{"id":85886,"date":"2025-05-08T23:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85886\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T23:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:41:04","slug":"marvels-new-x-men-movie-eyes-thunderbolts-director-jake-schreier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85886\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel’s New ‘X-Men’ Movie Eyes ‘Thunderbolts’ Director Jake Schreier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cThunderbolts*\u201d director Jake Schreier is being eyed to direct Marvel<\/a>\u2018s next \u201cX-Men\u201d adventure.<\/p>\n

\n\tSources stress the deal is in early talks and hasn\u2019t been finalized, but Schrier catapulted to the top of Disney and Marvel\u2019s wishlist after \u201cThunderbolts*\u201d became one of the MCU\u2019s best reviewed movie in years. Though \u201cThunderbolts*\u201d started slower at the box office<\/a> (with $76 million domestically) compared to most Marvel installments, the studio is hoping that support from critics and audience will help the film endure on the big screen. <\/p>\n

\n\tScreenwriter Michael Lesslie, who recent credits include \u201cThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,\u201d penned the screenplay with Kevin Feige on board to produce the newest \u201cX-Men\u201d entry. No other details about the film, including the cast, plot description or release timeline, have been revealed.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrior to Marvel, Schreier has directed 2012\u2019s sci-fi drama \u201cRobot & Frank,\u201d 2015\u2019s romantic comedy \u201cPaper Towns\u201d and episodes of Netflix\u2019s \u201cBeef\u201d and \u201cStar Wars: Skeleton Crew.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney has started to mine the mutant comic book characters with 2024\u2019s billion-dollar tentpole \u201cDeadpool & Wolverine\u201d and the upcoming \u201cFantastic Four: The First Steps,\u201d but this untitled feature is the first standalone \u201cX-Men\u201d movie since 21st Century Fox was acquired by Disney in 2019. On the small screen, Marvel Studios produced the well-reviewed Disney+ animated series \u201cX-Men \u201997,\u201d a spinoff of the 1990s-era show.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney\u2019s CEO Bob Iger praised \u201cThunderbolts*\u201d earlier this week, saying the offbeat adventure represented a step in the right direction for the MCU after a series of creative and commercial misfires. The once-untouchable film franchise has fielded undeniable post-COVID blockbusters, like \u201cDeadpool & Wolverine,\u201d \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home\u201d and \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.\u201d But the superhero empire has also shown some concerning signs of wear-and-tear with misfires such as \u201cAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,\u201d \u201cThe Marvels\u201d and \u201cCaptain America: Brave New World.\u201d Iger admitted the film studio struggled by focusing too much on quantity and not enough on quality.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve learned over over time that quantity does not necessarily beget quality. And frankly, we\u2019ve all admitted to ourselves that we lost a little focus by making too much,\u201d Iger said on Wednesday during an investor call<\/a>. \u201cBy consolidating a bit and having Marvel focus much more on their films, we believe that will result in better quality. I think\u00a0the first and best example is\u00a0\u2018Thunderbolts*.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThunderbolts*\u201d director Jake Schreier is being eyed to direct Marvel\u2018s next \u201cX-Men\u201d adventure. Sources stress the deal is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3985,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-85886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-marvel","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}