orientated" take, featuring a young cast.

That's according to Marvel Studios main Kevin Feige, who has already begun discussing the task — contempt it apt not arriving until astatine slightest 2028, aft the December 2027 motorboat of Avengers: Secret Wars.

Still, aboriginal enactment connected the task is present precise overmuch underway. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes screenwriter Michael Lesslie has been processing the reboot's script, portion Thunderbolts*/The New Avengers manager Jake Schreier was precocious confirmed to beryllium helming the project. And now, we've heard much from some Feige and Schreier connected what to expect.

"We had a large acquisition with [Schreier] connected Thunderbolts," Feige precocious told Nerdist, "and if you saw that movie, what helium did with those quality interactions — helium besides has his pulse on, shall we say, a younger demographic.

"Not — he's younger than me, for definite — but he's tapped into that successful a mode that I deliberation is important. It was important for Thunderbolts, overmuch much important for X-Men, due to the fact that X-Men, arsenic it was successful the comics, volition beryllium a precise youth-oriented, focused and formed movie."

Speaking to ThePlaylist, Schreier agreed it was just to presume Marvel's caller instrumentality connected the X-Men would beryllium recognizably antithetic to that seen successful the erstwhile X-Men films made by 20th Century Fox — which went connected to connection its ain mentation of a younger reboot via its First Class bid of prequels.

"Yeah, I deliberation that's just to say," Schreier acknowleged. "There's that reddish sniper dot retired determination somewhere, you know... but to beryllium capable to research each of the ideas that are inherent to that affluent root material, but besides astatine the standard inherent to the root material, that's similar a precise uncommon and fortunate opportunity."

It's already been six years since the past X-Men movie deed theaters — 2019's captious and commercialized flop Dark Phoenix — and it volition apt beryllium respective much earlier Marvel's caller X-Men line-up marque their debut. Could we spot them introduced earlier than expected via immoderate multiversal shenanigans successful Avengers: Secret Wars? It's possible.

Before then, we cognize that the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday volition meantime bring backmost overmuch of Fox's archetypal X-Men cast, including Patrick Stewart (again) arsenic Professor Xavier, Ian McKellen arsenic Magneto, Famke Jansen arsenic Jean Grey and James Marsden arsenic Cyclops. Another quality by Hugh Jackman's Wolverine besides seems assured, considering the immense fiscal occurrence of 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine.

"Obviously [X-Men] is an ensemble movie and, inherently immoderate it ends up being, is going to woody with analyzable characters," Schreier conluded, speaking to Nerdist. "I conscionable truly emotion what I bash and particularly these days, it’s not to beryllium taken for granted to get the accidental to bash it. And to get to enactment connected things astatine a standard that truly inactive challenges you."

Marvel precocious confirmed that Avengers: Secret Wars would enactment arsenic thing of a "reset" for the MCU (don't telephone it a reboot), allowing its beingness to diagnostic caller versions of classical characters — specified arsenic the X-Men — interacting with the surviving members of its main cast.

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