{"id":645080,"date":"2026-06-18T10:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645080\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:04:15","slug":"new-x-men-is-a-big-swing-for-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645080\/","title":{"rendered":"New “X-Men” Is A ‘Big Swing’ For Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Marvel, Netflix<\/p>\n

In a new update, scooper Jeff Sneider<\/a> indicates he\u2019s heard that \u201cRiverdale,\u201d \u201cMay December \u201d and \u201cBeef\u201d star Charles Melton is up for the role of Hank McCoy, aka Beast, in Marvel Studios\u2019 \u201cX-Men\u201d film.<\/p>\n

Sneider adds: \u201cOthers are still in the mix, such as \u2018A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms\u2019 star Peter Claffey, while even more actors are still waiting to read for the plum part.\u201d<\/p>\n

The update comes as the film\u2019s writer and \u201cBeef\u201d creator Lee Sung Jin recently talked about how writing the new film differs from his and filmmaker Jake Schreier\u2019s time on \u201cThunderbolts*\u201d together.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Deadline<\/a>, he says the new film has far less restrictions as it doesn\u2019t need to fit into pre-existing storylines and characters as much as \u201cThunderbolts*\u201d did:<\/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.<\/p>\n

And 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 dialled in, and they have such incredible instincts that it\u2019s been fun to just blue-sky.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a lifelong fan of the X-Men, Lee also spoke about what it\u2019s like to work on the project:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m such a big fan of that IP of the comics. My dad and I, every Saturday morning, used to watch the show on television, so 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 It\u2019s 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.\u2019.. [I\u2019m] 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<\/p>\n

The film doesn\u2019t have a release date, but is rumoured to begin shooting towards year\u2019s end for a 2028 debut. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel, Netflix In a new update, scooper Jeff Sneider indicates he\u2019s heard that \u201cRiverdale,\u201d \u201cMay December \u201d and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645080","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=645080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}