{"id":741880,"date":"2026-06-17T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741880\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:32:11","slug":"lee-sung-jin-promises-a-really-exciting-new-take-on-the-x-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741880\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Sung Jin Promises a ‘Really Exciting New Take’ on the X-Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-Men fans are guaranteed a glimpse at the characters in December, when\u2014according to their very own Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> teaser\u2014Patrick Stewart\u2019s Charles Xavier, Ian McKellan\u2019s Magneto, and James Marsden\u2019s Cyclops will return. It marks the first full-scale entry of the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a> after Deadpool cracked open the door<\/a>. After that, the X-Men will get their own reboot film, which is currently in the works.<\/p>\n

Jake Schreier, who made last year\u2019s Marvel misfits team-up Thunderbolts<\/a>, is directing<\/a> the X-Men movie, and he\u2019s tapped in a pair of Thunderbolts script collaborators<\/a> to help him write it: Lee Sung Jin, creator of Netflix\u2019s Beef, and The Bear co-showrunner Joanna Calo.<\/p>\n

So far not much is known about the story. But Lee did offer a tease in a new Deadline<\/a> interview. Asked what it\u2019s like returning to the MCU for the X-Men movie, after having such creative freedom on Beef, he said he actually felt more limited while working on Thunderbolts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say there were actually more parameters on Thunderbolts because it was plugging into an existing arc and existing characters, whereas with X-Men, Kevin [Feige] just wants to take a big swing and start anew, not be beholden to any of the movies that have come before,\u201d Lee said. \u201cAnd Jake Schreier has such a clear vision in terms of wanting to get back to character first and to what is exciting about those early [Chris] Claremont-run comics, which was all about team dynamics. There were a lot of soapy elements to those comics. We\u2019ve been in the room every day together. Kevin and Louis [D\u2019Esposito] are so dialed in, and they have such incredible instincts that it\u2019s been fun to just blue-sky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee made it clear he is an X-Men fan from way back. He loves the comics, and he used to watch the TV show on Saturday mornings with his father. \u201cSo to be able to look around this Marvel conference room and have every X-Men character on the board and be able to spitball and freestyle on \u2018What about this person?\u2019 [is] so emboldening, because you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, wow, this isn\u2019t going to be a safe movie. This is actually going to be a really exciting new take.’\u201d<\/p>\n

His target audience is, well, himself. \u201cIt\u2019s, \u2018Would younger me want to run to the movie theater to watch this? Are we honoring all the amazing work that the comics set up? Are we playing it safe? Are we pushing things?\u2019 It\u2019s just trying to look at my childhood self, who loved these characters so much, and making sure we\u2019re doing right by him and all the other fans that love X-Men,\u201d Lee explained.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"X-Men fans are guaranteed a glimpse at the characters in December, when\u2014according to their very own Avengers: Doomsday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,22160,134,290795,344,59012],"class_list":["post-741880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-entertainment","tag-lee-sung-jin","tag-movies","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}