After teasing an introduction of the X-Men with an elaborate WandaVision bait-and-switch, could Marvel Studios actually have a movie in the works? Take this with a grain of salt, but The Illuminerdi say Kevin Feige is developing an X-Men franchise reboot titled simply The Mutants.
That’s pretty much all of the information they have, so it could be one of those stories sites come up with just so they can say “we told you so!” when the real story finally breaks. But then again, The Illuminerdi has gotten a few things right recently, so who knows?
Feige hasn’t said much about the X-Men since the characters’ rights were reacquired when Disney acquired Fox. The previous franchise began in 2000 with X-Men and continued through 13 films, concluding with last year’s The New Mutants. Overall, the films made over $6 billion worldwide but suffered creatively and financially in the final stretch. I would say a lot of that could be attributed at the time to uncertainty by the impending Disney deal.
The only Fox X-Men movie we know to be carried over to the MCU is Deadpool 3 with star Ryan Reynolds. We still don’t know how Marvel plans to integrate him, though. Will the merc be interacting with the Avengers and other characters we’ve already been introduced to? Or keep his distance while cracking jokes at their expense? What fun is a Deadpool movie if he doesn’t make fun of the universe he’s in?
So what do you think of The Mutants? Personally, I’m skeptical that Marvel would bring in the X-Men and not use that as a title. It would be a ridiculous misuse of arguably the most popular line of characters Marvel has, but we shall see.
