Marvel Studios has now officially summoned its newest generation of mutants. The cast of Jake Schreier’s upcoming X-Men movie was finally revealed at Disney’s D23 event: The previously revealed Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, and Kit Connor as Cyclops were joined by Obsession star Inde Navarette, confirmed as Rogue, and Christopher Abbott, our new Professor X. Additionally, we’ve got a Girls reunion, as Adam Driver as been cast as the villainous Mr. Sinister, and Maya Boyd is the new Storm.
The X-Men movies — one of the first major superhero movie franchises — began with the 2000 film starring Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman, followed by 2002’s acclaimed X2 and much-less-acclaimed X-Men: The Last Stand.
That trilogy was followed by the Jackman-starring X-Men: Origins — Wolverine in 2009. Then a new, younger cast was brought in for the Matthew Vaughn-directed X-Men: First Class, which led subsequently to the films Days of Future Past, Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix. Jackman’s Wolverine was given a swan song with 2017’s Logan, but then literally resurrected in the third of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool movies.
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All of those movies (oh and The New Mutants, can’t forget about that one) were made by 20th Century Fox, meaning that the mutants couldn’t be integrated with the rest of the MCU for rights reasons. Disney’s acquisition of Fox changed all that, of course.
The new X-Men will be in theaters on May 5th, 2028. For more, revisit our ranked list of all the X-Men movies, which we’ll have to update then.