Halle, Hugh, Robert — it's been a honor, however all good issues should come to an finish.

Following 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars, a number of key characters within the MCU might be recast, together with Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and the total crew of X-Males, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige introduced throughout a Friday press occasion, Variety reported.

Feige stated the corporate is "using" Secret Wars "not simply to spherical out the tales we've been telling post-Endgame, simply as importantly — and you’ll have a look at the on the Secret Wars comics for the place that takes you — it very, very a lot units us up for the long run… Endgame, actually, was about endings. Secret Wars is about is about beginnings."

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Marvel has slowed the tempo of MCU releases from the franchise's level of biggest saturation, the mid-to-late 2010s, during which three, even 4 movies had been launched per 12 months.

The corporate launched just one movie in 2024, Deadpool & Wolverine, and although three are slated for this 12 months — Captain America: Courageous New World and Thunderbolts*, each beforehand launched, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, coming subsequent weekend — there's only one movie apiece pegged to 2026 and 2027: Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.

Secret Wars represents a crucial reorienting juncture for the franchise, Feige indicated, however hesitated to name it a reboot.

"'Reboot' is a scary phrase… Reboot can imply quite a lot of issues to lots of people," he defined, describing the movie as a substitute as a "reset" for the MCU. "Reset, singular timeline — we're considering alongside these traces."

"X-Males is the place that can occur subsequent," he added.

It's no shock that Feige is is pegging a "reset" to the X-Males, given the corporate's years-long effort to purchase the characters again from twenty first Century Fox, which lastly got here to fruition in 2019 when Disney, Marvel's dad or mum firm, acquired Fox.

In 2024, Feige teased "a brand new age of mutants and of the X-Males," and this previous March, Marvel lastly introduced that after a smattering of X-Males teases in MCU movies — the unique movies' star Kelsey Grammer appeared as Beast in The Marvels, whereas Patrick Stewart's Professor X confirmed up in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — Avengers: Doomsday will formally mark the MCU's first full displaying of X-Males characters.

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Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden have all been confirmed to reprise their roles within the MCU. Channing Tatum, who lastly introduced X-Males fan-favorite character Gambit to the large display screen in Deadpool & Wolverine, will even be a part of them.

"There've been extra X-Males motion pictures than there have been Spidey motion pictures or Implausible 4 motion pictures, so lots has been achieved," Feige famous, whereas talking at a current Implausible 4 roundtable, ScreenRant reported. "However once more, as a result of it's virtually a comic book legacy unto itself, there's a lot extra to faucet into it and there's so many sagas inside sagas for X-Males."

The final time the X-Males franchise noticed a significant solid overhaul was for 2011 prequel movie X-Males First Class. The brand new solid included James McAvoy as Professor X, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, and Nicholas Hoult as Beast. Outdated then met new in 2014's X-Males: Days of Future Previous, during which Hugh Jackman's Wolverine from the unique movies goes again in time to collaborate with the prequel movies' stars, whereas the movie cuts between the 2 timelines and their totally different casts, together with Halle Berry as Storm, Anna Paquin as Rogue, Famke Janssen as Jean Gray, amongst different stars of the unique movies.

X-Males: Apocalypse in 2016 and Darkish Phoenix in 2019 additionally starred the McAvoy- and Fassbender-led prequels solid, although the later movies didn’t get pleasure from the identical enthusiastic crucial reception the primary two movies that includes the prequel solid did.

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