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Marvel boss Kevin Feige has teased huge plans for X-Men, and said that “there can be 100 more” movies featuring the characters.
This weekend saw the upcoming X-Men reboot’s core cast confirmed on stage at Disney’s D23 fan extravaganza, with Sadie Sink’s Jean Grey joined by Kit Connor as Cyclops, Christopher Abbott as Professor Xavier, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, Inde Navarrette as Rogue and Maya Boyd as Storm.
Speaking at the event’s subsequent Disney Worldbuilders panel , Feige said the cast’s young age left room for “sagas upon sagas” of stories, with decades of comic book history still untapped. And it sounds like Marvel definitely wants to tap that history as much as possible, with big plans for its mutants in the MCU that extend well beyond 2028’s movie
“Having 85, almost 90 years of comic book history, there’s so many stories yet to tell,” Feige said. “We announced a very young, new cast for a property called X-Men the other day. And that’s great, because there’s been 10 great X-Men movies [but] there can be 100 more.
“There’s sagas, upon sagas, with these comics that haven’t been told yet,” he continued. “And that’s great because the stories that inspired me to want to make these kinds of movies haven’t been told yet. I’m quite excited about doing them.”
Marvel will bid farewell to members of Fox’s legacy X-Men in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, which is set to see Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden and more reprise their iconic superhero roles (and also see Magneto destroy New Jersey). Whether any of them makes it out of Doomsday alive remains to be seen, however
And in the meantime, Marvel has of course already begun introducing its new generation of X-Men with Jean Grey appearing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. While initially introduced as a villain, the movie ends with Jean on a bus headed upstate, presumably ready to cross paths with other mutants (or pop up in Avengers: Secret Wars first).
Marvel has now mapped out its next few years of movies, with Avengers: Doomsday on December 18, then a year wait until Avengers: Secret Wars in December 2027. After that, X-Men leads a far busier 2028 for Marvel when it arrives on May 5. The Ryan Gosling-starring Ghost Rider follows next on July 28, before Black Panther 3 rounds out the year on December 15.
Ready for your Avengers: Doomsday homework? Marvel has released a watchlist of 15 movies and TV shows you should watch before this December rolls around.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky@tomphillipseg.bsky.social
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