Although Hugh Jackman returned for Deadpool & Wolverine and several of the original cast members of the X-Men franchise will appear in Avengers: Doomsday , Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said in a recent interview that the studio plans to recast the X-Men characters when the superhero team gets its own MCU movie.
In conversations with several trade publications, including Variety , Feige pointed to the Secret Wars comics from 2015 as the studios inspiration for a reset of the MCU.
Were utilizing that [story] not just to round out the stories weve been telling post-Endgame, just as importantly and you can look at the Secret Wars comics for where that takes you it very, very much sets us up for the future, Feige said.
Endgame, literally, was about endings. Secret Wars is about is about beginnings.
Feige clarified that the MCUs first X-Men movie , to be directed by Thunderbolts Jake Schreier , will be a reset, not a reboot of the MCU.
Reboot is a scary word, Feige said. Reboot can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Reset, singular timeline were thinking along those lines. & X-Men is where that will happen next.
The X-Men movie will recast the iconic mutants and return the franchises focus to being on the young mutants attending Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters.
They have been a place to tell stories about young people who feel different and who feel Other and who feel like they dont belong, Feige said. Thats the universal story of mutants, and that is where were going.
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For more MCU coverage, catch up on t he state of the MCU leading into Fantastic Four: First Steps and Avengers: Doomsday , and find out who will lead the Avengers in Doomsday .
