After The Marvels and Deadpool & Wolverine laid the groundwork for more Fox X-Men to return, Avengers: Doomsday is going all in by bringing back several non-Wolverine (or Professor X) characters from the original films. Among them is James Marsden, who played Cyclops in that initial trilogy and didn’t really get to do much in them. Speaking to Vanity […]
‘Thunderbolts’ Director Teases His Take on the ‘Complex’ X-Men
While Marvel basks in the success of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, director Jake Schreier—the guiding hand behind Marvel’s earlier 2025 hit, Thunderbolts—is looking ahead to the studio’s most anticipated movie that doesn’t have the word “Avengers” in the title. Schreier is helming the movie designed to bring the X-Men fully into the Marvel Cinematic […]
Watching ‘X-Men’ 25 Years Ago Was a Game-Changing Moment
It’s hard to describe what it was like to sit down, 25 years ago today, to watch X-Men. I was born in 1980 and grew up loving and adoring superheroes. The Christopher Reeve Superman movies were everything to me. Posters and toys for Tim Burton’s Batman films were all over my room. And each week, […]
Edi Gathegi Thinks ‘Superman’ Role Saves Failed ‘X-Men’ Potential
There’s a lot of superpowered characters in Superman, and one of the most notable is Michael Holt, aka Mr. Terrific. It isn’t just that this is his first time on the big screen, it’s also the matter of who’s playing him: Edi Gathegi, who many likely remember as Darwin from X-Men: First Class, aka the mutant who […]
Tim Miller Dishes On the ‘X-Men’ Horror Movie He Almost Made
Slowly, but surely, Marvel’s making moves to bring the X-Men to the big screen again in the next few years. As everyone waits to find out what all that entails (and who it’ll involve), filmmaker Tim Miller looked back on the one he nearly did once upon a time. During a recent interview with the […]
Jonathan Hickman Wishes He Could’ve Finished His X-Men Story
The X-Men have been through plenty of shakeups, and the Krakoan Age felt like a breath of fresh air when it started in 2019. Beginning with writer Jonathan Hickman and artists Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva’s House of X and Powers of X, the mutants established their newest unified society that promised to better things for their people […]
Marvel’s X-Men Movie May Be Helmed by Thunderbolts’ Jake Schreier
The New Avengers director had a good weekend, and now may take on another Marvel team. He turned the Thunderbolts into The New Avengers, and now director Jake Schreier may bring the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Deadline reports that the Thunderbolts director “is in early talks” to direct Marvel’s upcoming X-Men project. This […]
Deadpool May Next Team With Multiple X-Men on the Big Screen
A billion dollars made it clear Deadpool would be a major part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe moving forward. But how would that work? Well, a new report claims Ryan Reynolds is working on his next story, and it once again involves the X-Men. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Reynolds is “working on various treatments […]
The X-Men’s Fabulous Hellfire Gala Is Getting a Belated Eulogy
One of the most exciting things about the X-Men’s Krakoa era was the annual Hellfire Gala. The looks, the voting for new team members, the big events! Sure, the last one ended with a lot of dead Krakoans and the island under attack, but before that, the Gala was pretty rad. Now that the mutants […]
Charles Xavier, Marvel’s Messiest Asshole, Is Going to Space
Throughout the history of the X-Men, there’s been one constant: Charles Xavier makes everyone’s lives just absolute hell. Sooner or later, everyone in his circle finds a reason to hate him, and then he goes away to ruin someone else’s life until his students and surrogate family “need” him again. After terrorizing his fellow mutants […]