Marvel’s X-Men Movie May Be Helmed by Thunderbolts‘ Jake Schreier

He turned the Thunderbolts into The New Avengers, and present manager Jake Schreier whitethorn bring the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Deadline reports that the Thunderbolts manager “is successful aboriginal talks” to nonstop Marvel’s upcoming X-Men project. Michael Lesslie, the writer of The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes, has been attached arsenic a writer since past summer. io9 reached retired to Marvel for remark oregon clarification and volition update this station if oregon erstwhile we perceive back.

This determination makes a full batch of sense, though. Starting with Jon Favreau and each the mode up to the Russo brothers, Marvel Studios loves to usage directors who they’ve already shared occurrence with. And aft the beardown opening weekend, particularly critically, for Thunderbolts, you tin wholly spot however Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and the squad would privation to enactment specified a monolithic task successful trusted hands.

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