{"id":624041,"date":"2026-08-06T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/624041\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:00:20","slug":"kit-connor-in-talks-for-cyclops-in-marvels-x-men-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/624041\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit Connor in Talks for Cyclops in Marvel&#8217;s &#8216;X-Men&#8217; Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/kit-connor\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kit-connor\" data-tag=\"kit-connor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kit Connor<\/a> looks to be the next actor to join the sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe rising star, best known for the TV series \u201cHeartstopper,\u201d is being eyed to play Cyclops in Disney and Marvel\u2019s upcoming \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/x-men\/\" id=\"auto-tag_x-men\" data-tag=\"x-men\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X-Men<\/a>\u201d reboot. Cyclops, whose government name is Scott Summers, hones his powers through powerful beams of energy from his eyes. Should his deal close, Connor will appear alongside Samara Weaving, who was recently announced as the villain-turned-hero Emma Frost. Jake Schreier, who helmed last year\u2019s \u201cThunderbolts,\u201d will direct the superhero adventure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis is the first standalone \u201cX-Men\u201d movie since 21st Century Fox was acquired by Disney in 2019.\u00a0Disney, which owns Marvel Studios, has started to mine the mutant comic book characters for the big screen in 2024\u2019s billion-dollar hit \u201cDeadpool &amp; Wolverine\u201d and 2025\u2019s \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMany mutants from prior 20th Century films will appear in this December\u2019s \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d with the likes of Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Romijn and James Marsden reprising their roles as Magneto, Professor X, Mystique and Cyclops. They\u2019re teaming up with the Avengers and heroes from different universes to defeat the all-powerful Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAfter \u201cDoomsday,\u201d Marvel is expected to reboot the mutant team with a younger cast. Sadie Sink has officially joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Jean Grey, who has been brought to the screen in the past by Famke Janssen and Sophie Turner. Sink, best known for \u201cStranger Things,\u201d made her debut as the powerful telepath in this summer\u2019s blockbuster sensation \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day.\u201d Marvel has yet to share where or when Sink\u2019s character will pop up next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kit Connor looks to be the next actor to join the sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe. The rising star,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,197775,327,1894],"class_list":["post-624041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kit-connor","tag-movies","tag-x-men"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117050109160999058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}