We know who the new Iceman will be in Marvel’s X-Men reboot
After The Hunger Games: Harvest Sunrise and Karate Kid: Legends, Ben Wang will join the mutants of the MCU. He is in negotiations to play Bobby Drake and his icy powers.
Cold snap among Marvel’s mutants.
Ben Wang, revealed in particular by Karate Kid: Legendsin 2025 at the cinema, is in negotiations to play Bobby Drake, aka Iceman, in the next reboot of X-Men produced by Marvel Studios, for the MCU.
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character Iceman is one of the founding members of the X-Men. The character made his first appearance in the very first issue of the comics, in September 1963. Capable of controlling ice and dropping temperatures, Bobby Drake was played in the cinema by Shawn Ashmore in the saga produced by 20th Century Fox, notably in X-Men (2000), X-Men 2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).
If the negotiations are successful, Ben Wang will join an already well-stocked cast. Sadie Sink would be Jean Grey, Kit Connor Cyclops, Samara Weaving Emma Frost, Inde Navarrette Malicia, Maya Boyd Tornado and Asa Germann Angel. Christopher Abbott would play Professor Charles Xavier, while Adam Driver would play Mister Sinister.
Ben Wang thus continues his rise in major Hollywood franchises. In Hunger Games: Sunrise over the Harvestexpected soon in the cinema, he will play Wyatt Callow, one of the tributes of District 12 alongside Haymitch Abernathy, played by Joseph Zada. He was also featured in The Long Walkthe adaptation of Stephen King directed by Francis Lawrence, and therefore in Karate Kid: Legendswhere he shared the screen with Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan.
The new movie X-Men must mark the arrival of mutants in the Marvel Cinematic Universe after the events ofAvengers: Doomsday And Avengers: Secret Wars.
The release date has not yet been announced.
