Kevin Feige has lastly shared main updates on Marvel Studios’ X-Males film and whether or not or not the Marvel Cinematic Universe might be rebooted after Avengers: Secret Wars. Section 6 of the MCU timeline is about to start with The Implausible 4: First Steps, however Marvel Studios is already engaged on the ending of The Multiverse Saga.
With Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars ending Section 6, the MCU can also be on the point of carry the X-Males into the franchise on a full-time foundation. Whereas an X-Males film continues to be in growth, Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier is formally set to direct it, however casting hasn’t began but.
Selection not too long ago did a roundtable interview with Feige, together with a number of different shops. The Marvel Studios president addressed how Avengers: Secret Wars will function a brand new starting for the MCU as a complete. Whereas Avengers: Endgame was the tip of an period, Avengers: Secret Wars would be the reverse:
Kevin Feige: We’re using that [story] not simply to spherical out the tales we’ve been telling post-Endgame, simply as importantly — and you may take a look at the Secret Wars comics for the place that takes you — it very, very a lot units us up for the long run. Endgame, actually, was about endings. Secret Wars is about is about beginnings.
Nevertheless, as there have been rumblings concerning the MCU present process a type of reboot, Feige additionally opened up on how he’s post-Section 6 as extra of a “reset.” That can also be the place Feige confirmed that the X-Males will certainly be recast, as he shared the next concerning the mutants’ upcoming movie:
Kevin Feige: Reboot is a scary phrase. Reboot can imply a number of issues to lots of people. Reset, singular timeline — we’re considering alongside these strains.
X-Males is the place that may occur subsequent. They’ve been a spot to inform tales about younger individuals who really feel completely different and who really feel Different and who really feel like they don’t belong. That’s the common story of mutants, and that’s the place we’re going.
Whereas it’s comprehensible why it was anticipated that the MCU was going to do a tender reboot via the Avengers: Secret Wars story, Feige’s feedback about it being extra of a reset make extra sense. Despite the fact that the MCU might retool the continuity to some extent of what the franchise appears to be like like after Avengers: Secret Wars, it could be extra associated to how they’re approaching the X-Males.
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The concept that the X-Males film will observe younger variations of a number of the key mutants can also be completely comprehensible, as Marvel Studios needs the viewers to expertise these characters from the start. If the X-Males are going to be essential gamers within the MCU going ahead, the followers ought to get to observe their journeys, slightly than beginning out with them in the course of their arcs.
Whereas Feige is unquestionably having to withhold a number of X-Males and Avengers: Secret Wars film particulars, these newest feedback are positively thrilling for the respective initiatives. Proper now, the main target is on ending The Multiverse Saga with the remaining Section 6 initiatives, which suggests it’s positively too early to speak about Avengers: Secret Wars, and particularly the X-Males movie.
With X-Males bringing a brand new period to the MCU in Section 7, it is going to be fascinating to see how Marvel Studios will deal with the mutants in comparison with the Fox-Marvel period. Hopefully, there might be just a few extra clues shared for X-Males and Avengers: Secret Wars as soon as Marvel Studios will get additional into Section 6.
Supply: Selection