'She'd Be Great as Mystique': Obsession Star Inde Navarette Confirms Meeting With X-Men Director Jake Schreier, as Marvel Fans Discuss Who She's Likely to Play

Obsession prima Inde Navarette has revealed she precocious met with X-Men reboot manager Jake Schreier, and Marvel fans are already discussing which subordinate of the mutant squad she's apt to play.

Navarette, the breakout prima of this year's hugely-profitable fearfulness movie Obsession, has told Nylon that she was funny successful a Marvel relation and that she'd besides held talks with Schreier.

The Thunderbolts/The New Avengers manager is presently spearheading plans to helm Marvel's caller instrumentality connected the X-Men, via a fresh, "youth-oriented" reboot that's acceptable to debut pursuing 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars. While the task is inactive years from release, it is being seen arsenic a lynchpin of Marvel's adjacent saga, and is already the taxable of aggravated speculation implicit casting.

Who volition represent the adjacent procreation of X-Men? Marvel is reportedly looking for a younger formed to differentiate this adjacent procreation of superheroes from Fox's veterans, and to guarantee the squad features the classical blend of superhero and teen play that X-Men comics are known for. One study said this younger absorption would besides beryllium utilized to get much affordable endowment — keeping costs down.

Of course, determination is already wide content among fans that we've already seen the casting of 1 caller X-Men quality — arsenic galore are convinced that Sadie Sink's concealed relation successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day volition beryllium revealed arsenic Jean Grey. Sink, present 24, would apt acceptable the close property range. Navarette, presently 25, is astir the aforesaid age.

"Inde is my apical prime to play Mystique," wrote 1 instrumentality connected reddit, successful a lengthy thread discussing who Navarette mightiness play. "The pistillate has a REALLY expressive look that could represent a batch of large emotion adjacent with the makeup."

"She'd beryllium GREAT arsenic Mystique," agreed different Marvel fan.

"She's Psylocke for me," countered another.

"I'd ideate they'd astir apt privation an histrion that's a small older for Mystique conscionable successful lawsuit they spell the parent of Nightcrawler and Rogue route," a 4th instrumentality suggested.

"Mystique's 1 of the fewer characters wherever you could formed a 80-year-old and it doesn't substance due to the fact that she tin look nevertheless she wants and she's utilizing her powers astir of the time," different instrumentality said.

While Schreier's movie isn't expected until 2028 astatine the earliest, it's wide Marvel already arsenic its eyes connected the MCU's aboriginal pursuing the extremity of its existent Multiverse Saga, which is acceptable to beryllium bookended by Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. These movies volition not lone headdress disconnected the MCU's current, alternatively uneven era, but besides bring successful bequest characters from the Fox X-Men beingness successful a last send-off for them, too.

All of this paves the mode for the adjacent incarnation of X-Men to consciousness wholly different, portion besides presumably capable to acceptable people into the MCU's continuity pursuing the reality-changing events expected successful Secret Wars' narrative. Marvel antecedently 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.

"We had a large acquisition with [Schreier] connected Thunderbolts," MCU mastermind Kevin Feige antecedently told Nerdist astir the studio's X-Men plans, "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."

Who bash you deliberation Navarette mightiness play?

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