{"id":74726,"date":"2025-10-13T01:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74726\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:08:06","slug":"elliot-page-and-james-mcavoy-react-to-x-men-recasting-they-sound-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74726\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliot Page and James McAvoy react to ‘X-Men’ recasting: ‘They sound fantastic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elliot Page<\/a> and James McAvoy<\/a> are weighing in on Marvel\u2019s plans to recast the X-Men<\/a> in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The actors, who played Kitty Pryde and Professor Charles Xavier, respectively, in the 20th Century Fox era of superhero movies, were asked during a panel at New York Comic Con<\/a> on Sunday for their thoughts on Kevin Feige\u2019s recent statements. The head of Marvel Studios previously revealed that the X-Men will eventually be recast following the events of Avengers: Secret Wars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re gonna see another Charles, another Kitty, probably before too long, perhaps,\u201d moderator Josh Horowitz said. \u201cDepending on what you read on the internet, I’ve heard Colman Domingo<\/a>. I’ve heard Bella Ramsey<\/a>. I’ve heard a lot of different names. I don’t know if you follow that or you hear that.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cWhat do you make of those names or, just generally, the idea of someone inheriting the mantle of these characters from you?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Colman Domingo; Bella Ramsey.<\/p>\n

Pascal Le Segretain\/Getty;Michael Buckner\/Deadline via Getty<\/p>\n

Page was fully on board with the casting suggestions. \u201cI mean, yes, absolutely,\u201d he said. \u201cI don’t really follow [the casting rumors], but they sound fantastic. I mean, it\u2019d be just so exciting to see people do a take on a new iteration [of X-Men].\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

McAvoy also voiced his support, especially over the idea of Domingo taking the reins as the telepathic founder of Xavier\u2019s School for Gifted Youngsters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I\u2019m excited to see what happens next. I was a fan before I was an employee and I’ll be a fan again!\u201d he teased. \u201cYou want it to be\u2026I just can’t wait for it to be\u2026Oh no, that was going to sound bad. It’s going to put a lot of pressure on people. Colman Domingo sounds amazing, though!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

No matter who ends up cast in the end, the trio joked that there\u2019s only one person who can play Wolverine: Hugh Jackman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was gonna say, 10 years from now \u2014\u00a0it’s probably gonna be 10 minutes from now \u2014\u00a0when A.I. has taken over and playing all the roles, and there are no actors anymore, he will still be playing Wolverine,\u201d McAvoy joked. \u201cEven A.I. will be like, \u2018Nah, he got it! Nah!\u2019\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Page played Kitty, a mutant capable of phasing through solid matter, in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand and 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. McAvoy led the prequel movies as a young Charles Xavier starting in 2011’s X-Men: First Class.\n<\/p>\n

Feige announced at a July press event that everyone\u2019s favorite team of super-powered mutants will be recast ahead of Jake Schreier\u2019s (Thunderbolts\/The New Avengers) upcoming X-Men film. Before that, though, many of the actors who starred in the original X-Men movies will be reprising their roles one last time in Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier in ‘X-Men: First Class’.<\/p>\n

20th Century Fox<\/p>\n

James Marsden<\/a>\u00a0(Scott Summers\/Cyclops),\u00a0Patrick Stewart<\/a>\u00a0(Charles Xavier\/Professor X),\u00a0Ian McKellen<\/a>\u00a0(Erik Lehnsherr\/Magneto),\u00a0Rebecca Romijn<\/a>\u00a0(Mystique),\u00a0Alan Cumming<\/a>\u00a0(Kurt Wagner\/Nightcrawler), and\u00a0Kelsey Grammer<\/a>\u00a0(Hank McCoy\/Beast) are all confirmed to star in the upcoming film.\u00a0Channing Tatum<\/a>, who played Gambit in the smash hit\u00a0Deadpool & Wolverine<\/a>, will also finally get his chance to join the team.\n<\/p>\n

These beloved characters were able to officially make the leap into the MCU after\u00a0the 2019 Disney and Fox merger<\/a>. The cast has already made a few MCU appearances already. An alternate-dimension version of Stewart\u2019s Charles was brutally slaughtered in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, while Grammer\u2019s Hank appeared in a post-credits scene for The Marvels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking with\u00a0The Playlist<\/a>, Feige called Schreier\u2019s X-Men a \u201cyouth-focused reboot,\u201d adding, \u201cThat may be reflected in mutant castings, and it\u2019ll definitely be felt in the tone and perspective of the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schreier noted to the outlet that the film will broach \u201cinherently interesting and complex material\u201d because \u201cthe core of what the X-Men is involves complexity.”<\/p>\n

He added, “It\u2019s an incredible opportunity with super interesting characters and internal conflict. These characters are wrestling with their identity and place in the world…To be able to explore all of the ideas that are inherent to that rich source material, but also at the scale inherent to the source material, that\u2019s like a very rare and fortunate opportunity. That\u2019s very exciting.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elliot Page and James McAvoy are weighing in on Marvel\u2019s plans to recast the X-Men in the future.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-74726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}