X-Men MCU Movie Gets a Major Update: ‘It’s All Starting Now’

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Kevin Feige has shared an update regarding the X-Men MCU movie.

Marvel Studios is currently working on an MCU movie that is expected to arrive after Avengers: Doomsday, which is currently in production, and Avengers: Secret Wars. Both Avengers movies are being directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, also known as the Russo Brothers.

In May, Deadline reported that Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier was the top choice to direct the X-Men film.

What did Kevin Feige say about the X-Men MCU movie?

Per ComicBook, Feige confirmed that Schreier will indeed be directing X-Men.

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“It’s official, Jake Schreier is doingX-Menfor us, and we’re very, very lucky,” Feige said. “And we’re very, very lucky to have him and very excited to have him. And so we’re beginning.It’s all starting now. The script’s underway.

“…Jake’s an incredibly smart guy, and he’s an incredibly talented filmmaker. We had a great experience with him on Thunderbolts*. And if you saw that movie, what he did with those character interactions, he also has his pulse on, shall we say, a younger demographic. He’s younger than me for sure, but he’s tapped into that in a way that I think was important for Thunderbolts*, much more important for X-Men. Because X-Men, as it was in the comics, will be a very youth-oriented, focused, and cast movie.”

Plot details for Marvel’s new X-Men movie remain under wraps at this time; however, Feige has reassured fans that it won’t be something they’ve seen before.

“A lot has been done. But again, because it’s X-Men, because it’s almost a comic legacy unto itself, there’s so much more to tap into it,” he commented. “And there [are] so many sagas within sagas for X-Men that that’s part of what we’re talking about now — which saga to grow and build to while doing the most important thing, which is introducing all of these characters and giving them their due in our first film.”