Kevin Feige Confirms When to Expect Marvel Studios ‘X-Men’ Reboot

It’s been five years since Fox botched one of Marvel Comics greatest stories for the second time in Dark Phoenix. To be fair, the film–along with 2020’s New Mutants–was dead on arrival following the Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox, which was completed less than 3 months prior to the Simon Kinberg-helmed flop’s June 7th opening. By the time SDCC ’19 came around in July, Marvel Studios One Above All, Kevin Feige, was teasing the addition of the X-Men to the MCU; however, five years later fans are still waiting for the Sacred Timeline’s own uncanny team of mutant heroes. And it looks as though the wait will continue just a little longer.

Less than a week after teasing the MCU future of the X-Men, Feige addressed the topic again during a virtual drop in at Singapore’s Disney APAC Content Showcase. “I think you will see that continues in our next few movies with some X-Men players that you might recognize,” said Feige of the potential for some of Fox’s X-Men to continue to appear in the MCU as Charles Xavier, Beast and, most recently, Hugh Jackman‘s Wolverine have done.

As entertaining as that has been for fans, most are ready for a new take on the heroes now that Disney owns the live-action rights to them. A massive X-Men fan himself, Feige promised the audience in Singapore that “a new age of mutants” is on the horizon. “Right after that, the whole story of Secret Wars really leads us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men,” teased Feige. “Again, [it’s] one of those dreams come true. We finally have the X-Men back.“

Feige’s tease is consistent with his recent comments in which he teased that the X-Men were poised to be “an important part” of the studio’s post-Secret Wars future. While that future will almost certainly remain undefined for some time, the studio did strike a deal with Michael Lesslie to write the script for the MCU X-Men’s debut which should mean Feige‘s promised age of mutants should be ready to kick off in 2027 where Marvel has staked out dates in July and November.

Source: Deadline