The new MCU take on the X-Men is as inevitable as Thanos’s liking for bling gloves. Now, according to various reports, it can be confirmed that Marvel Studios is currently planning for a May 5th 2028 release.
The Hot Mic’s Jeff Sneider reported the news and highlighted that it will then be the 20th anniversary of the MCU, with Iron Man having opened in May 2008. 20 years? Where the f*ck did all that time go? The MCU is a new “thing”! Christ… I am so old…
X-Men will be the first MCU entry post Avengers: Secret Wars, which opens in December 2027. The Multiverse Saga will be closed by that entry, and then The Mutant Saga will begin. Mutants have already started to be drip-fed into the MCU, and that will accelerate as the new saga gets ready to roll.
Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier directs the film. The script is being written by Michael Lesslie (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes).
Production will start in 2026, and Marvel is said to be searching for a young cast that can stay for a long time.
That might be bad news for Laurence Fishburne, who was on stage at a reunion for The Matrix at New York Comic Con and said:
“I know that they’re talking about the X-Men now. So, at this point, I want one of two things. The first thing would be: what do you think about Laurence Fishburne as Professor X?”.
The crowd cheered loudly, seemingly forgetting thast Fishburne has already appeared in the MCU as as Bill Foster in Ant-Man and the Wasp.
