The writers of two of the most engrossing TV series take on Marvel’s most famous mutants.
Director Jake Schreier, who is set to reboot the X-Men in the MCU, told Collider that he asked Beef creator Lee Sung-jin and Bear co-showrunner Joanna Caro (also part of the Beef creative team) to give their input on the latest draft of the upcoming superhero adventure. Schreier also teased what’s in store for fans of the vigilante hero.
“If you go back and read the X-Men[comics]there’s not just the ideology, but also the interpersonal drama, which is almost melodramatic,” Schreier said. “If you have a screenwriter who understands both how to advance ideology from personal interest, and you get that right, that’s going to feel the most honest to what the X-Men can be.”
The move reunites Schreier, Lee and Caro following last year’s “Thunderbolts,” which was more of a critical hit than a commercial hit, but in which the trio proved their comic talents.
Jake Schreier, Lee Sung Jin, Joanna Caro
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Several other scribes attempted to break the X-Men’s code. Previously, Michael Leslie (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t) wrote the film’s script, revising an earlier draft by Aaron Rabin (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) and Zach Dean (The Tomorrow War, Fast X).
Last month, Leslie signed a draft copy of the latest edition of Fast Forever. As a result, the long-running “Fast and Furious” series is expected to go into decline. He took over Rabin and Dean, wait.
Christina Hodson (The Flash, Bumblebee) and Oren Uziel (The Lost City, 22 Jump Street) will initially write the screenplay for Fast Forever. This just goes to show how many creators are tinkering with big studio tentpole movies behind the scenes.
Directed by Schreier, “X-Men” is an important film produced by Marvel Studios and marks the solo debut of mutants. Marvel now oversees the creative direction of the character following Disney’s acquisition of many of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets in 2019. The company had previously licensed the X-Men, and Fox had worked with them on more than a dozen films, from “Logan” to “Deadpool” and with a dash of “X-Men: Apocalypse.” The less talked about “The New Mutants,” the better.
Many characters from the early ’80s X-Men movies will appear in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, including Patrick Stewart’s Professor Xavier, Ian McKellen’s Magneto, Kelsey Grammer’s Beast, and James Marsden’s Cyclops. Following that team-up, a new (younger) group of X-Men is expected to take their place in the MCU in Schreier’s film.
