Kevin Feige Teases the X-Men MCU Team and Spider-Man 4 Update

Using characters from the X-Men for a multiverse-traversing story, Deadpool & Wolverine is benignant of similar Spider-Man: No Way Home with immoderate mutants sprinkled connected top. It’s going to person a immense interaction connected the aboriginal of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, specifically with those mutants, truthful io9 asked Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige what’s up with the X-Men arsenic good arsenic the next Tom Holland Spider-Man movie.

“Amy [Pascal] and I are moving connected it,” Feige said astir the adjacent Spider-Man film. “We person writers who are going to beryllium delivering america a draught comparatively soon.”

As for the X-Men, we didn’t inquire for an update specifically; we wanted to cognize much astir the code and content. Since the X-Men person had truthful galore antithetic members and teams passim its agelong history, we asked Feige: however Marvel is deciding which mutants volition marque up the squad erstwhile they marque their inevitable debut successful the MCU?

“Well, it’s that operation we usage often astatine Marvel, which is ‘It’s an embarrassment of riches,'” Feige said. “And determination are a batch of large X-Men characters successful the Deadpool & Wolverine film. There are a batch of large X-Men characters successful each of the Fox versions of the X-Men films. And determination are a batch of large X-Men characters that person ne'er gone connected the large screen. So I deliberation arsenic we ever effort to do, arsenic we did erstwhile we made the statement with Sony for Spider-Man, you’ll astir apt spot a premix of characters you’ve seen earlier and characters you’ve ne'er seen before.”

“I deliberation the occurrence of X-Men ’97 was truly breathtaking for america to spot radical revisit and reconnect with that world,” helium continued. “And situation I say, the soap opera elements of that world, which is 1 of the things that’s truthful breathtaking to america astir jumping into it yet successful the MCU.”

As Deadpool and Wolverine say, “Let’s fucking go!” Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters July 26.

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