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In an interview with Empire, Schreier shared that he has “started work on X-Men,” which he finds “very, very exciting.” He spoke about how his experience on Thunderbolts* will inform his next MCU adventure. “There are so many things that I didn’t know about before I started [Thunderbolts*],” he said. “The biggest learning curve for me was the proportion of the action to the more emotional, character-driven scenes, and how, even though it’s more shooting days than I’ve ever had, they get eaten up quite quickly by the action stuff. By the time we got to the end of it, it felt like, ‘Oh, now I feel like we get how to do this a little bit better.’”
Marvel Studios Has Big Plans for the X-Men in the MCU
Before Schreier’s film is ready to go, fans will be reacquainted with some of the veteran X-Men cast members from the Fox years, as a handful of those actors are returning for Avengers: Doomsday. After that, there’s a good chance Schreier’s X-Men become the main driving force for the MCU. Reports indicate that Kevin Feige has a 10-year plan in mind for the characters, leading some to believe the franchise’s next overarching storyline will be called the Mutant Saga.
Placing the X-Men front and center at the start of the MCU’s next era would make a lot of sense. Feige has described Secret Wars as a “reset” for the franchise, and given the popularity of the X-Men, it’d be logical to build a film saga around them. Marvel movies are no longer the box office draws they once were; several Multiverse Saga projects, including a couple released this year, underperformed commercially. In the aftermath, reports have suggested Marvel could change how it conducts business, perhaps only giving films to premier characters that are reliable draws (Spider-Man, the Avengers). Fox’s X-Men films varied in quality, but with a few exceptions, the series performed well at the box office.
