Yahoo Movies What we know about Marvel’s new X-Men movie
Mutants are among the MCU but when will they get their own film?
After a long wait and a behind-the-scenes rights shuffle, Marvel’s X-Men movie is officially on the way, with various Mutants already starting to let their presence be known within the MCU.
The X-Men are one of Marvel’s biggest properties, with rich characters that have already garnered solid fanbases through their adventures on comic book pages, animated adventures and even feature films.
However, for the majority of their on-screen exploits, they’ve been under the watchful eye of 20th Century Fox and unable to fully interact with Kevin Feige’s ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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All that changed in 2019 when Disney acquired Fox, giving the company free reign to play around with Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops and the rest of Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.
So what exactly do they have planned? Here’s what we know so far…
When will Marvel’s X-Men movie be released?
Marvel’s X-Men movie is currently without a confirmed release date and and still in the early stages of development. It’s worth noting that Marvel has already blocked out most of their films for their upcoming Phase Six and a stand-alone X-Men movie isn’t part of it.
Marvel boss Kevin Feige has confirmed though that X-Men will become a key part of the MCU from 2027 onwards. Talking at a Disney event, the Marvel Studios President was talking about the appeal of super-villain team up movieThunderbolts when he said: "It’s taking characters from all different types of places and franchises and putting them together. That’s what the Avengers is, that’s what Guardians of the Galaxy is."
"I think you will see that continues in our next few movies with some X-Men players that you might recognise. Right after that, the whole story of Secret Wars really leads us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men. Again, [it’s] one of those dreams come true. We finally have the X-Men back.”
Avengers: Secret Wars is slated for release on 7 May, 2027.
Despite these uncertainties, a report published in Production Weekly — as reported by movie site World of Reel — seems to suggest that Marvel could be eying a shoot date of late 2025.
Is there a trailer for Marvel’s X-Men movie?
No, there’s no trailer for Marvel’s X-Men movie just yet. Until a script is finished and cameras start to roll, we won’t get to see any snikty-snikty snippets of the MCU’s new Wolverine in action.
What is the plot of Marvel’s X-Men movie?
The plot for Marvel’s X-Men movie remains a mystery for now but according to many different reports, the studio’s new film will mark the start of a complete mutant makeover.
The search for a writer to helm the project began in late 2023 after the Hollywood strikes ended, with Marvel reportedly meeting with various different screenwriters for the job. Ultimately, it was Michael Lesslie, writer of The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, who bagged the coveted job.
Much like the sprawling X-Men universe, that film also dealt with an ensemble cast, making Lesslie expertly placed to handle an entire school of colourful new characters.
Who will star in Marvel’s X-Men movie?
As it stands, the project is yet to find a director or any stars, which means it’s still a long way from seeing the light of day.
It’s also unclear how the film will fit into the MCU’s wider dealings with mutants. In recent years, we’ve seen various X-Men characters pop up in Marvel movies and TV shows — from Evan Peters’ fan-favourite speedster Quicksilver appearing in WandaVision and Kelsey Grammer’s Beast turning heads in The Marvels’ end-credits sequence, to the return of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and Wolverine alongside a whole bunch of Mutant cameos (no spoilers here).
In fact, during promotion for Deadpool & Wolverine, Feige labelled the movie “the beginning of” the mutant era within the wider MCU.
“Now that we have the characters from the X-Men world and the mutants, that we haven’t had access [to] before, I think this is the beginning of that, and everything post-Deadpool & Wolverine will be the mutant era coming into the MCU,” explained Feige.
Elsewhere, Patrick Stewart’s iconic Professor Charles Xavier had a memorable cameo in Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness, while the hit animated series X-Men ’97 featured many popular X-Men returning in a stand-alone timeline.
Maybe we’ll see some returning faces but maybe not. As perhaps Marvel’s most popular intellectual property, odds are Feige will want to use this movie to introduce us to characters that can helm films and spin-offs for years to come, a task that’ll no doubt be best suited to new talent.
Marvel’s X-Men movie is coming soon.
