'X-Men' Reboot Director Hires 'Beef' Creator, 'The Bear' Writer
Variety • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Jake Schreier, set to reboot the X-Men for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), has brought on "Beef" creator Lee Sung Jin and "The Bear" co-showrunner Joanna Calo to revise the latest draft of the upcoming X-Men film.
- Schreier emphasized the importance of balancing ideology with interpersonal drama, aiming to capture the soap opera-like quality of the X-Men comics through writers skilled at blending personal stakes with larger themes.
- The creative team previously collaborated on "Thunderbolts," a critically praised comic book film, highlighting their experience in the superhero genre despite its modest commercial success.
- This new X-Men project marks the mutants' first solo film under Marvel Studios following Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets, which previously produced over a dozen X-Men films independently.
- Classic X-Men characters from earlier Fox movies will appear in the upcoming "Avengers: Doomsday," after which Schreier’s film is expected to introduce a younger generation of mutants into the MCU.
