If a new report is to be believed, Marvel Studios' highly-anticipated reboot of the X-Men film franchise has entered development.
According to The Illuminerdi, sources say that Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige is producing a new feature film tentatively titled The Mutants, which will serve as an X-Men reboot, introducing the Mutant superhero team to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That being said, very little else is known about the alleged project.
Marvel Studios effectively gained the film rights to the X-Men following The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019. Fox itself acquired the X-Men rights from Marvel Comics in the early-to-mid 1990s, and began its own franchise of Mutant-centric Marvel films in 2000.
Feige has been teasing the X-Men's MCU debut for a while, namedropping the Mutants and the Fantastic Four (the films rights to whom were also previously owned by Fox) during the Marvel Studios panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego in 2019. Notably, the Fantastic Four are already confirmed to be joining the MCU, with Spider-Man director Jon Watts having been tapped to direct a new film starring Marvel's First Family.
If reports of The Mutants' development are legitimate, however, it will actually be the second major Marvel Studios project hailing from the X-Men mythos. Feige recently confirmed that Disney and Marvel Studios were working on Deadpool 3, an R-rated continuation of Fox's popular X-Men spinoff duology starring Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson. Other members of Fox's X-Men franchise have been involved in the MCU, namely actor Evan Peters, who "reprised" his X-Men movie role as Quicksilver for Marvel Studios' debut Disney+ series WandaVision.
Source: The Illuminerdi