Thunderbolts* could not have ended up performing exceptionally on the field workplace, but it surely was positively acquired amongst audiences and critics, together with CinemaBlend’s Thunderbolts* overview giving it 3.5 out of 5 stars. Then mere days after the workforce we now know because the New Avengers joined forces on the 2025 motion pictures schedule, it was reported that director Jake Schreier was being lined as much as helm the MCU’s X-Males reboot. Now Schreier has shared the “largest studying curve” that got here from his time on Thunderbolts*, and it’s left me feeling extra assured in him being chosen to direct the mutant-centric upcoming Marvel film.
The filmmaker shared with Empire that he and his workforce have began engaged on X-Males, although as is normally the case with Marvel Studios productions, particular particulars are being saved below lock and key. However so far as the massive takeaway from Thunderbolts* that caught with him with regards to working with a gaggle of Marvel heroes, Jake Schreier stated this:
There are such a lot of issues that I didn’t learn about earlier than I began [Thunderbolts*]. The largest studying curve for me was the proportion of the motion to the extra emotional, character-driven scenes, and the way, despite the fact that it’s extra capturing days than I’ve ever had, they get eaten up fairly shortly by the motion stuff. By the point we acquired to the top of it, it felt like, ‘Oh, now I really feel like we get how to do that somewhat bit higher.’
Thunderbolts* introduced collectively Bucky Barnes, Yelena Belova, John Walker, Pink Guardian and Ghost (not a lot Taskmaster) in opposition to their shared enemy of Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, with Bob, a.ok.a. Sentry, additionally becoming a member of them as soon as his Void alter ego was neutralized. Motion is to be anticipated in a Marvel film, however Jake Schreier quickly realized as Thunderbolts* was filming that there wanted to be a positive steadiness between that side and likewise delivering these extra emotional moments. So when the time comes for cameras to roll on the X-Males reboot, it appears like he has a greater deal with on methods to allot time as a way to obtain stated steadiness.
I used to be already offered on Jake Schreier being a superb decide for X-Males due to how a lot I preferred Thunderbolts*. Nevertheless, him discussing this studying expertise has me hopeful that this new tackle certainly one of Marvel’s hottest properties may turn into a fair higher product. The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ Michael Lesslie is writing the reboot’s script.
Whereas it stays to be seen after we’ll meet the workforce of X-Males that may change into mainstays within the MCU, December 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday will see actors from the unique X-Males movie sequence reprise their roles, together with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Romijn, Kelsey Grammer, Alan Cummings and James Marsden. This incarnation of the X-Males will workforce up with the Avengers, New Avengers and Implausible 4 in opposition to Robert Downey Jr.’s Physician Doom.