Marvel’s X-Males Film Could Be Helmed by Thunderbolts’ Jake Schreier

He turned the Thunderbolts into The New Avengers, and now director Jake Schreier might carry the X-Males into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Deadline studies that the Thunderbolts director “is in early talks” to direct Marvel’s upcoming X-Men project. Michael Lesslie, the author of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, has been hooked up as a author since final summer time, whereas growth on the movie has been happening for even longer than that. io9 reached out to Marvel for remark or clarification and can replace this publish if or once we hear again.

This transfer makes an entire lot of sense, although. Beginning with Jon Favreau and all the best way as much as the Russo brothers, Marvel Studios loves to make use of administrators with whom it has already shared success. And after the sturdy opening weekend, particularly critically, for Thunderbolts, you’ll be able to completely see how Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and the workforce would wish to put such an enormous venture in trusted arms.

And it’s a huge venture. Ever since Disney first introduced intentions to amass twentieth Century Fox in 2017, followers have been anxiously awaiting the total, correct introduction of Fox’s characters into the MCU. After years, The Unbelievable 4 are coming in just a few weeks, and X-Males characters have slowly been trickling in, headlined by final summer time’s Deadpool & Wolverine.

A full X-Males film has all the time been the north star, although, and your entire firm has been very, very cautious about it. Clearly it is aware of there have been many X-Males films earlier than, most of them are fairly good, and it’s a excessive bar with some very precious and beloved characters. It’s unclear who will likely be on this particular workforce, or the way it will incorporate characters from Deadpool & Wolverine or Avengers: Doomsday, which is bringing again extra of the Fox X-Males characters. However, you’ll be able to say with some certainty that it’ll happen after the occasions of Avengers: Secret Wars and set the tone for the way forward for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, over 10 years after the likelihood first occurred.

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