The ‘X-Men’ reboot is still moving, slowly but surely
Jake Schreier has confirmed that Marvel’s X-Men reboot is in the works, and he is once again teaming up with two writers he knows well. The Thunderbolts director said that Beef creator Lee Sung Jin and The Bear showrunner Joanna Calo are writing the script for the film.
In a new interview with Collider, Schreier said the project is still in the “developing” stage. He added that Lee Sung Jin and Calo “have come in and are working on a draft right now, which is really exciting to be able to put that group of people together again.”
That group is not exactly new territory. Schreier has already worked with both writers on Beef, and the two also contributed to Thunderbolts. So yes, Marvel is leaning into the old “if it worked once, maybe do it again” strategy, which is usually how large franchises stay upright.
Why Schreier thinks they fit X-Men
Schreier described Lee Sung Jin and Calo as “two of the most interesting shows on television right now,” and said their strengths line up neatly with what makes X-Men work on the page.
“When you go back and read X-Men [comics], there’s ideology but also interpersonal drama, almost of a soap opera quality,” he said. “Having writers who understand both how to drive ideology from personal stakes, if we get that right, that’s what will feel most honest to what X-Men can be.”
That mix of big ideas and messy relationships has always been part of the franchise’s appeal, so the pitch here is clear enough: not just capes, but conflict with a point of view.
Where the MCU’s mutants stand now
The X-Men reboot is expected to arrive sometime after Avengers: Secret Wars. Before that, the mutants are set to reappear in Avengers: Doomsday, which will bring back X-Men characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time.
The characters are now under the Disney umbrella after Disney’s 2019 acquisition of 21st Century Fox, which is what made this whole reunion possible in the first place.
Among the returning names are Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, and James Marsden as Cyclops.
Schreier also spoke in a separate 2025 interview about what he learned on Thunderbolts that he plans to bring to the X-Men film. He told Empire that the biggest lesson was how to balance action-heavy scenes with more emotional, character-driven material.
“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,” he said. “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.’”
