It may have taken the best part of two decades, Disney literally buying 20th Century Fox, and a multiversal team-up between Deadpool and Wolverine,
It may have taken the best part of two decades, Disney literally buying 20th Century Fox, and a multiversal team-up between Deadpool and Wolverine, but at long last it seems the X-Men’s arrival into the MCU is within an adamantium claw’s reach. And with production now underway on Avengers: Doomsday as the Multiverse Saga nears its end, it seems Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios already have one eye on their next huge move. According to Deadline, Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier is being eyed to usher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s recent age of mutants.
Having proven himself a dab hand when it comes to putting together a recent team of superpowered heroes with the both critically and commercially well received Thunderbolts* (or The New Avengers as it’s being called in some circles), Schreier has emerged as an early frontrunner to helm the MCU’s first X-Men movie. Per Deadline’s reporting, it’s believed that the Beef and Skeleton Crewdirecting alumnus met with Marvel last week about potentially taking the reins on their long-awaited first mutant movie, which has been penned by Michael Lesslie (Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, Dope Girls).
That Schreier is an on the record lover of all things X-Men and has just earned his Marvellian spurs with Thunderbolts* only strengthens the case for his hiring. Should Schreier get the gig, this would be another high profile case of Feige and co once offering an in-house filmmaker a huge sophomore MCU outing (see also; Destin Daniel Cretton going from Shang-Chi to Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and The Russo Brothers heading from Captain America: The Winter Soldier to Civil War and then Infinity War/Endgame). Especially as Marvel Studios looks to strip back its manic release schedule and zero in on concentrated projects made by laser-focused filmmakers, which is exactly what Schreier has delivered with his first comic book joint.
With last year’s Deadpool & Wolverine and Marvel Animation offering X-Men ‘97 reminding fans what they’ve been missing since Fox’s X-Men universe died a death with Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants, appetite for a proper reintroduction to Stan Lee’s roster of gifted outcasts is at an all-time high. And while we don’t know when exactly a straight-up X-Men movie will hit our screens just yet, or even who will be in it, we do know that we’ll be seeing a whole tranche of muties (including Channing Tatum’s Gambit and Sir Ian McKellen’s Magneto) next year when Avengers: Doomsday crashes into cinemas on 1 May, 2026. To us, our X-Men!
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