Marvel Studios is rumored to be looking for actors in their early to mid-20s to portray the team of mutant heroes set to be introduced in the ‘X-Men’ remake.
Scooper Daniel Richtman reports that a director is currently being sought and that the movie will be set after the events of ‘Avengers: Secret Wars.’ He also reiterates that the plan is for ‘Deadpool’ and ‘Wolverine’ star Hugh Jackman to“stick around after ‘Secret Wars’ and do more stuff with ‘Deadpool.'”
It is assumed that this means Jackman will reunite with Ryan Reynolds for the fourth ‘Deadpool’ movie. Rumors suggest that no other actor will be cast for the new version of ‘Wolverine,’ and the character will not be part of the team.
In a recent interview with Discussing Film magazine, Kevin Feige was asked how it feels to know that “we’re closer to seeing the ‘X-Men’ and ‘Avengers’ together on the big screen.”
“It is extremely emotional, on a personal level, to have done a movie with Hugh after 25 years and me being a small part of that first ‘X-Men’ movie. And knowing that, thanks to various corporate studio entity deals, we now have 1000s of characters back — characters I hadn’t frankly thought about in many years because we didn’t have the rights to them. Now that we do, it is great fun thinking [about who we can finally]. Our animated series ‘X-Men’ ’97 was sort of the first taste of people reuniting with the ‘X-Men’ mythology and that storyline. The response to that series just further excited us about how to bring the soap opera and the saga of the mutants to the MCU.”
Michael Lesslie has been enlisted to pen the script.
