It’s been seven years since there’s been a proper X-Men live-action movie in theaters. And although the classic Fox-era mutants are getting (another) swan song in Avengers: Doomsday, everyone is far more excited about the upcoming X-Men reboot for the MCU. Soon, all-new versions of Marvel’s beloved mutant heroes will head to our screens. But we still know painfully little about this MCU X-Men reboot, besides the fact that Thunderboltsdirector Jake Schreier is helming this one, and that Beef creator Lee Sung Jin has written the screenplay. In a recentDeadline profile, Lee Sung Jin revealed a bit about his approach to Charles Xavier’s students:
They want to go back to character first, which is the type of writing that me and [The Bear‘s Joanna Calo] do best. We’re thinking about these characters and what makes them tick. What parts of them feel universally relatable, and leading with that first before we start thinking about plots and world stakes and all that. I think audiences are always hungry for character first. That’s the thing that makes storytelling resonate, that you’re able to see and identify parts of yourself in these people on the big screen.
X-Men is more of a soap opera than a “world-saving disaster movie” kind of story. (Give or take a Phoenix incident or three.) So this intel is music to our ears.X-Men ’97 understands exactly how the X-Men should feel. And no shade to the Fox X-Men films (which produced at least 4 all-time classics, let’s not get it twisted), but X-Men does notneed to be “The Wolverine Show.” And by all accounts, the MCU X-Men team and movie are not going to be Logan-centric
Rumors suggest we’re getting the original five members, plus a few more. Storm? Rogue? Who knows! But we’re excited about this take, which pulls from the classic Chris Claremont Uncanny X-Men era, as it should. Now, hopefully, Comic-Con brings some more concrete news about the MCU’s X-Men
