{"id":11226,"date":"2025-07-20T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/11226\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:46:08","slug":"marvel-recasting-x-men-tony-stark-after-secret-wars-says-kevin-feige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/11226\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel\u00a0Recasting X-Men, Tony Stark, After ‘Secret Wars,’ Says Kevin Feige"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe all-new X-Men<\/a> are coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe \u2014 and an all-new Tony Stark will (eventually) join them.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a wide-ranging conversation with press on Friday, Marvel Studios<\/a> chief Kevin Feige<\/a> confirmed that, following the events of 2027\u2019s \u201cAvengers: Secret Wars<\/a>,\u201d the company will recast the super-powered mutants for its upcoming \u201cX-Men\u201d movie directed by Jake Schreier (\u201cThunderbolts*\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tMany of the actors who starred in the \u201cX-Men\u201d movies of the 2000s and 2010s are reprising those roles in 2026\u2019s \u201cAvengers: Doomsday,\u201d including Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden and Kelsey Grammer. Stewart also played Charles Xavier in 2022\u2019s \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,\u201d and Grammer appeared as Hank McCoy in a post-credits scene in 2023\u2019s \u201cThe Marvels.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn future films, however, X-Men characters who appeared in previous movies will be played by new actors, along with mutants making their big screen debut. The decision echoes changes in the composition of the\u00a0Marvel\u00a0comics following the 2015 \u201cSecret Wars\u201d storyline, which involved multiple timelines collapsing and re-converging, mixing up the characters of the main\u00a0Marvel\u00a0timeline in the process.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re utilizing that [story] not just to round out the stories we\u2019ve been telling post-\u2018Endgame,\u2019 just as importantly \u2014\u00a0and you can look at the at the \u2018Secret Wars\u2019 comics for where that takes you \u2014\u00a0it very, very much sets us up for the future,\u201d Feige said. \u201c\u2018Endgame,\u2019 literally, was about endings. \u2018Secret Wars\u2019 is about is about beginnings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Feige was also careful not to characterize the changes as a \u201creboot\u201d; instead, the executive said \u201cSecret Wars\u201d will serve as a \u201creset\u201d for the MCU.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cReboot is a scary word,\u201d he said. \u201cReboot can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Reset, singular timeline \u2014 we\u2019re thinking along those lines.\u201d Later, he added, \u201c\u2018X-Men\u2019 is where that will happen next.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFeige noted that the X-Men comics, with their focus on Xavier\u2019s School for Gifted Youngsters, naturally centered on stories about adolescent characters. \u201cThey have been a place to tell stories about young people who feel different and who feel Other and who feel like they don\u2019t belong,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the universal story of mutants, and that is where we\u2019re going.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEven more intriguingly, Feige also indicated that other Marvel characters will eventually be recast, including its most iconic roles, like Tony Stark and Steve Rogers. He pointed to many other major film franchises that have done the same thing, multiple times over.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAmy Pascal and David Heyman are now searching for a new James Bond,\u201d Feige said, referring to the producers of Amazon MGM\u2019s upcoming Bond film. \u201cDavid [Corenswet], the new Superman \u2014 he was awesome. That will always be the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFeige acknowledged that stars who\u2019ve retired their original MCU roles like Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans have made it difficult to imagine anyone else in their characters\u2019 shoes. But it isn\u2019t an impossible task.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s hard for anybody to do that when an actor has done such a great role,\u201d he said. \u201cHow are they going to ever replace Sean Connery [as James Bond], right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt least two legacy actors may still yet appear in the MCU, as well. Asked about his plans for a follow-up to Marvel\u2019s 2024 blockbuster \u201cDeadpool & Wolverine\u201d with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, Feige, in typical fashion, made no definitive statements, but also did not close off any possibilities.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think there is more fun to be had with both of those characters,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we\u2019ll see where.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The all-new X-Men are coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe \u2014 and an all-new Tony Stark will (eventually)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7324,96,7325,5228,2839,56,54,55,7326],"class_list":["post-11226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers-secret-wars","tag-entertainment","tag-kevin-feige","tag-marvel-studios","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}