Jake Schreier is giving an update on the much-anticipated X-Men reboot in the works at Marvel Studios.
In a new interview, the Thunderbolts* director teased working on the next generation of mutant heroes.
“I can’t say anything about it, but we’ve started work on X-Men, and that’s obviously very, very exciting,” he told Empire.
The filmmaker noted that working on Thunderbolts* was a learning experience, adding, “The biggest learning curve for me was the proportion of the action to the more emotional, character-driven scenes, and how, even though it’s more shooting days than I’ve ever had, they get eaten up quite quickly by the action stuff. By the time we got to the end of it, it felt like, ‘Oh, now I feel like we get how to do this a little bit better.’”
Schreier previously hinted at the X-Men reboot in an interview with The Playlist, calling the comic book heroes “inherently interesting and complex material.”
“It’s an incredible opportunity with super interesting characters and [much] internal conflict,” he added. “These characters are wrestling with their identity and place in the world—that’s inherently interesting and complex material.”
When Disney and 20th Century Fox merged in 2019, the X-Men characters became available to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Some of the actors who appeared in the Fox films will reprise their roles for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday film, scheduled for release on December 18, 2026.
The actors who have previously played X-Men characters include Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier/Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Cyclops), and Channing Tatum (Gambit).
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