Marvel Studios’ upcoming film “Deadpool & Wolverine” will be a hodgepodge of different X-Men from the comic and cinematic universes. While the MCU loves mixing and matching legendary characters, this particular film will have a major impact on the future of the franchise(s).
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has teased which X-Men will be involved, and gave an update on “Spider-Man 4” starring Tom Holland.
“Amy [Pascal] and I are working on it,” Feige told Gizmodo about Spider-Man. “We have writers who are going to be delivering us a draft relatively soon.”
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“Well, it’s that phrase we use often at Marvel, which is ‘It’s an embarrassment of riches,’” Feige said when asked how they decide which mutants will make up the team. “And there are a lot of great X-Men characters in the Deadpool & Wolverine film. There are a lot of great X-Men characters in all of the Fox versions of the X-Men films. And there are a lot of great X-Men characters that have never gone on the big screen. So I think as we always try to do, as we did when we made the arrangement with Sony for Spider-Man, you’ll probably see a mix of characters you’ve seen before and characters you’ve never seen before.”
The different eras under different owners have certainly muddied the waters but it sounds like the company is leaning into it. And there is no better place to try something experimental and meta than a movie led by everyone’s favorite Merc With a Mouth.
“I think the success of X-Men ’97 was really exciting for us to see people revisit and reconnect with that world,” he adds. “And dare I say, the soap opera elements of that world, which is one of the things that’s so exciting to us about jumping into it finally in the MCU.”
We expect to hear a lot more about the future of the MCU this Saturday at 6pm when Marvel Studios hosts a panel at SDCC in Hall H. We’ll have that news for you as it hits.
“Deadpool and Wolverine” hits theaters on July 26. You can check out the final trailer below:
