Marvel Studios plans to listen to writers’ pitches for its X-Males film within the fall following the tip of the WGA strike.
With the WGA strike settled, Marvel Studios is itching to get the ball rolling on a number of tasks, together with the studio’s long-gestating plans for the rebooted X-Males Universe. Based on Deadline, Marvel Studios hopes to schedule writers’ conferences in Autumn for pitches regarding an X-Males film. Whereas there’s no rush to place the X-project into manufacturing because the studio has not specified a date, extra writers could have a shot at promoting the studio on their concept.
Whatever the writers’ schedules, in the present day’s information means Marvel is formally beginning its growth for the following period of X-Males movies. Followers have been popping their claws for the X-Males to affix the MCU since Disney’s acquisition of twentieth Century Fox in 2019. Tasks instantly heading our manner are X-Males ’97 and Deadpool 3. X-Males ’97 is a follow-up to the beloved after-school-hours animated collection—the brand new present debuts on Disney+ in early 2024.
Marvel is in an thrilling place with the X-Males. The studio may take an old-school method to the group by presenting a basic roster of characters squaring off in opposition to an enormous unhealthy, or they may embrace the most recent period of X-Males, which finds the mutant inhabitants occupying the dwelling island of Krakoa. The Krakoan period of X-Males might be too formidable to start out, but when Marvel needs to separate itself from Fox’s earlier efforts with the X-Males model, it’d be a superb technique to go.
Whereas the tip of the WGA strike is a step in a constructive course, SAG-AFTRA must settle its variations with the leisure trade, too. You possibly can write as many improbable scripts as you want, but when there’s nobody round to behave them out, that’s the tip of an in any other case thrilling endeavor.
What ought to Marvel’s method to the X-Males be? Would you like a retread of the twentieth Century Fox movies or one thing totally new? Will the MCU reintroduce Wolverine instantly, or will the studio introduce untapped mutants like Iceman, Glob Herman, Hazmat, Dazzler, and the 5-in-One? I’d like to see them attempt one thing new, because the X-Males Universe is huge and stuffed with potential. It might be a disgrace if the previous repeated itself an excessive amount of. Tell us what you suppose within the feedback beneath.