According to a new rumor, Marvel Studios has brought on a longtime MCU producer to work alongside Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier on the long-awaited X-Men reboot.
Scooper Daniel Richtman is reporting that Stephen Broussard, who has previously worked on multiple Marvel projects including The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man 3, Doctor Strange, all three Ant-Man movies, Loki, and Echo, has been hired as a producer on X-Men.
Broussard has produced a wide variety of Marvel Studios projects, with tones ranging from relatively grounded, to more light-hearted/humorous, to darker/supernatural. Though not all of the movies and shows he's been involved with could be described as fan-favorites, the studio clearly wants someone with a wealth of experience on this reboot.
Casting is said to be underway, though we haven't heard anything aside from rumors (and there have been a lot of 'em) up to this point. Michael Lesslie is working on the script (we expect another writer to join him at some point), and Schreier recently confirmed that he will helm the project after the trades reported that he was circling the gig.
"I can’t say anything about it, but we’ve started work on X-Men, and that’s obviously very, very exciting," Schreier revealed during a recent interview with Empire. "There are so many things that I didn’t know about before I started [Thunderbolts*]. The biggest learning curve for me was the proportion of the action to the more emotional, character-driven scenes, and how, even though it’s more shooting days than I’ve ever had, they get eaten up quite quickly by the action stuff. By the time we got to the end of it, it felt like, 'Oh, now I feel like we get how to do this a little bit better.'"
We know that quite a few actors from 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise will reprise their roles for Avengers: Doomsday, but there is a chance that these next Avengers movies will also introduce at least a couple of new mutant characters that will factor into the reboot.
Whether these particular villains will appear in the first X-Men movie remains to be seen, but a recent rumor from Daniel Richtman claimed that Marvel has big plans for both Mr. Sinister and Apocalypse in the next MCU saga. The scooper also believes that the studio "has some names in mind," but the roles have not been cast yet.
Though nothing has been officially announced, the belief is that X-Men is scheduled to hit theaters on May 5, 2028.