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The Multiverse Saga is coming to an end, and attention is turning to the MCU’s Mutant Saga and its X-Men relaunch. Marvel regained the rights to mutants back in 2019, when Disney completed its Fox acquisition, and the studio has been slowly building up their role in the main MCU timeline ever seen. Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars are expected to serve as a Last Hurrah for the Fox movies, ahead of a thrilling relaunch.
Speaking to Deadline, writer Lee Sung Jin stresses Marvel is taking a very different approach to the X-Men this time. “I grew up with X-Men and I think there’s no better set of characters that kind of exemplify feeling othered, feeling different from the world,” Lee said. “We want to continue mining from that theme and it couldn’t be more relevant today in 2026.” According to the Emmy-nominated writer, “They want to go back to character first, which is the type of writing that me and Joanna [Calo] do best.”
“We’re thinking about these characters and what makes them tick. What parts of them feel universally relatable, and leading with that first before we start thinking about plots and world stakes and all that,” he continues. “I think audiences are always hungry for character first. That’s the thing that makes storytelling resonate, that you’re able to see and identify parts of yourself in these people on the big screen.”
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