New X-Men Movie at Marvel Studios Enters Early Development

The mutants are coming! The mutants are coming! A model new report implies that now, with the writers’ strike over, Marvel Studios has put the wheels in motion to start taking conferences about an upcoming X-Men movie. That’s the absolute earliest stage of the strategy—nevertheless it is the start of the strategy, and that’s saying one factor.

In accordance with Deadline, later this fall Marvel Studios will start taking pitch conferences with writers who’re interested in scripting the film, irrespective of it ends up being. There’s no deliberate launch date so if Marvel doesn’t hear a pitch it likes, it’s not the tip of the world, nevertheless it would decelerate enchancment on a extraordinarily anticipated enterprise followers have been prepared for since Disney launched it was shopping for Fox way back in 2017. The thought, however, is {{that a}} writer shall be employed sometime early subsequent 12 months, and points will switch on from there.

The idea of mutants has already begun to be seeded throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe and, with next year’s hypothetical release of Deadpool 3 (the actors’ strike might delay that), Fox’s Marvel properties have already begun to invade the MCU. Unbelievable 4 may be shifting alongside, with a tentative May 2, 2025 launch date, a 12 months after Deadpool. These two are then, as soon as extra tentatively, going to be adopted by Avengers: The Kang Dynasty in May 2026 and Avengers: Secret Wars in May 2027. So, realistically, it’s in all probability not until 2028 that this X-Males movie, pitched in 2023, would see the sunshine of day.

However it’s going down. It’s coming. And X-Males followers can begin to get excited. Plus, within the occasion you’re educated writer you’ll be able to start occupied together with your dream X-Males enterprise. And identify your agent about it. Now’s the time.

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