An “X-Males” film at Marvel Studios appears to be like to lastly be choosing up steam, and Jake Schreier, the director of one of many best-reviewed MCU motion pictures in years “Thunderbolts*,” is in early talks to direct the movie, IndieWire has confirmed.
Michael Lesslie, who wrote “The Starvation Video games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” wrote the script for the still-untitled “X-Males” film. Kevin Feige, per common, is producing.
Marvel declined to remark.
Since buying Fox again in 2017, Marvel has been constructing slowly in the direction of bringing the X-Males again into the fold of the MCU. They’ve teased mutants in “Ms. Marvel,” they usually had a post-credits sequence that teased the “X-Males” on the finish of “The Marvels.” After bringing Hugh Jackman again as Wolverine for “Deadpool & Wolverine” final 12 months, Marvel not too long ago introduced that the brand new “Avengers: Doomsday” movie would come with most of the stars from the unique sequence of “X-Males” movies that started means again in 2000, together with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Alan Cummings, Rebecca Romjin, and even Channing Tatum reprising his function as Gambit from “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
It’s unclear what a brand new “X-Males” film would deal with or which characters it could carry again, in addition to if we’d see a completely new forged of characters taking over the legacy characters equivalent to Charles Xavier, Magneto, Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Rogue, Jean Gray, and the remaining. The 13 completely different X-Males movies so far have grossed a mixed $6 billion globally.
“Thunderbolts” after only one weekend in theaters has already grossed $173 million globally towards a $180 million finances, and the critiques for the movie are a number of the greatest an MCU film has seen within the post-“Endgame” period.
Schreier can be the director of Netflix’s “Beef” and has some indie roots with movies like “Robotic & Frank” and “Paper Cities” from early in his profession.
Subsequent up for the MCU is one other reboot of some characters that pre-dated the MCU, “The Implausible 4: First Steps,” which opens in July.
Deadline first reported the information.