{"id":44882,"date":"2025-05-09T07:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=44882"},"modified":"2025-05-09T07:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:05:26","slug":"thunderbolts-director-is-being-courted-by-marvel-studios-for-the-mcu-x-men-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=44882","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolts* Director is being courted by Marvel Studios for the MCU X-Men film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"730\" src=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/schreier.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44886\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/x-men-movie-director-jake-schreier-thunderbolts-1236390176\/\">Deadline <\/a>is reporting that <strong>Marvel Studios<\/strong> has initiated preliminary discussions with director <strong>Jake Schreier<\/strong> to direct the upcoming <strong>X-Men<\/strong> reboot\u00a0which will be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Schreier gained recognition for\u00a0 his work on <strong>Thunderbolts*<\/strong> (now revealed to be <strong>The New Avengers<\/strong>) because he successfully managed ensemble casts\u00a0 and intricate character relationships.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thunderbolts made its theatrical debut on May&nbsp; 2, 2025 by introducing Yelena Belova and Bucky Barnes and U.S.&nbsp; Agent as part of its antihero team. The movie revealed the team&#8217;s transformation into the \u201cNew&nbsp; Avengers\u201d through the asterisk symbol in its title.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0 X-Men project will be written by screenwriter Michael Lesslie who has previously worked on <strong><em>The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em><\/strong>. The production of the film\u00a0 is expected to be handled by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The upcoming&nbsp; film will bring new mutants into the story while incorporating them into the larger MCU universe. The introduction of&nbsp; mutants through Marvel Studios follows their current approach of presenting mutants through small hints and brief appearances in different&nbsp; projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The X-Men reboot&#8217;s potential direction by Schreier demonstrates Marvel\u00a0Studios&#8217; trust in his storytelling approach after <strong>Thunderbolts*<\/strong> received positive reception. The X-Men universe remains a\u00a0 topic of interest for MCU fans who wait for official updates about its future integration into the franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline is reporting that Marvel Studios has initiated preliminary discussions with director Jake Schreier to direct the upcoming X-Men reboot\u00a0which will be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Schreier gained recognition for\u00a0 his work on Thunderbolts* (now revealed to be The New Avengers) because he successfully managed ensemble casts\u00a0 and intricate character relationships.\u00a0 Thunderbolts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":44886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[86,450,460,6193,6194,6192,782],"class_list":["post-44882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-avengers","tag-marvel","tag-mcu","tag-new-avengers","tag-the-new-avengers","tag-thunderbolts-2","tag-x-men"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thunderbolts* Director is being courted by Marvel Studios for the MCU X-Men film - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=44882\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thunderbolts* Director is being courted by Marvel Studios for the MCU X-Men film - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Deadline is reporting that Marvel Studios has initiated preliminary discussions with director Jake Schreier to direct the upcoming X-Men reboot\u00a0which will be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). 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