The X-Men reboot is confirmed with new writers

A new film anchored in the Marvel Universe, which will follow the final turn of Patrick Stewart and his gang in Avengers: Doomsday.

The change is underway. The reboot of X-Men on the side of the Marvel Universe is becoming clearer.

Director Jake Schreier – already at the helm of the project – has confirmed that two writers from the most addictive series of the moment are currently working on the script. And not just any: Lee Sung Jin, creator of the Netflix series Beef (Relentless in VF) and Joanna Calo, co-showrunner of The Bear are at work writing a new mutant movie. The project is still under construction. But the foundations are laid.

In an interview with Collider, Jake Schreier explains that he asked Lee and Calo to rework the last version of the film’s script. A collaboration which is not a coincidence: all three had already worked together on Thunderboltswhere they proved that they knew how to handle the codes of the superhero film (even if the success was more critical than commercial). Above all, the filmmaker gives a clear direction for this reboot:

“When we dive back into the X-Men comics, there is an ideological dimension, but also interpersonal dramas, almost worthy of a soap opera… So having writers capable of bringing out ideology from personal issues, if we succeed, is what will be most faithful to what the X-Men can be.”

Not just powers and fights, but human, political, intimate conflicts. Drama. This is the ambition of the MCU’s next X-Men film.

And Marvel really needs that to relaunch an idea that has already seen an army of screenwriters parade. Before them, Michael Lesslie (Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Serpent and the Songbird, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t) had delivered a version of the script, itself based on a previous draft by Aaron Rabin (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) and Zach Dean (The Tomorrow War, Fast X). A great classic of modern blockbusters: scripts passed from hand to hand, refined to the point of obsession.

It must be said that this reboot of X-Men is of particular importance: this will be the first time that the mutants will be entitled to a film entirely produced by Marvel Studios, since the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney in 2019. Before that, the X-Men lived their lives apart, in an uneven saga ranging from Logan has Dead Poolwith a few mishaps (X-Men: Apocalypse, The New Mutants…).

This new beginning will be initiated in the next Avengers: Doomsday in which we will already find Patrick Stewart (Professor Xavier), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Kelsey Grammer (Beast) and James Marsden (Cyclops). They will make their last stand there. And in the process, a new generation of mutants should take over in Jake Schreier’s film (no release date yet).