Marvel
Following up on the heels of Disney addressing the future of their new Marvel properties Deadpool, X-Men, Fasntastic Four, and The New Mutants, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige discussed how and when the X-Men will be slotted into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as part of their five-year plan for Phase 4.
First of all, until Avengers: Endgame has made its way to theaters, Feige says we shouldn’t expect any announcements whatsoever about Phase 4 of the MCU.
“I don’t wanna be annoying, but I think it … In a certain way, that is also sort of a post-Endgame spoiler,” Feige told IGN Sunday at the Avengers: Endgame press junket.
“I will say all of the post Comic-Con, post Spider-Man: Far From Home stuff, we … Here’s an exclusive. We’re gonna keep making movies. We’re gonna still keep making movies after these two. And we will talk about them soon after Spider-Man: Far From Home comes out.”
Feige did say that once the next two Marvel movies are released Marvel will reveal their intentions for the first few years of the studio’s five-year plan.
Just don’t count too heavily on the X-Men being a part of that inital plan.
“It’ll be a while,” Feige told io9 when asked about the future of the X-Men in the MCU. “It’s all just beginning and the five-year plan that we’ve been working on, we were working on before any of that was set. So really it’s much more, for us, less about specifics of when and where [the X-Men will appear] right now and more just the comfort factor and how nice it is that they’re home. That they’re all back. But it will be a very long time.”
“The slate that we’re building over the next five years [is] not apples to apples,” he said when asked to compare the past and the future. “It is two very distinct things and I hope they’ll feel very distinct. But there is a similar mentality going into it, which is ‘How can we continue to tell stories with some of the characters that audiences already know and love in a unique way, in a different way, in surprising way, of which we have a lot of plans and ideas and work already going into it?’ [Then] ‘How can we introduce new characters that even hardcore fans, comic fans, have barely known or barely heard of.’ That’s really exciting too.”
Rumored to be among those new characters are The Eternals and Shang-Chi, but even they may have to wait for other Marvel films like Black Widow, Black Panther 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Doctor Strange 2, and one would assume, a second Captain Marvel movie, to be released.
So as it stands, it sounds like we will have to wait until Spider-Man: Far From Home hits theaters on July 5th, and probably even longer before we get any real news about the future of the X-Men.