Marvel Will Recast the X-Men and 'Reset' the MCU After Avengers: Secret Wars, Says Kevin Feige

Although Hugh Jackman returned for Deadpool & Wolverine and respective of the archetypal formed members of the X-Men franchise volition look successful Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said successful a caller interrogation that the workplace plans to recast the X-Men characters erstwhile the superhero squad gets its ain MCU movie.

In conversations with respective commercialized publications, including Variety, Feige pointed to the Secret Wars comics from 2015 arsenic the studio’s inspiration for a “reset” of the MCU.

“We’re utilizing that [story] not conscionable to circular retired the stories we’ve been telling post-Endgame, conscionable arsenic importantly — and you tin look astatine the Secret Wars comics for wherever that takes you — it very, precise overmuch sets america up for the future,” Feige said.

“Endgame, literally, was astir endings. Secret Wars is astir is astir beginnings.”

Feige clarified that the MCU’s archetypal X-Men movie, to beryllium directed by Thunderbolts’ Jake Schreier, volition beryllium a “reset,” not a “reboot” of the MCU.

“Reboot is simply a scary word,” Feige said. “Reboot tin mean a batch of things to a batch of people. Reset, singular timeline — we’re reasoning on those lines. … X-Men is wherever that volition hap next.”

The X-Men movie volition recast the iconic mutants and instrumentality the franchise’s absorption to being connected the young mutants attending Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

“They person been a spot to archer stories astir young radical who consciousness antithetic and who consciousness Other and who consciousness similar they don’t belong,” Feige said. “That’s the cosmopolitan communicative of mutants, and that is wherever we’re going.”

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